曾昭璇教授简介

    曾昭璇，出生于1921年12月，1943年获中山大学地理学学士，1946年获中山大学人类学硕士。曾担任广东省立文理学院教授、代主任，华南师范大学地理系主任，中山大学客座教授。第六届全国政协委员，中国地理学会、民俗学会、太平洋历史学会、古都学会、自然科学史学会理事，海岸河口学会荣誉理事，地貌学研究会名誉会长。地质学学会永久会员，中国科学院第四纪研究会名誉委员。主编《热带地貌》学术刊物20多年。出版中文专著20多部，英文专著4部，发表论文200多篇。为享有政府特殊津贴专家。
曾昭璇教授十分重视物质在地貌发育的作用，是我国岩石地貌学研究领域的先驱和代表。20世纪40年代开始从地质学和岩石学的角度研究粤北红层及其地貌表现，发表大量关于中国东南部红层与丹霞地貌的文章。1960年出版《岩石地形学》专著，1981年与黄少敏合作撰写了《中国自然地理——地貌》大型丛书的“红层地貌、花岗岩地貌”部分，系统论述了中国红层及其丹霞地貌的岩石特点、构造变动和外力作用，将在红色砂岩上发育的丹霞地貌总结出5种基本类型，论述了岩石构造和外力作用在丹霞地貌发育中的关系，在国内开辟了丹霞地貌作为一种地貌类型的研究方向，是我国丹霞地貌研究的主要奠基人。

Brief Account of Professor Zeng Zhaoxuan

曾昭璇教授在野外工作 Professor Zeng Zhaoxuan working in the field 曾昭璇先生画像（加拿大马士打大学地理系主任胡鸣高教授画，背景为丹霞山） A portrait of Professor Zeng Zhaoxuan (drawn by Professor Hu Minggao, Dean of Department of Geography, McMaster University of Canada, the background is Mt. Danxia)

    Zeng Zhaoxuan was born in Dec. 1921. He obtained from Zhongshan University the degree of Bachelor of Geography in 1943, and the degree of Master of Anthropology in 1946. He was the Professor and Acting Dean in Guangdong Provincial College of Arts and Science, Dean of Geographic Department in South China Normal University, Guest professor in Zhongshan University, member of the 6th chinese people’s political Consultative Conference, member of a council in China Society of Geography, Ancient Capital Society, and Society of History of Natural Science, honorary member of a council in Coast and River Mouth Society, honorary president of Geomorphologic Research Society, permanent member of Geological Society of China, and honorary committee member of Quaternary Research Society of Chinese Academy of? Sciences.? He supervised the publication of an academic journal Tropical Geomor-phology for more than 20 years, and published more than 20 monographs of which 4 are in English, and exceeding 200 papers. He, is a specialist enjoying a Government Special Allo-wance every month.
    Prof. Zeng Zhaoxuan attaches due importance to the role played by material in geomorphologic develo-pment. He is the forerun-ner and representative in the Research ?field of petrographic geomor-phology in China.? Star-ting from the 1940s, he studied the red beds of northern Guang-dong and their geomorphologic
expressions from a geological and petrological point of view, and has published many papers in relation to red beds of southeas-tern China and to Danxia geomor-phology. In 1960, he published a book Rock Topography, and in 1981, cooperated with Huang Shaomin, he wrote the part "Red bed geomorphology, granite geomorphology" in a voluminous series? Natural Geography—Geomorphology of China, in which he deals systematically with? the rock features, tectonic disturbance and exogenetic action of China’s red beds and Danxia geomor-phology, classifies the Danxia geomorphology deve-loped in red sandstone into 5 basic types, and discusses ?the role played by rock structure and exogenetic action in the develop-ment of Danxia geomorphology, thereby opening up a new orientation in China for the research of Danxia geomorphology.? He is the chief founder of Danxia geomorphologic research in China.