James J. Norton '40
Published in Mar. 22, 2006, issue
Jim died at Rapid City (S.D.) Regional Hospital Nov. 16, 2005.

He prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy. At Princeton, he majored in geology, graduating with highest honors and as a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a master's from Northwestern University in 1942 and a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1957. From 1944 to 1946, Jim served as a Navy lieutenant in the Pacific theater, mostly in the Philippines.

His geology career began in 1942 with the U.S. Geological Survey and ended with his retirement in 1984. He served as a manager and branch chief, among other positions, in many locations, including Custer, S.D.; Washington, D.C.; Jiddah, Saudi Arabia; Denver, Colo.; and Rapid City, S.D. But his home in Rapid City and cabin in the Black Hills of South Dakota kept calling him back to the area where he had met and married Katherine Martens in 1946.

Jim also was the author of several publications in his field of geology.

His classmates wish to extend their sincere condolences to his surviving sister, Jeanette Bartram, and brother, Phil Norton.

The Class of 1940

Geology and Beryl Deposits of the Peerless Pegmatite, Pennington County, South Dakota: Professional Paper 297-A
Sheridan, Douglas M. & Hal G. Stephens & Mortimer H. Staatz & James J. Norton
USGPO, 1957. 1957.

Books written by Dr. James J. Norton:
Lithium Resources of North America (Geological Survey Bulletin 1027-G)
Norton, James J. and Schlegel, Dorothy McKenney

Anomalous Concentrations of Several Metals in Iron Formation of the Blue Lead Mountain Area, Pennington County, South Dakota: Geological Survey Circular 707
Raymond, William H. & Robert U. King & James J. Norton

TERNARY DIAGRAMS OF THE QUARTZ-FELDSPAR CONTENT OF PEGMATITES IN COLORADO
Norton, James J.

SEQUENCE OF MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES IN DIFFERENTIATED GRANITIC PEGMATITES
Norton, James J

Gold in the Black Hills, South Dakota, and How New Deposits Might be Found - Geological Survey Circular 699
James J. Norton

Geology and Mineral Deposits of Some Pegmatites in the Southern Black Hills, South Dakota: United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 297-E
James J. Norton

Geology and Mineral Deposits of Some Pegmatites in the Southern Black Hills, South Dakota.
Norton, James J., et al.

Relations of Zoned Pegmatites to Other Pegmatites, Granite, and Metamorphic Rocks in the Southern Black Hills, South Dakota
Norton, James J.; Jack A. Redden