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Recent Publications - Refereed

 

Papers

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Sears, J. W. and Price, R.A., 2003, “Tightening the Siberian Connection to Laurentia”, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, no. 8, p. 943-953.

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Sears, J. W. and Price, R. A., (2002). “The hypothetical Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Columbia:  implications of the Siberian-West Laurentian connection”, Gondwana Research, v. 5, no. 1. P. 35-39.

 

Price, R. A.,  (2001). Transverse faults, displacement transfer, and co-evolution of several major thrust faults in the Banff area, Rocky Mountain Front Ranges, Alberta”, Journal of Structural Geology, v. 23, p. 1079-1088.

 

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Doughty, P. T. and Price, R. A., 2000, “Geology of the Purcell Trench rift valley and Sandpoint Conglomerate: Eocene en echelon normal faulting and synrift sedimentation along the eastern flank of the Priest River metamorphic complex, northern Idaho”, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 112, no. 9 p. 1356-1374.

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Sears, J. W. and Price, R. A., 2000. “New look at the Siberian connection: No SWEAT,” Geology, v. 28, n o. 5, p. 423-426.

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Colpron, M., Price, R. A., and Archibald, D.A., 1999, “⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar thermochronometric constraints on the tectonic evolution of the southern Clachnacudainn complex, southeastern British Columbia”, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 36, p. 1989-2006.

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Doughty, P.T. and Price, R.A., 1999, "Tectonic evolution of the Priest River Complex, Northern Idaho and Washington: A reappraisal of the Newport fault with new insights on metamorphic core complex formation"; Tectonics, v. 18, No. 3, p. 375-393.

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 Colpron, M., Warren, M. and Price, R. A., 1998; “The Selkirk fan structure of the southeastern Canadian Cordillera: Tectonic thickening in response to inherited basement structure”; Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, No. 8, p.1060-1074.

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Doughty, P.T., Price, R. A., and Parrish, R. R., 1998; “Geology and U-Pb geochronology of Archean basement and Proterozoic cover in the Priest River complex, northwestern United States and its implications for Cordilleran structure and Precambrian continent reconstructions”; Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 35, No, 1, 39-54.

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Colpron, M., Price, R. A., Archibald, D. A., and Carmichael, D. M., 1996; “Middle Jurassic denudation and uplift along the western flank of the Selkirk fan structure: Thermobarometric and thermochronometric constraints from the Illecillewaet synclinorium, southeastern British Columbia”; Geological Society of America Bulletin Society of America Bulletin, v. 108, No. 11, p.1372-1392.

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  Monger, J. W. H. and Price, R. A., 1996; “Comment on ”Paleomagnetism of the Upper Cretaceous strata of Mount Tatlow: Evidence for 3000 km of northward displacement of the eastern Coast Belt, British Columbia” by P. J. Wynne et al., Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 100, p. 6,073-6,091.and on “Paleomagnetism of the Spences Bridge Group and northward displacement of the Intermontane Belt, British Columbia: a second look” “ by E. Irving et al., Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, p. 13,793-13,799.

 

Castonguay, S. and Price, R.A., 1995; “The southern termination of the Misty thrust sheet, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: Tectonic heredity and tectonic wedging along an oblique hanging wall ramp”; Geological Society of America Bulletin, v., p. 1304-1316.

 

Colpron, M. and Price, R. A., 1995; “Tectonic significance of Kootenay terrane, southeastern Canadian Cordillera: An alternative model" Geology, v. 23, p. 25-28.

 

Harms, T. A. and Price, R. A., 1993, “Reply to ‘The Newport fault: Eocene listric normal faulting, mylonitization, and crustal extension in northeast Washington and northwest Idaho: Discussion', by R. E. Anderson”, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Volume 105, p. 1512-1514.

 

Cook, F. A., Varsek, J. L., Clowes, R. M., Kanesevich, E. R., Spencer, C. S., Parrish, R. R., Brown, R. L., Johnson, B. J., and Price, R. A., 1992, “Lithoprobe crustal reflection cross section of the southern Canadian Cordillera I: Foreland thrust and fold belt to Fraser River fault”; Tectonics, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 12-35.

 

Harms, T. A. and Price, R. A., 1992; “The Newport fault: Eocene listric normal faulting, mylonitization, and crustal extension in northeast Washington and northwest Idaho”; Geological Society of America Bulletin, Volume 104, p. 745-761.

