| RefNo | EC/1975/05 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIX, 153 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Brown, George Malcolm: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his researches on layered intrusions and studies on the melting relations of the Tertiary granitic rocks of Scotland and of calcalkaline volcanic rocks. His studies on the pyroxenes of layered intrusions, in particular, and his experimental work in this connection have given him an international reputation. He was responsible for the second half of the standard work on layered intrusions (Layered Igneous Rocks, Wager and Brown 1968), and provided the substantial section on the mineralogy of basaltic rocks in vol.1 of the treatise entitled "Basalts" (1967). His suggestion that the Tertiary granitic rocks originated largely by partial remelting of Lewisian basement rocks has received substantial support from more recent work on their strontium isotope ratios. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2137 | Brown; Sir; George Malcolm (1925 - 1997) | 1925 - 1997 |