- Jules Marcou
Jules Marcou (
April 20 ,1824 -April 17 ,1898 ) was an eminent Swiss-Americangeologist .He was born at Salins, in the "département" of Jura, in
France .He was educated at
Besançon and at the college of St Louis,Paris . He worked in early years withJules Thurmann (1804-1855) on thegeology of the Jura mountains. In 1847 he went toNorth America as travelling geologist for the "Jardin des Plantes", and in the following year inBoston he joined Agassiz, whom he had met in Switzerland, and accompanied him to theLake Superior region.Marcou spent two years in studying the geology of various parts of the
United States andCanada , and returned to Europe for a short time in 1850. In 1853 he published a "Geological Map of the United States, and the British Provinces of North America".In 1855 he became professor of geology and
palaeontology at the polytechnic school ofZürich , but relinquished this office in 1859, and in 1861 again returned to the United States, when be assisted Agassiz in founding theMuseum of Comparative Zoology .In 1861 he published his "Geological Map of the World" (2nd ed. 1875). Of his published papers the more noteworthy are those on the Jura —"Cretaceous formations of the Jura"—, on the "Dyas (Permian) of Nebraska", and on the "Taconic rocks of Vermont and Canada".
His other works include "Lettres sur les roches du Jura et leur distribution géographique dans les deux hémisphères" (1857-1860) and "Geology of North America" (1858).
Jules Marcou died at
Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1898 and was interred there in theMount Auburn Cemetery .References
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