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Past Presentations – 2004

Talks and papers presented at conferences and seminars

Adrian Phillips Memorial Meeting; Trinity College Dublin, 11-12 September

Cunningham, M.J., S. Hodgson, L.M. Parsons, P.W. Readman and B.M. O’Reilly. Slope stability of the continental margin between the Goban and Brenot Spurs (Bay of Biscay).

O’Reilly, B.M., P.W. Readman and P. M. Shannon. Slope failure and canyon development in the Rockall Trough.

O’Reilly, B.M., P.W. Readman and P.M. Shannon. Slope failure, sediment transport and canyon development in the Rockall Trough revealed by TOBI sidescan sonar.

Readman, P.W. and B.M. O’Reilly. Gravity, crustal structure and tectonics in Ireland.

American Geophysical Union Fall meeting; San Francisco, USA, 13-17 December

Avdeev, D.B. , H. Utada , A. Kuvshinov, T. Koyama,2004. Three-dimensional electromagnetic modelling of the Hawaiian swell.

L. Gernigon, C. Ravaut, P.M. Shannon, A. Chabert, B.M. O’Reilly, P.W. Readman. Contrasting styles between the structure and the magmatism of the west and south Hatton/Rockall Margins (North Atlantic Igneous Province).

Unsworth, M.J., B. Denghai, A.G. Jones, and W. Wenbo. Magnetotelluric observations of crustal deformation and flow in Tibet.

British Geophysical Association PostGraduate student meeting; Liverpool, UK, 14-16 September

M. Moorkamp, C.K. Rao and A. Jones. ISLE-MT magnetotelluric measurements in south-west Ireland: Data and first results.

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European Geosciences Union conference; Nice, France, 26-30 April

Do, V.C., P.W. Readman, B.M. O’Reilly, M. Landes, J.R.R. Ritter and F. Hauser. Shear-wave splitting measurements from teleseismic and active-source data across the Iapetus Suture Zone in Ireland: preliminary results

Jones, A.G., R.L. Mackie, A.D. Chave and R.L. Evans. Three-dimensional inversion of regional-scale magnetotelluric data from the Slave craton, Canada.

Jones, A.G. , D.W. Eaton, I.J. Ferguson and I. Asudeh. Joint analysis of seismic and electrical anisotropy across an ancient transcurrent fault system: Great Slave Lake shear zone, northern Canada.

Landes, M., F. Hauser and B.M. O’Reilly. Seismic refraction data onshore/offshore Ireland: from R. Mallet (1849) to ISLE 2002/3.

Landes, M., V.C. Do, J.R.R. Ritter, P.W. Readman and B.M. O’Reilly. ISLE 2002/3: A seismological study of the Caledonian Iapetus Suture Zone in Ireland

O’Reilly, B.M. , P.W. Readman and P.M. Shannon. Holocene climate change and coral mound ecosystems in the NE Atlantic.

Ravaut, C., A. Chabert, L.Gernigan, B.M. O’Reilly, P.W. Readman, P.M. Shannon and J. Makris. Wide-angle seismic imaging of the Hatton margin: preliminary results of the HADES experiment.

White, D.J., M.D. Thomas, A.G. Jones, J. Hope, B. Nemeth and Z. Hajnal. Geophysical transect across the Paleoproterozoic Trans-Hudson collisional zone, Canadian Shield.

Irish Geological Research Meeting; Galway, 20-22 February

Jones, A.G., Imaging tectonic processes of the ancient Earth.

Moorkamp, M., A.G. Jones and C.K. Rao. Examination and removal of repetitive noise on MT time series.

Readman, P.W. , and B.M. O’Reilly. The deep structure of the Porcupine Basin.

Do, V.C. , P.W. Readman and B.M. O’Reilly. Investigation of crustal and upper mantle anisotropy across the Iapetus Suture Zone in Ireland using shear-wave splitting analysis from teleseismic and active-source data: preliminary results.

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Seminars

Jones, A.G. Illuminating the Earth: Information from electromagnetic studies at depths of 100m to 1,000km. Invited seminar to Geophysical Association of Ireland, Dublin, 20 January.

Jones, A.G. Lighting up the lithosphere: electromagnetic studies of the sub-continental lithospheric mantle and implications for formation processes. Invited seminar to Department of Earth Sciences, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, 23 January.

Jones, A.G. Classical physics illuminates the Earth, Invited seminar to Physics Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 10 December.

Other Conferences and Workshops

Blake, T.A. Robert Mallet, Seismology and seismicity in Ireland, Symposium on Robert Mallet’s work on the Great Neapolitan Earthquake, Italy 1857, Padula, Italy, 16-19 December.

Chave, A.D., A.G. Jones, R.L. Mackie, and R.L. Evans. Three Dimensional Deep Electrical Structure of the Slave Craton, Canada. Joint Spring AGU-CGU, Montreal, Canada, 17-21 May.

Craven, J.A., I.J. Ferguson, A.G. Jones, and T. Skulski. Roots of the Slave and Superior Provinces observed with deep-looking magnetotellurics. GAC-MAC, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 12-14 May.

Craven, J.A., I.J. Ferguson, A.G. Jones, T. Skulski. Relict slabs within the roots of the Slave and Superior Provinces observed with deep-looking magnetotellurics. Joint Spring AGU-CGU, Montreal, Canada, 17-21 May.

Eaton, D., Mereu, R. and Dineva, S. Crustal structure of Western Lake Ontario: Implications for Precambrian basement controls on local seismicity. SSA Eastern Section, 76th Annual Meeting, Nov. 2, 2004, Blacksburg, VA, USA.

