biography
pronunciation:
[züs]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1831–1914)
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| biography:
| Geologist, born in London, UK. He became professor of geology at Vienna (1857–1901). Of his works, Das Antlitz der Erde (1885–1909, The Face of the Earth) was the most important. His theory that there had once been a great supercontinent made up of the present southern continents led to modern theories of continental drift. |
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