Earth Sciences Publications
Research in the Department of Earth Sciences is organized into four broad and wide-ranging themes: Earth Evolution Surface Life and Climate, Earth and Planetary Systems, Resource Geoscience and Tectonic Processes and Crustal Dynamics. These themes capture the wide range of research activities across the faculty.
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Submissions from 2022
Hot Rocks: Constraining the Thermal Conditions of the Mistastin Lake Impact Melt Deposits Using Zircon Grain Microstructures, Gavin Douglas Tolometti, Timmons M. Erickson, Gordon R. Osinski, Cyril Cayron, and Catherine Neish
Differentiating Fissure-Fed Lava Flow Types and Facies Using RADAR and LiDAR: An Example from the 2014–2015 Holuhraun Lava Flow-field, Gavin Douglas Tolometti, Catherine D. Neish, Christopher W. Hamilton, Gordon R. Osinski, Antero Kukko, and Joana R.C. Voigt
Submissions from 2021
Spectral properties of lunar impact melt deposits from Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) data, Catherine Neish, Kevin Cannon, Livio Tornabene, Roberta Flemming, Michael Zanetti, and Eric Pilles
Submissions from 2020
Interpretations of Lava Flow Properties from Radar Remote Sensing Data, Gavin Douglas Tolometti, Catherine Neish, Gordon R. Osinski, Scott S. Hughes, and Shannon E. Kobs-Nawotniak
Submissions from 2019
Stable Isotopic Characterization of a Coastal Floodplain Forest Community: A Case Study for Isotopic Reconstruction of Mesozoic Vertebrate Assemblages, Thomas M. Cullen, Fred Longstaffe, Ulrich G. Wortmann, Mark B. Goodwin, Li Huang, and David C. Evans
Stable Isotopes of Clay Minerals from Autoclave Tests of Oil Sands: Implications for Clay Formation during Steaming of Alberta Clearwater Oil Sands, Shaoneng He, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Zhihong Zhou
Giant Beaver Palaeoecology Inferred from Stable Isotopes, Tessa Plint, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Grant Zazula
Reframing the Mammoth Steppe: Insights from Analysis of Isotopic Niches, Rachel Schwartz-Narbonne, Fred J. Longstaffe, Kevin J. Karydynal, Patrick Druckenmiller, Keith A. Hobson, Christopher N. Jass, Jessica Z. Metcalfe, and Grant Zazula
Tree-ring Isotopes Adjacent to Lake Superior Reveal Cold Winter Anomalies for the Great Lakes Region of North America, Steven L. Voelker, Simon S.-Y Wang, Todd E. Dawson, John S. Roden, Christopher J. Still, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Avner Ayalon
Fluid-present Anatexis of Neoarchean Tonalite and Amphibolite in the Western Shandong Province, Chris Yakymchuk, Wenran Zhao, Yusheng Wan, Shoufa Lin, and Fred Longstaffe
Submissions from 2018
Strategies for detecting biological molecules on Titan, Catherine Neish, Ralph Lorenz, Elizabeth Turtle, Jason Barnes, Melissa Trainer, Bryan Stiles, Randolph Kirk, Charles Hibbitts, and Michael Malaska
Petrology and Geochemistry of the Tasse Mantle Xenoliths of the Canadian Cordillera: A Record of Archean to Quaternary Mantle Growth, Metasomatism, Removal, and Melting, Ali Polat, Robert Frei, Fred J. Longstaffe, Derek J. Thorkelson, and Eyal Friedman
Petrogenetic and Geodynamic Origin of the Neoarchean Doré Lake Complex, Abitibi Subprovince, Superior Province, Canada, Ali Polat, Robert Frei, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Ryan Woods
An Overview of Anorthosite-bearing Layered Intrusions in the Archaean Craton of Southern West Greenland and the Superior Province of Canada: Implications for Archaean Tectonics and the Origin of Megacrystic Plagioclase, Ali Polat, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Robert Frei
Pilot ambient noise tomography study for mineral exploration potential, Hema Sharma and Sheri Molnar
Nitrogen Isotopes Suggest a Change in Nitrogen Dynamics between the Late Pleistocene and Modern Time in Yukon, Canada, Farnoush Tahmasebi, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Grant Zazula
Submissions from 2017
Stable isotope investigation of the migratory behavior of silverhaired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) in eastern North America, Erin E. Fraser, Darin Brooks, and Fred J. Longstaffe
Within-wing isotopic (δ2H, δ13C, δ15N) variation of monarch butterflies: implications for studies of migratory origins and diet, Keith A. Hobson, Tessa Plint, Eligio García Serrano, Xiomara Mora Alvarez, Isabel Ramirez, and Fred J. Longstaffe
New Biotite and Muscovite Isotopic Reference Materials, USGS57 and USGS58, for δ2H Measurements–A Replacement for NBS 30, Haiping Qi, Tyler B. Coplen, Matthias Gehre, Torsten W. Vennemann, Willi A. Brand, Heike Geilmann, Gerald Olack, Ilya N. Bindeman, Jim Palandri, Li Huang, and Fred J. Longstaffe
Nitrogen and Carbon Isotopic Dynamics of Subarctic Soils and Plants in Southern Yukon Territory and its Implications for Paleoecological and Paleodietary Studies, Farnoush Tahmesabi, Fred J. Longstaffe, Grant Zazula, and Bruce Bennett
Origin of Graphite in the Southwestern Grenville Province, Mehmet F. Taner, Cameron Drever, Chris Yakymhuk, and Fred Longstaffe
Submissions from 2016
Proportions of Convective and Stratiform Precipitation Revealed in Water Isotope Ratios, Pradeep K. Aggarwal, Ulrike Romatschke, Luis Araguas-Araguas, Dagnachew Belachew, Fred J. Longstaffe, Peter Berg, Courtney Schumacher, and Aaron Funk
Sources and Sinks of Microplastics in Canadian Lake Ontario Nearshore, Tributary and Beach Sediments, Anika Ballent, Patricia L. Corcoran, Odile Madden, Paul A. Helm, and Fred J. Longstaffe
Assortative mating but no evidence of genetic divergence in a species characterized by a trophic polymorphism, Scott F. Coborne, S R. Garner, Fred Longstaffe, and Bryan D. Neff
Limiting the impact of destructive analytical techniques through sequential microspatial sampling of the enamel from single teeth, Alexis E. Dolphin, Mathew A. Teeter, Christine D. White, and Fred J. Longstaffe