Lakehead University Geology - Journal Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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Mark Wittrup Nickname:Markus, Splash, The Incredible Hulk Work Experience: Junior mapper, O.D.M., Atikokan, 1975 Junior mapper, O.D.M., Red Lake, 1976 Portage Crew, M.N.R., Quetico Park, 1977 Thesis Topic: Stromatolites of the Lower and Upper Algal Cherts, Gunflint Formation Mark grew up in the Inner City Slums of Toronto. He first became interested in geology by collecting Ordovician Trilobites along the polluted beaches of that fair(?) city. His big break came after grade 13, he was accepted at Lakehead University after considering a career in muffler manufacturing. After working two summers as an eunuch for O.D.M., he got his balls back (Ed ' s note, footballs?) and took a job with the infamous Quetico Park portage crew who motto is The Noble Torture. Presently he is trying to avoid admittance into the L.U. Geology five year program and is gainfully employed as a ' baby sitter ' for K House in the L.U. residence. If asked about the future, he replies that eventually he would like to become a successful exploration geologist. For the immediate future however it will be one more summer in Quetico and then return to L.U. for M.Sc. Before he gets tied down to a woman he wants to do a pubcrawl of Australia. Commonly, Mark can be heard saying such things as.... Can we have another round at this table? and Don ' t worry. I ' ll get it done... eventually. Mark ' s thesis is a pictorial documentation of the primitive marine algal life forms in the Proterozoic sedimentary sequences within the vicinity of Thunder Bay. Hopefully this thesis will provide someone with a basis with which to do more detailed work on the stromatolitic environment and possibly the origins of life on the earth during this period.

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I Roman Tykajlo Nickname: Romulus Stickus Work Experience: Junior Assistant, Noranda (Winnipeg) Keewatin District, N.W.T., (Uranium) Summer 1977 Thesis Topic: Strain Ellipsoid in Archean Conglomerates, Shaba qua, Ontario Roman is the better half of the Dipstick relationship, i.e. the Stick, alias Romulus Stickus . He is our token Ukranian in the Geology Department. Roman can be found in his structural lab anal- ysing the structures of the fairer sex passing in the hall. He never quits his work, even on tea breaks in the cafeteria he is still doing his analysis. When he is not busy studying structures, he can be heard muttering quel bummer as he wades through his assignments. His pet peeve is the Geology Year IV class since his lab is always used for their discussion periods. Although Roman is supposedly in Geology he actually prefers Physics and hopes to emulate our favourite Physics professor, John. Roman hopes to eventually become a foreman for GM. Deformed conglomerates are useful in the study of strain in that the sand and pebble sized clasts become homogeneously strained from essentially an original ellipsoid to a final ellipsoid which is markedly different from the original. This can be done by several methods. The shape and orientation of the final ellipsoid can be determined by measuring axial ratios and angular deflections of major axes on three mutually perpendicular sections, then combining this two dimensional information into a three dimensional model.

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Gordon Yule Nickname: ' Gotts Dam ' Work Experience: Geophysical Operator, Noranda, N.W. Ontario, Winter-Summer 1974 Junior-Senior Assistant, Noranda, N.W. Ontario, (Uranium) Summer 1975 Contract Staking, Winter 1975 Junior-Senior Assistant, Noranda, N.W. Ontario, (Basemetals) Summer 1976 Contract Staking, Winter 1976 Senior Mapper, Gulf Minerals, N.W.T., N.W. Ontario, (Uranium) Summer 1977 Contract Staking, Winter 1977 This native of Longlac is a renowned O.K. used snowshoe salesman whose territories extend from the balmy regions of Longlac to the barrens of the Northwest Territories. When we cornered this man in the murky depths of the Waverly Hotel, (noted for its fine clientel) he recounted this tale of the dreaded geologic plague known as Marathon Madness ; T ' was way back in ' 76, when one of my associates from Wiley St. said that we were gonna go on a little class field trip to this here place called Marathon on a real futile exercise. After seven days and what seemed like forty nights the work had just begun! We worked and griped, we sweated and cursed, we complained and thought that our work was in vain; after all, we weren ' t going back there again. ha: When the field season came in ' 77 I had all but forgotten Marathon Madness and the curse that lay on the place, but sure enough, the first job of the season was in that dreaded place- Marathon Well, all I can tell you is that the class trip in ' 76 came in real handy. I figured there was a moral in there someplace and it goes something like this: you can ' t believe all your Profs all the time, but you ' ve got to believe some of the Profs some of the time. Well, I kind of wondered about this guy and 1 decided to find out what he ' d been up to in the last few years, and this is what I came up with. Well, it seems that he started out in this doomed profession in the winter of ' 74 as a geophysical operator for a company called Noranda Exploration and stuck it out for a full three field seasons and came out as a Junior- Senior Geologic Assistant in ' 76. When I met him in ' 77, he was working for another company called Gulf Minerals Canada as a Senior Assistant Geologist and had just finished a stint north of the Arctic Circle. Seems this guy has worked in everything from base metals to uranium using geologic and geophysical methods of prospecting. Last 1 heard of him, he had just been certified as an honest to goodness PROSPECTOR by the Prospector and Developers Association.