| An Account of the Basalts of Saxony: With Observations on the Origin of Basalt in General Contributor(s): D'Aubuisson de Voisins, Jean François (Author), Neill, Patrick (Editor), Neill, Patrick (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1108048420 ISBN-13: 9781108048422 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Mineralogy - Nature | Rocks & Minerals |
| Dewey: 552.26 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.89 lbs) 316 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jean-Fran ois Daubuisson (1769-1841), geologist and engineer, was an Officer of the L gion 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, Trait de G ognosie and Trait 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. |