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Auguste Bravard

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28: 270:"Bravard's discoveries seem to me magnificent, & especially interesting is the fact of Palæotherium Paranense, taken with (I think) the Nebraska Palæotherium. Bravard has sent me two Spanish pamphlets (which I find to my surprise I can hardly translate) in which he has strange geological doctrine, of whole enormous Pampean deposit being a 278:
fossils with recent shells; but I am by no means convinced. It seems to me impossible that a whole skeleton, (even to knee-cap) could be washed out of one formation & embedded in another & that other formation a turbulent one with largish pebbles & cross
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Monographie de la montagne de Perrier près d'Issoire (Puy-de-Dôme), et de deux espèces fossiles du genre Felis découvertes dans l'une de ses couches d'alluvion
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mammal fossils purchased from Bravard are also in the Museum of Natural History, South Kensington, London, transferred from the
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The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum
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Observaciones geolĂłgicas sobre diferentes terrenos de transporte de la hoya del Plata
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Biographical dates from K. Lambrecht, Werner Quenstedt, Claude C. Albritton, Jr,
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Bravard died during an earthquake at Mendoza, according to Juan José Parodiz.
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Mapa geológico y topográfico de los alrededores de Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires
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Monografía de los terrenos marinos terciarios de las cercanías del Paraná
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Catalogue des especes d'animaux fossiles recuilies dans I'Amerique du Sud
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A Catalogue of Geological Maps of South America: With an index map,
117: 112:(18 June 1803 – 28 March 1861) was a French mining engineer turned 27: 203: 51: 182: 141: 406:
A lithographed circular received from Bravard is remarked in
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his letters and distributed them to geologists in Europe.
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in the winter of 1852-53 and was a long-term resident in
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Estado fĂ­sico del territorio. GeologĂ­a de las Pampas
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Issoire
Mendoza, Argentina
Paleontology
palaeontologist
Vaucluse
Puy de DĂ´me
Argentina
Buenos Aires
mammalian
Mesotherium
Muséum d'histoire naturelle
Pleistocene
British Museum
Paraná
Charles Darwin
BahĂ­a Blanca
pampas
lithographed
Mendoza earthquake of 1861
Issoire
Monografía de los terrenos marinos terciarios de las cercanías del Paraná (1858)
subaerial deposit
BahĂ­a Blanca




Charles Lyell
"Darwin Correspondence Project"

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