2010 CTG/SGTD 30th Anniversary Fall Workshop (British Columbia)
30/09/10 23:02
Hello,
This is additional information for the The 30th Annual Canadian Tectonics Group meeting to be held in Penticton, BC, October 15-17.
If you are planning to attend, and have not yet notified me (lkennedy@eos.ubc.ca), please do so asap.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: October 10.
The meeting will be held at the Days Inn Hotel and Convention Centre in Penticton (http://www.daysinnpenticton.ca/index.asp).
The cost of the meeting, including hotel rooms, food and transportation is $400.
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This is additional information for the The 30th Annual Canadian Tectonics Group meeting to be held in Penticton, BC, October 15-17.
If you are planning to attend, and have not yet notified me (lkennedy@eos.ubc.ca), please do so asap.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: October 10.
The meeting will be held at the Days Inn Hotel and Convention Centre in Penticton (http://www.daysinnpenticton.ca/index.asp).
The cost of the meeting, including hotel rooms, food and transportation is $400.
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Student Assistance to Attend the CTG
30/09/10 21:42
Hello all
The Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of the Geological Association of Canada will provide grants to enable students to attend the annual Canadian Tectonics Group meeting. Grants will be made up to a maximum total of $1000 (maximum $500 per eligible student).
The closing date for applications is October 8, 2010, two days prior to the abstract submission deadline. Read More...
The Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of the Geological Association of Canada will provide grants to enable students to attend the annual Canadian Tectonics Group meeting. Grants will be made up to a maximum total of $1000 (maximum $500 per eligible student).
The closing date for applications is October 8, 2010, two days prior to the abstract submission deadline. Read More...
Draft Minutes of GeoCanada 2010 Business Meeting
30/09/10 20:53
Here the draft minutes of our GeoCanada 2010 business meeting on 12 May in Calgary. To be confirmed at our forthcoming business meeting in Kelowna.
Download Program with Abstracts/Field Trip Guide of 1993 Fall Workshop in Espanola, Ontario
30/09/10 16:52
Download the pdf.
The meeting turned out to be a classic, where young graduate students were warmly welcomed and complimented by Mariette Henderson and her late husband Jack. Even the CTG logo was somewhat futuristic - and never repeated again.
When saying goodbye, Frank gave the UNB students a box of sandwiches left over from lunch for their long way back. ‘’These sandwiches are not even a week old!” commented a non-disclosed insider tongue-in-cheek. And this all happened a year before - to our knowledge - the first geological email attachment was sent from coast to coast across Canada. Read More...
Download Program with Abstracts/Field Trip Guide of 2009 Fall Workshop in Pine Falls, Manitoba
16/05/10 15:03
The combined Field Trip Guide/Program with Abstracts of the 29th CTG/SGTD workshop is now available for download. The meeting was held in Pine Falls, Manitoba, 2-4 Oct 2009. The field trip led into the Rice Lake greenstone belt. Thanks to the guys from the Manitoba survey for a very enjoyable 2 days.
Field Trip GAC/MAC 2011: Late Neoproterozoic-Early Devonian peri-Gondwanan Ganderia in the Northern Appalachians
15/05/10 10:37
The 2011 GAC-MAC Annual Meeting (Ottawa, May 25-27) will feature a fieldtrip exploring the distinct Late Neoproterozoic-Early Devonian tectonic history of peri-Gondwanan Ganderia in the Northern Appalachians. The fieldtrip will be led by Sandra Barr (Acadia University), Les Fyffe (NBGS), Susan Johnson (NBGS), Adrian Park (UNB), Cees van Staal (GSC) and Reg Wilson (NBGS). It is planned as a post-meeting fieldtrip that will provide a five-day transect through one of the best preserved sections of Ganderia in North America starting in Saint John, NB and ending in Bathurst, NB. We aim to address a number of subjects including distinct Neoproteozoic-Early Cambrian basement and its tectonic history (markedly different from adjacent Avalonia); opening and closure of the Cambrian-Tremadocian (514-485 Ma) Penobscot arc/backarc complex and the Penobscot orogeny; development of the Gander margin; opening and closure of the 475-457 Ma Popelogan arc/Tetagouche backarc complex; formation of the 445-423 Ma Brunswick subduction complex including the most extensive blueschsist belt in the Appalachian orogen; inversion of the Fredericton trough and the Salinic orogeny;development of the 440-423 Ma Kingston arc/Mascarene backarc on Ganderias trailing margin; and the 421-395 Ma Laramide-like Acadian orogeny. This trip will be especially interesting to Caledonian-Appalachian-Variscan aficionados and those interested in the Neoproteozoic-Paleozoic tectonics associated with the Iapetus and Rheic oceans in general. To design and plan the preliminary logistics of this trip we would like to know the interest from the community at large.
