Carl Caldenius
Carl Caldenius | |
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Born | 12 February 1887 |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. |
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]