Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre

Armin Aleksander Öpik Guide to Records

Listed by Lisa O'Sullivan with Gavan McCarthy and Tim Sherratt

Öpik was Professor of Geology and Palaeontology, Estonian State University at Tartu 1930-1944. He and his family emigrated to Australia in 1948 and was employed as geologist at the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra until his retirement in 1964. His major work in Australia was on the Cambrian and Early Ordovician stratigraphy and palaeontology of northern Australia. [Details]

About the records
- How to use this finding aid
- Archival terms
Provenance - creators and former custodians
Series list and summary descriptions
Inventory listing by series
- Series 1 - Personal- Biographical
- Series 2 - Slides
- Series 3 - Bureau of Mineral Resources - Bulletins
- Series 4 - Working files
- Series 5 - Bureau of Mineral Resources - Working files
- Series 6 - Bureau of Mineral Resources - Correspondence
- Series 7 - Card indexes
- Series 8 - Stratigraphic Nomenclature Committee
- Series 9 - Newspapers
Index
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These records are managed by the Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. All queries relating to access should be made to Basser Library quoting MS 205 and the required inventory identifier(s).
Processing of this collection and generation of this finding aid was made possible with the support of
- Nora Romot
- Paul Öpik
- The University of Melbourne

Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, April 2004
With support from Nora Romot, Paul Öpik and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Lisa O'Sullivan with Gavan McCarthy and Tim Sherratt
HTML edition Ailie Smith
Updated 13 November 2007
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/opik/opik.htm

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