TY - BOOK ID - 85473943 TI - An Account of the Basalts of Saxony : With Observations on the Origin of Basalt in General AU - Aubuisson de Voissins, J. F. d' AU - Neill, Patrick PY - 1814 SN - 1139225235 1108048420 PB - Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Basalt. KW - Petrology KW - Lithology KW - Petrography KW - Physical geology KW - Rocks KW - Basaltic rocks KW - Igneous rocks UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85473943 AB - Jean-François Daubuisson (1769-1841), geologist and engineer, was an Officer of the Légion d'Honneur, Knight of St Louis and Chief Engineer at the Royal Mining Corps. He published numerous papers on geology, mining and hydraulics, and is best known for his textbooks, Traité de géognosie and Traité d'hydraulique. He studied geology and mineralogy in Freiburg with Abraham Werner, the key proponent of Neptunism, the theory that all rocks had an aqueous origin. Later in his career Daubuisson was to side with the Plutonists, who argued that basalts formed from molten rock. However, in this paper, published in French in 1803, he describes his observations of the basalts of Saxony and argues that they, and all basalts, are sedimentary. This English translation by the Secretary of the Wernerian Natural History Society was published in 1814, and provides a fascinating insight into this discredited but once influential theory of the Earth. ER -