Walter Scott Adkins (24 December 1890 – 22 September 1956) was a geologist and paleontologist, known for his books Handbook of Texas Cretaceous Fossils (1928) and "The Mesozoic Systems in Texas" (1933). He is also known for his work on the distribution of shoestring and barrier sands in the subsurface of the Miocene and for his work on the...