James Monger

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James William Heron Monger , called Jim Monger , (born September 26, 1937 in Reading ) is a British-Canadian geologist.

Monger graduated from the University of Reading with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1959 and from the University of Kansas with a master's degree in 1961, and received a PhD in geology from the University of British Columbia in 1966 . From 1965 he was with the Geological Survey of Canada . He is an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University and lives on Saltspring Island .

Monger is known for his investigation of the formation of the Canadian Cordilleras in the context of plate tectonics through the collision of Terranes . It was known for some time that the Cache Creek Terrane of British Columbia, in contrast to other North American continent Fusuliniden of Perm from the Tethys were (and not Panthalassa ). Their occurrence was a mystery for which there were only unsatisfactory explanations. In 1971 Monger and Charles A. Ross suggested that these were indications of microplates drifting from the Tethys to the western edge of North America. The Terrane concept was later confirmed many times.

He is involved in the Canadian Lithoprobe project.

He was co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1984 . In 1995 he received the RJW Douglas Medal from the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and in 2002 the Logan Medal .

Fonts

  • Circum-Pacific Orogenic Belts and Evolution of the Pacific Ocean Basin, 1987
  • with Raymond A. Price : Transect of the Southern Canadian Cordillera from Calgary to Vancouver: Field Trip Guidebook, 2003
  • with William Henry Mathews, Roadside Geology of Southern British Columbia, 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ ML Thompson, Harry E. Wheeler, WK Danner 1950
  3. ^ Ross, Monger, Distribution of fusilinaceans in Western Canadian Cordillera, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 8, 1971, pp. 259-278
personal data
SURNAME Monger, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monger, James William Heron (full name); Monger, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading