As undergraduates at UCL, we were conversant with Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift, but petrology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, palaeontology and structural geology were taught in the context of geosynclinal theory, as they were everywhere at the time, and I am sure that I was not alone in finding some of the concepts difficult to comprehend. As I was finishing up at UCL in 1968, the plate tectonics revolution was just beginning, although I was too preoccupied with thesis preparation to take much notice. After arrival in Chile, I was browsing in the library at IIG’s Santiago office and came across...
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