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David G. Gee

April 13, 2024

David G. Gee (11 December 1937 – 5 October 2023) was a British and Swedish geologist, who worked in Sweden for most of his career. He is known for his leadership of geological expeditions in the high Arctic and for his initiation and leadership of EUROPROBE.[1][2]

Biography edit

David G. Gee was born in Sutton, Surrey on 11 December 1937.[3] His father was Edward Rowland Gee (1901–1988), a geologist who worked in India and Pakistan and was appointed OBE in 1960.[4]

After spending much of his boyhood in India and later attending schools in England, Gee matriculated in 1958 at the University of Cambridge.[3] There he graduated with a B.A., an M.A., and in 1966 a Ph.D. with a thesis on the tectonics of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard.[5] His Ph.D. thesis The structural geology of the Biskayer-huken Peninsula, North Spitsbergen was supervised by W. Brian Harland. In 1959 with the geologist Peter F. Friend, Gee made his first trip to Svalbard. He also participated in the Cambridge expeditions, led by Harland, to Svalbard in 1961, 1962, and 1963. In 1964 and 1965 Gee worked part-time for the Norwegian Polar Institute (Norsk Polarinstitutt) — during this employment he mapped parts of Svalbard. His wife is Norwegian. David and Veslemøy Gee were married in December 1965.[3]

From 1966 to 1986 Gee was employed by the Geological Survey of Sweden (Sveriges geologiska undersökning, SGU) and worked on economic geology.[5] He played an important role in the discovery of valuable minerals in the Myrviken Alum Shale Formation.[6] From 1986 to 1994 he held a Swedish Research Council position as a professor at Lund University. At Uppsala University, he was Professor of Orogenic Dynamics from 1994 until 2004, when he retired as professor emeritus. At Uppsala University he was Dean of Earth Sciences from 1996 to 2002. He spent more than 20 field seasons in the high Arctic and was the leader of expeditions to Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya, the Polar Urals, the Taymyr Peninsula, and Severnaya Zemlya.[5]

Gee was the author or co-author of more than 130 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is co-editor of four books on the following topics: Scandinavian Caledonides (1985), the Uralian Orogenic belt (1997), the Timanide Orogen (2004), and the dynamics of the European lithosphere (2006).[5][7] He is a leading expert on the orogeny of the Scandinavian Caledonides.[1][8][9] He and his colleagues have also done research on other Palaeozoic mountain belts of Eurasia. Gee has wide interests in the Earth sciences.[5]

From 1988 to 2001, Gee chaired EUROPROBE, a multidisciplinary, multinational research program. EUROPROBE began operation in 1988 with funding by the International Lithosphere Program and was then jointly funded with sponsorship from the European Science Foundation from 1992 onward. Hundreds of geologists, geophysicists, and geochemists were brought together to study Europe's tectonic structures (especially in the Arctic). After the Fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, EUROPROBE provided enhanced opportunities to geologists and other Earth scientists in eastern Europe[1] until its termination of funding of active research in 2002.[10] In 2006 two large volumes, with partial summaries of research funded by EUROPROBE, were published with Gee and Randell A. Stephenson as editors and with N. I. Pavlenkova as editor.[11][12] From 1999 to 2001 Gee was the president of the European Union of Geosciences. He has served on several committees and from 2007 to 2009 was a senior advisor to the U.N. International Year of Planet Earth.[5]

In 2007 Gee was awarded the Stephan Mueller Medal.[1] In 2008, the Swedish organization Geosektionen, the geosciences branch of Naturvetarna (the Swedish Association of Professional Scientists), honoured him with the title “Sweden's Geologist of the Year”. Geosektionen, one of the national association members of the European Federation of Geologists (EFG), has bestowed the annual honorary title each year beginning in 1997.[10]

Gee died in Uppsala, Sweden on 5 October 2023, at the age of 85.[13]

