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See also:BARROIS, See also:CHARLES (1851– ) , See also:French geologist, was See also:born at See also:Lille on the 21st of See also:April 1851, and educated at the See also:college in that See also:town, where he studied See also:geology under Prof. Jules Gosselet and qualified as D. es Sc. To this See also:master he dedicated his first comprehensive See also:work, Recherches sur le terrain cretace superieur de l'Angleterre et de ['Mande, published in the Memoires de la societe geologique du See also:Nord in 1876. In this See also:essay the palaeontological zones in the See also:Chalk and Upper See also:Greensand of See also:Britain were for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time marked out in detail, and the results of Dr Barrois's See also:original researches have formed the basis of subsequent work, and have in all leading features been confirmed. In 1876 Dr Barrois was appointed a collaborateur to the French See also:Geological Survey„ and in 1877 See also:professor of geology in the university
' of Lille. In other See also:memoirs, among which may be mentioned those on the Cretaceous rocks of the See also:Ardennes and of the See also:Basin of See also:Oviedo, See also:Spain; on the (Devonian) Calcaire d'Erbray; on the Palaeozoic rocks of See also:Brittany and of See also:northern Spain; and on the granitic and metamorphic rocks of Brittany, Dr Barrois has proved himself an accomplished petrologist as well as palaeontologist and See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-geologist. In 1881 he was awarded the See also:Bigsby See also:medal, and in 1901 the See also:Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of See also:London. He was chosen member of the See also:Institute (See also:Academy of Sciences) in 1904.
End of Article: BARROIS, CHARLES (1851– )
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