MARIUS VISARION
Institutul de Geologie si Geofizica, Bucuresti
RADU BOTEZATU – REMARKABLE PROSPECTOR OF THE ROMANIAN TERRITORY
(Abstract)
Among the personalities who represented the earth sciences in Romania, Radu Botezatu stands out through his valuable efforts in the development of a new conceptual framework for the geological interpretation of the geophysical data. The methodological improvements, the processing of the geophysical data by adequate means, including original methods, the modeling of the potential fields anomalies are factors that ensured the reduction of the risk in the geological interpretation of the results. The researches carried out over the Carpathian Orogen, the East European Platform and the North Dobrogea Intracratonic Orogen provided new information on the deep geological structure with implications in the orientation of the geophysical prospecting activity. The work achieved by Radu Botezatu designates him as one of the most prominent researches who contributed to the appearance of a new discipline "The geological interpretation of the geophysical data" within the wider sphere of geosciences.