Franz Kossmat

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Franz Kossmat is affiliated with the following schools: Leipzig University, University of Vienna

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According to Wikipedia, Franz Kossmat was an Austrian-German geologist, for twenty years the director of the Geological Survey of Saxony under both the kingdom and the subsequent German Republic. Kossmat was professor of Mineralogy and Geology at the Graz University of Technology. From 1913 to 1934 Kossmat was the director of the Geological Survey of Saxony and director of the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Leipzig. In 1920 he presented the first gravity measures for middle Europe. It was published in 1921. In his life he published over twenty books himself, and collaborated on numerous others. He is most known for his work on isostasy, his opposition to Wegener's theories of continental drift, and for establishing a division of the European Variscides into several tectonic zones.

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Franz Kossmat's Published Works

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Gliederung des varistischen Gebirgsbaues (279)
Geologie der zentralen Balkanhalbinsel : mit einer Übersicht des dinarischen Gebirgsbaus (31)
1. Beiträge zur Tektonik Arabiens (1943) (22)
Paläogeographie und Tektonik (1937) (19)
Die Beziehungen zwischen Schwereanomalien und Bau der Erdrinde (1921) (5)
Paläogeographie (geologische Geschichte der Meere und Festländer) (4)
Balkanforschungen des geologischen Instituts der Universität Leipzig. 1. Reise 1926 (1927) (3)
Bemerkungen zur Entwicklung des Dinaridenproblems (1924) (2)
Die Beziehung des südosteuropäischen Gebirgsbaues zur Alpentektonik (1924) (2)
Einleitende Bemerkungen zu den Exkursionen der Geologischen Vereinigung im sächsischen Granulitgebiet, Frankenberger Zwischengebirge und Erzgebirge (22.–27. September 1922) (1922) (1)
Zeitschrift für Geophysik 06 (1)
Zeitschrift für Geophysik 08 (1932) (0)
Bücher- und Zeitschriftenschau (1933) (0)
Zeitschrift für Geophysik 03 (0)
Zeitschrift für Geophysik 04 (0)
Zur Frage der isostatischen Kompensation der Gebirge und der Randsenken (1926) (0)
Zeitschrift für Geophysik 02 (0)
Zeitschrift für Geophysik 01 (0)
V. Bücher- und Zeitschriftenschau (1933) (0)

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