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LAPPARENT, ALBERT AUGUSTE COCHON DE (183919o8)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 207 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LAPPARENT, ALBERT AUGUSTE COCHON DE (183919o8) ,
French
  geologist, was born at Bourges on the 3oth of December 1839. After studying at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1858 to 186o he became ingenieur au corps des mines, and took
part
  in drawing up the
geological
  map of
France
 ; and in 1875 he was appointed professor of
geology
  and
mineralogy
  at the Catholic Institute, Paris. In 1879 he prepared an important memoir for the
geological
  survey of
France
  on Le Pays de Bray, a subject on which he had already published several memoirs, and in 188o he served as president of the
French
  Geological Society. In 18811883 he published his Traite de geologie (5th ed., 1905), the best
European
  text-
book
  of stratigraphical
geology
 . His other works include Cours de mineralogie (1884, 3rd ed., 1899), La Formation des combustibles mineraux (1886), Le Niveau de la mer et ses variations (1886), Les Tremblements de terre (1887), La Geologic en chemin de fer (1888), Precis de mineralogie (1888), Le Siecle du fer (189o), Les Amiens Glaciers (1893), Lecons de geographic physique (1896), Notions generales sur l'ecorce terrestre (1897), Le Globe terrestre (1899), and Science et apologetique (1905). With Achille
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 Tunnel proposals. He died in
Paris on the 5th of May 1908. MARTIN (17941865),
German
 


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