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Dewey elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy

MAR 17, 2008

AGU member John F. Dewey of the geology department at University of California, Davis , has been elected an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy (15th March, 2008).

Dewey is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and researches structural geology and tectonics from the small-scale materials science of deformed rocks to the large-scale origin of topography and structures.

His current research is on the rock fabrics and structures of transpression and transtension especially in California, New Zealand, Norway, Ireland and Newfoundland.

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Paul Guinnessy, pguinnes@aip.org

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