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Jean-Francois Daubuisson (1769 1841), geologist and engineer, was
an Officer of the Legion d'Honneur, Knight of St Louis and Chief
Engineer at the Royal Mining Corps. He published numerous papers on
geology, mining and hydraulics, and is best known for his
textbooks, Traite de Geognosie and Traite d'Hydraulique. He studied
geology and mineralogy in Freiburg with Abraham Werner, the key
proponent of Neptunism, the theory that all rocks had an aqueous
origin. Later in his career Daubuisson was to side with the
Plutonists, who argued that basalts formed from molten rock.
However, in this paper, published in French in 1803, he describes
his observations of the basalts of Saxony and argues that they, and
all basalts, are sedimentary. This English translation by the
Secretary of the Wernerian Natural History Society was published in
1814, and provides a fascinating insight into this discredited but
once influential theory of the Earth.
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