Pierre-Marie Termier

Pierre -Marie Termier ( born July 3, 1859 in Lyon, † 23 October 1930 in Grenoble) was a French geologist.

In Lyon, born as the son of Joseph François Termier and Jeanne Mollard in the Rhône, he enrolled at the age of 18 years at the École polytechnique one. After 1880 began studies at the Mining Academy in Paris, the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, which he completed with graduation, he became a professor at the Mining Academy in Saint- Étienne. In 1894 he moved to Paris, where he taught for the rest of his career.

In 1909 he was elected a member of the mineralogy Academy of Sciences in the branch. In 1911, he was director of the French geological mapping and 1930 Vice- President of the Académie des sciences.

During his career as a geologist, he led geological studies in the Alps through, as in Corsica and North Africa. He was a representative of the ceiling theory and argued that orogeny caused by tectonic forces.

In 1903 he transferred the thrust ceiling theory to the Eastern Alps and the Tauern first declared the tectonic window. With him began the great modern synthesis of the ideas of the Eastern Alps.

The ridge Dorsum Termier on the Moon is named after him.

Geological writings

The list is not exhaustive.

  • Etude sur la constitution gélogique du massif de la Vanoise (Alpes de Savoie). Bulletin of the Service de la Carte de la France et des géologique Topographies souterraines, Tome 20, no. 20, 147 pp., Librairie polytechnique Baudry, Paris 1891. ISBN 1-85233-782-6
  • Le massif des Grandes Rousses - ( et Dauphine Savoie). Bulletin of the Service de la Carte Géologique, No. 40, tome VI, 118 S. Baudry et. Cie. , Paris 1894. ISBN 3-549-05632- X
  • Les montagnes entre Briançon et Vallouise. ( Ecailles briançonnaises, terrains cristallins de l' Eychauda, massif de Pierre- Eyrautz, etc.). 182 S., Imprimerie nationale, Paris 1903
  • Les nappes des Alpes orientales et la synthèse des Alpes. Bulletin de la Société de France géologique, Series 4, tome 3, pp. 711-766, 1903
  • Les alpes entre le Brenner et la Valteline. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France ', 4e série, tome V, pp. 209 - 289 Paris, Société de géologique Grance, 1905
  • Le massif cristallin ligure. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 4e série, tome XII, 1912. ( With Jean Boussac )
  • Sur l' un des problèmes Tectoniques you R'arb ( Maroc ). Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 4e série, tome XXVIII, 1928

Literary works

  • L' Atlantide Bulletin de l' Institute of Oceanography de Monaco, Vol 256, pp. 1-146, 1913
  • A la gloire de la terre. Souvenirs d' un géologue. 425 S., Desclée de Brouwer & Cie, Paris 1922
  • La Derive des Continents. Monaco 1924
  • La joie de connaître. Souvenirs d' un géologue. 327 S., Desclée de Brouwer & Cie, Paris 1929
  • La vocation du savant. Souvenirs d' un géologue. 265 S., Desclée de Brouwer & Cie, Paris 1929
  • Les grandes enigmas de la terre. 96 S., Flammarion 1935
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