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Grant Mossop

Canadian geologist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ16016537 ↗
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Grant Mossop (1948 – 7 October 2005) was a geologist from Canada. He earned a B.Sc. in 1970 and an M.Sc. in 1971 from the University of Calgary followed by a Ph.D. in geology from the University of London. He served as the Director of the Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology, Geological Survey of Canada Calgary. A graduate scholarship in his name was established in 2009.

He was awarded the Ambrose Medal of the Geological Association of Canada in 1995.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Grant Mossop” as canadian geologist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 2005, 1970, 1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Grant, Mossop and Canadian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as canadian geologist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Grant Mossop” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.