Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Moores, Eldridge M., 1938-
- Abstract:
- Eldridge M. Moores served as Professor of Geology at the University of California, Davis from 1966-2003. The collection contains correspondence, subject files, and course materials relating to his research and teaching in geology.
- Extent:
- 10 linear feet
- Language:
- Collection materials in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Eldridge M. Moores Papers, D-387, Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains correspondence, subject files, and course materials relating to his research and teaching in geology.
Arrangement of the CollectionThe collection is arranged in eight series: 1. Biographical Information, 2. Works by Moores, 3. Correspondence, 4. Subject Files, 5. Cyprus and Greece, 6. Course Materials, 7. Geological Society of America (GSA), and 8. Geologic History of the Feather River Country, California.
- Biographical / historical:
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Eldridge Morton Moores was born on October 13, 1938 in Phoenix, Arizona. He received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology (1959) and an M.A. (1961) and a Ph.D (1963) both from Princeton University.
From 1963-1966, Moores served as a Postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University working on a project concerning the Vourinois ophiolite complex in Northern Greece.
In 1966, he joined the faculty of the Department of Geology at the University of California, Davis. His research focused on tectonics, structural geology and petrology including: ophiolites of the western United States and Tethyan belt, geology of Greece, Cyprus, and Pakistan, and tectonic development of the Sierra Nevada and Alpine--Himalayan systems.
Professor Moores served as President of the Geological Society of America (GSA) in 1996 and editor of its journal, Geology, from 1981-1988.
Moores retired from UC Davis in 2003.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Eldridge Moores in 2003.
- Processing information:
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Processing of the Eldridge M. Moores Papers was generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). UC Davis Special Collections was awarded a Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from 2010-2012, "Uncovering California's Environmental Collections," in collaboration with eight additional special collections and archival repositories throughout the state and the California Digital Library (CDL). Grant objectives included processing hidden collections related to the state's environment and environmental history. The collections document an array of important sub-topics such as irrigation, mining, forestry, agriculture, industry, land use, activism, and research. Together they form a multifaceted picture of the natural world and the way it was probed, altered, exploited and protected in California over the twentieth century. Finding aids are made available through the Online Archive of California (OAC).
Sara Gunasekara processed this collection with assistance from student employee Michelle Xie.
- Physical location:
- Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright is protected by the copyright law, chapter 17, of the U.S. Code. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Eldridge M. Moores Papers, D-387, Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis.
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Davis, Special Collections, UC Davis Library100 NW QuadDavis, CA 95616-5292, US
- Contact:
- (530) 752-1621