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STOPPANI, ANTONIO (1824-1891)

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STOPPANI, See also:ANTONIO (1824-1891) , See also:Italian geologist and palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Lecco on the 24th of See also:August 1824. He became See also:professor of See also:geology in the Royal Technical See also:Institute of See also:Milan, and was distinguished for his researches on the Triassic and Liassic formations of See also:northern See also:Italy. Among his See also:works were Paleontologie Lombarde (1858-1881); See also:Les petrifaction d'Esino (1858-1860); GEologie et paleontologic See also:des conches a Avicula Contorta en Lombardie (1860-1865); Corso di geologia, (3 vols., 1871-1873); and L'Era Neozoica (1881). In this last See also:work the author discussed the glaciation of the Italian See also:Alps and the See also:history of Italy during the See also:Pleistocene See also:age. He died at Milan on the 1st of See also:January, 1891.

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