Carl Caldenius

Carl Caldenius
Born 12 February 1887 (1887-02-12)
Died August 10, 1961(1961-08-10) (aged 74)
Residence Sweden
Citizenship Sweden
Nationality Swede
Fields Quaternary geology
Geotechnical engineering
Institutions Swedish State Railways
Geological Survey of Sweden
Stockholms högskola
Known for Varve geochronology, Quaternary geology of Patagonia

Carl Caldenius (1887–1961), until 1920 known by the surname Carlzon, was a Swedish Quarterany geologist and geotechnical engineer.[1][2] He is mostly known for his geochronological work in Patagonia.[1]

Caldenius worked as geotechnical engineer for the Swedish State Railways until 1922 when he started to work full-time with his Ph.D thesis "Ragundasjöns stratigrafi och geokronologi" (Stratigraphy and geochronology of Lake Ragunda) that he defended in 1924. In 1925 he travelled to Argentina as part of a Swedish-Argentine collaboration to extend the clay varve chronology of Gerard De Geer to the Southern Hemisphere.[1] After returning to Swedsen in 1930 he joined an expedition to Australia and New Zealand where he applied knowledge of varves to study the Carboniferous Karoo Ice Age.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lundqvist, Jan (1991). "Carl C:zon Caldenius- geologist, geotechnician, -predecessor of IGCP". Boreas (Wiley-Blackwell) 20: 183–189.
  2. ↑ Sundquist, Björn. "Carl Caldenius". Nationalencyclopedin (in Swedish). Cydonia Development. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
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