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Charles William Peach
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- Born:
- September 30, 1800 England
- Subjects Of Study:
- invertebrate fossil ocean
Charles William Peach, (born Sept. 30, 1800, Wansford, Northamptonshire, Eng.—died Feb. 28, 1886, Edinburgh), English naturalist and geologist who made valuable contributions to the knowledge of marine invertebrates and of fossil plants and fish. While in the revenue coast guard (1824–45) in Norfolk, his attention was attracted to seaweeds and other marine organisms, and he began to collect them. In Cornwall, Peach found fossils in some of the older rocks previously regarded as unfossiliferous. This discovery proved the presence of Bala beds (Ordovician strata, about 444 million to 488 million years old) nearby. In 1841 he wrote a paper entitled ...(100 of 213 words)