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FOURNET, JOSEPH JEAN BAPTISTE XAVIER (1801-1869)

FOURNET, See also:
JOSEPH
JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)
JOSEPH See also:
JEAN
JEAN See also:
BAPTISTE
BAPTISTE See also:
XAVIER, FRANCISCO DE (1506-1552)
XAVIER (1801-1869) , See also:

French geologist and metallurgist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg on the 15th of May 18or. He was educated at the Ecole See also:

des Mines at See also:

Paris, and after considerable experience as a See also:

MINING

mining engineer he was in 1834 appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology at See also:

Lyons. He was a See also:

man of wide knowledge and extensive See also:

RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research, and wrote See also:

MEMOIRS

memoirs on chemical and mineralogical subjects, on eruptive rocks, on the structure of the See also:

Jura, the See also:

METAMORPHISM (Gr. ise-rci, change of, and liop¢i, shape)

metamorphism of the Western See also:

ALPS

Alps, on the formation of oolitic limestones, on kaolinization and on metalliferous See also:

VEINS

veins. On metallurgical subjects also he was an acknowledged authority; and he published observations on the See also:

order of sulphurability of metals (loi de Fournet). He died at Lyons on the 8th of See also:

JANUARY

January 1869. His See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief publications were: dudes sur See also:

les depots metalliferes (Paris, 1834); Histoire de la dolomie (Lyons, 1847); De l'See also:

EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension des terrains houillers (1855) ; Geologie lyonnaise (Lyons, 1861).

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