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Preface Remarks to the Reynolds’ Commemorative Volume

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This volume of American Mineralogist commemorates the scientific work of Robert C. Reynolds Jr. The articles in this commemorative volume show the wide area of clay research impacted by Bob’s own contributions. These range from the crystallography of clay minerals; to weathering processes; to the diagenetic and hydrothermal alteration and growth of various clay minerals and their geologic ramifications; to the interpretation of the dating and isotopic geochemistry of clays. Many of the papers were presented orally at the annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Reno in 2000 at a technical session that accompanied his receipt of the Mineralogical Society of America’s most prestigious award, the Roebling Medal, which is presented annually to the scientist whose lifetime published research has significantly advanced the mineralogical sciences.

Bob was born October 4, 1927, and was in a high school class of 17 outside Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was a basketball star. After a stint in the Army Air Force, he met and married RoseAnn, his lifetime companion, supporter, and even lab assistant. Then he graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and went to Washington University (St. Louis) to obtain a PhD for a thesis on the metamorphism of olivine gabbros in Norway. He joined the prestigious research team at Pan American Oil Co. in Tulsa, where he commenced his lifelong scholarship on the geologic occurrence and mysterious crystallography of the illite-smectite (I-S) family of clay minerals with his close friend and research colleague, John Hower. In petroleum source-rock shales, this common mineral of the Earth’s surface undergoes increases in illite content over the same diagenetic regime of low temperature and pressure in which petroleum is generated in the same shales.

Bob joined Dartmouth College in 1960 and enjoyed a long . . . [Full Text of this Article]