Session Listing
(Table Format)

GS2 -

Economic Geology

Time Abstract
Oral Presentations:
9:40 P. Hollings*, D.R. Cooke and J.L Walshe.  The characteristics, distribution and controls of giant porphyry copper deposits

GS5 -

Mineralogy and crystallography

Time Abstract
3:20 T.H. Pearce and L.D. Lepage*.  Violet laser induced fluorescence: a new tool for mineral identification

GS6 -

Petrology (Igneous and metamorphic) and volcanology

Time Abstract
9:40 J.P. Owen* and K. Bell.  Trace element and isotopic constraints on the origin and age of upper mantle metasomatism in central-southern Italy

GS7 -

Precambrian Geology

Time Abstract
9:40 R.A. Sproule*, M. Lesher, J.A. Ayer, P.C. Thurston and N.T. Arndt.  Nd isotope geochemistry of 2750 – 2701 Ma komatiitic rocks in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada

GS11 -

Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Paleontology

Time Abstract
11:00 D.J. Findlay*, F. McCarthy and U. Brand.  Mechanisms for anomalous calcium carbonate preservation in the abyssal western north Pacific

GS3 -

Environmental Geosciences and Geochemistry

Time Abstract
3:20 J. Potter*, M.G. Siemann and M. Tsypukov.  A study of the origin and behaviour of gases in salt deposits with implications for hazardous waste disposal

SM1 -

Sedimentology - progress, problems and future directions

Time Abstract
9:40 O. Catuneanu.  Sequence stratigraphy - early ideas, current confusions, and future directions

SM3 -

Paul F. Karrow Symposium – reviews and reflections on Quaternary Sciences

Time Abstract
9:40 S.M. Blasco* and F.M.G. McCarthy.  Late Quaternary history of the Georgian Bay Lake Basin- as viewed from the lakebed

SM4 -

Late Cenozoic Environmental Change in the Arctic

Time Abstract
10:40 W.W. Shilts.  Using periglacial patterns to map terrain materials on the Canadian Shield north of the treeline, west of Hudson Bay

SM5 -

S3: Sulphides, Structures and Synchrotron Light - A symposium in honour of Mike Fleet

Time Abstract
2:00 W.E. Stone*, E. Deloule, S.W. Beresford and M. Fiorentini.  Anomalously high δD values within the Archean Boston Creek ferropicrite, Abitibi Belt, Ontario: linkage of degassing to oxidation and PGE mineralisation in magnetite gabbro

SM6 -

The A, B, C’s of Conodonts (Autecology, Biostratigraphy and Conodont Palaeobiology)

Time Abstract
9:40 A.D. McCracken.  Ordovician conodonts from Akpatok Island, Nunavut

SS1 -

Atomic ordering in minerals and implications for mineral stability

Time Abstract
10:00 F.C. Hawthorne.  Short-range order in minerals: theory and experiment

SS3 -

Rocky shorelines in the geological record - Paleobiological and sedimentological signatures

Time Abstract
10:20 G.A. Young*, R.J. Elias, G.S. Nowlan, D.M. Rudkin and E.P. Dobrzanski.  The cove beneath the cove: Ordovician-Silurian paleoshorelines underlying a modern shore near Churchill Airport, northern Manitoba

SS4 -

Interpreting the structures in partially melted deep (>25km) continental crust

Time Abstract
3:20 E.L. Sawyer.  Field and petrological observation on the location of melt in deep crustal rocks

SS5 -

High-strain zones: From structural analysis and theoretical modeling to tectonic and economic significance

Time Abstract
10:20 W.M. Schwerdtner.  Monoclinic S/Z folds as shear-sense indicators within major high-strain zones

SS6 -

Groundwater resources I: Regional hydrogeology in southern Ontario

Time Abstract
9:40 P.J. Martin*, J. Graham, A.G. Merry and L. Nicks.  Toward Ontario’s groundwater management - Ambient Characterization of Regional Aquifers in Southwestern and Central Ontario

SS7 -

Groundwater resources II: Water quality and human health

Time Abstract
3:20 R. McGregor.  Mobility of caffeine, clofibric acid and ibuprofen in oxidizing and reducing aquifers

SS8 -

Enhancing Earth Science Awareness and Education

Time Abstract
9:40 G.S Nowlan.  Geoscience experience for northern communities (GENCOM): a project to enhance geoscience knowledge, especially in the communities of northern Canada

SS10 -

Rare Element Geochemistry and Ore Deposits

Time Abstract
10:00 R.L Linnen.  The importance of mafic wallrocks to the generation of large pegmatite-hosted tantalum deposits

SS11 -

Geoscience databases and GIS - Spatially enabling your data

Time Abstract
9:40 M.S. Robertson.  Land Information Ontario: creating a spatial data infrastructure for Ontario

SS13 -

Unconventional styles of Platinum Group Element mineralization

Time Abstract
10:00 T.E.S. Gomwe*, S-J. Barnes, M.J. Lavigne and C. Dionne-Foster.  Platinum-group element comparison of the Roby and Twilight Zones of the Lac des Iles Complex, northwest Ontario

SS14 -

Kimberlites and diamonds: New discoveries and new developments

Time Abstract
10:00 D.H. Quirt.  Cr-diopside (clinopyroxene) as a kimberlite indicator mineral for diamond exploration in glaciated terrains

SS15 -

Made in Ontario solutions to mineral exploration challenges

Time Abstract
3:20 P.B. Hostetler, J. Ray*, R. Dyer, G. Grabowski, D. Guindon and D. Russell.  Detecting and interpreting emergence sites of mineralized groundwater in lakes and rivers of Northern Ontario

SS17 -

The Earth Sciences and wine

Time Abstract
10:00 J.Z. Fraser*, H. Fisher and C. Clarke.  Evaluation of soil placement and ammendment strategies for viticultue in depleted limestone quarries in the Niagara Peninsula

SS18 -

The Niagara Escarpment Special Session: Earth Science and Environmental Planning

Time Abstract
9:40 B. Murch*, D. Kirk and J. Durst.  Eramosa Karst Area of natural and scientific interest (ANSI)

SS19 -

Molecules to Planets: Infrared spectroscopy in geochemistry, exploration geochemistry and remote sensing

Time Abstract
9:40 J.M. Byrnes*, M.S. Ramsey and P.L. King.  Infrared spectroscopic analysis of synthetic glasses: application to basaltic lava flow emplacement

SS20 -

Ontario Oil and Gas, the joining of two basins

Time Abstract
3:20 N. Garner and M.T. Cioppa*.  Paleomagnetism of subsurface Trenton Group carbonates, southwestern Ontario: preliminary results

SS21 -

Evolution of mid- to deep-crustal terrains through time

Time Abstract
9:40 C.O. Böhm*, L.M. Heaman and N. Machado.  Neoarchean high-grade metamorphism of the Pikwitonei Granulite Domain, NW Superior Craton

SS23 -

Early Earth Impacts and Planetary Science

Time Abstract
10:00 M.R. Dence.  Implications of structural trends in Canadian impact craters for early impacts on Earth

SS25 -

Holocene and Little Ice Age climate change in western Canada

Time Abstract
11:00 J.D. Tomkins* and S.F. Lamoureux.  Little Ice Age conditions in the southern Selwyn Mountains as indicated by varve structure in a subarctic lake