Publications

Check out some of the recent publications by the Cape Breton Sedimentology Research Group. We've been busy, so check back soon for more!

[11] Rudmin, M., Matheson, E.J., Baldermann, A., Maximova, N., Dasi E., Tazhiev, S.R., Ruban, A. 2025. Zinc mineralisation in marine ooidal ironstones of western Siberia: origin and palaeoenvironmental significance. Chemical Geology, 682, 122755. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.122755

[10] E.J. Matheson, J.D. Malone, P.K. Pufahl and E.E. Hiatt. 2025. Late Ordovician ironstone and its relation to ocean redox instability, climate, and glaciation. Sedimentology, v. 72, 631-655. DOI: 10.1111/sed.13247

[9] J.B. Murphy* R.D. Nance, S.T. Johnston, J.M Casas, P.A. Cawood, E.J. Matheson, P. Pufahl, W. Dan, J. Álvaro and P.J. Heron. 2024. Speculations on the Palaeozoic legacy of Gondwana amalgamation. Gondwana Research, v. 129, 107-131. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2023.12.002

[8] Matheson, E.J., Pufahl, P.K., Voinot, A., Murphy, J.B., and Fitzgerald, D.M. 2022. Ironstone as a proxy of Paleozoic oceanic oxygenation. Earth & Planetary Science Letters v. 594, 117715. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117715

[7] Chen, F., Pufahl, P.K., Wang, Q., Matheson, E.J., Shabaga, B.M., Zhang, Q., Zeng, Y., Le, X., Ruan, D., and Zhao, Y., 2021. A new model for the genesis of Carboniferous Mn ores, Longtou deposit, South China Block. Economic Geology v. 117, 105-125.  DOI: 10.5382/econgeo.4855

[6] Matheson, E.J. and Pufahl, P.K., 2021. Clinton ironstone revisited and implications for Silurian Earth system evolution. Earth-Science Reviews v. 215, 103527. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103527

[5] Matheson, E.J. and Frank, T.D. 2020. Phosphorites, glass ramps, and carbonate factories: the evolution of an epicontinental sea and a late Paleozoic upwelling system (Phosphoria Rock Complex). Sedimentology v. 67, p. 3003-3040. DOI: 10.111/sed/sed.12731

[4] Matheson, E.J. and Frank, T.D. 2020. An epeiric glass ramp: Permian low-latitude neritic siliceous sponge colonization and its novel preservation (Phosphoria Rock Complex). Sedimentary Geology v. 399, 105568. DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.105568 

[3] Blanchard, S., Matheson, E.J., Fielding, C.R., Best, J.L., Bryk, A., Howell, K., Monson, C.C., Mahoney, G., and Peakall, J. 2018. Early burial mud diapirism and its impact on stratigraphic architecture in the Carboniferous of the Shannon Basin, County Clare, Ireland. Sedimentology, v. 66, p. 329-361. DOI: 10.1111/sed.12492

[2] Matheson, E.J., Hamilton, S.M., and Kyser, T.K. 2018. Analysis of the anomalous groundwater geochemistry of the Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, v. 18, p. 155-174. DOI: 10.1144/geochem2017-072

[1] Matheson, E.J., Dalrymple, R.W., and James, N.P. 2016. Swell-dominated carbonates on a Mississippian ramp in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Front Ranges. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 86, p. 843-862. DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2016.50

Other Publications

Hamilton, S.M., Matheson, E.J., Freckelton, C.N., and Burke, H. 2011. Ambient Groundwater Geochemistry Program: The 2011 Aurora-Orillia Study Area and Selected Results for the Bruce and Niagara Peninsulas; in Summary of Field Work and Other Activities 2011, Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report 6270, p. 32-1 – 32-11.

Theses

Matheson, E.J. 2019. Paleoceanographic and Paleoclimatic Controls on Biochemical Sedimentation in the Permian Phosphoria Rock Complex in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming [PhD Dissertation]. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Matheson, E.J. 2014. Origin and Significance of Middle Ordovician and Mississippian Calcarenites [Master's thesis]. Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University.

Matheson, E.J. 2012. Analysis of the Anomalous Groundwater Geochemistry of the Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada [Honour's thesis]. Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University.