GAC- MAC 2014: 'ILLUMINATING THE PAST FOR 175 YEARS'

摘要

The annual joint GAC-MAC meeting took place in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 23-25, 2014. The meeting was dedicated to Dr. Abraham Pineo Gesner (1797-1864), the first provincial geologist in Canada and the inventor of kerosene. The Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC) sponsored several topical sessions, listed below. 1. SS8. Geoscience and management of radioactive waste in deep geological repositories (Julie Brown and Mostafa Fayek, convenors) 2. SS17. The age of the Earth revisited: High-precision U-Th-Pb geochronology of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary processes (Sandra Kamo, Mike Hamilton, Larry Heaman, and Paul Sylvester, convenors) 3. SS19. Linking metamorphic processes with large-scale geodynamics (David Pattison, Fred Gaidies, and Doug Tinkham, convenors) 4. SS20. High-temperature metasomatic processes recorded by trace element and isotopic systematics in major and accessory minerals (Chris McFarlane, Richard Cox, and Jacob Hanley, convenors).