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See also:RENEVIER, See also:EUGENE (1831– ) , Swiss geologist, was See also:born at See also:Lausanne on the 26th of See also:March 1831. In 1857 he became See also:professor of See also:geology and palaeontology in the university at Lausanne. He is distinguished for his researches on the geology and palaeontology of the See also:Alps, on which subjects he published numerous papers in the proceedings of the scientific See also:societies in See also:Switzerland and See also:France. With F. J. Pictet he wrote a memoir on the Fossiles du terrain aptien de la Perte-du-See also:Rhone (1854). In 1894 he was appointed See also:president of the Swiss See also:Geological See also:Commission, and also of the See also:International Geological See also:Congress held that See also:year at See also:Zurich, in the previous meetings of which he had taken a prominent See also:part. He published a noteworthy Tableau See also:des terrains sedimentaires (1894); and a second more elaborate edition, accompanied by an explanatory See also:article Chronographe geologique, was issued in '897 as a supplement to the See also:Report of the Zurich Congress. This new table was printed on coloured sheets, the See also:colours for each geological See also:system corresponding with those adopted on the International geological See also:map of See also:Europe.
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