Peter Jones obtained his Doctor of Science degree in Geology and Geophysics from Colorado School of Mines, U. S. A., with a thesis in the southern Canadian Rockies. Since then he worked on projects and field studies in the Americas, Arctic Alaska and Canada, Africa, Europe Asia and Southeast Asia as an oil company geologist, academic, and international consultant. He was co-author of the world’s first commercially available software for constructing balanced cross-sections. In 1997 he was awarded the Douglas Medal, highest scientific award of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, for “…contributions to the understanding of fold and thrust belts in general, in particular the Canadian Rocky Mountains.” He was elected to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to the structural geology of the Soviet Union. He has published some 40 papers on the structural geology of many countries in journals ranging from Nature to Izvestia of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He is best known for his demonstration that the “Triangle Zone” at the east edge of the Canadian Cordillera was not a local anomaly but the “type section” for the frontal margins of several worldwide orogenies. Since 1978 he had been running field trips for geologist and geophysicists through the foothills and Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia, illustrating trips and courses with his own aerial photography.