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    Christian Leopold von Buch (26 April 1774 – 4 March 1853), usually cited as Leopold von Buch, was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe...
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    rock type is found in abundance. It was first applied by Christian Leopold von Buch in 1826. Andesite is an aphanitic (fine-grained) to porphyritic (coarse-grained)...
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    Nicolas Theodore de Saussure, and in Berlin as a student of Leopold von Buch and Alexander von Humboldt. In 1856 he became professor of geology at the École...
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  • Christian Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), German geologist and paleontologist Claudia-Maria Buch (born 1966), German economist Eva-Maria Buch (1921–1943)...
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    after the Teide massif on Tenerife. In 1815, the German geologist Leopold von Buch visited the Canary Islands. It was as a result of his visit to Tenerife...
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  • introduced into the geological vocabulary by the German geologist Leopold von Buch when he published his memoirs of his 1815 visit to the Canary Islands...
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    In 1845 he founded the Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft along with Leopold von Buch and Gustav Rose. In 1855 he received a PhD from the University of Berlin...
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    Buch is an old, worn crater that is located in the rugged southern highlands of the Moon. It was named after German geologist Leopold von Buch. It lies...
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    (1815–1883), composer Christian Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), geologist Bernhard von Cotta (1808–1879), geologist Kunz von Kaufungen (1410–1455), abductor...
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    style fold structure. In terms of recognising orogeny as an event, Leopold von Buch (1855) recognised that orogenies could be placed in time by bracketing...
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    geologists outside Britain, including Cuvier in France. In Berlin, Leopold von Buch, presented the lithograph on 4 February 1831 to an audience, praised...
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    Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898) was a Prussian statesman and diplomat...
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    mislead Joseph Hooker in their 1881 Correspondence about Leopold von Buch and Karl Ernst von Baer". Annals of Science. 77 (3): 349–365. doi:10.1080/00033790...
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  • elaborated further by Leopold von Buch in the 19th century. Observations supporting this view were also given by Alexander von Humboldt in his book Kosmos...
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    Marittimo in Tuscany. Then, in 1809, the German geologist Christian Leopold von Buch used the term more restrictively in his description of these Italian...
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    holding talks.[citation needed] In 1815, German geologist Christian Leopold von Buch visited the Canary Islands, during which he visited the island of Tenerife...
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    Alexander von Humboldt, Christian Leopold von Buch and Carl Ritter. He also studied philosophy under Georg Hegel and history under Leopold Ranke. His...
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    introduced into the geological vocabulary by the German geologist Leopold von Buch when he published his memoirs of his 1815 visit to the Canary Islands...
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    groups forming throughout Germany at the time. Sponsored by geologist Leopold von Buch, the society chartered the Princess Louise to sail to South Australia...
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  • Murchison Medal (1985) from the Geological Society of London, and the Leopold von Buch Medal of the German Geological Society, DGGV (2016). According to Google...
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  • 1718 – Esek Hopkins, American commander (d. 1802) 1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1853) 1782 – Maria Amalia...
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  • Christian Leopold von Buch on his tour of Greece. In 1837, he sent notes on his biological observations to his professors Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius...
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  • career, he performed investigations in the Swabian Alb with geologist Leopold von Buch and botanist Gustav Schübler. On his scientific excursions, he also...
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    geology of the former islet is of great interest. The German geologist Leopold von Buch visited the area in 1806–07, and he then discovered and described rhomb...
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    Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics. In 2015 Torsvik received the Leopold von Buch award for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of geodynamics...
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  • Geologie-Historiker "Leopold von Buch" (in English, "Society of Berlin-Brandenburger Geologist-Historians", named after Leopold von Buch, the famous 19th-century...
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    volcanoes of Italy and Auvergne, he opposed the views of Christian Leopold von Buch regarding craters of elevation, maintaining that the cones were due...
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    a year he published the first modern textbook on descriptive mineralogy, Von den äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (On the External Characters of...
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    thus coining and publishing the term "Jurassic". The German geologist Leopold von Buch in 1839 established the three-fold division of the Jurassic, originally...
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    Boeckh (1785 – 1867), classical scholar and antiquarian 4. von Buch, Christian Leopold von Buch (1774 – 1853), geologist and paleontologist 5. Calvin, John...
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