Carl Ludolf Griesbach (11 December 1847 – 13 April 1907), was an Austrian

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and

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who worked in East Africa and India.

Life

Carl Ludolf Griesbach was born in

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to George Ludolph Griesbach. He studied at the University of Vienna and worked with the Geological Survey of Vienna. He joined a German expedition to East Africa in 1869-70 and returned to live in London. He wrote on the geology of Natal, with numerous illustrations made by himself. In 1878 he joined the

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in Calcutta. He was part of the

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between 1884 and 1886. For his work during this period, he was created

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in February 1887 and awarded the Afghan medal and clasp. He succeeded William King as Director of the Geological Survey of India in 1894. Griesbach discovered fossils of the ammonoid '' Otoceras'' which he suggested as marking the earliest

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period thus marking the boundary of the Permian and the Triassic. The term Griesbachian is sometimes applied to strata belonging to this early period. In 1896, Johann Mojsisovics named the '' Griesbachites'' genus after Griesbach's work in this area. Griesbach described what he called the Haimanta System, a series of rocks made of quartz, slate and conglomerate in a layer over the Vaikrita system in the central Himalayas of Kumaon. Griesbach was elected Fellow of the

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in 1874. He married his cousin Emma, daughter of the Reverend W.R. Griesbach, in 1869. They had a daughter and a son and following Emma's death in 1892, Griesbach lived in Graz, Austria, with his daughter until his death. In recognition of his work, Tim Tozer of the

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named a creek on northwest

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(Canadian High Arctic) after him, and subsequently defined the Early Triassic sub-stage of

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time at that site.

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Geological Survey of India
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Griesbach, Carl Ludolf 19th-century Austrian geologists Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire 1847 births 1907 deaths Scientists from Vienna University of Vienna alumni

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