About this title ‐ The Life and Work of Professor J. W. Gregory FRS (1864–1932): Geologist, Writer and Explorer
About this title ‐ The Life and Work of Professor J. W. Gregory FRS (1864–1932): Geologist, Writer and Explorer
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关于此标题 - J. W. Gregory FRS 教授的生活和工作（1864-1932）：地质学家、作家和探险家
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10.1144/m34.0
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2011
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B. Leake
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格雷戈里非凡的职业生涯和他的科学工作得到了详细和批判性的评估。 1893 年，他英勇地前往肯尼亚的裂谷（他创造的一个术语）（现在的格雷戈里裂谷）探险，第一次穿越斯皮茨卑尔根岛，以及他辞去 1901 年第一次英国南极探险队领队的职务，当时他在斯科特的带领下奔向极地成为首要任务，这些记录都来自未发表的信件。在墨尔本期间，他出版了采矿地质学和一系列地理教科书。 1901 年，他在澳大利亚中部的艾尔湖探险，引发了“澳大利亚死亡之心”这一短语，并引发了关于自流水来源的争议。自 1904 年起担任格拉斯哥地质学系主任时，他建立了英国最大的一年级地质学班，学生人数超过 400 名。他的工作遍及地质学的各个领域和除南极洲以外的每个大陆。他还参与了在利比亚和安哥拉寻找犹太人“家园”的活动。他精明地意识到，韦格纳的大陆漂移理论错误地认为太平洋比大西洋打开之前更宽。这导致了他对大陆漂移的有影响力的拒绝。他在秘鲁穿越安第斯山脉时溺水身亡，出版了 30 多本书和近 400 篇文章。
Gregory's remarkable career and his scientific work are detailed and critically assessed. Accounts of his heroic 1893 expedition to the Rift Valley (a term he coined) in Kenya (now the Gregory Rift), his first crossing of Spitzbergen, and his resignation as Leader of the first British Antarctic Expedition of 1901, when racing to the Pole under Scott became the priority, draw on unpublished letters. While in Melbourne he published on mining geology and a series of geography textbooks. His 1901 Lake Eyre expedition in Central Australia initiated the phrase ‘The Dead Heart of Australia’ and controversy over the source of artesian water. In the Chair of Geology in Glasgow from 1904, he built up the largest first-year geology class in the UK, over 400 students. He worked in every field of geology and every continent except Antarctica. He was also involved with the search for a ‘homeland’ for the Jews in Libya and Angola. He shrewdly realized that Wegener's Continental Drift Theory erroneously supposed that the Pacific Ocean was wider than now before the Atlantic opened. This led to his influential rejection of Continental Drift. He drowned in Peru traversing the Andes having published over 30 books and nearly 400 articles.