Las Ciencias de la Tierra en las Memorias de la Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas (JAE IC)pensionados 1907–1934

Résumé

The Committee for the Extension of Studies and Scientific Research (JAE) as granting agency was created in 1907 with the idea of opening the Spanish society to the world through knowledge. Under the legal form of "pension abroad", was granted by competition among applicants; and was aimed at staff and students of public institutions teaching and research. Throughout its existence, some 8,149 applications for new pension, of which 1,594 were granted a present; 28 of these may be attributed to the Earth Sciences. In this paper the pensioners in the areas of Earth Sciences in the period 1907-1934 are identified. The objectives and tasks carried out by pensioners in his travels are described. The scientific and research fields in which the "pensioners" were formed are summarily indicated, and their main contributions identified, based on the analysis of publications on volcanism and volcanic rocks, stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology, geomorphology, applied geology, Alpine tectonics, geochemistry and XRD mineralogy.