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JUSTUS LUDWIG ADOLF ROTH (1818-1892)

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JUSTUS

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LUDWIG ADOLF
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ROTH (1818-1892)  ,
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German geologist and mineralogist, was
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born at
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Hamburg on the 15th of
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September 1818 . In 1867 he was appointed
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professor of
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mineralogy at the university of
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Berlin . He may be regarded as one of the founders of petrographical
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science . In his published papers he dealt with
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metamorphism and crystalline
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schists, discussed the origin of
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serpentine, and wrote on Vesuvian rocks and on
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Ponza
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Island . His
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separate
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works included Der Vesuv and
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die Umgebung von Neapel (1857); Beitrage zur Petrographie der plutonischen Gesteine (1869-84); Allgemeine and chemische Geologie (3 vols., 1879-93); and Uber die Erdbeben (1882) . He died at Berlin on the 1st of
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April 1892 .

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