Selected publications edit

Articles edit

  • Dallmeyer, R. D.; Gee, D. G. (1986). "40Ar/39Ar mineral dates from retrogressed eclogites within the Baltoscandian miogeocline: Implications for a polyphase Caledonian orogenic evolution". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 97 (1): 26. Bibcode:1986GSAB...97...26D. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1986)97<26:AMDFRE>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0016-7606.
  • Gee, David G.; Johansson, Åke; Ohta, Yoshihide; Tebenkov, Alexander M.; Krasilshchikov, Alexander A.; Balashov, Yuri A.; Larionov, Alexander N.; Gannibal, Ludmila F.; Ryungenen, Genrich I. (1995). "Grenvillian basement and a major unconformity within the Caledonides of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard". Precambrian Research. 70 (3–4): 215–234. Bibcode:1995PreR...70..215G. doi:10.1016/0301-9268(94)00041-O.
  • Gee, D. G.; Beliakova, L.; Pease, V.; Larionov, A.; Dovshikova, L. (2000). "New, single zircon (Pb-evaporation) ages from Vendian intrusions in the basement beneath the Pechora Basin, northeastern Baltica. Polarforschung" (PDF). 68: 161–170. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Vernikovsky, Valery A.; Pease, Victoria L.; Vernikovskaya, Antonina E.; Romanov, Andrey P.; Gee, David G.; Travin, Alexey V. (2003). "First report of early Triassic A-type granite and syenite intrusions from Taimyr: Product of the northern Eurasian superplume?". Lithos. 66 (1–2): 23–36. Bibcode:2003Litho..66...23V. doi:10.1016/S0024-4937(02)00192-5.
  • Vernikovsky, V. A.; Vernikovskaya, A. E.; Pease, V. L.; Gee, D. G. (2004). "Neoproterozoic Orogeny along the margins of Siberia". Geological Society, London, Memoirs. 30: 233–248. doi:10.1144/GSL.MEM.2004.030.01.18. S2CID 129431581.
  • Larionov, Alexander N.; Andreichev, V. A.; Gee, D. G. (2004). "The Vendian alkaline igneous suite of northern Timan: Ion microprobe U-Pb zircon ages of gabbros and syenite". Geological Society, London, Memoirs. 30: 69–74. doi:10.1144/GSL.MEM.2004.030.01.07. S2CID 128417358.
  • Gee, D. G.; Pease, V. (2004). "The Neoproterozoic Timanide Orogen of eastern Baltica: Introduction". Geological Society, London, Memoirs. 30: 1–3. doi:10.1144/GSL.MEM.2004.030.01.01. S2CID 129465425.
  • Pease, V.; Dovzhikova, E.; Beliakova, L.; Gee, D. G. (2004). "Late Neoproterozoic granitoid magmatism in the basement to the Pechora Basin, NW Russia: Geochemical constraints indicate westward subduction beneath NE Baltica". Geological Society, London, Memoirs. 30: 75–85. doi:10.1144/GSL.MEM.2004.030.01.08. S2CID 129323514.
  • Gee, D. G.; Teben'kov, A. M. (2004). "Svalbard: A fragment of the Laurentian margin". Geological Society, London, Memoirs. 30: 191–206. doi:10.1144/GSL.MEM.2004.030.01.16. S2CID 129688475.
  • Lorenz, Henning; Gee, David G.; Larionov, Alexander N.; Majka, Jaroslaw (2012). "The Grenville–Sveconorwegian orogen in the high Arctic". Geological Magazine. 149 (5): 875–891. Bibcode:2012GeoM..149..875L. doi:10.1017/S0016756811001130. S2CID 128895327.
  • Gee, David G.; Janák, Marian; Majka, Jarosław; Robinson, Peter; Van Roermund, Herman (2013). "Subduction along and within the Baltoscandian margin during closing of the Iapetus Ocean and Baltica-Laurentia collision". Lithosphere. 5 (2): 169–178. Bibcode:2013Lsphe...5..169G. doi:10.1130/L220.1.

