Giovanni Arduino (geologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian geologist
Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1714
Place of Birth: Caprino Veronese, Veneto, Italy
Date of Death: 21-Mar-1795
Profession: geologist
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Giovanni Arduino (geologist)
- Giovanni Arduino (October 16, 1714 – March 21, 1795) was an Italian geologist who is known as the "Father of Italian Geology". Arduino was born at Caprino Veronese, Veneto.
- He was a mining specialist who developed possibly the first classification of geological time, based on study of the geology of northern Italy.
- He divided the history of the Earth into four periods: Primitive, Secondary, Tertiary and Volcanic, or Quaternary. The scheme proposed by Arduino in 1759, which was based on much study of rocks of the southern Alps, grouped the rocks into four series.
- These were (in addition to the Volcanic or Quaternary) as follows: the Primary series, which consisted of schists from the core of the mountains; the Secondary, which consisted of the hard sedimentary rocks on the mountain flanks; and the Tertiary, which consisted of the less hardened sedimentary rocks of the foothills.
- Because this arrangement did not always hold true for mountain ranges other than the Alps, the Primary and the Secondary were dropped in the general case.
- However the term 'Tertiary' has persisted in geological literature until its recent replacement by the Palaeogene and Neogene periods.
- The last period of the Cenozoic Era, known as the Pleistocene Epoch, is sometimes not included in the notion of the Tertiary.
- The Cenozoic was studied and further determined by, among others, the English geologist (and mentor of Charles Darwin) Charles Lyell.Giovanni Arduino died in Venice in 1795.
- The lunar ridge Dorsum Arduino is named after him.
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