George Gaylord Simpson Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson's fieldwork in South America helped unravel any number of geological mysteries related the the then-nascent theory of plate tectonics. As I write this, just before going to bed, the Patagonian wind is living up to its reputation.
Waves roar on the beach.
The tent billows and snaps and then strains with the guy ropes humming, but perhaps it will stand up. The strongest wind I have ever seen was blowing on the barranca today. I was knocked down and almost blown over the cliff. At one time going into the wind down a slope too steep to stand on at all ordinarily, we could walk leaning forward at an apparently fatal angle, supported by the constant gale in our faces. There could hardly be a more curious sight or a stranger sensation.