Max-Gotthard Schulz

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Max-Gotthard Schulz (born November 21, 1940 in Hamburg ; † January 24, 2000 ) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was a lecturer at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Lägerdorf chalk pit

Life

Schulz studied geology and palaeontology in Hamburg and Heidelberg from 1961 after graduating from the Bismarck-Gymnasium in Hamburg with a diploma in Hamburg in 1969.

For his diploma thesis with Hans-Rudolf von Gaertner he mapped in the Warburg fault zone in Hessen south of Liebenau . This resulted in a fine stratigraphy of the lower Muschelkalk in Northern Hesse (four major cycles, several smaller cycles from variation of salinity, flow conditions in the German Muschelkalkmeer), which was fundamental for further mapping in the German Muschelkalk and for the general understanding of cyclical carbonate sedimentation. In the 1970s he was part of the DFG priority program Geological Correlation Research , where he conducted research under Ulrich Lehmann at the Geological State Institute in Hamburg in the Upper Cretaceous region of Lägerdorf , Hemmoor and Kronsmoor and had close contacts with Friedrich Schmid . He collected thousands of belemnites for his dissertation in Hamburg with Lehmann (morphometric-variation-statistical studies on the phylogeny of the belemnite genus Belemnella in Untermaastricht northwestern Europe, 1978). He was able to follow the evolutionary development of the belemnite genus and use it for stratigraphic purposes. Schulz continued this as an assistant to Karl Krömmelbein in Kiel (from 1975), where he also included echinoderms of the Upper Cretaceous (such as asteroids), and received his habilitation there in 1986. In 1991 he became a university lecturer in Kiel. He died in 2000 after a serious illness.

He was considered a leading expert on the Upper Cretaceous of Lägerdorf and Kronsmoor. With Richard G. Bromley and Norman B. Peake, he investigated the origin of Paramoudras . He also published on the belemnites and echinoderms of the Inoceram gel from Siegsdorf in Upper Bavaria and the belemnites of the Upper Cretaceous from Bornholm (with WK Christensen 1997).

Fonts

  • Fine stratigraphy and cycle structure of the Lower Muschelkalk in N-Hessen.-Mitt. Geol.-Paleont. Inst., Univ. Hamburg, 41, 1972, pp. 133-170, 2 figs., 6 tabs., 4 plates.
  • The chalk guide profile of Lägerdorf and Kronsmoor. DEUQUA conference, Kiel 1992. Excursion guide B3, 1992, 65–86.
  • with W. Weitschat: The White Chalk (Coniacian-Maastrichen) of Lägerdorf and Kronsmoor (NGermany). In: J. Mutterlose, A. Bornemann, S. Rauter, C. Spaeth, CJ Wood (Eds.), Key localities of the Northwest European Cretaceous, Bochumer geol. Geotechn. Arb., 48, 1998, pp. 21-37

literature

  • Priska Schäfer, Obituary in Meyniana, 52, 2000, 5-10

References and comments

  1. ↑ Geological Yearbook A 47, 1979, 3-157
  2. ^ Bromley, Peake, Schulz: Paramoudras: Giant flints, long burrows and the early diagenesis of chalks. Biol. Skr. Dan. Vid. Selsk., 20/10, 1975, pp. 1-31
  3. ↑ The echinoderms of the Inoceramen marl (marl series, Ultrahelvetikum, Lower Maastricht) of the Moos-Graben SE Siegsdorf (Upper Bavaria). Zitteliana, 10/7, 1983, 15-723, The Belemnites of the Inoceram marl (marl series, Ultrahelvetic, Lower Maastricht) of the Moosgraben SE Siegsdorf (Upper Bavaria) and their stratigraphic significance. Zitteliana, 10, 1983, pp. 653-661
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Max-Gotthard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2000