If you are interested in attending this fieldtrip, please email Cees van Staal.
If you are interested in attending this fieldtrip, please email Cees van Staal.
Business Meeting Calgary, 12 May 2010
12/05/10 21:23 Filed in: Photos
The CTG/SGTD had a joint meeting with the CSPG structure group at the Unicorn Pub in Calgary. The CSPG, which was represented by their chairperson Darcie Greggs, kindly supplied plenty of finger foods. An SGTD business meeting was held under the hockey playoff noise, chaired by John Waldron. The minutes will be posted here soon. In the meantime, here are a few photos. You may recognise some familiar faces.
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Read More...Welcome To GeoCanada 2010
09/05/10 13:50
Welcome to Calgary!
Just in time for our semi-annual business meeting, we finally have the whole online business completely re-organised by functionality:
1. Our blog is now the homepage: http://gac.esd.mun.ca/sgtd/
2. It contains a new interactive feature: Comments can be added
3. Our Facebook page has a whopping 16 subscribers, the number is growing annually.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canadian-Tectonics-Group/113983265308504
4. I would like to point out the practicality of the RSS feeder:
feed://gac.esd.mun.ca/sgtd/files/blog.xml
Semi-annual SGTD Meeting at GeoCanada 2010
02/05/10 16:49
By John Waldron
Greetings all,
The semi-annual meeting of the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division will take place at the GeoCanada meeting in Calgary at 5.30 pm on Wednesday May 12. Rather than hold this in the expensive convention centre, we have located a convenient hostelry, the Unicorn at 304, 8th Avenue SW, which has a room ('the Library') suitable for our meeting. Beer and food will be available from the bar on a cash/card basis. You are encouraged to order drinks or snacks before the meeting; I'd suggest arriving at 5 or 5.15 in case there is a line-up.
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Greetings all,
The semi-annual meeting of the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division will take place at the GeoCanada meeting in Calgary at 5.30 pm on Wednesday May 12. Rather than hold this in the expensive convention centre, we have located a convenient hostelry, the Unicorn at 304, 8th Avenue SW, which has a room ('the Library') suitable for our meeting. Beer and food will be available from the bar on a cash/card basis. You are encouraged to order drinks or snacks before the meeting; I'd suggest arriving at 5 or 5.15 in case there is a line-up.
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Open File Report, Northeastern Alberta
15/04/10 23:39
By Willem Langenberg
Canadian Structural Geologists:
The Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) has recently released an open file report by Dinu Pana on rocks of the Canadian Shield of northeastern Alberta, which may be of interest to all structural geologists working in strained terrains, because it includes a good documentation of rocks, which have previously been described as deformed meta-sediments, but could also include sheared granite protoliths. The rocks of the low-grade Waugh Lake Complex are possibly of similar origin as the rocks of the San Antonio Assemblage of the Rice Lake Greenstone Belt of northern Manitoba visited during CTG 2009.
The report can be down-loaded from: http://www.ags.gov.ab.ca/publications/abstracts/OFR_2009_22.html. Be patient, the download of the PDF (92 MB) could take between 1 and 3 minutes as it is dependant on your Internet connection.
Dinu Pana (dinu.pana@ercb.ca) will be interested to hear your opinions on these controversial rocks.
Canadian Structural Geologists:
The Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) has recently released an open file report by Dinu Pana on rocks of the Canadian Shield of northeastern Alberta, which may be of interest to all structural geologists working in strained terrains, because it includes a good documentation of rocks, which have previously been described as deformed meta-sediments, but could also include sheared granite protoliths. The rocks of the low-grade Waugh Lake Complex are possibly of similar origin as the rocks of the San Antonio Assemblage of the Rice Lake Greenstone Belt of northern Manitoba visited during CTG 2009.
The report can be down-loaded from: http://www.ags.gov.ab.ca/publications/abstracts/OFR_2009_22.html. Be patient, the download of the PDF (92 MB) could take between 1 and 3 minutes as it is dependant on your Internet connection.
Dinu Pana (dinu.pana@ercb.ca) will be interested to hear your opinions on these controversial rocks.
Turtle Mountain Field Trip, GeoCanada 2010
05/04/10 13:03
By Willem Langenberg
The GeoCanada 2010 Field trip to Turtle Mountain is the official SGTD sponsored field trip for this conference. The field trip will visit outcrops of the Turtle Mountain Thrust and the main Kootenay Formation coal seam and is completely different from the CTG 2006 field trip.
Good outcrops of thrust faults in the Canadian Rockies are relatively scarce; this field trip offers an opportunity to put your hand on a splay of the Turtle Mountain Thrust and observe fabrics related to the thrust movements.
