Roger G. Walker

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Roger G. Walker B.A., D.Phil., FRSC is an award-winning Emeritus Professor at McMaster University.

Walker obtained received his D.Phil. from Oxford University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. For 32 years, he taught at McMaster University. In 1998, Walker left McMaster to be a consultant in Calgary.

[edit] Honours

• made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• made an honorary member of Society of Sedimentary Geology

[edit] Awards

• 1975, awarded the Past Presidents' Medal by the Geological Association of Canada
• 1990, awarded the R. J. W. Douglas Medal by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
• 1999, awarded the Logan Medal by the Geological Association of Canada
• awarded the Francis J. Pettijohn Medal by the Society of Sedimentary Geology
• awarded the Henry Clifton Sorby Medal by the International Association of Sedimentologists
• awarded the Distinguished Educator Award by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists

[edit] References

• The Basal Colorado Sandstone- September 10, 2002