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Maurice Lugeon

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Maurice Lugeon
Maurice Lugeon
Born(1870-07-10)10 July 1870
Died23 October 1953(1953-10-23) (aged 83)
Nationality Switzerland
Known fornappe tectonics
Awards
Scientific career
Fieldsgeology

Maurice Lugeon FRS(For)[1] HFRSE FGS (10 July 1870 – 23 October 1953) was a Swiss geologist, and the pioneer of nappe tectonics. He was a pupil of Eugène Renevier. Named for Maurice Lugeon, the lugeon is a measure of transmissivity in rocks, determined by pressurized injection of water through a bore hole driven through the rock. One Lugeon (Lu) is equivalent to one litre of water per minute, injected into 1 metre of borehole at an injection pressure of 10 atmospheres.

Life

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He was born in Poissy near Paris on 10 July 1870. His family moved to Lausanne in Switzerland in 1876. From the age of 15 he showed a strong interest in geology.[2]

He spent most of his academic life at the University of Lausanne becoming Professor of Geology in 1906. He retired in 1940.[3] He became an expert on dam locations and was consulted widely on this.

He died in Lausanne in Switzerland on 23 October 1953.

Publications

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  • Dams and Geology (1933)

Family

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He was married to Ida Welti.

References

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  1. ^ a b Bailey, E. B. (1954). "Maurice Lugeon. 1870–1953". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 9 (1): 164–173. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1954.0012. JSTOR 769205.
  2. ^ "Maurice Lugeon | Swiss geologist".
  3. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
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