Alexander Henry Green M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. - Revision history

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	The value of Green’s notebooks came to prominence in 1973 in consequence of the Lofthouse Colliery disaster near Wakefield in Yorkshire, where an inrush of water claimed the lives of seven miners. A Public Inquiry disclosed that the accident could have been avoided had a vital piece of information contained in one of Green’s notebooks been consulted prior to the commencement of coal extraction beneath the abandoned Old Low Laithes Colliery. Follow-ing the publication of a Parliamentary Report in September 1973, a detailed geographically-referenced index was prepared of the contents of all Geological Survey field notebooks up to that time.		The value of Green’s notebooks came to prominence in 1973 in consequence of the Lofthouse Colliery disaster near Wakefield in Yorkshire, where an inrush of water claimed the lives of seven miners. A Public Inquiry disclosed that the accident could have been avoided had a vital piece of information contained in one of Green’s notebooks been consulted prior to the commencement of coal extraction beneath the abandoned Old Low Laithes Colliery. Follow-ing the publication of a Parliamentary Report in September 1973, a detailed geographically-referenced index was prepared of the contents of all Geological Survey field notebooks up to that time.

			== Alexander Henry Green 1832-1896 ==

			'''Extract with permission of the author from: Cooper A.H. Yorkshire geology as seen through the eyes of notable British Geological Survey geologists 1862-200046-67 in Myerscough, R and Wallace, V. Famous Geologists of Yorkshire. York. ISBN 978-1-906604-58-5. [http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514376/1/Cooper%202016%20Yorkshire%20geology%20by%20notable%20British%20Geological%20Survey%20geologists%20NORA.pdf PDF on NORA]'''

			Green was one of the first staff taken on by Murchison as the survey of the country headed north into Yorkshire. He was educated at Ashby Grammar School and had an impressive knowledge of the local geology. In fact his knowledge was so good that when Andrew Ramsay (who later to become the Director) visited the area he acknowledged Green as the local authority and suggested he should join the Survey . Following his university education at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, Green joined the Survey in 1861 .

			Green embarked on mapping and understanding the Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfields, and the way he looked at and mapped the landscape was the same as we still do today (though now we use air photographs and computer generated surface models). The frontispiece of his coalfield memoir, engraved from one of his impressive field sketches shows the scarps, crests and dip slopes typical of coalfield geology, while his cross-section illustrated the basis for drawing the geological lines on the map. A number of his excellent watercolours of landscapes showing the geology are held in the British Geological Survey archives.

			His recording was meticulous and it is sad to note that the 1973 disaster at Lofthouse Colliery near Wakefield could possibly have been averted if the relevant information held in one of Green’s notebooks had been seen and understood . He recorded the deepening of a shaft that about 100 years later was tunnelled into flooding the mine with mud and water killing 7 men. Following that disaster all the British Geological Survey notebooks were indexed by two Coal Board surveyors Happs and Hall, which enabled these important information sources to be searched and thoroughly investigated before proceeding with coal extraction.

			Green stayed with the Survey until 1874 when he took the professorship in Geology at the Yorkshire College – later to become Leeds University. In 1878 the Geology of the Yorkshire Coalfield was published with co-authors Russell, Dakyns, Ward, Fox-Strangways, Dalton and Holmes. This memoir was far larger than any other, with 823 pages and a price of one guinea (£1.05); this was at a time when a normal memoir priced at about one shilling (5 new pence). Bailey commented that it was “the largest Survey memoir, I hope for all time”, but it contains so much useful information that this statement is rather unfair. Green eventually moved in 1888 to become the Professor of Geology at Oxford.

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	[[File:Green 01.jpg\|thumb\|Alexander Henry Green. Image taken from Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, Vol 8 Pt2 1896.]]		[[File:Green 01.jpg\|thumb\|Alexander Henry Green. Image taken from Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, Vol 8 Pt2 1896.]]

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	Obituary - Alexander Henry Green, F.R.S. Mineralogical Magazine. v. 11 p.147. 1897		Obituary - Alexander Henry Green, F.R.S. Mineralogical Magazine. v. 11 p.147. 1897

	[ https://www.ypsyork.org/resources/yorkshire-scientists-and-innovators/ah_green/ Alexander Henry Green, FRS Alexander Henry Green, FRS (1832-1896)] Yorkshire ~~Geological~~ Society website		[ https://www.ypsyork.org/resources/yorkshire-scientists-and-innovators/ah_green/ Alexander Henry Green, FRS Alexander Henry Green, FRS (1832-1896)] Yorkshire Philosophical Society website

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			Hicks, H. Obituary - Professor A.H. Green. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 53 p.lii-liv. 1897

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	[[File:Green 01.jpg\|thumb\|Alexander Henry Green. Image taken from Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, Vol 8 Pt2 1896.]]		[[File:Green 01.jpg\|thumb\|Alexander Henry Green. Image taken from Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, Vol 8 Pt2 1896.]]
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	== Alexander Henry Green M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. ==		== Alexander Henry Green M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. ==

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