Eugène Renevier [SEP] place of birth
Eugène Renevier
Eugène Renevier (26 March 1831 – 4 May 1906) Swiss geologist, was born at Lausanne, Switzerland, as a descendant of a noble family.
After about three years of study at the polytechnical school of Stuttgart, Renevier in 1851 went to Geneva to study under F. J. Pictet. In 1854 he went to Paris to attend the lectures of Hébert and to study fossil nummulites found in the limestone of the Alps.
From 1859 to 1881 he was an associate professor of geology and mineralogy, then
Maurice Lugeon
Maurice Lugeon FRS(For) HFRSE FGS (July 10, 1870 – October 23, 1953) was a Swiss geologist, and the pioneer of nappe tectonics. He was a pupil of Eugène Renevier. Named for Maurice Lugeon, the lugeon is a measure of transmissivity in rocks, determined by pressurized injection of water through a bore hole driven through the rock. One Lugeon (Lu) is equivalent to one litre of water per minute, injected into 1 metre of borehole at an injection pressure of 10 atmospheres.