Gérard-Paul Deshayes

References

Gérard-Paul Deshayes

French geologist

Written by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Learn about this topic in these articles:

geochronology
Early attempts at mapping and correlation
Further work by Lyell and Gérard-Paul Deshayes resulted in the term Tertiary being accepted as one of the fundamental divisions of geologic time.
Read More
Further work by Lyell and Gérard-Paul Deshayes resulted in the term Tertiary being accepted as one of the fundamental divisions of geologic time.
Read More
Tertiary Period
Establishing Tertiary boundaries
…by Lyell’s colleague and friend Gérard-Paul Deshayes, a French geologist who had amassed a collection of more than 40,000 mollusks and was preparing a monograph on the mollusks of the Paris Basin.
Read More
…by Lyell’s colleague and friend Gérard-Paul Deshayes, a French geologist who had amassed a collection of more than 40,000 mollusks and was preparing a monograph on the mollusks of the Paris Basin.
Read More