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At 12:43 PM 12/11/2007, you wrote:
>Dear list,
>
>Please pass along the following advertisement to any potential graduate
>students or pdf's that would be interested in undertaking research on the
>Sudbury Igneous Complex and/or surrounding host rocks (Sudbury Structure),
>including a variety of metamorphic rocks with assemblages ranging from
>greenschist facies to granulite facies with associated partial melting.
>
>Regards,
>Doug
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>Fellowships for Graduate and Post-Doctoral Research on the Sudbury Structure
>Mineral Exploration Research Centre
>Laurentian University
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>The Sudbury Structure is one of the largest and best-exposed meteorite
>impact sites on Earth. The Sudbury Igneous Complex and footwall rocks host
>significant Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization, for which no terrestrial analogue
>exists.
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>The Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) and the Department of Earth
>Sciences (DES) at Laurentian University in Sudbury have initiated a
>long-term research program to take a new, modern look at the Sudbury
>Structure. The program will involve geological, geophysical, and structural
>mapping of igneous, volcanic, and metamorphic host rocks, country rocks, and
>ores, including a wide variety of spectacular impact breccias, with
>subsequent petrographic, mineralogical, geochemical, petrological, and
>isotopic studies.
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>We invite applications from outstanding students and recent PhDs with a keen
>interest in any of the above fields to apply for several MSc, PhD, and
>post-doctoral fellowships in the program. Successful candidates will work in
>a multidisciplinary research team that will include MERC/DES researchers,
>local industry geoscientists, provincial/federal geologists, as well as
>researchers from other universities in Canada and abroad.
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>The research program will be funded partly by the mining industry and the
>Ontario government, under the auspices of the newly-created Centre for
>Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI), and partly by the Natural Sciences
>and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The fellowships will provide a
>stipend to cover living expenses and tuition, and will cover all research
>costs. More information about DES, MERC, and CEMI may be found at
>earthsciences.laurentian.ca, merc.laurentian.ca, and miningexcellence.ca.
>
>Preliminary applications, including Curriculum Vitae, Academic Transcripts,
>a Statement of Research Background and Interests, and names of 3 academic
>references should be sent to [log in to unmask] Applications will be
>reviewed beginning in January 2008, but the positions will remain open until
>suitable candidates are found.
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>Dr. Douglas K. Tinkham
>Department of Earth Sciences
>Laurentian University
>935 Ramsey Lake Road
>Sudbury, ON, Canada P3E-2C6
>Ph: 705-675-1151 x2270
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David R.M. Pattison, Department of Geoscience,
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada.
Phone: 403-220-3263 Fax: 403-284-0074
email: [log in to unmask]
web page: http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~pattison/
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