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Elizabeth Turner

Elizabeth C. Turner

Professor of Carbonate Sedimentology and Invertebrate Paleontology

Telephone: 705-675-1151 ext 2267; Email: ETurner@laurentian.ca


At LU since 2005;  Research Scientist, Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office (Iqaluit; 2001-2005); Post-doctoral fellowships (Univ of Chicago; Univ of Alberta; 2000-2001); PhD (Queen's; 1999); BSc Geology (University of Toronto; 1991); BA Languages (University of Toronto; 1988); University of Toronto Schools :-) 

Dr. Turner is a field-based geologist with 30 years of research experience in remote parts of Canada's northern territories. Specialisation in dynamics of Proterozoic and Paleozoic carbonate and shale basins, including the information they encode about Earth's deep-time geochemical, tectonic, and paleobiological evolution, and their ore-deposit potential.

 

Education

BA, B.Sc. (Toronto), PhD (Queen’s)

Courses

GEOL 1007 and 1022 - Introductory Geology II (History of Earth)
GEOL 2406 - Paleobiology
GEOL 4217 - Carbonate Sedimentology
GEOL 5007/6007 - Graduate Seminar

 

 

Research Areas:

  • Tectonostratigraphic analysis and economic potential of Proterozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary basins in northern Canada
  • Carbonate sedimentology, stratigraphy, and geochemistry
  • Carbonate-hosted metal deposits
  • Shale basins
  • Proterozoic and Paleozoic reefs and microbialites
  • Tufa and travertine
  • Early evolution of animals

 

Areas Of Expertise

Carbonate Sedimentology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn Deposits

 

Current Research Projects

Geological evolution of Mesoproterozoic, Neoproterozoic, and Paleozoic basins throughout northern Canada (NU, NWT, YT, ON, MB); Sedimentary-rock-hosted ore deposits (DRCongo; northern Canada); Microbial reef geochemistry and evolution; Early evolution of eukaryotes. If you are interested in a M.Sc. or PhD research project, please contact Dr. Turner.

 

Research Themes

Sedimentary Geology Ore Deposits and Mineral Exploration

Current PhD Students

Chaneil Wallace (2019 - )

Lithofacies and fluids in the Irish Zn district

Current MSc Students

R. William Scott (2020 - )

Lower to Middle Cambrian evolution of the ancestral margin of North America in western NWT

Christian Frost (2019 - ) 

Pyrite geochemistry at the Kamoa-Kakula Cu deposits, Democratic Republic of Congo

Charlotte Stone (2018 - )

Dynamics of mid-Neoproterozoic marine systems leading to Rodinia dispersal, Mackenzie Mountains, NWT

Sophie Michel (2017 - )

Sedimentology and chemostratigraphy of the Palaeoproterozoic Kimerot Group, Kilohigok basin (Nunavut)

David Edwards (2016 - )

Stratigraphic and structural controls on metal distribution in the Kamoa-Kakula Cu deposits, Democratic Republic of Congo

Post-doctoral Fellows

Jordan Mathieu (2020 - ) - Zn- and Cu-mineralising fluids at Kipushi, Democratic Republic of Congo

Recently completed

Jordan Mathieu (PhD; 2015 -  2020) - Mineralising fluids of the Cornwallis Zn district, Nunavut

Philippe Trudel (MSc; 2016 - 2019) – Geochronology of the Cu-hosting lower Nguba Group, southern Democratic Republic of Congo

Quinn Dabros (MSc; 2016 - 2019) – Microstructural controls on sulphide distribution in the Kamoa-Kakula deposits, Democratic Republic of Congo

Melanie Bouchard (MSc; 2015 - 2019) - Middle Cambrian stratigraphy of the Brock Inlier and Mackenzie Mountains, NWT

Katherine Hahn (post-doctoral fellow; 2016 - 2017) - Late Ordovician basin evolution, northern Ontario and Manitoba

Awards

2020 - Geological Association of Canada, Howard Street Robinson Medal for excellence in Precambrian geology  https://gac.ca/about/grants-awards/howard-street-robinson-medal/

2016 - NSERC Discovery Grant and Accelerator Supplement, second professor in Laurentian University's history to receive this award

2010 - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences Best Paper, 2009: Turner, E.C., 2009. Mesoproterozoic carbonate systems in the Borden Basin, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 46, p. 915-938. doi:10.1139/E11-066)

2001 - PALAIOS - Honourable mention for best paper: Turner, E.C., James, N.P., and Narbonne, G.M., 2000. Taphonomic control on microstructure in early Neoproterozoic reefal stromatolites and thrombolites, Palaios, v. 15, p. 87 – 111. 

1999 - Best Canadian PhD Thesis in Sedimentary Geology - Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists

Publications

For up-to-date publication list, please see  https://laurentian.ca/faculty/eturner

Underline indicates student author.

Papers in peer-reviewed journals:

Turner, E.C. Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reefs. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03773-z

Loron, C.C., Halverson, G., Rainbird, R., Skulski, T., Turner, E., and Javaux, E., 2021. Shale-hosted biota from the Dismal Lakes Group in Arctic Canada supports an early Mesoproterozoic diversification of eukaryotes. Journal of Paleontology. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.45

Greenman, W., Rainbird, R.H., and Turner, E.C., 2020. High-resolution correlation between contrasting early Tonian carbonate successions in NW Canada highlights pronounced global carbon isotope variations. Precambrian Research, v. 346, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105816

Currie, L., Brent, T., and Turner, E., 2020. Offshore bedrock geology of the Eclipse Sound - Pond Inlet area: Connecting the structure and stratigraphy of Bylot and northern Baffin islands. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 57, p. 1254-1267. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2019-0159

Hnatyshin, D., Robert A Creaser, R.A., Meffre, S., Stern, R.A., Wilkinson, J.J., and Turner, E.C., 2020. Understanding the microscale spatial distribution and mineralogical residency of Re in pyrite: Examples from carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb ores and implications for pyrite Re-Os geochronology. Chemical Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119427

Loron, C.C., François, C., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., Borensztajn, S., and Javaux, E.J., 2019. Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada. Nature, doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1217-0​ 

Loron, C.C., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., Greenman, W.J., Javaux, E.J., 2019. Organic-walled microfossils from the late Meso to early Neoproterozoic lower Shaler Supergroup (Arctic Canada): diversity and biostratigraphic significance. Precambrian Research, v. 321, p. 349-374.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2018.12.024

Loron, C.C., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., Greenman, W.J., Javaux, E.J., 2018. Implications of selective predation on the macroevolution of eukaryotes: evidence from Arctic Canada. Emerging Topics in Life Science
https://doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20170153

Mathieu, J., Turner, E., Kontak, D., Fayek, M., and Mathur, R., 2018. Atypical Cu mineralisation in the Cornwallis carbonate-hosted Zn district: Storm copper deposit, Arctic Canada. Ore Geology Reviews 99, p. 86-115.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.06.009

Turner, E.C., Broughton, D.W., and Brooks, T., 2018. Neoproterozoic carbonate lithofacies and ore distribution at the Kipushi Cu-Zn deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Gayna River Zn camp, Northwest Territories, Canada. Economic Geology, v. 113, p. 779-788 doi: 10.5382/econgeo.2018.4570; 10 p.

Hahn, K.E., Turner, E.C., Kontak, D.J., and Fayek, M., 2018. Fluid-chemical evidence for one billion years of fluid flow through Mesoproterozoic deep-water carbonate mounds (Nanisivik zinc district, Nunavut). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 223, 493-519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.12.001

Rainbird, R.H., Rayner, N.M., Hadlari, T., Heaman, L.M., Ielpi, A., Turner, E. and MacNaughton, R.B., 2017.  Zircon provenance data record lateral extent of pancontinental, early Neoproterozoic rivers and erosional unroofing history of the Grenvillian orogeny.  Geological Society of America Bulletin. DOI:10.1130/B31695.1

Hahn, K.E. and Turner, E.C., 2017. Composition and history of giant lacustrine carbonate seep mounds, Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Arctic Canada.  Precambrian Research  v. 293, p. 150-173.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2017.03.009

Mathieu, J, Turner, E.C., and Rainbird, R.H., 2017. Origin and hydrology of a large, intact Early Cambrian paleocave system and its role in overlying fluidisation structures, Arctic Canada.  Sedimentary Geology,  v. 351, p. 66-79.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.02.006   

Hnatyshin, D., Kontak, D.J., Turner, E.C., Creaser, R.A., Morden R., Stern, R.A., 2016. Geochronologic (Re-Os), stable isotope (δ34S), and fluid-chemical constraints on the formation of the Mesoproterozoic-hosted Nanisivik Zn-Pb deposit, Nunavut, Canada: Evidence for early diagenetic, low-temperature conditions of formation. Ore Geology Reviews doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.05.017

Medig, K., Turner, E.C., Thorkelson, D.J., and Rainbird, R.H., 2016. Rifting of Columbia to form a deep-water siliciclastic to carbonate succession: The Mesoproterozoic Pinguicula Group of northern Yukon, Canada. Precambrian Research, v. 278, p. 179-206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2016.03.021

Baldwin, G.J., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2016. Tectonic controls on the distribution and stratigraphy of the Cryogenian Rapitan iron formation, northwestern Canada. Precambrian Research, v. 278, p. 303-322. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2016.03.014

Turner, E.C., Long, D.G.F., Rainbird, R.H., Petrus, J.A., and Rayner, N.M., 2016. Late Mesoproterozoic rifting in Arctic Canada during Rodinia assembly: impactogens, trans-continental far-field stress, and zinc mineralisation. Terra Nova, doi:10.1111/ter.12207

Turner, E.C., and Bekker, A., 2016. Thick sulfate evaporite accumulations marking a mid-Neoproterozoic oxygenation event (Ten Stone Formation, NWT, Canada). Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 128, p. 203-222. doi: 10.1130/B31268.1.

