Klaus Duphorn
Klaus Dieter Duphorn (born March 3, 1934 in Jena ) is a German geologist . He was a professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , at the Federal Institute for Soil Research in Hanover and was a geologist in Lower Saxony.
Duphorn studied geology in Jena until his diploma in 1958, received his doctorate in 1961 in Würzburg with the thesis sedimentological investigation of the Pliopleistocene boundary layers in the eastern foreland of the Hohen Rhön and was a professor at the University of Kiel.
He is a Quaternary specialist and completed Paul Woldstedt's standard work on the Ice Age in Northern Germany after his death. He also published a geological guide to the German Baltic Sea coast.
In the Gorleben committee of inquiry he said z. B. 2010 as a witness and expressed doubts about the geological suitability of the Gorleben salt dome as a repository for nuclear waste . In the same sense, he had already expressed himself in 1982 in a comprehensive report for the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt , in which he referred to its geological dynamics.
The Duphornhöhe in East Antarctica, Viktorialand, bears his name.
Fonts
- with Heinz Kliewe, Hans Otto Niedermeyer, Hans Otto, Wolfgang Janke, Friedrich Werner: The German Baltic Sea Coast . 1995, 2nd completely new. Edition, Borntraeger: Sammlung Geologischer Führer 88, 2011
- with Paul Woldstedt: Northern Germany and adjacent areas in the Ice Age , 3rd edition, Stuttgart, KF Koehler, 1974
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of birth according to the information in his dissertation in 1961
- ↑ Ute Vogt : Prof. Duphorn: The Gorleben salt dome is dead , press release of the SPD parliamentary group, Gorleben investigation committee 2010
- ↑ A Moving Past , Der Spiegel, No. 28, 1982
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Duphorn, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duphorn, Klaus Dieter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |