Atlantic Geoscience Society Abstracts: 45th Annual Colloquium & General Meeting 2019

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45th Colloquium & Annual General Meeting 2019 The 2019 Colloquium and Annual General Meeting were held at the Fredericton Inn, Fredericton, New Brunswick, on February 8th and 9th. On behalf of the society, we thank Colloquium organizers Jim Walker, Mike Parkhill, Rob Raeside, Reg Wilson, Anne Timmermans, and David Lentz, as well the numerous student volunteers and judges, for facilitating an excellent meeting with a total of 91 abstracts. AGS acknowledges support from the corporate sponsors of the meeting: the New Brunswick Department of Energy and Resource Development, Engineers and Geoscientists New Brunswick, Nova Scotia Department of Energy and Mines (Geological Surveys Division), Nova Scotia Department of Energy and Mines (Petroleum Resources Division), University of New Brunswick Fredericton, Quartermain Earth Science Centre, Osisko Metals Incorporated, Terrane Geoscience Incorporated, and Trevali Mining Corporation. In the following pages, we are pleased to publish the abstracts of oral and poster presentations from the meeting, which included the following Special Sessions: (1) Mapping, Petrology, Geochemistry, and Mineral Deposits: In Memory of Dr. Trevor MacHattie (1974–2018); (2) Paleontology and Sedimentology in Atlantic Canada: In Memory of Dr. Ron Pickerill (1947– 2018); (3) Current Research in Carboniferous Geology in the Atlantic Provinces; (4) Minerals, Metals, Melts, and Fluids Associated with Granitoid Rocks: New Insights from Fundamental Studies into the Genesis, Melt Fertility, and Ore-forming Processes; (5) Earth Science Outreach in the Maritime Provinces; and (6) Geohazards: Recent and Historical. As always the conference included a General Session on Current Research in the Atlantic Provinces. Also included with the conference were two half-day workshops: (1) “Structural Controls on Gold Deposits” by Stefan Kruse (Terrane Geoscience Incorporated); and (2) “Creating Beautiful, Effective, and Reproducible Graphics for Geoscience using R” by Dewey Dunnington (Dalhousie University). A teacher’s workshop and an evening Earth Science Café, organized by Anne Timmermans (University of New Brunswick, Quartermain Earth Science Centre) were also part of the weekend.