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See also:MARCOU, JULES (1824-1898) , an eminent Swiss-See also:American geologist, was See also:born at See also:Salins, in the See also:department of See also:Jura, in See also:France, on the loth of See also:April 1824. He was educated at See also:Besancon and at the See also:college of St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, See also:Paris. He worked in See also:early years with J. Thurmann (1804–1855) on the See also:geology of the Jura mountains. In 1847 he went to See also:North See also:America as travelling geologist for the Jardin See also:des Plantes, and in the following See also:year in See also:Boston he joined See also:Agassiz, whom he had met in See also:Switzerland; and accompanied him to the See also:Lake See also:Superior region. Marcou spent two years in studying the geology of various parts of the See also:United States and See also:Canada, and returned to See also:Europe for a See also:short 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 in 185o. In 1853 he published a See also:Geological See also:Map of the United States, and the See also:British Provinces of North America. In 1855 he became See also:professor of geology and palaeontology at the See also:polytechnic school of See also:Zurich, but relinquished this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in 1859, and in 1861 again returned to the United States, when he assisted Agassiz in See also:founding the Museum of See also:Comparative See also:Zoology. In 1861 he published his Geological Map of the See also:World (2nd ed. 1875). Of his published papers the more noteworthy are those on the Jura-Cretaceous formations of the Jura, on the " Dyas " (See also:Permian) of See also:Nebraska, and on the Taconic rocks of See also:Vermont and Canada. His other See also:works include Lettres sur See also:les roches du Jura et leur See also:distribution geographique clans les deux hemispheres (1857–1860) and Geology of North America (1858). Marcou died at See also:Cambridge, See also:Mass., on the 17th of April 1898.
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