Books and monographs edit

  • Gee, David G.; Sturt, B. A., eds. (1985). The Caledonide Orogen: Scandinavia and Related Areas. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISBN 047110504X. LCCN 84017275; 1,266 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
    • 1986 edition (2 volumes). Wiley; hardcover, 1,298 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Gee, D.G.; Zeyen, H.J., eds. (1996). Lithosphere dynamics : origin and evolution of continents / Europrobe. Uppsala, Sweden: Europrobe secretariate. LCCN 2002438180; 138 pages, illustrations in colour{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Gee, David G.; Pease, Victoria, eds. (2004). The Neoproterozoic Timanide Orogen Of Eastern Baltica. Geological Society Memoirs, No. 30. Geological Society Of London. ISBN 1862391726. LCCN 2005434265; hardcover, 255 pages, illustrated{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Gee, D. G.; Stephenson, R. A., eds. (2006). European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society Memoir no. 32. London; Bath: Geological Society of London. ISBN 9781862392120. LCCN 2007274602; vii + 662 pp.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[2]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "2007 Stephan Mueller awarded to David G. Gee". European Geosciences Union.
  2. ^ a b England, R. W. (2008). "Review of European Lithosphere Dynamics (2006) edited by D. G. Gee and R. A. Stephenson". Geological Magazine. 145: 153. doi:10.1017/S0016756807004074.
  3. ^ a b c Kautsky, Gunnar (1998). "Salute to David G. Gee". GFF. 120 (2): 101–105. Bibcode:1998GFF...120..101K. doi:10.1080/11035899801202101.
  4. ^ "Deceased Fellow. Dr Edward Rowland Gee". Indian National Science Academy.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "Academia Europeae (The Academy of Europe): David G. Gee, elected 1999". (with links to CV & publication list)
  6. ^ "Dr. David Gee Celebrated by Marquis Who's Who for 50 Years of Valuable Contributions to the Field of Geology". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ "Chapter 1. The European lithosphere: An introduction by David G. Gee and Randell A. Stephenson". European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society, London, Memoirs. Vol. 32. 2006. pp. 1–9. doi:10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.01. ISBN 9781862392120. S2CID 131283814.
  8. ^ Gee, David G.; Zachrisson, Ebbe, eds. (1979). The Caledonides in Sweden (PDF). ISBN 91-7158-186-3.
  9. ^ Gee, David G. (1978). "Nappe displacement in the Scandinavian Caledonides". Tectonophysics. 47 (3–4): 393–419. Bibcode:1978Tectp..47..393G. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(78)90040-9.
  10. ^ a b ""Geologist of the year", 2008" (PDF). Swedish Association of Scientists, Geology Section.
  11. ^ Pavlenkova, N.I., 2006. Structure and Dynamics of the Lithosphere of Eastern Europe. Research Results of the EUROPROBE Programme. Issue 2. GEOKART, GEOS, Moscow, 735 p. Строение и динамика литосферы Восточной Европы. Результаты исследований по программе EUROPROBE. Вып. 2/Ред. НИ Павленкова. М.: ГЕОКАРТ, ГЕОС, 2006. 735 с.
  12. ^ Puchkov, Victor N. "New data on geology of the Southern Urals: a concise summary of research after the period of EUROPROBE activity." Solid Earth 7, no. 4 (2016): 1269-1280.
  13. ^ "David Gee (1937–2023)". UNT. Retrieved 15 February 2024.

