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title="University of Wisconsin-Madison">University of Wisconsin-Madison</a> (MSc)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Imperial_College,_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial College, London">Imperial College, London</a> (PhD)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Murchison_Medal" title="Murchison Medal">Murchison Medal</a> (1968)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category">Structural geology</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data">Imperial College, London</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_G._Ramsay" title="John G. Ramsay">John G. Ramsay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neville_J._Price" title="Neville J. Price">Neville J. Price</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Gilbert Wilson</b> (5 March 1899 – 27 July 1986) was a British structural geologist, who was best known for his work on small-scale geological structures. He was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Murchison_Medal" title="Murchison Medal">Murchison Medal</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Society_of_London" title="Geological Society of London">Geological Society of London</a> in 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gilbert_Wilson_(geologist)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson was born in <a href="/wiki/Kendal" title="Kendal">Kendal</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/English_Lake_District" class="mw-redirect" title="English Lake District">English Lake District</a>, on 5 March 1899. He was the eldest son of civil engineer Norman Foster Wilson (1869–1948) and Henrietta Gwendolen Meryon, née Harris (b. 1876). His younger brothers were <a href="/wiki/Paul_Wilson,_Baron_Wilson_of_High_Wray" title="Paul Wilson, Baron Wilson of High Wray">Paul Wilson</a> (1908–1980), who was later a mechanical engineer and life peer, and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Meryon_Wilson" title="Edward Meryon Wilson">Edward Wilson</a> (1906–1977), who was later a Spanish scholar.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wilson first went to school in <a href="/wiki/Windermere,_Cumbria_(town)" title="Windermere, Cumbria (town)">Windermere</a>, where he was the youngest of five boys called 'Wilson', so was known as Wilson 'Quintus'.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, Wilson was educated at <a href="/wiki/Gresham%27s_School" title="Gresham's School">Gresham's School</a>, in Norfolk. After completing his schooling, Wilson spent two years serving with the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Tank_Regiment" title="Royal Tank Regiment">Tank Corps</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in France and Germany in 1918 and 1919. After the end of the <a href="/wiki/World_War_1" class="mw-redirect" title="World War 1">war</a>, Wilson went to <a href="/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a>, Montreal, Canada, to study for a degree in mining engineering and geology.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the McGill yearbook for 1924, Wilson identified his hobbies as "Tea, beer and mountains";<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> his love of mountains extended to some first ascents in the <a href="/wiki/Purcell_Mountains" title="Purcell Mountains">Purcell Mountains</a> of British Columbia.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Wilson graduated in 1925,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his interest in structural geology next took him to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States to study for a master's degree in geology. He worked with geologists <a href="/wiki/Charles_Kenneth_Leith" title="Charles Kenneth Leith">Charles Leith</a> and W.J. Mead, and learned new skills in identifying the 'way up' of ancient sedimentary rocks.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a student there, Wilson wrote a ‘theme song for structural geologists’ which he performed at the 1926 University of Wisconsin Geology Club Banquet, to the tune of <i><a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Dundee" title="Bonnie Dundee">Bonny Dundee</a></i>. This was later reproduced in an issue of the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Geological_Society" title="Edinburgh Geological Society">Edinburgh Geological Society</a>'s magazine. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>There are some rocks that flow while others get broke<span class="nowrap"> </span>...<br /> The stress is a force that we never quite see<br /> While the strain shows in such things as schistosity<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div></blockquote><p> Wilson graduated in 1926, and worked briefly in the mining industries in Canada, Yugoslavia, Russia and Africa, before heading to Imperial College, London, to study for a PhD. He completed his PhD in 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a student, Gilbert became the first president of the Imperial College mountaineering club in 1929, and in 1930 led a group from the club across the <a href="/wiki/Eiger" title="Eiger">Eiger</a> and the <a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6nch" title="Mönch">Mönch</a> in a day.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gilbert_Wilson_(geologist)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson taught for a while at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Reading" title="University of Reading">University of Reading</a>, and returned to Imperial College in 1939 as a lecturer in structural geology, teaching the concepts he had learned in Wisconsin. His lecturing style was engaging, and he has been described as a "supreme blackboard artist" since his blackboard drawings of geological features in coloured chalks were "works of art<span class="nowrap"> </span>... conveying the geometric concepts of structural geology".<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 1950s, Wilson's influence grew as he inspired new students to work in the discipline of structural geology.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto2_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilson's reputation was built on his recognition that the small-scale deformational structures that could be seen in the field in isolated rocky outcrops, would themselves reflect the larger but not directly observable regional structures. Wilson is credited with having brought this idea back from Wisconsin, to Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gilbert_Wilson_(geologist)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson married Lucile Terroux in 1927,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and they had a son, David (1938–2022)<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a daughter, <a href="/wiki/Corinne_Bennett" title="Corinne Bennett">Corinne</a> (1935–2010).