northern end of the South Island, the Hikurangi subduction margin terminates where the Alpine fault
system emerges on-shore as a transpressional feature. This transition has resulted in a complex inter-
play between structural processes and landscape development. One of the products of the structural
activity is a series of rectangular basins. These basins are bound by actively growing fold structures,
some of which have been faulted. In this presentation we will look at some of the structural, sedi-
mentologic, and geomorphic features associated with these basins. We will also look at a number of
the other products of plate boundary deformation in New Zealand.
My bio:
I completed my undergraduate degree in geology at the University of Colorado in 1981 and then
went to work as a mud-logger, mostly in the Powder River basin. After a year I returned to graduate
school at the University of Wyoming. I took classes there for 1.5 years until my advisor transferred
to MIT and I did too! In 1988 I completed my PhD at MIT. My thesis work was on the tectonics
(structure, petrology, geochronology) of the Himalayas, specifically the Everest region of Nepal. I
was awarded a NATO post-doc position which I used in Switzerland at the ETH where I worked on
structural problems in the Alps and the Pakistani Himalayas. In 1990 I started teaching at the Uni-
versity of Maine, where I worked until coming to K-State in 1996.
Dr. Hubbard will present a technical talk to the Society on May 13 th.
logical Society lost a long-time member and the profession an outstanding geologist.
Gordon was born in Hopewell, Kansas in 1930. During the Korean War, Gordon enlisted
in the U.S. Navy and following his time in the service he enrolled at Wichita State graduat-
ing in 1956.
Following graduation he pursued a career as a petroleum geologist. For a period while re-
siding in Wichita, he worked for Imperial Oil of Kansas. Prior to his death he had worked
with Jim Molz of Kiowa for 24 years, particularly in very successfully developing prospects
and drilling wells in those Kansas counties just north of the Oklahoma border. Gordon was
also the owner of his own company, KBW, which he sold recently. For quite a few years
Gordon and his family had resided in the Oklahoma City area..
Gordon had a great love of flying, holding both a pilot's and a flight instructor's license
It also has been noted that he took great pleasure in following his grandchildren in all their
athletic pursuits.
A service for Gordon was held on March 16 and a memorial has been established with the
Kansas Geological Foundation.