Poczet prezesów Polskiego Towarzystwa Geologicznego – część II. Profesor Rafał Unrug – sedymentolog, tektonik, badacz Karpat i dawnych kontynentów
Abstract
Set of presidents of the Polish Geological Society – Part II. Professor Rafał Unrug – sedimentologist, tectonician, researcher of the Carpathians and ancient continents.
A b s t r a c t. Rafał Unrug (1931–2000), Polish geologist, graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, professor at the Jagiellonian University, outstanding representative of the “Polish school of sedimentology” of M. Książkiewicz. He conducted pioneering sedimentological and palaeogeographical studies of the Carpathian Flysch, Upper Silesian Carboniferous and Moravian-Silesian Kulm. Rafał Unrug was involved in research on the tectogenesis of the Carpathians. In 1980, he undertook studies of Proterozoic basins in the southern part of the Africa continent (Zambia) and of the tectonic evolution of the region, including ore mineralization in these areas and its structural constraints. From 1984 to 1999, he was a professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Rafał Unrug also conducted research in the Appalachian Mountains, worked on the history of the Gondwana and Rodinia continents, co-chaired the IGCP projects No. 288 “Gondwanaland sutures and mobile belts” and No. 440 “Assembly and Break-up of Rodinia”, and was an editor of “The Geodynamic Map of Gondwana Supercontinent Assembly” (1996). He died unexpectedly at the age of 68.
A b s t r a c t. Rafał Unrug (1931–2000), Polish geologist, graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, professor at the Jagiellonian University, outstanding representative of the “Polish school of sedimentology” of M. Książkiewicz. He conducted pioneering sedimentological and palaeogeographical studies of the Carpathian Flysch, Upper Silesian Carboniferous and Moravian-Silesian Kulm. Rafał Unrug was involved in research on the tectogenesis of the Carpathians. In 1980, he undertook studies of Proterozoic basins in the southern part of the Africa continent (Zambia) and of the tectonic evolution of the region, including ore mineralization in these areas and its structural constraints. From 1984 to 1999, he was a professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Rafał Unrug also conducted research in the Appalachian Mountains, worked on the history of the Gondwana and Rodinia continents, co-chaired the IGCP projects No. 288 “Gondwanaland sutures and mobile belts” and No. 440 “Assembly and Break-up of Rodinia”, and was an editor of “The Geodynamic Map of Gondwana Supercontinent Assembly” (1996). He died unexpectedly at the age of 68.