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Walter Alvarez (* 3. Oktober 1940 in Berkeley, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanischer Geologe und Geologie -Professor des Earth and Planetary Science Department (Fakultät für Erd- und Planetenwissenschaften) der University of California, Berkeley.
Walter Alvarez (born October 3, 1940) is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He and his father, Nobel Prize –winning physicist Luis Alvarez, developed the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact.
10. Mai 2024 · Walter Alvarez is an American geologist and expert on plate tectonics and mountain formation, best known for the so-called asteroid theory—put forward by Alvarez and his father, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, in the 1980s—which states that the impact of an asteroid on Earth may have.
Research interests: Stratigraphy and Earth history, focusing on comet and asteroid impacts and their role in causing mass extinctions and influencing the course of evolution of life. Tectonics, stratigraphy, and structural geology of the Mediterranean region, especially Italy, Sardinia, Corsica, Spain, North Africa, and the Sahara.
9. März 2010 · An international panel of experts has ruled in favor of the theory proposed in 1980 by the late Berkeley Lab physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Walter, a UC Berkeley geologist, that a large asteroid struck the earth 65 million years ago, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs.
6. Juni 2020 · Der Geologe Walter Alvarez an der Kreide/Tertiär-Grenze in Gubbio (Italien), die sich als schmaler Spalt zeigt. Foto: Christian Köberl. Geschockte Quarze beweisen den Meteoritenimpakt.
25. Apr. 2017 · Walter Alvarez, professor emeritus of earth and planetary sciences at UC Berkeley. Three billion years is a long time, even for a geologist like Walter Alvarez, who deals with Earth processes that take place over hundreds of millions of years.
