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"Continental Drift - Colliding Continents, Converging Cultures" .................................................................................................. |
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Book Review (Resource Geology, Japan). .................... Constantin Roman, born in Romania, is a geophysicist with a Ph. D. from the University of Cambridge. He is a Professor Honoris Causa of the University of Bucharest, an international energy adviser to famous companies and a Personal Adviser to the President of Romania. In particular, in the middle 1960s to early 1970s, he has brought new ideas and tectonic solutions to the plate tectonics by the introduction of the concept of "non-rigid" plates or "buffer" plates - now called "continuums" - a concept which is still valid today. Constantin Roman’s research was carried out in an inspiring scientific environment at Cambridge under the guidance of Prof. Sir E. Bullard, a scientist of world repute for the first mathematical model of the Atlantic reconstruction ("Bullard’s Fit"). At that time, Cambridge was a place for challenging and up-to-date ideas in Geodesy and Geophysics, which attracted visiting professors and scientists from Canadian, Japanese and American universities, and gave enormous impulses, for examples, Vine and Matthews evolved the concept of "sea-floor spreading", Tuzo Wilson devised the dynamics of "transform faults". On this fertile ground, Roman received an unexpected educational evolution and scientific convictions. In order to find tectonic solutions to the occurrences of seismicity in the Carpathians and Central Asia, he gave an original definition to the plate boundary in a continental lithosphere, and also defined a new type of plates. Several examples of "non-rigid" or "buffer" plates were recognised in the continental crust of Eurasia, particularly in the areas behind the Himalaya-Tibet and Sinkiang. He developed a new tectonic model for the European part of the investigated area, based on the assumption of a piece of an oceanic lithosphere sinking vertically under the continental crust of the Carpathians. I met Roman several times in Europe. He has many good stories to point out. "Continental Drift" is not only a scientific book but a fund of cultural information as well as on the subject of the European events after the Second World War, complemented by a series of his impression through the plate tectonics. Professor Masaaki Shimizu, Dept of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Toyama University. |
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