Recent Publications

Guerrero, J.M., Lowman, J.P., and P.J. Tackley, Did the cessation of convection in Mercury's mantle allow for a dynamo supporting increase in heat loss from its core? Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 571, 117108, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117108, 2021.



Yang, B., Wells, M.G., McMeans, B.C., Dugan, H.A., Rusak, J.A., Weyhenmeyer, G.A., Brentrup, J.A., Hrycik, A.R., Laas, A., Pilla, R.M., Austin, J.A.,  PJ. Blanchfield, CC. Carey, M. M. Guzzo, N. R. Lottig, M. D. Mackay, T.A. Middel, DC. Pierson J. Wang JD. Young (2021) A New Thermal Categorization of Ice‐covered LakesGeophysical Research Letters, p.e2020GL091374.

Langemeyer, S.M., Lowman, J.P., and P.J. Tackley, Global mantle convection models produce transform offsets along divergent plate boundaries, Communications Earth & Env, Vol. 2, 69, https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00139-12021

Bukhari, S., Eyles, N., Sookhan, S., Mulligan, R., Paulen, R., Krabbendam, M. and Putkinen, N. (2021a). Regional subglacial quarrying and abrasion below paleo ice streams crossing the Shield-Paleozoic boundary of central Canada: the importance of substrate control. Boreas in press

Kennedy, K. and Eyles, N (2021) Syn-rift mass flow generated ‘tectonofacies’ and ‘tectonosequences’ of the Kingston Peak Formation, Death Valley, California, and their bearing on supposed Neoproterozoic panglacials. Sedimentology 68, 352-81.

Crameri, F., Shephard, G.E. & Heron, P.J. 2020, The misuse of colour in science communication. Nat Commun 11, 5444 (2020).  



Heron, P. J., B. Murphy, D. Nance, and R. N. Pysklywec, 2020,  Pannotia’s mantle signature: the quest for supercontinent identification. In: Murphy, J.B., Strachan, R.A., and Quesada, C., eds. Pannotia To Pangea: Paleozoic orogenic cycles in the circum-North Atlantic region. Geological Society of London Special Publication.



Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D. , Cawood, P.A., Collins, W.J., Dan, W., Doucet, L., Heron, P.J., Li, Z.-X., Mitchell, R.N., Pisarevsky, S., Pufahl, P., Quesada, C., Spencer, C.J., Strachan, R.A., & Wu, L., 2020. Pannotia: In defence of its existence and geodynamic significance. In: Murphy, J.B., Strachan, R.A., and Quesada, C., eds. Pannotia To Pangea: Paleozoic orogenic cycles in the circum-North Atlantic region. Geological Society of London Special Publication.



G-P Farangitakis, P. J. Heron, K. J. McCaffrey, J. van Hunen, L. M. Kalnins, (2020), The impact of oblique inheritance and changes in relative plate motion on the development of rift-transform systems, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 541.

Wells, MG., Li, J.,  Flood, B., Brooks, JL., Cooke, S.J., Kuai, Y., Semcesen, P. Midwood, J. (2020). Speed of sound gradients due to summer thermal stratification can reduce the detection range of acoustic fish tags: results from a field study in Hamilton Harbour, OntarioCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (in press)



Wells MG & Dorrell (2020). Turbulence Processes Within Turbidity CurrentsAnnual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 53

O'Neill, C.J., Lowman, J.P., and J. Wasiliev, The effect of galactic chemical evolution on terrestrial exoplanet composition and tectonics, Icarus,, Vol. 352, 114025, 2020.

Trim, S.J., Lowman, J.P., and S.L. Butler, Improving mass conservation with the tracer ratio method: application to thermochemical mantle flows, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. (Gcubed), , Vol. 22, e2019GC008799, doi:10.1029/2019GC008799, 2020.

Langemeyer, S.M., Lowman, J.P., and P.J. Tackley, The dynamics and impact of compositionally originating provinces in a mantle convection model featuring rheologically obtained plates, Geophys. J. Int., Vol. 220(3), 1700-1716, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz497, 2020.

Le Heron, D.P., Eyles, N. and Busfield, M. (2020a) The Laurentian Neoproterozoic Glacial Interval: reappraising the extent and timing of glaciation. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 113, 59-70.

Putkinen, N., Eyles, N., Daxberger, H., Sarala, H., Pihlaja, J. and A. Murray (2020) Early Saalian deposits preserved under Late Weichselian till in the core region of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet at Äältövittikot in Finnish Lapland. Journal of Quaternary Science 2https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2020.100005

Previdi, M., T. P. Janoski, G. Chiodo, K. L. Smith and L. M. Polvani, 2020: Arctic amplification as a rapid adjustment to increased CO2, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089933, doi:10.1029/2020GL089933.



Maleska, S. K. L. Smith and J. Virgin, 2020: Impacts of stratospheric ozone extremes on Arctic high cloud, Journal of Climatedoi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0867.1



Polvani, L. M, M. Previdi, M. England, G. Chiodo and K. L. Smith, 2020: Large Arctic warming from ozone depleting substances in the latter half of the 20th Century. Nature Climate Change, 10, 130–133, doi:0.1038/s41558-019-0677-4.

Heron, P. J., A. L. Peace, K. J. W. McCaffrey, J. K. Welford, R. Wilson, J. van Hunen, & R. N. Pysklywec, (2019). Segmentation of Rifts Through Structural Inheritance: Creation of the Davis Strait. Tectonics, 38.



Heron, P. J., Pysklywec R. N., Stephenson  R., and van Hunen J. (2019), Deformation driven by deep and distant structures: Influence of a mantle lithosphere suture in the Ouachita orogeny, Geology.



Heron, P. & Garnero, E., What lies beneath: Thoughts on the lower mantle. Geoscientist 29 (3), 10-15, 2019.



Guerrero, J.M., Lowman, J.P., and P.J. Tackley, Spurious transitions in convective regime due to viscosity clipping: ramifications for modeling planetary secular cooling, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. (Gcubed), Vol. 20, doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008385. 2019.

Kennedy, K. and Eyles, N. (2019b) Subaqueous debrites of the Grand Conglomérat Formation, Democratic Republic of Congo: a model for anomalously thick Neoproterozoic 'glacial' diamictites. Journal of Sedimentary Research 89, 1-21.

Sookhan, S., Eyles, N., Arbelaez-Moreno, L. (2019a) Converging ice streams: a new paradigm for reconstructions of the Laurentide Ice sheet in southern Ontario and deposition of the Oak Ridges Moraine. Reply to comments. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 56, 889-893.

Kennedy, K. and Eyles, N, and Broughton, D. (2019) Basinal setting and origin of thick (1.8 km) mass-flow dominated Grand Conglomerat diamictites, Kamoa, Democratic Republic of Congo: resolving climate and tectonic controls during Neoproterozoic glaciations. Sedimentology 66, 556-589.