Hansjörg Streif

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Hansjörg Streif (born May 29, 1939 in Oberkirch ) is a German geologist .

Life

Streif studied geology and paleontology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and after graduating (on molluscs in Greece, both in lakes and marine) went to the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research in 1964 . In 1967 he received his doctorate ( Limnogeological investigations of the Seeburg lake ). In 1978 he was responsible for the geological survey of the North Sea coast. In 1989 he was appointed director and professor.

In addition to his work on the North Sea, he was also involved in prospecting deposits for the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Ghana and Cameroon. From 2001 he advised the Chinese geological service in Tientsin.

For the mapping of the Lower Saxony coastal region of the North Sea, he and Jobst Barckhausen developed a sediment classification ( lithological order principle ) as the basis for geological mapping of the coast with 53 sheets on a scale of 1: 25,000, whereby he introduced a map of the Holocene base and a profile type map .

He has also dealt with sea level rise and is co-editor of a book on the causes of climate change that has "climate-skeptical" views.

In 1978 he became a member of the INQUA sub-commission Shorelines of Northwestern Europe , of which he was temporarily president. In addition, since 1980 he was a member of the Quaternary Stratigraphy subcommittee. From 1990 to 1992 he led the German contribution to the EG-Southern North Sea Project of the European Union.

In 2010 he received the Albrecht Penck Medal .

Fonts

  • The East Frisian coastal area. Geological Guide Collection, Brothers Borntraeger, Volume 57, 2nd edition 1990.
  • with Ulrich Berner (editor) Climate facts. Looking back - a key to the future. , 2001, 4th edition, Schweitzerbart 2004.
  • with U. Berner, G. Delisle: Climate changes in geological time , Journal for Applied Geology, Volume 41, 1995, pp. 69-82
  • Attempt to balance the sedimentation in the coastal Holocene of East Frisia. Geological Yearbook A, Volume 28, 1975.
  • with Bernhard Zimmermann The coastal holocene of Rysum / Knock in the area of ​​the mouth of the Ems (North Sea). Geological Yearbook A, 1973.
  • with Gerhard Ludwig, Helmut Müller Newer data on the Holocene sea level rise in the area of ​​the German Bight. Geological Yearbook D, Volume 32, 1979.
  • with Jobst Barckhausen, Horst Preuss A lithographic ordering principle for the coastal Holocene and its representation in the form of profile types. Geologisches Jahrbuch A, Volume 44, 1977, pp. 45-77.
  • The profile type map of the Holocene - a new geological map to show the strata sequences in the coastal area for practical and scientific purposes. The Coast, Volume 34, 1979, pp. 79-86.
  • Stratigraphy and facies development in the coastal area of ​​Woltzeten in East Frisia. Geological Yearbook, Supplements 119, 1971.
  • German contributions to Quaternary research in the southern North Sea. Geological Yearbook A, Volume 146, 1996.
  • The geological coast map of Lower Saxony 1: 25000. A new planning basis for the coastal region. Journal of Applied Geology, Volume 44, 1998, pp. 183-194.

literature

  • Cecile Baeteman, Roland Gehrels, Quaternary International, 133–134, 2005, pp. 1–6 (booklet dedicated to him, with list of publications)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ with three units: coastal still water deposits, coastal moving water deposits and coastal still water to moving water deposits
personal data
SURNAME Streif, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberkirch