Ernst Kalkowsky Explained

Ernst Louis Kalkowsky (1851–1938) was a German geologist and museum scientist.His paper "Oolith and Stromatolith im Norddeutschen Bundsandstein" was one of the most important contributions to understand stromatolitic structures.^[1]

Works

• Elemente der Lithologie, 1886.
• Der Nephrit des Bodensees. Dresden: Wilhelm Baensch, 1906.
• Oolith and Stromatolith im Norddeutschen Bundsandstein, 1908.

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=VKEMBwAAQBAJ&dq=stromatolith&pg=PR3 Gehler, Alexander / Reich, Mike (2011): Founding of the Term 'Stromatolite': Ernst Louis Kalkowsky(1851-1938) and his Early Stromatolite Research, in: Reitner, Joachim / Quéric, Nadia-Valérie: Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology, pp. 3-12