10 Facts About Boris Choubert

Boris Choubert or Schuberth was a Russian-French geologist.

Boris Choubert left Russia for Finland in 1917, then for France in 1927.

Boris Choubert studied geology at La Sorbonne for two years, then at the in Nancy, where he received his diploma of engineer-geologist.

Boris Choubert then moved to Nice, where he was harboured by the laboratoire de geologie.

Boris Choubert mainly dedicated himself to three geological fields, of which he significantly advanced the first two:.

Boris Choubert was aware of studies by the South-African geologist Alexander du Toit, who had evidenced the great similarity of ancient South-American, West-African and South-African formations and was a supporter of Wegener's theory.

Boris Choubert published in 1935 a reconstruction of the relative positions of America, Africa and Europe before the Triassic.

Boris Choubert swept the Mid-Atlantic Ridge problem by explaining that it formed posteriorly to Atlantic Ocean opening.

Boris Choubert drew the theory farther than Wegener, who had only considered post-Triassic continental drift.

Thirty years later, Edward Bullard and co-authors published a paper in which a reconstruction similar to Boris Choubert's was achieved with the help of a computer, through the numerical minimisation of distances between continental blocks.