Peter Molnar
Peter Hale Molnar (born August 25, 1943 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American geologist .
Molnar graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and received a PhD in geology and seismology from Columbia University in 1970. He was doing research at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory . From 1971 to 1973 he was a post-doctoral student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and in 1973 as an exchange scientist in the Soviet Union . In 1974 he became an assistant professor and later professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He is a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder . In 1975 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .
In 1986/87 he was at the University of Grenoble and in 1988/89 as a Royal Society Fellow at the University of Oxford .
He deals with tectonics, for example of the Himalayas in Tibet, China and the Andes, and interactions between climate and tectonics (mountain formation) as well as climate and erosion rates, earthquake mechanisms, oceanic plate tectonics and hot spots. In the tectonics of Asia with the dominant phenomenon of the collision of the Indian subcontinent with effects from China, Indonesia to Baikal, he worked a lot with Paul Tapponnier since the 1970s .
In 2014 he received the Crafoord Prize .
Fonts
- The geologic evolution of the Tibetan plateau , American Scientist, 77, 1989, 350-360.
- The geologic history and structure of the Himalaya , American Scientist, 74, 1986, 144-154.
- The structure of mountain ranges , Scientific American , July 1986.
- Continental tectonics in the aftermath of plate tectonics , Nature , Volume 335, 1988, pp. 131-137.
- with Tapponnier: The collision between India and Eurasia , Scientific American, April 1977.
- with P. England: Late Cenozoic uplift of mountain ranges and global climate change: chicken or egg? , Nature, 346, 1990, pp. 29-34.
- with Tapponnier: Cenozoic tectonics of Asia: Effect of a continental collision : Science , Volume 189, 1975, pp. 419-425.
- with Tapponnier: Active tectonics of Tibet : Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth , Volume 83, 1978, pp. 5361-5375.
- with Tapponnier: A possible dependence of tectonic strength on the age of the crust in Asia : Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 52, 1981, pp. 107-114.
- with Tapponnier: Active faulting and Cenozoic tectonics of the Tien Shan, Mongolia and Baykal regions : Journal Geophysical Research, Volume 84, 1979, B7, pp. 3425-3459.
- with Tapponnier: Slip-line field theory and large-scale continental tectonics , Nature, 264, 1976, pp. 319-324.
- with Tanya Atwater : Relative motion of hot spots in the mantle , Nature, 246, 1973, 288-291.
- with Valentin Semenovich Burtman: Geological and geophysical evidence for deep subduction of continental crust beneath the Pamir , Geological Society of America 1993.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Molnar, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Molnar, Peter Hale (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania |