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

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Dr. Graham Borradaile , B.Sc., Ph.D. Background ; Senior Demonstrator in Geology, Durham University, U.K. 1970-73 Assistant Professor in Geology, University of Amsterdam 1973-78 Assistant Professor, Lakehead University 1978-present Ed. note: Dr. Borradaile was made an Associate Professor in February of 1980. My family and I came to Thunder Bay for the beginning of the school year in 1978, after having lived and worked in Amsterdam for the previous five years We have now settled in the bush just outside of town and, according to the time of year, we greatly enjoy chopping wood, skiing, attempting to canoe and digging snow. After a hectic first year translating and paraphrasing my Dutch teaching notes (which hopefully helped the class!), I was able to enjoy my first Canadian summer. Together with Dr. Kehlenbeck I collected data on metamorphism from the shores of Dog Lake (excellent for surfing but awful for boatlanding) , and I have also been researching into fault rocks (mylonites, pseudotachylite, cataclasite, ...etc). The fault rocks occur in several belts, each perhaps a kilometre wide and hundreds of kilometres long, in the shield of N.W. Ontario. The most spectacular example, the Quetico fault , just north of the city has been the focus of my attention. I have pursued other more theoretical research, partly using recently acquired data, concerning changes in temperature distribution with time in metamorphic belts and grain-boundary sliding in metamorphic rocks. I much enjoyed working with Howard Poulsen and Myra Kennedy on their respective metamorphic structural research topics last summer. I also greatly profited from their help in sampling, looking at the local geology and in thinking about geology in general. I hope that those of you who will be graduating and leaving LU this session will carry equally pleasant memories of 1978-79 and that you never forget all your sunny, blue-skied student days at Lakehead.

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Dr. Roy J. Shegelski , H.B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D. Background ; University of Toronto 1973-77 Lecturer at Lakehead University 1976-78 Assistant Professor, Lakehead University 1978-present I am pleased that the Geology Club is continuing the yearbook and wish them the best of luck in their endeavours. I have been investigating strata in Northwestern Ontario for the past summer and have experienced both success and failure. The field conditions around Thunder Bay are pleasant; pollution keeps the fly population down, tourist-ridden parks provide well worn pathways to outcrops, and the beautiful scenery along the Current River is enhanced by bikini-clad beauties which proved to be a major distraction to section measuring by assistant B. Cheadle and myself. What was that thickness now? The field season ended with a bang some 40 miles east of Pickle Lake on Lake St. Joseph as B. Berger and myself surfed over a submarine drumlin and lost propulsion in our motor. Air rescue came three days later aided by a Sportsman ' s Survival Flare . Undaunted by this misadventure, research sampling and field trips continued. The message which I have based on this summer ' s experience is that field geology is al- ways a mixture of hardship and triumph, but the necessary element which makes it feasible is perseverance.

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K.H. (Howard) Poulsen , B.Sc. (Physics) B.Sc. (Geology) Background ; Exploration Geophysics 1961-71 High School Teacher 1968-69 Research Assistant for J.M. Franklin 1972-75 Senior Technician and Faculty Assistant, Lakehead University 1975-present In addition to my full-time duties as departmental hockey convener and as Hoots’ official interpreter, part of the past year has been spent maintaining and supervising the geochemistry laboratory. The initiation of the graduate program has seen a renewed demand for geochemical analyses performed both by myself and graduate students. Our whole rock and trace element analytical programme, while centered in our own laboratory, relies heavily on apparatus housed in the Science Instrumentation Laboratory which is maintained by Dr . T. Griffith and his staff. Our students are very fortunate to gain hands-on experience in this facility on equipment that actually works! Aside from the above departmental responsibilities, the past year has been occupied with my continuing research interest, the Precambrian geology of the Rainy Lake region. Of particular interest to me was a workshop on the geology of the International Boundary held at Fort Frances in May 1979. Valuable discussions were held with officers of the Geological Survey of Canada, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Ontario Geological Survey, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and university representatives. Seminar presentations were followed by visitation to numerous outcrops. It might be pointed out that the most memorable exposures were seen at an establishment known as Nick ' s Zoo where the role of fluids in geology was heartily discussed. Unfortunately I failed to record the attitudes of minor structures in my notebook so that stereographic representation of the results is not possible.