Ferdinand André Fouqué

Ferdinand André Fouqué (21 June 1828 – 7 March 1904) was a French geologist and petrologist.

He was born at

At the age of twenty-one he entered the

His studies of the eruptive rocks of Corsica, Santorini and elsewhere; his researches on the artificial reproduction of eruptive rocks, and his treatise on the optical characters of feldspars deserve special mention; but he was perhaps best known for the joint work which he carried on with his friend Auguste Michel-Lévy.^[1][7]

His chief publications were: Santorin et ses éruptions (1879), Minéralogie micrographique : roches éruptives françaises (1879) and Synthèse des minéraux et des roches (1882); the latter two works written in collaboration with Auguste Michel-Lévy.^[1] In 1885 he edited the report of the French commission that investigated the

... Ten years before Schliemann, in 1862, during geological excavations, in that astonishing volcanic product, the island of Santorin (Thera), M. Fouqué had brought to light a whole civilisation buried beneath a layer of pumice-stone, due to an eruption supposed to have happened about 2000 B.C. He found walls coated with stucco, and painted with stripes and floral decorations, hand-made and wheel-made pottery; in short, the relics of a civilisation which we should now call 'Mycenæan.'[9]

Works

• Recherches sur les phénomènes chimiques qui se produisent dans les volcans, 1866.
• Rapport sur les phénomeńes chimiques de l'éruption de l'Etna en 1865, (1866).
• Les anciens volcans de la Grèce, 1867.
• Santorin et ses éruptions, 1879; later translated into English and published as: "Santorini and its eruptions", Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
• Minéralogie micrographique : roches éruptives françaises, 1879 (with Auguste Michel-Lévy).^[2]
• Synthèse des minéraux et des roches, 1882 (with Auguste Michel-Lévy).
• Les tremblements de terre, 1889.
• Contribution à l'étude des feldspaths des roches volcaniques, 1894.

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