Abstract
AbstractAppointing R.C. Sprigg in 1949 as Head of the new Regional Mapping Section of the Geological Survey of South Australia was decisive to its rapid success and high national reputation. Sprigg had vast enthusiasm for all things in natural history and especially earth history, appreciation of the economic drive, the ability to frame deep and meaningful questions in feedback with geological mapping, strong grasp of the interplay between geo-structure and geo-history, and exemplary followthrough to completion (not invariably) as richly illustrated papers and regional and thematic maps. By age 35 he had changed the culture of South Australian geology and departed the GSSA. In 1954 Sprigg moved on to geological and biological exploration in a spirit of private enterprise in economic development. Others expanded the research programs although from time to time he revisited his early interests in the light of developments in the earth sciences, such as the revolution in continental drift and plate tectonics...
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