Charles Henry Smyth Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American geologist, professor of economic geology, Princeton University, New Jersey
Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1866
Place of Birth: Oswego, New York, United States
Date of Death: 04-Apr-1937
Profession: geologist
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Charles Henry Smyth Jr.
- Charles Henry Smyth Jr.
- (; March 31, 1866 – April 4, 1937) was an American geologist.
- Born to a prominent family in Upstate New York, he studied geology at Columbia University before becoming a professor of geology at Hamilton College and Princeton University.
- At Princeton he strengthened the Department of Geology's graduate program. Smyth specialized in petrology, chemical geology, and economic geology.
- He showed the sedimentary origin of iron ore deposits near his native Clinton, New York, mapped the geology of the western Adirondack Mountains, and published a well known monograph on the origins of alkaline igneous rocks.
- He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a fellow of the Geological Society of America.
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