Part of the history of the origin of transform faults

At least two people came up with the idea for transform faults at roughly the same time. One was a world-renowned Canadian geophysicist, Tuzo Wilson, and the other myself, a graduate student working with Keith Runcorn in Britain. Wilson presented his thoughts about the faulting of ridges at a colloquium in the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in February 1965, which I attended. After the presentation, we discussed the correct interpretation of the mechanism. I suggested that we publish our ideas in parallel and let the scientific community decide which was correct. Wilson published my ideas, as did I.