George Plafker
| George Plafker | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 29, 1929 Upland, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Geology, Seismology |
| Institutions |
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers United States Geological Survey Chevron Corporation |
| Alma mater |
Brooklyn College University of California, Berkeley Stanford University |
George Plafker is an American geologist and seismologist who has made significant contributions to both fields, with research focused on subduction, tsunami, and the geology of Alaska. While the theory of plate tectonics was still not completely accepted by the scientific community, and following prolonged study of the region of the 1964 Alaska earthquake, Plafker correctly concluded that the largest earthquakes are the result of fault slip at convergent boundaries. Additional studies were done in Chile in the late 1960s regarding the series of earthquakes there.[1]
References
- ↑ Fuis, G. S.; Haeusslerb, P J.; Atwater, B. F. (2014), "A tribute to George Plafker", Quaternary Science Reviews (Elsevier), doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.11.010