The ways of influence of major scientists on the development of science are different. It is believed that the primary role in this plays a personal contribution of the scientist, especially weighty when the scientist successfully develops not only the traditional directions of his branch of knowledge, but also seeks (and finds!) in it new untrodden paths ...

The long domination in Soviet geotectonics of ideas about the sharp predominance of vertical movements over horizontal movements in the Earth's crust led to the fact that the doctrine of strike‑slip faults was almost not developed for many years. Strike‑slip faults have completely ceased to be identified in geological mapping, and geologists began increasingly to substitute the wide range of disjunctive dislocations in regional geological literature with the rather impersonal term fault...

The Snider Nunataks are located at coordinates 107°41' E and 66°03' S on the Knox Coast in East Antarctica. They are several rocky outcrops among the continentalice, located in an area of about 0.15 km². The sizes of nunataks vary from 10-15 to 120-150 m across. The Nunataks are located 200-250 m from the coastal barrier of the ice sheet.