Alphonse Briart (1825–1898) was supervisor of the coal mines at Bascoup and Mariemont near Morlanwelz in the Hainaut province of Belgium, and a geologist who studied that region. During the period 1863–1896 he and Francois Cornet published a number of books and papers describing fossils and geological structures found near Mons. They devised theories - now generally accepted - as to the geological history of the region. After Cornet's death in 1887, Briart continued to write alone.
The mineral Briartite is named for his grandson, Gaston Briart. In 1890 his son Paul took part in Delcommune's Katanga expedition.
AlphonseBriart (1825–1898) was supervisor of the coal mines at Bascoup and Mariemont near Morlanwelz in the Hainaut province of Belgium, and a geologist...
Créteur and Alphonse Blanchard, accidentally hit on a skeleton that they initially took for petrified wood. With the encouragement of AlphonseBriart, supervisor...
1843, the first excavations were undertaken by the mining engineer AlphonseBriart and two others during railway construction in 1867, with results presented...
professors and mining engineers was formed with nineteen members, including AlphonseBriart, Charles de la Vallée-Poussin, and Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck. On...
and from Alexandre Delcommune, who had been accompanying geologist Gaston Briart on a secret mission to search for minerals in the Katanga region Boudewijnstad...
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