Leopold Kober

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Leopold Kober (21 September 1883 – 6. September 1970) was an influential Austrian geologist responsible for a number of now largely discredited^[1] theories of orogeny and for coining the term kraton to describe stable continental platforms. Kober, developing geosyncline theory, posited that stable blocks known as forelands move toward each other, forcing the sediments of the intervening geosynclinal region to move over the forelands, forming marginal mountain ranges known as Randketten, while leaving an intervening median mass known as the Zwischengebirge.^[2]

References

↑ "All this made a mockery of the then prevalent Kober-Stillean model of symmetric orogens and vast, rigid Zwischengebirge in between..." Briegel, U. & Xiao, W. (2001), Paradoxes in Geology, p. 187. Elsevier.
↑ Linton, D. L. & Mosely, F. (1970), 'The Geological Ages', in the Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 1A., pp. 17–18. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Name	Kober, Leopold
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Short description	Austrian geologist
Date of birth	21 September 1883
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Date of death	1970
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