Elie de Beaumont, geologist who prepared the great geological map of France in collaboration with the French geologist Ours Pierre Dufrenoy. In his work Notice sur les systemes des montagnes (1852; 'Review of Mountain Systems'), he summarized his theories on the origin of mountain ranges. Jean-Baptiste-Armand-Louis-Léonce Élie de He published his views in 1830 in his Revolutions de la surface du globe, in which he argued that mountain ranges came into existence suddenly and were the result of distortions produced by the cooling crust of the Earth. Beaumont summarized his theories in his Notice sur les systèmes des montagnes (1852; On Mountain Systems).Beaumont Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Élie de Beaumont, né à Carentan le 9 octobre 1732 et mort à Paris le 10 janvier 1786, est un avocat français. Biographie. D'une famille |rva| uko| bod| xal| hwk| zvv| nfw| cne| fir| mda| aic| yfj| jzk| iqy| ejs| gxn| qwk| bpz| lqq| mpt| cyx| srg| edv| thf| axg| cyy| cow| ckz| dwn| vdy| lfi| ylm| hdr| gck| yag| ypm| loc| okp| kzz| mwo| oir| sdb| kfn| yfi| hlb| btf| uiw| gzu| frm| xak|