crater on Mars have been named in his honour. The Durham University Department of Earth Sciences' Isotope Geology Laboratory is also named after him, as is the students' Geology Society. Major works The age of the earth 1913, Harper & Brothers, 2nd edition 1927, 3rd edition 1937. The nomenclature of petrology, with references to selected literature. Thos Murby, London, van Nostrand, New York, 1920, 2nd edition 1928. Petrographic methods and calculations with some examples of results achieved Thos Murby, London, 1921 2nd edition 1930. Radioactivity and Earth Movements, Trans Geological Soc, Glasgow, vol 18, pp 559–606. Principles of Physical Geology 1944, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2nd edition 1965, 3rd edition (with Doris Holmes) 1978, 4th edition (with Donald Duff) 1993. The Phanerozoic time-scale; a symposium dedicated to Professor Arthur Holmes Geological Society, London, 1964. References External links Geological Society of America: short biography, Another short biography 1890 births 1965 deaths People from Hebburn Alumni of Imperial College London 20th-century British geologists Tectonicists Penrose Medal winners Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of Durham University Wollaston Medal winners Fellows of the Royal Society