John Frederick Dewey

John Frederick Dewey (* 1937) is a British structural geologist and a leading proponent of the theory of plate tectonics , which among other things builds on scientific work that he carried out in the 1960s and 1970s. He is an authority on the formation and development of mountain ranges.

Dewey was educated at Bancroft's School in London and studied at Queen Mary and Westfield College and Imperial College at the University of London , where he obtained a B.Sc. and PhD in geology . After a period as a lecturer at the University of Manchester (1960-64), the University of Cambridge (1964-70) and the Memorial University of Newfoundland (1971) Dewey was appointed professor of geology at New York State University in Albany . In this position he published a number of classic papers on the Appalachians in Newfoundland and the Scottish and Irish Caledonids . Later, his work focused on developing a model of the evolution and orogenetic history of the Himalayas .

He returned to England in 1982 to accept a position as professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Durham for four years . Like some of his predecessors in this position, such as LR Wager , Dewey was appointed to the University of Oxford in 1986 , where he taught until his retirement in 2000. He then returned to the United States to continue to work as a professor of geology at the University of California, Davis .

John Dewey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in London in 1985 and received numerous honors and awards, most notably the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America in 1992 and the Wollaston Medal in 1999 , the highest award of the Geological Society of London . He is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985), the Academia Europaea (1990), the National Academy of Sciences (1997) and the Royal Irish Academy (2008).

Works (selection)

Evolution of the Appalachian / Caledonian Orogen , Nature, Volume 222, 1969, pp. 124-129
with JM Bird: Mountain belts and the new global tectonics , Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 75, 1970, pp. 2625-2647
1975: Plate Tectonics. Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 13, pp. 326-332
1976: Ophiolite Obduction. Tectonophysics, Vol. 31, 1976, pp. 93-120
with CAM Sengor: Aegean and Surrounding Regions - Complex Multi-plate and Continuum Tectonics in a Convergent Zone. Geological Society of America Bulletin, Vol. 90, 1979, pp. 84-92
Plate-tectonics and the Evolution of the British-isles. Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 139, 1982, pp. 371-412
with DHW Hutton: Paleozoic Terrane Accretion in the Western Irish Caledonides. Tectonics, Vol. 5, 1986, pp. 1115-1124
Extensional Collapse of Orogens. Tectonics, Volume 7, 1988, pp. 1123-1139
with PD Ryan: A Geological and Tectonic Cross-section of the Caledonides of Western Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 148, 1991, pp. 173-180
with NJ Soper, PD Ryan: Age of the Grampian orogeny in Scotland and Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 156, 1999, pp. 1231-1236
Transtension in arcs and orogens. International Geology Review, Volume 44, 2002 pp. 402-439

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Membership directory: John Dewey. Academia Europaea, accessed November 3, 2017 .
^ Member Directory: John F. Dewey. National Academy of Sciences, accessed November 3, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dewey, John Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1937

[1] Membership directory: John Dewey. Academia Europaea, accessed November 3, 2017 .

[2] Member Directory: John F. Dewey. National Academy of Sciences, accessed November 3, 2017 .