Webinars
During the 2020 Covid crisis the Geological Association of Canada`s Volcanology and Igneous Petrology (VIP) Division has been running a number of webinars. Some of these can now be accessed through our YouTube channel or as PDFs of the presentation.
August 26th, 2021, Marie-Claude Williamson presented;
"In-depth Volcanology: Evidence for Late Cretaceous Explosive Volcanism at the Alpha Ridge, Arctic Ocean"
July 22nd, 2021, Wyatt Bain presented;
"Evidence for Carbonate-Sulfate Melts as a Key Factor in the Formation Iron Oxide-Apatite (IOA) Systems"
June 17th, 2021, Amy Rhyn presented;
"Insight Into the Rheology and Outgassing Behavior of Bubbly Melts from Deformation Experiments"
May 27th, 2021, Xue-Ming (Eric) Yang presented;
"Estimating crystallization pressure(s) of granites: Analysis of equilibrium, consideration of redox, textural aspects, emplacement processes with implications for metallogenesis"
May 13th, 2021, Dr. Brendan Murphy presented;
"Appinite suites and their genetic relationship with coeval granitoid batholiths"
April 21st, 2021, Dr. Dante Canil presented;
"The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary: a view from xenoliths and alkaline lavas"
February 18th, 2021, Nadia Mohammadiy presented;
"Greisen-Related Sn-W-Mo-Mineralized Mount Douglas Granite, New Brunswick, Canada: An Analysis of Fertility Indicators"
January 20th, 2021, Dr. Brendan Murphy presented;
"Appinite suites: small igneous complexes provide big clues into how continents are made"
January 7th, 2021, Dr. Louis Cabri presented;
"Reflections on mineralogy over nearly seven decades - anecdotes from the past - PGM and trace element analyses"
December 10th, 2020, Zsuzsanna Magyarosi (Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador) presented;
"The St. Lawrence Granite and associated fluorite mineralization, NF"
November 5th, 2020, Alex Wilson (UBC) presented;
"Glacial pumping of a magma-charged lithosphere: the link between ice and volcanoes in the Garibaldi volcanic belt"
October 1st, 2020, Nelson Eby (UMass) presented;
"A-type granites: characteristics and petrogenesis"
September 17th, 2020, Michelle DeWolfe (Mt Royal U) presented;
"Archean volcanic settings: Evaluating VMS prospectivity in the Slave craton"
September 3rd, 2020, John Stix (McGill) presented;
"The mechanisms of phreatic eruptions"
August 20th, 2020, Andy Kerr (MUN) presented;
"Long Walks, Lost Documents and the Birthplace of Igneous Petrology"
July 30th, 2020, John Hanchar (MUN) presented;
"What can the chemistry of magnetite tell us about magnetite-apatite deposits?"
July 23rd, 2020, Peter Hollings (Lakehead University) presented;
"Metallogeny and Magmatism of the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift"
July 9th, 2020, Sarah-Jane Barnes (UQAC) presented;
"Crystallization of magmatic sulfide liquids: Examples from Sudbury, Noril’sk and the Bushveld Complex - a tribute to Dr. Tony Naldrett"
June 25th, 2020, Catherine Hickson (Geothermal Canada) presented;
"Remembering Mount St. Helen’s and Honouring the Legacy of 2020 Penrose Medalist James G. Moore (USGS)"
June 11th, 2020, Lucie Mathieu (UQAC) presented;
"Magmatic evolution of a Neoarchean greenstone belt and significance for Cu-Au magmatic-hydrothermal systems"
Thursday May 28th, 2020, Melissa Anderson (UofT) presented;
“Volcanological Controls on Hydrothermal Venting on the Seafloor”
Thursday May 14th, 2020, John Greenough (UBC) presented;
“Multidimensional Geochemical Space – The Last Frontier: Boldly Exploring, with MDS, Where No One Has Gone Before”
April 30th, 2020, Richard Ernst (Carleton U) presented;
“The plumbing system of Large Igneous Provinces, including insights from Venusian LIPs” PDF
April 15th, 2020, James Brenan (Dalhousie U) presented;
"Soret separation of iron isotopes in metallic liquids: Evidence for a leaky core?"