Sidney H. Haughton

Sidney Henry Haughton, (7 May 1888 Bethnal Green, London - 24 May 1982), was an English-born South African paleontologist and geologist. The eldest of three children born to Henry Charles Haughton and Alice Aves, he is best-known for his description of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Melanorosaurus in 1924, and his work on the geology of the Witwatersrand. Haughton's work on South African geology culminated in the 1964 publication of Gold Deposits of the Witwatersrand Basin: The Geology of Some Ore Deposits of Southern Africa, Volume 1, a collection of 18 papers on Witwatersrand geology. He is not to be confused with Samuel Haughton, an Irish geologist of an earlier era.

During World War I Haughton elisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps, was posted to Egypt and then India, and picked up malaria, leading to his discharge from the army.^[1]

External links

• Mineral Deposits of Southern Africa

Publications

• The stratigraphic history of Africa south of the Sahara
• The geology of the country around Mossel bay, Cape Province - (Government Printer, 1937)
• The geology of portion of the coastal belt near the Gamtoos valley, Cape Province - (Printed in the Union of South Africa by the Government Printer, 1937)
• Results of an investigation into the possible presence of oil in Karroo rocks in parts of the Union of South Africa - (Dept. of Mines, 1953)
• Geological history of Southern Africa - (Geological Society of South Africa, 1969)
• Trans-Karroo excursion - (printed by the Natal witness, 1970)
• The Australopithecine fossils of Africa and their geological setting - Witwaterstrand University Press/Institute for the Study of Man in Africa, 1964)
• The stratigraphic history of Africa south of the Sahara - (Hafner Pub. Co., 1963)
• The stratigraphic history of Africa south of the Sahara - (Oliver & Boyd, 1963)
• The geology of some ore deposits in southern Africa - (Geological Society of South Africa, 1964) ^[2]

References

• Haughton, S. H. (editor) (1964). The Geology of Some Ore Deposits in Southern Africa. Gold Deposits of the Witwatersrand Basin, vol 1. Geological Society of South Africa, 625pp. plus map folder.
• Dunham, Kingsley. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 29, Nov., 1983 (Nov., 1983), pp. 245-267