Maurits Lindström (10 May 1932 – 14 November 2009) was a Swedish geologist and paleontologist. Lindström's initial work was divided among two topics conodont paleontology and the

structural geology Structural geology is the study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units with respect to their deformational histories. The primary goal of structural geology is to use measurements of present-day rock geometries to uncover informati ...

of the Scandinavian Caledonides in Lappland. In 1970, he described the conodont families Cordylodontidae, Gondolellidae, Proconodontidae and Rhipidognathidae. In

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

, he described the conodont genera '' Baltoniodus'', '' Microzarkodina'' and '' Paracordylodus''.Vom Anfang, Hochstand und Ende eines Epikontinentalmeeres. Maurits Lindström, Geologische Rundschau, March 1971, Volume 60, Issue 2, pages 419-438, Lindström published conodont studies up to 1987 after which he only supervised students working with conodonts. In the late 1980s Lindström began to study ancient

impact crater An impact crater is a depression (geology), depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact event, impact of a smaller object. In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion or internal c ...

s in the Fennoscandian Shield. His studies have confirmed earlier speculations that Tvären and Lockne are craters.

Awards and tributes

In 1985 he became member of the

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and in 2009 he was awarded the prize "Årets geolog" (Geologist of the Year) by Geosektionen of Naturvetarna. He received the Pander Medal awarded by the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindstrom, Maurits 1932 births 2009 deaths Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 20th-century Swedish geologists Swedish paleontologists Conodont specialists Meteorite researchers 20th-century Swedish zoologists