Heinrich Dau
Danish geologist
Intro | Danish geologist | |
Places | Germany | |
is | Geologist Writer | |
Work field | Literature Science | |
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Johann Heinrich Christfried Dau (1790–1831) was a Holstein-Danish geologist and writer, whose identification of peat layers led eventually to a system of classifying and dating post-glacial northern European paleoclimate periods, the "Blytt-Sernander" sequences based on peat stratigraphy.
He died at Altona, Hamburg in 1831.