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WALTERSHAUSEN, WOLFGANG SARTORIUS, See also:BARON VON (1809-1876) , See also:German geologist, was See also:born at See also:Gottingen, on the 17th of See also:December 1809, and educated at the university in that See also:city. There he devoted his See also:attention to See also:physical and natural See also:science, and in particular to See also:mineralogy. During a tour in 1834-1835 he carried out a See also:series of magnetic observations in various parts of See also:Europe. He then gave his attention to an exhaustive investigation of See also:Etna, and carried on the See also:work with some interruptions until 1843. The See also:chief result of this undertaking was his See also:great See also:Atlas See also:des Atna(1858-1861), in which he distinguished the See also:lava streams formed during the later centuries. After his return from Etna he visited See also:Iceland, and subsequently published Physisahgeographische Skizze von See also:Island (1847), Uber See also:die vulkanischen Gesteine in Sicilien and Island (1853), and Geologischer Atlas von Island (1853). Meanwhile he was appointed See also:professor of mineralogy and See also:geology at Gottingen, and held this See also:post for about See also:thirty years, until his See also:death. In 1866 he published an important See also:essay entitled Recherches sur See also:les climats de l'epoque actuelle et des epoques anciennes; in this he expressed his belief that the Glacial See also:period was due to changes in the configuration of the See also:earth's See also:surface. He died at Gottingen on the 16th of See also:October 1876.

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