Re: Aetogate: new review

[mkirkaldy@aol.com]

These two gentlemen should have recused themselves from the hearing.  
With all due respect, it would be hard to be impartial when the accused 
has dedicated a book to you:
____

Geology of the Zuni Plateau
Editors: Spencer G. Lucas, Steven C. Semken, William R. Berglofm, Dana 
S. Ulmer-Scholle
New Mexico Geological Society, Fifty-fourth Annual Field Conference, 
September 24-27, 2003

DEDICATION
With great pleasure, I dedicate this book to one of the foremost 
students of the geology of west-central New Mexico, Orin Anderson. <â>

I began to work with Orin in 1988 on that west-central New Mexico field 
conference. < â> In my mind, he joins that short list of the great 
students of the geology of west-central New Mexico, which now includes 
Clarence Dutton, Julyan D. Sears, Charles Maxwell and Orin Anderson.
--Spencer G. Lucas
____

Lucas, S.G. and Spielmann, J.A., eds., 2007, The Global Triassic. New 
Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 41.
DEDICATION TO NORMAN J. SILBERLING AND E. TIMOTHY TOZER
It is both an honor and a pleasure to dedicate this volume to Norm 
Silberling and Tim Tozer, two of the great knights errant of the 
Triassic timescale.  <â>

I (Spencer Lucas) worked with Norm in Sonora, Mexico, during the 
mid-1990s. Together, we collected the first Early Triassic ammonites 
found in Mexico, and Norm brought great clarity and wise caution to 
interpretation of the structural morass of the Caborca terrane from 
which lesser observers have mostly conjured tectonic fantasy. I can 
truly say that Norm is a fine gentleman and a gentle soulâsoft spoken 
and well spoken, but with a penetrating intellect and vast experience 
that made him one the most valuable field collaborators of my career.
____

Mary

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Sent: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:52 am
Subject: Aetogate: new review
<...>
The review is being held behind closed doors -- no outside observers
will be present.  The two scientists who have been brought in to
review the allegations (Orin Anderson and Norm Silberling) are both
former Lucas collaborators.  Neither of them is a vertebrate
palaeontologist.
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