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Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by deposi…

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system.
  2. Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system.
  3. Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist andgeologist, who classified minerals according to their externalcharacters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth'scrust were formed by depositions from water; designating, oraccording to, Werner's system.