Dalhousie Geodynamics Group

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2
Canada

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Research Interests

• 3D fluid flow modelling
• Salt Tectonics
• Extensional tectonics
• Foreland fold and thrust belts
• 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

Group picture, October 2005 Back row, left to right: Mai Nguyen, Claire Currie, Steve Ings, Chris Beaumont (fearless leader), Ritske Huismans, Ankit Bajaj, Philippe Fullsack, Christina Morency Front row, left to right: Bonny Lee, Markus Albertz, Becky Jamieson, Clare Warren, Sofie Gradmann, Karen Simon

Various ruffians commemorating the retirement of the p690 Left to Right: Chris Beaumont, Janice Allen, Douglas Guptill [front], Pat Power [back] (Director, ITS Networks and Systems), Rajesh Goteti, Aidan Evans (ITS system administrator, p690), Bonny Lee (research assistant emeritus), Jared Butler [back], Ian Blair (ITS sysadmin p690) Angels, from left to right, are Claire Currie, Sofie Gradmann, Clare Warren

Wine and Cheese chez Beaumont, in honour of the visiting Jean Braun. Holly looking radiant. Fall 2010.

• Christopher Beaumont (group leader)
• Rebecca Jamieson (metamorphic petrologist)
• Ritske Huismans, now at Bergen University.
• Steven Ings (Research Associate)
• Markus Albertz, postdoctoral fellow, now at ExxonMobil
• Claire Currie postdoctoral fellow, now Assistant Professor, Univeristy of Alberta.
• Christina Morency, postdoctoral fellow, now at CalTech.
• Clare Warren postdoctoral fellow, now at the Open University, UK.
• David Whipp (postdoctoral fellow)
• Rajesh Goteti (postdoctoral fellow)
• Carl Guilmette (postdoctoral fellow)
• Sofie Gradmann Ph.D. student, now at Norges Geologiske Undersoekelse (NGU), Trondheim.
• Jared Butler (Ph.D. student)
• Janice Allen (Ph.D. student)
• Douglas Guptill (Computer Systems Supervisor)

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

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