Frank McLearn

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Frank Harris McLearn (born February 27, 1885 in Halifax (Nova Scotia) , † October 7, 1964 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian paleontologist .

Life

He studied at Dalhousie University and Yale University and was in the Geological Survey of Canada from 1913 to 1952.

His dissertation at Yale was on fossils of the Silurian in Nova Scotia , which is considered a standard work. He is best known for his work on the Mesozoic of Western Canada with the establishment of a stratigraphy for Cretaceous and Triassic in this region (especially from the ammonites ), which had applications in the petroleum geology in western Canada. He conducted fieldwork at the Crowsnest Pass, along the Athabasca River and Peace River , in Haida Gwaii , the plains in southern Saskatchewan, and the Manitoba layer (called the Pembina Escarpment in the US ).

In 1947 he received the Willet G. Miller Medal . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1927 .

Fonts

  • with Donaldson Bogart Dowling, Stanley Eades Slipper: Investigations in the gas and oil fields of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 116, Ottawa 1919
  • with Sydney Savory Buckman, Edward Wilber Berry: Mesozoic palaeontology of Blairmore region, Alberta, Bulletin National Museum of Canada, Ottawa 1929
  • with Frank Jardine Fraser, Loris S. Russell , Percival Sidney Warren; Robert Thomas Daubigny Wickenden: Geology of southern Saskatchewan, Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 176, Ottawa 1935
  • Paleontology of the Silurian rocks of Arisaig, Nova Scotia, Ottawa 1924
  • Revision of the lower cretaceous of the western interior of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada 1945
  • Jurassic formations of Maude Island and Alliford Bay, Skidegate Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 311, Ottawa 1949
  • with Edward Darwin Kindle: Geology of northeastern British Columbia, Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 259, Ottawa 1950
  • Ammonoid faunas of the upper Triassic Pardonet formation, Peace River foothills, British Columbia, Ottawa, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys 1960
  • Anagymnotoceras a new Middle Triassic (Anisian) ammonoid genus from northeastern British Columbia, Paper Geological Survey of Canada 66-56, 1966
  • Middle Triassic (Anisian) ammonoids from northeastern British Columbia and Ellesmere Island, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 170, 1969
  • Ammonoids of the Lower Cretaceous sandstone member of the Haida Formation, Skidegate Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, Western British Columbia, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 188, 1972

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Silurian Arisaig series of Arisaig , Nova Scotia, 1918, published in American Journal of Science, Volume 45, 1918, 126-140
personal data
SURNAME McLearn, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McLearn, Frank Harris (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax (Nova Scotia)
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1964
Place of death Ottawa