Hahn, K., Turner, E.C., Babechuk, M.G., and Kamber, B.S., 2015. Deep-water seep-related carbonate mounds in a Mesoproterozoic alkaline lake, Borden Basin (Nunavut, Canada). Precambrian Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2015.09.025

Mathieu, J. Kontak, D.J., Turner, E.C., Fayek, M., Layne, G. 2015. Geochemistry of Phanerozoic diagenesis on Victoria Island, NWT, Canada. Chemical Geology. 15, p. 47-69. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.08.016

Gallagher, M., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2015. In-situ trace metal analysis of Neoarchaean – Ordovician shallow-marine microbial carbonate-hosted pyrites. Geobiology, v. 13, p. 316-339. DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12139

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Davis, W.J., Rainbird, R.H., Gibson, H.D., Turner, E.C., and Marshall, D.D., 2014. Pinning northeastern Australia to northwestern Laurentia in the Mesoproterozoic. Precambrian Research v. 249, p. 88-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2014.04.018

Mathieu, J, Kontak, D.J., and Turner, E.C., 2013. A fluid inclusion study of diagenetic fluids in Proterozoic and Paleozoic carbonate rocks, Victoria Island, NWT. Geofluids v. 13, p. 559-578. doi: 10.1111/gfl.12063

Ootes, L., Gleeson, S, Turner, E., Rasmussen, K., Gordey, S., Falck, H., Martel, E., Pierce, K. 2013. Metallogenic evolution of the Mackenzie and eastern Selwyn mountains of Canada’s northern Cordillera, Northwest Territories: a compilation and review. Geoscience Canada, v. 40, p. 40-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2013.40.005

Baldwin, G.J., Nägler, T.F., Greber, N.D., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2013. Mo isotopic composition of the mid-Neoproterozoic ocean: an iron formation perspective. Precambrian Research, v. 230, p. 168-178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2013.02.011

Turner, E.C. and Kamber, B.S., 2012. Arctic Bay Formation, Borden Basin, Nunavut (Canada): Basin evolution, black shale base-metal potential, and dissolved metal systematics in the Mesoproterozoic ocean. Precambrian Research, v. 208-211, p. 1-18. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2012.03.006

Long, D.G.F. and Turner, E.C., 2012. Tectonic, sedimentary and metallogenic re-evaluation of basal strata in the Mesoproterozoic Bylot basins (NU): are unconformity-type U concentrations a realistic expectation? Precambrian Research, v. 214-215, p. 192-209. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2011.11.005

Baldwin, G.J., Turner, E.C. and Kamber, B.S., 2012. A new depositional model for glaciogenic Neoproterozoic iron formation: insights from the chemostratigraphy and basin configuration of the Rapitan iron formation. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 49, p. 455-476. doi:10.1139/E11-066

Turner, E.C., 2011. Structural and stratigraphic controls on carbonate-hosted base-metal mineralization in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin (Nanisivik District), Nunavut. Economic Geology, v. 106, p. 1197-1223.

Turner, E.C., 2009. Mesoproterozoic carbonate systems in the Borden Basin, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 46, p. 915-938. doi:10.1139/E11-066

Neuweiler, F., Turner, E.C. and Burdige, D., 2009. Early Neoproterozoic origin of the metazoan clade recorded in carbonate rock texture. Geology, v. 37, 475-478. doi: 10.1130/G25621A.1

Turner, E.C., and Long, D.G.F., 2008. Basin architecture and syndepositional fault activity during deposition of the Neoproterozoic Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup, N.W.T., Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 45, p. 1159-1184. doi: 10.1130/G30484Y.1


Books and book chapters:

Martel, E., Turner, E.C., and Fischer B.J, eds., 2011. Geology of the central Mackenzie Mountains of the northern Canadian Cordillera, Sekwi Mountain (105P), Mount Eduni (106A) and northwestern Wrigley Lake (95M) map-areas, Northwest Territories. NWT Special Volume 1, NWT Geoscience Office, 423 p.

Turner, E.C., Roots, C.F., MacNaughton, R.B., Long, D.G.F., Fischer, B., Gordey, S.P., Martel, E., and Pope, M., 2011. Chapter 3: Stratigraphy. In: Geology of the central Mackenzie Mountains of the northern Canadian Cordillera, Sekwi Mountain (105P), Mount Eduni (106A) and northwestern Wrigley Lake (95M) map-areas, Northwest Territories; Martel, E., Turner, E.C., and Fischer, B., eds: NWT Special Volume 1, NWT Geoscience Office, p. 31-192.

Dewing, K., Sharp, R.J., and Turner, E.C., 2007. Synopsis of the Polaris Zn-Pb-Cu District, Canadian Arctic Islands, Nunavut. In: Goodfellow, W. (ed.). Mineral Resources of Canada: A Synthesis of Major Deposit-types, District Metallogeny, the Evolution of Geological Provinces, and Exploration Methods. Geological Association of Canada - Mineral Deposit Division Special Paper 5, p. 655-672.

Dewing, K., Turner, E.C., and Harrison, J.C., 2007. Geological History, Mineral Occurrences and Mineral Potential of the sedimentary rocks of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. In: Goodfellow, W. (ed.). Mineral Resources of Canada: A Synthesis of Major Deposit-types, District Metallogeny, the Evolution of Geological Provinces, and Exploration Methods. Geological Association of Canada - Mineral Deposit Division Special Paper 5, p. 733-753.


Refereed technical reports:

Skulski, T., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., Meek, R., Ielpi, A., Halverson, G.P., Davis, W.J., Mercadier, J., Girard, E., and Loron, C.C., 2018. Bedrock geology of the Dismal Lakes–lower Coppermine River area, Nunavut and Northwest Territories: GEM-2 Coppermine River Transect, report of activities 2017-2018. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 8522, 39 p. doi.org/10.4095/313404

Bouchard, M.L., and Turner, E.C., 2017b. Cambrian lithostratigraphy of the Mount Clark, Mount Cap and Saline River formations in the Carcajou Range and Norman Range, Northwest Territories (NTS 96E1, 3, and 4). Geological Survey of Canada, Open File. 8246, 38 p. doi:10.4095/302730

Bouchard, M.L., and Turner, E.C., 2017a. Stratigraphy of the Mount Clark, Mount Cap and Saline River formations in the Hornaday River canyon, Northwest Territories (NTS 97A). Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8180, 47 p. doi:10.4095/299603​

Hahn, K.E., Armstrong, D.K., Turner, E.C., Nicolas, M.P.B., 2016. Towards a sequence stratigraphic framework for the Ordovician Hudson Bay and Moose River basins. Ontario Geological Survey Open File Report 6323, p. 28-1 to 28-10

Rainbird, R.H., Craven, J.A., Turner, E.C., Jackson, V.A., Fischer, B.J., Bouchard, M., Greenman, J. W., Gibson, T., 2016. Reconnaissance geological mapping, stratigraphy and magnetotelluric survey of northern Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7955, 16 pages, doi:10.4095/297296

Turner, E.C., and Armstrong, D.K., 2015. Upper Ordovician stratigraphy of northern Ontario: differential subsidence and deposition in two late Ordovician basins contemporaneous with Hirnantian glaciation and the Taconic orogeny. Ontario Geological Survey Open File Report 6313, p. 32-1 – 32-22.

Rainbird, R.H., Craven, J.A., Turner, E.C., Jackson, V.A., Fischer, B.J., Bouchard, M., Greenman, J. W., Gibson, T., 2015. Reconnaissance geological mapping, stratigraphy and magnetotelluric survey of northern Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7955, 16 pages, doi:10.4095/297296

Fallas, K.M., MacNaughton, R.B., Turner, E.C., Sommers, M.J., 2015. GEM 2 Mackenzie Project: Colville Hills bedrock mapping, stratigraphy, and related studies. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7963, 19 pages, doi:10.4095/297301

Bédard, J.H., Rainbird, R.H., Currie, L.D., Turner, E.C., 2015. Geology, Uqpilik, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories. Canadian Geoscience Map 188, (ed. prelim.). 1 sheet, doi:10.4095/297277

Turner, E.C., 2015. Base-metal enrichment in Stage-5 (mid-Cambrian) black shale of the Hess River Formation, Misty Creek Embayment, Selwyn Basin, in Paradis, S., ed.,Targeted Geoscience Initiative 4: sediment-hosted Zn-Pb deposits: processes and implications for exploration; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7838, p. 75-95. doi:10.4095/296328

Turner, E.C., 2015. Gossans of the Cornwallis District, central high Arctic islands, Canada. In Environmental and economic significance of gossans; Williamson, M -C (ed.); Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7718, 2015; p. 54-57.

Rainbird, R., Ielpi, A., Turner, E.C., and Jackson, V.A., 2015. Reconnaissance geological mapping and thematic studies of northern Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7695, 10 p.

