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Eric Walter Mountjoy PhD, FRSC is an award-winning Canadian emeritus professor at McGill University. He is a foremost expert on sedimentology, Devonian reefs, carbonate diagenesis, porosity development and the structure of the Rocky Mountains. His research has provided useful applications to the petroleum industry. Aquatint of a Doctor in Divinity at the University of Oxford, in the scarlet and black academic robes corresponding to his position. ...
The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ...
McGill University is a publicly funded, non-denominational, co-educational research university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...
Sedimentology is the branch of geology primarily concerned with understanding the characteristics of sediments, sedimentary processes and sedimentary rocks originally deposited in sedimentary basins. ...
Disambiguation: Devonian is sometimes used to refer to the Southwestern Brythonic language, and the people of the county of Devon are sometimes referred to as Devonians The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era. ...
A reef surrounding an islet. ...
In geology, diagenesis refers to all the chemical, physical, and biological changes undergone by a sediment after its initial deposition and during and after its lithification, exclusive of surface alteration (weathering). ...
Structural geology is the study of the three dimensional distribution of rock bodies and their planar or folded surfaces, and their internal fabrics. ...
Rockies may also refer to the National League Baseball team, the Colorado Rockies. ...
The oil industry is a type of industry which brings petroleum to a financial market. ...
Early life
Mountjoy was raised near Calgary, Alberta in the 1930s and 1940s. Regular visits to the nearby mountains led him into a career of geological research. Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. ...
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He obtained a B.A.Sc. from the University of British Columbia in 1955 and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1960. A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. ...
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands adjacent to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. ...
Aquatint of a Doctor in Divinity at the University of Oxford, in the scarlet and black academic robes corresponding to his position. ...
The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario. ...
Career From 1957 to 1963, Mountjoy worked for the Geological Survey of Canada, first as a Technical Officer, then as a Geologist. The Geological Survey of Canada or GSC is part of the Earth Sciences Sector of Natural Resources Canada. ...
He left the survey to be an Assistant Professor at McGill University. In 1969, he was promoted to Associate Professor. In 1974, he was made a Full Professor. Between 1993 and 1998, Mountjoy was a Logan Professor. He retired and has been an Emeritus Professor ever since.
Most of Mountjay’s research has concentrated on Jasper Park's Miette area, and in particular on its exposed coral reefs from the Devonian period (395 million to 345 million years ago). Jasper National Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, spanning 10,878 km² (4200 mi²). It is located in the province of Alberta, to the north of Banff National Park and west of the city of Edmonton. ...
Disambiguation: Devonian is sometimes used to refer to the Southwestern Brythonic language, and the people of the county of Devon are sometimes referred to as Devonians The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era. ...
Mountjoy with Queen's University professor, Raymond A. Price have mapped most of the Canadian Rockies between Banff and Jasper. This work produced cross-sections, which have become classic representations of the structure of a thrust-fold mountain belt and have been published in many textbooks. Queens University, generally referred to simply as Queens, is a coeducational, non-sectarian, research-intensive university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. ...
Raymond Alexander Price P.Eng, PhD, OC, FRSC (b. ...
Banff townsite (left) and Tunnel Mountain (right) on the Bow River as seen from Sulphur Mountain. ...
Jasper is a specialized municipality in western Alberta, Canada. ...
A thrust fault is a particular type of fault, or break in the fabric of the Earths crust with resulting movement of each side against the other, in which a lower stratigraphic position is pushed up and over another. ...
Very tight folds. ...
He has also studied ancient and modern reef geology, carbonate petrology and diagenesis, carbonate reservoirs and stratigraphy. He has visited and applied his knowledge to the geology of Australia, China and Germany.
He has directed the research of over 50 master's and doctoral students, many of whom have gone on to become professors.
In retirement he continues to lead field studies in the Rockies.
Honours - 1960, presented the Best Ph.D. thesis award by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
- 1985, awarded the R. J. W. Douglas Medal by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
- 1994, 1997, 2001, awarded the Medal of Merit by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
- 1997, awarded the Logan Medal by the Geological Association of Canada
- 1998, awarded the David Thompson Award for graduate teaching at McGill University
- 1998, awarded the F. J. Pettijohn Medal by the Society for Sedimentary Geology
- 1998, 1999, presented the Service Award by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
- 1999, made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- 2001, bestowed Honorary Membership in the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geology
The R.J.W. Douglas Medal is presented annually by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists in recognition of outstanding contributions to the understanding of sedimentary geology in Canada, commending major contributions to regional tectonics, petroleum and structural geology. ...
The Logan Medal is the highest award of the Geological Association of Canada. ...
The Geological Association of Canada promotes and develops the geological sciences in Canada. ...
The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ...
Cited publications - Qing, H. and Mountjoy, E.W. (2004): Petrography and geochemistry of Presqu'ile Dolomite, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, In Dolomites the Spectrum, Can. Soc. Petrol. Geol. Seminar and Core Conf., January 13-15, 2004, Calgary, (available on compact disk).
- Mountjoy, E.W., Windth, J., Price, R.A., and Douglas, R.J.W., (2001): George Creek, 83 C10, Geology and structure cross-section, Alberta, Geological Survey of Canada. Map no.1990A, scale 1:50,000.
- Stevenson, R.K., Whittaker, S. and Mountjoy, E.W. (2000): Geochemical and Nd isotopic evidence for sedimentary-source changes in the Devonian miogeocline of the southern Canadian Cordillera, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 112, 531-539.
- Qing, H. and Mountjoy, E.W. (1995): Paleohydrology of the Canadian Rockies and origins of brines, Pb-Zn deposits and dolomitization in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: Comment and reply, Geology, 23, 189-190.
- Qing H. and Mountjoy, E.W. (1994): Formation of coarse-crystalline, hydrothermal dolomite reservoirs in the Presqu'ile Barrier, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., 78, 55-77.
Raymond Alexander Price P.Eng, PhD, OC, FRSC (b. ...
Robert John Wilson Bob Douglas FRSC, PhD (1920 – 1979) was an award winning Canadian geologist who made noteworthy contributions in the fields of structure stratigraphy, sedimentation, and petroleum geology. ...
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