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The LITHOPROBE Celebratory Conference:
From Parameters to Processes
Revealing the Evolution of a Continent

General Information >> 3-Day Program >>

Contributed Asbstracts (Oral and Poster):

Abstracts of Oral Presentations

Geodynamical Modeling of Collisional Orogens: From Small-Cold to Large-Hot Orogens and Applications to Lithoprobe Problems
C. Beaumont, M.H. Nguyen, R.A. Jamieson and B.Lee

The Slave craton from on top: The crustal view
Wouter Bleeker, John Ketchum, Bill Davis, Keith Sircombe, Richard Stern and John Waldron

The Grenville orogen of Ontario and New York – A Himalayan-Scale Mountain Belt: Significance of along-strike variations
S.D. Carr, R.M. Easton, R.A. Jamieson, N.G. Culshaw and D.J. White

LITHOPROBE - A Legacy of Benefits to Canada
Ron M. Clowes

Probing the Lithosphere of the Wopmay Orogen
Frederick A. Cook

The Evolving Cordilleran Lithosphere
Frederick A. Cook, Philippe Erdmer and Arie J. van der Velden

An 1800-km cross section of the lithosphere through the northwestern North American plate: Lessons from 4.0 billion years of Earth’s history
Frederick A. Cook and Philippe Erdmer

Evolutionary Tectonic Development of the Trans-Hudson orogen - a tale of three cratons, a large ocean, accretionary and collisional tectonics
David Corrigan

The Middle Earth I: Ancient oceanic crust in the middle of the Prairies and formation of the Canadian Shield 2000 to 1800 million years ago
David Corrigan

Enhancing Base Metal Exploration Through Seismic Reflection Studies Adapted for the Crystalline Rock Environment
David W. Eaton, Bernd Milkereit and Matthew Salisbury

Probing the Cordilleran Lithosphere with Mafic Lavas and Mantle Xenoliths
Don Francis

The Ascendency of a Late Paleoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic Tectonic Dynasty: an Eastern Laurentian Perspective
Charles F. Gower

The Trans-Hudson and East Alberta orogens of western Canada – geophysical characteristics of complex collisional processes and delineation of the Sask craton
Z. Hajnal, D.J. White, B. Nemeth, R.M. Clowes, A.G. Jones and M.D. Thomas

Evolution of the Southeastern Churchill Province and Development of the Torngat Orogen in Northeastern Labrador – Results from Extensive Geological and Geophysical Studies
Jeremy Hall and Richard J. Wardle

Precambrian Mafic Magmatism: An Overview
Larry M. Heaman

The Superior Craton – What have we learned from geological, geochemical and geochronological studies? Lessons on the development of the Archean Earth and processes involved
H.H. Helmstaedt, R.M. Harrap and the Western Superior LITHOPROBE and NATMAP Working Groups

Giant Earthquakes Beneath Canada's West Coast
Roy D. Hyndman

The Middle Earth II: A Himalayan-scale mountain range through southern Ontario and Quebec – colliding continents enlarge proto-North America from 1100 – 1000 Ma
Andrew Hynes

Metamorphic-Tectonic Interactions in Large Hot Orogens: Lower Crustal Flow in the Central Gneiss Belt, Western Grenville Province
R.A. Jamieson, C. Beaumont, M.H. Nguyen and N.G. Culshaw

The Slave craton from underneath: The mantle view
Alan G. Jones, Bill Davis, Wouter Bleeker And Herman Grütter

Progressive proterozoic growth of southern Laurentia by magmatic stabilization of lithosphere, and preservation of proterozoic suture scars in the modern-day lithosphere
Karl Karlstrom and Steven J. Whitmeyer

The northern Canadian Cordillera - a synthesis of new geological and geophysical results for the Yukon and surrounding areas
James K. Mortensen

Orogenic framework for the Superior Province: Dissection of the “Kenoran Orogeny”
J.A. Percival and Western Superior NATMAP Working Group

Some Recurring Themes in Cordilleran Orogenic Evolution: Tectonic Heredity, Tectonic Wedging, and Retrograde Mantle Flow
Raymond A. Price

Coupled Mantle-Crust Dynamics and Its Relevance for Tectonic Processes Effect of Mantle Dynamics and Properties on Lithospheric Structure
Russell N. Pysklywec and Christopher Beaumont

Architecture and tectonic evolution of the Grenville Province: Part of a hot wide orogen that developed over 200 M.y. on the southeastern margin of Laurentia
Toby Rivers

Secular Changes in Tectonic Evolution and the Growth of Continental Lithosphere
Tom Skulski, Andrew Hynes, John Percival, Jim Craven, Mary Sanborn-Barrie and Herb Helmstaedt

Diamonds and kimberlite intrusions – contributions from LITHOPROBE and related geophysical, geochemical and petrological studies
David B. Snyder

The Northern Appalachian Orogen – From Rifting and Ocean Opening to Accretion of Oceanic Terranes and Collisional Events
Cees van Staal, Johan Lissenberg, Neil Rogers, Alex Zagorevski, Jean Bédard, Arjan Brem, George Jenner, Shoufa Lin, Vicky McNicoll, Sally Pehrsson, Pablo Valverde-Vaquero, Arie van der Velden, John Waldron and Joseph Whalen

