Karna Lidmar-Bergström
Swedish scientist
Karna Lidmar-Bergström (born 1940) is a Swedish geologist and geomorphologist known for her study of Pre-Quaternary landforms in Sweden and Norway. She is an emeritus professor of Stockholm University. In 2004 she was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2018 she was appointed an honorary doctor of the University of Gothenburg Faculty of Science.
Life
Karna Lidmar-Bergström was born in 1940. She studied at Lund University under professor Karl-Erik Bergsten. Later Mats Åkesson served as her unofficial doctoral advisor, as the tutor system did not exist at that time.
Lidmar-Bergström is a geologist and geomorphologist known for her study of Pre-Quaternary landforms in Sweden and Norway. Lidmar-Bergström studied the flint distribution and how the Swedish landmasses were formed, and was the discoverer of a previously unknown north–south current now called the Kattegatt current. Lidmar-Bergström also invented a method she called Stratigraphical Landscape Analyses, based on her research in southern Sweden.
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