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See also:JOSEPH See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:XAVIER See also:FOURNET (1801-1869) , See also:French geologist and metallurgist, was See also:born at See also:Strassburg on the 15th of May 18or . He was educated at the Ecole See also:des Mines at See also:Paris, and after considerable experience as a See also:mining engineer he was in 1834 appointed See also:professor of See also:geology at See also:Lyons . He was a See also:man of wide knowledge and extensive See also:research, and wrote See also:memoirs on chemical and mineralogical subjects, on eruptive rocks, on the structure of the See also:Jura, the See also:metamorphism of the Western See also:Alps, on the formation of oolitic limestones, on kaolinization and on metalliferous See also:veins . On metallurgical subjects also he was an acknowledged authority; and he published observations on the See also:order of sulphurability of metals (loi de See also:Fournet) . He died at Lyons on the 8th of See also:January 1869 . His See also:chief publications were: dudes sur See also:les depots metalliferes (Paris, 1834); Histoire de la dolomie (Lyons, 1847); De l'See also:extension des terrains houillers (1855) ; Geologie lyonnaise (Lyons, 1861) . |
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