1831-1914 Austrian professor of geology at the University of Vienna who laid the foundation for the field of structural geology. Suess suggested that moving landmasses cause earthquakes and that sea level had changed through time. He recognized...

Eduard Suess (August 20, 1831 – April 26, 1914) was a geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for discovering two of the Earth's major now-lost geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana (proposed 1861)...