Charles Stelck

Charles Richard Stelck (born May 20, 1917 in Edmonton , Alberta , † May 14, 2016 ) was a Canadian geologist (stratigraphy, petroleum geology) and paleontologist. He was a professor at the University of Alberta .

Stelck studied geology at the University of Alberta with a bachelor's degree in 1937 and a master's degree in 1941. From 1940 to 1942 he accompanied drilling for the British Columbia Mining Authority as a geologist, was a field geologist in the Canol Project from 1942 to 1944 and from 1944 to 1944 1948 with the Imperial Oil Company. He received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1950 (Cenomanian-Albaian Forminifera of western Canada). In 1948 he became a lecturer , in 1954 an associate professor and later professor at the University of Alberta, where he retired in 1982.

Stelck transferred the observation that crude oil also occurred in fossil coral reefs in regions as far north as Norman Wells on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories (discovered in 1911 by the geologist TO Bosworth, who wrote a report on it in 1914) to the Alberta region, which, after a systematic search of Devonian reefs, led to the discovery of large oil deposits.

In 1981 he received the Logan Medal and in 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . In 1994 he received the RJW Douglas Medal from the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and in 1997 he became a member of the Order of Canada . He was inducted into the Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame.

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1. ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
2. ↑ Charles Richard STELCK
3. ↑ A pipeline project from the oil wells in Norman Wells in the Northwest Territory of Canada to Alaska, which was built during World War II (Canadian-American Norman Oil Line)