Hartmut Seyfried

Hartmut Seyfried (* 1947 in Esslingen ) is a German geologist. From 1989 to 2012 he was Professor of Geology at the University of Stuttgart .

Life

Seyfried studied geology in Stuttgart and obtained his doctorate in 1976 with Manfred Gwinner. rer. nat. ("The Sub-Betic Jura of Murcia (Southeast Spain)"). He then moved to the TU Berlin , where he completed his habilitation in 1982. From 1983 to 1987 he was visiting professor at the Universidad de Costa Rica and from 1987 to 1989 Professor of Sedimentology at the University of Mainz . From 1989 he was full professor for general and applied geology and director of the Institute for Geology and Paleontology (IGPS) at the University of Stuttgart as successor to Manfred Gwinner. From 1993 to 1995 he was dean of the Faculty of Earth and Biosciences.

An expansion of cooperation with geotechnical engineering (development of digital terrain models, etc.), which was intensively pursued in Stuttgart, was discontinued in 2004. The institute was continued as an institute for planetology from 2006, in accordance with a policy of focusing the university's research on space travel. From 2009 onwards Seyfried held geology lectures in Tübingen.

He dealt with the geological development of island arches in the area of today's Central America and large landslides on the western slope of the Andes (northern Chile)

In 1996 he and one of his doctoral students started a heated debate among geologists about the age of the Grimmelfinger strata in the Graupensandrinne , a Miocene river course on the Albrand north of the Molasse basin parallel to today's Danube. The discovery of shocked quartz crystals, which were assigned to the Ries impact, suggested a significantly younger date of origin (14.4 million years) than previously assumed by the experts.

Fonts (selection)

Except for the works cited in the footnotes

E. Buchner, G. Schweigert, H. Seyfried: Revision of the stratigraphy of the south German brackish water molasses. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Volume 149, H. 2, Stuttgart 1998, pp. 305-320.

literature

H. Seyfried: 180 years of geology at the University of Stuttgart. 2012.

Web links

Homepage

References and comments

^ Geological yearbook. Volume 29, 1978.
↑ Gerhard Wörner, Dieter Uhlig, Ingrid Kohler, Hartmut Seyfried: Evolution of the West Andean Escarpment at 18 ° S (N. Chile) during the last 25 Ma: uplift, erosion and collapse through time. In: Tectonophysics. Volume 345, 2002, pp. 183-198.
↑ E. Buchner, H. Seyfried, R. Hirsche: The barley sands of the southern German brackish water molasses: an incised valley fill as a result of the Ries impact. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Volume 147, 1996, pp. 169-181.
↑ Elmar Buchner, Paul van der Boogard, Hartmut Seyfried: 40Ar / 39Ar laser probe age determination confirms the Ries impact crater as the source of glass particles in Graupensand sediments (Grimmelfingen Formation, North Alpine Foreland Basin). In: Geologische Rundschau / Internat. Journal of Earth Sciences. Volume 92, 2003, pp. 1-6.

personal data
SURNAME	Seyfried, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Esslingen

[1] Geological yearbook. Volume 29, 1978.

[2] Gerhard Wörner, Dieter Uhlig, Ingrid Kohler, Hartmut Seyfried: Evolution of the West Andean Escarpment at 18 ° S (N. Chile) during the last 25 Ma: uplift, erosion and collapse through time. In: Tectonophysics. Volume 345, 2002, pp. 183-198.

[3] E. Buchner, H. Seyfried, R. Hirsche: The barley sands of the southern German brackish water molasses: an incised valley fill as a result of the Ries impact. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Volume 147, 1996, pp. 169-181.

[4] Elmar Buchner, Paul van der Boogard, Hartmut Seyfried: 40Ar / 39Ar laser probe age determination confirms the Ries impact crater as the source of glass particles in Graupensand sediments (Grimmelfingen Formation, North Alpine Foreland Basin). In: Geologische Rundschau / Internat. Journal of Earth Sciences. Volume 92, 2003, pp. 1-6.