Harrison, J.C., Thorsteinsson, R., Mayr, U., Lynds, T., Ford, A; Turner, E.C. 2014. Geology, tectonic assemblage map of Wellington Channel, Cornwallis and western Devon islands, Nunavut. Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 33, (ed. prelim.), 2014; 1 sheet, doi:10.4095/292831

Hahn, K.E., and Turner, E.C., 2014. High-precision trace-element analysis of deep-water, vent-related dolostone in the Borden Basin, Nunavut. Summary of Activities 2013, Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office, p. 1-9.

Chevrier, T.S. and Turner, E.C., 2013. Lithostratigraphy of deep-water lower Paleozoic strata in the central Misty Creek Embayment, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories. GSC Current Research 2013-14, 25 p.

Hahn, K. and Turner, E.C., 2013. Deep-water carbonate mound lithofacies, Borden Basin (Mesoproterozoic; NU). Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research, v 2013-11, 14 p.

Mathieu, J., Turner, E.C., and Rainbird, R.H., 2013. Sedimentary architecture of a deeply karsted Precambrian – Cambrian unconformity, Victoria Island, NWT. Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research, v. 2013-1, 15 p. doi: 10.4095/292099.

Chevrier, T.S. and Turner, E.C., 2013. A lithostratigraphic section in the central Misty Creek Embayment, NWT. NWT Open Report 2013-002, 1 sheet.

Turner, E.C. and Long, D.G.F., 2012. Formal definition of the Neoproterozoic Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup (NWT), and formal stratigraphic nomenclature for its carbonate and evaporite formations. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7112.

Long, D.G.F. and Turner, E.C., 2012. Formal definition of the Neoproterozoic Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup (NWT), and formal stratigraphic nomenclature for terrigenous clastic units of the Katherine Group. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7113.

Baldwin, G.J. and Turner, E.C., 2012. Lithofacies and lithostratigraphic correlation potential of the Ra¬pitan iron formation, Snake River area (NTS 106F), Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2011, K.E. MacFarlane and P.J. Sack (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 1-15.

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Turner, E.C., Davis, Gibson, H.D., Rainbird, R.H., and Marshall, D.D., 2012. The Proterozoic Pinguicula Group, Wernecke Mountains, Yukon: A siliciclastic and carbonate slope to basin succession with local and exotic sediment provenance. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2011, K.E. MacFarlane and P.J. Sack (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 129-149.

Turner, E.C., 2011. A lithostratigraphic transect through the Cambro-Ordovician Franklin Mountain Formation in NTS 96D (Carcajou Canyon) and 96E (Norman Wells), NWT. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 6994, 28 p.

Aitken, J.D., Turner, E.C., and MacNaughton, R.B., 2011. Thirty-six archival stratigraphic sections in the Katherine, Little Dal, Coates Lake, and Rapitan groups (Neoproterozoic), Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 6391, 6 p., 41 sheets.

Turner, E.C., 2011. Stratigraphy of the Mackenzie Mountains supergroup in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2010, K.E. MacFarlane, L.H. Weston and C. Relf (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 207-231.

Turner, E.C., 2009. Lithostratigraphy and stable isotope values of the early Neoproterozoic Gypsum formation (Little Dal Group, Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup), N.W.T. Northwest Territories Geoscience Office, NWT Open Report 2009-002, 26 p.

Long, D.G.F., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., MacNaughton, R.B., 2008. Early Neoproterozoic strata (Sequence B) of mainland northern Canada and Victoria and Banks islands: a contribution to the Geological Atlas of the Northern Canadian Mainland Sedimentary Basin. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5700, 2008, 27p.


Conference Abstracts

Clay, S.E., Turner, E.C., and Kontak, D.J., 2018. Mineralising fluids of the Kamoa-Kakula sedimentary-rock-hosted copper deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo. Society of Economic Geologists Annual Meeting, Keystone CO, Sept 22-25, P011.

Dabros, Q. and Turner, E.C., 2018. Evolution of host-rock diamictite matrix at the high-grade Kakula copper deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo. Society of Economic Geologists Annual Meeting, Keystone CO, Sept 22-25, P014

Mathieu, J., Turner, E.C., and Kontak, D.J., 2018. Characteristics of local and regional Mineralising fluids in the Cornwallis Zn-Pb district, Arctic Canada. Society of Economic Geologists Annual Meeting, Keystone CO, Sept 22-25, P043

Trudel, P., and Turner, E.C., 2018. Provenance and depositional age of the grand conglomérat, host of the Kamoa Cu deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo. Society of Economic Geologists Annual Meeting, Keystone CO, Sept 22-25, P062

Turner, E.C., Baldwin, G., and Kamber, B.S., 2018. Basin dynamics and geochemistry during deposition of the Neoproterozoic Rapitan iron formation (northwestern Canada). Society of Economic Geologists Annual Meeting, Keystone CO, Sept 22-25, S07.03

Turner, E.C., Broughton, D.W., and Brooks, T., 2018 Architecture of Neoproterozoic carbonate host rocks underlies the distribution of Zn and Cu ore at Kipushi (DRC) and Gayna River (Canada). Society of Economic Geologists Annual Meeting, Keystone CO, Sept 22-25, SP2

Loron,C.C., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., Greenman, J.W., Javaux, E.J., 2018  Evidence for early predation in Arctic Canada and implications for the evolution of Eukaryotes. International Paleontology Congress, Paris, July 9-13.

Michel, S., Ielpi, A., and Turner, E., 2018. Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and stable-isotope geochemistry of the Palaeoproterozoic Kimerot Group, Kilohigok basin (Nunavut, Arctic Canada). Resources for Future Generations, Vancouver, June 16-21, abst #1754.

Dabros, Q.,and Turner, E. , 2018. Characteristics of host-rock diamictite matrix at the high-grade Kakula copper deposit (Democratic Republic of Congo). Resources for Future Generations, Vancouver, June 16-21, abst #1584.

O'Sullivan, E., Nägler, T.,  Kamber, B., Turner, E. 2018. Oceanic redox state in the lead-up to Neoproterozoic oxygenation: insights from REEs and Mo isotopes of microbial carbonates. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018 Vienna,  8–13 April

Fustic, M., Haeri Ardakani, O.,  Jiang, C., Turner, E., Mort, A., Sanei, H., Gonzales, G., and Long, D., 2017. Preliminary petroleum potential and organic matter characterization of the Mesoproterozoicupper Arctic Bay Formation (black shale) at Shale Valley Central, Northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada,  Gussow Geoscience Conference, Lake Louise AB, Oct 8-11.

Mathieu, J., Kontak, D., Turner, E., and Hahn, K., 2017. Fluid histories in sedimentary settings revealed using multiple in situ micro-analytical techniques. Goldschmidt Conference, Paris, August 13-18.

Turner, E.C., 2017. Lithostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and detrital zircon geochronology of the Mesoproterozoic Hunting Formation, Somerset Island (NU). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 388.

Turner, E.C., MacNaughton, R.B., and Fallas, K., 2017. Litho- and chemostratigraphic transect of the Cambro-Ordovician Franklin Mountain Formation across the interior plains, NWT. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 389.

Turner, E.C., Brooks, T., and Broughton, D.W., 2017. Neoproterozoic lithofacies control ore distribution at the Kipushi Cu-Zn deposit (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Gayna River Zn camp (NWT). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 390.

Mathieu, J., Turner, E.C., and Rainbird, R.H., 2017. Intact paleocaves linked to sediment fluidisation structures at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary (Victoria Island, NWT). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 251.

Loron, C., Javaux, E.J., Rainbird, R.H., Greenman, J.W., and Turner, E.C., 2017. An exquisitely diverse assemblage of organic-walled microfossils from the Proterozoic of Arctic Canada and implications for the early evolution of eukaryotes. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 233.

Kontak, D.J., Turner, E.C., Mathieu, J., and Hahn, K.E., 2017. Diagenetic and mineralising fluids are more than just wt. % equivalent NaCl! Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 208.

Hahn, K.E., Turner, E.C., and Kontak, D.J., 2017. One billion years of fluid-flow through giant carbonate mounds, Mesoproterozoic Nanisivik zinc district, Nunavut. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 138.

Hahn, K.E., Turner, E.C., Armstrong, D.K., and Nicolas, M.P.B., 2017. Late Ordovician chemostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay and Moose River basins. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 139.

Bouchard, M.L., Turner, E.C., MacNaughton, R.B., and Rainbird, R.H., 2017. Chemostratigraphic correlation of the epicratonic Lower to Middle Cambrian Mount Clark, Mount Cap and Saline River formations, northern mainland Northwest Territories. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 37.

Greenman, J.W., Rainbird, R.H., Dix, G.R., and Turner, E.C., 2017. Stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental analysis of a ~1.0 Ga carbonate shelf succession:  The Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories, Canada. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 132.

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Davis, W.J., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C.,  Gibson, H.D., and Marshall,  D.D., 2016. Mesoproterozoic  basins in Yukon, Canada, show initial rifting of Columbia and seaway development. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, Sept 25-26 2016. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-280080

MacNaughton, R.B., Fallas, K.M., Pratt., B.R., Maclean, B.C.,  and Turner, E.C., 2016. Tectonic evolution of the  Mackenzie arch, a major control on Cambrian depositional patterns in the westernmost Northwest Territories, Canada. Paper 142-4, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, Sept 25-26 2016. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7 doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-281200

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Davis, W.J., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C.,  Gibson, H.D., and Marshall,  D.D., 2016. Mesoproterozoic basins of northwestern Laurentia and their connection to Australia. Geological Association of Canada- Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Whitehorse, June 1-3.

