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]

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[edit]

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[edit]

• 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[edit]

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[edit]

• Gaston Briart
• Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt
• William van Leckwijck

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