Johannes Brüggen Messtorff better known by his

hispanized Hispanicization () refers to the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by Hispanic culture or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-Hispanic becomes Hispanic. Hispanicization is illustrated by spoken ...

name Juan Brüggen (

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, Germany, April 25, 1887 – March 7, 1953,

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) was a

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. One of his most famous works is the extensive treaty of ''Fundamentos de la geología de Chile'' published in 1950. Brüggen Glacier in the

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is named after him. In 1913 he published a report on the iron ores of the

Chilean Iron Belt The Chilean Iron Belt is a geological province rich in iron ore deposits in northern Chile. It extends as a north-south beld along the western part of the Chilean regions of Coquimbo and Atacama, chiefly between the cities of La Serena and Talt ...

near La Serena and

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and the general geology of the region. In his study Brüggen identified El Algarrobo and El Tofo as the main iron ore deposits of Chile. Two of Brüggen's students established the geology degree at the

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;

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and Héctor Flores Williams.

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20th-century Chilean geologists 20th-century German geologists Scientists from Lübeck German emigrants to Chile 1887 births 1953 deaths Academic staff of the University of Chile {{geologist-stub

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