Anthony Hallam
Anthony Hallam , called Tony Hallam (born December 26, 1933 in Leicester , † October 23, 2017 ), was a British geologist and paleontologist .
Life
Hallam studied at Cambridge University (St. John's College), where he graduated in geology in 1955. In 1959 he received his doctorate there under William Joscelyn Arkell on limestone-slate alternation in the lower Jura ( Blue Lias ) of southern England, where he used trace fossil analysis for the first time in Great Britain. From 1958 to 1967 he was a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh , then at the University of Oxford , where he was a Fellow of New College, and from 1977 Lapworth Professor at the University of Birmingham . From 1999 he was professor emeritus there.
He was the author of several books, including popular science books, on mass extinction, for example . He was particularly concerned with the mass extinction at the end of the Triassic and the beginning of the Jurassic period. He dealt in particular with the environment (paleoecology) of the Jurassic period and its interpretation in deposits. For example, he investigated the sea level fluctuations in the Jurassic period. He also worked on Gryphaea as early as the 1950s, working in part with Stephen Jay Gould .
Honors
- Lapworth Medal of the Palaeontological Association (2007)
- Lyell Medal (1990)
- Leopold von Buch plaque (1997)
Fonts
- Phanerozoic sea level changes, Columbia University Press 1992
- with Paul Wignall: Mass Extinctions and their aftermath, Oxford University Press 1997
- with P. Duff, EK Walton: Cyclic Sedimentation, Elsevier 1967
- An outline of phanerozoic biogeography, Oxford University Press 1994
- A Revolution in the Earth Sciences: From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973
- Editor: Atlas of palaeobiogeography, Elsevier 1973
- Facies interpretation and the stratigraphic record, Freeman 1981
- Jurassic Environments, Cambridge University Press 1975
- Editor with MG Audley-Charles: Gondwana and Tethys, Oxford University Press 1988
- Editor: Patterns of evolution as illustrated by the fossil record, Elsevier 1977
- Great Geological Controversies, Oxford University Press 1989
- Catastophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions, Oxford University Press 2004
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Appreciation on the occasion of the Lapworth Prize. See web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hallam, Anthony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leicester |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23 October 2017 |