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The Michigan Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the U.S. state of Michigan. The survey is headed by the State Geologist of Michigan . The survey has been composed of three individual surveys: the first from 1837 through 1845, the second from 1859 through 1862, and the third from 1869 to present.
Windmill Point at Bela Hubbards farm in 1838 Bela Hubbard residence, "Vinewood", Alexander Jackson Davis, Architect. Built 1856. Demolished 1933. Detroit, Michigan. Bela Hubbard (April 23, 1814 – June 13, 1896) was a 19th-century naturalist, geologist, writer, historian, surveyor, explorer, lawyer, real estate dealer, lumberman and civic leader of early Detroit, Michigan, United States.
From 1886 to 1887, he worked as assistant geologist for the Minnesota Geological Survey. [2] Wadsworth served as the first president of Michigan Technological University (then the Michigan Mining School) from 1887 through 1898. [4] [5] [a] Wadsworth Hall, one of the residence halls on Michigan Tech's campus, was named in his honor. [6]
In 1845, with the state survey moribund because of the lack of funds, Houghton organized a combined linear and geological survey of the Lake Superior region that was funded by the federal government. While working on that survey, he and two companions drowned in Lake Superior near Eagle River, Michigan, when their small boat capsized in a storm ...
In 1838, Michigan's first state geologist, Douglass Houghton, arrived to select a site for salt mining and reported an abundance of gypsum in the area. That same year, he and Bela Hubbard discovered an outcrop of gypsum at the mouth of the Au Gres River in Saginaw Bay . [ 15 ]
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace (where a mission began work in 1671) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Antoine de La ...
Helen Mandeville Martin (1889–1973) was an American geological researcher and educator for the Michigan Geological Survey. [1] Martin was known for her work as a geological editor, lecturer and cartographer; her surface formation maps of glacial features in Michigan were used by Michigan industries in their mineral resource sector.
From 1891 to 1893, Hubbard was the Assistant State Geologist of Michigan under Marshman E. Wadsworth. [2] [3] When Wadsworth resigned as State Geologist of Michigan in 1893, Hubbard was appointed to the position. Hubbard reorganized the Geological Survey and discontinued its ties to the Michigan College of Mines and the University of Michigan. [4]