Erik wing

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Erik Horst Wolfgang Flügel (born April 6, 1934 in Fürstenfeld , Styria , † April 14, 2004 in Erlangen ) was an Austrian paleontologist and geologist . He was a pioneer in microfaces analysis . Its botanical author's abbreviation is " E. Wing ".

Flügel went to school in Graz and studied geology , mineralogy and paleontology at the University of Marburg and the University of Graz , where he received his doctorate in 1957 (dissertation: Revision of the hydrozoans of the Grazer Devonian). From 1958 he was curator at the Natural History Museum Vienna and completed his habilitation in 1962 at the University of Vienna (investigations into the fossil content and microfaces of the Upper Triadic reef limestone in the Northern Alps). After that he was from 1962 Scientific Councilor and later Professor at the TH Darmstadt and from 1972 Professor of Paleontology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1974/75 he was Dean of the Geosciences Department. In 1999 he retired.

He dealt with the evolution of reefs and the paleontology and paleoecology of reef organisms and the facies analysis of limestone rocks. In his habilitation, he presented the first thorough microfaces analysis in German-speaking countries, carried out in the layers of a triassic reef in the northern Limestone Alps (at Gusswerk in Styria ). The layers are examined and characterized using the fossils and sedimentary features under the microscope in thin sections . He dealt with the systematics of hydrozoans and was able to use the electron microscope (his institute in Erlangen had the first scanning electron microscope for palaeontology in Germany) to prove that Solnhofen limestone mainly consists of the skeletons of single-cell calcareous algae ( coccolithophores ). With the help of the electron microscope he expanded the microfaces analysis to the ultra-facies analysis and also introduced geochemical investigation methods, for example for paleoclimatology. At the end of his research career, he turned to the archaeometry of ceramics, working with his son Christof Flügel , an archaeologist.

From 1992 to 1998 he was a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and a member of the Geo-Commission. From 1990 to 1996 he headed the DFG priority program Global and Regional Control Processes of Biogenic Sediments: Reef Evolution and Chalk Sedimentation . From 1995 to 1999 he was on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Alfred Wegener Institute and from 1996 on that of the Senckenberg Research Institute.

In 1962 he received the Archduke Johann Research Prize of Styria, in 1985 the Hans Stille Medal , in 2000 the Gustav Steinmann Medal and in 1998 he received an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin . In 1992 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2000 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society and in 2002 of the Geological Society of America .

His wife Erentraud Flügel-Kahler , with whom he had three children, had a doctorate in mineralogy. He also published with her and both published Facies from 1979 to 2003 .

He was the brother of Helmut W. Flügel , who was also a geologist and paleontologist.

