Andreas Vogel (geophysicist)

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Andreas Vogel (born June 6, 1929 in Boppard ) is a German geophysicist.

Vogel received his doctorate in 1957 under W. Hiller at the University of Stuttgart (then Technical University) ( on irregularities in the outer boundary of the earth's core (due to earthquake waves reflected on the earth's core) ) and again in 1964 at Uppsala University (on the combined interpretation of gravimetric and magnetiometric Interference fields) . He was head of the Institute of Solid Earth Physics in Uppsala and was then professor at the Free University of Berlin , where he headed the Department of Mathematical Geophysics.

In Uppsala he belonged to the international research network Blue Road in the 1970s, which investigated geodynamics in Northern Europe.

In Vogel's dissertation from 1957 and an essay from 1960, he concluded that there were irregularities in the boundary between the core of the earth and the mantle. The theory, which could not be accepted at the time, was confirmed by seismic tomography at Caltech in the 1980s ( Don L. Anderson , Robert N. Clayton , Olafur Gudmundsson). In the 1950s, Vogel concluded from a few hundred earthquake data that there was a 10 km high bump in the Earth's core boundary under Alaska.

In 1980 he re-edited Alfred Wegener's work on continental drift at Vieweg .

Vogel published several conference reports on model optimization in seismic exploration, seismic computing and inversion methods, earthquake prediction, and geophysical applications in archeology.

Fonts

  • Structure and dynamics at the core-mantle boundary, Physics in Our Time , Volume 23, 1992, Issue 3
  • About irregularities in the outer boundary of the earth's core due to the earthquake waves reflected on the earth's core , Gerlands contributions Geophys., Volume 69, 1960, pp. 150-174

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doctorate at Uppsala University
  2. ^ Gudmundsson, Clayton, Anderson Is there anisotropy in the outer core? , Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, Volume 68, 1987, the same CMB topography inferred from ISC PcP travel times , Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, Volume 67, 1986, p. 1100. B. Dziewonski, Woodhouse Global images of the earth's interior , Science, Volume 236, 1987, p. 37
  3. ^ Hot porridge , Der Spiegel, October 12, 1987
  4. ↑ Anderson and colleagues had the data from over 25,000 earthquakes available, which they processed with high-performance computers
  5. ↑ Gregory Tsokas, Vogel (Ed.) Geophysical exploration of archaeological sites , Vieweg 1993
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Boppard