Atlas Of Deformational And Metamorphic Rock Fabrics
by G. J. Borradaile /
2011 / English / PDF
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In May 1976 Lucian B. Platt organized a highly successful Penrose
Confer ence on The Formation of Rock Cleavage at Bryn Mawr College
in Penn sylvania, U. S. A. The meeting drew together about 70
specialists from both sides of the Atlantic and from Australasia,
who contributed discussions on various aspects of rock cleavage and
its formation. Even early in the meet ing it became clear to the
participants that they lacked a common terminol ogy, that often
the same technical word implied different things to different
people and that observables and descriptors were loosely defined.
In an at tempt to improve communication the present editors
contacted about 190 workers after the conference with a view to
compiling a set of photographs with captions to illustrate exactly
what workers were talking about. As a re sult the compilation was
published as a limited edition by an inexpensive offset process at
the University of Tasmania. The success of that provisional edition
of the Atlas of Rock Cleavage and the responses of the readers
prompted us to make a more extensive collection of material,
contact a wider range of workers and, with the support of Dr.
Konrad Springer, to publish the present higher-quality reproduction
of the contributors' plates.
In May 1976 Lucian B. Platt organized a highly successful Penrose
Confer ence on The Formation of Rock Cleavage at Bryn Mawr College
in Penn sylvania, U. S. A. The meeting drew together about 70
specialists from both sides of the Atlantic and from Australasia,
who contributed discussions on various aspects of rock cleavage and
its formation. Even early in the meet ing it became clear to the
participants that they lacked a common terminol ogy, that often
the same technical word implied different things to different
people and that observables and descriptors were loosely defined.
In an at tempt to improve communication the present editors
contacted about 190 workers after the conference with a view to
compiling a set of photographs with captions to illustrate exactly
what workers were talking about. As a re sult the compilation was
published as a limited edition by an inexpensive offset process at
the University of Tasmania. The success of that provisional edition
of the Atlas of Rock Cleavage and the responses of the readers
prompted us to make a more extensive collection of material,
contact a wider range of workers and, with the support of Dr.
Konrad Springer, to publish the present higher-quality reproduction
of the contributors' plates.