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Selected Publications for Ronald Clowes

  • Vishal Kumar, Jounada Oueity, Ron Clowes and Felix Herrmann, 2010. Enhancing crustal reflection data through curvelet denoising. Tectonophysics, in press.
  • Oueity, Jounada and Ron M. Clowes, 2010.  The nature of the Moho in NW Canada from combined near-vertical and wide-angle seismic data. Lithosphere, 2, 377-396.
  • Hammer, Philip T.C., Ron M. Clowes, Fred A. Cook, Arie J. van der Velden and Kris Vasudevan, 2010.  The Lithoprobe trans-continental lithospheric cross sections: imaging the internal structure of the North American continent. Can. J. Earth Sci., 47, 821-857.
  • Cook, F.A., D.J. White, A.G. Jones, D.W. S. Eaton, J. Hall and R.M. Clowes, 2010. How the crust meets the mantle: Lithoprobe perspectives on the Mohorovièiæ discontinuity and crust-mantle transition. Can. J. Earth Sci., 47, 315-351.
  • Clowes, R.M., D.J. White and Z. Hajnal, 2010. Mantle heterogeneities and their significance: Results from Lithoprobe seismic reflection and refraction/wide-angle reflection studies. Can. J. Earth Sci., 47, 409-443.
  • Clowes, Ron M, 2010. Initiation, development and benefits of Lithoprobe – Shaping the direction of Earth science research in Canada and beyond. Can. J. Earth Sci., 47, 291-314.
  • Oueity, J. and R.M. Clowes, 2010. Paleoproterozoic subduction in NW Canada from near-vertical and wide-angle seismic reflection data. Can. J. Earth Sci., 47, 35-52.
  • Wilson, John and Ron Clowes, 2009. Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans: North America from Birth to Middle Age, a book about Lithoprobe results prepared for the general public. Key Porter Books, Toronto, Canada, 248 pp.
  • Snyder, D.B., M. Pilkington, R.M. Clowes and F.A. Cook, 2009. The underestimated Proterozoic component of the Canadian Cordillera accretionary margin.. In Earth Accretionary Systems in Space and Time, edited by P.A. Cawood and A. Kröner, The Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 318, 257-271.
  • Welford, J.K., E.H. Hearn and R.M. Clowes, 2007. The possible role of mid-crustal igneous sheet intrusions in cratonic arch formation. Tectonics, 26, TC5012, doi:10.1029/2006TC002023, 11 p.
  • Hammer, P.T.C. and R.M. Clowes, 2007. Lithospheric-scale structures across the Alaskan and Canadian Cordillera: Comparisons and tectonic implications. In Whence the Mountains? Inquiries into the Evolution of Orogenic Systems: A Volume in Honor of Raymond A. Price, edited by J. Sears, T. Harms and C. Evenchick, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 433, 99-116.
  • Welford, J.K. and R.M. Clowes, 2006. Three-dimensional seismic reflection investigation of the upper crustal Winagami sill complex of northwestern Alberta, Canada. Geophys. J. Int., 166, 155-169.
  • Gorman, A.R., B. Németh, R.M. Clowes and Z. Hajnal, 2006. An investigation of upper mantle heterogeneity beneath the Archean and Proterozoic crust of western Canada from Lithoprobe controlled-source seismic experiments. Tectonophysics, 416, 187-207.
  • McClymont, A.F. and R.M. Clowes, 2005. Anomalous lithospheric structure of northern Juan de Fuca plate – a consequence of oceanic rift propagation?  Tectonophysics, 406, 213-231.
  • Hajnal, Z., J. Lewry, D. White, K. Ashton, R.M. Clowes, M. Stauffer, I. Gyorfi and E. Takacs, 2005. The Sask Craton and Hearne Province margin: Seismic reflection studies in the western Trans-Hudson Orogen. Can. J. Earth Sci., 42, 403-419.
  • Nemeth, B., R.M. Clowes and Z. Hajnal, 2005. Lithospheric structure of the Trans-Hudson Orogen from seismic refraction/wide-angle reflection studies. Can. J. Earth Sci., 42, 435-456.
  • Fernandez Viejo, G., R.M. Clowes and J.K. Welford, 2005. Constraints on the composition of the crust and uppermost mantle in northwestern Canada: Vp/Vs variations along Lithoprobe’s SNorCLE Transect. Can. J. Earth Sci., 42, 1205-1222.
  • Clowes, R.M., Hammer, P.T.C., Fernandez Viejo, G., and Welford, J.K., 2005. Lithospheric structure in northwestern Canada from Lithoprobe seismic refraction and related studies: A synthesis, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 1277-1293.
  • Hammer, P.T.C., Clowes, R.M. and Ramachandran, K., 2004. High-resolution seismic reflection imaging of a thin, diamondiferous, kimberlite dike. Geophysics, 69, 1143-1154.
