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Clarence Dutton
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Clarence Edward Dutton was an American geologist and US Army officer. Dutton was born in Wallingford, Connecticut on May 15, 1841.
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Dutton wrote the butte he named Shiva after the Hindu deity, Shiva the Destroyer, was “the grandest of all buttes and the most majestic in aspect…such a stupendous scene of wreck, it seemed as if the fabled ‘Destroyer’ might find an abode [here] not wholly uncongenial.”
As quoted from Naming of Places in the Grand Canyon mygrandcanyonpark.com
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Category:1841 births
Category:1912 deaths
Category:Geologists from the United States