Ernest Richard Ward Neale
Ernest Richard Ward Neale , called Ward Neale , (born July 3, 1923 in Beaconsfield , Québec , † May 20, 2008 ) was a Canadian geologist .
Life
Neale studied after service in the Canadian Navy in World War II at McGill University with a bachelor's degree in 1949 and at Yale University with a master's degree in 1951 and a doctorate in 1952. He was then an assistant professor at the University of Rochester and from 1954 at the Geological Survey of Canada . There he was first responsible for the Appalachians, then for contacts with other Commonwealth countries and then from 1965 for the Precambrian. In 1968 he became a professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland . From 1976 he headed a public relations department at the Institute for Sediment and Petroleum Geology in Calgary and was also a professor at the University of Calgary . In 1982 he became Vice President of Memorial University of Newfoundland. After retiring in 1987, he moved to Calgary.
In a study from 1963, Neale and John Rodgers (Yale) made a significant contribution to the geology of Newfoundland by showing that deep water sediments from the Cambrian / Ordovician in western Newfoundland ( belonging to the Appalachians ) are cliffs of Takonic origin, which overlie carbonate shallow water sediments of the same Of age. Later, Harold Williams and others gave rise to today's picture of the Taconic orogeny as a shift from Baltica and Avalonia to Laurentia with the closure of the Iaeptus Ocean in between.
He was an officer in the Order of Canada and a member of the Royal Society of Canada , whose Bancroft Award he received in 1975. In 1977 he received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal . 1972/73 he was President of the Geological Association of Canada and 1974 to 1980 editor of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. He is an honorary doctor of Calgary.
In his honor the ER Ward Neale Award of the Geological Association of Canada was donated, which is given for public awareness in the geosciences in Canada.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ John Rodgers, ERW Neale, Possible Taconic Cliff in Western Newfoundland, Am. J. Science, 261, 1963, 713-730
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neale, Ernest Richard Ward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neale, Ward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beaconsfield , Quebec |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 2008 |