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2017 Honorary Fellows GSA is pleased to announce the selection of the Society’s
2017 Honorary Fellows.

Zvi Garfunkel, Hebrew Garfunkel’s research dealt with major geologic, mainly tectonic
and geodynamic, processes. He contributed to the early study of
University of Jerusalem, Israel the retreat of subducted slabs (roll-back or retrograde subduction)
Zvi Garfunkel was born in and its importance for mantle circulation. Most of his work
focused on processes that shaped the Middle East and adjacent
Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1938. He sur- basins: Cenozoic rifting and continental breakup in the Middle
vived the Holocaust and immigrated East, focusing on the Dead Sea Transform (DST)—the plate tec-
to Israel in 1948. He is married and tonic framework, history and structure, relation to flank uplifting,
has one daughter. seismic activity, and the influence of vertical motions accompany-
ing the DST formation on landscape evolution. He recognized that
Garfunkel earned a Ph.D. in the DST was a “weak” plate boundary before this concept was
geology in 1970 from the Hebrew applied to other major strike-slip faults. Garfunkel structures are
University of Jerusalem. Since 1972, he has been a member of the associated with major strike-slip faults, especially pull-aparts, and
faculty of the Institute of Earth Sciences there (full professor in the geometry of deformation by sets of such faults and associated
1986; emeritus since 2007). From 1988 to 2007, he served as the block rotations on vertical axes (including the Mojave Desert).
R. Kravis Chair in geology. He also served as president of the Other work dealt with the setting of igneous activity and its rela-
Geological Society of Israel. He was a member of the academic tions with young rifts, the associated changes in lithospheric geo-
board of Azrieli, the Jerusalem College of Engineering, from therms, and how deep intrusions may influence uplifting and sub-
2000 to 2006. In 2006, Garfunkel was awarded the EMET prize sidence. He documented a large uplift produced by Early
for Science, Art, and Culture, which was bestowed upon him by Cretaceous activity in the Levant, a feature rarely reported for
the Prime Minister of Israel. pre-Cenozoic volcanism, and noted that this marked the begin-
ning of an age progression of volcanics extending to Sudan—one
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Garfunkel also studied the formation of the East Mediterranean
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all 2018 GSA Memberships. continental margin. He found that the Neogene development of
the Eastern Mediterranean was dominated by still active large-
scale slumping and deformation of the Messinian evaporates and
the overlying sediments. Other works clarified the history of the
Pan-African basement next to the Northern Red Sea, and analyzed
the large-scale structure and plate tectonic setting of the Pan
African and the fringing Cadomian orogens. He also studied the
relationships between flood volcanism and to the lithosphere, and
the formation foreland basins.

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