CTG Fall Meeting 2004 in the Honour of Philip Simony in Saint John, New Brunswick, 22-24 October 2004
This year's fall meeting of the Canadian Tectonics Group will be held in Saint John, New Brunswick, from Friday night (22 Oct) until Sunday evening (24 Oct). The field trip on Sunday will focus on Carboniferous basins.
Details are given in the attached PDF file. Click here to download.
Conference and Field Trip in the Honour of Philip Simony in Calgary, June 2004
The Department of Geology and Geophysics of the University of Calgary hosts a conference and field trip "From Forelands to Core Zones: Deformation and Tectonic Evolution of Orogenic Belts" in the honour of Phil Simony, who retired recently. The conference will take place 17-20 June, followed by a field trip from Calgary to the Valhalla Complex in B.C., 21-23 June 2004. Details can be found on the U of C website.
Report on the CTG Fall Meeting 2003, Parry Sound, Ontario
The 23rd annual meeting with field trip was held at Resort Tapatoo, Parry Sound, ON, 24-26th Oct. 2003. It was excellently organized by Shoufa Lin and the enjoyable field trip into the Central Gneiss Belt of the Grenville Province was led by Nick Culshaw.
To read the abstract volume online, click here.
To download the abstract volume in pdf format, click here.
The field trip guide is too large (12 MB) to be hosted here. Please request your copy directly from Nick Culshaw (Nicholas.Culshaw@Dal.Ca).
To look at photos of the field trip, click here (and then on a thumbnail on the upcoming index page).
To read the minutes of the SGTD business meeting online, click here.
To download the SGTD minutes in pdf format, click here.
We welcome submissions of the poster presentations in pdf format for downloading. The only one available so far is MyFault - A New Fault Analysis Application for Windows by Bob Stesky...download here.
The CTG/SGTD congratulates
SGTD councillor Jim Ryan of GSC Vancouver tied the famous knot in August. Executive members were present to congratulate...click here.
Sichuan Basin Travel Log
The CTG/SGTD webmaster travelled to the Tibetan foreland and presents a light-hearted geological and cultural slideshow of this part of China.
SGTD Annual General Meeting, Vancouver, May 28th 2003
The minutes of the Annual Business Meeting are available online here.
To download the minutes in pdf format, click here.
Photos of the Rocky Mountains Foothills and Front Ranges
Geoff Rait of Talisman Energy, Calgary, presents a slideshow of large, spectacular fold-and-thrust-belt structures from western Canada.
Photos of Fractures in Thrust Sheets in the Alberta Foothills
A slideshow summarizing the CSPG/CSEG Field Trip FTPST4-Fractured Cretaceous and Triassic Strata of the Central Alberta Foothills, 7th of June 2003. Leaders were Roland Dechesne, Greg Soule, and Byron Veilleux.
Database of Rock Seismic Properties (DRSP)
The DRSP by Ji et al. is now generally accessible without username and password. STGD Business Meeting in Vancouver
The Structural Geology and Tectonics Division business meeting will take place
Wednesday May 28th, 2003The meeting has been planned as a combined "happy hour" and business meeting following the Structural Geology technical session and posters. We hope this forms a comfortable bridge between sessions, dinner and Dick Brown's "roast" at 8:00pm.
4:45 pm Port Hardy Room
Wall Centre
We encourage all members to come out - we're only a strong within the community as we build ourselves.
See you in Vancouver
Main Thrust Winter 2003
The winter issue 2003 of the Main Thrust is available online now.
To download the Main Thrust in pdf format, click here.
Annual CTG Meeting 2002
The 22nd annual meeting with field trip was held at Goldbridge, B.C., 18-20th Oct. 2002.
To read the abstract volume online, click here.
To download the abstract volume in pdf format, click here.
To look at a slide show, click here (and then on a thumbnail on the upcoming index page).
The Philip Simony Movie
phil _simony _5_oct_2002.AVI
This 30-second clip captures Philip Simony, Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, explaining the distribution of Mississippian rocks along the hinge of the Heart Mountain syncline at Exshaw, Rocky Mountains Front Ranges. Phil led a group of CSPG structural geologists to the Front Ranges on 5th Oct. 2002.
Can't play it? Download Quicktime.
Shaojeng Ji's New Books
CTG member Shaojeng Ji of Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal has first-authored two books recently. 'Rheology of Earth Minerals' is co-authored by Bin Xia, the 'Handbook of Seismic Properties of Minerals, Rocks and Ores' is co-authored by Qin Wang and Bin Xia. Click on the covers' thumbnails for further information.