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FRANCIS JOHN TURNER
Pages 357-370

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... the unforgettable human being. Francis John Turner was one of four boys born to a cIassics master at Aucklanc!
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... It was Professor Benson who encouragec! Frank to follow his own intense interest in the complex metamorphic rocks of New Zealanc!
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... to work with Dr. Eleanora Knopf, wife of Professor Adolph Knopf of Yale University, who was introducing the techniques of the European geologists, particularly those of Professors Walter Schmidt en c!
From page 360...
... Although he had returned to New Zealand, the friendships made and the interests that were nurtured in New Haven set the stage for his return to the United States. In 1946, after being encouraged to apply for the vacant position of director of the New Zealand Geological Survey and failing to be appointed, he accepted an invitation from Chairman Howell Williams to join the faculty at the University of California in Berkeley as an associate professor.
From page 361...
... geology in the Berkeley Hills, a summer field! camp in the California coast ranges, or the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, as well as a semester course in surveying.
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... The post-Woric! War II scientific expansion in the earth sciences stimulates!
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... laboratory deformations of cylincirical samples of marble in various orientations en c! at various temperatures, pressures, strains, en c!
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... , a corresponding member of the Geological Society of Edinburgh, a foreign member of the Geological Society of London, and a visiting fellow of Oxford University's Brasenose College (1972-73~. To a generation of geologists, his peers, colleagues, and students, Frank Turner was the most unforgettable person they ever met.
From page 365...
... Wenk. Presentation of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 1985 to Francis John Turner.
From page 366...
... 11~19861:12735. HONORS 1938 Sterling Fellow, Yale University 1950 Tohn Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 1951 Hector Medal, Royal Society of New Zealand 1956 Member, National Academy of Sciences Fulbright Fellow to Australia 1959 Tohn Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 1965 Honorary D.Sc., University of Auckland 1969 Lyell Medal, Geological Society of London President, Mineralogical Society of America 1971 Berkeley Citation, University of California Roebling Medal, Mineralogical Society of America
From page 367...
... New York: Geological Society of America. 1949 Preferred orientation of calcite 621.
From page 368...
... Deformation of Yule marble. Part III Observed fabric changes due to deformation at 10,000 atmospheres confining pressure, room temperature, dry.
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... 12:345-64. 1967 Thermodynamic appraisal of steps in progressive metamorphism of siliceous dolomitic limestones.


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