Danilov Igor D.

Born on March 3 1935. G. Moscow. He graduated from the Faculty of Geography Moscow State University (1957).

Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1972). Professor (1980). Professor geocryology Geological Faculty (1984).

. Member of the Scientific Council of the RAH in engineering geology, . Hydrogeology and Geocryology, . committee member RAH for Quaternary Research, . member of the Working Group Shelf Science Council RAH on oceans, . member of the Interdepartmental Lithological Committee RAH, . member of several commissions of the International Union for Quaternary Research,
. A member of specialized councils of Moscow State University (1984).

. Research interests: lithogenetic Geocryology (the study of, . structure and formation conditions of the Quaternary sediments north of Eurasia: Pechora Depression, . Western Siberia, . Putoran, . Taimyr, . Laptev Sea coastal plains, . East Siberian, . Chukotka),
. The studies used new methods that combine the achievement of permafrost, Quaternary geology, geomorphology, lithology, and geochemistry and mineralogy. As a result, studied litho-facies and chemical and mineral composition of the frozen deposits, . established the features of authigenic mineralization in the areas of cooling of the continents and seas, . identified paragenetically associated with different depositional environment complexes nodules (carbonate, . sulphides and phosphates of iron, . iron-manganese oxide and others),
. Study the composition, structure and conditions of underground deposits of ice, cryogenic deformation structures (kriotektonika). On the large amount of factual material is shown and justified by the peculiarity of the sedimentary formation of breeds in the cryogenic zone of the Earth, developed by the author's concept of climate-driven cryogenic type lithogenesis (cryolithogenesis). The second main line of work - stratigraphic and historical paleographic. Study the structure of deposits verhnekaynozoyskih Cryolithozone different regions of European Russia and Siberia. Reconstruct the history of the coastal plains of northern Eurasia and the adjacent Arctic shelf in Late Cenozoic, . developed the original concept of the paragenetic relationship between sea level variations, . Surface, . underground and marine type of glaciation,
. He opened the role of neotectonics in the formation of the cover of the latest deposits of the plains of northern Eurasia. Considered approaches to the allocation of cryogenic formations, as tectono-Paleography and clusters of genetic units.

Reads lectures Basics cryolithogenesis, Kriolitologiya, Historical Geocryology, Cryogenic formation Geocryology

. He has published over 250 scientific papers.
. Major works:


. - Polar lithogenesis (1978),
. - Pleistocene marine subarctic plains (1978),
. - Methodology kriolitologicheskih Research (1983),
. - Major problems palaeography Late Cenozoic Arctic (co-author, 1983),
. - Textbook Petrography permafrost (co-author, 1987).