Marjorie Sweeting

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Marjorie Sweeting

Marjorie Mary Sweeting was a British geomorphologist specialising in karst phenomena. Born 28 February 1920, she was a Research Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, between 1948–51, a Fellow and Tutor at St Hugh's College 1954-87 (Emeritus), and Lecturer and Reader at Oxford University 1954-87. She died in Oxford on 31 December 1994. She published Karst Landforms (Macmillan 1972), and Karst in China: its Geomorphology and Environment (Springer 1995) after many years of work there starting in 1977; this represented the first study of the karst areas of China by a western geomorphologist.^[1]

References

↑ Kennedy, Barbara (18 January 1995). "OBITUARIES: Marjorie Sweeting". The Independent.

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Name	Sweeting, Marjorie
Alternative names
Short description	British geomorphologist
Date of birth	28 February 1920
Place of birth
Date of death	31 December 1994
Place of death	Oxford

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