Alfred Elis Törnebohm

Swedish geologist

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Born:: Oct. 16, 1838, Stockholm, Swed.

Died:: April 21, 1911, Strängnäs (aged 72)

Subjects Of Study:: Caledonian orogeny; mountain; mountain range; overthrust

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Alfred Elis Törnebohm (born Oct. 16, 1838, Stockholm, Swed.—died April 21, 1911, Strängnäs) Swedish geologist and pioneer in the study and analysis of mountain structure. In 1888 he presented the first outlines of his theory of the overthrust of the Caledonian Range (the mountainous region in northwestern Europe extending from the British Isles to western Scandinavia) onto a foreland to the southeast and demonstrated (1896) that the overthrusting applied to the entire mountain range and exceeded 80 miles (130 km). He illustrated his completed description with a map of a 36,000-square-mile (93,000-square-kilometre) area. Törnebohm was a member of the Geological ...(100 of 160 words)

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