袁复礼教授是我在西南联大读书时(1939～1941年)教我们矿床学的老师。老师在教课之余,常谈到一些野外工作经验,尤其是在西北新疆一带沙漠地区的野外工作经验和考察成果。 上海地面沉降发生后,我们当时对怎么研究解决这个问题没有一点经验,不知道从何下手。由于上海地层沉降发生在第四纪地层中,于是我们想到了对第四纪地质一系列问题很有研究的袁复礼老师。1964年5月,由地质部和上海市联合召开“上海地面沉降水文地质工程 Prof. Yuan Fu-li was a teacher who taught us the study of deposit at the Southwest Associated University (1939 ~ 1941). While teaching, teachers often talked about some field work experience, especially the field work experience and inspection results in desert areas in the northwest Xinjiang region. After the land subsidence in Shanghai happened, we did not have any experience on how to study and solve this problem and did not know where to start. Since the stratigraphic subsidence in Shanghai took place in the Quaternary strata, we came up with the teacher Yuan Fu-li who studied the series of questions about Quaternary geology. May 1964, jointly organized by the Ministry of Geology and Shanghai "Shanghai ground subsidence hydrogeological engineering