Geografie 1961, 66, 143-146
Radim Kettner sedmdesátníkem
Radim Kettner, Professor of Geology at the Charles University in Prague is 70. Born in Prague, May 5th, 1891 he became a founder of our modern geology and of the modern geological school in Czechoslovakia. He is well known by his stratigraphical and tectonical work in the geology of the lower palaeozoic in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia of the Middle-Bohemian granitic mass, of the Carpathian flysch zone and the nappe structure of the northern slope of the Carpathian mountains Low Tatra. He also published a lot of first class official geological maps (1 : 75 000) of the mentioned regions. His great textbook-work "General Geology" in four volumes has been translated into german language. Kettner is in his work closely connected with geomorphological problems namely of the terraces of the river Vltava and of the karst geomorphology and speleology of the Moravian Karst and South-Slovakian karst regions.
