Eldridge M. Moores holds a Ph.D. from Princeton and is a UC of Davis Distinguished Professor Emeritus. President of the Geological Society of America, 1996. Tectonics, structural geology and petrology; ophiolites of western U.S. and Tethyan belt, geology of Greece, Cyprus, and Pakistan; tectonic development of Sierra Nevada and Alpine--Himalayan systems. Recent projects include geology and tectonics of the northern Sierra Nevada; processes of ophiolite emplacement; tectonics of spreading centers; late Precambrian correlations between Antarctica and North America; and late Precambrian environmental change. Co-author of “Bedrock, Writers on the Wonders of Geology,” (Trinity University Press, 2006) “Structural Geology,” (W.H. Freeman, 2006) and “Tectonics,” (W.H. Freeman, 1995