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James Gilluly
James Gilluly
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mother's grandparents had immigratect to the United States as rebels against repressive or unpopular regimes. Giiluly was born in Seattle, Washington, June 24, 1896, the son of Charles Elijah Gilluly and Louisa Elizabeth iBriegel]
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The outbreak of World War ~ brought him back to the States, where he lived on his uncle's farm until he enterecT the University of Washington in the fall of 1915. His university career, however, was interrupted from time to time, partly by the necessity of meeting his living expenses and partly by enlistment in the Navy when the United States entered the war.
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It was a strenuous and trying introduction to Geological Survey fieldwork in a harsh and unknown environment. Gilluly, after arrival at Point Barrow by boat from Seattle, started out with canoes and two young Eskimo assistants along the Arctic to map one of the larger rivers flowing northward into the Arctic Ocean.
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Successive fielcl assignments to eastern Colorado, the San Rafael Swell in Utah, the Oquirrh Range in Utah, the Aclirondacks in New York, the Canal Zone in Panama, the Baker area in Oregon, and the Ajo and Tombstone districts in Arizona provided Gilluly with a broad background of experience in widely different geologic terranes that supplemented his voracious reading. The field assignments resultecI not only in a series of Survey reports of high quality but also by-product papers on particular phases of geology that were significant contributions to geologic literature.
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This dissatisfaction reached a climax in the McCarthy era, when the University of California was required to insist on a loyalty oath sworn annually by the faculty members. Rather than acquiesce in what he regarded as an intolerable personal ant!
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Nevertheless, other responsibilities in the Survey and the National Research Council took an increasing proportion of his time and energy. After a minor heart attack during his service as chairman of the Division of Earth Sciences of the National Research Council, and a minor accident during some renewed fieldwork in Nevada, he reluctantly gave up rigorous fieldwork and divided his time between extensive reading, in preparation for revision of the Principles, and travel over much of the globe in company with his wife, Enid.
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during his earlier geologic fieldwork in the western United States concerning the nature and causes of the geologic structures that he mapped. This interest became a recurrent theme, and may be seen in the series of later papers concerning the distribution of mountain builcling in geologic time; volcanism, tectonism, and plutonism in the western United States; orogeny and geochronology; and crustal deformation in the western United States, among others.
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The University of Washington, his undergraduate University, named him Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus in 1963, a highly prestigious award in that the University bestows it upon only one alumnus each year. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Member of the Geolog 23.
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Finally, the citation by the University Orator at the time of Gilluly's receipt of the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Princeton University is an appraisal that many of us regard as supremely fitting: "Dean of American field geologists, inimitable investigator of the inanimate, he is the spiritual descendant of the classical giant Antaeus, who was never so strong as when his feet stood on Terra Firma. Rockbound coasts hold no terrors for him he analyzes them; he lifts up his eyes unto the hills and explains their formation; his brilliant record places him in the forefront of the most impregnable of professions, for it is founded upon rock."
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B Reeside, in Sedimentary rocks of the San Rafael Swell and some adjacent areas in eastern Utah.
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Ross. Mesothermal gold deposits: Ore deposits of the western States (Lindgren volume)
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Bull., 42:2813-57. 1963 The tectonic evolution of the western United States 17th William Smith Lecture.
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Sc~ence,166:99294. 1970 Crustal deformation in the western United States.
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In: Biographical Memoirs Or the National Academy of Sciences, vol.
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