CSPG35SC The Stratigraphic Setting of Lower and Middle Triassic Strata, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
The objective of this course is to help explorationists understand the regional stratigraphic setting of Triassic rocks and how this can be used in a more local exploration program. The course is four hours long and consists of two lectures, some correlation exercises and an examination of several cores that illustrate various facies types and/or significant stratigraphic surfaces.
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James Dixon, PhD
Geological Survey of Canada
Dr. Dixon received his early education in Britain receiving a BSc (hons.) in geology from the University of Reading. He continued his education at the University of Ottawa and earned a PhD working on lower Paleozoic stratigraphy of Prince of Wales and Somerset Islands in the Canadian Arctic. Upon graduating he joined Amoco Canada where he worked for several years and then joined Petro-Canada for a brief time. For most of his career he has been with the Geological Survey of Canada (Calgary office). During his career with the Survey he has studied Permian to Tertiary strata in the Beaufort-Mackenzie area, Cambrian and Cretaceous-Tertiary strata of the NWT, Triassic strata in the subsurface of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, and the Cambrian of Saskatchewan.
His expertise is in regional stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and clastic sedimentology based on many years of surface and subsurface work. Dr. Dixon has authored or co-authored numerous publications on stratigraphy and sedimentology.
