T215 Structure and Tectonic Studies, from Outcrop to Supercontinent II: In Honor of Ian Dalziel

Tuesday, 24 September 2019
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 229A, North Building

A LEGACY OF THINKING BROADLY: A TRIBUTE TO IAN DALZIEL

Paper number: T215-1
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM

Authors

  • David Elliot Presenting Author
    The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Abstract

As a student in the days of the controversy over continental drift, instructors’ presentations ranged from supportive to benign to dismissive. In the twists and turns of a career, one of the most important events was a call from Ian Dalziel about the possibility of collaborating on a review paper of the Patagonia-Scotia Arc-Antarctic Peninsula region for a volume edited by Alan Nairn. This led to three papers, including “West Antarctica: problem child of Gondwanaland”, that, at their core, were concerned with large-scale geologic events and processes. The local is self-evidently important, but it is the context and importance on regional and global scales that give the research its meaning. This has been the backdrop to all subsequent field and laboratory research, whether on the geology of the Antarctic Peninsula or the Transantarctic Mountains, in particular the Ferrar Large Igneous Province and the Gondwana stratigraphic succession, both of which are related to the “Problem Child”.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5

doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-337282

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