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BELT, THOMAS (1832-1878)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 712 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BELT, THOMAS (1832-1878) , English geologist and naturalist, was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1832, and educated in that city. As a youth he became actively interested in natural history through the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club. In 1852 he went to Australia and for about eight years worked at the gold-diggings, where he acquired a
practical
  knowledge of ore-deposits. In 186o he proceeded to Nova Scotia to take charge of some gold-mines, and there met with a serious injury, which led to his return to England. In 1861 he issued a
separate
 
work
  entitled
Mineral
  Veins: an Enquiry into their Origin, founded on a Study of the Auriferous
Quartz
  Veins of Australia. Later on he was engaged for about three years at Dolgelly, another though small gold-mining region, and here he carefully investigated the rocks and fossils of the Lingula Flags, his observations being published in an important and now classic memoir in the
Geological
  Magazine for 1867. In the following year he was appointed to take charge of some mines in
Nicaragua
 , where he passed four active and adventurous yearsthe results being given in his Naturalist in
Nicaragua
  (1874), a
work
  of high merit. In this volume the author expressed his views on the former presence of glaciers in that country. In subsequent papers he dealt boldly and suggestively with the phenomena of the Glacial period in Britain and in various parts of the world. After many further expeditions to
Russia
 .
Siberia
  and Colorado, he died at Denver on the 21st of September 1878.


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