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PROF. FEARNSIDES is being succeeded by Major F. W. Shotton, R.E. After a brilliant undergraduate career at Cambridge, Mr. Shotton was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Birmingham, where he worked under Prof. W. S. Boulton and Prof. L. J. Wills. During this time he carried out important work on the rocks of the Coventry district; he also studied the conditions of deposition of the Trias Sandstones with the aid of students from the University of Birmingham, whom he organized into teams for field-work. In 1936 he returned to Cambridge as lecturer under Prof. O. T. Jones and carried out detailed research in the Cross Fell district of the Pennine Chain.
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Geology at the University of Sheffield: Major F. W. Shotton, R.E. Nature 155, 664–665 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155664c0
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