William Harmon Norton (1856 – Mount Vernon, 1944) was an American geologist and classicist. [2] [3] [4]
Norton studied at Cornell College and became an academic there. [2] Initially a classicist, he became fascinated with geology and founded the college's geology department. [5] He became professor of Greek and geology in 1881 and of geology alone in 1890 until his retirement in 1924, also working for the United States Geological Survey. [2] He is particularly known for his textbook Elements of Geology. [6] [7]