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Language of Material:
Undetermined
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Benjamin M. Page papers
Creator:
Page, Benjamin M. (Benjamin Markham)
Identifier/Call Number: SC0414
Identifier/Call Number: 16005
Physical Description:
53 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1929-1996
Abstract: Papers include correspondence, minutes,
budgets, class notes, course files, student papers, reports, maps, and research files and
pertain to his activities as professor, department administrator, and scientist. Some papers
relate to his work with the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (AEC/NRC). There are
also papers relating to the geological investigation of the site for the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center; photographs from geology trips, 1930-1953, including the department's
summer geology field classes, 1941 and 1946-49; and an album of photo negatives from Page's
student days, 1929-32, on hiking/camping trips, geology trips, other students, and his dorm
room.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Benjamin M. Page, 1991; and transfer from Dept. of Geology, 1997-2000.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Benjamin M. Page Papers (SC0414). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Geologist. Page, a member of the Stanford class of 1933, also earned his master's degree in
1934 and his Ph.D in 1940 at Stanford. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1943, becoming full
professor in 1952; he was head of the Geology Department from 1957-62 and again from
1965-68. He retired in 1976. Page's special fields are structural geology and the
relationship between geological structures and plate tectonics.
Papers include correspondence, minutes, budgets, class notes, course files, student papers,
reports, maps, and research files and pertain to his activities as professor, department
administrator, and scientist. Some papers relate to his work with the Advisory Committee on
Reactor Safeguards (AEC/NRC). There are also papers relating to the geological investigation
of the site for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; photographs from geology trips,
1930-1953, including the department's summer geology field classes, 1941 and 1946-49; and an
album of photo negatives from Page's student days, 1929-32, on hiking/camping trips, geology
trips, other students, and his dorm room.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Plate tectonics
Photoprints.
Geology -- Study and teaching (Higher).
Topographical surveying.
Page, Benjamin M. (Benjamin Markham)
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Advisory Committee on
Reactor Safequards.
Stanford University. Department of Geology
Stanford University. Department of Geology.
Faculty