Maurice Gignoux

Maurice Gignoux (born October 19, 1881 in Lyon , † August 20, 1955 in Grenoble ) was a French geologist .

Gignoux studied from 1901 at the École normal supérieure in Lyon . In 1909 he received his doctorate there with the work Stratigraphy of the Pliocene and Quaternary in southern Italy and Sicily . During the First World War he served in the artillery . From 1919 he was a professor in Strasbourg and from 1926 in Grenoble, where he devoted himself in particular to the geology of the Alps and the local geology around Grenoble. He often worked with Léon Moret (1890–1972). In 1953 he retired.

He wrote a handbook of stratigraphy that first appeared in 1925. In 1930 he published works that highlighted the special role of salt tectonics in the Alpine Triassic . He dealt with petroleum geology, for example he wrote a monograph on the Pechelbronn oil field . Finally he wrote a book on engineering geology.

In 1955 he received the Penrose Medal . In 1915 he received the Prix Fontannes of the French Geological Society. In 1932 he became a corresponding and in 1946 a full member of the Académie des Sciences , whose Prix Cuvier he received in 1931. He was an officer in the Legion of Honor and an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne .

Fonts

Géologie stratigraphique , Paris, Masson 1925, 4th edition 1950
Section France in Carl Engler , Hans Höfer Das Erdöl , 2nd edition 1927
Géologie dauphinoise, ou, Initiation à la géologie, par l'étude des environs de Grenoble , Paris, Grenoble, B. Arthaud 1944 (popular science, geology of the Grenoble area)
with R. Barbier: Géologie des barrages et des aménagements hydrauliques , Paris, Masson 1955

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SURNAME	Gignoux, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 19, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lyon
DATE OF DEATH	20th August 1955
Place of death	Grenoble