Stanisław Staszic: An Early Surveyor of the Geology of Central and Eastern Europe

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Stanisław Staszic: An Early Surveyor of the Geology of Central and Eastern Europe
Original language description
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the Polish geoscientist, philosopher, and statesman Stanislaw Staszic conducted an extensive geological survey of Poland and adjacent areas. In 1815, he completed a book (in Polish), On the geology ofthe Carpathians and other mountains and lowlands of Poland, complemented by a well-made geological map of Central and Eastern Europe. Early in the nineteenth century, Staszic refined the idea of 'geological mapping', though initially he was interested in the exploration of mineral deposits, rock salt, copper and iron ores, and coal. Unlike his predecessors, his book adopted a temporal subdivision of rocks, using a somewhat modified version of Abraham Gottlob Werner's system. He delineated the surface distribution of five rock units and coloured them onto his map. His work gave expression to his view of geological history, and brought the 'Enlightenment Period' of geology in Central and Eastern Europe to a close.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
DB - Geology and mineralogy
OECD FORD branch
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Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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