Rocknocker A Geologist Memoir 1 George Devries Klein
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Rocknocker A Geologist’s Memoir reviews the life of George Devries Klein, an immigrant who made it through the American System as a geologist. It chronicles his life from early childhood, graduate school, working as an oil company researcher, university professor, science administrator, and as a geological consultant. The book includes the highs and lows of George’s life. Each chapter also summarizes key lessons learned making the book even more useful to young scientists as a career guide. Isolated incidents relevant to the book, but shortened, are included as postscripts at the end of each chapter. A highly informative read that shows what is needed to develop a productive career in the sciences.
About the Author
George Devries Klein is a widely respected geologist, both in academe and the petroleum industry. Born in 1933 in the Netherlands, he immigrated to the USA in 1947. He graduated from Mamaroneck Senior High School and earned his BA, MA, and PhD in geology from Wesleyan University, The University of Kansas, and Yale University, respectively.
His career spanned work as a research geologist at Sinclair Research, Inc., followed by service as a faculty member at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Illinois @Urbana-Champaign, where he was a full professor from 1972 to 1993. He served as President of the New Jersey Marine Science Consortium and as New Jersey State Sea Grant Director and then formed his own consulting company, SED-STRAT Geoscience Consultants, Inc., in 1996.
He is best known for his research on tidal sedimentology, proposing the “Tidalite” concept. He authored over 350 refereed papers, abstracts and reports, including 11 reference books, and one novel, Dissensions. His publications include the book Sandstone Depositional Models for Exploration for Fossil Fuels and a widely-used Wall Chart on “Vertical Sequences and Log Shapes of Major Sandstone Reservoir Systems”.
His consulting client work is in the US Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Coast, Illinois basin, Appalachian basin, Angola, Senegal, South Africa, East Africa, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Romania, Russia, and the eastern Mediterranean. He has discovered, either solo or as part of consulting teams, approximately 160 Million Barrels of oil and 3 Trillion Cubic Feet of natural gas. He currently resides with his wife, Suyon (originally from Seoul, Korea), in Sugar Land, Texas.
Rocknocker A Geologist Memoir 1 George Devries Klein
Most of the reviews seem to be from people who have personally worked with Mr. Klein, but extremely useful and interesting book even if you aren't personally acquainted with the cast of characters. For me as a high school student interested in becoming an research/exploration geologist, it has illuminated both key lessons and interesting highlights of just such a career.Product details
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Rocknocker A Geologist Memoir 1 George Devries Klein Reviews
Klein is a titan in the field of Geology. His greatest contributions include his work on modern and ancient tidal rhythmites, his work on repeating coal bearing sequences called cyclothems, and his work on modern sediments on deep ocean research cruises. He mentored a number of geologists and raised the bar for geoscience research at the University of Illinois in Champaign.
His book, Rocknocker,is a 400 plus page epic that follows his life's journey both inside and outside the field. He called it like he saw it. George has an incredible memory and can recall minute details of virtually every conversation and incident and it is amazing he wrote the entire book in his six week recuperation time from hip replacement surgery.
It has been a joy to know George over the years and he still looks great. George is a friend and colleague and an academician not afraid to challenge the ideas of fellow petroleum geoscientists. Presently, George is a successful consultant in the petroleum sector of the Gulf Coast.
My husband was also a professor at University of Illinois during 1966-1972. We knew most of the people mentioned in the book.. This book brought back many memories of those days and our youth. The book is extremely well written. Thank you Dr. Klein
This autobiography by well-known sedimentologist/geologist and world traveler George de Vries Klein should be of interest to anybody in the world of geology. After an early childhood in Holland and Australia the author describes his higher eduction in the USA (Wesleyan, Kansas, Yale), his long academic career in the 1960's-1980's (mainly at University of Illinois)and finally life as a petroleum industry consultant. The 'lessons learned' at the end of each chapter will undoubtedly be useful for starting or early career geologists, especially on the politics in the academic world (too late for a retired guy like me). I would have liked to see a bit more on the geoscience discoveries and debates of the time (maybe for a volume 2?) and less on personal contacts, but I still enjoyed reading all 430 pages.
In Rocknocker A Geologist's Memoir, author George Klein reviews his life, naming names and sparing nobody--from university presidents to departmental secretaries--telling things exactly as he thinks they happened. Beginning with his early childhood in the Netherlands, he progresses through a stint in Australia and ultimately winds up in the United States where he graduates from Wesleyan University.
Thereafter, readers are treated to a dramatic, intensely detailed, far more-than-frank review of his graduate student career at Johns Hopkins, Kansas and Yale followed by pernicious faculty gamesmanship at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Klein also gives an account of life in the Sinclair Research Laboratory, his short reign as Director of the New Jersey Marine Science Consortium and, finally, his life as a solitary consultant. Excepting Sinclair, all the organizations he worked for appear burdened with outmoded and unproductive staffs, the inability to reform and the reputation of being hotbeds of Machiavellian intrigue--which Klein valiantly attempts to correct before his ultimate departure--voluntary or otherwise. And, the organizations remain sadly mired in ooze after his departure.
However, it is important to note that Klein doesn't tell all. Indeed, at Illinois I remember many equally interesting stories that he chooses not to remember. And, while Klein presents one version of hotly contested issues, there was always another, or several other sides to these conflicts. In this regard, students of psychology may find interesting data regarding the mores of research universities.
Klein also claims to have written the book entirely from memory while recuperating from hip surgery. This appears extremely doubtful given that literally hundreds of stories, ranging from the trivial to the highly significant, are crammed into 431 pages. Klein was notorious for maintaining a dossier on all of his colleagues, correspondents and associates. In addition, although the book closes with an overview of his first and fourth marriages, Klein never even mentions wives two and three. Those who wish may speculate. In addition, the apparently unedited book contains many minor errors of fact and remains marred by repetition.
That said the book presents a valuable picture of life in geological academia through a time of major upheaval. It also illuminates the evolution of sedimentology during the last half of the twentieth century.
Ralph L. Langenheim
An interesting book by an interesting person (an acquaintance).
Most of the reviews seem to be from people who have personally worked with Mr. Klein, but extremely useful and interesting book even if you aren't personally acquainted with the cast of characters. For me as a high school student interested in becoming an research/exploration geologist, it has illuminated both key lessons and interesting highlights of just such a career.
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