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Mar 31, 1866 Oswego, New York, United States Died on 04 Apr 1937 (aged 71)
American geologist, professor of economic geology, Princeton University, New Jersey
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About Charles Henry Smyth Jr.
- Charles Henry Smyth Jr.
- (; March 31, 1866 – April 4, 1937) was an American geologist.
- Born to a prominent family in Upstate New York, he studied geology at Columbia University before becoming a professor of geology at Hamilton College and Princeton University.
- At Princeton he strengthened the Department of Geology's graduate program. Smyth specialized in petrology, chemical geology, and economic geology.
- He showed the sedimentary origin of iron ore deposits near his native Clinton, New York, mapped the geology of the western Adirondack Mountains, and published a well known monograph on the origins of alkaline igneous rocks.
- He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a fellow of the Geological Society of America.
