Stefan M. Schmid

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Stefan Martin Schmid (born April 15, 1943 in Wohlen , Switzerland ) is a Swiss geologist specializing in tectonics .

Life

Schmid was initially a school teacher and then studied geology at the ETH Zurich , where he graduated in 1968 and received his doctorate with distinction under Rudolf Trümpy in 1971 . As a post-doctoral student he was at Imperial College (with John G. Ramsay and Ernie Rutter ), at the University of Canberra (with Mervyn Paterson ), at the ETH Zurich (with Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü ) and the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main ( with Hans Berckhemer ). Then he was a lecturer at the ETH Zurich, where he became senior assistant and honorary professor (with John G. Ramsay). In 1989 he was Harry H. Hess Senior Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and in the same year became full professor at the University of Basel , where he was also director of the Geological-Paleontological Institute and from 1998 to 1999 was Dean of the Faculty of History and Natural Sciences. In 2008 he retired and was then visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin (with Mark Handy and colleagues) with a Humboldt Research Prize until 2010 . Since 2010 he has been honorary professor emeritus at the ETH Zurich in the Institute for Geophysics.

He was visiting scholar at the University of Montpellier and the Eötvös Loránd University .

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In 2007 he received the Gustav Steinmann Medal , in particular for work on tectonics and geodynamics, rheology and orogeny . In his work, he combines interdisciplinary structural geological field observations, geophysical exploration of the deep structure, geochronology and stratigraphy, for example in researching the geodynamic development of the Alps-Dinarides-Carpathian arc and the Upper Rhine Rift. Among other things, he made several depth sectional profiles of the Alps, which found their way into textbook literature, and studied the insubric line . In addition to the Alpine orogeny, he dealt in the 1970s and 1980s (in collaboration with scientists in Canberra and the Texas A&M University) with deformation processes on minerals and the microstructure of rocks (especially mylonite ) and conclusions that can be drawn from them about tectonic movements and whose direction can pull (kinematic indicators). A work by him and Carol Simpson in 1983 is one of the most cited works in this field.

Honors and memberships

From 1990 to 2000 he was a member of the Expert Commission for the Geology of the Alpine Transversals (FKGA), which was supposed to determine the geologically most favorable course of railway tunnels through the Alps, and he was a member of Swiss expert commissions for seismic risks from nuclear power plants and questions relating to the disposal of radioactive waste.

In 1988 he received the Best Paper Award from the Geological Society of America (Structural Geology and Tectonics Department), in 2008 the Humboldt Research Award , in 2007 the Gustav Steinmann Medal and in 2009 he received the Stephan Mueller Medal from the European Geophysical Union . He was a Harry H. Hess Senior Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in 1989 . In 2011 he received the Leopold von Buch badge .

Fonts (selection)

  • SM Schmid, A. Scharf, MR Handy, CL Rosenberg: The Tauern Window (Eastern Alps, Austria): a new tectonic map, with crosssections and a tectonometamorphic synthesis. In: Swiss Journal of Geosciences. Volume 106, 2013, pp. 1-32. (Abstract)
  • MR Handy, SM Schmid, R. Bousquet, E. Kissling, D. Bernoulli: Reconciling plate-tectonic reconstructions of Alpine Tethys with the geological-geophysical record of spreading and subduction in the Alps. In: Earth Science Reviews. Volume 102, 2010, pp. 121-158. (Abstract)
  • SM Schmid, D. Bernoulli, B. Fügenschuh, L. Matenco, S. Schefer, R. Schuster, M. Tischler, K. Ustaszewski: The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units. In: Swiss Journal of Geosciences. Volume 101, No. 1, 2008, pp. 139-183.
  • SM Schmid, B. Fügenschuh, E. Kissling, R. Schuster: Tectonic map and overall architecture of the Alpine orogen. In: Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. Volume 97, 2004, pp. 93-117. (PDF)
  • B. Fügenschuh, SM Schmid: Late stages of deformation and exhumation of an orogen constrained by fission track data: A case study in the Western Alps. In: Geological Society of America Bulletin. Volume 115, 2003, pp. 1425-1440. (Abstract)
  • M. Stipp, H. Stünitz, R. Heilbronner, SM Schmid: The eastern Tonale fault zone: a "natural laboratory" for crystal plastic deformation of quartz over a temperature range from 250 to 700 ° C. In: J. Structural Geology. Volume 24, 2002, pp. 1861-1884. (Abstract)
  • SM Schmid, E. Kissling: The arc of the Western Alps in the light of geophysical data on deep crustal structure. In: Tectonics. Volume 19, 2000, pp. 62-85. (Abstract)
  • SM Schmid, OA Pfiffner, N. Froitzheim, G. Schönborn, E. Kissling: Geophysical-geological transect and tectonic evolution of the Swiss-Italian Alps. In: Tectonics. Volume 15, 1996, pp. 1036-1064. (Abstract)
  • SM Schmid, R. Panozzo, S. Bauer: Simple shear experiments on calcite rocks: Rheology and microfabric. In: Journal of Structural Geology. Volume 9, 1987, pp. 747-778. (Abstract)

literature

  • S. Siegesmund, B. Fügenschuh, N. Froitzheim (eds.): Tectonic aspects of the alpine-dinaride-carpathian system. (= Geological Society Special Publications. Volume 298). Geological Soc. London 2008, ISBN 978-1-86239-252-6 . (for Schmid's 65th birthday)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Laudation Gustav Steinmann Medal ( Memento from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ C. Simpson, SM Schmid: An Evaluation of Criteria to Deduce the Sense of Movement in Sheared Rock. In: Bulletin Geological Society of America. Volume 94, 1983, pp. 1281-1288. (Abstract)