David Alt | |
Birth Date: | Sept 17, 1933 |
Birth Place: | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
Death Place: | Missoula, Montana, United States |
Occupation: | Author, geologist |
David Alt (September 17, 1933 – April 26, 2015) was an American geologist and author.
Alt was the author of more than thirty books, including several titles in the Roadside Geology series published by Mountain Press.[1] [2] [3]
He earned his Ph.D. in 1961 from the University of Texas, and joined the Department of Geology at The University of Montana in Missoula, Montana in 1965.[4] He became professor Emeritus at The University of Montana in 2002.
He died on April 26, 2015, in Missoula.[5]
Alt helped to interpret and explain to a wide audience the cataclysmic glacial Missoula Floods through articles and his book Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods (Mountain Press, 2001. ).[6] [7] [8]