Cesare Emiliani

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Cesare Emiliani


Born
in Bologna, Italy
December 08, 1922

Died
July 20, 1995


Cesare Emiliani was an Italian-American scientist, considered one of the greatest geologists and micropaleontologists of the 20th century and the founder of paleoceanography.
He established that the ice ages of the last half million years or so are a cyclic phenomenon, which gave strong support to the hypothesis of Milankovitch and revolutionized ideas about the history of the oceans and of the glaciations. He was also the proponent of Project "LOCO" (for Long Cores) to the U.S. National Science Foundation. The project was a success providing evidence of the history of the oceans and also serving to test the hypotheses of seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.
Cesare Emiliani was honored by having the genus Emiliania erected as home for the
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Planet Earth: Cosmology, Ge...

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The Scientific Companion: E...

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Concise Science Dictionary

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Dictionary of the Physical ...

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Earth Science 89

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Earth Science

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The Sea, Volume 7: The Ocea...

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The Oceanic Lithosphere (Th...

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The Oligocene microfaunas o...

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Ancient Temperatures

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