Photograph from the Henry Mowbray Cadell Photographic archive c. 1902-1910 Russia.
The person on the left looks like Ben Peach of the Geological Survey of Scotland. Does anyone know who the geologist is on the right and the possible location of the photograph?
Bob McIntosh
Thanks to Max Barclay and Svetlana Nikolaeva from International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature we have an identification of the geologist on the right: Theodosius Nikolaevich Chernyshev (12 September 1856 - 2 January 1914).
Locality is Krestovyi mountain pass in the Caucasus (Ossetia, Northern Georgia).
Photograph from the Henry Mowbray Cadell photograph collection. Egypt. c 1902.
Probably the opening of the Old Aswan Dam or Aswan Low Dam, built 1902. Can anyone confirm this?
Bob McIntosh
On geological section drawing - a page from a field notebook by Henry Mowbray Cadell, (1860-1934).
Cadell was a geologist with the Geological Survey of Great Britain.
Bob McIntosh
H.M.Cadell's famous mountain building experiments. Photo of his experimental ‘squeeze box’ at The Grange, Bo’ness
25th January 1887. Cadell was a mining consultant and industrialist and for some time was a member of staff of the Geological Survey in Scotland.
Using wet sand and plaster of Paris he tried to recreate thrust geometries seen in the North-west Highlands.
Bob McIntosh
