Giovanni Arduino (geologist)
| Giovanni Arduino | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 16, 1714 Caprino Veronese, Veneto, Italy |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Venice, Republic of Venice |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Geology |
| Known for | Italian Geology |
Giovanni Arduino (October 16, 1714 – March 21, 1795) was an Italian geologist who is known as the "Father of Italian Geology".
Arduino was born at Caprino Veronese, Veneto. He was a mining specialist who developed possibly the first classification of geological time, based on study of the geology of northern Italy. He divided the history of the Earth into four periods: Primitive, Secondary, Tertiary and Volcanic, or Quaternary.
The scheme proposed by Arduino in 1759,[1] which was based on much study of rocks of the southern Alps, grouped the rocks into four series. These were (in addition to the Volcanic or Quaternary) as follows: the Primary series, which consisted of schists from the core of the mountains; the Secondary, which consisted of the hard sedimentary rocks on the mountain flanks; and the Tertiary, which consisted of the less hardened sedimentary rocks of the foothills. Because this arrangement did not always hold true for mountain ranges other than the Alps, the Primary and the Secondary were dropped in the general case. However the term 'Tertiary' has persisted in geological literature until its recent replacement by the Palaeogene and Neogene periods. The last period of the Cenozoic Era, known as the Pleistocene Epoch, is sometimes not included in the notion of the Tertiary. The Cenozoic was studied and further determined by, among others, the English geologist (and mentor of Charles Darwin) Charles Lyell.[1]
Giovanni Arduino died in Venice in 1795. The lunar rudge Dorsum Arduino is named after him.
Further reading
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- Works by or about Giovanni Arduino in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Effetti di Antichissimi Estinti Vulcani, e Altri Fenomeni, e Prodotti Fossili Osservati da Giovanni Arduino (1769); Osservazioni chimiche sopra alcuni fossili (1779); and Esame Chimico, e Considerazioni Sopra la Marga, Ossia Marna... (1791)- full digital facsimiles at Linda Hall Library
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