Anton Moro
Anton Moro | |
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Medal of Lazzaro Moro. Panteon Veneto; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti | |
| Born | Anton Lazzaro Moro 16 March 1687 |
| Died | 3 March 1764 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | Venetian |
| Known for | being the first advocate of plutonism |
| Parent(s) | Bernardino Moro and Felicita Moro (née Mauro) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology, geology |
Anton Lazzaro Moro (16 March 1687 – 3 April 1764) was an Italian abbot, geologist and naturalist. He was one of the leading advocates of plutonism in the early debate that confronted plutonism with neptunism, making him described by some authors as an ultraplutonist.[1] He was the first to discriminate sedimentary rocks from volcanic ones by studying the rocks of volcanic islands.[2] In his study of the crustaceans, he discovered fossils petrified in mountains that led him to deduce that those rocks were once buried in the sea.[3] Moro's work was singled out for praise by Charles Lyell in his Principles of Geology.[4]
Book
- De' crostacei e degli altri Marini corpi che si truovano su' monti. Venice: S. Monti. 1740. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
References
- ^ Auvergne and Neptunism verses Plutonism on the Sul Ross State University website
- ^ Craig Saunders, What Is the Theory of Plate Tectonics?, Shaping Modern Science, 30 Jan. 2011 - 64 pages ISBN 9780778772095 Read online
- ^ Curiosity and ingenuity on the University of Padua website
- ^ Lyell, Charles (1830). Principles of Geology. Vol. 1. London: John Murray. pp. 41–8.
External links
- Thomasian, Rose (1970). "Moro, Antonio-Lazzaro". In Charles Coulston Gillispie (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 9. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 531–534. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- De' Crostacei e Degli Altri Marini Corpi Che Si Trouvano su Monti - full digital facsimile at Linda Hall Library
- Farinella, Calogero (2012). "MORO, Anton Lazzaro". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 77: Morlini–Natolini (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-88-12-00032-6.