Mirali Qashqai

For the ethnic group, see Qashqai.

Qashqai in 1920

Mirali Seyidali oglu Qashqai (Azerbaijani: Mirəli Seyidəli oğlu Qaşqay, January 7, 1907, Ganja—April 23, 1977, Baku) was an eminent Azeri geologist and mineralogist (Professor from 1942 and member of Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences from 1945).^[1] Qashqai studied the iron-cobalt and alunite deposits of Dashkesan and discovered the deposits of obsidian and perlite in Kalbajar (together with A. Mammadov).^[1] Together with S. Aliyev, he compiled the geothermic map of Azerbaijan and proposed the theory of volcanic origin of Caucasian pyrite and chalcopyrite instead of the intrusive one.^[1] Following the landfall of Yardymly meteorite in 1959 he led the examination of its chemical and physical properties.^[2]

Works

• The hydrotermal-metacomatic formation of Kaolin and genetic classification of clay rocks. Clay miner. Bull., London, 1959, vol. 4, №21
• On the Alpientype veins of Caucasus, Just. Lugas Mallada. C.S.L.O., Madrid, 1960

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia (Baku, 1979), vol. 3, p. 106
2. ^ (Russian)Ярдымлинский метеорит Russian Academy of Sciences

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Name	Qashqai, Mirali
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Date of birth	1907
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Date of death	1977
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