Otto Ampferer (1 December 1875 in Hötting near Innsbruck – 9 July 1947) was an Austrian alpinist and geologist.[1] To explain the complex processes of Orogeny, he developed his "theory of undercurrent" with the idea of a partially plastic deep Earth's crust (asthenosphere). He became – even before Alfred Wegener – the pioneer of the modern view of mobilism.[2][3]
Here, west of the Stanser Joch in Tyrol, Ampferer described the relief shift.
^Kalliope Verbund: Ampferer, Otto (1875-1947)
^Helmut W. Flügel: Die virtuelle Welt des Otto Ampferer und die Realität seiner Zeit. In: Geo. Alp., Vol. 1, 2004.
^Wolf-Christian Dullo, Fritz A. Pfaffl: The theory of undercurrent from the Austrian alpine geologist Otto Ampferer (1875–1947): first conceptual ideas on the way to plate tectonics. In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 28 March 2019.
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1879 and retained some popularity until Apollo. The Austrian geologist OttoAmpferer in 1925 also suggested the emerging of the Moon as cause for continental...
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luck!" On August 16, 1899 two students from Innsbruck, Carl Berger and OttoAmpferer, followed the same route. They had been unaware of the attempt two years...
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