Rainbird, R.H., Craven, J.A., Rayner, N., Turner, E.C., Ielpi, A., Bouchard, M., Jackson, V.A., Fischer, B., Javaux, E., Greenman, J.W., Gibson. T., 2016.  Recent advances in our understanding of the Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories. Geological Association of Canada- Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Whitehorse, June 1-3.

Rainbird, R.H., Rayner, N.M., Hadlari, T., MacNaughton, R.B., Ielpi, A., and Turner, E.C., 2016. Zircon provenance data from the Amundsen and Mackenzie basins corroborate lateral extent and duration of a pan-continental, early Neoproterozoic river system. Geological Association of Canada- Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Whitehorse, June 1-3.

Hahn, K.E., Turner, E.C., Kontak, D.J., and Fayek, M., 2016. Diagenetic history of deep-water carbonate mounds in the Mesoproterozoic Nanisivik zinc district, Nunavut. Pan-American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (PACROFI-XII) May 24-26, 2016, p. 54-55.

Mathieu, J.P., Kontak, D.J., Turner, E.C., and Fayek, M., 2016. Characterisation of copper mineralisation at the Storm copper showing, Cornwallis District, Arctic Canada. Pan-American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (PACROFI-XII) May 24-26, 2016, p. 88-89.

Mathieu, J., Kontak, D.J., Turner, E.C., and Fayek, M., 2015. Origin of copper showings in the Cornwallis District and Borden Basin, Arctic islands, Nunavut. AGU-GAC Joint Assembly, Montreal May 3-7, Abstract MD42A-06

Hahn, K., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2015. Deep-water seep-related carbonate mounds: implications for seawater and vent fluid geochemistry in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Nunavut. AGU-GAC Joint Assembly, Montreal May 3-7, Abstract PG12A-06

Turner, E.C., 2015. Base-metal enrichment in Stage 5 (mid-Cambrian) black shale in the Misty Creek Embayment, Selwyn Basin (NWT, Canada). International Applied Geochemistry Symposium, Tucson, AZ, April 19-24, extended abstract, 10 p.

Hahn, K, and Turner, E.C., 2014. Marine diagenesis of Mesoproterozoic deep-water seep mounds. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Oct. 19-22.

Turner, E. C., Rayner, N.M., Rainbird, R.H., and Long, D.G.F., 2014. Early evolution of Mackenzie and Amundsen basins from detrital zircon geochronology. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Oct. 19-22. (invited)

Fischer, B.J., Turner, E.C., and Kontak, D.J., 2014. Targeting carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb ore in the Mackenzie Mountains: where to look and why. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Oct. 19-22.

Medig, K., Thorkelson, D., Davis, W.J., Rainbird, R., Gibson, H.D., Turner, E.C. and Marshall, D., 2014. Reconfiguring supercontinent Columbia: pinning northeastern Australia to northwestern Laurentia using a near-unimodal detrital zircon population. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Oct. 19-22.

Mathieu, J., Kontak, D.J., and Turner, E.C., 2014. Characteristics of diagenetic fluids affecting two major carbonate units on Victoria Island, Northwest Territories. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 174-175.

Baldwin, G.J., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2014. Tectonostratigraphy of the Rapitan Group, NWT and YT. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 17-18.

Hahn, K.E. and Turner, E.C., 2014. Seep-related microbial carbonate accumulation in the tectonically active Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin (NU). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 110-111.

Pavan, K., Hahn, K., and Turner, E.C., 2014. Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Borden Basin (Nunavut): Implications for depositional age and correlation of carbonate strata in the Nanisivik District. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 215.

MacNaughton, R.B., Pratt, B.R., Fallas, K.M., and Turner, E.C., 2014. History of Mackenzie Arch and its influence on Cambrian sedimentation in the eastern Mackenzie Mountains and adjacent Mackenzie Plain, Northwest Territories. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 171.

Turner, E., 2014. Carbonates gone wild: 50 million years of invariant carbonate production and export in the lower Paleozoic of northwestern Canada. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 273-274.

Turner, E., 2014. Gossans of the Cornwallis district, Canadian high Arctic (invited). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 274-275.

Turner, E.C., Long, D.G.F., Rainbird, R., Petrus, J., and Rayner, N., 2014. Geochronology of the Mesoproterozoic Bylot basins (Nunavut) and their zinc endowment. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p.275.

Turner, E., Kontak, D., Hnatyshin, D., Creaser, R.A., and Kamber, B.S., 2013. Revised understanding of carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb mineralization in the Borden Basin (Nanisivik district), Nunavut, Canada. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, Oct 26-30.

Turner, E.C., Kontak, D.J., Hnatyshin, D., Creaser, R., Kamber, B.S., Morden, R., Long, D.G.F., 2013. Revised geologic and metallogenic view of the carbonate-hosted Nanisivik zinc district, Nunavut, Canada. Society for Economic Geology Whistler, BC, Sept 24-28, p. 28.

Paradis, S., Bryson, E., Chevrier, T., Day, S., deKemp, E., Falck, H., Gadd, M., Gammon, P., Gleeson, S., Jamieson, H., Joseph, J., Layton-Matthews, D., Lydon, J., Magnall, J., McCurdy, M., Peter, J., Schetselaar, E., Skeries, K., Stavinga, D., Taylor, B., Thomas, M., Turner, E., 2013. SEDEX Targeted Geoscience Initiative-4 – Developing New Exploration Concepts and Methodologies. Society for Economic Geology Whistler, BC, Sept 24-28.

Kamber, B., Naegler, T., Turner, E., Webb, G. and Pretet, C., 2013. A first-order deep time reconstruction of the marine Sr/Ba ratio from microbial carbonate. Goldschmidt 2013, August 25-30, Florence Italy.

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Davis, W.J., Rainbird, R.H., Gibson, H.D., Turner, E.C., and Marshall, D.D., 2013. Confirmation of the Laurentia-Australia connection? Detrital zircons from Mesoproterozoic strata in Yukon. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Winnipeg, May 21-24, p. 143.

Mathieu, J., Kontak, D.J., and Turner, E.C., 2013. Phanerozoic diagenesis and associated economic potential of Proterozoic and Paleozoic dolostones on Victoria Island (NWT and NU). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Winnipeg, May 21-24, p. 138.

Turner, E.C., Kamber, B.S., Kontak, D.J., Long, D.G.F., Hnatyshin, D., Creaser, R., Morden, R. and Hahn, K. 2013. Spatial and temporal constraints on base-metal distribution in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin (Nanisivik District), NU. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Winnipeg, May 21-24, p. 190.

Hahn, K.E. and Turner, E.C., 2013. Regional deposition of giant deep-water carbonate seep mounds in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin (NU). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Winnipeg, May 21-24, p. 106.

Baldwin, G.J., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2012. Ice, but no fire: a new depositional age for the Rapitan Group, Canada. 22nd annual Goldschmidt meeting, Montreal, June 24-29.

Kamber, B.S., Turner, E.C., O’Hare, S.P., Baldwin, G.J., and Hahn, K., 2012. The Meso- and early Neoproterozoic deep ocean REE issue. 22nd annual Goldschmidt meeting, Montreal, June 24-29.

Mathieu, J., Kontak, D.J., and Turner, E.C., 2012. Fluid inclusion study of hydrothermal dolomite and other late-stage cements in Neoproterozoic dolostone of the Wynniatt Formation (Victoria Island, NWT). Pan-American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (PACROFI) Meeting XI, Windsor, Ontario, June 18-20.

Baldwin, G.J. , Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2012. Paleogeographic controls on the distribution and character of the Neoproterozoic Rapitan iron formation, NWT and YT. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 7.

Baldwin, G.J., and Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2012. Depositional age of the Rapitan Group, NWT and YT: Implications for the onset of the Sturtian glaciation. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 7.

Turner, E.C., 2012. Basin evolution at the beginning of “Sequence B”, northwestern Canada. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 40-41.

Hahn, K. and Turner, E.C., 2012. Syntectonic deep-water carbonate mounds: Implications for the evolution of the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Nunavut. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 57.

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Turner, E.C., Davis, W.J., Gibson, H.D., Rainbird, R.H., and Marshall, D.D., 2012. The Pinguicula Group, northern Yukon: Progress in the Proterozoic puzzle of western North America. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 95.

Rainbird, R.H., Prince, J., Thomson, D., Krapež, B., Bédard, J., Pratt, B.R., Rayner, N., Turner, E., Lafond, G., Bekker, A., Creaser, R., Planavsky, N., Hallmann, C., van Acken, D. and Wing, B., 2012. Integrated sedimentological, stratigraphic, geochemical and paleontological studies of the Shaler Supergroup in the Minto Inlier of northwestern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 120.

Turner, E.C., 2012. Syndepositionally brecciated deep-water laminite, Nanisivik Formation, Borden Basin (NU): deep-water equivalent of molar-tooth structure? Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 149.

Hahn, K., and Turner, E.C., 2012. Rift-related deep-water carbonate mounds in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Nunavut. American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2012 Annual Convention, Long Beach CA, April 22-25, 2012, abstract 1235911.

