Curt Fredén | |
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Born | 1937 |
Residence | Sweden |
Nationality | Swedish |
Citizenship | Sweden |
Alma mater |
Uppsala University University of Gothenburg (Ph.D.) |
Awards | Geologist of the Year (2002) |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Quaternary geology Sedimentology |
Institutions | Geological Survey of Sweden |
Curt Fredén (b. 1937) is a Swedish Quaternary geologist. Most of his work has centered on the Holocene geology of the Baltic Sea. He was a member of the landslide commission (Swedish: Skredkommissionen) that existed from 1988 to 1996. In 2002 he was awarded the prize Geologist of the Year (Swedish: Årets geolog) by Naturvetarna. He has been editor for Berg och jord, the geology volume of the Swedish National Atlas and worked on various geological maps of Quaternary deposits. Fredén was one of geologists who helped make the High Coast a World Heritage Site.