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George P L Walker

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Nationality
  
Northern Ireland

Fields
  
Mineralogy, Volcanologist

Influenced
  
Bruce Houghton

Role
  
Geologist

Name
  
George L.


Institutions
  
Imperial College, London (1951-78), University of Hawai'i (1979-96)

Alma mater
  
Queen's University, Belfast, University of Leeds

Doctoral students
  
Robert Stephen John Sparks

Died
  
January 17, 2005, England, United Kingdom

Education
  
Queen's University Belfast

Awards
  
Wollaston Medal, Lyell Medal

Notable students
  
Robert Stephen John Sparks

George Patrick Leonard Walker FRS (2 March 1926 – 17 January 2005) was a British geologist who specialized in mineralogy and volcanology.

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Life

He worked on the volcanic rocks of Iceland and on Mount Etna. He taught at Imperial College. In 1978, he was Captain James Cook Research Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand at the University of Auckland, In 1981, he was Macdonald Chair in Volcanology at the University of Hawaii.

He was married to a woman named Hazel and had a daughter, Alison, and a son, Leonard.

Awards

  • Honorary D.Sc. from the University of New Zealand in 1988.
  • Dr. scient. hon. c. from the University of Iceland in 1988.
  • Icelandic Order of the Falcon, conferred by the president of Iceland in 1977.
  • Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1982.
  • UH Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Research in 1985.
  • Thorarinsson Medal (IAVCEI) in 1989.
  • Wollaston Medal (Geological Society of London) in 1995.

    • Selected publications

  • Walker, George P. L. (Sep 1960). "Zeolite Zones and Dike Distribution in Relation to the Structure of the Basalts of Eastern Iceland". The Journal of Geology. 68 (5): 515–528. Bibcode:1960JG.....68..515W. JSTOR 30059352. doi:10.1086/626685. 
  • Walker, George P. L. (July 1973). "Explosive volcanic eruptions — a new classification scheme". Geologische Rundschau. 62 (2): 431–446. Bibcode:1973GeoRu..62..431W. doi:10.1007/BF01840108. 
  • Walker, George P.L. (September 1983). "Ignimbrite types and ignimbrite problems". Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 17 (1-4): 65–88. Bibcode:1983JVGR...17...65W. doi:10.1016/0377-0273(83)90062-8. 
  • Wilson, Lionel; R. Stephen J. Sparks; George P. L. Walker (1987). "Explosive volcanic eruptions — IV. The control of magma properties and conduit geometry on eruption column behaviour". Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 63 (1): 117–148. Bibcode:1980GeoJI..63..117W. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1980.tb02613.x. Retrieved 20 May 2010. 

    • References

    George P. L. Walker Wikipedia
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