Projects and Publications

Here are my projects and associated works that result from my curiosity:

Geochemistry of intrusions and lavas associated with the High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP):

Kingsbury, C.G, Ernst, R.E, Cousens, B.L. and Williamson, M.-C., 2016. The High Arctic LIP in Canada: trace-element and Sm-Nd isotope evidence for the role of mantle heterogeneity and crustal assimilation. Norwegian Journal of Geology 96, p. 13-33  [click for pdf]

Kingsbury, C.G, Ernst, R.E, Cousens, B.L. and Williamson, M.-C., 2015. High Arctic LIP in Canada: Nd isotope evidence for the role of crustal assimilation in NGU Report 2015.032: 7th International Conference on Arctic Margins – ICAM 2015. Trondheim, Norway, p. 69.

Kingsbury, C.G., Ernst, R.E., Cousens, B.L., and Williamson, M.-C., 2015. Forensic geochemistry of a basaltic flow and tabular intrusions of the High Arctic LIP: the case of South Fiord, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, in AGU-GAC-MAC-CGU Joint Assembly, Montreal, QC.   [click for pdf]

Kingsbury, C.G., Ernst, R.E., Cousens, B.L., and Williamson, M.-C., 2014. Geochemical insights on the Early Cretaceous High Arctic LIP, in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, Vancouver, BC., p. 637.

Geologic remote sensing of the South Fiord area in Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut Canada:

Kingsbury, C.G., 2014. Remote predictive mapping of base metal gossans associated with evaporite diapirs and mafic intrusions in the South Fiord area, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, in Williamson, M.-C., ed., Environmental and Economic Significance of Gossans, (ed.) M.-C. Williamson; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7718, p. 14-22.

Physical volcanology:

Kingsbury, C.G., 2012. Physical volcanology of obsidian dome, California: A complex record of emplacement of a youthful lava dome; M.Sc thesis, University of Ottawa, 105 p. [click for pdf]

Kingsbury, C.G., Fowler, A.D. and Denis, D., 2011. Obsidian Dome, California: A complex record of emplacement of a youthful lava dome: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 43, no. 5, p. 654.

Mount St. Helens dome growth monitoring:

Major, J.J., Kingsbury, C.G., Poland, M.P., and LaHusen, R.G., 2009. Extrusion rate of the Mount St. Helens lava dome estimated from terrestrial imagery—November 2004-December 2005, chap. 12 of Sherrod, D.R., Scott, W.E., and Stauffer, P.H., eds., A volcano rekindled; the renewed eruption of Mount St. Helens, 2004–2006: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1750. [click for pdf].

Major, J.J., Poland, M.P., Kingsbury, C.G., Dzurisin, D., and LaHusen, R.G.,2005. Quantifying spatial and temporal variance in apparent growth rate of the 2004-05 Mount St. Helens lava dome from single-camera images: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.37, no. 7, p. 531.

Paleoclimate:

Kingsbury, C.G. and Beget, J.E., 2009. Aeolian transport of Middle Pleistocene loess in central Alaska: Western Inter-University Geoscience Conference, 45th Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Abstracts, p. 8.