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Cliff Ollier

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Cliff Ollier (born 26 October 1931) is a geologist, geomorphologist, soil scientist, emeritus professor and honorary research fellow, at the School of Earth and Geographical Sciences University of Western Australia. He was formerly at Australian National University, University of New England, Australia, Canberra University, University of Papua New Guinea, and University of Melbourne.[1]

In the late 1950s he worked on a soil survey in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Uganda.[2]

Throughout his career he was a prolific author (as C.D Ollier), and he has contributed to reference works such as The Oxford Companion to the Earth.[3]

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  1. ^ Lavoisier Group Web Page Archived 20 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Ollier, C.D. (1960). "The Inselbergs of Uganda". Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie. 4 (1): 43–52.
  3. ^ C. D. Ollier, Weathering, The Oxford Companion to the Earth. Ed. Paul Hancock and Brian J. Skinner. Oxford University Press, 2000
  4. ^ Ollier, Cliff (1988). Volcanoes. ISBN 0-631-15664-X.