Eldridge M. Moores

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Eldridge Morton Moores (born October 13, 1938 in Phoenix , Arizona , † October 28, 2018 at Feather River - Lake Almanor , California ) was an American geologist .

life and work

Moores graduated from Caltech with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and from Princeton University with a master's degree in 1961 and a PhD in geology in 1963. He was lecturer at the University of California, Davis in 1966, assistant professor in 1967 and professor in 1975.

He deals with tectonics and especially plate tectonics and ophiolites . The regional focus of his research is the western USA (California, the Cordilleras and the Sierra Nevada), the Mediterranean region (Cyprus, Greece) and the former Tethys , Pakistan and mountain ranges of the alpine type. Textbooks on tectonics come from him.

He received the Geological Society of America's Distinguished Service Award in 1988 and the Geological Association of Canada Medal in 1994. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was President of the Geological Society of America in 1996 . He was the editor of GSA Today from 1991 to 1995 and Geology from 1981 to 1988. From 2004 to 2008 he was Vice President of the International Union of Geological Sciences .

He played the cello at the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra for 28 years. Moores died on October 28, 2018 on a geological excursion he led for students and colleagues in the Feather River-Lake Almanor region.

Fonts

  • with Robert J. Twiss : Structural Geology, San Francisco: Freeman, 2nd edition 2006 (first as Tectonics 1995)
  • with Yildirim Dilek, Don Elthon, Adolphe Nicolas (editors): Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: New Insights from Field Studies and the Ocean Drilling Program, Special Paper of the Geological Society of America, 2001

literature

  • John McPhee : Annals of the former world , Farar, Straus and Giroux 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Geologist, Beloved Campus Citizen Eldridge Moore's Dies. In: ucdavis.edu. October 29, 2018, accessed October 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Moores, Eldridge M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moores, Eldridge Morton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Phoenix , Arizona
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2018
Place of death Feather River - Lake Almanor , California