  • Hammer, P.T.C. and Clowes, R.M., 2004. The accreted terranes of northwestern British Columbia, Canada: Lithospheric velocity structure and tectonics. J. Geophys. Res., 109, B06305, doi:1029/2003JB002749. [19p]
  • Hammer, P.T.C., Clowes, R.M. and Ramachandran, K., 2004. Seismic reflection imaging of thin, kimberlite dykes and sills: Exploration and deposit characterization of the Snap Lake dyke, Canada. Lithos, 76: 359-367.
  • Welford, J.K. and Clowes, R.M., 2004. Deep 3-D seismic reflection imaging of Precambrian sills in southwestern Alberta, Canada. Tectonophysics, 388, 161-172.
  • Cook, F.A., Clowes, R.M., Snyder, D.B., van der Velden, A.J., Hall, K.W., Erdmer, P. and Evenchick, C.A., 2004. Precambrian crust beneath the Mesozoic Northern Canadian Cordillera discovered by LITHOPROBE seismic reflection profiling. Tectonics, 23, TC2010 doi:1029/2002TC001412 [28 p].
  • Fernández Viejo, G. and Clowes, R.M., 2003. Lithospheric structure beneath the Archean Slave Province and Proterozoic Wopmay Orogen, northwest Canada, from a LITHOPROBE refraction/wide-angle reflection survey. Geophys. J. Int., 153, 1-19.
  • Clowes, R.M., Burianyk, M.J., Gorman, A.R. and Kanasewich, E.R., 2002. Crustal velocity structure from SAREX, the southern Alberta refraction experiment. Can. J. Earth Sci., 39, 351-373.
  • Snyder, D.B., Clowes, R.M., Cook, F.A., Erdmer, P., Evenchick, C., van der Velden, A.J. and Hall, K.W., 2002. Proterozoic prism arrests suspect terranes: Insights into the ancient Cordilleran margin from seismic reflection data. GSA Today, 12 (no. 10, October), 4-10.
  • Gorman, A.R., Clowes, R.M., Ellis, R.M. and 9 others, 2002. Deep Probe - Imaging the roots of western North America. Can. J. Earth Sci., 39, 375-398.
  • Welford, J.K., Clowes, R.M., Ellis, R.M., Spence, G.D., Asudeh, I. and Hajnal, Z., 2001. Lithospheric structure across the craton-Cordilleran transition of northeastern British Columbia. Can. J. Earth Sci., 38, 1169-1189.
  • Clowes, R.M., 2001. Deep structure and seismic-reflection studies in Precambrian mining regions: Examples from the Canadian LITHOPROBE project. Mining Engineering, March 2001, 54-60.
  • Roy, B. and Clowes, R.M., 2000. Seismic and potential-field imaging of the Guichon Creek batholith, British Columbia, Canada to delineate structures hosting porphyry copper deposits. Geophysics, 65, 1418-1434.
  • Hammer, P.T.C., Clowes, R.M. and Ellis, R.M., 2000. Crustal structure of NW British Columbia and SE Alaska from seismic wide-angle studies: Coast Plutonic Complex to Stikinia. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 7961-7981.
  • Clowes, R.M., Cook, F.A., Hajnal, Z., Hall, J., Lewry, J., Lucas, S. and Wardle, R., 1999. Canada`s Lithoprobe Project (collaborative, multidisciplinary geoscience research leads to new understanding of continental evolution). Episodes, 22(1): 3-20.
  • Gorman, A.R. and Clowes, R.M., 1998. Wave-field tau-p analysis for 2-D velocity models: application to western North American lithosphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 26(15): 2323-2326.
  • Mandler, H.A.F. and Clowes, R.M., 1998. The HSI bright reflector in southern Alberta: Further evidence for extensive magmatism in the Precambrian of western Canada. Tectonophysics, v. 288: 71-81.
  • Clowes, R.M., Cook, F.A. and Ludden, J.N., 1998. LITHOPROBE leads to new perspectives on continental evolution. GSA Today, 8(10), 1-7.
  • Mandler, H.A.F. and Clowes, R.M., 1997. Evidence for extensive tabular intrusions in the Precambrian shield of western Canada: A 160-km long sequence of bright reflections. Geology, 25, 271-274.
  • Clowes, R.M., Baird, D.J. and Dehler, S.A., 1997. Crustal structure of the Cascadia subduction zone, southwestern British Columbia, from potential field and seismic studies. Can. J. Earth Sci., 34, 317-335.
  • Hammer, P.T.C. and Clowes, R.M., 1997. Moho reflectivity patterns - a comparison of Canadian LITHOPROBE transects. Tectonophysics, 269, 179-198.
  • Hajnal, Z., Nemeth, B., Clowes, R.M., Ellis, R.M. and 5 others, 1997. Mantle involvement in lithospheric collision: Seismic evidence from the Trans-Hudson Orogen, western Canada. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2079-2082.

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