Dedication

DEFORMATION MICROSTRUCTURES IN QUARTZO-FELDSPATHIC ROCKS

DEDICATION

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All four of us are very pleased to dedicate this contribution to our dear friend and respected colleague Win Means. Win has been an inspiration to us in so many ways. His textbooks and short course notes and tapes and CDs have allowed a huge improvement in the teaching of stress and strain and other aspects of structural geology. His thoughtful questions and insightful comments have helped so many of us to improve our manuscripts and to clarify our thinking about the problems we are working on. His talks are models of effective communication: at first they may appear deceptively simple, but Win actively engages and gently challenges his listeners, so that they really learn, and remember, something new.
Win's innovative and provocative 'see-through' experiments on analog materials have had an enormous impact on how we think about the evolution and significance of microstructures in experimentally and naturally deformed 'real rocks', where all we can observe is the final snapshot, the final state. In this contribution we have compiled 'snapshots' of naturally and experimentally produced deformation microstructures. By placing this collection of real rock microstructures on this CD, we hope that readers/viewers will be reminded of the 'real world', but at the same time encouraged to apply a 'Meansian' clear-sightedness to it. Of one thing we are sure: the way of seeing and understanding the real world through the examples of analogues, as Win has taught us, will inspire, inform and constrain our understanding of microstructures for some time to come.
Win is the most generous person we know with his time, as a teacher, mentor, reviewer, and friend, and he is unfailingly positive and constructive in his suggestions. It is good to know that it is possible to be a first rate scientist as well as a wonderful person. Thank you, Win, for the difference you have made, and continue to make, in our science and in our lives!

			DEFORMATION MICROSTRUCTURES IN QUARTZO-FELDSPATHIC ROCKS
			DEDICATION

			TABLE OF CONTENTS


			All four of us are very pleased to dedicate this contribution to our dear friend and respected colleague Win Means. Win has been an inspiration to us in so many ways. His textbooks and short course notes and tapes and CDs have allowed a huge improvement in the teaching of stress and strain and other aspects of structural geology. His thoughtful questions and insightful comments have helped so many of us to improve our manuscripts and to clarify our thinking about the problems we are working on. His talks are models of effective communication: at first they may appear deceptively simple, but Win actively engages and gently challenges his listeners, so that they really learn, and remember, something new. Win's innovative and provocative 'see-through' experiments on analog materials have had an enormous impact on how we think about the evolution and significance of microstructures in experimentally and naturally deformed 'real rocks', where all we can observe is the final snapshot, the final state. In this contribution we have compiled 'snapshots' of naturally and experimentally produced deformation microstructures. By placing this collection of real rock microstructures on this CD, we hope that readers/viewers will be reminded of the 'real world', but at the same time encouraged to apply a 'Meansian' clear-sightedness to it. Of one thing we are sure: the way of seeing and understanding the real world through the examples of analogues, as Win has taught us, will inspire, inform and constrain our understanding of microstructures for some time to come. Win is the most generous person we know with his time, as a teacher, mentor, reviewer, and friend, and he is unfailingly positive and constructive in his suggestions. It is good to know that it is possible to be a first rate scientist as well as a wonderful person. Thank you, Win, for the difference you have made, and continue to make, in our science and in our lives!