Geological magazine . originally leiiup to the preparation of Lyells epoch-making works. JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street, London, W. BRITISH PETROGRAPHY. With Special Reference to the Igneous J. J. Harris Teall. 1888. Roy. 8vo. 458 pp. of text, with 47 plates, some coloured, bound incloth extra, gilt top. £,^ t^s. net. CLIMATIC CHANGES SINCETHE LAST ICE AGE. A Collection of Papers read before the Committee of theEleventh International Geological Congress at Stockholm, 1910. 4to. Sewed. £ i IRON ORE RESOURCES OF THEWORLD. A Summary compiled upon the initiative of the Executive Co
Geological magazine . originally leiiup to the preparation of Lyells epoch-making works. JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street, London, W. BRITISH PETROGRAPHY. With Special Reference to the Igneous J. J. Harris Teall. 1888. Roy. 8vo. 458 pp. of text, with 47 plates, some coloured, bound incloth extra, gilt top. £,^ t^s. net. CLIMATIC CHANGES SINCETHE LAST ICE AGE. A Collection of Papers read before the Committee of theEleventh International Geological Congress at Stockholm, 1910. 4to. Sewed. £ i IRON ORE RESOURCES OF THEWORLD. A Summary compiled upon the initiative of the Executive Committee of the Eleventh International Geological Congress, Stockholm, 1910, with the assistance of Geological Surveys and Mining Geologists of different Countries. Edited by the General Secretary oe the Congress. 2 vols. ^to. With 28 plates and 137 ill tis I rat ions in the text, andaccompafiied by a folio Atlas of \z maps. Price £,1 net. DULAU & CO., LTD., 37 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. Geol. Mag. 1912. Plate Professor A. E. TORNEBOHM,For. CoiT. Geol. Soc. Loud., Director Geological Survey of Sweden 189Born October 16, 1838. 1906. Died April 21, 1911. THE GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, NEW SERIES. DECADE V. VOL. IX. No. II.—FEBRUARY, 1912. I. — Some Account of the Geological Woek of the latePeofessok a. E. Tornebohm.^ By A. G. HOGBOM, Professor of Geology in the University of Upsala. (WITH A POETEAIT, PLATE HI.) AS already mentioned in this Magazine (September, 1911), theSwedish geologist, Professor Alfred Elis Tornebohm, died onApril 21, 1911, at the age of 72. Professor Tornebohms name is chiefly renowned in the scientificworld for an audacious theory in which he postulates an enormousoverthrust as governing the tectonics of the Scandinavian mountainrange. But his contributions to geological science in other respectsare also important enough to give him a distinguished place amonghis contemporaries. His interest, outside of the geology of themountain range, was mainly engaged
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