 

Book sections

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Price, R. A. and Sears, J. W., (2001),“A preliminary palinspastic map of the Mesoproterozoic Belt/Purcell Supergroup, Canada and U.S.A.: Implications for the tectonic setting and structural evolution of the Purcell anticlinorium and the Sullivan deposit”; in Lydon, J.W., Höy, T., Slack, J. F., and Knapp, M., editors, “The geological environment of the Sullivan deposit, British Columbia”, Geological Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Division, MDD Special Volume No. 1, p. 43-64.

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Price, R. A., 1994:  Cordilleran tectonics and the evolution of the Western Canada sedimentary basin.  In:   Geological Atlas of Western Canada.  Mossop, G.D. and Shetsen, I. (eds.).  Calgary, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists/Alberta Research Council, p. 13-24.

 

Abstracts

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Price, R. A., 2003, “Crustal-scale ductile boudinage in the south-central Canadian Cordillera: Tectonic exhumation of metamorphic infrastructure by Paleogene dextral transtension”, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, No. 6, 2003 GSA Annual Meeting, p. 473.

 

Sears, J. W., Price, R. A., and Chamberlain, K. R., 2003 “Plate-kinematic model of the Neoproterozoic-Early Cambrian breakup of he Siberia-Laurentia connection and the establishment of the Cordilleran miogeocline”. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, No. 6, 2003 GSA Annual Meeting, p. 472.

 

Sears, J. W. and Price, R. A., (2002). “Breakup and dispersal of the early Neoproterozoic Siberia-Laurentia-Australia troika”, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, No. 6, 2002 GSA Annual Meeting, p. 559.

 

Sears, J. W., Price, R. A., and Chamberlain, K. R.. (2002). “The Siberian Connection and the Mesoproterozoic Belt-Purcell basin”, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, No. ?, 2001 GSA Rocky Mountain Section Annual Meeting, p. A-?.

 

Price, R. A., Osadetz, K. G., Kohn, B. P., Feinstein, S., (2001). “Deep refrigeration of an evolving thrust and fold belt by enhanced penetration of meteoric water: The Lewis thrust sheet, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains.” Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, No. 7, 2001 GSA Annual Meeting, p. A-52.

 

Price, R. A., (2001) “Retrograde mantle flow beneath the southern Canadian Cordillera: An explanation for both the enigmatic late Neogene uplift of the Canadian Rockies and the enigmatic Early Jurassic obduction of Slide Mountain terrane and disappearance of Slide Mountain basin?”, in Beaumont, C., Bostock, M., Canil, D. and Ross, G (convenors), “Mantle lithosphere and Lithoprobe: Views of continental evolution from the bottom up”, Pan-Lithoprobe Workshop III, October 27-29, 2001 Banff, Alberta, Programme and Abstracts Volume, Lithoprobe Report No. 81 p. 74-75.

 

Price, R. A., Osadetz, K. G., Kohn, B. P., Feinstein, S., (2001). “Deep refrigeration of a thrust and fold belt because of enhanced syntectonic penetration of meteoric water: The Lewis thrust sheet, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains.” Earth System Processes: A Global Meeting presented by The Geological Society of America and The Geological Society of London, Programmes with Abstracts, p. 52.

 

Price, R. A. 2001, “Retrograde mantle flow beneath the southern Canadian Cordillera: An explanation for both the enigmatic late Neogene uplift of the Canadian Rockies and the enigmatic Early Jurassic obduction of Slide Mountain terrane and disappearance of Slide Mountain basin?", in Cook, F. and P. Erdmer (compilers), 2001 Slave-Northern Cordillera Lithosphere Evolution (SNORCLE) Transect and Cordilleran Tectonics Workshop Meeting (February 22-25), Pacific Geoscience Centre, Lithoprobe Report #79, Lithoprobe Secretariat, University of British Columbia, p. 102-103.

 

Sears. J. W. and Price, R. A., 2000, “Early Cambrian separation of the Siberian craton from western Laurentia: Implications for Cordilleran pericratonic terranes.” Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, No. 6, Cordilleran Section, p. A-67 – A-68.

 

Sears, J. W. and Price, R. A., 2000, “Implications of the Early Cambrian rift-drift transition in the Cordilleran for the SW Laurentian-Siberian connection.” Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, No. 7, 2000 GSA Annual Meeting, p. A-385.

 

Sears, J. W. and Price, R. A., (1999), “The Siberian Reconnection,” Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.31, No. 2, Rocky Mountain Section, p. A-.

 

Warren, M. J. and Price, R. A., 1999; “Tectonic inversion and the evolution of the transition from metamorphic hinterland to foreland thrust and fold belt, southeastern Canadian Cordillera; Thrust Tectonics 99, Royal Holloway University of London, April 1999, Programme with Abstracts, p. 339-341.

