Alfred M. Ziegler
Alfred Mayland Ziegler (born April 23, 1938 in Boston ) is an American geologist and paleontologist. He is significantly involved in the Paleomap project of reconstructing plate tectonics in the Paleozoic.
Ziegler graduated from Bates College with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and received his PhD from Oxford University in 1964 . His dissertation was entitled The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Upper Llandovery rocks in the southern part of the Welsh Borderland . In 1966 he was Assistant Professor and 1972 Associate Professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago , where he was Professor of Stratigraphy from 1976.
He worked on the University of Chicago's Paleogeographic Atlas Project, which was originally funded by Shell, and in the Paleomap Project with Christopher Scotese , Richard Bambach and Rob Van der Voo, among others . As part of the research, they named the ancient continents or Terrane Avalonia and Laurussia .
Fonts
- with RK Bambach, CR Scotese, Rob Van der Voo: Paleozoic base maps. In: J. Geology. Volume 87, 1979, pp. 217-277.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Dissertation at Oxford University
- ^ Paleogeographic Atlas Project
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| SURNAME | Ziegler, Alfred M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ziegler, Alfred Mayland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |