User:Rudolf Pohl

Place of Birth

Born October 8 1952 in Ruhpolding, Upper Bavaria, Germany.

My place of birth forms part of the

Northern Calcareous Alps, a northward thrusted unit of the Eastern Alps

.

I am Libran and a water dragon.

Academics

Studied one year

geosciences at the Georg-August Universität in Göttingen

, Germany, from where I received my BSc.

Then I changed over to environmental science and did one year at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.

My academic training was rounded off with a year at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France, studying structural geology & remote sensing, finishing with a tectonic map and an interpretation of the Eastern Alps gleaned from satellite imagery; the results were incorporated into my M.S. thesis: The Eastern Alps and their Lineaments.

Field Geology

Rochechouart crater

, France

Being a fervent adept of geological education in the field I have gained lots of first-hand experience via field courses, field mapping, excursions, private travels and mountaineering expeditions in the following countries and terrains:

Austria
- Hohe Tauern window
- Tennengebirge
England
- Cornwall - Cornubian batholith
- Lake District
- Norfolk - Quaternary, Cretaceous
France
- Brittanny
- Charente
- Corsica
- Dordogne
- Haute Vienne
- Massif Central
- Pyrenees
- Rochechouart crater
- Western Alps
Germany
- Berchtesgaden Alps
- Chiemgau Alps
- Harz
- Kaiserstuhl
- Nördlinger Ries
- Rheinisches Schiefergebirge
Greece
- Crete
Iceland
- Þingvellir
- Vestmannaeyjar
Ireland
- Donegal - Granitoids
Italy
- Adamello-Presanella
- Brenta Group
- Elba
- Etna
- Lipari Islands
- Vesuvius
Morocco
- Anti Atlas
- High Atlas
- Middle Atlas
- Rif
Norway
- Oslo graben
Scotland
- Orkney
- Skye
- Torridonian
Spain
- Baetic Cordillera
Switzerland
- Pennines
United States
- Arizona
  - Grand Canyon
- California
  - Death Valley
- Minnesota
  - Archaean
  - Banded Iron Formation
  - Duluth Complex
  - Midcontinent Rift System
- Oregon and Washington
  - Cascades
Wales
- Snowdon

Profession

Since leaving Paris I have been working as a freelance

translator in the three languages English-French-German

, which I can interchange at wish. I have translated several books in very different subjects, but also scientific articles and abstracts.

Worked in wholefood shops and in a bookshop collective for quite some time.

Being a trained carpenter and now also a "freemason" I have gained quite a bit of experience in the building trade.

Geodynamics

Foliation data of the Piégut-Pluviers Granodiorite in the stereo net

My main interest though still resides in Geodynamics - the Earth's Snake Power as Native Americans might call it. I am particularly interested in the connection of large-scale structures with flow phenomena as observable in the atmosphere & oceans. I do interprete the Alpine "whorl" - obviously my favourite topic - as a vortex structure, part of a much larger flow (system). Hence my renewed interest in fluid dynamics and my problem in accepting the standard textbook plate tectonics paradigm - in my esteem way too rigid!

My principle is: watching a satellite slow motion condensing the last twelve hours of meteorological happening on parts of our globe will give you more insight about geotectonic structures than a whole stack of textbooks!

Hobbies

My hobbies are mountaineering, climbing, skiing, swimming, biking, canoeing, windsurfing, rock & mineral hounding, vegetarian cooking, building, carpentry, music, animals (cats) & of course traveling.

New "old" home

I live now in a medieval village near Nontron in "Jacquou le Croquant" country - i.e. in the Natural Park of the Périgord-Limousin Region (Parc naturel régional Périgord Limousin) in SW-France, where "Robin des Bois" hangs out...