Structural Geology

Eldridge Moores (B.S. (with honor) Caltech 1959, Ph.D. Princeton 1963, D.Sc. (honorary) College of Wooster 1994) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geology at UC Davis (he has been a faculty member there since 1966).  He is a tectonicist/structural geologist.  He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications including several books, focusing mostly on (1) ophiolites (fragments of oceanic crust and mantle preserved in mountain belts); (2) the tectonics of California and neighboring regions; (3) tectonics of mountain ranges around the world; (4) Precambrian tectonics; and (5) public awareness of geology.  He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America, an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and a Member of the American Geophysical Union.  He received the first Geological Association of Canada Medal in 1994, was 1996 President of the Geological Society of America, and  2004-2008 Vice President of the International Union of Geological Sciences  A UC Davis student resident hall is named for him.  Moores was prominently featured in New Yorker writer John McPhee's best-selling book Assembling California (1993), and as part of the McPhee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former World (1999).