JEAN ALPHONSE FAVRE (1815-1890)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V10,
Page 215
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:JEAN See also:ALPHONSE See also:FAVRE (1815-1890)
, Swiss geologist, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 31st of See also:March 1815
.
He was for many years See also:professor of See also:geology in the See also:academy at Geneva, and afterwards See also:president of the Federal See also:Commission with See also:charge of the See also:geological See also:map of See also:Switzerland
.
One of his earliest papers was On the Anthracites of the See also:Alps {1841), and later he gave See also:special See also:attention to the geology of See also:Savoy and of Mont See also:Blanc, and to the See also:ancient glacial phenomena of those Alpine regions
.
His elucidation of the geological structure demonstrated that
.
certain anomalous occurrences of fossils were due to repeated interfoldings of the strata and to complicated overthrust faults
.
In 1867 he published Recherches geologiques dans See also:les parties de la See also:Savoie, du Piemont et de la Suisse voisines du Mont Blanc
.
He died at Geneva in See also:June 18go
.
His son ERNEST See also:FAVRE (b
.
1845) has written on the palaeontology and geology of See also:Galicia, Savoy and the See also:Fribourg Alps, and of the See also:Caucasus and See also:Crimea
.
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