Hubert Gabrielse (born March 1, 1926) is a Canadian retired geologist who formerly worked for the
Geological Survey of Canada.
He devoted much of his more than 50 years in geosciences to regional geological mapping in the
northern Cordillera of
British Columbia, southeast
Yukon and southwest
District of Mackenzie
The District of Mackenzie was a regional administrative district of Canada's Northwest Territories. The district consisted of the portion of the Northwest Territories directly north of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan on Canada's main ...
. His work has led to syntheses of the geological evolution of the northern Cordillera range.
Gabrielse published several papers with
Stewart Blusson
Stewart Lynn "Stu" Blusson, (born 1939) is a Canadian geologist, helicopter pilot, businessman and philanthropist. He co-discovered billion-dollar Ekati Diamond Mine, 300 kilometres from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. He is President ...
in the late 1960s. He was a contributor to
Lithoprobe
Lithoprobe was a Canadian national geoscience research project funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council from 1984 to 2005, and one of the largest geoscientific research programs in Canadian history. The project aimed to resea ...
.
One of the volcanoes found in the
Tuya Volcanic Field is named after him,
Gabrielse Cone.
Awards
*1990, awarded the
Ambrose Medal by the
Geological Association of Canada
The Geological Association of Canada (GAC) is a learned society that promotes and develops the Geology, geological sciences in Canada. The organization holds conferences, meetings and exhibitions for the discussion of geological problems and the ...
*2000, awarded the
Logan Medal by the Geological Association of Canada
See also
*
Rocky Mountain Trench
The Rocky Mountain Trench, also known as the Valley of a Thousand Peaks or simply the Trench, is a large valley on the western side of the northern part of North America's Rocky Mountains. The Trench is both visually and cartographically a s ...
References
External links
Geological Survey of Canada BioList of Gabrielse’s publicationsLithoprobe publications
1926 births
Possibly living people
Canadian geologists
Geological Survey of Canada personnel
Logan Medal recipients
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