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Jules Marcou (
April 20,
1824 -
April 17,
1898) was an eminent
Swiss-
American geologist.
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 with
Jules Thurmann (
1804-
1855) on the
geology of the Jura mountains. In
1847 he went to
North America as travelling geologist for the
Jardin des Plantes, and in the following year in
Boston he joined
Agassiz, whom he'd met in Switzerland, and accompanied him to the
Lake Superior region.
Marcou spent two years in studying the geology of various parts of the
United States and
Canada, 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 of
Zürich, but relinquished this office in
1859, and in
1861 again returned to the United States, when be assisted Agassiz in founding the
Museum 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 the
Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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