Louderback was born in San Francisco , and received an A.B. from the University of California , Berkeley in 1896 , followed by a Ph.D. in 1899 . He married in October 1899 . He was a teaching assistant in mineralogy at UC Berkeley in 1897 – 1900 and then taught at the University of Nevada in 1900 – 1906 . At UC Berkeley 's department of geology , Louderback became an assistant professor in 1906 , an associate professor in 1907 , and a full professor in 1917 . In Nevada , Louderback studied the geological structure of the Great Basin , especially of the Basin ranges , and Nevada 's gypsum deposits . He did research on the Mesozoic formations of southern Oregon , the relation of radioactivity to vulcanism , the glaucophane of the Pacific Coast Ranges , and the stratigraphy of Mount Diablo . He also studied the effects of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and sedimentation in San Francisco Bay . In 1914 – 1916 Louderback led an expedition searching for petroleum reservoirs in the interior of China ; after the expedition , in 1916 he also searched for petroleum in the Philippine Islands . He was a member of the Seismological Society of America and its president in 1914 and again in 1929-1935 . He died in Berkeley , California , aged 82
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
George Louderback