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Archibald Geikie
Scottish geologist and writer
Sir Archibald GeikieOM KCB FRS FRSE (28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924) was a Scottish geologist and writer.[1][2]
Early life
Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the eldest son of Isabella Thom and her husband James Stuart Geikie, a musician and music critic.
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The elder brother of James Geikie, he was educated at Edinburgh High School and University of Edinburgh.[3]
Career
In 1855 Geikie was appointed an assistant with the British Geological Survey.
Among his early publications for a popular audience was The Story of a Boulder; or, Gleanings from the Note-Book of a Geologist (1858). His ability at once attracted the notice of his chief, Sir Roderick Murchison, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship, and whose biographer he subsequently became.[2]
Geikie completed some early geological mapping with Murchison on complicated regions of schists in the