 

Price, R. A., 1999; “The use of balanced hanging-wall and footwall maps of faults in 3D palinspastic analysis of an accretionary wedge, southern Canadian Rockies; Thrust Tectonics 99, Royal Holloway University of London, April 1999, Programme with Abstracts, p.97.

 

Price, R. A., 1998, "History of terrane displacements in the Canadian Cordillera as recorded by deformation in the southern Canadian Rockies", X Congreso Latinoamericano de Geologica / VI Congreso Nacional de Geologica Economica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Actas, Vol. 2, p. 174.

 

Price, R. A., 1997; “Southern Livingstone Range: An erosionally exhumed and dissected example of fault-propagation anticlines in Mississippian carbonate reservoir rocks of the Alberta Foothills”, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, CSPG - SEPM Joint Convention, Program with Abstracts, p. 231.

 

Price, R. A. and Sears, J.W., 1996; “A preliminary palinspastic map of the southern Canadian Rockies: Implications for tectonic heredity of the NE-trending Crowsnest Pass cross-strike discontinuity”; Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 1996 Annual Meeting, v.28, No. 7, p. A448.

 

Warren, M. J., and Price, R. A., 1996; “Influence of Proterozoic to Paleozoic crustal attenuation on Mesozoic crustal thickening at the Cordilleran thrust/fold belt to metamorphic hinterland transition in Births Columbia”, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 1996 Annual Meeting, v.28, No. 7, p. A510.

 

Price, R. A., 1996; “National geological surveys: Present and future role in a changing world”, Jubilee Symposium of the Australian Geological Survey Organization, 13th Australian Geological Convention, Canberra, 21 February 1996, Program with Abstracts.

 

Price, 1996, “Tectonic heredity of the Crowsnest Pass cross-strike discontinuity: Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic inversion of Paleozoic structure with Eocambrian, Neoproterozoic, Mesoproterozoic and Archean antecedents”, in Ross, G. M., (compiler), 1996 Alberta Basement Transects Workshop, Lithoprobe Report #51, Lithoprobe Secretariat, University of British Columbia, p. 213-214.

 

Price, R. A., 1995, “Geodynamics of the Canadian Cordillera: Terrane accretion, tectonic wedging, lithospheric delamination, transpression, and transtension”; Abstracts, Symposium:  “The transition Western Alps-Eastern Alps: Deep structure and geodynamics”, Schweizerische Geologische Gesellschaft, Schweizerische Akademie der Naturwissenschaften, St. Gallen, p. 61.

 

Price, E. A., 1995, “History of deformation in the eastern Canadian Cordillera and correlations with changes in lithospheric plate kinematics”; Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Final Program and Abstracts, p. A-86.

 

Osadetz, K.G., Kohn, B.P, Feinstein, S. and Price, R.A., 1995; “Lewis thrust plate thermal and geological history from fission track data”, Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Final Program and Abstracts, p. A-78.

 

 Warren, M.J. and Price, R.A., 1995; “New perspectives on the tectonic significance of structural and stratigraphic contrast between the central Kootenay arc and Purcell anticlinorium, SE British Columbia”, Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Final Program and Abstracts, p. A-109.

 

Colpron, M. and Price, R. A., 1995, “Tectonic significance of rapid uplift during SW-verging deformation along the SW flank of the Selkirk fan structure, SE British Columbia”, Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Final Program and Abstracts, p. A-115 .

 

Doughty, P. T. and Price, R. A., 1994:  “Nature and thermochronology of Mesoproterozoic basement in the Priest River complex, northern Idaho”; Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol 26 No. 7 (Annual Meeting), p. A-526.

 

Price, R. A., 1994:  “‘Triangle Zones’ as elements in a temporal and spatial spectrum of tectonic wedging and delamination”; Exploration Update ‘94, CSEG & CSPG Joint National Convention, Program, Expanded Abstracts and Biographies, p. 208.

 

Price, R. A., 1994:  “A 200-km right-hand offset in the cratonic margin at the Crowsnest Pass cross-strike discontinuity:  Tectonic heredity with Late, Middle, and Early Proterozoic antecedents”; Exploration Update ‘94, CSEG & CSPG Joint National Convention, Calgary, Program, Expanded Abstracts and Biographies, p. 315.

 

Price, R. A. and Sears, J. W., 1994:  “Large longitudinal variations in Late Cretaceous and Paleocene tectonic convergence across the southern Canadian Rockies: A result of Right-hand transpression between Cordilleran accreted terranes and North America”; Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol 26 No. 7 (Annual Meeting), p. A-526.