We hope to see many members of the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division (SGTD) of the GAC on this trip next May.
The GeoCanada 2010 Field trip to Turtle Mountain is the official SGTD sponsored field trip for this conference. The field trip will visit outcrops of the Turtle Mountain Thrust and the main Kootenay Formation coal seam and is completely different from the CTG 2006 field trip.
Good outcrops of thrust faults in the Canadian Rockies are relatively scarce; this field trip offers an opportunity to put your hand on a splay of the Turtle Mountain Thrust and observe fabrics related to the thrust movements.
We hope to see many members of the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division (SGTD) of the GAC on this trip next May.
Photos of the 2009 Pine Falls Workshop
27/03/10 19:26
GeoCanada 2010, Calgary, May 10-14
27/03/10 18:29
The 2010 GeoCanada meeting will be held in Calgary from May 10 to May 14, 2010.
GeoCanada will serve as the Annual Convention for:
• The Geological Association of Canada (GAC)
• The Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC)
• The Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG)
• The Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG)
• The Canadian Well Logging Society (CWLS)
• International Association of Hydrogeologists - Cdn. National Chapter (IAH-CNC)
The following sessions may be of particular interest to our division members.
General Structure and Tectonics
Cratons, Kimberlites and Diamonds
Tectonostratigraphy
Interplay between Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Deformation in Metamorphism
Paleoproterozoic tectonic Assembly of the W. Canadian Shield: New Findings &
Implications for Paleocontinental Reconstruction
Cordilleran Magmatism, Tectonics and Resources
Cordilleran Fold and Thrust Belt Structural Geology and Geophysics
Early Crust Evolution
Geological Processes over time in Central Canada
Meteorites
Planetary Evolution
Stress, Strain, Anisotropy and Natural Fractures
Several field trips may also be of interest CTG/SGTD members
CSPG02FT Structures and Hydrocarbons in the “Undeformed” Southern Plains
Leader: Marian Warren. Dates: May 4 - 5, 2010.
GAC010FT Barrovian and Buchan Metamorphism and their Tectonic
Juxtaposition, southeastern British Columbia. Leader: David R.M. Pattison, David
P. Moynihan & Christopher R.M. McFarlane. Dates: May 13 - 16, 2010.
CSPG13FT Turtle Mountain (Crowsnest Pass) Structure trip “The Rise and Fall
of Turtle Mountain” Leader: Willem Langenberg & Tim Hartel. Dates: May 14
(pm) - 15, 2010
CSPG16FT From Turner Valley to the Calgary Landslide: Three Ages of
Deformation Laramide, Pleistocene and Present. Leader: Peter Jones. Dates: May
17, 2010
Additional information and registration are available on the GeoCanada Web site at
http://www.geocanada2010.ca/
GeoCanada will serve as the Annual Convention for:
• The Geological Association of Canada (GAC)
• The Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC)
• The Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG)
• The Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG)
• The Canadian Well Logging Society (CWLS)
• International Association of Hydrogeologists - Cdn. National Chapter (IAH-CNC)
The following sessions may be of particular interest to our division members.
General Structure and Tectonics
Cratons, Kimberlites and Diamonds
Tectonostratigraphy
Interplay between Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Deformation in Metamorphism
Paleoproterozoic tectonic Assembly of the W. Canadian Shield: New Findings &
Implications for Paleocontinental Reconstruction
Cordilleran Magmatism, Tectonics and Resources
Cordilleran Fold and Thrust Belt Structural Geology and Geophysics
Early Crust Evolution
Geological Processes over time in Central Canada
Meteorites
Planetary Evolution
Stress, Strain, Anisotropy and Natural Fractures
Several field trips may also be of interest CTG/SGTD members
CSPG02FT Structures and Hydrocarbons in the “Undeformed” Southern Plains
Leader: Marian Warren. Dates: May 4 - 5, 2010.
GAC010FT Barrovian and Buchan Metamorphism and their Tectonic
Juxtaposition, southeastern British Columbia. Leader: David R.M. Pattison, David
P. Moynihan & Christopher R.M. McFarlane. Dates: May 13 - 16, 2010.
CSPG13FT Turtle Mountain (Crowsnest Pass) Structure trip “The Rise and Fall
of Turtle Mountain” Leader: Willem Langenberg & Tim Hartel. Dates: May 14
(pm) - 15, 2010
CSPG16FT From Turner Valley to the Calgary Landslide: Three Ages of
Deformation Laramide, Pleistocene and Present. Leader: Peter Jones. Dates: May
17, 2010
Additional information and registration are available on the GeoCanada Web site at
http://www.geocanada2010.ca/