Klaus-Dieter Meyer (geologist)
Klaus-Dieter Meyer (* 1936 ) is a German geologist.
Life
Meyer grew up in Haldensleben and studied geology at the University of Göttingen , where he dealt with the Devonian west of Goslar in his diploma thesis and received his doctorate in 1963 (stratigraphy and tectonics of the Allerzug on the northwestern edge of the Acker-Bruchberg near Riefensbeek in the Harz Mountains) to the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research , where he took over the management of the lowland mapping in 1973. He has also taught at the TU Braunschweig since 1981 . In 2001 he retired.
He was particularly concerned with bed load research. He was a founding member of the Sub-Commission Quaternary Stratigraphy and was secretary of the Sub-Commission European Quaternary Stratigraphy of INQUA . In 1980 he initiated the boulder garden in Hagenburg am Steinhuder Meer.
In 2010 he received the Albrecht Penck Medal .
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus-Dieter Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Penck Medal to Meyer 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Geological yearbook. Volume 82, pp. 385-436.
- ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Meyer on deuqua.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Klaus-Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1936 |