Evans, S.F., R. van Buren, A.G. Jones, R.L. Evans, X. Garcia, A.D. Chave, W. Soyer, M. Hamilton, J. Cole, and the SAMTEX MT Team. Investigating the relationship between the occurrence of diamond mines and the electrical structure of the lithosphere, Geoscience Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 12-16 July.

Ferguson, I.J., X. Wu, J.A. Craven and A.G. Jones. Lithospheric magnetotelluric imaging in Canada: significance to diamond exploration. ASEG 17, Sydney, Australia, 15-19 August.

Jones, A.G., Electromagnetic models of the continental lithospheric mantle. Invited paper at: Symposium on “Seismic heterogeneity in the Earth’s mantle: Thermo-petrologic and tectonic implications”, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-28 February.

Jones, A.G., J. Spratt, C. Horan, G. Wallace, M. Hamilton, R,L. Evans, X. Garcia, A.D. Chave, E. Stettler, M. Adlem, R. Stettler, K. Raath, S. Evans and the SAMTEX MT Team. The electrical lithosphere of the Kaapvaal Craton: project SAMTEX overview and first results, Geoscience Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 12-16 July.

Jones, A.G., Electrical models of cratonic lithosphere from deep-probing magnetotelluric experiments. 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August.

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Jones, A.G., B. Davis, W. Bleeker, and H. Grütter, The Slave craton from underneath: The mantle view, Invited presentation at: Lithoprobe Celebratory Conference, Toronto, Canada, 12-15 October.

Jones, A.G., J.E. Spratt, K. Solon, K.D. Nelson, M.J. Unsworth, B. Kidd, and the INDEPTH MT team. High-resolution MT imaging of suture zones on the Tibetan Plateau, 17th EM Induction Workshop, Hyderabad, India, 18-23 October.

Jones, A.G., J. Ledo, and J. Craven. Electrical parameter maps of Canada derived from Lithoprobe surveys, 17th EM Induction Workshop, Hyderabad, India, 18-23 October.

Jones, A.G., D.W. Eaton, I.J. Ferguson, and I. Asudeh. Joint analysis of seismic and electrical anisotropy across an ancient transcurrent fault system: Great Slave Lake Shear Zone, Northern Canada, 17th EM Induction Workshop, Hyderabad, India, 18-23 October.

Jones, A.G., R. Mackie, A.D. Chave, and R.L. Evans. Three-dimensional inversion of regional-scale magnetotelluric data from the Slave Craton Canada, 17th EM Induction Workshop, Hyderabad, India, 18-23 October.

Jones, A.G., J. Spratt, C. Horan, G. Wallace, M. Hamilton, R.L. Evans, X. Garcia, A.D. Chave, E. Stettler, M. Adlem, R. Stettler, K. Raath, S. Evans and the SAMTEX MT Team, The electrical lithosphere of the Kaapvaal Craton: project SAMTEX overview and first results, 17th EM Induction Workshop, Hyderabad, India, 18-23 October.

Martí, A., P. Queralt, A.G. Jones and J. Ledo, A comparison between Bahr and WAL methods. 17th EM Induction Workshop, Hyderabad, India, 18-23 October.

Mechie, J., S.V. Sobolev, L. Ratschbacher, A. Yu. Babeyko, A.G. Jones, K.D. Solon, L.D. Brown, and W. Zhao. Precise temperature estimation in the central Tibetan crust from identification of the alpha-beta quartz transition by Project INDEPTH seismic profiling. Joint Spring AGU-CGU, Montreal, Canada, 17-21 May.

Moorkamp, M., C.K. Rao and A.G. Jones. ISLE-MT magnetotelluric measurements in south-west Ireland: Data and first results. BGA Student Meeting, Liverpool, 14-16 September

Muller, M.R., S.J. Webb, W.H.B. Steenkamp, A.G. Jones, R.L. Evans, X. Garcia, A.D. Chave, W. Soyer, S. Evans, M. Hamilton, C.J.S. Fourie & the SAMTEX team. Crustal imaging of the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa: Preliminary results from a broad-band magnetotelluric survey, Geoscience Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 12-16 July.

Muller, M.R., S.J. Webb, W.H.B. Steenkamp, A.G. Jones, R.L. Evans, X. Garcia, A.D. Chave, W. Soyer, S. Evans, M. Hamilton, C.J.S. Fourie and the SAMTEX team. Upper-crustal imaging of the Archean Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa, using broadband magnetotellurics: Preliminary results, 17th EM Induction Workshop, Hyderabad, India, 18-23 October.

Rao, C.K., M. Moorkamp, and A.G. Jones. Magnetotelluric survey across the Iapetus suture in SW Ireland: Preliminary results, 17th EM Induction Workshop, Hyderabad, India, 18-23 October.

Spratt, J.E., A.G. Jones, L . Collins, and A. Avdeeva. A magnetotelluric transect from the Slave craton to the Bear Province across the Wopmay Orogen, Yellowknife Geoscience Forum, Yellowknife, Canada, 15-17 November.

Unsworth, M.J., A.G. Jones, W. Wenbo3, and J.R. Booker. Lithospheric structure of the Tibetan-Himalayan orogen: New constraints from project INDEPTH MT data. 17th EM Induction Workshop, Hyderabad, India, 18-23 October.

Wannamaker, P.E., M.J. Unsworth, A.G. Jones, A.D. Chave, Y. Ogawa, and J.R. Booker. Cryptic terrane sutures, upper mantle delamination, and lithospheric physical state of the Southern Appalachians orogenic belt, Southeastern United States. 17th EM Induction Workshop, Hyderabad, India, 18-23 October.

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