Professor EmeritusDr. C. Gordon Winder
Geologic Time
Office: BGS 1000E
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext.82253
Fax: 519-661-3198
Email: cwinder@uwo.ca
Research Interests
STRATIGRAPHY
- the study of rock masses - geometry, spatial distribution,
lithology, paleontology, vertical and lateral variation, and
relationship to adjacent rock masses, from which their correlation,
age, conditions of formation, and geologic history can be determined.
[Definition published in Background Papers on the Earth Sciences in
Canada, GSC Paper 69-56, 1971]; lexography.
MICROPALEONTOLOGY - Conodonts; stratigraphy, taxonomy,
and systematics, in Ordovician and Devonian rocks in southern Ontario;
identifying an assemblage by correlation coefficient.
CARBONATES - Petrology of Ordovician limestones; relating the conodont distribution to the stratigraphy.
COAL - Stratigraphy and structure of the Cretaceous
Grand Cache coal field, northwestern Alberta; petrography of Cretaceous
lignites, northern Ontario.
URBAN GEOLOGY - Pleistocene geology of London, Canada;
till layers, gravel, sand, and silt deposits, as associated with
glaciers advancing and melting back, alternately from the northwest and
southeast; geomorphology as subsequently developed by the meandering
Thames River, leaving eroded terraces, abandon channels, and remnant
hills. [Co-author with Aleksis Dreimanis]
SIR WILLIAM EDMOND LOGAN
(1798-1875) - founding director (1842-1869) of the Geological Survey of
Canada; identified as Canada's #1 scientist in a historic sense; Mount
Logan is Canada's highest mountian - 5959 metres.
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