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  • New graptolites from the Gotlandian of the Carnic Alps . Carinthia II 143_63, 1953, pp. 22–26 online (PDF; 521 kB)
  • Revision of the Devonian Hydrozoans of the Carnic Alps . Carinthia II 146_66, 1956, pp. 41–60 online (PDF; 2.9 MB)
  • A Central Devonian coral-stromatopore fauna from the Plöcken-Pass (Kleiner Pal-Westflanke, Carnic Alps) . Carinthia II 148_68, 1958, pp. 41–60 online (PDF; 849 kB)
  • The Paleozoic Stromatopore Faunas of the Eastern Alps: Distribution and Stratigraphy . Yearbook of the Imperial-Royal Geological Institute 101, 1958, pp. 167–186 online (PDF; 1.3 MB)
  • The genus Actinostroma Nicholson and its species (Stromatoporoidea) . Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 63, 1959, pp. 90–273 online (PDF; 17.2 MB)
  • with Walter Gräf: A new find of Asterocalamites scrobiculatus (Schloth.) Zeiller in the high carbon fiber of the Carnic Alps . Carinthia II 149_69, 1959, pp. 41–42 online (PDF; 329 kB)
  • Directory of in the Geol.-Palaeontol. Department of the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria, preserved types and original illustrations from the collections of the Novara expedition . New Zealand J. Geol. Geophys. 2, 1960, pp. 826-845
  • Types catalog. Directory of the types kept in the Geological-Paleontological Department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna as well as the originals. I. Invertebrata: I. Protozoa. 2. Coelenterata . Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 64, 1961, pp. 65–104 online (PDF; 3.6 MB)
  • Preliminary report on the fossil content of the Sauwand (Upper Triassic) near Gußwerk (Styria) . Announcements of the Natural Science Association for Styria 91, 1961, pp. 31–36 online (PDF; 684 kB)
  • Contributions to the paleontology of the north alpine reefs. New sponges and algae from the Zlambach strata (Rhät) of the western Gosau ridge, Upper Austria . Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 65, 1962, pp. 51–56 online (PDF; 2.6 MB)
  • To the microfaces of the Alpine Triassic . Yearbook of the Imperial-Royal Geological Institute 106, 1963, pp. 205–228 online (PDF; 2.3 MB)
  • with Heinz Albert Kollmann : The Paleozoic Seas of the Eastern Alps . Publications from (the) Natural History Museum (s) NF_005, 1964, pp. 148–156 online (PDF; 5 MB)
  • Algae from the Permian of the Carnic Alps . Carinthia II, special issue 25, 1966, pp. 1-76
  • Report on facial and stratigraphic investigations in the Permian of the Carnic Alps . Carinthia II 158_78, 1968, pp. 38–65 online (PDF; 2.2 MB)
  • Hydrozoa with a circumlamellar microstructure from the Gosau layers (Senon) of the Gosau basin (Upper Austria / Salzburg) . Geol. Bundesanst. 1969/2, pp. 126-132
  • Palecological interpretation of the Zottachkopf profile with the help of small foraminifera . Carinthia II 28, 1971, pp. 61-96
  • with H. Meixner: Pyritized spongy needles and radiolariums from Oberalmer-Kalken (Malm) of the Weißenbach valley SW Strobl / Wolfgangsee (Salzburg) . In: Bachmayer F. & Zapfe H. (eds.) Ehrenberg-Festschrift, Öst. Paleontol. Ges., Vienna 1972, pp. 187-194
  • Research results in the Eastern and Southern Alpine Permian - facies interpretation of the sub-Permian sediments in the Carnic Alps . Carinthia II 164_84, 1974, pp. 43–61 online (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  • with Friedrich Kahler : Research results in the eastern and southern Alpine Permian - Foreword . Carinthia II 164_84, 1974, pp. 7–8 online (PDF; 256 kB)
  • with flax, Baba Senowbari-Daryan : lime sponges, hydrozoans, algae and micro-problems from the Cidaris layers (Karn, Upper Triassic) of the Mürz Valley Alps (Styria) and the Gosaukamm (Upper Austria) . Mitt. Ges. Geol. Mining Study. Austrian 25, 1978, pp. 153-195
  • The microfacies of the limestone in the Trogkofel layers of the Carnic Alps . Studi trent.Sci.nat. SH 36, 1980, pp. 51-99
  • with W. Buggisch: The Trogkofel layers of the Carnic Alps. Distribution, geological situation and terrain findings . Studi trent.Sci.nat. SH 36, 1980, pp. 13-50
  • with Wolf-Christian Dullo, Richard Lein, Peter Riedl, Baba Senowbari-Daryan: en, lime sponges and micro -problems from Lower Carnic reef limestone of the Bosruck summit (Northern Limestone Alps, Austria) . Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 129, 1986, p. 525 online (PDF; 2.4 MB)
  • "Algae / cement" reefs . Archive deposit research. Geol. Bundesanstalt 10, 1989, pp. 125-131 online (PDF; 923 kB)
  • Types and economic importance of reef limestone . Archive deposit research. Geol. Bundesanstalt 10, 1989, pp. 25–32 online (PDF; 939 kB)
  • "Cuts" in the development of Permian calcareous algae . Mitt. Naturwiss. Ver. Steiermark 120, 1990, pp. 99-124
  • with Felicitas Velledits , Baba Senobari-Daryan, Peter Riedel : Reef organisms from "Wettersteinkaiken" (Karn?) of the Bükk Mountains, Hungary . Geol.-Paleontol. Mitt. Innsbruck 018, 1991, pp. 35–62 online (PDF; 4 MB)
  • with Hans Hagdorn : Dasycladaceen from the Upper Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic) of the Hohenloher Land, southern Germany. Zitteliana, 20, Munich 1993, pp. 93-103
  • with Baba Senobari-Daryan: Evidence of some reef foraminifera and problematics in the Noric Dachstein limestone of the Gosaukamm (Austria) . Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 139, 1996, p. 247–271 online (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  • with Erentraud Flügel: The calcareous alga Anthracoporella spectabilis PIA from the Upper Carboniferous of the Carnic Alps: A comparison with recent dasycladal green algae . Announcements from the Department of Geology, Palaeontology and Mining at the Joanneum SH_2, 1998, pp. 175–197
  • Microfacies of carbonate rocks. Analysis, Interpretation and Application , Springer Verlag 2004, 2nd edition 2010
  • Microfacies analysis of limestones , Springer Verlag 1982
  • Microfacial investigation methods by Kalken , Springer Verlag 1978
  • Editor: Fossil Algae. Recent Results and Developments , Springer Verlag 1977
  • Editor with W. Kiessling, J. Golonka: Phanerozoic reef patterns , SEPM Special Publ., Vol. 72, Tulsa 2002

literature

  • JG Haditsch: Erik wing . In: 97, pp. 95-106 with list of publications ( PDF )
  • Bernhard Hubmann: The great geologists , marixverlag 2009, p.

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personal data
SURNAME Wing, Erik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wing, Erik Horst Wolfgang (full name); E. wing (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenfeld , Styria
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2004
Place of death gain