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David G Gee 11 December 1937 5 October 2023 was a British and Swedish geologist who worked in Sweden for most of his career He is known for his leadership of geological expeditions in the high Arctic and for his initiation and leadership of EUROPROBE 1 2 Contents 1 Biography 2 Selected publications 2 1 Articles 2 2 Books and monographs 3 ReferencesBiography editDavid G Gee was born in Sutton Surrey on 11 December 1937 3 His father was Edward Rowland Gee 1901 1988 a geologist who worked in India and Pakistan and was appointed OBE in 1960 4 After spending much of his boyhood in India and later attending schools in England Gee matriculated in 1958 at the University of Cambridge 3 There he graduated with a B A an M A and in 1966 a Ph D with a thesis on the tectonics of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard 5 His Ph D thesis The structural geology of the Biskayer huken Peninsula North Spitsbergen was supervised by W Brian Harland In 1959 with the geologist Peter F Friend Gee made his first trip to Svalbard He also participated in the Cambridge expeditions led by Harland to Svalbard in 1961 1962 and 1963 In 1964 and 1965 Gee worked part time for the Norwegian Polar Institute Norsk Polarinstitutt during this employment he mapped parts of Svalbard His wife is Norwegian David and Veslemoy Gee were married in December 1965 3 From 1966 to 1986 Gee was employed by the Geological Survey of Sweden Sveriges geologiska undersokning SGU and worked on economic geology 5 He played an important role in the discovery of valuable minerals in the Myrviken Alum Shale Formation 6 From 1986 to 1994 he held a Swedish Research Council position as a professor at Lund University At Uppsala University he was Professor of Orogenic Dynamics from 1994 until 2004 when he retired as professor emeritus At Uppsala University he was Dean of Earth Sciences from 1996 to 2002 He spent more than 20 field seasons in the high Arctic and was the leader of expeditions to Svalbard Novaya Zemlya the Polar Urals the Taymyr Peninsula and Severnaya Zemlya 5 Gee was the author or co author of more than 130 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals He is co editor of four books on the following topics Scandinavian Caledonides 1985 the Uralian Orogenic belt 1997 the Timanide Orogen 2004 and the dynamics of the European lithosphere 2006 5 7 He is a leading expert on the orogeny of the Scandinavian Caledonides 1 8 9 He and his colleagues have also done research on other Palaeozoic mountain belts of Eurasia Gee has wide interests in the Earth sciences 5 From 1988 to 2001 Gee chaired EUROPROBE a multidisciplinary multinational research program EUROPROBE began operation in 1988 with funding by the International Lithosphere Program and was then jointly funded with sponsorship from the European Science Foundation from 1992 onward Hundreds of geologists geophysicists and geochemists were brought together to study Europe s tectonic structures especially in the Arctic After the Fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 EUROPROBE provided enhanced opportunities to geologists and other Earth scientists in eastern Europe 1 until its termination of funding of active research in 2002 10 In 2006 two large volumes with partial summaries of research funded by EUROPROBE were published with Gee and Randell A Stephenson as editors and with N I Pavlenkova as editor 11 12 From 1999 to 2001 Gee was the president of the European Union of Geosciences He has served on several committees and from 2007 to 2009 was a senior advisor to the U N International Year of Planet Earth 5 In 2007 Gee was awarded the Stephan Mueller Medal 1 In 2008 the Swedish organization Geosektionen the geosciences branch of Naturvetarna the Swedish Association of Professional Scientists honoured him with the title Sweden s Geologist of the Year Geosektionen one of the national association members of the European Federation of Geologists EFG has bestowed the annual honorary title each year beginning in 1997 10 Gee died in Uppsala Sweden on 5 October 2023 at the age of 85 13 Selected publications editArticles edit Dallmeyer R D Gee D G 1986 40Ar 39Ar mineral dates from retrogressed eclogites within the Baltoscandian miogeocline Implications for a polyphase Caledonian orogenic evolution Geological Society of America Bulletin 97 1 26 Bibcode 1986GSAB 97 26D doi 10 1130 0016 7606 1986 97 lt 26 AMDFRE gt 2 0 CO 2 ISSN 0016 7606 Gee David G Johansson Ake Ohta Yoshihide Tebenkov Alexander M Krasilshchikov Alexander A Balashov Yuri A Larionov Alexander N Gannibal Ludmila F Ryungenen Genrich I 1995 Grenvillian basement and a major unconformity within the Caledonides of Nordaustlandet Svalbard Precambrian Research 70 3 4 215 234 Bibcode 1995PreR 70 215G doi 10 1016 0301 9268 94 00041 O Gee D G Beliakova L Pease V Larionov A Dovshikova L 2000 New single zircon Pb evaporation ages from Vendian intrusions in the basement beneath the Pechora Basin northeastern Baltica Polarforschung PDF 68 161 170 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Vernikovsky