The Late Earth I: The story of the Appalachians – Opening and Closure of Ocean Basins and the Arrival of South American and African Pieces in Atlantic Canada
Cees van Staal, Conall MacNiocaill, Pablo Valverde-Vaquero and Vicki McNicoll

The Superior Craton – What have we learned from reflection, refraction, teleseismic, magnetotelluric and heat flow studies? Lessons on development of the Archean Earth and processes involved
D. J. White for the Western Superior LITHOPROBE and NATMAP Working Groups

Recombining the fragmented structure and memory of cratons
Maarten J de Wit, AEON (Africa Earth Observatory Network)




Abstracts of Poster Presentations

Elastic thickness and mechanical anisotropy of the lithosphere: Implications for the depth scale of lithospheric deformations
Pascal Audet and Jean-Claude Mareschal

Terranes in the Appalachian Orogen of Maritime Canada: The Devil is in the Details
S.M. Barr, C.E. White and R.P. Raeside

Subduction-Driven Continental Assembly in the Late Archean: The LITHOPROBE Abitibi Transect Across the Southeast Superior Province
A.J. Calvert, J.N. Ludden and G. Bellefleur

Reflections of the Cordilleran Lithosphere in Canada: An Integrated View
Frederick A. Cook, Philippe Erdmer, Arie J. van der Velden and Sarah J. Travis

Lateral and Vertical Growth of Cratons: Seismic and Magnetotelluric Evidence from the Western Superior Transect
James A. Craven, Tom T. Skulski and Don W. White

Structural Evolution of the Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada: Tectonic Processes During 200 Ma at a Paleoproterozoic Active Margin
N. Culshaw, J. Ketchum and S.M. Barr

Proterozoic Deformation of the Superior Province from Palaeomagnetic Studies of Dyke Swarms: Contributions to the Origin of the Kapuskasing Zone and Hudson Bay Embayment
Henry C. Halls

Lithospheric structure in northwestern Canada: A synthesis of LITHOPROBE seismic refraction, wide-angle reflection and related studies
Philip T.C. Hammer, Ron M. Clowes, Gabriela Fernandez Viejo and J. Kim Welford

Thermal State of the Mantle Lithosphere beneath the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, British Columbia
M. Harder and J.K. Russell

Mantle Temperatures and Archean Passive Margins
Andrew Hynes and Tom Skulski

Evolution of the Slave Province and Abitibi Subprovince Based on U-Pb Dating and Hf Isotopic Composition of Zircon
John W.F. Ketchum, Wouter Bleeker, William L. Griffin, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly, Norman J. Pearson and John A. Ayer

Evolution of the southern margin of the Wabigoon Subprovince, Beardmore-Geraldton Belt, SW Ontario
Bruno Lafrance, Jerry C. DeWolfe and Greg M. Stott

The Northeastern Superior Province in Quebec’s Far North: A Regional Synthesis
Alain Leclair, Alain Berclaz, Jean David and the Far North Working Group

Synchronous Vertical and Horizontal Tectonism in the Archean: Kinematic Evidence from a Synclinal Keel in the Northwestern Superior Province, Manitoba
Shoufa Lin

Deep Thermal Structure of the Lithosphere from Inversion of Seismic Surface Wave with Constraints from Heat Flow Data
Jean-Claude Mareschal, Claude Jaupart, Nikolai Shapiro and Michael Ritzwoller

Multiple Episodes of Volcanism in the Island Lake Greenstone Belt: Evidence for a Volcanic “Megasequence” and Implications for the Extent of the North Caribou Craton in the Northwestern Superior Province
Jen Parks, Shoufa Lin, Don Davis and Tim Corkery

Evolution of thought on the Evolution of a Craton: New Perspectives on the Origin and Reworking of the Western Churchill Province
S.J. Pehrsson and the western Churchill Metallogeny Project working group

LITHOPROBE Seismic & MT Data Archive: A Rich Legacy of Crustal Geophysical Data Collected Across Canada
Brian Roberts and Shahryar Shareef

Seismic Evidence for the Lateral and Vertical Growth of Cratons
David B. Snyder

On the Geodynamic Evolution of the Northern Border of the Congo Craton in Cameroon: Evidences from New Petrological, Isotope Geochemical and Geochronological Data from the Bafoussam-Makenene Region
Jean Pierre Tchouankoue, Richard T. Ghogomu and Jacqueline Tchakounte

A Review of Greenstone Belts in the Superior Province and the Evolution of Archean Tectonic Processes
Kirsty Y. Tomlinson

Deep Seismic Reflection Structure of the Newfoundland Appalachians
Arie J. van der Velden, Cees R. van Staal and Frederick A. Cook

LITHOPROBE Trans-Canada Transect
Arie J. van der Velden, Kris Vasudevan, Frederick A. Cook, Ron M. Clowes, Philip T.C. Hammer and Alastair F. McClymont

Sedimentary Basins Related to Late-Orogenic Strike Slip: LITHOPROBE East and the Maritimes Basin in the Appalachians
John W.F. Waldron

Lithoprobe Transect:- The Kapuskasing Structural Zone. A Summary and Personal Interpretation of Results
G. F. West

Orogenic Channels in the Paleoproterozoic: Kinematics of Cratonic Collision and Exhumation, SW Baffin Island, Canada
J.C. White, D.C. Copeland, M.R. St-Onge, N. Wodicka and D.J. Scott


 

 

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