biography
| name: |
Werner, Abraham Gottlob
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pronunciation:
[verner]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1750–1817)
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| biography:
| Geologist, born in Wehrau, Germany. A teacher at Freiburg in Saxony from 1775, he was one of the first to frame a classification of rocks, and gave his name to the Wernerian or Neptunian theory of deposition, which he advocated in controversy with James Hutton. |
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