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LAPPARENT, See also:ALBERT AUGUSTE COCHON DE (1839–19o8) , See also:French geologist, was See also:born at See also:Bourges on the 3oth of See also:December 1839. After studying at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1858 to 186o he became ingenieur au See also:corps See also:des mines, and took See also:part in See also:drawing up the See also:geological See also:map of See also:France; and in 1875 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:geology and See also:mineralogy at the See also:Catholic See also:Institute, See also:Paris. In 1879 he prepared an important memoir for the geological survey of France on Le Pays de See also:Bray, a subject on which he had already published several See also:memoirs, and in 188o he served as See also:president of the French Geological Society. In 1881–1883 he published his Traite de geologie (5th ed., 1905), the best See also:European See also:text-See also:book of stratigraphical geology. His other See also:works include Cours de mineralogie (1884, 3rd ed., 1899), La Formation des combustibles mineraux (1886), Le Niveau de la mer et ses See also:variations (1886), See also:Les Tremblements de terre (1887), La Geologic en chemin de fer (1888), Precis de mineralogie (1888), Le Siecle du fer (189o), Les See also:Amiens Glaciers (1893), Lecons de geographic physique (1896), Notions generales sur l'ecorce terrestre (1897), Le Globe terrestre (1899), and See also:Science et apologetique (1905). With Achille See also:Delesse he was for many years editor of the Revue de geologie and contributed to the Extraits de geologie, and he joined with A. Potier in the geological surveys undertaken in connexion with the Channel See also:Tunnel proposals. He died in Paris on the 5th of May 1908.

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