Peter Giese

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Peter Giese (born August 6, 1931 in Berlin ; † May 25, 2005 there ) was a German geophysicist and geologist.

Giese first studied geology at the Free University of Berlin , then received his doctorate in 1956 at the University of Munich with a seismological topic. Here he became an assistant at the Institute for Geophysics in 1959. After completing his habilitation in Berlin in 1966, Giese was appointed to the chair of geophysics at the Free University of Berlin in the 1970 summer semester as the successor to Klaus Strobach and head of the geophysical institute founded there in 1964, which he held until his retirement in 1998. In 1997 he was awarded the Gustav Steinmann Medal by the Geological Association .

Giese's preferred field of work was refraction seismics , which he used in numerous projects. One focus was the Alpine region. The models of the earth's crust under the Alps that were developed by Peter Giese are still valid today. Among other things, he postulated the existence of two Mohorovičić discontinuities , which had long been controversial and was confirmed in the early 1990s. In the subsurface of the Southern Alps, the Adriatic Plate is pushed onto the European Plate.

Thanks to Giese's extensive knowledge of various geoscientific fields, he made a major contribution to the interdisciplinary linking of research and teaching and was the co-initiator of a large number of large international geophysical projects. On the German side, he was the coordinator of the international geotraverse project (EGT), which ran from 1980 to 1992 and provided a geological cross-section of the structure of Europe from the North Cape to Tunisia. He was also involved in the DEKORP (German reflection seismic project) and the continental deep drilling project (KTB) .

In addition to the Alps, another focus was the study of mountain formation processes in the Andes , to which a special research area of ​​the German Research Foundation (SFB 267 Deformation Processes in the Andes ) was dedicated.

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Gravestone for Peter Giese in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf
  • Publisher Continents and Oceans , Spektrum Akademischer Verlag 1983 (anthology of Spektrum der Wissenschaft articles in particular about plate tectonics with an introduction by Giese)
  • Editor of Geodynamics and Plate Tectonics , Spektrum Akademischer Verlag 1995 (anthology of Spektrum der Wissenschaft articles)
  • Editor with Claus Prodehl, A. Stein Explosion Seismology in Central Europe , Springer Verlag 1976
  • with K.-J. Reutter, V. Jacobshagen, R. Nicolich Explosion-seismic crustal studies in the Alpine Mediterranean region and their implications to tectonic processes , in: H. Berckhemer, Kenneth Hsü (editor) Alpine-Mediterranean Geodynamics , American Geophysical Union Geodynamics Series 7, 1982 , Pp. 39-74
  • with H. Jödicke, C. Prodehl, K. Weber The Crustal Structure of the Hercynian Mountain System - A model for crustal thickening by stacking , in: H. Martin, W. Eder (editor) Intracontinental Fold Belt , Springer Verlag 1983, p 405-426
  • with D. Roeder, P. Scandone The fragmented Adriatic microplate: evolution of the Southern Alps, the Po basin and the northern Apennines , in D. Blundell, R. Freeman, Stephan Mueller (editors) A continent revealed: The European Geotraverse , Cambridge University Press 1992, pp. 190-198
  • with J. Makris, B. Akashe, P. Röwer, H. Letz, M. Mostaanpour The Crustal Structure in Southern Iran Derived from Seismic Explosion Data , Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 1168 (2/3), 1984, Pp. 230-243
  • with P. Wigger, G. Asch, W.-D. Heinsohn, SO El Alami, F. Ramdani Crustal Structure along a traverse across the Middle and High Atlas mountains derived from seismic refraction studies , Geologische Rundschau, Volume 81, 1992, pp. 237-248
  • with P. Wigger, M. Araneda, W.-D. Heinsohn, P. Röwer, M. Schmitz, J. Viramonte The crustal structure along the Central Andean Transect derived from seismic refraction investigations , in: R. Omarini, H.-J. Götze (Editor) Central Andean Transect, Nazca Plate to Chaco Plains, southwestern Pacific, northern Chile and northern Argentina, Global Geoscience Transect 8 , published jointly with the Inter Union Commission on the Lithosphere and American Geophysical Union, 1991, pp. 13-19
  • with P. Wigger, M. Schmitz, M. Araneda, G. Asch, S. Baldzuhn, W.-D. Heinsohn, E. Martinez, E. Ricaldi, P. Röwer, J. Viramonte: Variation of the crustal structure of the southern Central Andes deduced from seismic refraction investigations , in: K.-J. Reutter, E. Scheuber, P. Wigger (editors): Tectonics of the Southern Central Andes , Springer Verlag 1994, pp. 23-48

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview in Peter Giese, Claus Prodehl The activities of German geophysical institutions in refraction seismics from 1975 to 1996, an overview , in On the History of Geophysics in Germany , Online ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgg-online.de
  2. ↑ Horst Rademacher Down to the Bottom of the Continent , Die Zeit, January 7, 1983
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2005
Place of death Berlin