Wilhelm Meyer (geologist)
Wilhelm Meyer (born December 19, 1932 in Berlin ) is a German geologist. He was a professor at the University of Bonn.
Life
Meyer received his doctorate in geology from the Free University of Berlin in 1958 ( geology of the Siegen strata between Ahr and Nette (Eastern Eifel) ). He then worked as a practical geologist in iron spar mining in Siegerland . In 1959 he went to the Clausthal University of Technology (at that time the Bergakademie) and completed his habilitation there in 1966 on tectonics and granite plutonism in a crystalline area in northern Greece. Since 1969 he was Professor of Geology and Scientific Council at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .
Meyer mainly deals with the geology of the Eifel , about which he wrote a standard work. He also dealt primarily with structural geology (connection between tectonics and volcanism).
He continues the revision of Hans Murawski's geological dictionary .
Honors
- Hermann Credner Prize of the German Geological Society (1967)
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (March 17, 1983), especially for his work in nature conservation (preservation of geotopes in the Rhineland)
Fonts
- Geology of the Eifel , Schweitzerbart, Stuttgart, 3rd edition 1994 (first 1986)
- with John Always The Rhine Valley between Bingen and Bonn , collection Geological Guide, Volume 89, Brothers Borntraeger Publisher 1996
- with Hans Murawski Geological Dictionary , Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 12th edition 2010
- Geological hiking guide Eifel , Kosmos Verlag, 1983
- The emergence of the maars in the Eifel , Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 132, 1985, pp. 141–155
- Editor with Wighart von Koenigswald Geological history in the Rhineland: Fossils and rocks from 400 million years , F. Pfeil, Munich 1994
- Geological drawing and construction , Clausthaler geotektonische Hefte, Volume 17, 3rd edition 1989
- GÖNNERSDORF in Neuwied basin , in Werner K. Weidert, Classical references of Paläontologie, Volume 1, 1988, Gold Schneck Verlag (with short biography)
- with W. Schumacher: Protected plants in the Rhineland , Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1978
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 109, 1958, pp. 452–462
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Meyer, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |