Figures & data
Figure 1. Professor Ron Pickerill in 1983, on sabbatical leave at the University of Liverpool. Ron would write his papers longhand and then have them typed. An inspection of his published output (Appendix) affirms the effectiveness of this methodology. Image by S.K.D.
Figure 2. May 1990, the Jamaican spring rainy season. The figure on the other side of this tropical river in spate is Ron, who has just swum across to get a good look at the soles of the sandstone beds. When he swam back, he was quite matter-of-fact in saying there was little of interest. Neither S.K.D. nor Hal Dixon offered to swim with Ron. Image by S.K.D.
Figure 3. The collaboration between Ron and S.K.D. extended out of the Antilles and into the Silurian of North America in the mid-1990s. Spring, 1994, the North Central regional meeting of the Geological Society of America and a field excursion to the Silurian of the huge Thornton Quarry in Illinois. Attendees were told to anticipate mild spring weather, but the expression on Ron’s face (right) tells the truth of the tale. Image by S.K.D.
Figure 4. Ron (center) and the speakers at the session in his honor, GAC-MAC annual joint meeting in Fredericton in May 2014. Left to right: David Keighley, Davinia Dieƶ Canseco, Robert MacNaughton, Ron Pickerill, Stephen Donovan and Murray Gingras.
