Wawrzyniec Karol de Teisseyre (1860–1939) was a Polish geologist who is known for his work on the southern part of the

Trans European Suture Zone The Trans-European Suture Zone (TESZ), also known as the Tornquist Zone, is the crustal boundary between the Precambrian East European Craton and the Phanerozoic orogens of South-Western Europe. The zone runs from the North Sea to the Black Sea. ...

and Galician and Romanian geology. Wawrzyniec Teisseyre was born in Cracow (Poland) of French ancestry. He studied at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich hist ...

and the Mining Academy in

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(Austria) and worked at the institutes of geology in Vienna and Bucharest. As part of his work on the Geological Atlas of Galicia, he mapped the southern part of the

(Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone) and associated features of the Carpathian Mountains. During his time in Bucharest he investigated oil deposits of Romania.R. Teisseyre and B. Teisseyre, ''Wawrzyniec Karol de Teisseyre: A Pioneer in the Study of "Cryptotectonics"'', Eos, Vol. 83, No. 47, pages 541-556, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2002EO000370/pdf

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20th-century Polish geologists 1860 births 1939 deaths 19th-century Polish geologists {{Poland-scientist-stub

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