Rainer Brandner

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Rainer Brandner (born April 13, 1944 in Kitzbühel ) is an Austrian geologist and paleontologist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Brandner ". Rainer Brandner is married and has two sons.

Live and act

Rainer Brandner studied geology and mineralogy at the University of Innsbruck . In 1971 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. Geology and then worked as an assistant at the local Institute for Geology and Paleontology . Research stays abroad followed and later his habilitation in geology .

In 1988 Brandner accepted an appointment at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1989 he moved back to Innsbruck where he held a professorship. From 1996 to 2008 he was director of the Institute for Geology and Paleontology. Rainer Brandner retired on September 30, 2009.

At the beginning of his scientific work, Brandner dealt with sediment geology . Another topic of his research was the fossil reefs and basins in the context of global sea level fluctuations. Rainer Brandner continued to work on the creation of the geological overview map of Tyrol. In the course of this work he turned to regional geology . This topic has a central place in his work to this day. Further research fields were the first modern work on the surface tectonics of the Northern Limestone Alps , in collaboration with the well-known tectonist Gerhard Eisbacher (University of Karlsruhe), as well as work on " Global Change " 250 million years ago. Brandner's merit is the complete re-recording and printing of three geological map sheets in the Dolomites . Rainer Brandner was involved in the preparatory work for the construction of the 55 km long Brenner Base Tunnel with a geological exploration project.

Works

  • with Thilo Bechstädt : Carbonatic and clastic sedimentation in relation to synsedimentary tectonics . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1970, pp. 545–548 online (PDF; 320 kB)
  • Tetrapod tracks from the lower Central Triassic of the Southern Alps . Publ. Univ. Innsbruck, 86, Innsbruck 1973, pp. 57-71
  • Tectonically controlled sedimentation flow in the Ladin and Lower Carniola of the western Northern Limestone Alps . Geol.-Paleontol. Mitt. Innsbruck 008, 1978, pp. 317–354 online (PDF; 3.0 MB)
  • with A. Bosellini, Harald Lobitzer, Werner Resch, A. Castellarin: The Complex Basins of the Calcareous Alps and Palaeomargins . Treatises by the Federal Geological Institute in Vienna 34, 1980, pp. 287–324 online (PDF; 5.4 MB)
  • with W. Resch: Collarecodium oenipuntanum ng, n. sp. - a new calcareous alga from the Wetterstein limestone (Ladin-Cordevol; Trias) of the Innsbrucker Nordkette, Tyrol . Annal., 83, Vienna 1980, pp. 35–48 online (PDF; 6.7 MB)
  • with Johann Georg Haditsch, Helfried Mostler: Contributions to the pre-tertiary Pb-Zn-Cu metallogenesis in the space between Rasht and Chalus (Alburs, Iran) . Geol.-Paleontol. Mitt. Innsbruck 010, 1980, pp. 257–285 online (PDF; 2.1 MB)
  • with W. Resch: Reef development in the Ladinian and Cordevolian of the Northern Limestone Alps near Innsbruck, Austria . In: DF Toomey: European Fossil Reef Models . Soc. Econ. Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Spec. Publ. No 30, Tulsa 1981, pp. 203-231
  • Sea level fluctuations and tectonics in the NW Tethys Triassic . Yearbook of the Imperial-Royal Geological Institute 126, 1983, p. 435 online (PDF; 4.5 MB)
  • with Diethard Sanders: Educational model and history of the Pb / Zn deposits in the western Northern Limestone Alps, Tyrol . Geol.-Paleontol. Mitt. Innsbruck 016, 1989, pp. 90–95 online (PDF; 693 kB)
  • with Th. Brachert, Wolf-Christian Dullo: Recent and triadic reef slope "Stromatolites" (Red Sea / Southern Alps) . Geol.-Paleontol. Mitt. Innsbruck 016, 1989, pp. 13-14 online (PDF; 172 kB)
  • with A. Player: From the Jurassic pull-apart basin to the west thrust of the Achental thrust mass (Tyrol, Austria) . Geol.-Paleontol. Mitt. Innsbruck 016, 1989, pp. 191–194 online (PDF; 336 kB)
  • with Aymon Baud, Donato Antonio Donofrio : The Sefid Kuh Limestone: A Late Lower Triassic Carbonate Ramp (Aghdarband, NE-Iran) . Treatises of the Federal Geological Institute in Vienna 38, 1991, pp. 111–123 online (PDF; 1.8 MB)
  • with Gerhard Eisbacher: Role of high-angle faults during heteroaxial contraction, Inntal thrust sheet, Northern Calcareous Alps, western Austria . Geol.-Paleontol. Mitt. Innsbruck 020, 1995, pp. 389-406 online (PDF; 2.1 MB)
  • with Thomas Sausgruber: The Relevance of Brittle Fault Zones in Tunnel Construction - Lower Inn Valley Feeder Line North of the Brenner Base Tunnel, Tyrol, Austria . Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 94, 2001, pp. 157–172 online (PDF; 3.1 MB)
  • with Donato Antonia Donofrio, Werner Poleschinski: Conodonts of the Seefeld Formation: a contribution to the bio- and lithostratigraphy of the main dolomite platform (Upper Triassic, western Northern Limestone Alps, Tyrol) . Geol.-Paleontol. Mitt. Innsbruck 026, 2003, pp. 91-107 online (PDF; 829 kB)
  • with Franz Reiter, Wolfgang A. Lenhardt: Indications for activity of the Brenner Normal Fault zone (Tyrol, Austria) from seismological and GPS data . Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 97, 2004, pp. 16–23 online (PDF; 2.8 MB)
  • with Christian Zangerl, Christoph Prager, Ewald Brückl, Stefan Eder, Wolfgang Fellin, Ewald Tentschert, Gerhard Poscher, Helmut Schönlaub: Methodical guidelines for the process-oriented handling of mass movements . Geo.Alp 005, 2008, pp. 1–51 online (PDF; 2.6 MB)
  • with Franz Reiter, Andreas Töchterle: Overview of the results of the geological preliminary exploration for the Brenner Base Tunnel . Geo.Alp 005, 2008, pp. 165–174 online (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  • with Micha Horacek, Lorenz Keim, Robert Scholger: The Pufels / Bulla road section: deciphering environmental changes across the permian-Triassic boundary to the Olenekian by integrated litho-, magneto- and isotope stratigraphy. A field trip guide . Geo.Alp 006, 2009, pp. 116–132 online (PDF; 2.6 MB)
  • with Andreas Töchterle, Franz Reiter: Strain partitioning on major fault zones in the northwestern Tauern Window - insights from the investigations to the Brenner Base Tunnel . Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 104_1, 2011, pp. 15–35 online (PDF; 11.5 MB)
  • with Lorenz Keim: A 4-day geological field trip in the western Dolomites . Geo.Alp 008, 2011, pp. 76–118 online (PDF; 4.5 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c University of Innsbruck

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personal data
SURNAME Brandner, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandner (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitzbühel