Stephen Moorbath. 9 May 1929 — 16 October 2016
Stephen Moorbath was an intellectual with eclectic interests across the sciences and humanities. In 1939, as a ten-year-old, he fled from Germany to England with his father. Stephen spent almost the whole of the rest of his life—from schoolboy to university professor—in Oxford, where he became one o...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rsbm.2020.0016 2024-06-02T08:07:09+00:00 Stephen Moorbath. 9 May 1929 — 16 October 2016 Dewey, J. F. Taylor, P. N. 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2020.0016 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.2020.0016 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsbm.2020.0016 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/-/media/journals/author/Licence-to-Publish-20062019-final.pdf https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society volume 69, page 365-391 ISSN 0080-4606 1748-8494 journal-article 2020 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2020.0016 2024-05-07T14:16:26Z Stephen Moorbath was an intellectual with eclectic interests across the sciences and humanities. In 1939, as a ten-year-old, he fled from Germany to England with his father. Stephen spent almost the whole of the rest of his life—from schoolboy to university professor—in Oxford, where he became one of the world's leading isotope geochemists. His academic career began with setting up Europe's first radiometric rock and mineral dating laboratory. In this laboratory, together with numerous colleagues and students, he applied the lead–lead, rubidium–strontium, potassium–argon and, later, samarium–neodymium isotopic dating methods to the solution of many geological problems. He made major contributions in establishing the chronology for the geological and tectonic evolution of Precambrian crust in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, in West Greenland, Zimbabwe, South India, and Ghana. He developed isotopic criteria for assessing the relative contributions of mantle and crustal sources to Tertiary igneous rocks in Scotland, Andean volcanics and the late Archaean granitoids of West Greenland. He established dating methods for sedimentary rocks: Rb–Sr for shales and Pb/Pb for Archaean limestone. Stephen's abiding geological passion was the study of the early Archaean, especially the Godthåbsfjord and Isukasia areas of West Greenland. Article in Journal/Newspaper Godthåbsfjord Greenland The Royal Society Greenland Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 69 365 391 |
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Stephen Moorbath was an intellectual with eclectic interests across the sciences and humanities. In 1939, as a ten-year-old, he fled from Germany to England with his father. Stephen spent almost the whole of the rest of his life—from schoolboy to university professor—in Oxford, where he became one of the world's leading isotope geochemists. His academic career began with setting up Europe's first radiometric rock and mineral dating laboratory. In this laboratory, together with numerous colleagues and students, he applied the lead–lead, rubidium–strontium, potassium–argon and, later, samarium–neodymium isotopic dating methods to the solution of many geological problems. He made major contributions in establishing the chronology for the geological and tectonic evolution of Precambrian crust in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, in West Greenland, Zimbabwe, South India, and Ghana. He developed isotopic criteria for assessing the relative contributions of mantle and crustal sources to Tertiary igneous rocks in Scotland, Andean volcanics and the late Archaean granitoids of West Greenland. He established dating methods for sedimentary rocks: Rb–Sr for shales and Pb/Pb for Archaean limestone. Stephen's abiding geological passion was the study of the early Archaean, especially the Godthåbsfjord and Isukasia areas of West Greenland. |
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