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Hollis Dow Hedberg
Hollis Dow Hedberg
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Cohen said of him: In the course of a lifetime of distinguished service to his discipline, service which has earned him international recognition and honor, he has attained first-rank standing in academic circles while simultaneously pursuing a successful career m the petroleum industry, most notably, since 1946, with Gulf Oil as a senior officer concerned with exploration. In short at once a man of thought and a man of affairs, he has built bridges between the theoretical and the practical, contriving lines of communication that reach from the realms of teaching and research to provide a basis for decision making and action in the world of affairs.
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respected charge of all geological operageologist in Venezuela, in tions for Mene Grande Oil Company in eastern Venezuela, which were considerable. T certainty could not have guessed ~ 1~ 1_ _ · , , 1 · · .
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During his lifetime, Hedberg serves this society on many committees and contributes frequently to the Bulletin. Heclberg's first employment is with the Lago Petroleum Company, a Venezuelan subsidiary of the Stanclarcl Oil Company of Indiana, as a petrographer in their Maracaibo labo
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During that period of time he uses some of his work to publish "Some Aspects of Sedimentary Petrography in Relation to Stratigraphy in the Bolivar Coast Fielcis of the Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela" (19281. There he expresses, for the first time in print, his belief that criteria other than fossils can be used for correlating and ciating rocks.
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S Bleeker, chief geologist of the Venezuelan Gulf Oil Company, offers him a job in the geological laboratory in Maracaibo as a stratigrapher.
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Inocencio accepts, learns how to read and much more, raises a nice family, and remains, until his death many years later, one of the best technicians Gulf has ever had. This pattern of helping deserving people in all walks of life will be repeated countless times during Hollis Hedberg's lifetime.
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In June :1937 he is appointed stratigrapher and director of the new geological laboratory in Oficina (E1 Tigre) and is put in charge of geological operations in eastern Venezuela for Mene Grancle Oil Company (former Venezuelan Gulp, where the first wildcat Oficina No.
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W Tomlinson's on "Techniques of Stratigraphic Nomenclature" (194l,1)
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In August 1946 he is appointed chief geologist, Foreign Exploration Division of the Gulf Oil Corporation, in charge of all geological activities in foreign countries (except Venezuela en c! Canada)
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meets Maurice Ewing, with whom he (levelops a strong friendship. In 1958 he is elected vice-president of the Geological Society of America ant!
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He travels extensively in the United States and abroad either on Gulf business or to attend conferences. Much of his travel expenses are out of his own pocket, and all the Hecibergs' vacation trips are centered around some geological activity such as visiting type sections ant!
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have them agreed on, accepted, anti used as "guicle" (not law) by the international geological community.
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Heclberg is a strong influence on the ISSC until his cleath, and between 1954 and 1976 he publishes twenty-five papers pertinent to stratigraphic classification. In 1983 the North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature publishes North American Stratigraphic Code, which, although it has some new terms, follows the guiclelines set the by ISSC Guide.
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on Safety and Pollution Prevention from 1970 to 1977. Also cluring the same time he begins to stress the economic potential ancI strategic importance of offshore exploration ancl convinces Gulf Oil management to build a ship for the purpose of evaluating and exploring offshore sedimentary basins around the worIcI.
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The proposed technique is well explained and exemplified in National-International jurisdictional Boundary on the Ocean Floor.2 Unfortunately, the Third United Nations Law of the Sea Conference seems to be unable to reach an agreement due to conflicting self-interests of nations and moves toward a compromise boundary definition that he considers a "hodgepodge and travesty." In numerous papers and articles written between 1973 and 1983 he asks the United
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Further, President Reagan announces on July 9, 1982, that he will not sign the I~aw of the Sea Convention, and the Unitecl States walks out of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. This chapter is not closed yet, and let's hope that Hedberg's patriotic and rational opinion will influence the final outcome.
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Having reached a professional summit in both academic and industry circles, he is a living example of his strong belief that a close interaction between the two is essential for the progress of both. He expresses his thoughts on the subject at the 24th William Smith Lecture, in London in 970: "Petroleum and Progress in Geology" ~ ~ 971, ~ ~ .
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Unfortunately he cannot see the completion of the project clue to the increase in guerrilla warfare anct cirug trafficking, which renders the whole area unsafe for Americans and Colombians alike. From 1976 to 1984, he is a member of Gulf Oil Corporation's Science anti Technology Council, whose main objective is to monitor and advise Gulf Research & Development Company.
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In retrospect, Hollis Heciberg's life was closely intertwined with that of Gulf. Except for the early, short period with Lago Petroleum, it was the only company that he was ever associated with, and he strongly believed that Gulf's health depenclecl on a solid exploration effort.
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the University of Kansas Distinguished Service Award in 1963; the Geological Society of London William Smith Lecture in ~ 970; the AAPG Presiclent's Award, and is honoree of Princeton University Conference on Petroleum and Global Tectonic in 1972; the National Academy of Sciences Mary Clark Thompson Awarc! and the AAPG Human Neects Award in 1973; the Offshore Technology Conference Distinguished Achievement Award and the Geological Society of Lonclon Woliaston Medal in 1975; Doctor
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honorary memberships in the Sociedad Scient~fica Matematica, F~sica y Natural cle Venezuela in 1941, the Geological Society of Lonclon in 1957, the Asociacion Venezolana cle Geolog~a, Mineral y Petroleo in 1959, Geological Society of Stockholm in 1960, and The Danish Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1970. Hollis Hedberg tract a personal life as successful and rewarclin~ as his professional life.
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To succeed in convincing a corporation management to invest in areas with no previous success, to bring about an international consensus in the language of stratigraphic cIassification anct procedures, and to help keep the UnitecI States out of the Law of the Sea Convention as drafted by the UnitecI Nations required an incredible amount of determination, persistence, hard work, cliscipline, self-conficlence, courage and patience. To be admired, respected, and cared for by eve rybocly who came in contact with him required kindness, humility, understanding, and love.
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2. Lag of the Sea Institute, Underdo of Rhode Island, Occas10na1 Paper 16 ~ lg72)
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4~3:1971-2024. Foraminifera of the middle tertiary Carapita Formation of northeastern Venezuela.
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32:1851-908. 1950 Geology of the eastern Venezuela basin (Anzoategui-Monagas-SucreEastern Guarico portion)
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Twenty-first International Geological Congress, Copenhagen, Part 25, 38 pp. The Stratigraphic panorama.
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52:736-50. Some matters of concern to the petroleum industry with respect to public policy on mineral resources of the world ocean.
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24th International Geological Congress, Montreal, Canada, 30 pp. Preliminary Report on Stratotypes: International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification, Report no.
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Relation of methane generation to undercompacted shales, shale diapirs, and mud volcanoes.
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Oceanus 26:916. 1988 The 1740 Description by Daniel Tilas of Stratigraphy and Petroleum Occurrence at Osmudsberg in the Siljan Region of Central Sweden.
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