In May 1976 Lucian B. Platt organized a highly successful Penrose
Confer ence on The Formation of Rock Cleavage at Bryn Mawr College
in Penn sylvania, U. S. A. The meeting drew together about 70
specialists from both sides of the Atlantic and from Australasia,
who contributed discussions on various aspects of rock cleavage and
its formation. Even early in the meet ing it became clear to the
participants that they lacked a common terminol ogy, that often the
same technical word implied different things to different people
and that observables and descriptors were loosely defined. In an at
tempt to improve communication the present editors contacted about
190 workers after the conference with a view to compiling a set of
photographs with captions to illustrate exactly what workers were
talking about. As a re sult the compilation was published as a
limited edition by an inexpensive offset process at the University
of Tasmania. The success of that provisional edition of the Atlas
of Rock Cleavage and the responses of the readers prompted us to
make a more extensive collection of material, contact a wider range
of workers and, with the support of Dr. Konrad Springer, to publish
the present higher-quality reproduction of the contributors'
plates."
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