Marie Adèle Pierre Jules Tissot
Marie Adèle Pierre Jules Tissot (10 September 1838 – 25 November 1883) was a French mining engineer and geologist. He suspected the presence of deposits of phosphates in French North Africa, which were later discovered by the geologist Philippe Thomas. He is best known for a detailed geological map of the east of Algeria. Life Marie Adèle Pierre Jules Tissot was born on September 10, 1838. His parents were Claude Tissot, a postmaster, and Catherine Virginie Bernot. He entered the École Polytechnique in 1855, graduating 7th out of 144 pupils, then studied at the École des Mines de Paris. He became a member of the Corps des mines. Tissot was appointed Chief Engineer in Algeria, where his entire career was spent. In 1873 Philippe Thomas, a young veterinary officer and geologist, found an exceptional limestone-marl zone in the Lower Eocene plateau at Aïn-Sba in the Fatah mountains south of Boghar. Some of the fossils were covered in a greenish or chocolate patina. He gave a s ...
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Norges-la-Ville
Norges-la-Ville () is a Communes of France, commune in the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Côte-d'Or department References

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