Werner Buggisch

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Werner Buggisch (born December 2, 1943 in Bensheim ; † April 6, 2019 ) was a German geologist and polar explorer.

life and work

Buggisch was born in the Auerbach district of Bensheim. From 1963 he studied geology at the Universities of Darmstadt and Gießen with a diploma in 1968 and a doctorate on Kellwasserkalk (Devonian limestones named after the Kellwassertal in the Harz Mountains) in Darmstadt in 1971. In 1978 he completed his habilitation in Darmstadt and in 1982 he became a professor from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Geozentrum Nordbayern), where he retired in 2009. From 1998 to 2004 he was coordinator of the DFG priority program Evolution of the System Earth as Reflected in Sedimentary Geology .

Among other things, he dealt with geology in the Arctic (Spitzbergen, Greenland, Canada) and Antarctica. He participated in four Antarctic expeditions from 1979 to 1995 and in six Arctic expeditions from 1998 to 2009. But he also researched on all continents, especially in the Rhenish Slate Mountains, the Southern Alps (such as the Val Gardena Formation ) and South America. One focus is isotope geochemical work on paleoclimatology in the Paleozoic . Among other things, he demonstrated ice age sea level fluctuations in the Upper Carboniferous.

In the Shackleton Range of Antarctica, he and Georg Kleinschmidt demonstrated in tectonic investigations a ceiling structure that continues in Africa and goes back to a collision between Antarctica and Africa in the Cambrian.

He also dealt with illite crystallinity (indications of the subsidence depth of sedimentary rocks from changes in the illite crystal lattice).

In his dissertation he already dealt with the Kellwasser event from the upper Devonian, a time of mass extinction due to falling sea levels during a cooling phase.

With regard to climate change, which he did not deny, Buggisch was of the opinion that “the sunspot cycles, an extraterrestrial phenomenon” were primarily responsible for it; considered human-induced carbon dioxide emissions only as a secondary phenomenon.

In 2011 he received the Hans Stille Medal . He is also the namesake for the Buggisch Peak , a mountain in the Antarctic.

In addition to scientific publications, he also wrote non-fiction books primarily for young people at Tessloff Verlag , sometimes with his son Christian Buggisch. The books have been translated into many languages.

Fonts

  • Editor: Evolution of the system earth in the late palaeozoic: clues from sedimentary geochemistry , Elsevier, 2006.
  • with O. Walliser Erdgeschichte als Klimageschichte , in M. Huch, G. Warnecke, K. Germann (editor) Climate testimonies from geological history - Perspectives for the future , Springer Verlag 2001, pp. 17 to 49.
  • with Heinz-Dieter Nesbor Volcanism in the Devonian of the Rhenoherzynikums, Facial and palaeogeographical development of volcanic marine basins using the example of the Lahn-Dill area , Hessian State Office for Soil Research, 1993.
  • On the geology and geochemistry of the Kellwasserkalke and their accompanying sediments (Unteres Oberdevon) , treatises of the Hessian State Office for Soil Research, Volume 62, 1972.

Books for teenagers:

  • with Christian Buggisch: Klima, Was ist Was series , Tessloff Verlag, 2008.
  • with Christian Buggisch: Fossilien, Was ist Was series , Tessloff Verlag, 2010.
  • with Christian Buggisch: Minerals and Rocks, Was ist Was series , Tessloff Verlag, 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The GeoZentrum mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. W. Buggisch, died on April 6, 2019. GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, April 9, 2019, accessed on April 11, 2019 .
  2. ^ Buggisch, Kleinschmidt: The Pan.-African Nappe tectonics in the Shackleton Range. US Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2007-1047.
    Georg Kleinschmidt, Werner Buggisch: Plate tectonic implications of the structure of the Shackleton Range, Antarctica. Polarforschung, Vol. 63, 1993, pp. 57-62
  3. ↑ Buggisch: The Frasnian-Famennian Kellwasser event. Geologische Rundschau, Volume 80, 1991, pp. 49-71
  4. ↑ Patricia Staudacher-Sauer: "I don't want to raise awareness, I want to educate" - Interview with Dr. Werner Buggisch. In: Business On Middle Franconia. July 1, 2009, accessed April 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Buggisch, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensheim
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2019