Dalhousie Geodynamics Group

Oceanography Department
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 4J1

[Research]     [Group Members]     [Associated Members]     [Software]

Research Interests

• 3D fluid flow modelling
• Salt Tectonics
• Extensional tectonics
• Foreland fold and thrust belts
  • "Mechanics of Thin-Skinned Thrust-and-Fold Belts: Insights from Numerical Models", by Glen S. Stockmal, Chris Beaumont, Mai Nguyen, and Bonny Lee. Submitted March 2006 to the Geological Society of America Special Volume in honour of Ray Price, edited by Jim Sears et al. [PDF, ~25MB]
• Large hot orogens
  • Papers accepted for Geological Society of London Special Publication on Crustal Channel Flows edited by R.D. Law et al. (to be published in 2006)
• Intracratonic tectonics

• "Lithospheric deformation during the early stages of continental collision: numerical experiments and comparison with South Island, New Zealand", by Russell N. Pysklywec, Christopher Beaumont, and Philippe Fullsack, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth). In PDF format: [Text of paper] [Table 1] [Table 2] [Fig 1] [Fig 2] [Fig 3ab] [Fig 3cd] [Fig 4] [Fig 5] [Fig 6] [Fig 7] [Fig 8] [Fig 9] [Fig 10] [Fig 11] [Fig 12] [Fig 13] [Fig 14] [Fig 15]
• "Asymmetric lithospheric extension: The role of frictional plastic strain softening inferred from numerical experiments", by Ritske S. Huismans and Christopher Beaumont, submitted to Geology. (For PDF version, see Publication 11 on Ritske Huismans' "Publications" web page.)

• Selected recent research publications of Chris Beaumont
• Some other refereed papers of group and associates
• Reports

• ACPI (Atlantic Canada Petroleum Institute) Research Proposal (version as of September 30, 2002) [PDF format].
  [Please note: figures in this PDF are optimized for print. To see detail clearly, zoom in (magnify your screen view) or print at a resolution of 600 dpi.]
• NSERC Research Proposal (2001) [PDF format]
• IBM Shared University Research Program Proposal (2001), partial [PDF]
  5. Project Description
  References for Section 5
  Appendices: Development of Numerical Techniques
  References for Appendices
  
• PanAtlantic Petroleum Systems Consortium Proposal to the Atlantic Innovation Fund (2001), complete proposal at www.esd.mun.ca/ppsc
• CRC Proposal (2000)
• Thin-skinned Fold and Thrust Belts (2000)
• Lithoprobe Progress Report (2000)
• Lithoprobe Proposal (1998)
• Lithoprobe Proposal (1997)
• NSERC Research Proposal (1997)

Group Members

• Christopher Beaumont (group leader)
• Ritske Huismans (adjunct professor)
• Rebecca Jamieson (metamorphic petrologist)
• Steven Ings (postdoctoral fellow)
• Markus Albertz (postdoctoral fellow)
• Claire Currie (postdoctoral fellow)
• Christina Morency (postdoctoral fellow)
• Clare Warren (postdoctoral fellow)
• David Whipp (postdoctoral fellow)
• Rajesh Goteti (postdoctoral fellow)
• Sofie Gradmann (Ph.D. student)
• Jared Butler (Ph.D. student)
• Douglas Guptill (research assistant)

Associated Members

• Jean Braun (Université de Rennes; collaborating geodynamicist)
• Susanne Buiter (Geological Survey of Norway, www.ngu.no)
• Erik Demaine (Univ. Waterloo; model development and coding)
• Nichole DeYoung (masters student - graduated Spring 2000)
• Susan Ellis (Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand)
• Daniel Garcia-Castellanos (Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera (CSIC), GDL (Group of Dynamics of the Lithosphere), Barcelona, Spain)
• Lykke Gemmer(School of Earth Sciences, Leeds University, UK)
• Henk Kooi (Vrije University, Netherlands; surface process modeling)
• Andreas Kuehni (student from Tectonics Group at Univ. Bern, Switzerland; surface process modeling applied to the Alps)
• Sergei Medvedev (Freie Universitat, Berlin)
• Jerry Mitrovica (Univ. Toronto; mantle processes and glacial eustatic deformation).
• Josep Anton Munoz (Univ. Barcelona; crustal models applied to the Pyrenees)
• Adrian Pfiffner (Tectonics Group at Univ. Bern; crustal models applied to the European Alps)
• Russ Pysklywec (Univ. Toronto Dept. of Geology)
• Glen Stockmal ( Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary - collaborator on mechanics of thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belts)
• Olivier Vanderhaeghe - now at Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France
• Paula Waschbusch (postdoctoral fellow in 1997)
• Sean Willett (University of Washington; collaborating geodynamicist)

Software

SOPALE Sopale Nested Processing SOPALE Output Printing MOZART TMM (Thermo-mechanical Model) old SOPALE documentation

Servers The modeling software of the Geodynamics Group runs on several computers. Daily, weekly and monthly graphs of the status of our servers are available. Trac and Subversion Our modeling software is available via Trac and Subversion servers to authorized users. geodynamics douar trac subversion trac subversion

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