B. Clark Burchfiel

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Burrell Clark Burchfiel (born March 21, 1934 in Stockton , California ) is an American geologist .

Burchfiel graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and a master's degree in 1958, and received a PhD in geology from Yale University in 1961 . He was briefly at the United States Geological Survey and from 1961 Assistant Professor and later Professor of Geology at Rice University . In 1968 he was an exchange professor in Belgrade and in 1970 in Bucharest . From 1977 he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( Schlumberger Professor of Geology ). Among other things, he was visiting professor at the Australian National University (1976), the University of Lund (1992) and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1990).

He deals with the tectonics of the western United States, China, Eastern Europe and Tibet in the context of plate tectonics. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1984 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 1985 . In 1985/86 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1997 he became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . In 2003 he was President of the Geological Society of America . In 2009 he received the Penrose Medal .

Fonts

  • Continental Crust, Scientific American, September 1983
  • Evolution of Continental and Oceanic Crust, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 137, 1993, pp. 1-29
  • Structural geology of the Spector Range Quadrangle, Nevada, and its regional significance, GSA Bulletin; Volume 76, February 1965, pp. 175-191
  • with RJ Fleck, DT Secor, RR Vincelette, GA Davis: Geology of the Spring Mountains, Nevada, GSA Bulletin, Volume 85, July 1974, pp. 1013-1022
  • with GA Davis: Nature and controls of Cordilleran orogenesis, western United States: Extensions of an earlier synthesis, American Journal of Science, Volume 275, 1975, pp. 363-396
  • with GA Davis: Mojave Desert and environs, in: WG Ernst (Ed.), The geotectonic development of California (Rubey volume 1): Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1981, pp. 217-252.
  • with Brian Wernicke, James H. Willemin, Garry J. Ax, C. Scott Cameron: A new type of decollement thrusting, Nature, Volume 300, 1982, pp. 513-515
  • with Peter Molnar , Liang K'uangyi, Zhao Ziyun: Geologic Evolution of Northern Tibet: Results of an Expedition to Ulugh Muztagh, Science, Volume 235, 1987, pp. 299-305. Abstract
  • with LH Royden: Antler Orogeny; a mediterranean-type orogeny, Geology, Volume 19, 1991, pp. 66-69
  • with DS Cowan, GA Davis: Tectonic overview of the Cordilleran orogen in the western US, in: BC Burchfiel, PW Lipman, ML Zoback (Eds.), The Cordilleran Orogen: conterminous US: The Geology of North America, Volume G-3 , Decade of North American Geology, Geological Society of America, Boulder, 1992, pp. 407-480.

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  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Burchfiel, B. Clark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burchfiel, Burrell Clark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockton , California