Lothar Ratschbacher

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Lothar Ratschbacher (* 1956 ) is an Austrian geologist and university professor at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg .

Ratschbacher received his doctorate in 1983 from the University of Graz and was a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 1984 he became an assistant professor at the University of Graz, was a visiting scientist at the University of Rennes (Center Armoricain d'Etude Structurale des Socles) in 1989 and completed his habilitation in 1990 at the University of Tübingen. From 1993 to 1996 he was a Heisenberg fellow at Stanford University and from 1996 to 1999 professor at the University of Würzburg . Since 1999 he has been a professor at the TU Freiberg. There he heads the Department of Tectonic Physics and Geochronology.

In 1990 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1997 at the University of Vienna.

He deals with tectonics (evolution of mountain systems, deformation of continental crust), using methods of structural geology, geo- and thermochronology, materials science and analog modeling, petrology and geomorphology. In particular, he deals with Central Asia, the Eastern Alps and Carpathians, Myanmar , the Variscides and especially the Ore Mountains , the early development of the Caribbean plate and Central America and Orogonese under very high pressure in the Quinling-Dabie region ( Dabie Shan ) in China ( there rocks are exposed that were once 125 to 200 km deep in the mantle).

In 2018 he received the Eduard Suess Medal .

He served on the editorial boards of Tectonophysics and Geology and has been Associate Editor of Tectonics since 2004 .

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  1. ↑ Ratschbacher u. a., Tectonics of the Qinling (Central China): tectonostratigraphy, geochronology, and deformation history, Tectonophysics, Volume 366, 2003, pp. 1-53
  2. ↑ Ratschbacher u. a., Distributed deformation in southern and western Tibet during and after the India-Asia collision, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 99, 1994, pp. 19917-19945
  3. ↑ Blisniuk, Ratschbacher u. a., Normal faulting in central Tibet since at least 13.5 Myr ago, Nature, Volume 412, 2001, p. 628
  4. ↑ Ratschbacher, O. Merle, P. Davy, P. Cobbold, Lateral extrusion in the Eastern Alps, part 1: boundary conditions and experiments scaled for gravity, Tectonics, Volume 10, 1991, pp. 245-256
  5. ↑ Lothar Ratschbacher, Wolfgang Frisch, Hans-Gert Linz, Olivier Merle, lateral extrusion in the Eastern Alps, part 2: structural analysis, Tectonics, Volume 10, 1991, pp 257-271
  6. ↑ Hacker, Ratschbacher u. a .: U / Pb zircon ages constrain the architecture of the ultrahigh-pressure Qinling-Dabie Orogen, China, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 161, 1998, pp. 215-230
  7. ↑ Hacker, Ratschbacher u. a., Exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure continental crust in east central China: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic tectonic unroofing, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 105, 2000, pp. 13339-13364
  8. ↑ Ratschbacher u. a., Exhumation of the ultrahigh ‐ pressure continental crust in east central China: Cretaceous and Cenozoic unroofing and the Tan-Lu fault, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 105, 2000, pp. 13303-13338
personal data
SURNAME Ratschbacher, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956