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Prof. Dr. Stefan M. Schmid

Profile

Academic positionEmeritus
Research fieldsGeology,Geophysics
KeywordsAlpen-Karpathen-Dinariden, Dynamik von Störungen, Entwicklung der Erdlithosphäre, Gebirgsbildung

Current contact address

CountrySwitzerland
CityZürich
InstitutionETH Zürich
InstituteInstitut für Geophysik

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Mark R. HandyInstitut für Geologische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2008

Programme(s)

2007Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Schmid is one of the leading earth scientists of our day. His seminal contributions in tectonics range from the rheology of rocks to the evolution of continents. His approach is decidedly interdisciplinary, and integrates fieldwork on rock structures with geophysics, isotope geochronology and stratigraphy. Currently, he seeks to understand the processes that build mountains, launching a book on the Alpine mountains of Europe.

Publications (partial selection)

2012Fügenschuh, B., Mancktelow, N.S., Stefan M. Schmid: Comment on Rosenberg and Garcia: Estimating displacement along the Brenner Fault and orogen-parallel extension in the Eastern Alps. In: International Journal of Earth Sciences , 2012, 1129-1145
2012D.J.J. van Hinsbergen, Stefan M. Schmid: Map view restoration of Aegean–West Anatolian accretion and extension since the Eocene. In: Tectonics, 2012, TC5005
2012N. Djeric, Stefan M. Schmid, N. Gerzina: Middle Jurassic radiolarian assemblages from the sedimentary cover of the Adriatic margin (Zlatar Mountain, SW Serbia). In: Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France , 2012, 359-368
2011M.Wiederkehr, R. Bousquet, M.A. Ziemann, A. Berger, Stefan M. Schmid: 3-D assessment of peak-metamorphic conditions by Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material: an example from the margin of the Lepontine dome (Swiss Central Alps).. In: International Journal of Earth Sciences , 2011, 1029-1063
2011S. Schefer, V. Cvetkovic, B. Fügenschuh, A. Kounov, M. Ovcharova, U. Schaltegger, Stefan M. Schmid: Cenozoic granitoids in the Dinarides of southern Serbia: age of intrusion, isotope geochemistry, exhumation history and significance for the geodynamic evolution of the Balkan Peninsula. In: International Journal of Earth Sciences , 2011, 1181-1206
2011H. Madritsch, O. Fabbri, Stefan M. Schmid: La chaîne plissée du Jura: évidences morphologiques en faveur d’une activité post-pliocène et discussion du contexte géodynamique actuel. In: Géochronique, 2011, 41-44
2011A. Berger, Stefan M. Schmid, M. Engi, R. Bousquet, M. Wiederkehr: Mechanisms of mass and heat transport during Barrovian metamorphism: A discussion based on field evidence from the Central Alps (Switzerland/northern Italy). In: Tectonics, 2011, 1-17
2011A. Loprieno, R. Bousquet, S. Bucher, S. Ceriani, F.H. Dalla Torre, B. Fügenschuh, Stefan M. Schmid: The Valais units in Savoy (France): a key area for understanding the palaeogeography and the tectonic evolution of the Western Alps. In: International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2011, 963-992
2010Liviu Matenco, Csaba Krézsek, Sandra Merten, Stefan M. Schmid, Sierd Cloetingh, Paul Andriessen: Characteristics of collisional orogens with low topographic build-up: an example from the Carpathians. In: Terra Nova , 2010, 155-165
2010Kamil Ustaszewski, Alexandre Kounov, Stefan M. Schmid, Urs Schaltegger, Erwin Krenn, Wolfgang Frank, Bernhard Fügenschuh: Evolution of the Adria-Europe plate boundary in the northern Dinarides: From continent-continent collision to back-arc extension. In: Tectonics, 2010, TC6017,page1 1-TC6017,page 34
2010H. Madritsch, O. Fabbri, E.M. Hagedorn, F. Preusser, Stefan M. Schmid: Feedback between erosion and active deformation: geomorphic constraints from the frontal Jura fold-and-thrust belt (eastern France). In: International Journal of Earth Sciences , 2010, S103-S122
2010Herfried Madritsch, Frank Preusser, Olivier Fabbri, Vincent Bichet, Fritz Schlunegger, Stefan M. Schmid: Late Quaternary folding in the Jura Mountains: exvidence from syn-erosional deformation of fluvial meanders. In: Terra Nova, 2010, 147-154
2010Mark R. Handy, Stefan M. Schmid, Romain Bousquet, Eduard Kissling, Daniel Bernoulli Reconciling plate-tectonic reconstructions of Alpine Tethys with the geological–geophysical record of spreading and subduction in the Alps. In: Earth-Science Reviews, 2010, 121-158
2010Senecio Schefer, Daniel Egli, Sigrid Missoni, Daniel Bernoulli, Bernhard Fügenschuh, Hansjürgen Gawlick, Divna Jovanović, Leopold Krystyn, Richard Lein, Stefan M. Schmid, Milan Sudar: Triassic metasediments in the internal Dinarides (Kopaonik area, southern Serbia): stratigraphy, paleogeographic and tectonic significance. In: Geologica Carpathica , 2010, 89—109
2009Michael Wiederkehr, Masafumi Sudo, Romain Bousquet, Alfons Berger, Stefan M. Schmid: Alpine orogenic evolution from subduction to collisional thermal overprint: The 40Ar/39Ar age constraints from the Valaisan Ocean, Central Alps. In: Tectonics, 2009, doi:10.1029/2009TC002496
2009Stefan M. Schmid: Rudolf Trümpy (1921–2009): scientific achievements of an outstanding personality with a life-long commitment to teaching and research in geology. In: Swiss Journal of Geosciences , 2009, 375-382