{"id":524,"date":"2025-08-28T18:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/?p=524"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:22:43","slug":"new-research-published-on-the-sudbury-impact-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"New research published on the Sudbury impact structure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A major focus for my group over the past 5 years has been understanding the origin, emplacement, and economic significance of ???offset dykes??? and ???Sudbury Breccia??? within the Sudbury impact structure. Through a collaboration with Wallbridge Mining Company Ltd. PhD student Eric Pilles (now a post-doc in my group) has published two papers on offset dykes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pele Offset Dykes, Sudbury impact structure, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. Available&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcresearchpress.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1139\/cjes-2017-0146#.WhzkB0wZPjA\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chemical variations and genetic relationships between the Hess and the Foy Offset Dikes at the Sudbury impact structure. Meteoritics &amp; Planetary Sciences. Available&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/maps.12986\/full\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then in collaboration with Vale, MSc student Jon O???Callaghan has published a paper on the Sudbury Breccia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contrasting mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of Sudbury breccia adjacent to footwall Cu-Ni-PGE sulfide in the Creighton and Coleman Deposits. Canadian Mineralogist. Available&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canmin.org\/content\/55\/5\/909.abstract\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major focus for my group over the past 5 years has been understanding the origin, emplacement, and economic significance of ???offset dykes??? and ???Sudbury Breccia??? within the Sudbury impact structure. Through a collaboration with Wallbridge Mining Company Ltd. PhD student Eric Pilles (now a post-doc in my group) has published two papers on offset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact-structures","category-research-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacerocks-staging.sci.uwo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}