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Introduction
WOLLASTON MEDAL—Ted Irving whose seminal contributionson palaeomagnetism paved the way to the final proof of the realityof continental drift and subsequently the development of platetectonic theory.Fig 1
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Fig. 1 Ted Irving
LYELL MEDAL—Michael James Benton for his systematic workon archosaurs and rhynchosaurs of the Triassic, and our understandingof mass extinction events.Fig 2
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Fig. 2 Michael James Benton
MURCHISON MEDAL—Christopher Scholz for his important workat the interface between rock mechanics and earthquake seismology,combining laboratory study of friction and brittle deformationwith observational seismologyFig 3
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Fig. 3 Christopher Scholtz
WILLIAM SMITH MEDAL—Robert Knipe for his empirical approachto structural problems and their implication for oil explorationand extraction, the physical and chemical behaviour of rocksduring deformation, pioneering use of microstructural analysisand its integration into larger-scale tectonic evolution.Fig 4
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Fig. 4 Robert Knipe
COKE MEDALS
Michael Brown for his contribution to our understanding of howheat and mass are transferred within continents, his researchwithin high-pressure and paired metamorphic belts, and his workon international bodies and editorial boards.Fig 5
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Fig. 5 Micheal Brown
David Gwyn Roberts whose pioneering work on the structure ofthe Rockall Plateau shed light on the early opening of the NEAtlantic and the evolution of volcanic and non-volcanic riftedmargins.Fig 6
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Fig. 6 David Gwyn Roberts
PRESTWICH MEDAL—Geoffrey Russell Coope for his work asfounder and main exponent of the study of Pleistocene insectfaunas.Fig 7
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Fig. 7 Geoffrey Russel Coope
BIGSBY MEDAL—Jonathan Blundy for major contributions toexperimental and theoretical . . . [Full Text of this Article]