Turner, E.C., 2012. Rift dolostones of the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Nunavut (Arctic Canada). American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2012 Annual Convention, Long Beach CA, April 22-25, 2012, abstract 1234889.

Turner, E.C., 2012. Mixed Carbonate-Clastic Sedimentation in the Basal Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup (Early Neoproterozoic), Northwestern Canada. American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2012 Annual Convention, Long Beach CA, April 22-25, 2012, abstract 1236569.

Hnatyshin, D., Morden, R., Turner, E., Kontak, D., and Creaser, R.A., 2011. Re-Os and fluid inclusion constraints on the timing and nature of sulfide mineralization at Nanisivik and Hawker Creek, Baffin Island, Nunavut. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.43, no. 5, p. 633.

Long, D.G.F.L. and Turner, E.C., 2011. Tectonic, sedimentary and metallogenic re-evaluation of basal strata in the Mesoproterozoic Bylot basins (NU): Are unconformity-type U concentrations a realistic expectation? GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27.

Baldwin, G.J., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2011. Detailed chemostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Rapitan iron formation, with emphasis on the REE+Y, Mo, and U. GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27

Turner, E.C., 2011. Basal Mackenzie Mountains supergroup (late Proterozoic), YT and NWT. GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27.

Chevrier, T.S., and Turner, E.C., 2011. Reconstruction and analysis of morphologically complex primary voids in the Neoproterozoic Little Dal reefs, NWT, Canada. GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27.

O’Hare, S.P., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2011. Redox-sensitive metal systematics in black shale of the Basinal assemblage of the Neoproterozoic Little Dal Group, Mackenzie Mountains supergroup, NWT. GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27

Kamber, B.S., and Turner, E.C., 2011. Black shale, metal content and ocean ventilation – results and caveats from the ca. 1.1 Ga Arctic Bay Formation, Borden Basin, NU. GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27

Turner, E.C., 2009. Proterozoic Carbonate Lithofacies Control the Distribution of Sulphides at the Gayna River Zn-Pb Camp, Mackenzie Mountains, NWT. GAC-MAC-AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto, May 24-27.

Turner, E.C., 2009 Spatial Constraints on Carbonate-hosted Base Metals in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Nunavut. GAC-MAC-AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto May 24-27.

Fischer, B., Turner, E.C. and Kontak, D., 2009 Controls on Zn(-Pb) Mineralization in the Lower Cambrian Sekwi Formation, Mackenzie Mountains Zinc District, Northwest Territories. GAC-MAC-AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto May 24-27.

Research

Dr. Turner's research focus is on tectononstratigraphic analysis and economic potential of Proterozoic to lower Paleozoic sedimentary basins, including paleobiological, geochemical, paleoenvironmental, sedimentological, and diagenetic evolution in deep time spanning over 1 billion years of Earth history. Over 30 years of experience doing remote field research in Canada's north (NU; NWT). 

At LU since 2005;  Research Scientist, Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office (Iqaluit; 2001-2005); Post-doctoral fellowships (Univ of Chicago; Univ of Alberta; 2000-2001); PhD (Queen's; 1999); BSc Geology (University of Toronto; 1991); BA Languages (University of Toronto; 1988); University of Toronto Schools  :-)

Current projects in:

  • ​Geological evolution of Mesoproterozoic, Neoproterozoic, and Paleozoic basins throughout northern Canada (NU, NWT, YT, ON, MB)
  • Sedimentary-rock-hosted ore deposits (DRCongo; northern Canada)
  • Microbial reef geochemistry and evolution
  • Early evolution of eukaryotes

If you are interested in a M.Sc. or Ph.D. research project, please contact me or see our current research projects and geology graduate program information.

 

Awards

2020 Geological Association of Canada (GAC) Howard Street Robinson Medal (Precambrian Division)

2016 NSERC Discovery Grant and Accelerator Supplement, second professor in Laurentian University's history to receive this award

2009 Best Paper Award, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, for "Mesoproterozoic carbonate systems in the Borden Basin, Nunavut"

1999 PhD Thesis Award, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists

 

Research Areas

  • Tectonostratigraphic analysis and economic potential of Proterozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary basins in northern Canada
  • Carbonate sedimentology, stratigraphy, and geochemistry
  • Carbonate-hosted metal deposits
  • Shale basins
  • Proterozoic and Paleozoic reefs and microbialites
  • Tufa and travertine
  • Early evolution of animals

My primary field-based research is currently aimed at understanding the tectonostratigraphic evolution of Proterozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary basins in northern Canada, and how their geological evolution dictated the present-day distribution of metal and hydrocarbon deposits.

 

Teaching

GEOL 1007 and 1022 - Introductory Geology II (History of Earth)

GEOL 2406 - Paleobiology

GEOL 4217 - Carbonate Sedimentology

GEOL 5007 and 6007 - Graduate Seminar

 

Current Graduate Students

 

PhD Students

Sarah Clay (2016 - ) – Mineralising fluids of the Kamoa-Kakula Cu deposits, Democratic Republic of Congo

David Edwards (2016 - ) – Stratigraphic and structural controls on metal distribution in the Kamoa-Kakula Cu deposits, Democratic Republic of Congo

Jordan Mathieu (2015 - ) – Fluid history of three Canadian metallotects

 

MSc Students

Philippe Trudel (2016 - ) – Geochronology of the lower Kundelungu Group, southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Quinn Dabros (2016 - ) – Microstructural controls on sulphide distribution in the Kamoa-Kakula deposits, Democratic Republic of Congo

Melanie Bouchard (2015 -  ) - Cambrian stratigraphy of the Brock Inlier and Mackenzie Mountains, NWT

 

Post-doctoral fellows

Katherine Hahn (2016 - 2017) - Late Ordovician basin evolution, northern Ontario and Manitoba

 

Publications

For up-to-date publication list, please see https://laurentian.ca/faculty/eturner

Recent papers in refereed journals:

Turner, E.C. Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reefs. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03773-z

Loron, C.C., François, C., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., Borensztajn, S., and Javaux, E.J., 2019. Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada. Nature, doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1217-0​ 

Loron, C.C., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., Greenman, W.J., Javaux, E.J., 2019. Organic-walled microfossils from the late Meso to early Neoproterozoic lower Shaler Supergroup (Arctic Canada): diversity and biostratigraphic significance. Precambrian Research, v. 321, p. 349-374.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2018.12.024

Loron, C.C., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., Greenman, W.J., Javaux, E.J., 2018. Implications of selective predation on the macroevolution of eukaryotes: evidence from Arctic Canada. Emerging Topics in Life Science
https://doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20170153

Mathieu, J., Turner, E., Kontak, D., Fayek, M., and Mathur, R., 2018. Atypical Cu mineralisation in the Cornwallis carbonate-hosted Zn district: Storm copper deposit, Arctic Canada. Ore Geology Reviews 99, p. 86-115.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.06.009

Turner, E.C., Broughton, D.W., and Brooks, T., 2018. Neoproterozoic carbonate lithofacies and ore distribution at the Kipushi Cu-Zn deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Gayna River Zn camp, Northwest Territories, Canada. Economic Geology, v. 113, p. 779-788 doi: 10.5382/econgeo.2018.4570; 10 p.

Hahn, K.E., Turner, E.C., Kontak, D.J., and Fayek, M., 2018. Fluid-chemical evidence for one billion years of fluid flow through Mesoproterozoic deep-water carbonate mounds (Nanisivik zinc district, Nunavut). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 223, 493-519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.12.001

Rainbird, R.H., Rayner, N.M., Hadlari, T., Heaman, L.M., Ielpi, A., Turner, E. and MacNaughton, R.B., 2017.  Zircon provenance data record lateral extent of pancontinental, early Neoproterozoic rivers and erosional unroofing history of the Grenvillian orogeny. Geological Society of America Bulletin. DOI:10.1130/B31695.1

Hahn, K.E. and Turner, E.C., 2017. Composition and history of giant lacustrine carbonate seep mounds, Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Arctic Canada. Precambrian Research  v. 293, p. 150-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2017.03.009

Mathieu, J, Turner, E.C., and Rainbird, R.H., 2017. Origin and hydrology of a large, intact Early Cambrian paleocave system and its role in overlying fluidisation structures, Arctic Canada. Sedimentary Geology,  v. 351, p. 66-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.02.006  

Hnatyshin, D., Kontak, D.J., Turner, E.C., Creaser, R.A., Morden R., Stern, R.A., 2016. Geochronologic (Re-Os), stable isotope (δ34S), and fluid-chemical constraints on the formation of the Mesoproterozoic-hosted Nanisivik Zn-Pb deposit, Nunavut, Canada: Evidence for early diagenetic, low-temperature conditions of formation. Ore Geology Reviews doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.05.017

Medig, K., Turner, E.C., Thorkelson, D.J., and Rainbird, R.H., 2016. Rifting of Columbia to form a deep-water siliciclastic to carbonate succession: The Mesoproterozoic Pinguicula Group of northern Yukon, Canada. Precambrian Research, v. 278, p. 179-206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2016.03.021

Baldwin, G.J., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2016. Tectonic controls on the distribution and stratigraphy of the Cryogenian Rapitan iron formation, northwestern Canada. Precambrian Research, v. 278, p. 303-322. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2016.03.014

Turner, E.C., Long, D.G.F., Rainbird, R.H., Petrus, J.A., and Rayner, N.M., 2016. Late Mesoproterozoic rifting in Arctic Canada during Rodinia assembly: impactogens, trans-continental far-field stress, and zinc mineralisation. Terra Nova, doi:10.1111/ter.12207

Turner, E.C., and Bekker, A., 2016. Thick sulfate evaporite accumulations marking a mid-Neoproterozoic oxygenation event (Ten Stone Formation, NWT, Canada). Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 128, p. 203-222. doi: 10.1130/B31268.1.

