Geneviève Termier

Professor Geneviève Termier (April 2, 1917, Paris - May 27, 2005, Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse) was a French paleontologist and evolutionist. She was a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.cite web |url= http://sgfr.free.fr/association/LS/notice-Termier.php |title= Hommage à Madame Geneviève Termier, née Delpey 1917-2005 |author= R. Bourrouilh |work= Société Géologique de France |publisher= Geological Society of France |quote= Cet article est publié en complément de la notice nécrologique publiée dans [http://sgfr.free.fr/geochronique/geo97.php "Géochronique" n°97] "Les eaux souterraines", Mars 2006. (This article is published in complement of the obituary published in [the quarterly journal] "Géochronique" n°97, “The subterranean water”, March 2006.) ] In 1942 she went to Morocco where she met her husband Henri. Their son Michel was born three years later. She specialised in the studies of the gastropods. She also studied the South-East Asian Permian brachiopods. Together with her husband, she is considered one of the greatest French paleontologists of the 20th century.

Selected bibliography

* "Paléontologie marocaine" - 5 volumes
* "Histoire géologique de la biosphère"
* "Formation des continents et progression de la vie"
* "L'évolution de la lithosphère"
* "Quelques faits paléogéographiques et paléoécologiques relatifs à la limite de l'antécambrien et du cambrien"
* "Bryozoaires du paléozoïque supérieur de l'afghanistan"
* "Réflexions sur la sédimentation marine dans ses rapports avec l'érosion continentale"
* "Generalites sur les invertebres fossiles"
* "La trame géologique de l'histoire humaine"
* "Initiation à la paléontologie"
* "Sur la partie inférieure du flysch crétacé du djurjura" - all with Henri Termier

References and external links

* [http://sgfr.free.fr/association/LS/notice-Termier.php Obituary, with a photo and bibliography]