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Marcel-Alexandre Bertrand
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Born July 2, 1847 • Paris • France
Died February 13, 1907 (aged 59) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study orogeny
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
James Hall
American geologist
Pallas, engraved portrait
Peter Simon Pallas
German naturalist
Henry Darwin Rogers
American geologist
Albert Heim
Swiss geologist
Walter Herman Bucher
American geologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée
French geochemist
Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
Alexandre Brongniart, plaster medallion by David d'Angers
Alexandre Brongniart
French geologist
Henri-François-Émile Termier
French geologist
Nicolas Desmarest
French geologist
Joachim Barrande
French geologist
Émile Haug
French geologist
Dieudonné Dolomieu
French geologist
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist
Jean-Étienne Guettard
French geologist
Pierre-Marie Termier
French geologist
Élie de Beaumont
Élie de Beaumont
French geologist
Maurice-Irénée-Marie Gignoux
French geologist

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