Peter Ziegler

Peter Alfred Ziegler ( born November 2, 1928 in Winterthur, † July 19, 2013 in Binningen ) was a Swiss geologist.

Life and work

Ziegler in 1955 received his doctorate at the University of Zurich with Rudolf Trümpy in geology and then was an exploration geologist in the oil industry, first for French and U.S. companies in Israel, Madagascar and Algeria, then for Shell in Canada, from 1970 for the Shell headquarters in the Netherlands, where he oversaw the oil and gas exploration in the North Sea. As part result he published in 1982 the Geological Atlas of Western and Central Europe (Shell and Elsevier ), published in 2nd edition 1990.

In 1988 he went to Shell to retire and in 1992 an honorary professor at the University of Basel, from 1996 as a professor of Global Geology. He also taught at the Free University of Amsterdam. He was involved in several international research projects, including as the initiator and coordinator of the Eucor Urgent project 1999-2008, which dealt with the evolution and tectonics of the Upper Rhine Graben.

He dealt with intra -plate tectonics and tectonic evolution of sedimentary basins ( with applications in petroleum geology ) and the Phanerozoic development of Europe.

Still in 2013, he spoke as climate skeptics would prefer that no carbon dioxide but the sun is responsible for global warming. In other climate skeptics he prepared to front a special issue of Energy and Environment.

Honors

  • Foumarier Medal of the Belgian Geological Society
  • Van Waterschot - van der Gracht Medal of the Royal Geological and Mining Society of the Netherlands
  • William Smith Medal of the Geological Society of London
  • Neville George Medal of the Geological Society of Glasgow
  • Leopold von Buch- badge of the Geological Society
  • Kapitza Medal of the Russian Academy of Natural Science
  • Robert Dott Sr. Memorial Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir for the No. 43 ( Evolution of the Arctic- North Atlantic and the Western Tethys ) of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1988) and the Special Commendation Award
  • Honorary doctorate from the Moscow State University (1997)
  • Honorary doctorate from TU Delft ( 2001).

Ziegler was an honorary member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Geological Society of London, the European Geosciences Union and the Polish Geological Society. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Russian Academy of Natural Sciences ) and the Academia Europaea. He is a lifetime member of the Bureau of the International Lithosphere Program.

In 2008 he was the Swiss Geological Society honored with a symposium to mark the 80th birthday Deep Earth - from crust to core (Lugano, November 23, 2008).

Writings (selection )

  • Evolution of Laurussia. A Study in Late Palaeozoic Plate Tectonics. Kluwer, Dordrecht et al, 1989, ISBN 0-7923-0428-4.
  • Evolution of the Arctic- North Atlantic and the Western Tethys ( = American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Memoir. Vol. 43 = Publication of the International Lithospere Program 0144). American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, OK, 1988, ISBN 0-89181-320-9.
  • Geological Atlas of Western and Central Europe. Shell International Petroleum Maatschappij and Others, The Hague 1982, ISBN 0-444-42084-3 ( 2nd and revised edition completely Call. Ibid, 1990, ISBN 90-6644-125-9 ).
  • Geologic evolution of the North Sea and its tectonic framework. In: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. Volume 59, No. 7, July 1975, pp. 1073-1097.
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