Philibert Russo

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Philibert Russo (born March 12, 1885 in Villefranche-sur-Saône , † February 16, 1965 in Saint-Bel (Rhône)) was a French geologist and pioneer of geological exploration of Morocco .

After graduating from high school in Lyon, he went to the school for military doctors in Lyon and studied medicine and natural sciences at the University of Lyon. In 1910 he received his doctorate in medicine. Afterwards he was a military doctor, but also dealt with geology and received his doctorate in biology in Lyon in 1912. He then spent a year in Tunisia and from 1913 to 1938 a military doctor in Morocco. There he stayed apart from the time of the First World War and a stay in Paris in 1925, which served a further doctorate, this time in geology (Paris 1926). In 1927 he became head of hydrogeology at the Institut scientifique chérifien, which was founded in 1919 by Jacques Liouville (1879-1960) in Rabat . In retirement from 1938 he went back to the Lyon area. There he worked on the geological map of France.

He has published numerous articles on the geology of Morocco. He was a supporter of a theory of continental drift and assumed to explain the west-east trending fold mountains like in Morocco that the earth was initially in the shape of an egg and later, through rotation, approximated a spherical shape, which led to displacements in the crust. Later he also adopted convection currents due to temperature differences. He also published a popular science book on the geology of Morocco, published in 1921. He is best known as the founder of hydrogeology in Morocco. These studies were of practical importance to the military and were encouraged accordingly.

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  • La Terre marocaine, Oudjda, Morocco 1921
  • Les déplacements des continents 1933

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SURNAME Russo, Philibert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Villefranche-sur-Saône
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1965
Place of death Saint-Bel (Rhône)