It is with sadness that we report the recent passing of Gerard V. Middleton, one of the leading pioneers of sedimentology. Gerry, as he was known to his many friends and colleagues, was born in South Africa of English parents, and was educated in England, obtaining his Ph.D. in geology from Imperial College in 1954. For his thesis research, he mapped an area of Devonian rocks in Devon, and one of his earliest papers (1959) is a taxonomic documentation of the tetracorals contained in those rocks. Immediately upon graduation, he emigrated to Canada where he worked first for California Standard...
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