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Home-NPL \| Home-TNSC History Geologists Early Explorers Ferdinand Roemer (1818-1891) B. F. Shumard (1820-1889) E. T. Dumble (1852-1927) W. F. Cummins (1840-1931) R. T. Hill (1858-1941) R. A. Penrose (1863-1931) For more information on the early surveys see: Ferguson, Walter K., Geology and Politics in Frontier Texas 1845-1909, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1969.	Ferdinand Roemer (image) author of the first research monograph on the geology of Texas. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deutsche Auswanderung und die physischen Verhältnisse des Landes nach eigener Beobachtung geschildert. Bonn, 1849, 464 pp, 1 map.
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