Clarence Edward Dutton was an American geologist and US Army officer. Dutton was born in Wallingford, Connecticut on May 15, 1841. He graduated from Yale College in 1860 and took postgraduate courses there until 1862, when he enlisted in the 21st Connecticut Volunteers; he fought at Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Nashville and Petersburg. In 1875 he began work as a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey.
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- Clarence Edward Dutton was an American geologist and US Army officer. Dutton was born in Wallingford, Connecticut on May 15, 1841. He graduated from Yale College in 1860 and took postgraduate courses there until 1862, when he enlisted in the 21st Connecticut Volunteers; he fought at Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Nashville and Petersburg. In 1875 he began work as a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey. Working chiefly in the Colorado Plateau region, he wrote several classic papers, including geological studies of the high plateaus of Utah (1879-80), the Tertiary history of the Grand Canyon district (1882), and the Charleston, SC earthquake of 1886. As head of the division of volcanic geology at the USGS, he studied volcanism in Hawaii, California, and Oregon. He helped coordinate the scientific response to a large earthquake in the Mexican state of Sonora in 1887. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1884. In 1886, Dutton led a USGS party to Crater Lake, Oregon. His team carried a half-ton survey boat, the Cleetwood, up the steep mountain slope and lowered it 2,000 feet (610 m) into the lake. From the Cleetwood, Dutton used piano wire with lead weights to measure the depth of the lake at 168 different points. The survey team determined the lake was 1,996 feet (608 m) deep. The currently-accepted maximum depth figure, measured by sonar, is 1,943 feet (592 m). In 1889, Dutton proposed the term "isostasy" for the concept of a general balance within the earth's crust, with lighter weight blocks coming to stand higher than adjacent blocks with higher density, an idea first expressed by Pratt and Airy in the 1850s. Dutton was a close associate of John Wesley Powell and G.K. Gilbert at the USGS. He was an energetic and effective field geologist: in 1875-1877 Dutton's field party mapped 12,000 square miles (31,000 km) of the high plateaus of southern Utah, an area of rugged topography and poor access. Dutton had a distinctive flair for literary description, and is best remembered today for his colorful (and sometimes flamboyant) descriptions of the geology and scenery of the Grand Canyon region of Arizona. "Dutton first taught the world to look at that country and see it as it was... Dutton is almost as much the genius loci of the Grand Canyon as Muir is of Yosemite" -- Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian. In 1891 he retired from the USGS to serve as commander of the arsenal of San Antonio, Texas; then as ordnance officer of the department of Texas. After retiring from the Army in 1901, he returned to the study of geology. Dutton spent his last years at the home of his son in Englewood, New Jersey.
- Clarence Edward Dutton, Américain, il fut l'un des fondateurs de la séismologie dont la principale contribution fut la notion d'isostasie.
- クラレンス・エドワード・ダットン（Clarence Edward Dutton、1841年5月15日 - 1912年1月4日）はアメリカ合衆国の地質学者、アメリカ陸軍の軍人である。 コネチカット州ウォーリングフォード で生まれた。1860年にイェール大学を卒業した後、南北戦争に参加した。1875年にアメリカ地質調査所で地質学者として働き、コロラド高原などを調査し、ユタ州の地質、グランド・キャニオンの地学史、1886年のサウスカロライナ州、チャールストンの地震に関する研究などを発表した。アメリカ地質調査所の火山部門を率いて、ハワイやカリフォルニア州やオレゴン州の火山の研究を行った。1887年にメキシコのソノラ地震の調査隊の支援をおこなった。1884年にアメリカ科学アカデミーの会員に選ばれた。1886年にアメリカ地質調査所の調査隊を率いオレゴン州のクレーターレイクを調査し、その水深を608mと測定した。 1889年に1850年代にヘンリー・プラットとジョージ・エアリーが提案した、地殻内のバランスに関する仮説にアイソスタシーの用語を提案したことで知られる。1891年にアメリカ地質調査所を退職し、陸軍で10年ほど働いた。その後地質学の研究に戻った。
- Clarence Edward Dutton, född 15 maj 1841 i Wallingford, Connecticut, död 4 januari 1912 i Englewood, New Jersey, var en amerikansk militär och geolog. Dutton studerade vid Yale University, deltog i amerikanska inbördeskriget och inträdde 1875 i US Geological Survey, där han deltog i de geologiska pionjärarbetena i västra USA, och i 15 år arbetade han i Klippiga bergen. År 1887 fick han ledningen för arbetena inom vulkanisk geologi vid geologiska undersökningen, och inom det militära avancerade han 1890 till major. Dutton publicerade sin forskning i talrika framstående arbeten, av vilka flertalet behandlar frågor från den dynamiska geologin. Han beskrev Grand Canyon och framställde därvid en teori om dalbildningen. Han skildrade vulkaner i Arizona och södra Colorado samt på Hawaii och han gav en framställning av det stora jordskalvet i Charleston, South Carolina 1886. Han förknippas särskilt med teorin om isostasi i jordskorpan, vilken han först framställde. Enligt denna råder i jordskorpan en tendens till utjämning av rubbningar av jämviktstillståndet, vilka åstadkommits genom massförflyttningar i eller på jordskorpan, vare sig dessa förorsakats av denudation och avlagring eller av tektoniska rörelser.
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- Clarence Edward Dutton, Américain, il fut l'un des fondateurs de la séismologie dont la principale contribution fut la notion d'isostasie.
- Clarence Edward Dutton, född 15 maj 1841 i Wallingford, Connecticut, död 4 januari 1912 i Englewood, New Jersey, var en amerikansk militär och geolog. Dutton studerade vid Yale University, deltog i amerikanska inbördeskriget och inträdde 1875 i US Geological Survey, där han deltog i de geologiska pionjärarbetena i västra USA, och i 15 år arbetade han i Klippiga bergen.
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