Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu
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Dieudonné Sylvain Guy Tancrède de Gratet de Dolomieu usually known as Déodat de Dolomieu was a French geologist. The mineral and the rock dolomite and the largest summital crater on the Piton de la Fo
Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (drawing by M. Cordier, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu)
The Dolomites, a mountain range in the Italian Alps, were named after de Dolomieu, who first described the dolomite mineral found there.
Voyage aux iles de Lipari, 1783
Louis Ramond de Carbonnières
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Louis François Élisabeth Ramond, baron de Carbonnières, was a French politician, geologist and botanist. He is regarded as one of the first explorers of the high mountains of the Pyrenees who can be d
Louis Ramond de Carbonnières
Cilindro de Marboré (3,328 m), Monte Perdido (3,355 m) and Soum de Ramond (3,263 m) (left to right)
Ramonda pyrenaica
Northern flanks of Pic Ramougn