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Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 20 Dec 2011
Part of the History of the Origin of Transform Faults
Part of the History of the Origin of Transform Faults
Page Range: 58 – 62
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.
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