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Jules Desnoyers

French geologist

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contribution to geochronology

  • Grand Canyon rock layering
    In geochronology: Completion of the Phanerozoic time scale

    In 1829 Jules Desnoyers of France, studying sediments in the Seine valley, proposed using the term Quaternary to encompass all of these various post-Tertiary formations. At nearly the same time, the important work of Lyell on the faunal succession of the Paris Basin permitted finer-scaled discrimination of…

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  • Quaternary paleogeography
    In Quaternary

    … in France by French geologist Jules Desnoyers, who followed an antiquated method of referring to geologic eras as “Primary,” “Secondary,” “Tertiary,” and so on. Beginning with the work of Scottish geologist Charles Lyell in the 1830s, the Quaternary Period was divided into two epochs, the Pleistocene and the Holocene, with…

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