Eldridge Moores, cello
Eldridge Moores cello

Eldridge Moores is Professor of Geology and author of several major books on the subject. He holds the Ph.D. from Princeton University (1963). His research focuses on tectonics and structural geology from Greece to the Sierra Nevada. Moores was 1996 president of the Geological Society of America. His other honors include the 1988 Geological Society of America Distinguished Service Award, the 1994 Geological Association of Canada Medal, and an honorary D. Sc. in 1997 from the College of Wooster. Additionally he is a highly regarded populist and pundit, subject, for example, of the best selling book Assembling California, published in 1993 by the New Yorker writer John McPhee.

 e-mail: eemoores@ucdavis.edu