Alfred M. Ziegler

Alfred Mayland Ziegler (born 23 April 1938) is an American geologist and paleontologist. He is instrumental in the Paleomap project of the reconstruction of plate tectonics in the Palaeozoic.

Ziegler studied at Bates College with the bachelor's degree in 1959 and was promoted in 1964 at the University of Oxford. His dissertation was titled The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Upper Llandovery rocks in the southern part of the Welsh Borderland. In 1966 he became Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Palaeontology at the University of Chicago in 1972. From 1976 he became Professor of Stratigraphy.

He worked on the Paleogeographic Atlas Project of the University of Chicago, originally funded by Shell in 1975, and the Paleomap Project with Christopher Scotese, Richard Bambach, and Rob Van der Voo. Within the framework of the research they named the old continents and / or Terrane Avalonia and Laurussia. Edit source text Single-level Edit source text Standard data (person): LCCN: n87152657 VIAF: 19767264 | Wikipedia People Search

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