Raymond A. Price

Raymond Alexander Price ( born March 25, 1933, 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 from Princeton University with a master's degree in 1957 and his doctorate in 1958. Afterwards, he worked as a petroleum geologist for the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC ) and studied in this context the tectonics of the Cordillera Central in Western Canada. He was head of the project Bow- Athabasca and charted the course of time some 20,000 square kilometers in 1968, he was associate professor and later professor at Queen 's University in Kingston, where he was from 1972 to 1977 Head of the Geological Department. 1981 to 1988 he interrupted his college career to become director of the GSC. He was also at this time Assistant Deputy Minister in the energy, mining and resources (ERM ) of the Ministry of Research of Canada in Ottawa Department. In 1988 he was again 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, by thrusting ceilings.

1980 to 1985 he was president of the International Lithosphere Program, which he co-founded.

He also dealt with 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 Officer of the Order of Academic Palms.

In 2010 he received the Massey Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, 1988, Leopold von Buch- badge, 2012, the Penrose Medal and 1985, the Logan Medal.

1978 to 1980 he was a Killam Fellow. 1989/90 he was president of the Geological Society of America. He holds honorary doctorates from Carleton University and Memorial University of New Foundland.

Writings

• Publisher: Origin and evolution of sedimentary basins and Their energy and mineral resources, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC 1989
• Editor James A. Leith, John A. Spencer Planet Earth: Problems and Prospects, McGill - Queen's University Press 1995
• Publisher 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 The Southern Canadian Rockies in 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.