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto3_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilson died in July 1986, aged 87. As a part of his bequest, he left £1500 to the <a href="/wiki/Geologists%27_Association" title="Geologists' Association">Geologists' Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_recognition">Awards and recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gilbert_Wilson_(geologist)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Awards and recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1953, Wilson was awarded the Lyell Fund of the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Society_of_London" title="Geological Society of London">Geological Society of London</a> "for his works on structural geology<span class="nowrap"> </span>... and studies of granitization and coastal geomorphology".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1968, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Murchison_Medal" title="Murchison Medal">Murchison Medal</a> of the Geological Society of London. </p><p>Wilson was made an honorary member of the <a href="/wiki/Geologists%27_Association" title="Geologists' Association">Geologists' Association</a> in 1975,<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Dumont_(geologist)" title="André Dumont (geologist)">Andre Dumont</a> medal of the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Society_of_Belgium" title="Geological Society of Belgium">Geological Society of Belgium</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gilbert_Wilson_(geologist)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Over the course of his career, Wilson published a number of research papers. He published a book during his retirement, which was based on a paper he had originally presented to the Geological Society of Belgium twenty years earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reviewers commented that the book was 'too late ... to get its due recognition', and the poor quality of the photos could have been improved by a 'chimpanzee with a snapshot camera'.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Book">Book</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gilbert_Wilson_(geologist)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Book"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWilsonCosgrove1982" class="citation book cs1">Wilson, Gilbert; Cosgrove, John W. (1982). <i>Introduction to Small-Scale Geological Structures</i>. George Allen & Unwin. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-94-011-6840-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-94-011-6840-3"><bdi>978-94-011-6840-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Introduction+to+Small-Scale+Geological+Structures&rft.pub=George+Allen+%26+Unwin&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=978-94-011-6840-3&rft.aulast=Wilson&rft.aufirst=Gilbert&rft.au=Cosgrove%2C+John+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGilbert+Wilson+%28geologist%29" class="Z3988"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Selected_papers">Selected papers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gilbert_Wilson_(geologist)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Selected papers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilson1946" class="citation journal cs1">Wilson, Gilbert (1946). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7878(46)80014-2">"The relationship of slaty cleavage and kindred structures to tectonics"</a>. <i>Proceedings of the Geologists' Association</i>. <b>57</b> (4): 263–302. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1946PrGA...57..263W">1946PrGA...57..263W</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0016-7878%2846%2980014-2">10.1016/S0016-7878(46)80014-2</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Proceedings+of+the+Geologists%27+Association&rft.atitle=The+relationship+of+slaty+cleavage+and+kindred+structures+to+tectonics&rft.volume=57&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=263-302&rft.date=1946&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1016%2FS0016-7878%2846%2980014-2&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1946PrGA...57..263W&rft.aulast=Wilson&rft.aufirst=Gilbert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1016%2FS0016-7878%2846%2980014-2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGilbert+Wilson+%28geologist%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilson1950" class="citation journal cs1">Wilson, Gilbert (1950). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.JGS.1950.106.01-04.19">"The tectonics of the Tintagel area, North Cornwall"</a>. <i>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society</i>. <b>106</b> (1–4): 393–432. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1144%2FGSL.JGS.1950.106.01-04.19">10.1144/GSL.JGS.1950.106.01-04.19</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Quarterly+Journal+of+the+Geological+Society&rft.atitle=The+tectonics+of+the+Tintagel+area%2C+North+Cornwall&rft.volume=106&rft.issue=1%E2%80%934&rft.pages=393-432&rft.date=1950&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1144%2FGSL.JGS.1950.106.01-04.19&rft.aulast=Wilson&rft.aufirst=Gilbert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1144%2FGSL.JGS.1950.106.01-04.19&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGilbert+Wilson+%28geologist%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilson1953" class="citation journal cs1">Wilson, Gilbert (1953). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7878(53)80012-X">"Mullion and rodding structures in the Moine Series of Scotland"</a>. <i>Proceedings of the Geologists' Association</i>. <b>64</b> (2): 118–151. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1953PrGA...64..118W">1953PrGA...64..118W</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0016-7878%2853%2980012-X">10.1016/S0016-7878(53)80012-X</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Proceedings+of+the+Geologists%27+Association&rft.atitle=Mullion+and+rodding+structures+in+the+Moine+Series+of+Scotland&rft.volume=64&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=118-151&rft.date=1953&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1016%2FS0016-7878%2853%2980012-X&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1953PrGA...64..118W&rft.aulast=Wilson&rft.aufirst=Gilbert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1016%2FS0016-7878%2853%2980012-X&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGilbert+Wilson+%28geologist%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilson1967" class="citation journal cs1">Wilson, Gilbert (1967). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7878(67)80043-9">"The geometry of cylindrical and conical folds"</a>. <i>Proceedings of the Geologists' Association</i>. <b>78</b> (1): 179–209. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1967PrGA...78..179W">1967PrGA...78..179W</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0016-7878%2867%2980043-9">10.1016/S0016-7878(67)80043-9</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Proceedings+of+the+Geologists%27+Association&rft.atitle=The+geometry+of+cylindrical+and+conical+folds&rft.volume=78&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=179-209&rft.date=1967&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1016%2FS0016-7878%2867%2980043-9&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1967PrGA...78..179W&rft.aulast=Wilson&rft.aufirst=Gilbert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1016%2FS0016-7878%2867%2980043-9&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGilbert+Wilson+%28geologist%29" 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