 

Sears, J. W. and Price, R. A., 1994:  “Large-scale clockwise thrust rotation of the southern Canadian and northern Montana Rockies about and Euler pole near Helena Montana: Evidence from tectonic inversion of the Belt basin”; Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol 26 No. 7 (Annual Meeting), p. A-526.

 

Colpron, M., Price, R. A., and Carmichael, D. M., 1994:  “Relationships between regional deformation, metamorphism and pluton emplacement along the west flank of the Selkirk fan structure, SE Canadian Cordillera”; Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol 26 No. 2 (Cordilleran Section), p. 45.

 

Doughty, P. T., Price, R. A., and Parrish, R. R., 1994:  “Accommodation of crustal extension by regional strain and magma intrusion with the Priest River complex, U.S.A.” Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol 26 No. 2 (Cordilleran Section), p. 49.

 

Price, R. A., 1994:  “Eocene crustal stretching, south-central Canadian Cordillera:  Tectonic setting and deep processes”; Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol 26 No. 2 (Cordilleran Section), p. 82.

 

Warren, M. J. and Price, R. A., 1994:  “New perspectives on tectonic contrasts between the central Kootenay arc and Purcell; anticlinorium, SE B.C.”; Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol 26 No. 2 (Cordilleran Section), p. 102.

 

Doughty, P. T. and Price, R. A., 1993:  “Geometry of faults bounding the Priest River Complex: Implications of thermobarometry and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology”; Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol 25, No. 6 (Annual Meeting), p. A173.

 

Price, R. A., 1993: “Tectonic heredity, tectonic inversion, and cross-strike discontinuities in thrust and fold belts: an example from the southeastern Canadian Cordillera”; Geological “Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol, 25, No. 2 (Northeastern Section), p.71.

 

Castonguay, S. and Price, R. A., 1993:  “Evolution of a steep oblique hanging wall ramp near the southern termination of the Misty Range thrust fault, Rocky Mountain Front Ranges, Kananaskis Country, Alberta”, Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Program and Abstracts, p. A-17.

 

Price, R. A. and Welbon, A., 1993:  “Devonian reactivation of Proterozoic and early Paleozoic transverse, northeast-trending faults and associated volcanism in the southern Canadian Rockies”; Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Program and Abstracts, p. A-85 .

 

Price, R. A., 1993:  “Eocene crustal stretching, southeastern Canadian Cordillera: Passive upper crustal response to ductile boudinage of the lower crust above a fluid mantle”; Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Program and Abstracts, p. A-86 .

 

Geological Maps and Sections

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Mountjoy, E. W. and Price, R. A., 2003, “Geology, Athabasca Falls Alberta (83 C/12)”, Geological Survey of Canada Map 2007A, (1:50,000 map and structure sections).

 

Mountjoy, E. W., Patenaude, C., and Price, R. A., 2003,  “Geology, Southesk Lake, Alberta (83 C/11)”, Geological Survey of Canada Map 1943A, (1:50,000 map and structure sections).

 

Mountjoy, E. W., Windh, J., Price, R. A., and Douglas, R. J. W., (2002) “Geology, George Creek, Alberta (83 C/10)”, Geological Survey of Canada Map 1990A, (1:50,000 map and structure sections).

 

Höy, T., Price, R.A., Legun, A. Grant, B. and Brown, D., 1996, “Purcell Supergroup, Southeastern British Columbia, Geological Compilation Map, NTS 82G; 82F/E; 82J/SW; 82K/SE, Scale 1:250000”.  British Columbia Ministry of Energy Mines and Petroleum Resources, Geological Survey Branch Geoscience Map 1995-1.

 

Price, R.A., Grieve, D., and Patenaude, C., 1992; "Geology and structure cross-sections, Tornado Mountain, British Columbia-Alberta", Geological Survey of Canada, Map 1823A, (1:50,000-scale geological map and structure sections).

 

Welbon, A. I. and Price, R. A., 1993, “Geology of the Wildhorse River-Lussier River Area, S.E. British Columbia”, British Columbia Ministry of Energy Mines and Petroleum Resources, Geological Survey Branch, Open File 1993-7 (geological map, scale 1:50,000).

 

 

Edited books

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Leith, J. A., Price, R. A. and Spencer, J. H., (editors), 1995; “Planet Earth: Problems and Prospects”.  McGill-Queen’s University Press, 196 p.

