Andrew Lawson
Andrew Cowper Lawson (July 25, 1861 – June 16, 1952) was a Scots-born Canadian geologist who became professor of geology at the
University of California, Berkeley. He was the editor and co-author of the 1908 report on the
1906 San Francisco earthquake which became known as the "Lawson Report". He was also the first person to identify and name the
San Andreas Fault in 1895, and after the 1906 quake, the first to delineate the entire length of the San Andreas Fault which previously had been noted only in the
San Francisco Bay Area. He also named the
Franciscan Complex after the Franciscan Order of the Catholic church whose missions used conscripted Native American labor to mine limestone in these areas.
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