Paul Fourmarier

Paul Frédéric Joseph Fourmarier (1877—1970) was a Belgian geologist and specialist in tectonics and stratigraphy,[1] after whom the Fourmarierite mineral is named.[2]

Paul Fourmarier
Born(1877-12-25)December 25, 1877
La Hulpe, Province of Brabant, Belgium
DiedJanuary 20, 1970(1970-01-20) (aged 92)
Liège, Liège Province, Belgium
Alma materUniversity of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
Known forstudy of fold structures and cleavage, description the overthrust nappes
AwardsPenrose Gold Medal (1952),
Wollaston Medal (1957)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology, tectonics

Fourmarier was born in La Hulpe, Province of Brabant, Belgium and studied at the University of Liège, graduating in 1899. He became a professor of geology at the university in 1920.[1]

He won the Wollaston Medal in 1957[3] and the Penrose Gold Medal in 1952.[4]

Research

His specialist area was the study of fold structures and cleavage and he described the overthrust nappes in the Ardennes.[1] Fourmarier was much involved in the geology of his native Belgium, as well as Zaire (then the Belgian Congo) and other African places. He also worked on continental drift.[1]

Works
  • 1901. Le bassin dévonien et carboniférien de Theux.
  • 1906. Pétrographie et paléontologie de la formation houillère de la campine, H. Vaillant-Carmanne (Liège).
  • 1907. La Tectonique de l’Ardenne.
  • 1916. La Tectonique du bassin houiller du Hainaut.
  • 1933. Principes de géologie.
  • 1934. Vue d'ensemble de la géologie de la Belgique.
  • 1939. Hydrogéologie: introduction à l'étude des eaux, destinées à l'alimentation humaine et à l'industrie, Paris.
  • 1954. Prodrome d'une description géologique de la Belgique. Geological Survey of Belgium, Liège, 826 p.

Memory

An award named after him, the Fourmarier Prize, was established.[5] In addition, a secondary uranium-lead mineral, fourmarierite, was named in his memory.[2]

See also

References
  1. "Fourmarier, Paul Frédéric Joseph". TheFreeDictionary. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  2. "Fourmarierite Mineral Data". webmineral.com. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  3. "Geological Society medal winners". The Geological Society of London. Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  4. "Penrose Gold Medal". Society of Economic Geologists. Archived from the original on 28 December 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  5. "Announcements". Nature. 143 (3618): 373. 1 March 1939. doi:10.1038/143373b0. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
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