Philip Gibbard
Philip Leonard Gibbard (* 1949 in Chiswick , London ) is a British geographer and Quaternary researcher .
Gibbard received his doctorate in 1974 at the University of Cambridge under Richard Gilbert West (* 1926) and initially examined the historical course of the Thames . As a post-doctoral student he spent two years at the University of Oulu in Finland and one year in 1976/77 at the University of Western Ontario in Canada . He then did research in Cambridge, where he became Assistant Director of Research in 1984. He has been a professor at Cambridge since 2005. In addition, he became a lecturer at the University of Helsinki in 1987 . He heads the Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group in the Faculty of Geography at Cambridge University.
He dealt in particular with the Quaternary in Great Britain, the North Sea, the limits of glaciation in the last ice ages, the history of river systems such as the Thames and the formation of the Strait of Dover through several catastrophic flood events from the emptying of a meltwater lake dammed up in the southern North Sea 450,000 and 160,000 years ago. With Jürgen Ehlers he edited several books about glaciations in the Ice Age.
In 1999 he was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Fund Prize. He is honorary doctorate from Helsinki University and Cambridge University (Sc.D., 2009).
Gibbard has been Chairman of the International Commission for Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) since 2011 .
Fonts
- Editor with Jürgen Ehlers Quaternary Glaciations: Extent and Chronology , 3 volumes, Elsevier 2004 (Volume 1: Europe, Volume 2: North America, Volume 3: South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica)
- Edited with J. Ehlers, PD Hughes: Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology , Volume 4: A closer look , Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2011
- Pleistocene history of the Middle Thames Valley , Cambridge University Press, 1985
- The history of the great north-west European rivers during the past three million years , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, Volume 318, 1988, pp. 559-602.
- The Pleistocene history of the Lower Thames Valley , Cambridge University Press, 1994
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gibbard on the formation of the Strait of Dover, University of Cambridge ( Memento of the original of November 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Gibbard, Philip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gibbard, Philip Leonard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geographer and Quaternary researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chiswick , London |