INSTAAR: Mort Turner

Born: October 24, 1920
Died: May 1, 2004
Mort Turner Memorial Page

Fellow Emeritus of INSTAAR, University of Colorado.

PhD, University of Kansas, 1972.

INSTAAR Directorate Members

Specialty: Glacial and archaeological geology.

Research Interests: Active research interests are (1) glacial geology and archaeological geology of southwestern Montana, (2) environment and archaeological geology of late Pleistocene ice-sheet margins in the United States, (3) geology and mineral resources of Antarctica, (4) tectonic development of the Caribbean region, and (5) archaeological geology of early man in the Americas, China, and Russia.

Outstanding Award :H. Marie Wormington Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to the understanding and preservation of America's earliest cultural heritage, from the Center for the Study of the First Americans, Oregon State University 1995.

Selected Publications:

Turner, M.D., Splettstoesser, J.F., and McClelland, J.J., 1990: Antarctic logistic support for the earth science. In: Splettstoesser, J.F., and Dreshhoff, G.A.M. (eds.), Mineral Resources Potential of Antarctica. Antarctic Research Series, 51, Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, 223-235.
Bonnichsen, R., Douglas, D., Stanyard, B., MacWilliams, A.C., Beatty, M., Turner, M.D., and Turner, J.C., 1990: Change in lithic procurement systems from southwestern Montana: Culture history or environmental forcing? Scientific Reports of the International Symposium, "Chronostratigraphy of the Paleolithic of North, Central, East Asia, and America". Novosibirsk, U.S.S.R., Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., Institute of History, Philology, and Philosophy, Siberian Branch, pp. 146-157.
Bonnichsen, R., Beatty, M., Turner, M.D., Douglas, J.C. , and Douglas, D., 1992: Paleoindian lithic procurement at the South Fork of Everson Creek, southwestern Montana; a preliminary statement. In: Day, J.D., and Stanford, D.J. (eds.), Ice-age Hunters of the Rockies. Denver Museum of Natural History and Univ. Press of Colorado, 285-321.
Turner, M.D., Beatty, M.T., Klages, M., McDaniel, P., Turner, J.C., and Bonnichsen, R., 1992: Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene paleoclimates and environments of southwestern Montana. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 8:119-122.
Jodry, M., Spero, V., Turner, M.D., and Turner J.C., 1993: Black Mountain hunting camp, Paleoindians in the high country. First Rocky Mountain Anthropology Conference, Jackson, Wyoming, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 1993, Program and Abstracts, p. 24.

See Also:

Mort D. Turner