Robert S. Dietz

Robert Sinclair Dietz (* September 14, 1914, † 19 May 1995) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer who made ​​significant contributions to the theory of plate tectonics made ​​.

Life

Dietz was Professor of Geology at Arizona State University. He and Harry Hammond Hess pioneered in the study of seafloor spreading around 1960-1961. While he was employed by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, he observed the nature of the Hawaii -Emperor seamount chain, which stood out from the Hawaii -Midway Islands chain and speculated in 1953 that something this old volcanic mountains northward should wear like a conveyor belt.

Later he became interested in meteorites and was the first to recognize the Sudbury Basin as a result of a strike; and he discovered another impact crater.

In 1988 he received the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America.

Writings

• Robert S. Dietz: Earth, Sea, and Sky: Life and Times of a Journeyman Geologist. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science 22 (1994 ), 1-32.
• Robert S. Dietz: In Defense of drift. The Sciences, vol. 23, Nov- Dec. 1983, p. 26
• Robert S. Dietz: Sudbury Structure as at astrobleme. University of Chicago, 1964
• Robert S. Dietz and scientific illustrator John C. Holden: Creation / Evolution Satiricon: Creationism Bashed. Winthrop, WA: Book Maker, 1987
• Robert S. Dietz Continent and Ocean Basin Evolution by Spreading of the Sea Floor, Nature, Volume 190, 1961, pp. 854-857

• Geologist ( 20th century)
• Volcanologist
• University teachers (Arizona State University)
• Americans
• Born in 1914
• Died in 1995
• Man