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JEAN ALPHONSE FAVRE (1815-1890)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 215 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN ALPHONSE FAVRE (1815-1890)  , Swiss geologist, was born at Geneva on the 31st of March 1815 . He was for many years professor of geology in the academy at Geneva, and afterwards president of the Federal Commission with charge of the
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geological map of
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Switzerland . One of his earliest papers was On the Anthracites of the
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Alps {1841), and later he gave
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special attention to the geology of Savoy and of Mont Blanc, and to the 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
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les parties de la
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Savoie, du Piemont et de la Suisse voisines du Mont Blanc . He died at Geneva in
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June 18go . His son ERNEST FAVRE (b . 1845) has written on the palaeontology and geology of Galicia, Savoy and the Fribourg Alps, and of the
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Caucasus and Crimea .

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