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IN MEM ORY 89strike-slip deformation as, perhaps, the dominant tectonicmech a nism was also de vel oped by sev eral other au thorsand col leagues, and in the 1990s was the sub ject of sev eralPolish and international research projects.Pro fes sor Józef Oberc had the un usual abil ity to seege ol ogy “as a whole”. This is dem on strated by his abil ityto use any of the geo log i cal subdisciplines for de tailed re -search and yet also have the abil ity to pres ent grand geo -log i cal syn the ses. This tal ent also con trib uted to the suc -cess and the in cred i ble qual ity of his lec tures on gen eral ge -ol ogy (known as “dy namic ge ol ogy” in Po land), be tween1952 and 1996. His own ex cel lent field skills he passed onfor over thirty years as he or ga nized field courses andtaught his stu dents how to over come the dif fi cul ties thatthey would face as field ge ol o gists. It is a won der ful tes ta -ment to Pro fes sor Oberc that many of his for mer stu dentsnow oc cupy se nior po si tions in a va ri ety of ac a demic andscientific institutions, as well as in many geological compa -nies. Through his scientific, pedagogical, and professionaldu ties, Pro fes sor Oberc quickly be came, and re mained, ama jor in flu ence in Pol ish ge ol ogy for much of the sec ondhalf of the 20 th cen tury. He will be re mem bered as a trulygifted ge ol o gist and teacher and as a great friend who willnever be for got ten by those of us lucky enough to haveknown him.Ryszard Kryza (Uni ver sity of Wroc³aw)Andrzej ¯elaŸniewicz (Pol ish Acad emy of Sci ences