Alfred Kröner

Alfred Kröner ( born September 8, 1939 in Kassel, Germany ) is a German geologist who deals in particular with the African Precambrian, with the development of the continental crust and the geology of Central Asia.

Kröner studied geology at the Clausthal University of Technology, the University of Vienna and the Technical University of Munich with a diploma degree in 1965. After military service, he went in 1966 to the University of Cape Town, where he received his doctorate in 1968. After that he was half a year in the geological exploration in Namibia, before he returned to the Precambrian Research Unit in Cape Town, which he directed from 1974 to 1976. Since 1977 he was Professor of Regional and General Geology at the University of Mainz. 2001/ 02 he was Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, the Australian National University in Canberra, the University of Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology in Perth.

Apart from Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland, Malawi, Tanzania, Egypt, Sudan), he was also on field studies among others in Sri Lanka, Madagascar, India, Mongolia, China and Cuba. In addition to tectonic work he uses geochemical methods for rock characterization in the reconstruction of plate tectonics in the Precambrian and radioactive age determination on zircons.

In 2006 he received the Gustav- Steinmann Medal. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and has an honorary professorship other Northwestern University in Xian, China. In 2006 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal State of Rhineland -Palatinate.

He is co-editor of the journals Precambrian Research and Terra Nova.

Writings

  • Late Precambrian formations in the western Richtersveld, Northern Cape Province. Precambrian Research Unit, University of Cape Town, 1974
  • Publisher Contributions to the Precambrian geology of southern Africa: a volume in honor of John de Villiers. Precambrian Research Unit, University of Cape Town 1974
  • Precambrian plate tectonics publisher. Elsevier 1981
  • With CW Passchier, JS Myers Field Geology of High -Grade Gneiss Terrains. Springer - Verlag, 1990
  • With Reinhard Greiling ( Editors ): Precambrian tectonics illustrated. . The International Union of Geological Sciences, Stuttgart Schweizerbart, 1984 * Publisher with GN Hanson, AM Goodwin Archaean Geochemistry: The Origin and Evolution of the Archaean Continental Crust. Springer Verlag 1984
  • H. Schandelmeier, RJ Stern, A. Kröner: Geology of North East Africa. Springer International 1994
  • Publisher with PA Cawood: Earth accretionary systems in space and time. London Geological Society 2009
  • Publisher Proterozoic lithospheric evolution. Geological Society of America 1987
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