Raymond Siever

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Raymond Siever (born September 14, 1923 in Chicago , † September 24, 2004 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) was an American geologist .

Siever studied geology at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1943, a master's degree in 1947 (after military service in 1944 with the US Air Force, where he was in the aerial photograph analysis and created maps from it) and his doctorate with Francis J. Pettijohn in 1950. Even as a student In 1943/44 he worked for the Illinois Geological Survey in Champaign / Urbana (among other things on questions of oil production from coal), where he was also after his studies from 1947 to 1957. In 1956/57 he conducted research with a grant from the National Science Foundation at Harvard University , where he was assistant professor from 1957 and later professor. From 1957 to 1970 he also conducted research at the Oceanographical Institute in Woods Hole. 1968 to 1971 and 1976 to 1981 he was head of the geology faculty at Harvard and in 1994 he retired. In 1981/82 he was a Guggenheim Fellow visiting scholar at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. He died of complications from Parkinson's disease .

Siever dealt mainly with the geology and especially the geochemistry of sedimentary rocks and sediments and is the author of a widespread textbook on geology with the geophysicist Frank Press . At the beginning of the 1960s, he developed a method to extract the pore water from sedimentary rocks in order to gain information about the chemical changes during deposition and solidification.

His work Understanding Earth , edited several times with his colleagues Grotinger and Jordan , in the German version under the title General Geology is still a standard work in the academic training of prospective geologists and geographers (as of 2018).

He received three times the Society of Sedimentary Geologists Award (1959, 1990, 1991), the Francis J. Pettijohn Award of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Award (1952). He was an honorary member of the Society of Sedimentary Geologists and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1966), the Geological Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1964 he was President of the Organic Geo-Chemistry Section of the International Geochemical Society. In 1996 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London.

Siever was a passionate piano player with several years of training at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. He also practiced fencing on a competitive level. He had been married to Doris Fisher since 1945, with whom he had two sons.

Fonts

  • Sand - an archive of geological history (= spectrum library , volume 22). Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 1989 (original edition Sand Scientific American Library, New York, NY 1988, ISBN 0-7167-5021-X , translated by Thomas Pichler). ISBN 3-922508-95-2 .
  • with Frank Press , Thomas H. Jordan, John P. Grotzinger : Allgemeine Geologie . 5th edition, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 2008 (original title: Understanding Earth, Freeman, New York, NY, 1993, translated by Volker Schweizer ), ISBN 3-8274-1812-7 .
  • with Reinhart Kraatz (ed.): The dynamics of the earth: movements, structures, interactions (= spectrum of the sciences. Understandable research ). Spectrum of Sciences, Heidelberg 1987, ISBN 3-922508-40-5 .
  • The Dynamic Earth , Scientific American, September 1983
  • with Frank Press: Earth , Freeman, San Francisco 1974; 4th edition 1986,
  • with Francis John Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter Sand and Sandstone , Springer 1972; 2nd edition 1987
  • The Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity in southern Illinois , Illinois State Geological Survey 1951
  • with Frank Press: Planet Earth. Readings from Scientific American , Freeman 1975
  • The silica budget in the sedimentary cycle , Am. Mineralogist, Volume 42, 1957, pp. 821-841
  • Plate tectonic controls on diagenesis , Journal of Geology, Volume 87, 1979, pp. 127-155
  • Silica solubility 0 ° C-200 ° C and the Diagenesis of siliceous sediments , Journal of Geology, 70, 1962, pp. 127-150

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Siever, RM Garrels, J. Kanwisher, RA Berner Interstitial Waters of Recent Marine Muds Off Cape Cod , Science., Vol. 134, 1961, Oct. 13, pp. 1071-2. The first investigations in Cape Cod were continued on other ocean sediments: Siever, KC Beck, RA Berner Composition of interstitial waters of modern sediments , Journal of Geology, Volume 73, 1965, pp 39-73
  3. ↑ Jens Edelmann: Discovering and understanding geological phenomena: practical guide for discoveries along the way. Reise Know-How Verlag
  4. ↑ Books and DVDs about fossils, minerals, dinosaurs and much more to buy. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Siever, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2004
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts