TL4558 : Adam Sedgwick, Sedgwick Museum
taken 10 years ago, near to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, is the geology museum of the University of Cambridge. It is part of the Department of Earth Sciences and is located on the University's Downing Site in Downing Street. The Sedgwick Museum is one of the eight museums which make up the University of Cambridge Museums. The museum is named after Adam Sedgwick the Victorian geologist.
Adam Sedgwick (22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. Later, he proposed the Cambrian period, based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata.
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