Lars Bjørn Clemmensen (born October, 31st in Copenhagen) is a Danish Professor of

Sedimentology Sedimentology encompasses the study of modern sediments such as sand, silt, and clay, and the processes that result in their formation (erosion and weathering), transport, deposition and diagenesis. Sedimentologists apply their understanding of m ...

in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management,

Copenhagen University The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. The University of Copenhagen c ...

. Lars was born in Valby (Copenhagen) and grew up in Hvidovre, before moving to Frederiksberg. He extensively worked with the geology of

Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...

, mostly on the

Late Triassic The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch (geology), epoch of the Triassic geologic time scale, Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between annum, Ma and Ma (million years ago). It is preceded by the Middle Triassic Epoch a ...

Jameson Land Jameson Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland. Geography Jameson Land is bounded to the southwest by Scoresby Sound (the world's largest fjord), to the northwest by the Stauning Alps, to the north by Scoresby Land, to the northeast by the F ...

, in East Greenland. He was part of 10 expeditions to Greenland. With a publication record over 100 titles that grant him an ''h''-index of 27 mainly on sedimentology and

stratigraphy Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification). It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks. Stratigraphy has three related subfields: lithost ...

. In 1997 a new mammal from the Triassic of East Greenland was named after him: ''Haramiyavia clemmenseni''. Co-author of the species '' Cyclotosaurus naraserluki''. He also worked on the ancient aeolian dunes of

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

and USA.Clemmensen, L. B., & Abrahamsen, K. (1983). Aeolian stratification and facies association in desert sediments, Arran basin (Permian), Scotland. Sedimentology, 30(3), 311-339. In his later years he has worked with Danish coastal systems: beach ridges, dunes and storm events.

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