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. Main sights It i ...

– 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neptunism Neptunism is a superseded scientific theory of geology proposed by Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817) in the late 18th century, proposing that rocks formed from the crystallisation of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

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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

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* 1687 births 1764 deaths 18th-century Italian geologists Italian abbots Italian naturalists People from San Vito al Tagliamento {{geologist-stub