| Description | General correspondence of Dan McKenzie, Reader in Tectonics, later Professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, England, January-December 1985. The contents principally comprise various invitations and arrangements for McKenzie to attend symposia, serve on committees, give talks or write articles, requests for preprints, or permission to republish his papers, correspondence with publishers, or with fellow academics/scientists seeking McKenzie's opinion on their works, but also:
JANUARY 1985
Copy letter to Ouyang Zu Xi, Seismological Brigade, Beijing, China, sending instructions and computer programmes, 7 January 1985; letters concerning McKenzie's role on the Publications Committee of the Geological Society, including a possible reciprocal publications arrangement between the Society and the Société Géologique de France, and complaints over the time lag between a symposium and the publication of its papers in comparison to the Royal Society, 20 December 1984-15 January 1985; Michael 'Mike' Etheridge, Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics, Canberra, Australia, will be in Europe in the spring and would like to visit Cambridge to discuss his latest research on the structural evolution of extensional basins with McKenzie and his colleagues, 29 January 1985;
FEBRUARY 1985
Copy letter from McKenzie to Dr William Compston, Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, will be giving an address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh which is celebrating the 200th anniversary of James Hutton's address on the system of the earth, and would like to mention Compston's work on the age of zircons, 13 February 1985; brief letter from Charles Hepworth Holland, President of the Geological Society, London, England, regarding McKenzie's absence at the recent Council Meeting, 8 February 1985, with copy letter from McKenzie to Kenneth Coe, Secretary, Geological Society, discussing a proposed scientific meeting on 'two phase flow in the crust and mantle', 13 February 1985; James W Patton, Denver Research Center, Marathon Oil Company, Colorado, USA, has been reading McKenzie's papers on sedimentary basins and the formation of oil but finds that his calculations differ from those in the published papers, 19 February 1985, with copy and draft reply from McKenzie explaining that he had used different conductivity and compaction values, 28 February 1985;
MARCH 1985
Letters between Rob Van der Voo, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA and Chairman of the Bucher Committee (American Geophysical Union), and McKenzie, concerning a request for McKenzie to present the Bucher Medal at the spring or autumn meeting of the AGU to John Sclater, which McKenzie turns down as both meetings coincide with term time, 23 February-8 March 1985; P Burgess, Portsmouth Polytechinc Geological Society Secretary, Department of Geology, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Portsmouth, England, confirming McKenzie's visit to give a talk to the student society, but suggesting that he should instead do a presentation on a more useful subject such as 'Mantle compaction in igneous and sedimentary rocks', 4 March 1985, with brief copy reply from McKenzie withdrawing his offer, 11 March 1985; John Dewey, [University of Durham, England], thanking McKenzie for his congratulations on his being elected to the Royal Society, [?March 1985]; Richard 'Dick' Walcott, Geology Department, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, arrangements for McKenzie's visit in the summer, 19 March 1985; telex from Georges Balmino, Bureau Gravimetrique International, Toulouse, France, wishes to hold a small informal meeting on the GRADIO project at the next meeting of the IUG [?IUGG], 25 March 1985, with telex reply from McKenzie agreeing, 26 March 1985;
APRIL 1985
Robert 'Bob' Smith, Professor of Geophysics, Director, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, is planning some sabbatical leave and wishes to spend it at Cambridge to work on normal-faulting mechanics, bringing with him earthquake data from the Basin Range, 26 November 1984, with copy reply from McKenzie unsure if he has replied before but keen to talk to Smith about normal faulting although he has all but given up on the subject, 2 April 1985;
MAY 1985
Expenses form and programme for the conference 'Melt and the Mantle', held at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, USA, 28 April-1 May 1985; Richard 'Dick' Walcott, Geology Department, Victoria University of Wellington, regrets that McKenzie has to cancel his planned trip to New Zealand in the summer due to his wife's health, 27 May 1985;
JUNE 1985
Keith Priestley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California, USA, is glad that Allan Ryall has left the University of Nevada, Jim Brune has encouraged Priestly to spend more time at Scripps, has grant funding for a project with Bob Smith and George Thompson at Stanford for a detailed refraction experiment along the Nevada portion of the COCORP line, [n.d.]; Charles Hepworth Holland, President of the Geological Society of London, wishes to put forward McKenzie's name as a vice-president of the Society, 7 June 1985, with copy reply from McKenzie, is pleased to accept as the honour comes with virtually no responsibilities, jokes that he made up his mind a long time ago to never run anything if he could possibly do so, 14 June 1985;
JULY-AUGUST 1985
Letters between Christopher Hawkesworth, Department of Earth Sciences, Open University, Buckinghamshire, England, and McKenzie concerning a proposal for a new Geological Society journal on geological fluids, 13 June & 1 July 1985; D A Slade, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, would like to run an experiment to see if the theory of heat circulation in the mantle is correct by the use of boiling jam, but does not have the facilities and wonders if McKenzie is interested, 24 June 1985, with draft and copy reply from McKenzie stating that jam is likely to be a non-Newtonian substance and will not work, although he has undertaken experiments using Lyle's Golden Syrup, 2 July 1985 [see: White, D B, "The planforms and onset of convection with a temperature-dependent viscosity", 'Journal of Fluid Mechanics', vol 191 (1988), pp247-286]; letters mainly between McKenzie, Carl Savit, and Arthur 'Art' Maxwell, concerning an organised group visit to assess the facilities at the Institute of Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA, with recommendation reports, 22 January-26 July 1985; minutes of a meeting of the Royal Society's Brain Drain Task Group, held on 15 July 1985; photocopy of letter from McKenzie and Keith Runcorn, School of Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, to Mr H Fish, Chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Swindon, Wiltshire, England, requesting that the NERC do not proceed with the plan to appoint a Director of Earth Sciences as they feel that the individual would be out of touch with the current science, 29 July 1985;
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985
Letters between McKenzie and Richard 'Dick' Walcott, Geology Department, Victoria University of Wellington, and Kurt Lambeck, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, concerning a possible reschedulement of McKenzie's visit, 3 July-5 September 1985; copyright agreement with the Open University, 13 September 1985; copy letter from John Sclater to Drummond 'Drum' Matthews, Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge, England, providing brief details of the research work in the North Sea which will be undertaken by his students which may overlap with Nicky White, 18 September 1985; copy, draft letter from McKenzie concerning his suggestions for possible Honorary Fellowships of the Geological Society, 14 October [1985]; John Spray, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, England, has just been appointed as Professor of Metamorphic Petrology at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, thanks McKenzie for his support over the years as he doubts without it he would not have got this position, 16 October 1985; copy letter from McKenzie to Vidal Ashkenazi, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham, England, offering advice on possible applications to the Geodesy grants committee of NERC, of which McKenzie is a member, 21 October 1985;
NOVEMBER 1985
Copy letter from McKenzie to Warren Hamilton, Branch of Geophysics, United States Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, USA, correcting Hamilton's and other's misunderstanding of mechanism of extension and the elastic thickness of the lithosphere, 25 November 1985*; Rajeet Mitter, First Secretary (Culture and Science), High Commission India, London, England, congratulating McKenzie on his election as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, 21 November 1985, with copy reply from McKenzie, delighted to have been accepted, 28 November 1985;
DECEMBER 1985
Print out of McKenzie's entry in the database 'British Expertise in Science and Technology' produced by Longman Cartermill Ltd, St Andrews, Scotland, 4 December 1985. |