This spring I am teaching an advanced structural geology course and I've decided to focus on the structure of fold and thrust belts. I was wondering if any of you might have some "out of the box" insightful or inspirational background papers, ideas, or even historical quotes that might loosely pertain to the topic and that you are willing to share.

Some background as to the pedagogy and style: As an advocate of the field-side of our work and its pertinence to student training, I will be leading 3 field mapping  trips to various Ouachita and US Cordilleran FTB's. And, I like to emphasize the history of concept evolution; therefore, I'll have the students examine concepts of Suess and Argand, and the Peach and Horne maps/volume, as well as Rich's paper from 1934. I also highlight the major players, including, but not limited to, Price and Mountjoy's work, the mechanics of FTB's viz. Hubbert & Dahlen/Davis, etc., balancing via Dalhstrom, etc., and Suppe's models for fault-related folding, the delectable problem of strain viz. Ramsay's pubs., Etc. etc… Hopefully you will see that I'd like to emphasize the historical development of ideas while the students learn how to evaluate the quality of a cross section or interpret subsurface "real world" data.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions and warm regards for a peaceful 2015.

cheers,

Aaron