Eileen Hendriks: geology in Devon and Cornwall - Dr Jenny Bennett

Eileen Mary Lind Hendriks, 1887-1978, played a pivotal role in resolving the stratigraphy and structure of Devon and Cornwall, despite difficult circumstances of the impact on her career of two world wars, financial problems, loneliness and the general apathy of the wider geological community.

She was regarded by some as an amateur but was treated as the acknowledged authority by the young researchers who started to work in the South West after 1950. She is still remembered for her painstaking work in an area which was apparently barren of fossils, causing the Geological Survey to revise a map and memoir less than 20 years after publication.

About the speaker

Jenny discovered geology through the Open University and after her degree she tutored part-time in Earth Sciences at the OU. After twenty years she became a student again, completing a PhD at the University of Exeter on the evolution of the Exe Valley.

At present Jenny is the Chair of the Devonshire Association's Geology Section. She continues with her interests in the evolution of rivers, the Quaternary Geology of Devon and Cornwall and the history of geology in the South West.

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