Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet
Geologist, Deceased Person
1801 – 1869
Who was Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet?
Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet, French geologist and metallurgist, was born at Strasbourg. He was educated at the École des Mines at Paris, and after considerable experience as a mining engineer he was in 1834 appointed professor of geology at Lyon.
He was a man of wide knowledge and extensive research, and wrote memoirs on chemical and mineralogical subjects, on eruptive rocks, on the structure of the Jura, the metamorphism of the Western Alps, on the formation of oolitic limestones, on kaolinization and on metalliferous veins. On metallurgical subjects also he was an acknowledged authority; and he published observations on the order of sulphurability of metals. He died at Lyon. His chief publications were: Études sur les depots métallicres; Histoire de la dolomie; De l'extension des terrains houillers; and Géologie lyonnaise.
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