According to Wikipedia, Albert Streckeisen was a Swiss petrographer and petrologist, the son of Basel forensic scientist Adolf Streckeisen. Biography He studied geology, mineralogy and petrology in Basel, Zürich and Bern. He submitted his doctoral thesis on the geology and petrology of the Flüela group in 1927. In the same year, aged 26, he was called as Professor in Mineralogy and Petrology to the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. As a member of the Romanian Geological Service, he was active in the geological mapping of the Carpathians.
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Classification of the common igneous rocks by means of their chemical composition; a provisional attempt (1976) (113)
Igneous rocks : IUGS classification and glossary : recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences, Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous Rocks (2002) (95)
Classification of volcanic rocks, lamprophyres, carbonatites, and melilitic rocks; recommendations and suggestions of the IUGS Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous Rocks; discussion and reply (1979) (3)
