Roland von Huene

Roland von Huene (born January 30, 1929 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American geologist and marine researcher.

Roland von Huene is the son of an Estonian immigrant (from the noble family Hoyningen-Huene ) who was an engineer at Caltech . He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Innsbruck . In 1960 he received his PhD from UCLA. He then worked for the US Navy and then for the US Geological Survey (USGS). From 1967 to 1989 he worked in the Department of Marine Geology of the Pacific of the USGS in Menlo Park . In 1989 he became professor and director of the marine geodynamics department at GEOMAR in Kiel . After his retirement in 1996, he became an adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis .

In 2001 he received the Gustav Steinmann Medal for fundamental work on the geology of convergent plate edges. Among other things, he showed the major role that erosion plays in their formation, while previously it was usually assumed that accretion processes were dominant. He found evidence of subduction erosion at the plate edges in Japan, Chile, Guatemala and Peru, among other places.

He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union . In 2010 he received the Arthur Holmes Medal .

Fonts

• with Cesar R. Ranero: When deep sea mountains ram the mainland, Spektrum der Wissenschaft 2001, issue 2

Web links

• To receive the Steinmann Medal, USGS

Individual evidence

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