Paradoxes in geology / Парадоксы в геологии

This volume is dedicated to Kenneth Jingwah Hsfi, Professor emeritus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zfirich). It collects the proceedings of the Symposium on "Paradoxes in Modern Geology", held in Beijing on the 13th and 14th September 1999, to honour his 70th birthday.
Paradox, as stated by the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, is a "statement that seems to say the opposite of common sense or the truth, but which may contain a truth". It seems to me very typical of Ken Hsfi, a "scholar" of Popper, not to search for the truth, but to try to find fault in generally accepted views. As a result, controversies eventually end up as paradoxes. Unfortunately the scientific community has not always been open to Ken's paradoxical ideas and the degree of frustration was varying through time, as he himself reports in the last chapter of this volume. <...>