Anton Lazzaro Moro (1687 in
San Vito al Tagliamento
San Vito al Tagliamento ( fur, San Vît dal Tiliment) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about southeast of Pordenone.
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– 1764) was an Italian abbot, geologist and naturalist. He was one of the leading advocates of
plutonism in the early debate that confronted plutonism to
neptunism
Neptunism is a superseded scientific theory of geology proposed by Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817) in the late 18th century, proposing that rocks formed from the crystallisation of minerals in the early Earth's oceans.
The theory took its n ...
, making him described by some authors as an ultraplutonist.
He was the first to discriminate
sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation. Sedimentation is the collective name for processes that cause these particles ...
s from
volcanic
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...
ones by studying the rocks of volcanic islands.
In his study of the
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can ...
s, he discovered fossils petrified in mountains that led him to deduce those rocks were once buried in the sea.
Book
* 1740, ''De' crostacei e degli altri Marini corpi che si truovano su' monti''
References
External links
''De' Crostacei e Degli Altri Marini Corpi Che Si Trouvano su Monti''- full digital facsimile at
Linda Hall Library
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1687 births
1764 deaths
18th-century Italian geologists
Italian abbots
Italian naturalists
People from San Vito al Tagliamento
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