Scrope

Scrope

Scrope (spr. skrop), George Poulett, Geolog, geb. 1797, gest. 18. Jan. 1876 bei Erobham (Surrey), bereiste 1816–20 Neapel, Sizilien und die Liparischen Inseln, später auch die vulkanischen Gegenden Deutschlands und wurde einer der bedeutendsten Gegner der durch v. Buch aufgestellten Vulkantheorie. Er schrieb: »Considerations on volcanoes« (Lond. 1825, 2. Aufl. 1862; deutsch von Klöden, Berl. 1872); »Geology and extinct volcanoes of central France« (Lond. 1827, 2. Aufl. 1858); »On the mode of production of volcanic cones and craters« (im »Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society«, 1859; deutsch von Griesbach, Berl. 1873).


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