Hahn, K., Turner, E.C., Babechuk, M.G., and Kamber, B.S., 2015. Deep-water seep-related carbonate mounds in a Mesoproterozoic alkaline lake, Borden Basin (Nunavut, Canada). Precambrian Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2015.09.025

Mathieu, J. Kontak, D.J., Turner, E.C., Fayek, M., Layne, G. 2015. Geochemistry of Phanerozoic diagenesis on Victoria Island, NWT, Canada. Chemical Geology. 15, p. 47-69. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.08.016

Gallagher, M., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2015. In-situ trace metal analysis of Neoarchaean – Ordovician shallow-marine microbial carbonate-hosted pyrites. Geobiology, v. 13, p. 316-339. DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12139

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Davis, W.J., Rainbird, R.H., Gibson, H.D., Turner, E.C., and Marshall, D.D., 2014. Pinning northeastern Australia to northwestern Laurentia in the Mesoproterozoic. Precambrian Research v. 249, p. 88-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2014.04.018

Mathieu, J, Kontak, D.J., and Turner, E.C., 2013. A fluid inclusion study of diagenetic fluids in Proterozoic and Paleozoic carbonate rocks, Victoria Island, NWT. Geofluids v. 13, p. 559-578. doi: 10.1111/gfl.12063

Ootes, L., Gleeson, S, Turner, E., Rasmussen, K., Gordey, S., Falck, H., Martel, E., Pierce, K. 2013. Metallogenic evolution of the Mackenzie and eastern Selwyn mountains of Canada’s northern Cordillera, Northwest Territories: a compilation and review. Geoscience Canada, v. 40, p. 40-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2013.40.005

Baldwin, G.J., Nägler, T.F., Greber, N.D., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2013. Mo isotopic composition of the mid-Neoproterozoic ocean: an iron formation perspective. Precambrian Research, v. 230, p. 168-178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2013.02.011

Turner, E.C. and Kamber, B.S., 2012. Arctic Bay Formation, Borden Basin, Nunavut (Canada): Basin evolution, black shale base-metal potential, and dissolved metal systematics in the Mesoproterozoic ocean. Precambrian Research, v. 208-211, p. 1-18. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2012.03.006

Long, D.G.F. and Turner, E.C., 2012. Tectonic, sedimentary and metallogenic re-evaluation of basal strata in the Mesoproterozoic Bylot basins (NU): are unconformity-type U concentrations a realistic expectation? Precambrian Research, v. 214-215, p. 192-209. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2011.11.005

Baldwin, G.J., Turner, E.C. and Kamber, B.S., 2012. A new depositional model for glaciogenic Neoproterozoic iron formation: insights from the chemostratigraphy and basin configuration of the Rapitan iron formation. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 49, p. 455-476. doi:10.1139/E11-066

Turner, E.C., 2011. Structural and stratigraphic controls on carbonate-hosted base-metal mineralization in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin (Nanisivik District), Nunavut. Economic Geology, v. 106, p. 1197-1223.

Turner, E.C., 2009. Mesoproterozoic carbonate systems in the Borden Basin, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 46, p. 915-938. doi:10.1139/E11-066

Neuweiler, F., Turner, E.C. and Burdige, D., 2009. Early Neoproterozoic origin of the metazoan clade recorded in carbonate rock texture. Geology, v. 37, 475-478. doi: 10.1130/G25621A.1

Turner, E.C., and Long, D.G.F., 2008. Basin architecture and syndepositional fault activity during deposition of the Neoproterozoic Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup, N.W.T., Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 45, p. 1159-1184. doi: 10.1130/G30484Y.1


Books and book chapters:

Martel, E., Turner, E.C., and Fischer B.J, eds., 2011. Geology of the central Mackenzie Mountains of the northern Canadian Cordillera, Sekwi Mountain (105P), Mount Eduni (106A) and northwestern Wrigley Lake (95M) map-areas, Northwest Territories. NWT Special Volume 1, NWT Geoscience Office, 423 p.

Turner, E.C., Roots, C.F., MacNaughton, R.B., Long, D.G.F., Fischer, B., Gordey, S.P., Martel, E., and Pope, M., 2011. Chapter 3: Stratigraphy. In: Geology of the central Mackenzie Mountains of the northern Canadian Cordillera, Sekwi Mountain (105P), Mount Eduni (106A) and northwestern Wrigley Lake (95M) map-areas, Northwest Territories; Martel, E., Turner, E.C., and Fischer, B., eds: NWT Special Volume 1, NWT Geoscience Office, p. 31-192.

Dewing, K., Sharp, R.J., and Turner, E.C., 2007. Synopsis of the Polaris Zn-Pb-Cu District, Canadian Arctic Islands, Nunavut. In: Goodfellow, W. (ed.). Mineral Resources of Canada: A Synthesis of Major Deposit-types, District Metallogeny, the Evolution of Geological Provinces, and Exploration Methods. Geological Association of Canada - Mineral Deposit Division Special Paper 5, p. 655-672.

Dewing, K., Turner, E.C., and Harrison, J.C., 2007. Geological History, Mineral Occurrences and Mineral Potential of the sedimentary rocks of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. In: Goodfellow, W. (ed.). Mineral Resources of Canada: A Synthesis of Major Deposit-types, District Metallogeny, the Evolution of Geological Provinces, and Exploration Methods. Geological Association of Canada - Mineral Deposit Division Special Paper 5, p. 733-753.


Refereed technical reports:

Bouchard, M.L., and Turner, E.C., 2017b. Cambrian lithostratigraphy of the Mount Clark, Mount Cap and Saline River formations in the Carcajou Range and Norman Range, Northwest Territories (NTS 96E1, 3, and 4). Geological Survey of Canada, Open File. 8246, 38 p. doi:10.4095/302730

Bouchard, M.L., and Turner, E.C., 2017a. Stratigraphy of the Mount Clark, Mount Cap and Saline River formations in the Hornaday River canyon, Northwest Territories (NTS 97A). Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8180, 47 p. doi:10.4095/299603​

Hahn, K.E., Armstrong, D.K., Turner, E.C., Nicolas, M.P.B., 2016. Towards a sequence stratigraphic framework for the Ordovician Hudson Bay and Moose River basins. Ontario Geological Survey Open File Report 6323, p. 28-1 to 28-10

Rainbird, R.H., Craven, J.A., Turner, E.C., Jackson, V.A., Fischer, B.J., Bouchard, M., Greenman, J. W., Gibson, T., 2016. Reconnaissance geological mapping, stratigraphy and magnetotelluric survey of northern Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7955, 16 pages, doi:10.4095/297296

Turner, E.C., and Armstrong, D.K., 2015. Upper Ordovician stratigraphy of northern Ontario: differential subsidence and deposition in two late Ordovician basins contemporaneous with Hirnantian glaciation and the Taconic orogeny. Ontario Geological Survey Open File Report 6313, p. 32-1 – 32-22.

Rainbird, R.H., Craven, J.A., Turner, E.C., Jackson, V.A., Fischer, B.J., Bouchard, M., Greenman, J. W., Gibson, T., 2015. Reconnaissance geological mapping, stratigraphy and magnetotelluric survey of northern Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7955, 16 pages, doi:10.4095/297296

Fallas, K.M., MacNaughton, R.B., Turner, E.C., Sommers, M.J., 2015. GEM 2 Mackenzie Project: Colville Hills bedrock mapping, stratigraphy, and related studies. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7963, 19 pages, doi:10.4095/297301

Bédard, J.H., Rainbird, R.H., Currie, L.D., Turner, E.C., 2015. Geology, Uqpilik, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories. Canadian Geoscience Map 188, (ed. prelim.). 1 sheet, doi:10.4095/297277

Turner, E.C., 2015. Base-metal enrichment in Stage-5 (mid-Cambrian) black shale of the Hess River Formation, Misty Creek Embayment, Selwyn Basin, in Paradis, S., ed.,Targeted Geoscience Initiative 4: sediment-hosted Zn-Pb deposits: processes and implications for exploration; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7838, p. 75-95. doi:10.4095/296328

Turner, E.C., 2015. Gossans of the Cornwallis District, central high Arctic islands, Canada. In Environmental and economic significance of gossans; Williamson, M -C (ed.); Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7718, 2015; p. 54-57.

Rainbird, R., Ielpi, A., Turner, E.C., and Jackson, V.A., 2015. Reconnaissance geological mapping and thematic studies of northern Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7695, 10 p.

Harrison, J.C., Thorsteinsson, R., Mayr, U., Lynds, T., Ford, A; Turner, E.C. 2014. Geology, tectonic assemblage map of Wellington Channel, Cornwallis and western Devon islands, Nunavut. Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 33, (ed. prelim.), 2014; 1 sheet, doi:10.4095/292831
Hahn, K.E., and Turner, E.C., 2014. High-precision trace-element analysis of deep-water, vent-related dolostone in the Borden Basin, Nunavut. Summary of Activities 2013, Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office, p. 1-9.

