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 shear dislocations was almost never developed for many years. Shear dislocations have completely ceased to be emphasized in geological mapping, and the wide range of disjunctive dislocations in the regional geological literature geologists began to substitute more often 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 mainland ice, located in an area of about 0.15 km^2. The sizes of nunataks vary from 10-15 to 120-150 m across. Nunataks are located 200-250 m from the coastal barrier of the ice sheet.