Ernst Kalkowsky

German mineralogist and geologist
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Quick Facts

IntroGerman mineralogist and geologist
PlacesGermany
wasMineralogist Geologist Professor Educator
Work fieldAcademia Science
Gender
Male
Birth9 September 1851, Sovetsk, Russia
Death13 February 1938Dresden, Germany (aged 86 years)
Star signVirgo
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Biography


Ernst Louis Kalkowsky (1851–1938) was a German geologist and museum scientist. His paper "Oolith and Stromatolith im Norddeutschen Bundsandstein" was one of the most important contributions to understand stromatolitic structures.

Works

  • Elemente der Lithologie, 1886.
  • Der Nephrit des Bodensees. Dresden: Wilhelm Baensch, 1906.
  • Oolith and Stromatolith im Norddeutschen Bundsandstein, 1908.
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