Enrico Bonatti

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Enrico Bonatti (* 1936 ) is an Italian marine geologist and geochemist.

Life

Bonatti obtained his laureate as a geologist in Pisa (University and Scuola Normale Superiore) in 1959 and his habilitation (Libera Docenza) in 1967 at the University of Pisa. 1959/60 he was a Fulbright Fellow at Yale University with George Evelyn Hutchinson and then at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography . In 1964 he became Assistant Professor of Marine Geology at the University of Miami , Associate Professor in 1968 and Professor in 1971. From 1975 he conducted research at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, where he is a senior scientist. From 1997 to 2002 he was also Professor in Pisa and Director of the Institute of Marine Geology of the Italian Research Council (CNR) and from 2003 to 2006 Director of the Institute of Marine Research of the CNR. From 2003 to 2009 he was Professor of Geodynamics at La Sapienza University in Rome.

He dealt with the formation of iron-manganese nodules in the deep sea and with plate tectonics and oceanic crust, for example at the extension of the fracture zone of the African Trench in the Red Sea (in the Afar Triangle) or as a member of the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) in the Tyrrhenian Sea. He dealt with hot spots and mid-ocean ridges and the thermal structure of the oceanic mantle. He led over 30 marine geological expeditions.

Bonatti was part of a team from the University of Bologna who wanted to identify Lake Cheko as a relic (and impact site) of the Tunguska event in 2009 .

In 2001 he received the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize in Natural Sciences, in 1999 the H. Patterson Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 2015 the Shepherd Medal of the Society for Sedimentary Geology . In 2010 he became a full member of the European Academy of Sciences , and in 1994 he was elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • with G. Arrhenius, Neptunism and volcanism in the ocean, Progress in oceanography 3, 1963, 7-22
  • with DC Lynn: Mobility of manganese in diagenesis of deep-sea sediments, Marine Geology, Volume 3, 1965, 457-474
  • Classification and genesis of submarine iron-manganese deposits, in: Ferromanganese deposits on the ocean floor, National Science Foundation 1972
  • Metallogenesis at oceanic spreading centers, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 3, 1975, 401
  • Vertical tectonism and ocean fracture zones, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 37, 1978, pp. 369-379
  • with Kim Kastens u. a .: ODP Leg 107 in the Tyrrhenian Sea: Insights into passive margin and back-arc basin evolution, Geological Society of America Bulletin. Volume 100, 1980, pp. 1140-1156
  • with Kathleen Crane: Oceanic fracture zones, Scientific American, May 1984
  • Punctiform initiation of seafloor spreading in the Red Sea during transition from a continental to an oceanic rift, Nature, 316, 1985, 33-37
  • with PJ Michael: Peridotite composition from the North Atlantic: regional and tectonic variations and implications for partial melting, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 73, 1985, pp. 91-104
  • with Monique Seiler: Crustal Underplating and Evolution in the Red Sea Rift: Uplifted Gabbro / gneiss Crustal Complexes on Zabargad and Brothers Islands, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 92, 1987, pp. 12803-12821
  • The rifting of continents, Scientific American 1987
  • with PJ Michael: Mantle peridotites from continental rifts to ocean basins to subduction zones, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 91, 1989, pp. 297-311

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: Enrico Bonatti. Academia Europaea, accessed October 2, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bonatti, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian marine geologist and geochemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1936