Raymond A. Price
Raymond Alexander Price (born March 25, 1933 in Winnipeg ) is a Canadian geologist ( tectonics in North America).
Life
Price studied geology at the University of Manitoba with a bachelor's degree in 1955 and at Princeton University with a master's degree in 1957 and a doctorate in 1958. He then worked as a petroleum geologist for the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) and studied in this context tectonic structure of the Cordilleras in Western Canada. He headed the Bow-Athabasca project and mapped around 20,000 square kilometers in the course of time. In 1968 he became an associate professor and later professor at Queen's University in Kingston, where he was head of the geological faculty from 1972 to 1977. 1981 to 1988 he interrupted his university career to become director of the GSC. He was also Assistant Deputy Minister in the Energy, Mining and Resources (ERM) division of the Department of Research of Canada in Ottawa. From 1988 he was again a professor at Queen's University, where he retired in 1998.
He studied in detail the tectonics and formation of the Canadian Cordillera / Rocky Mountains as a model system of tectonics, for example of thrust nappes . From 1980 to 1985 he was President of the International Lithosphere Program, which he co-founded.
Price also looked at the effects of global warming and the disposal of nuclear waste. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1972), the National Academy of Sciences (1988) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He is an Officer of the Order of Canada (2003) and an Officer of the Order of the Palmes Academiques. He received the Willet G. Miller Medal in 2018, the Penrose Medal in 2012 , the Royal Canadian Geographical Society's Massey Medal in 2010, the Leopold von Buch plaque in 1988 and the Logan Medal in 1985 . From 1978 to 1980 he was a Killam Fellow. 1989/90 he was President of the Geological Society of America . He holds honorary degrees from Carleton University and Memorial University of New Foundland.
Fonts
- Editor: Origin and evolution of sedimentary basins and their energy and mineral resources, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC 1989
- Editor with James A. Leith, John A. Spencer Planet Earth: Problems and Prospects , McGill-Queen´s University Press 1995
- Editor with RJW Douglas: Variations in tectonic styles in Canada, Toronto, Geological Association of Canada 1972
- Flathead map-area: British Columbia and Alberta, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Ottawa 1966
- with EW Mountjoy: 1970. " The geological structure of the Southern Canadian Rockies between Bow and Athabasca Rivers, - A progress report , in JO Wheeler A structural cross-section of the Southern Canadian Cordillera , Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper Number 6, 1970, pp. 7-25.
literature
- James W. Sears, Tekla A. Harms, Carol A. Evenchick (editors): Whence the mountains?: Inquiries into the evolution of orogenic systems: a volume in honor of Raymond A. Price , Geological Society of America 2007
Web links
- Homepage at Queen's University (English)
- Curriculum Vitae (English)
- To receive the Penrose Medal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Price, Raymond A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Price, Raymond Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian geologist (tectonics in North America) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winnipeg |