Juan Tavera

Juan Tavera
Born 1917
Died 1991
Citizenship Chile
Nationality Chilean
Fields Geology, paleontology
Institutions University of Chile
Departamento de Minas del Estado
Known for Study of the formations of Navidad, Arauco and Algarrobo

Juan Tavera (1917 –  1991) was a Chilean geologist and paleontologist. His most important work was on the marine invertebrate fossils of the formations of Algarrobo, Arauco and Navidad.[1] Tavera's work contributed to an increased understanding of the stratigraphy of Chile, for example by defining Ranquil Formation in 1942.[2]

Along with Charles Darwin, Juan Brüggen and Gustav Steinmann he is one of the prominent geologists to have studied Navidad Formation in Central Chile.[3]

The species Paulckella taverai is named after him.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Museo geológico:Paleontología". Sernageomin.cl. National Geology and Mining Service. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
  2. ↑ García A., Floreal (1968). Ceccioni, Giovanni, ed. El Terciario de Chile Zona Central (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Ediorial Andrés Bello. p. 25–57.
  3. ↑ Encinas, Alfonso; Le Roux, Jacobus P.; Buatois, Luis A.; Nielsen, Sven, N.; Finger, Kenneth L.; Fourtanier, Elizabeth; Lavenu, Alain (2006), "New stratigrafic scheme for the Mio-Pliocene marine deposits of the Navidad area (33º00'-34º30'S), central Chile", Revista Geológica de Chile 33 (2): 221–246
  4. ↑ Rubilar R., Alfonso (2014), "ERNESTO PÉREZ D'ANGELO, 1932-2013: Obituario, bibliografía y una lista de los taxones por él descritos", Andean Geology (in Spanish) 41 (1)


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