Biography:Laura Lee Lane Weinzierl

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Laura Lee Lane Weinzierl
A young white woman with bobbed curly hair, wearing an academic mortarboard cap and gown, with a round white collar
Laura Lee Lane, later Weinzierl, from the 1923 yearbook of the University of Texas at Austin
Born
Laura Lee Lane

July 28, 1900
Louisville, Kentucky
DiedSeptember 28, 1928 (age 28)
Houston, Texas
OccupationGeologist, micropaleontologist
Spouse(s)John F. Weinzierl

Laura Lee Lane Weinzierl (July 28, 1900 – September 28, 1928) was an American petroleum geologist and micropaleontologist who worked in the Texas and Gulf Coast oil fields.

Early life and education

Lane was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Jose Andonegui and Noma Lee Lane.[1] Her father was a violinist, born in Spain ; her mother was a musician from Texas. She was raised in Texas, Germany, England, and California.[2] She graduated from San Antonio High School in 1917, and earned a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1923.[3] At university, she was a charter member of the Beta chapter of Chi Upsilon, a geology honor society for women.[4][5]

Career

Lane worked for the Rio Bravo Oil Company for a summer during college. She was a micropaleontologist for Marland Oil Company. She studied Foraminifera to identify sites likely to contain oil and gas in the Texas and Gulf Coast regions.[6][7] She was a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists[8] and a charter member of the Houston Geological Society.[9] She presented her research at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists meeting in Houston in 1924.[10]

Publications

  • "Hockley Salt Dome, Harris County, Texas" (1925, with Alexander Deussen)[11]
  • "The Claiborne Formation on the coastal domes" (1929, with Esther Richards Applin)[12]

Personal life

Lane married fellow geologist John Frederick Weinzerl in 1926. She died in 1928, in Houston, at the age of 28, from an asthma attack.[2] A collection of her papers and artifacts is in the natural history collection of Sam Houston State University.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Parents names from her Texas death certificate, via Ancestry.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Deussen, Alexander (January 1929). "Memorial: Laura Lee Weinzierl". AAPG Bulletin 13 (1): 94–95. https://archives.datapages.com/data/bull_memorials/013/013001/pdfs/94.htm?q=%2BtextStrip%3Aweinzierl. 
  3. ↑ Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003-12-16) (in en). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. pp. 1358–1359. ISBN 978-1-135-96343-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=rUCUAgAAQBAJ&dq=Laura++Weinzierl&pg=PT656. 
  4. ↑ "New Fraternity is Organized". The Austin American: pp. 18. 1921-12-04. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-american-new-fraternity-is-or/137462164/. 
  5. ↑ Kortsha, Monica (November 20, 2017). "Women in UT Geology" (in en). https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2017/11/10881/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hagerty, Michael (2023-07-13). "How a pioneering geologist helped transform the search for oil and gas — and the Texas economy" (in en-US). https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2023/07/13/456755/how-a-pioneering-geologist-helped-transform-the-search-for-oil-and-gas-and-the-texas-economy/. 
  7. ↑ Vincent, Aude (2020). "Reclaiming the memory of pioneer female geologists, 1800–1929". Supplement of Advances in Geosciences 53: 129. doi:10.5194/adgeo-53-129-2020. Bibcode: 2020AdG....53..129V. https://adgeo.copernicus.org/articles/53/129/2020/adgeo-53-129-2020-supplement.pdf. 
  8. ↑ "Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists". Journal of Paleontology 3 (1): 111–116. 1929. ISSN 0022-3360. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1298054. 
  9. ↑ Elllisor, Alva C. Rockhounds of Houston: An Informal History of the Houston Geological Society (1947): 13, 15.
  10. ↑ "Geologists Hear Illustrated Talk; Spend Day in Discussion of Various Surface Indications". The Galveston Daily News: pp. 8. 1924-03-30. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-galveston-daily-news-geologists-hear/137462063/. 
  11. ↑ Alexander Deussen, Laura Lee Lane (1925). "Hockley Salt Dome, Harris County, Texas" (in en). AAPG Bulletin 9. doi:10.1306/3D9326EE-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D. ISSN 0149-1423. http://search.datapages.com/data/doi/10.1306/3D9326EE-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D. 
  12. ↑ Weinzierl, Laura Lee Lane; Applin, Esther Richards (December 1929). "The Claiborne Formation on the coastal domes". Journal of Paleontology 3 (4): 384–410. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/jpaleontol/article/3/4/384/79029/The-Claiborne-Formation-on-the-coastal-domes. 



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