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An Account of the Basalts of Saxony, With Observations on the Origin of Basalt in General, Jean François d'Aubuisson de Voisins, Edited and translated by Patrick Neill

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An Account of the Basalts of Saxony, With Observations on the Origin of Basalt in General, Jean François d'Aubuisson de Voisins, Edited and translated by Patrick Neill

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eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An Account of the Basalts of Saxony

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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1030439169

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Jean François d'Aubuisson de Voisins, Edited and translated by Patrick Neill

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Cambridge library collectionCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

With Observations on the Origin of Basalt in General

Summary

Jean-François Daubuisson (1769–1841), geologist and engineer, was an Officer of the Légion d'Honneur, Knight of St Louis and Chief Engineer at the Royal Mining Corps. He published numerous papers on geology, mining and hydraulics, and is best known for his textbooks, Traité de géognosie and Traité d'hydraulique. He studied geology and mineralogy in Freiburg with Abraham Werner, the key proponent of Neptunism, the theory that all rocks had an aqueous origin. Later in his career Daubuisson was to side with the Plutonists, who argued that basalts formed from molten rock. However, in this paper, published in French in 1803, he describes his observations of the basalts of Saxony and argues that they, and all basalts, are sedimentary. This English translation by the Secretary of the Wernerian Natural History Society was published in 1814, and provides a fascinating insight into this discredited but once influential theory of the Earth.--, Provided by publisher

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