Werner Abraham Gottlob
Related to Werner Abraham Gottlob: James Hutton, catastrophism, Baron Georges Cuvier, Werner's syndrome, Charles Lyell, Alfred Wegener
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(vĕr′nər), Abraham Gottlob 1749-1817. German geologist who developed a classification system for minerals and argued that all rocks had been formed in a primeval ocean.
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