| Description | Working file entitled 'Red Sea with Dai & Pete', relating to the paper: McKenzie, D and D Davies & P Molnar, "Plate tectonics of the Red Sea and East Africa", 'Nature', vol 226 (1970), pp243-248.
The contents of the file includes: Offprint of the published paper; orthographic projection of the West/East Africa palaeopole*; computer data sets; typescript copy of report, "East African Geological Research Unit Kenya Rift Valley Project", 1970; computer generated geographical projections of the area around the Red Sea*, with annotations including locations of seismic activity and strike slip faults; photocopies of the Smithsonian Institution's "Event information report" on the Red Sea earthquake, March-April 1969, and Ethiopian Rift earthquake, March-April 1969; two manuscript letters and earthquake and palaeomagnetic pole data from Peter 'Pete' Molnar, [1969]; draft list of suggested published figures by McKenzie; letter from Norman Leslie Falcon, convenor of the discussion meeting 'The Structure and Evolution of the Red Sea and the Nature of the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Ethiopian Rift Junction', held at the Royal Society, London, 27-29 March 1969, concerning what will appear in the published proceedings of the symposium, 18 August 1969, with copy reply from McKenzie, 21 August 1969; copy letter to Paul Mohr, Smithsonian Institution, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, from David 'Dai' Davies, regarding Mohr's criticisms of the Red Sea paper, with another typescript draft of the official response, [May 1970], see also LDGSL/1107/A/1/10. |
| Administrative History | The paper is likely to be based on the presentation by McKenzie (with contributions by David 'Dai' Davies), "The development of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in relation to plate tectonics" given at the discussion meeting 'The Structure and Evolution of the Red Sea and the Nature of the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Ethiopian Rift Junction', held at the Royal Society, London, 27-29 March 1969. Therefore see also LDGSL/1107/B/2/5. |