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Fall 2024
The Rae craton is one of the largest Archean–Paleoproterozoic age terranes on Earth and preserves >1.6 billion years of the planet’s history. However, significant uncertainty remains regarding how and when the crust of this craton was created and reworked. This thesis investigates the nature and...
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Fall 2018
The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) resides in a transition region from the Precambrian Canadian Shield to the Phanerozoic Cordillera. This broad foreland area has undergone more than three billion years of tectonic evolution from the Paleoproterozoic assembly of the Laurentian craton to...
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Spring 2017
In western Canada, the Archean-aged cratonic core of the North American continent is flanked on its western edge by the Cordillera, which forms the back arc region of the Cascadia subduction zone. The boundary between these two geologic provinces is expressed at the surface by a system of NNW-SSE...