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CHARLES LORY (1823-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 12 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:LORY (1823-1889)  , See also:French geologist, was See also:born at See also:Nantes on the 3oth of See also:July 1823 . He graduated D. es Sc. in 1847; in 1852 he was appointed to the See also:chair of See also:geology at the University of See also:Grenoble, and in 1881 to that of the Ecole Normale Superieure in See also:Paris . He was distinguished for his researches on the geology of the French See also:Alps, being engaged qn the See also:geological survey of the departments of See also:Isere, Dreme and the Hautes Alpes, of which he prepared the maps and explanatory See also:memoirs . He dealt with some of the disturbances in the See also:Savoy Alps, describing the See also:fan-like structures, and confirming the views of J . A . See also:Favre with regard to the overthrows, reversals and duplication of the strata . His contributions to geological literature include also descriptions of the fossils and strati-graphical divisions of the See also:Lower Cretaceous and See also:Jurassic rocks of the See also:Jura . He died at Grenoble on the 3rd of May 1889 .

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