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Nature 388, 524 (7 August 1997) |
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Obituary: Drummond Hoyle Matthews (1931-97)
Robert S. White1
The plate-tectonics revolution of the late 1960s was one of the most fundamental changes in the way that we view the geology of the Earth: at a stroke it turned our thoughts from local up-and-down motions of mountains and geosynclines (sedimentary basins), to the astonishingly rapid (on geological and even human timescales) horizontal motions of the lithospheric plates that continually create and destroy vast ocean basins, volcanic chains and mountain belts. Drummond Matthews, who died of a heart attack on 20 July, lived through — and was himself one of the chief architects of — this quantum leap in our understanding of the world.
- Robert S. White is at the Bullard Laboratories, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OEZ, UK.
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