Chevrier, T.S. and Turner, E.C., 2013. Lithostratigraphy of deep-water lower Paleozoic strata in the central Misty Creek Embayment, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories. GSC Current Research 2013-14, 25 p.

Hahn, K. and Turner, E.C., 2013. Deep-water carbonate mound lithofacies, Borden Basin (Mesoproterozoic; NU). Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research, v 2013-11, 14 p.

Mathieu, J., Turner, E.C., and Rainbird, R.H., 2013. Sedimentary architecture of a deeply karsted Precambrian – Cambrian unconformity, Victoria Island, NWT. Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research, v. 2013-1, 15 p. doi: 10.4095/292099.

Chevrier, T.S. and Turner, E.C., 2013. A lithostratigraphic section in the central Misty Creek Embayment, NWT. NWT Open Report 2013-002, 1 sheet.

Turner, E.C. and Long, D.G.F., 2012. Formal definition of the Neoproterozoic Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup (NWT), and formal stratigraphic nomenclature for its carbonate and evaporite formations. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7112.

Long, D.G.F. and Turner, E.C., 2012. Formal definition of the Neoproterozoic Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup (NWT), and formal stratigraphic nomenclature for terrigenous clastic units of the Katherine Group. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 7113.

Baldwin, G.J. and Turner, E.C., 2012. Lithofacies and lithostratigraphic correlation potential of the Ra¬pitan iron formation, Snake River area (NTS 106F), Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2011, K.E. MacFarlane and P.J. Sack (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 1-15.

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Turner, E.C., Davis, Gibson, H.D., Rainbird, R.H., and Marshall, D.D., 2012. The Proterozoic Pinguicula Group, Wernecke Mountains, Yukon: A siliciclastic and carbonate slope to basin succession with local and exotic sediment provenance. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2011, K.E. MacFarlane and P.J. Sack (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 129-149.

Turner, E.C., 2011. A lithostratigraphic transect through the Cambro-Ordovician Franklin Mountain Formation in NTS 96D (Carcajou Canyon) and 96E (Norman Wells), NWT. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 6994, 28 p.

Aitken, J.D., Turner, E.C., and MacNaughton, R.B., 2011. Thirty-six archival stratigraphic sections in the Katherine, Little Dal, Coates Lake, and Rapitan groups (Neoproterozoic), Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 6391, 6 p., 41 sheets.

Turner, E.C., 2011. Stratigraphy of the Mackenzie Mountains supergroup in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2010, K.E. MacFarlane, L.H. Weston and C. Relf (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 207-231.

Turner, E.C., 2009. Lithostratigraphy and stable isotope values of the early Neoproterozoic Gypsum formation (Little Dal Group, Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup), N.W.T. Northwest Territories Geoscience Office, NWT Open Report 2009-002, 26 p.

Long, D.G.F., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., MacNaughton, R.B., 2008. Early Neoproterozoic strata (Sequence B) of mainland northern Canada and Victoria and Banks islands: a contribution to the Geological Atlas of the Northern Canadian Mainland Sedimentary Basin. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5700, 2008, 27p.


Conference Abstracts

O'Sullivan, E., Nägler, T.,  Kamber, B., Turner, E. 2018. Oceanic redox state in the lead-up to Neoproterozoic oxygenation: insights from REEs and Mo isotopes of microbial carbonatesEuropean Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018 Vienna,  8–13 April

Fustic, M., Haeri Ardakani, O.,  Jiang, C., Turner, E., Mort, A., Sanei, H., Gonzales, G., and Long, D., 2017. Preliminary petroleum potential and organic matter characterization of the Mesoproterozoicupper Arctic Bay Formation (black shale) at Shale Valley Central, Northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada,  Gussow Geoscience Conference, Lake Louise AB, Oct 8-11.

Mathieu, J., Kontak, D., Turner, E., and Hahn, K., 2017. Fluid histories in sedimentary settings revealed using multiple in situ micro-analytical techniques. Goldschmidt Conference, Paris, August 13-18.

Turner, E.C., 2017. Lithostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and detrital zircon geochronology of the Mesoproterozoic Hunting Formation, Somerset Island (NU). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 388.

Turner, E.C., MacNaughton, R.B., and Fallas, K., 2017. Litho- and chemostratigraphic transect of the Cambro-Ordovician Franklin Mountain Formation across the interior plains, NWT. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 389.

Turner, E.C., Brooks, T., and Broughton, D.W., 2017. Neoproterozoic lithofacies control ore distribution at the Kipushi Cu-Zn deposit (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Gayna River Zn camp (NWT). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 390.

Mathieu, J., Turner, E.C., and Rainbird, R.H., 2017. Intact paleocaves linked to sediment fluidisation structures at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary (Victoria Island, NWT). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 251.

Loron, C., Javaux, E.J., Rainbird, R.H., Greenman, J.W., and Turner, E.C., 2017. An exquisitely diverse assemblage of organic-walled microfossils from the Proterozoic of Arctic Canada and implications for the early evolution of eukaryotes. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 233.

Kontak, D.J., Turner, E.C., Mathieu, J., and Hahn, K.E., 2017. Diagenetic and mineralising fluids are more than just wt. % equivalent NaCl! Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 208.

Hahn, K.E., Turner, E.C., and Kontak, D.J., 2017. One billion years of fluid-flow through giant carbonate mounds, Mesoproterozoic Nanisivik zinc district, Nunavut. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 138.

Hahn, K.E., Turner, E.C., Armstrong, D.K., and Nicolas, M.P.B., 2017. Late Ordovician chemostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay and Moose River basins. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 139.

Bouchard, M.L., Turner, E.C., MacNaughton, R.B., and Rainbird, R.H., 2017. Chemostratigraphic correlation of the epicratonic Lower to Middle Cambrian Mount Clark, Mount Cap and Saline River formations, northern mainland Northwest Territories. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 37.

Greenman, J.W., Rainbird, R.H., Dix, G.R., and Turner, E.C., 2017. Stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental analysis of a ~1.0 Ga carbonate shelf succession:  The Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories, Canada. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, May 14-18, Abstract vol. 40, p. 132.

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Davis, W.J., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C.,  Gibson, H.D., and Marshall,  D.D., 2016. Mesoproterozoic  basins in Yukon, Canada, show initial rifting of Columbia and seaway development. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, Sept 25-26 2016. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-280080

MacNaughton, R.B., Fallas, K.M., Pratt., B.R., Maclean, B.C.,  and Turner, E.C., 2016. Tectonic evolution of the  Mackenzie arch, a major control on Cambrian depositional patterns in the westernmost Northwest Territories, Canada. Paper 142-4, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, Sept 25-26 2016. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7 doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-281200

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Davis, W.J., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C.,  Gibson, H.D., and Marshall,  D.D., 2016. Mesoproterozoic basins of northwestern Laurentia and their connection to Australia. Geological Association of Canada- Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Whitehorse, June 1-3.

Rainbird, R.H., Craven, J.A., Rayner, N., Turner, E.C., Ielpi, A., Bouchard, M., Jackson, V.A., Fischer, B., Javaux, E., Greenman, J.W., Gibson. T., 2016.  Recent advances in our understanding of the Brock Inlier, Northwest Territories. Geological Association of Canada- Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Whitehorse, June 1-3.

Rainbird, R.H., Rayner, N.M., Hadlari, T., MacNaughton, R.B., Ielpi, A., and Turner, E.C., 2016. Zircon provenance data from the Amundsen and Mackenzie basins corroborate lateral extent and duration of a pan-continental, early Neoproterozoic river system. Geological Association of Canada- Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Whitehorse, June 1-3.

Hahn, K.E., Turner, E.C., Kontak, D.J., and Fayek, M., 2016. Diagenetic history of deep-water carbonate mounds in the Mesoproterozoic Nanisivik zinc district, Nunavut. Pan-American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (PACROFI-XII) May 24-26, 2016, p. 54-55.

Mathieu, J.P., Kontak, D.J., Turner, E.C., and Fayek, M., 2016. Characterisation of copper mineralisation at the Storm copper showing, Cornwallis District, Arctic Canada. Pan-American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (PACROFI-XII) May 24-26, 2016, p. 88-89.

Mathieu, J., Kontak, D.J., Turner, E.C., and Fayek, M., 2015. Origin of copper showings in the Cornwallis District and Borden Basin, Arctic islands, Nunavut. AGU-GAC Joint Assembly, Montreal May 3-7, Abstract MD42A-06

Hahn, K., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2015. Deep-water seep-related carbonate mounds: implications for seawater and vent fluid geochemistry in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Nunavut. AGU-GAC Joint Assembly, Montreal May 3-7, Abstract PG12A-06

Turner, E.C., 2015. Base-metal enrichment in Stage 5 (mid-Cambrian) black shale in the Misty Creek Embayment, Selwyn Basin (NWT, Canada). International Applied Geochemistry Symposium, Tucson, AZ, April 19-24, extended abstract, 10 p.

Hahn, K, and Turner, E.C., 2014. Marine diagenesis of Mesoproterozoic deep-water seep mounds. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Oct. 19-22.

