James Monger
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Who is James Monger?
James W.H. Monger is an emeritus scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada and a world leader in the application of plate tectonics to the study of mountain chain formation.
Monger obtained his BSc at the University of Reading, his MSc at the University of Kansas, and his PhD at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. James Monger is an authority on Cordilleran geology. Monger concentrated his research on field studies and detailed geological mapping of upper Paleozoic and lower Mesozoic volcanic and sedimentary layers. He used this work to demonstrate that the Canadian Cordillera is a collage of displaced terranes that have been accreted to the western margin of North America.
Over his 40-year career as a research geoscientist with the Geological Survey of Canada he contributed the following to geological studies;
the first plate tectonic interpretations of the evolution of the Canadian Cordillera
the first metamorphic map of the Canadian Cordillera
an award-winning paper on suspect terranes that evolved into the first terrane map of the Cordillera
a proposal for the collisional origin for the two major plutonic belts
the first trans-Cordilleran structure section that integrated geological, geophysical and geochemical data.
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