Faculty
Jaroslav Dostal
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., (1974) McMaster University, P. Geo.
Phone: (902) 420 5747
Office: S416
Email: jarda.dostal@smu.ca
Research Interests:
Geochemistry, Igneous Petrology, Rare metal deposits, Geodynamics.
Summary of Current Interests:
From the mantle to the crust: geochemical signatures of igneous processes; use of basement geochemical signatures in terrane analyses; deposits of rare metals.
Refereed Publications:
Dostal, J., Solari, L. and Ma, C. 2024. Petrogenesis of Late Devonian felsic volcanic rocks of Avalonia from Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland: relation to A-type granites and fluorite mineralization. International Journal of Earth Sciences 113, 539-554.
Dostal, J. 2023. Jurassic Uranium-Thorium Deposit of Peralkaline Granitic Rocks, Bokan Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Southeastern Alaska. Minerals 2023, 13, 1032.
Jutras, P. and Dostal, J. 2023. Late Ordovician to Early Devonian tectono-magmatic prequel to the Acadian Orogeny in northeastern North America and the British Isles. Gondwana Research 124, 378-400.
Dostal, J. and Gerel, O. 2023. Rare Earth Element Deposits in Mongolia. Minerals 2023, 13, 129.
Dostal, J. and Gerel, O. 2022. Occurrences of Niobium and Tantalum Mineralization in Mongolia. Minerals 2022, 12 1529.
Dostal, J. and Shellnutt, J.G. 2022. Eocene volcanic complex from Central British Columbia: The role of fractional crystallization during the magmatic evolution. Lithosphere 2022, ID 9441099.
Dostal, J. and Shellnutt, J.G. 2022. Eocene volcanic complex from Central British Columbia: The role of fractional crystallization during the magmatic evolution. Lithosphere, June 2022, ID 9441099, https:/doi:10.2113/2022/9441099.
Ersay, L., Greenough, J.D., Larson, K.P. and Dostal, J. 2022. Zircon reveals multistage, magmatic and hydrothermal Rare earth mineralization at the Debert Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ore Geology Reviews 144, 104780.
Keppie, D.F., Keppie, J.D. and Dostal, J. 2022. Reply to the discussion by van Staal et al., on “The northern Appalachian terrane wrack model”. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 59, 321-323.
Shellnutt, J.G. and Dostal, J. 2022. Magmatic and inherited zircon ages from a dioritexenolith of the Popes Harbour dyke, Nova Scotia: Implications for Late Edicaran arc magmatism in the Avalon Terrane of the Northern Appalachians. Minerals 12, 575. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12050575.
Dostal, J., Jutras, P. and Wilson, R.A. 2022. Geochemical and Nd isotopic constraints on the origin of the uppermost Silurian rhyolitic rocks in the northern Appalachians (northern New Brunswick): Tectonic implications. In Kupier, Y.D., Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., Strachan, R.A. and Thompson, M.D., eds. New Developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan Orogen: Geological Society of America Special Paper 554, 121-122.
Dostal, J. and Jutras, P. 2021. Tectonic and petrogenetic settings of the Eocene Challis-Kamloops volcanic belt of western Canada and the northwestern United States. International Geology Review. doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2021.1992800.
Dostal, J., MacRae, A. and Solari, L. 2021. Paleogene granite from offshore of Morocco (DSDP Leg 79): crustal recycling at a passive continental margin of NW Africa. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 110, 2885-2897.
Dostal, J., Corney, R., Church, B.N. and Connolly, R.M. 2021. Petrogenesis of Eocene shoshonitic rocks from South-Central British Columbia. Lithos 398-399, 106289.
Dostal, J., Karl, S.M., Friedman, R., Mortensen, J.K., Layer, P.W., Ford, A.B. and Corney, R. 2021 Late Devonian syenitic intrusion from southeastern Alaska: Petrogenesis, tectonic implications, and rare metal metallogeny. Lithos, 396-397, 106205.
Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J. and Lee, T.Y. 2021. Linking the Wrangellia flood basalts to the Galápagos hotspot. Scientific Reports 11, 8579. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88098-7.
Dostal, J., Wilson, R.A. and Jutras, P. 2021. Petrogenesis of Siluro-Devonian rhyolites of the Tobique Group in the northwestern Appalachians (northern New Brunswick, Canada): tectonic implications for the Laurentian margin. Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 503, 391-407.
