Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner

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Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner (13 March 1809 - 28 September 1876) was a German geologist from Waltershausen near Gotha. He was the father of Carl Hermann Credner.

Credner investigated the geology of the Thuringian Forest, of which he published a map in 1846. He was author of a work entitled Uber die Gliederung der oberen Juraformation und der Wealden-Bildung im nordwestlichen Deutschland (Prague, 1863), also of a geological map of Hanover (1865). He died at Halle in 1876.

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