Archil Tsagareli ( ka, არჩილ ცაგარელი; December 5, 1913 – November 25, 1988) was a prominent Georgian geologist. Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1969). Honorary member of the

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(1975). Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1951),

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(1954), Honored Scientist of the Georgian SSR (1966).

Biography

Archil Tsagareli was born on 5 December 1913 in the

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. In 1936 he finished the

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr; often shorten ...

. Since 1954 he worked as a pedagogue at

. He had been working at Alexander Janelidze Institute of Geology from 1940 until his death, where he headed the department of regional geology. He was director of the Alexandre Janelidze Institute of Geology from 1979 to 1981. Since 1980 Tsagareli was academician-secretary Earth's sciences department of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. In 1951 defending his

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.Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR. V. 113. №1. 1984. pp. 214–215. Archil Tsagareli's scientific works concerned

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quaternary science Quaternary science is the subfield of geology which studies the Quaternary Period commonly known as the ice age. The Quaternary Period is a time period that started around 2.58 million years ago and continues today. This period is divided in ...

and

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. He is the author of more than 100 scientific works, of which 7 is

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. Most of his work contain important material of scientific significance and are being used to the present day. Tsagareli developed new scheme of the neotectonical stage

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development. He also proposed chronology of the Caucasus alpine movement; set his age. In 1964 Geological Institute published on the collective, fundamental and generalizing work: "The Geology of Georgia", to be included in the All-Union series "The Geology of the USSR" as its 10-th volume. Tsagareli undertook to write the "physiographic description", "late cretaceous", "quaternary system", "history of geological development", "geomorphology" and "some issues of economic geology" chapter. Archil Tsagareli was also co-author and co-editor this work."Sakartvelos Respublika" (Newspaper). Tbilisi, 2014. 2 May, N86 (7467), p. 5 He perfectly spoke

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and

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s. He was awarded a State Prize of the Georgia in 1973. He was also laureate of Alexander Janelidze Prize of the

Georgian National Academy of Sciences The Georgian National Academy of Sciences (GNAS) ( ka, საქართველოს მეცნიერებათა ეროვნული აკადემია, tr) is the main learned society of Georgia. It was named the Georgia ...

.Encyclopedia TBILISI, Was edited by I. Abashidze Chief Editorial Board of Georgian Encyclopedia in 2002.

References

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