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On the Trail of Professor Nick Rast,
Continued......
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The
students are introduced to the complexities of geological
structure by a bit of “legerdemain”in the field.
In today’s symposium Dr. Kevin Burke, a classmate of
Professor Rast at Imperial College, London, demonstrated
a two-handed technique to explain the movement of continental
size structures. The young and versatile Nick Rast long
ago seems to have perfected a one-handed method for explaining
both micro-and mega-structures.
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Time
out for a photograph on a field trip along the beach seems
to have inspired creative bursts of exuberance without malevolent
intent, however, as it turned out.
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Rast received his PhD degree from the University of Glasgow in 1956.
It was during this period that the youthful Tony Harris became one
of Nick’s students, and young Michael Kennedy, a student at Leeds
University arranged to have Dr. Rast as a member of his thesis committee.
Meanwhile in another part of the world, I received my PhD from Harvard
in 1953 and founded the undergraduate Department of Geology at Boston
College in 1957. Opportunity came knocking on Nick’s door three
times as he was recruited by the University of Liverpool in 1959 and
rose in the ranks to Reader in Geology from 1965-1971. |
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