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Tom Vallance Medal (2011 - )

Geological Society of Australia

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2011
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Award
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Summary

The Tom Vallance Medal was inaugurated in 2011 by the Earth Sciences History Group of the Geological Society of Australia, and has been awarded in alternate years since 2012. It recognises people who have made a "significant contribution to researching, recording, investigating, documenting and/or publishing about people or places or events of historical importance to the geological sciences in Australia or Australasia". Thomas G. Vallance, Associate Professor at the University of Sydney from 1965 to 1989, was a noted petrologist and historian of the geology in the Australasian region.

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  • Grosser, Michelle; and Joyce, Bernie, 'Vallance Medal [awarded to Tom Darragh]', TAG: the Australian geologist, 180 (2016), 16. Details

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