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Laura Lee Weinzierl ( née Lane; July 28, 1900 – September 28, 1928) [1] was an American petroleum geologist and micropaleontologist who worked in the Texas and Gulf Coast oil fields.
Lane was born in Louisville, Kentucky. [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]
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]
Lane married fellow geologist John Frederick Weinzierl 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]
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Laura Lee Weinzierl ( née Lane; July 28, 1900 – September 28, 1928) [1] was an American petroleum geologist and micropaleontologist who worked in the Texas and Gulf Coast oil fields.
Lane was born in Louisville, Kentucky. [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]
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]
Lane married fellow geologist John Frederick Weinzierl 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]