Marland Pratt Billings (March 11, 1902 – October 9, 1996) was considered one of the greatest authorities on North American geology. Billings was Professor of Geology emeritus at Harvard University and taught for a brief time at Bryn Mawr College.
Billings was educated at Roxbury Latin School. He received his A.B. (1923), his A.M. (1925), and his Ph.D. (1927) from Harvard University.
In the 1950s, Billings studied the geology exposed by some of the bedrock tunnels being constructed in the Boston area by the Metropolitan District Commission for water supply and drainage disposal. He also investigated the geology of many parts of the world, including Iceland, Japan, and Australia.
Marland Billings died Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1996, in Peterborough, N.H. He was 94.
Awards
- Penrose Medal (1985)
Associations
Bibliography
A partial list of books:
- Geology of the Littleton and Moosilauke quadrangles (1935)
- Geology of the Franconia quadrangle (1935)
- Structural Geology (1942) ISBN 0-87692-059-8
- The Geology of the Mt. Washington Quadrangle (1946)
- A Geological Map of New Hampshire (1955)
- Geology of New Hampshire (1956)
- Chemical analyses of rocks and rock-minerals from New Hampshire (1965)
- Geology of the Gorham Quadrangle: New Hampshire-Maine (1965)
- Geology of the Malden tunnel, Massachusetts (1966)
- Geology of the North Metropolitan Relief Tunnel, great Boston, Massachusetts (1975)
- Bedrock geology (The Geology of New Hampshire) (The Geology of New Hampshire) (1980)
- Origin of the Appalachian Highlands (unknown)