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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.
Professor of the Graduate School. Bio/CV: Stratigraphy and Earth history, tectonics and structural geology, stratigraphy of pelagic limestones. Please note that Prof. Álvarez is active in research, but not in teaching, and does not accept new graduate students. Research interests:
9. März 2010 · March 9, 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.
In 1980, a team of researchers led by Nobel prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, and chemists Frank Asaro and Helen Vaughn Michel, discovered that sedimentary layers found all over the world at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary, formerly called Cretaceous–Tertiary or K–T boundary) contain a conc...
6. Juni 2020 · "Es war 1980, als der Physiker Luis Walter Alvarez und sein Sohn, der Geologe Walter Alvarez, bei Gubbio in Umbrien eine wenige Zentimeter dicke, gelbliche Tonschicht ('boundary clay') mit auffallend hohen Iridiumwerten fanden", beginnt Christian Köberl, Geochemiker und Impaktforscher an der Universität Wien, seine Ausführungen für das Buch "Abe...
