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100 1 _aAubuisson de Voissins, J. F. d'
_q(Jean François),
_d1769-1841,
_eauthor.
245 1 3 _aAn Account of the Basalts of Saxony :
_bWith Observations on the Origin of Basalt in General /
_cJean François d'Aubuisson de Voisins, Edited and translated by Patrick Neill.
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1814.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource. :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection
520 _aJean-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.
650 0 _aBasalt.
650 0 _aPetrology
_zGermany
_zSaxony.
700 1 _aNeill, Patrick,
_d1776-1851,
_eeditor,
_etranslator.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108048422
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139225236
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