STUDY OF GEOLOGY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 10

STUDY OF GEOLOGY

4 .. Research Work in Britain i NEW ZEALAND MATERIALS Advanced study and research work- in geology has been done in Great Britain during the past twelve months by Professor W. N. Benson, professor of geology at the University of Otago, who returned to Wellington jv tlie Marama from Sydney yesterday. While abroad, Professor Benson attended several important scientific and iwlncational conferences. i He was present at the congress of the British. Association for tlid Advancement of Science, held in Aberdeen; the conference of the International Institute of Intellectual Co,-op-eration, held in Paris, on the subject of collective security and at which lie represented the New Zealand brunch of the Institute of Pacific Relations; the international conference of University teachers, held at Oxford, at which he represented the Universities of Otago and New Zealand. Professor Benson also attended this month’s congress in Melbourne of the New Zealand and Australian Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Benson said that for a number of years past lie had been doing researches into various phases of New Zealand geology, anil had gone to Great Britain under a Carnegie Corporation fellowship to complete the study of New Zealand ’ materials in comparison with tlie collection at the British Museum. The result had been to place on a firm footing the sequence and fauna of the fossiliferous rocks in New Zealand with those of Australia and Great Britain. This was- of considerable importance to structural geology. Much of the work done had been in collaboration with the geological survey. The second part; of the work was the study of the geology of the Dunedin area, which seemed to throw considerable light on the general processes of volcanic action and I the origin of the different "types of volcanic rocks. Professor Benson left for the south last night.