Christian Leopold Freiherr von Buch (* April 26th1774 in Stolpe (Brandenburg), † March 4th1853 in Berlin) was a German geologist and is remembered as one of the most important contributors to geology in the first half of the nineteenth century.
1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1774 - Christian LeopoldvonBuch, German geologist (d.
In 1795 Alexander von Humbolt described massive limestone formations of the Jura Mountains in Switzerland as the Calcaire de Jura, or Jura-Kalkstein ("Jura Limestone"), which he wrongly believed were older than the (Triassic) Muschelkalk.
Between 1796 and 1815 William Smith published geological maps featuring strata that were referred to by William Buckland in 1818 as the Oolite Formation or Oolitic Series.
In 1839 LeopoldvonBuch formally named the rocks described by von Humbolt as the Jurassic System, from whence the term has come into general use.
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