| Citation | Kennedy, William Quarrier (Edinburgh). D.Sc. Geological Survey.
Started work under the influence of P. Niggli, of Zurich, and in his first publications, 1929, 1931, dealt with interesting mineralogical and metasomatic problems encountered at Traversella, Italy. In Scotland he introduced a new and pregnant subject, composite lavas, 1931, and made many original contributions to mineralogy and the theory of magmas. Far more important, he helped to zone the Moines of Morat and to determine their relation to the Lewisian (1937, full publication delayed by the war), while, entirely on his own initiative, he developed a brilliant interpretation of the Great Glen Fault as a tear fault with sixty-four miles of horizontal displacement. Bibliography attached. |