Walter Herman Bucher

Walter Herman Bucher (born March 12, 1888, Akron, Ohio, U.S.—died Feb. 17, 1965, Houston, Texas) was a U.S. geologist known for his studies of cryptovolcanic and other structural features of the Earth’s crust. He studied the primary structures of sediments and described the process of orogenic deformation (mountain building) and megatectonics (large-scale structural deformations). In 1956, he formed the theory of the origin and geographic pattern of mountain chains on the Earth’s surface. Bucher was...