Christian Leopold von Buch
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Christian Leopold von Buch, usually cited as Leopold von Buch, was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder and is remembered as one of the most important contributors to geolo
Christian Leopold von Buch, by Carl Joseph Begas (1850)
Statue of Leopold von Buch in Berlin, sculpted by Richard Ohmann
Neptunism
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Neptunism is a superseded scientific theory of geology proposed by the German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner in the late 18th century, who proposed that rocks formed from the crystallisation of mine
Christian Leopold von Buch
…Deutschland und Italien ("Geognistic Observations while Travelling through Germany and Italy", see below). He was at this time a zealous upholder of the Neptunian theory of Werner, with some modifications. In 1797, he met Humboldt at Salzburg, and with him explored the geological formations of Styria, and the adjoining…
Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817), the founder of neptunism