Prof. Dipl.-Min. Dr. rer.nat.

Wolf Uwe Reimold

Wolf Uwe Reimold

Corresponding Member of the Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences abroad since 2007

  • Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolution und Biodiversitätsforschung

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Research Areas:

  • Geosciences
  • Mineralogy

Selected Memberships:

  • Meteoritical Society
  • Geological Society of South Africa
  • Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft
  • Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia

Selected Prizes:

  • Barringer Medal and Award of the Meteoritical Society
  • President of the Geological Society of South Africa
  • Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Association of South Africa
  • A.L. Du Toit Memorial Lecturer, Geological Society of South Africa
  • Honours Award of the Geological Society of South Africa
  • Jubilee Medal of the Geological Sciety of South Africa

Selected Publications:

  • Reimold, W. U.; Jourdan, F. (2012) IMPACT! – Bolides, craters, and catastrophes. Elements, Bd. 8: Special Issue, S. 19-24.
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  • Reimold, W. U.; Hansen, B. K.; Jacob, J.; Artemieva, N. A.; Wünnemann, K. et al. [..] (2012, online: 2011) Petrography of the impact breccias of the Enkingen (SUBO 18) drill core, southern Ries crater, Germany: new estimate of impact melt. Bulletin / Geological Society of America, Bd. 124, S. 104-132.
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  • Reimold, W. U.; Gibson, R. L. (2010) Meteorite Impact! The Danger from Space and South Africa’s Mega-Impact: the Vredefort Structure. In Reihe: Geoparks of the World, 1; Heidelberg/Berlin: Springer (337 Seiten).
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  • Gohn, G. S.; Koeberl, C.; Miller, K. G.; Reimold, W. U.; Browning, J. V. et al. [..] (2008) Deep drilling into the Chesapeake Bay impact structure. Science, Bd. 320, S. 1740-1745.
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  • Reimold, W.U., Schulz, T., Koenig, S., Koeberl, C., Hauser, N., Wannek, D., and Schmitt, R.-T. (2021). Genesis of the mafic granophyre of the Vredefort impact structure (South Africa): Implications of new geochemical and Se and Re-Os isotopes, in Reimold, W.U., and Koeberl, C., eds., Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI: Geological Society of America Special Paper 550, pp. 235-254, doi.org/10.1130/2021.2550(09).
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