Gerard V. Middleton

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Gerard Viner Middleton (born May 13, 1931 in Cape Town ) is a Canadian geologist and sedimentologist .

Life

Middleton studied geology at Imperial College London (PhD 1954), was a geologist for Standard Oil of California in 1954/55 and then went to Canada, where he taught at McMaster University from 1955 to 1996 , first as a lecturer , from 1961 as associate professor and on 1967 as a professor. From 1959 to 1962 and 1978 to 1984 he headed the geology faculty.

In 1956/57 and 1959 he was a consultant for Shell.

He dealt mainly with sedimentology (including turbidites , mechanics of sediment flows, which he also examined experimentally), data analysis in geology and the history of geology (especially in Canada).

He was editor of the Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks in 2003 and founding editor of Geoscience Canada from 1973 to 1978.

In 1970 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . In 1980 he received the Logan Medal , in 1994 the Pettijohn Medal and in 2003 the William H. Twenhofel Medal .

He has been married since 1959 and has a son and two daughters.

Fonts

  • Origin of Sedimentary Rocks, 1972, 2nd edition 1980 (with H. Blatt and R. Murray)
  • with Peter R. Wilcock: Mechanics in the Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cambridge University Press 1994
  • with JB Southard: Mechanics of Sediment Movement, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists 1977, 2nd edition 1985
  • Data Analysis in the Earth Sciences using MATLAB, 2000
  • Hydraulic interpretation of sand size distributions, Journal of Geology, Volume 84, 1976, pp. 405-426.
  • Sediment deposition from turbidity currents, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, Volume 21, 1993, pp. 89-114.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae from American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Middleton, Gerard V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Middleton, Gerard Viner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town