 

Price, R.A., editor, 1989: "Origin and Evolution of Sedimentary Basins and Their Energy and Mineral Resources", American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph 48 (IUGG Volume 3), 202p.

Geological field Trip Guidebooks

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Price, R. A. and Monger, J. W. H., 2003, “A transect of the Southern Canadian Cordillera from Calgary to Vancouver, May 2003”, Geological Association of Canada, Cordilleran Section, Vancouver, (revised edition), 165 p.

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Price, R. A., 2000, “The Southern Canadian Rockies: Evolution of a foreland thrust and fold belt: Field Trip Guidebook “, GeoCanada 2000, Calgary. 246p.

 

Monger, J. W. H. and Price, R. A., 2000.  “A transect of the Southern Canadian Cordillera from Vancouver to Calgary”, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File #3902, 168p.

 

Price, R.A. and Monger, J.W.H., 2000, “A transect of the Southern Canadian Cordillera from Calgary to Vancouver”, Geological Association of Canada, Cordilleran Section, Vancouver, 164p.

 

Other Publications

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Cooley, M. A., Price, R. A., Dixon, J. M., and Kyser, T. K., 2003, “Architecture of a paleo-hydrocarbon reservoir: Structural geology of the Southern Livingstone Range Anticlinorium”; Fold-Fault Research Project Research Report, Volume 8, University of Calgary, p. 15-1 to 15-16.

 

Monger, J. W. H. and Price, R. A.  (2002). "The Canadian Cordillera: Geology and Tectonic Evolution." Canadian Society of Geophysicists Recorder, v. 27, No. 2, p. 17-36.

 

Price, R. A., 1999, “National geological surveys: present and future role in a changing world”’, in Lucas. S. A., coordinator, “Final Report on the Geological Survey of Canada Bedrock Geoscience Program Workshop, February 23-25, 1997”, Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 65, p. 7-12.

 

Price, R. A. (Chairman and Editor) and 14 others, 1996; “An addendum to the Report of the Scientific Review Group”:   “An Evaluation of ‘Environmental Impact Statement on the Disposal of Canada’s Nuclear Fuel Wastes’, AECL 10-711 COG 93-1”, a report of the Scientific Review Group to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Panel on the Disposal of Canada’s Nuclear Fuel Waste, 24 p.

 

Stepp, J. C., Price, R. A., Coppersmith, K. J., Klimkiewicz, G. C., McGuire, R. K., 1995; “Report: AECB Workshop on Seismic Hazard Assessment in Southern Ontario”; Atomic Energy Control Board, Ottawa.

 

Price, R. A., (Chairman and Editor, and 14 others), 1995; “An Evaluation of ‘Environmental Impact Statement on the Disposal of Canada’s Nuclear Fuel Wastes’, AECL 10-711 COG 93-1”, a report of the Scientific Review Group to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Panel on the Disposal of Canada’s Nuclear Fuel Waste, 278 p.

 

Monger, J.W.H., Clowes, R.M., Cowan, D.S., Potter, C.J., Price, R.A., and Yorath, C.J., 1994; "Continent–ocean transition in western North American between latitudes 45 and 56 degrees: Transects B1, B2, B3"; in Speed, R. C., ed., “Phanerozoic Evolution of North American Continent-Ocean Transition”: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, DNAG Continent-Ocean Transect Volume, p. 357-397.

 

Fisher, R. and 19 others, 1994: Review of EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program: Forest and Estuarine Components; National Research Council, Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, (a report of the Committee to Review of EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program), 98 p.

 

Price, R. A., 1994:  “National geological surveys: Their present and future roles”, in Bouchard, D. S., Findlay, D. C., Kiel, M. J., McLeod, C., R., and Scott, J.S. (editors), “National Geological Surveys in the 21st Century”, Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report Number 55, p. 3-10.

 

Publications - in press

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Price, R.A., Mountjoy, E. W., Balkwill, H. R., and Cook, D. G.,  “Geology, Blaeberry River, Alberta and British Columbia (82 N/10”; Geological Survey of Canada Map xxxxA, (1:50,000 map and structure sections).

 

Monger, J. W. H., Price, R. A., and  Noklebeg, W. J., “North American Regional Geology: Northern Cordillera: Washington-Montana, Canada and Alaska” in Encyclopedia of Geology,

 

Osadetz, K., Kohn, B., Feinstein, S. and Price, R., “Foreland Belt Thermal History Using Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology: Implications for Lewis Thrust and Flathead Fault in the Southern Canadian Cordilleran Petroleum Province”. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir