Dr. Deanne van Rooyen
Associate Professor, Assistant Department HeadEarth and Environmental Science Office location: HSH 325 Undergraduate advisor for BSc Geology and BSc Environmental Geoscience
Research
TeachingGEOL 2133 Mineralogy Student Projects
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Recent Publications
Hamilton, M.A., Alvaro, J.J., Barr, S.M., Jensen, S., Johnson, S.C., Palacios, T., van Rooyen, D., and White C.E. U-Pb zircon ages from tuffaceous beds in the Terreneuvian to Cambrian Series 2 sections of southern New Brunswick, Canada): New constraints on chronostratigraphic correlations and the Cambrian time scale. In Press: Geological Society London Special Volume on "Supercontinents, Orogenesis and Magmatism". June 2023.
Van Rooyen, D., Sappin, A-A., Corrigan, D., Rayner, N., and Houlé, M. The Corrugated Hills Flood Basalt: a 2.17 Ga continental flood basalt province in the Labrador Trough, Canada. In Press, Geological Society London Special Volume on "Supercontinents, Orogenesis and Magmatism". June 2023.
Barr, S.M., White, C.E., Palacios, T., Jensen, S., van Rooyen, D. and Crowley, J.L. 2023. Reply to the Discussion by Landing and Geyer on “The Terreneuvian MacCodrum Brook section, Mira terrane, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: age constraints from ash layers, organic-walled microfossils, and trace fossils”. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, e-first https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjes-2023-0056
Van Rooyen, D., Barr, S.M., White, C.E., and Crowley, J.L. 2023 U-Pb zircon ages from metasedimentary and plutonic rocks in the Bras d'Or terrane of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: Insights into the Ediacaran-Cambrian tectonomagmatic evolution of Ganderia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60(5): 485-512. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2022-0103
Corrigan, D., and Van Rooyen, D. 2023, Paleoproterozoic Earth and the transition toward modern tectonic processes: A synopsis, in Whitmeyer, S.J., Williams, M.L., Kellett, D.A., and Tikoff, B., eds., Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent: Geological Society of America Memoir 220, p. 55–64, https://doi.org/10.1130/2022.1220(04).
Álvaro, J.J., Johnson, S.C., Barr, S.M., Jensen, S., Palacios, T., van Rooyen, D. and White, C.E., 2022. Unconformity-bounded rift sequences in Terreneuvian‒Miaolingian strata of the Caledonian Highlands, Atlantic Canada. GSA Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1130/B36402.1
Barr, S.M., White, C.E., Palacios, T., Jensen, S., van Rooyen, D. and Crowley, J.L., 2022. The Terreneuvian MacCodrum Brook section, Mira terrane, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: age constraints from ash layers, organic-walled microfossils, and trace fossils. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 60 (3): 307–332 https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2022-0044
Van Rooyen, D. 2022. Looking Back to Move Forward: Why Scientific Societies Should Contribute to Making our Science an Equitable, Safe, and Inclusive Space. Geoscience Canada: Journal of the Geological Association of Canada/Geoscience Canada: journal de l’Association Géologique du Canada, 49(2), pp.53-58.
Pollock, J.C., Barr, S.M., van Rooyen, D., and White, C.E. 2022. Insights from Lu-Hf zircon isotopic data on the crustal evolution of Avalonia and Ganderia in the northern Appalachian orogen, in Kuiper, Y.D., Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., Strachan, R.A., and Thompson, M.D., eds., New Developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan Orogen: Geological Society of America Special Paper 554, p. 173–207, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2554(08).
White, C.E., Barr, S.M., Crowley, J. van Rooyen, D., and MacHattie, T.G. 2022. U-Pb zircon ages from the Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada: New contributions to understanding the Neoproterozoic geological history of Avalonia. in Kuiper, Y.D., Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., Strachan, R.A., and Thompson, M.D., eds., New Developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan Orogen: Geological Society of America Special Paper 554, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2554(07)
Corrigan, D., Van Rooyen, D., and Wodicka, N. 2021. Indenter tectonics in the Canadian Shield: A case study for Paleoproterozoic lower crustal flow, vertical axis rotation and lateral extrusion. Precambrian Research 355: Article 106083 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.106083
Ducharme*, T.A., McFarlane. C, van Rooyen, D., and Corrigan, D. 2021. Petrogenesis of the peralkaline Flowers River Igneous Suite and its significance to the development of the southern Nain Batholith. Geological Magazine, 10.1017/S0016756821000388
Gibson, D., Barr, S.M., van Rooyen, D., White, C.E. and Pilote J-L. 2021. Protracted intra- and inter pluton magmatism during the Acadian; evidence from new LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon ages from granitoid plutons, northwestern Maine, USA. Atlantic Geology 57: 147–19 https://doi.org/10.4138/atlgeol.2021.008
Barr, S. M., White, C. E., Jensen, S., Palacios, T., and van Rooyen, D. 2020. Ediacaran and Cambrian rocks on Scatarie Island and nearby Hay Island, Avalonian Mira terrane, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Atlantic Geology, 56:257–279. https://doi.org/10.4138/atlgeol.2020.011
Sombini Dos Santos*, G., Barr, S.M., White, C.E., and Van Rooyen, D. 2020. The rapakivi-bearing Margaree pluton, Cape Breton Island, Canada: Evidence for a Late Devonian post-tectonic cryptic silicic-mafic magma chamber. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 57(9):1011–1029 https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2019-0220.
Barr, S.M., Van Rooyen, D., Miller, B.V., White, C.E., and Johnson, S.C. 2019. Detrital zircon signatures in Precambrian - Paleozoic sedimentary units in southern New Brunswick – more pieces of the puzzle. Atlantic Geology 55:275–322 https://doi:10.4138/atlgeol.2019.010
Van Rooyen, D., Barr, S.M. and White, C.E. 2019. Geochronology of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian rocks of the Bras d’Or terrane on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia; implications for the age and provenance of Ganderian basement rocks. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 56: 829–847 https://doi:10.1139/cjes-2018-0248
Johnson, S., Barr, S.M., White, C.E. and Van Rooyen, D. 2019. U-Pb (zircon) age, petrology, and tectonic setting of the Canaan River Granite, southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. Atlantic Geology 54: 389-408 https://doi:10.4138/atlgeol.2018.013
Barr, S.M., Van Rooyen, D., and White, C.E. 2018. Granitoid plutons in peri-Gondwanan terranes of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: new U-Pb (zircon) age constraints. Atlantic Geology 54: 21-80 https://doi.org/10.4138/atlgeol.2018.002
Corrigan, D., Wodicka, N., McFarlane, C., Lafrance, I., van Rooyen, D., Bandyayera, D. and Bilodeau, C. 2018. Lithotectonic framework of the Core Zone, Southeastern Churchill Province. Geoscience Canada 45: 1-24 https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2018.45.128
Slaman, L.R.*, Barr, S.M., White, C.E. and Van Rooyen, D., 2017. Age and tectonic setting of granitoid plutons in the Chéticamp belt, western Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54: 88–109 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2016-0073
Van Rooyen, D. and Carr, S.D. 2016b. 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology studies in the Thor-Odin – Pinnacles area, southeastern British Columbia: tectonic implications of cooling and exhumation patterns. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2015-0196
Van Rooyen, D. and Carr, S.D. 2016a. Deconstructing the infrastructure: a complex history of diachronous metamorphism and deformation during the late Cretaceous to Eocene in the Thor-Odin – Pinnacles area of SE BC. Geoscience Canada, v.43, p. 103-122. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2016.43.097