Kenneth Hsu

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Kenneth Hsu is a Swiss geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on marine geology and the Messinian salinity crisis.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf geologist
oceanographer
scientist
areaOfInfluence European geology
Mediterranean geology
countryOfWork Switzerland
United States
educatedAt ETH Zurich
employer ETH Zurich
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
fieldOfWork geology
marine geology
oceanography
genre scientific literature
hasOccupation researcher
university teacher
influenced subsequent research on the Messinian salinity crisis
knownFor research on the Messinian salinity crisis
studies of the Mediterranean Sea
work on marine geology
languageOfWorkOrName English
German
memberOf Deep Sea Drilling Project scientific party
nationality Swiss
notableWork interpretation of Mediterranean evaporite sequences
participatedIn Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 13
positionHeld professor of geology at ETH Zurich
researchInterest paleoclimatology
sedimentology
tectonics
theory desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea during the Messinian

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Bruce C. Heezen
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