August Buxtorf

His cross section of the Jura mountains to guide tunnel building in 1916 was widely used to understand buckling and folding.

In 1907 he completed his habilitation with Karl Schmidt and Heinrich Preiswerk and joined the University of Basel.

He helped organize the institute of geology and paleontology in 1914 and trained numerous students until 1944.

His studies on the folds and detachment of layers in the Jura and in sections of central Switzerland and Ticino contributed to the planning of several tunnels.

[2][3] He proposed a model of the Jura mountains as a “folded décollement nappe” pushed by the Alps in 1907.