Hans-Erich Reineck

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Hans-Erich Reineck (born July 19, 1918 in Nuremberg ; † August 15, 1999 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German geologist specializing in sedimentology and marine geology . He was a leading exponent of actuogeology in these areas .

Life

Reineck graduated from the Stein-Hardenberg-Schule in Berlin-Spandau in 1937 and was seriously wounded as a soldier in France in 1940. From 1942 he studied geology in Munich, among others with Ernst Kraus (Alpine geology), worked as a carpenter after the war and continued his studies in Mainz in 1948, where he received his doctorate in 1953 under Horst Falke ( On the Petrogenesis of the Wadern Layers in the North Wing of the near hollow ). He then worked at the Geological State Office of Rhineland-Palatinate before joining the Senckenberg am Meer research center in Wilhelmshaven in 1954 , where he dealt with actuogeological issues in sedimentology. From 1961 until his retirement in 1984 he was director of Senckenberg am Meer . He completed his habilitation in Frankfurt in 1963 ( sediment structure in the area of ​​the southern North Sea ), became associate professor in 1969 and honorary professor in Frankfurt in 1972. He was also visiting professor in Mainz, Heidelberg and Oldenburg.

He developed methods of taking undisturbed sediment samples under water and in the mudflats (box grab, Wattstechkasten) and experimentally investigated the relationship between parameters of deposition processes (flow, grain size distribution) and the deposition forms (e.g. sand ripples) and the sediment structure, as it will later be found in Found rock findings. In addition to the North and Baltic Seas, he conducted research in the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, the USA (Atlantic and Pacific coast), Taiwan, and East Africa. He was also involved in many reports on the sedimentological effects of construction work on the North Sea coast.

His standard work Depositional Sedimentary Environments has also been translated into Russian and Chinese.

From 1967 to 1971 he was President of the International Association of Sedimentologists. In 1988 he received the William H. Twenhofel Medal and in 1974 the Francis Paker Shepard Medal for Excellence in Marine Geology from the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (SEPM). In 1988 he received the Wilhelmshaven Prize for Marine Research and in 1998 the Cretzschmar Medal of the Senckenberg Society.

Fonts

  • Editor with Karl-Ernst Behre : Das Watt. Deposits and habitat , Frankfurt am Main, Senckenberg book , 3rd edition 1982 (first 1970)
  • Actuogeology of clastic sediments, Senckenberg-Buch, Volume 61, Frankfurt am Main: Kramer 1984
  • with Indra Bir Singh: Depositional Sedimentary Environments, Springer Verlag, 1973, 3rd edition 1986
  • Brief sedimentology, Cologne: von Loga 1990
  • Landscape history and geology of East Friesland: a hiking guide for geoscientists and nature lovers through East Friesland and the Wadden Sea, Cologne: from Loga 1994
  • with Gisela Gerdes, Wolfgang E. Krumbein: Mellum, Portrait of an Island, Frankfurt: Kramer 1987

Some essays:

  • The hurricane flood of February 16, 1962, Nature and Museum, Volume 92, 1962, pp. 151-172
  • Sediment structure in the area of ​​the southern North Sea, Abh. D. Senckenberg. Natural science. Ges., Vol. 505, 1963, pp. 1-138
  • with J. Dörjes, S. Gadow, G. Hertweck: Sedimentology, Faunenzonierung and Facies sequence off the east coast of the inner German Bight, Senckenbergiana lethaea, Volume 49, 1968, pp. 261-309.
  • Parameters of stratification and bioturbation, Geologische Rundschau, Volume 56, 1967, pp. 419-438
  • with S. Dörjes, S. Gadow, IB Singh: Die Rinnen der Jade, Sedimente und Makrobenthos, Senckenbergs maritima, Volume 1, 1969, pp. 5-62
  • Georgia Coastal Region, Sapelo Island, Sedimentology and Biology, etc., Senckenbergs maritima, Volume 4, 1973, pp. 81-123
  • Geological-biological studies on scree beaches and sub-beaches of the Costa Brava, Senckenbergs maritima, Volume 8, 1976, pp. 111-153
  • with Th. Aigner: Proximality trends in modern storm sands from the North Sea and their implication for basin analysis, Senckenbergs maritima, Volume 14, 1982, pp. 83-215
  • with K. Schwerd, G. Gerdes: Sedimentation processes in the younger clay marl layers and building block layers of the Lower Sea Molasse on Grünten in Allgäu, Senckenbergs maritima, Volume 31, 2000
  • with JD Howard: Depositional facies of high-energy-beach-offshore sequence, Comparison with low-energy sequence, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) 1981, pp. 807-830

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ published in: Abhh. d. Senckenberg. Natural science. Ges. 505, 1963, pp. 1-138
personal data
SURNAME Reineck, Hans-Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1999
Place of death Wilhelmshaven