Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent

Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent (30 December 1839 - 5 May 1908) was a French geologist.

He was born at Bourges. After studying at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1858 to 1860 he became ingnieur au corps des mines, and took part in drawing up the geological map of France; and in 1875 he was appointed professor of geology and mineralogy at the Catholic Institute , Paris. In 1879 he prepared an important memoir for the geological survey of France on Le Pays de Bray , a subject on which he had already published several memoirs, and in 1880 he served as president of the [[French Geological Society]. In 1881-1883 he published his Trait de geologie (5th ed., 1905), the best European text-book of stratigraphical geology .

His other works include Coors de mineralogie (1884, 3rd ed., 1899), La Formation des combustibles minraux (1886), Le Niveau de la flier et ses variations (1886), Les Tremblements de terre (1887), La Geologie en chemin defer (1888), Prcis de mineralogie (1888), Le Sicle die fer (1890), Les Anciens Glaciers (1893), Leons de geographic physique (5896), Notions genCrales sur licorce terrestre (1897), Le Globe terrestre (1899), and Science et apologetique (1905). With Achille Delesse he was for many years editor of the Revue de geologie and contributed to the Extraits de and he joined with A. Potier in the geological surveys undertaken in connection with the Channel Tunnel proposals. He died in Paris in 1908.