"Deign the entire concept with benign neglect".... "purge their tomes"!!
Falk, you are such a card! Is it true that you are actually Billy
Bunter,
and that you taught your mother to suck eggs? (:>) And do you still not
believe that a eugeosyncline is merely a scrunched up exogeosyncline?
Bill Church
ps. for 'orthotectonic' try the Dutchman De Sitter, 'Structural
Geology',
c. 1964, p. 14 if I remember rightly.
"Falk H. Koenemann" wrote:
> Oh boy. An orthogeosyncline is Hans Stille's preferred type of geosyncline,
> nothing else. And Hans Stille has been dead for many years. And a geosyncline is
> an obsolete concept. It was a concept that was developed before the discovery of
> plate margins.
>
> Deign the entire concept with benign neglect, and read a book like Moores &
> Twiss or something. But do not embarrass your German colleagues by mentioning
> Stille or his musings.
>
> And someone might suggest to the glossary compilers to purge their tomes.
>
> Falk Koenemann
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