Wilfried Bauer (geologist)

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Wilfried Bauer (1999)

Wilfried Bauer (* 1963 in Rheydt ) is a German geologist and polar researcher who works as a professor at the German University of Technology in Oman .

Life

Bauer graduated from high school in Odenkirchen in 1982 and studied geology at RWTH Aachen University from 1984 to 1991 , interrupted by a one-year study stay at Forschungszentrum Jülich with Dietrich Welte and Detlev Leythaeuser , which resulted in a geochemical study on oil shales from southern Germany. In 1995 he received his doctorate at RWTH Aachen University with the dissertation Structural Development and Petrogenesis of the Basement Mountains of the northern Heimefrontfjella (western Dronning Maud Land / Antarctica) written by Gerhard Spaeth and then worked there as a postdoc with another Antarctic project. In 1997, he moved to Roland Walter's Geological Institute at RWTH Aachen University as a research assistant , where he completed his habilitation in 2004 and has since given lectures as a private lecturer. From 2005 to 2007 he worked as an employee of the International Division of the British Geological Survey in the mapping of 92 sheets of the geological map series 1: 100,000 of Madagascar . From 2007 to 2014 he explored gold, copper, graphite and bauxite deposits in Madagascar as an exploration geologist for an Australian company . Since 2015 he is lecturer at the German University of Technology in Oman where she teaches the subject Mineral Resources ( economic geology ).

research

Between 1994 and 2001, Bauer participated in a total of four Antarctic expeditions, including the GeoMaud expedition to central Queen Maud Land . His research deals with the plate tectonic development on the border between East and West Gondwana . Since 2004 he has been working on mainly structural geological issues in Mozambique and Madagascar.

His scientific work includes, in addition to the sheets of the geological map series of Madagascar published in 2008, nine geological maps of the Heimefrontfjella in Antarctica, as well as several sheets of the geological map series 1: 250,000 of Mozambique.

Bauer was co-editor of the journal Gondwana Research from 2003 to 2006 and he has been associate editor of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences since 2016 .

Private

Bauer is married and has two children. He collects and researches Madagascar's fiscal stamps .

Fonts (selection)

  • W. Bauer, RJ Thomas & J. Jacobs (2003): Proterozoic-Cambrian history of Dronning Maud Land in the context of Gondwana assembly. In: M. Yoshida, BF Windley & S. Dasgupta (Eds.) Proterozoic East Gondwana: Supercontinent Assembly and Breakup. Geological Society London, Special Publication 206, 247-269.
  • W. Bauer, J. Jacobs, CM Fanning & R. Schmidt (2003): Late Mesoproterozoic arc and back-arc volcanism in the Heimefrontfjella (East Antarctica) and implications for the palaeogeography at the southeastern margin of the Kaapvaal-Grunehogna Craton. Gondwana Research 6, 449-465.
  • W. Bauer, W. Fielitz, J. Jacobs, CM Fanning & G. Spaeth (2003): Mafic dykes from Heimefrontfjella and implications for the post-Grenvillian to pre-Pan-African geological evolution of western Dronning Maud Land (Antarctica). Antarctic Science 15, 379-391.
  • W. Bauer, J. Jacobs & H.-J. Paech (2004): Structural evolution of the crystalline basement of central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Geological Yearbook B 96, 325–363.
  • W. Bauer, G. Walsh, B. De Waele, RJ Thomas, MSA Horstwood, L. Bracciali, DIS Schofield, U. Wollenberg, D. Lidke, IT Rasaona & MH Rabarimanana (2011): Cover Sequences at the Northern Margin of the Antongil Domain, NE Madagascar. Precambrian Research 189, 292-312.
  • W. Bauer, H. Siemes , J. Jacobs, J. & G. Spaeth (2016): Transpression and tectonic exhumation in the Heimefrontfjella, western orogenic front of the East African / Antarctic Orogen, revealed by quartz textures of high strain domains. Polar Research 35, doi: 10.3402 / polar.v35.25420

Web links

literature

AJ Reedman & DG Bate (Eds.): They do things differently there. Stories from the International Division of the British Geological Survey. Aspect Design, Malvern (Worcestershire) 2016, pp. 266-280. ISBN 978-1-908832-89-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 125 years of the Odenkirchen grammar school 1861 - 1986: Festschrift. Mönchengladbach 1986, p. 242
  2. ↑ Wilfried Bauer, Ralf Littke, Detlev Leythaeuser: Geochemical characterization of different lithofacies in the Lower Toarcian Posidonia Shale of SW-Germany and implications of maturity data for the thermal history. In: DA Manning (Ed.) Organic Geochemistry - Advances and Applications in Energy and the Natural Environment . Pp. 134-137
  3. ↑ Privatdozenten of Faculty 5 at RWTH Aachen
  4. ↑ List of events at RWTH
  5. ↑ Webpage of the Department of Applied Geosciences at GUtech
  6. ^ Directory of geological maps on PANGEA
  7. ↑ Sheet Explanation Geological maps Mozambique (abstract)
  8. ^ List of editors of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences with short biographies on the Springer Verlag website
  9. ^ Wilfried Bauer: The fiscal stamps of Madgascar. An overview from 1897–2008. Der Fiskal-Philatelist, Rundbrief 63, pp. 40–59, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and polar researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheydt