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JUSTUS LUDWIG ADOLF ROTH (1818-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 756 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUDWIG ADOLF See also:ROTH (1818-1892)  , See also:German geologist and mineralogist, was See also:born at See also:Hamburg on the 15th of See also:September 1818 . In 1867 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:mineralogy at the university of See also:Berlin . He may be regarded as one of the founders of petrographical See also:science . In his published papers he dealt with See also:metamorphism and crystalline See also:schists, discussed the origin of See also:serpentine, and wrote on Vesuvian rocks and on See also:Ponza See also:Island . His See also:separate See also:works included Der Vesuv and See also: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 See also:April 1892 .

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