Maurice Collignon, the Glossary
Maurice Jules Marie Collignon (9 June 1893, Saint-Malo – 21 October 1978, Moirans) was a French geologist and paleontologist, who is best known for his research of Cretaceous period ammonites from Madagascar.[1]
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15 relations: Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, Albian, Ammonoidea, École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, Collignoniceratidae, Cretaceous, Cunningtoniceras, France, French Academy of Sciences, Geologist, Madagascar, Menabe, Moirans, Paleontology, Saint-Malo.
- 20th-century French geologists
- People from Saint-Malo
Académie des sciences d'outre-mer
Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (formerly italics) is a learned society created in 1922 whose field of activity is mainly geography and general history in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania.
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Albian
The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.
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Ammonoidea
Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.
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École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
The École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM, literally the "Special Military School of Saint-Cyr") is a French military academy, and is often referred to as Saint-Cyr.
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Collignoniceratidae
Collignoniceratidae is a family of Upper Cretaceous ammonites characterized by typically more or less evolute shells with compressed, oval, or square whorl sections; serrate or entire keels; and dense ribs with one to 5 tubercles.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
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Cunningtoniceras
Cunningtoniceras is a stocky acanthoceratid ammonite from the upper Cenomanian stage of the late Cretaceous of the western U.S., found e.g. in Arizona and New Mexico.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.
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Geologist
A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and history of Earth.
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Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.
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Menabe
Menabe is a region in western Madagascar, with its capital at Morondava.
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Moirans
Moirans is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.
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Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo (Gallo: Saent-Malô) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
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See also
20th-century French geologists
- Éliane Basse
- André Cailleux
- Bernard Gèze
- Boris Choubert
- Charles Domergue
- Charles Eugène Bertrand
- Conrad Kilian
- François Bordes
- Georges Matheron
- Haroun Tazieff
- Henri Fontaine
- Henri George Doll
- Henri Termier
- Henriette Alimen
- Jacques Malavieille
- Jean Laherrère
- Katia and Maurice Krafft
- Loïc Le Ribault
- Louis Dangeard
- Maurice Collignon
- Maurice Lelubre
- Nicolas Théobald
- Paul Fallot
- Paul Tapponnier
- Philippe Thomas
- Pierre Pruvost
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Pierre-Roland Giot
- René Chudeau
- René Léon Bourret
- Roland Paskoff
People from Saint-Malo
- Abhishiktananda
- Alain Cuny
- Augusto Leverger, Baron of Melgaço
- Colin Clive
- Daniel Roullier
- François Gravé Du Pont
- François-Joseph-Victor Broussais
- Isabelle Renauld
- Jacques Briard
- Jacques Cartier
- Jacques Gouin de Beauchêne
- Jacques Habert
- Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe
- Jean-Julien Lemordant
- Jean-Luc Bourgeaux
- Jonathan Bougard
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
- Louis Aubert
- Louis Duveau
- Maurice Collignon
- Nicolas Surcouf
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis
- Robert Surcouf
- Robert Surcouf de Maisonneuve
- Ruellan brothers
- Suzy Solidor
- Vincent Calvez