Valery A Pease Victoria L Vernikovskaya Antonina E Romanov Andrey P Gee David G Travin Alexey V 2003 First report of early Triassic A type granite and syenite intrusions from Taimyr Product of the northern Eurasian superplume Lithos 66 1 2 23 36 Bibcode 2003Litho 66 23V doi 10 1016 S0024 4937 02 00192 5 Vernikovsky V A Vernikovskaya A E Pease V L Gee D G 2004 Neoproterozoic Orogeny along the margins of Siberia Geological Society London Memoirs 30 233 248 doi 10 1144 GSL MEM 2004 030 01 18 S2CID 129431581 Larionov Alexander N Andreichev V A Gee D G 2004 The Vendian alkaline igneous suite of northern Timan Ion microprobe U Pb zircon ages of gabbros and syenite Geological Society London Memoirs 30 69 74 doi 10 1144 GSL MEM 2004 030 01 07 S2CID 128417358 Gee D G Pease V 2004 The Neoproterozoic Timanide Orogen of eastern Baltica Introduction Geological Society London Memoirs 30 1 3 doi 10 1144 GSL MEM 2004 030 01 01 S2CID 129465425 Pease V Dovzhikova E Beliakova L Gee D G 2004 Late Neoproterozoic granitoid magmatism in the basement to the Pechora Basin NW Russia Geochemical constraints indicate westward subduction beneath NE Baltica Geological Society London Memoirs 30 75 85 doi 10 1144 GSL MEM 2004 030 01 08 S2CID 129323514 Gee D G Teben kov A M 2004 Svalbard A fragment of the Laurentian margin Geological Society London Memoirs 30 191 206 doi 10 1144 GSL MEM 2004 030 01 16 S2CID 129688475 Lorenz Henning Gee David G Larionov Alexander N Majka Jaroslaw 2012 The Grenville Sveconorwegian orogen in the high Arctic Geological Magazine 149 5 875 891 Bibcode 2012GeoM 149 875L doi 10 1017 S0016756811001130 S2CID 128895327 Gee David G Janak Marian Majka Jaroslaw Robinson Peter Van Roermund Herman 2013 Subduction along and within the Baltoscandian margin during closing of the Iapetus Ocean and Baltica Laurentia collision Lithosphere 5 2 169 178 Bibcode 2013Lsphe 5 169G doi 10 1130 L220 1 Books and monographs edit Gee David G Sturt B A eds 1985 The Caledonide Orogen Scandinavia and Related Areas John Wiley amp Sons Ltd ISBN 047110504X LCCN 84017275 1 266 pages a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint postscript link 1986 edition 2 volumes Wiley hardcover 1 298 pages a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint postscript link Gee D G Zeyen H J eds 1996 Lithosphere dynamics origin and evolution of continents Europrobe Uppsala Sweden Europrobe secretariate LCCN 2002438180 138 pages illustrations in colour a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint postscript link Gee David G Pease Victoria eds 2004 The Neoproterozoic Timanide Orogen Of Eastern Baltica Geological Society Memoirs No 30 Geological Society Of London ISBN 1862391726 LCCN 2005434265 hardcover 255 pages illustrated a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint postscript link Gee D G Stephenson R A eds 2006 European Lithosphere Dynamics Geological Society Memoir no 32 London Bath Geological Society of London ISBN 9781862392120 LCCN 2007274602 vii 662 pp a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint postscript link 2 References edit a b c d 2007 Stephan Mueller awarded to David G Gee European Geosciences Union a b England R W 2008 Review of European Lithosphere Dynamics 2006 edited by D G Gee and R A Stephenson Geological Magazine 145 153 doi 10 1017 S0016756807004074 a b c Kautsky Gunnar 1998 Salute to David G Gee GFF 120 2 101 105 Bibcode 1998GFF 120 101K doi 10 1080 11035899801202101 Deceased Fellow Dr Edward Rowland Gee Indian National Science Academy a b c d e f Academia Europeae The Academy of Europe David G Gee elected 1999 with links to CV amp publication list Dr David Gee Celebrated by Marquis Who s Who for 50 Years of Valuable Contributions to the Field of Geology a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Chapter 1 The European lithosphere An introduction by David G Gee and Randell A Stephenson European Lithosphere Dynamics Geological Society London Memoirs Vol 32 2006 pp 1 9 doi 10 1144 GSL MEM 2006 032 01 01 ISBN 9781862392120 S2CID 131283814 Gee David G Zachrisson Ebbe eds 1979 The Caledonides in Sweden PDF ISBN 91 7158 186 3 Gee David G 1978 Nappe displacement in the Scandinavian Caledonides Tectonophysics 47 3 4 393 419 Bibcode 1978Tectp 47 393G doi 10 1016 0040 1951 78 90040 9 a b Geologist of the year 2008 PDF Swedish Association of Scientists Geology Section Pavlenkova N I 2006 Structure and Dynamics of the Lithosphere of Eastern Europe Research Results of the EUROPROBE Programme Issue 2 GEOKART GEOS Moscow 735 p Stroenie i dinamika litosfery Vostochnoj Evropy Rezultaty issledovanij po programme EUROPROBE Vyp 2 Red NI Pavlenkova M GEOKART GEOS 2006 735 s Puchkov Victor N New data on geology of the Southern Urals a concise summary of research after the period of EUROPROBE activity Solid Earth 7 no 4 2016 1269 1280 David Gee 1937 2023 UNT Retrieved 15 February 2024 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title David G Gee amp oldid 1215917917, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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