Christoph Breitkreuz

Christoph Breitkreuz is a German geologist, academic, and author. He is an Emeritus Professor of Geology at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. His major contributions and research work are in the area of sedimentology, volcanology, geotectonics, and magmatic petrology. He has co-authored two undergraduate textbooks, titled ''Grundlagen der Geologie'' and ''Entwicklung des Systems Erde.'' and co-edited a science textbook, titled ''Physical geology of shallow magmatic systems''.

Breitkreuz co-founded the Centre for Volcanic Textures (CVT) in 2001 at Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg. He also founded a series of workshops on Physical Geology, called LASI (Laccoliths and Sills). Provided by Wikipedia