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See also:FOUQUE, See also:FERDINAND See also:ANDRE (1828-19o4) , See also:French geologist and petrologist, was See also:born at See also:Mortain, dept. of La See also:Manche, on the 21st of See also:June 1828. At the See also:age of twenty-one he entered the R°cole Normale in See also:Paris, and from 1853 to 1858 he held the See also:appointment of keeper of the scientific collections. In 1877 he became See also:professor of natural See also:history at the See also:College de See also:France, in Paris, and in 1881 he was elected a member of the See also:Academy of Sciences. As a stratigraphical geologist he rendered much assistance on the See also:Geological Survey of France, but in the course of 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 he gave his See also:special See also:attention to the study of volcanic phenomena and earthquakes, to minerals and rocks; and he was the first to introduce See also:modern petrographical methods into France. His studies of the eruptive rocks of See also:Corsica, See also:Santorin and else-where; his researches on the artificial See also:reproduction of eruptive rocks, and his See also:treatise on the See also:optical characters of felspars deserve special mention; but he was perhaps best known for the See also:joint See also:work which he carried on with his friend See also:Michel See also:Levy. He died on the 7th of See also:March 1904. His See also:chief publications were: Santorin et ses eruptions, 1879; (with A. Michel Levy) Mineralogie micrographique, Roches eruptives fran(aises (2 vols., 1879) ; and Synthese See also:des mineraux et des roches (1882).
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