NATIONAL LECTURE TOURS:
Howard Street Robinson Lecture
2010 - 2011 Howard Street Robinson Lecturer
Phil Thurston
The Howard Street Robinson Lecturer is chosen by the Mineral
Deposits Division and the Precambrian Division of the GAC® in
alternate years. It is funded by the Robinson Fund of the GAC® that was
established in 1977, following the bequest to GAC® from the estate of Howard
Street Robinson, a founding member of GAC®. The bequest was "for
furtherance of scientific study of Precambrian Geology and Metal
Mining."
The lecturer for 2010-2011 is Phil Thurston, as selected by the
Precambrian Division of Gac.
Phil has offered three possible HS Robinson
lectures, one to be selected for each speaking engagement:
-Archean banded iron formation: its role in the
development of greenstone belts,
-The new Archean: Autochthonous development of
greenstone belts with examples from the Superior and Baltic crations ,
-A comparison of stratigraphic development of the
Superior and Yilgarn cratons.
Each lecture is available in English or French.
Phil C. Thurston is an anglophone Québecois who received a BA from
Rutgers University, a MA from Bryn Mawr College (both in the U.S.A.)
and a PhD. from the University of Western Ontario. He has mapped
greenstone belts in the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield at a
variety of scales during a career with the Ontario Geological
Survey. During that time his work discovered the unique
geochemistry of F III rhyolites and their association with VMS in
Archean greenstones. He served as designer and headed the team of
scientific editors for Geology of Ontario which applied the plate
tectonic scheme to the Superior Province. Geological tourism has taken
him to the Slave Province of Canada and the Archean of South Africa,
Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Australia, Finland and Russia. He has served as
editor of Geoscience Canada and is an associate editor of Precambrian
Research.
In January 2001 he joined the Department of Earth Sciences at
Laurentian University where he teaches Precambrian Geology and conducts
a research program on the stratigraphy of greenstone belts in Ontario,
Quebec and elsewhere. His publications include a variety of OGS
reports and maps, and external publications.
For the Precambrian Division of the GAC®: Timothy Corkery (timothy.corkery@gov.mb.ca)
For the Howard Street Robinson Fund: Benoît Dubé (bdube@nrcan.gc.ca)
If you are interested in having Phil Thurston come to visit your area, contact:
Lee Pigage:
GAC® Coordinator
Hutchison and H.S. Robinson Lecture Tours (2010-2011)
email lee.pigage@gov.yk.ca
Phone 867-667-8192