Robert L. Folk

For the American film and television composer, see Robert Folk.

Robert "Bob" Louis "Luigi" Folk (September 30, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio – June 4, 2018)[1] was an American geologist and petrologist, specializing in sedimentology, sandstone petrology, and carbonate petrology.[2] He is known for the 1959 eponymous Folk classification of sedimentary rocks, which, with some minor modifications, is still in use today.[3][4] He is one of the founders of what is sometimes called "Soft Rock Geology".[1]

  1. ^ a b Milliken, Kitty; McBride, Earle; Land, Lyndon (2018). "Obituary. Robert Louis Folk" (PDF). Journal of the Indian Association of Sedimentologists. 35 (2): 84–87. ISSN 0970-3268.
  2. ^ McBride, Earle F. (1978). "Sedimentologists: Robert Louis Folk (1925–)". In Fairbridge, Rhodes W.; Bourgeois, Joanne (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Sedimentology. Encyclopedia of Earth Science Series. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 1059–1061. doi:10.1007/3-540-31079-7_194. ISBN 978-0-87933-152-8.
  3. ^ Gates, Alexander E. (2003). A to Z of Earth Scientists. New York: Facts on File. pp. 85–87. ISBN 0-8160-4580-1.
  4. ^ Folk, Robert L. (1959). "Practical petrographic classification of limestone". Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. 43 (1). Boulder, Colorado: 1–38.