Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent (30 December 1839 – 5 May 1908) was a Frenchgeologist.
He was born atBourges. After studying at theÉcole polytechnique from 1858 to 1860 he becameingénieur au corps des mines, and took part in drawing up thegeological map of France; and in 1875 he was appointed professor of geology and mineralogy at theCatholic Institute in Paris. In 1879 he prepared an important memoir for the geological survey of France on thePays de Bray, a subject on which he had already published several memoirs, and in 1880 he served as president of theSociété Géologique de France. In 1881-1883 he published hisTraité de géologie, a well-regarded textbook ofstratigraphy.[1]
His other works includeCours de minéralogie (1884),La formation des combustibles minéraux (1886),Le niveau de la mer et ses variations (1886),Les tremblements de terre (1887),La géologie en chemin de fer (1888),Précis de minéralogie (1888),Le siècle du fer (1890),Les anciens glaciers (1893),Leçons de géographie physique (1896),Notions générales sur l'écorce terrestre (1897),Le globe terrestre (1899), andScience et apologétique (1905).[1]
WithAchille Delesse he was for many years editor of theRevue de géologie and contributed to theExtraits de géologie, and he joined withAlfred Potier in the geological surveys undertaken in connection with theChannel Tunnel proposals.[1]
He died in Paris in 1908.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lapparent, Albert Auguste Cochon de".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 207.