Articles | Volume 6, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-6-57-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-6-57-2015
Review article
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25 Jun 2015
Review article |  | 25 Jun 2015

Hermann Karsten, pioneer of geologic mapping in northwestern South America

K. R. Aalto

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Short summary
In the late 19th century, a regional geologic map of northwest South America was published by German botanist and geologist Hermann Karsten (1817–1908). Karsten’s work was incorporated by Agustín Codazzi (1793–1859) in his popular "Atlas geográfico e histórico de la Republica de Colombia" (1889). Geologic mapping and most interpretations provided in this 1889 atlas, however, were from Karsten's "Géologie de l'ancienne Colombie bolivarienne: Vénézuela, Nouvelle-Grenade et Ecuador" (1886).