Hans Cloos - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• The Hans Cloos medal, awarded annually by the IAEG to an engineering geologist of outstanding merit, was named after him.
• The wrinkle ridge Dorsum Cloos on the Moon is named after him.
• In 2006, Cloos was featured in the book Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores (Trinity University Press) which looks at how writing pays a tribute to the Earth's geological features.