science · 14 September 1940 · 85 years ago
death
Died 14 Sep 1940 at age 61 (born 6 Jan 1879).
Swiss geologist who studied the structure of the Alps. He produced a map of the Dent Blanche massif (1908) with a description of his investigation of the strata. In 1915, he coined the term embryotectonics for a new line of research which analyzed the sequential evolution of geological structures back to its origins as a sedimentary terrain.
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