Turner, E. C., Rayner, N.M., Rainbird, R.H., and Long, D.G.F., 2014. Early evolution of Mackenzie and Amundsen basins from detrital zircon geochronology. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Oct. 19-22. (invited)

Fischer, B.J., Turner, E.C., and Kontak, D.J., 2014. Targeting carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb ore in the Mackenzie Mountains: where to look and why. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Oct. 19-22.

Medig, K., Thorkelson, D., Davis, W.J., Rainbird, R., Gibson, H.D., Turner, E.C. and Marshall, D., 2014. Reconfiguring supercontinent Columbia: pinning northeastern Australia to northwestern Laurentia using a near-unimodal detrital zircon population. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Oct. 19-22.

Mathieu, J., Kontak, D.J., and Turner, E.C., 2014. Characteristics of diagenetic fluids affecting two major carbonate units on Victoria Island, Northwest Territories. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 174-175.

Baldwin, G.J., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2014. Tectonostratigraphy of the Rapitan Group, NWT and YT. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 17-18.

Hahn, K.E. and Turner, E.C., 2014. Seep-related microbial carbonate accumulation in the tectonically active Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin (NU). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 110-111.

Pavan, K., Hahn, K., and Turner, E.C., 2014. Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Borden Basin (Nunavut): Implications for depositional age and correlation of carbonate strata in the Nanisivik District. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 215.

MacNaughton, R.B., Pratt, B.R., Fallas, K.M., and Turner, E.C., 2014. History of Mackenzie Arch and its influence on Cambrian sedimentation in the eastern Mackenzie Mountains and adjacent Mackenzie Plain, Northwest Territories. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 171.

Turner, E., 2014. Carbonates gone wild: 50 million years of invariant carbonate production and export in the lower Paleozoic of northwestern Canada. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 273-274.

Turner, E., 2014. Gossans of the Cornwallis district, Canadian high Arctic (invited). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p. 274-275.

Turner, E.C., Long, D.G.F., Rainbird, R., Petrus, J., and Rayner, N., 2014. Geochronology of the Mesoproterozoic Bylot basins (Nunavut) and their zinc endowment. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, May 20-23, p.275.

Turner, E., Kontak, D., Hnatyshin, D., Creaser, R.A., and Kamber, B.S., 2013. Revised understanding of carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb mineralization in the Borden Basin (Nanisivik district), Nunavut, Canada. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, Oct 26-30.

Turner, E.C., Kontak, D.J., Hnatyshin, D., Creaser, R., Kamber, B.S., Morden, R., Long, D.G.F., 2013. Revised geologic and metallogenic view of the carbonate-hosted Nanisivik zinc district, Nunavut, Canada. Society for Economic Geology Whistler, BC, Sept 24-28, p. 28.

Paradis, S., Bryson, E., Chevrier, T., Day, S., deKemp, E., Falck, H., Gadd, M., Gammon, P., Gleeson, S., Jamieson, H., Joseph, J., Layton-Matthews, D., Lydon, J., Magnall, J., McCurdy, M., Peter, J., Schetselaar, E., Skeries, K., Stavinga, D., Taylor, B., Thomas, M., Turner, E., 2013. SEDEX Targeted Geoscience Initiative-4 – Developing New Exploration Concepts and Methodologies. Society for Economic Geology Whistler, BC, Sept 24-28.

Kamber, B., Naegler, T., Turner, E., Webb, G. and Pretet, C., 2013. A first-order deep time reconstruction of the marine Sr/Ba ratio from microbial carbonate. Goldschmidt 2013, August 25-30, Florence Italy.

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Davis, W.J., Rainbird, R.H., Gibson, H.D., Turner, E.C., and Marshall, D.D., 2013. Confirmation of the Laurentia-Australia connection? Detrital zircons from Mesoproterozoic strata in Yukon. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Winnipeg, May 21-24, p. 143.

Mathieu, J., Kontak, D.J., and Turner, E.C., 2013. Phanerozoic diagenesis and associated economic potential of Proterozoic and Paleozoic dolostones on Victoria Island (NWT and NU). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Winnipeg, May 21-24, p. 138.

Turner, E.C., Kamber, B.S., Kontak, D.J., Long, D.G.F., Hnatyshin, D., Creaser, R., Morden, R. and Hahn, K. 2013. Spatial and temporal constraints on base-metal distribution in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin (Nanisivik District), NU. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Winnipeg, May 21-24, p. 190.

Hahn, K.E. and Turner, E.C., 2013. Regional deposition of giant deep-water carbonate seep mounds in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin (NU). Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, Winnipeg, May 21-24, p. 106.

Baldwin, G.J., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2012. Ice, but no fire: a new depositional age for the Rapitan Group, Canada. 22nd annual Goldschmidt meeting, Montreal, June 24-29.

Kamber, B.S., Turner, E.C., O’Hare, S.P., Baldwin, G.J., and Hahn, K., 2012. The Meso- and early Neoproterozoic deep ocean REE issue. 22nd annual Goldschmidt meeting, Montreal, June 24-29.

Mathieu, J., Kontak, D.J., and Turner, E.C., 2012. Fluid inclusion study of hydrothermal dolomite and other late-stage cements in Neoproterozoic dolostone of the Wynniatt Formation (Victoria Island, NWT). Pan-American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (PACROFI) Meeting XI, Windsor, Ontario, June 18-20.

Baldwin, G.J. , Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2012. Paleogeographic controls on the distribution and character of the Neoproterozoic Rapitan iron formation, NWT and YT. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 7.

Baldwin, G.J., and Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2012. Depositional age of the Rapitan Group, NWT and YT: Implications for the onset of the Sturtian glaciation. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 7.

Turner, E.C., 2012. Basin evolution at the beginning of “Sequence B”, northwestern Canada. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 40-41.

Hahn, K. and Turner, E.C., 2012. Syntectonic deep-water carbonate mounds: Implications for the evolution of the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Nunavut. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 57.

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Turner, E.C., Davis, W.J., Gibson, H.D., Rainbird, R.H., and Marshall, D.D., 2012. The Pinguicula Group, northern Yukon: Progress in the Proterozoic puzzle of western North America. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 95.

Rainbird, R.H., Prince, J., Thomson, D., Krapež, B., Bédard, J., Pratt, B.R., Rayner, N., Turner, E., Lafond, G., Bekker, A., Creaser, R., Planavsky, N., Hallmann, C., van Acken, D. and Wing, B., 2012. Integrated sedimentological, stratigraphic, geochemical and paleontological studies of the Shaler Supergroup in the Minto Inlier of northwestern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 120.

Turner, E.C., 2012. Syndepositionally brecciated deep-water laminite, Nanisivik Formation, Borden Basin (NU): deep-water equivalent of molar-tooth structure? Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Joint Meeting, St John’s, May 26-29, Abstracts v. 35, p. 149.

Hahn, K., and Turner, E.C., 2012. Rift-related deep-water carbonate mounds in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Nunavut. American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2012 Annual Convention, Long Beach CA, April 22-25, 2012, abstract 1235911.

Turner, E.C., 2012. Rift dolostones of the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Nunavut (Arctic Canada). American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2012 Annual Convention, Long Beach CA, April 22-25, 2012, abstract 1234889.

Turner, E.C., 2012. Mixed Carbonate-Clastic Sedimentation in the Basal Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup (Early Neoproterozoic), Northwestern Canada. American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2012 Annual Convention, Long Beach CA, April 22-25, 2012, abstract 1236569.

Hnatyshin, D., Morden, R., Turner, E., Kontak, D., and Creaser, R.A., 2011. Re-Os and fluid inclusion constraints on the timing and nature of sulfide mineralization at Nanisivik and Hawker Creek, Baffin Island, Nunavut. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.43, no. 5, p. 633.

Long, D.G.F.L. and Turner, E.C., 2011. Tectonic, sedimentary and metallogenic re-evaluation of basal strata in the Mesoproterozoic Bylot basins (NU): Are unconformity-type U concentrations a realistic expectation? GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27.

Baldwin, G.J., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2011. Detailed chemostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Rapitan iron formation, with emphasis on the REE+Y, Mo, and U. GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27

Turner, E.C., 2011. Basal Mackenzie Mountains supergroup (late Proterozoic), YT and NWT. GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27.

Chevrier, T.S., and Turner, E.C., 2011. Reconstruction and analysis of morphologically complex primary voids in the Neoproterozoic Little Dal reefs, NWT, Canada. GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27.

O’Hare, S.P., Turner, E.C., and Kamber, B.S., 2011. Redox-sensitive metal systematics in black shale of the Basinal assemblage of the Neoproterozoic Little Dal Group, Mackenzie Mountains supergroup, NWT. GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27

Kamber, B.S., and Turner, E.C., 2011. Black shale, metal content and ocean ventilation – results and caveats from the ca. 1.1 Ga Arctic Bay Formation, Borden Basin, NU. GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 25-27

Turner, E.C., 2009. Proterozoic Carbonate Lithofacies Control the Distribution of Sulphides at the Gayna River Zn-Pb Camp, Mackenzie Mountains, NWT. GAC-MAC-AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto, May 24-27.

Turner, E.C., 2009 Spatial Constraints on Carbonate-hosted Base Metals in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin, Nunavut. GAC-MAC-AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto May 24-27.

Fischer, B., Turner, E.C. and Kontak, D., 2009 Controls on Zn(-Pb) Mineralization in the Lower Cambrian Sekwi Formation, Mackenzie Mountains Zinc District, Northwest Territories. GAC-MAC-AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto May 24-27.

 

 

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