Julius Büdel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Julius Büdel

German geographer

Date of Birth: 08-Aug-1903

Place of Birth: Molsheim, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 28-Aug-1983

Profession: geographer, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Julius Büdel

  • Julius Büdel (8 August 1903 – 28 August 1983) was a German geomorphologist noted for his work on the influence of climate in shaping landscapes and landforms.
  • In his work Büdel stressed the importance of inherited landforms in present-day landscapes and argued that many landforms are the result of a combination of processes, and not of a single process.
  • Büdel estimated that 95% of mid-latitude landforms are relict.
  • Büdel studied both cold-climate processes in Svalbard and "tropical" weathering processes in India to understand the origin of the relief of Central Europe, which he argued was a palimpsest of landforms formed at different times and under different climates.
  • For Central Europe Büdel concluded that in Late Cretaceous to Early Pliocene times etchplains formed.
  • Then in Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene times a transition period occurred in landscape forming processes.
  • Finally in the Late Pleistocene periglaciation and deep permafrost made Central Europe a place of "excessive valley cutting".
  • Holocene developments would not have affected much of the landscape other than adding a deep soil cover.Through his life Büdel published three influential morphoclimatic zoning schemes.
  • The first, in 1948, was followed by another in 1963, and a final version in 1977.
  • Büdel's schemes emphasise planation and valley-cutting in relation to climate, arguing that valley-cutting is dominant in subpolar regions while planation is so in the tropics.Much of Büdel's 1977 book Klima-geomorphologie was considered outdated as of 2006.
  • However its pioneering approaches make it a classic in geomorphological literature.The Büdel Islands in Antarctica were named after him.

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