Eugène Renevier

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Eugène Renevier (born March 26, 1831 in Lausanne , † May 4, 1906 there ) was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist .

biography

In 1857 he was appointed professor of geology and paleontology at the Université de Lausanne . He is best known for his work on the geology and paleontology of the Alps, which he published in numerous publications in specialist journals in Switzerland and France. With François Jules Pictet he wrote a treatise on the fossils of the Aptium in Perte du Rhône in 1854 ( Fossiles du terrain aptien de la Perte du Rhône ). In 1874 he published a stratigraphic table of sedimentary formations ( Tableau des terrains sedimentaires ).

In 1894 he was appointed President of the Swiss Geological Commission and was also chairman of the International Geological Congress , which was held in Zurich that same year . As an addition to the report of the congress, an expanded version of his Tableau des terrains sedimentaires with an explanatory booklet ( Chronographe géologique ) appeared in 1897 . The table was designed in the same colors used on the international geological map.

Works

  • Mémoire géologique sur la perte du Rhône et ses environs. 1853
  • Déscription des Fossiles du Terrain Aptien de la Perte du Rhone et De Ste-Croix. J. Kessmann, Geneva 1858 (with François Jules Pictet)
  • Tableau des terrains sédimentaires formés pendant les époques de la phase organique du globe terrestre. Bulletin de la Societé Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, 12/70: tableau III, 13/72: 218–252, Lausanne 1874.
  • Étude géologique sur le nouveau projet de tunnel coudé traversant le massif du Simplon. With A. Heim, Ch. Lory, T. Taramelli, Eds. Rouge, Lausanne 1882
  • Ambiguite du Terme Norien, et son Inadmissibilite dans la Classification Internationale. 1898
  • Ax Anticlinal de la Molasse aux Environs de Lausanne. 1900

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Eugene Renevier Killed. New York Times, May 6, 1906
personal data
SURNAME Renevier, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1906
Place of death Lausanne