Keppie, J.D., Keppie, D.F. and Dostal, J. 2021. The northern Appalachian terrane wreck model. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58, 542-553.
Shellnutt, J.G. and Dostal, J. 2020. Derivation of the Early Carboniferous Wedgeport pluton by crystal fractionation of a mafic parental magma: a rare case of an A-type granite within the Meguma terrane (Nova Scotia, Canada). Geological Magazine 157, 248-262.
Dostal, J., Svojtka, M., Gerel, O. and Corney, R. 2020. Early Jurassic rare metal granitic pluton of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt in North-Central Mongolia: Tungsten mineralization, geochronology, petrogenesis and tectonic implications. Frontiers in Earth Sciences 8, 242.doi10.3389/feart 2020.00242.
Dostal, J., Shellnutt, J.G. and Ulrych, J. 2020. Petrogenesis of post-collisional Late Paleozoic volcanic rocks of the Bohemian Massif (Central Europe): Isotopic variations of the lithospheric mantle related to Variscan orogeny. Lithos 354-355, 105331.
Jutras, P., Murphy, J.B., Quick D. and Dostal, J. 2020. Evolution of subduction dynamics beneath West Avalonia in Middle to Late Ordovician Times. Lithosphere, 2020, ID 8837633, 22 pages.
Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J., Keppie, J.D. and Keppie, D.F. 2020. Formation of anorthositic rocks within the Blair River Inlier of Northern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia (Canada). Lithosphere, 2020, ID 8825465, 21 pages.
Dostal, J., Murphy, J.B. and Shellnutt, J.G. 2019. Secular isotopic variation in lithospheric mantle through the Variscan orogen: Neoproterozoic to Cenoizoic magmatism in continental Europe. Geology, 47, 637-640.
Jutras, P. and Dostal, J. 2019. The Upper Visean Magdalen Islands basalts of Eastern Quebec, Canada. Journal of Geology, 127, 505-526.
Keppie, J.D., Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J. and Keppie, D.F. 2019. Silurian U-Pb zircon intrusive ages for the Red River anorthosite (northern Cape Breton Island): Implication for the Laurentia-Avalonia boundary in Atlantic Canada. Gondwana Research 73, 54-64.
Jutras, P., Dostal, J. and Kamo, S. 2019. Trace element enriched mid-Visean dykes in the New Carlisle area of Quebec, Canada: unusual products of a tholeiitic melt sourced from metasomatized mantle rocks and fractionated in a brine-rich upper crustal environment. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 131, 2079-2093.
Dostal, J., Murphy, J.B., Shellnutt, J.G., Ulrych, J. and Fediuk, F. 2019. Neoproterozoic to Cenozoic magmatism in the central part of the Bohemian Massif (Czech Republic): Isotopic tracking of the evolution of the mantle through the Variscan orogeny. Lithos, 326-327, 358-369.
Dostal, J., Shellnutt, J.G., and Church, B.N. 2019. Petrogenesis of an Eocene syenitic intrusion from south-central British Columbia: Evidence of increasing influence of cratonic Laurentia on alkaline magmatism of western North America. Lithos, 332-333, 67-82.
Shellnutt, J.G., Owen, J.V., Yeh, M.W., Dostal, J. and Nguyen, D.T. 2019. Long-lived association between Avalonia and the Meguma terrane deduced from zircon geochronology of metasedimentary granulites. Scientific Reports, 2019, 9, 4065.
Shellnutt, J.G. and Dostal, J. 2019. Haida Gwaii (British Columbia, Canada): a Phanerozoic analogue of a subduction-unrelated Archean greenstone belt. Scientific Reports, 2019, 9, 3251.
Murphy, J.B., Nance R.D., Keppie, J.D., and Dostal J. 2019. Role of Avalonia in the development of tectonic paradigms. Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 470, 265-287.
Jutras, P., Dostal, J., Kamo, S., and Matheson, Z. 2018. Tectonostratigraphic and petrogenetic setting of late Mississippian volcanism in eastern Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55, 356-372.
Dostal, J., Keppie, J.D., and Church, B.N. 2018. Generation of Eocene volcanic rocks from the Cordilleran arc of south-central British Columbia (Canada) during subduction of the Farallon and Resurrection plates and Yellowstone oceanic plateau. Geological Journal, 54, 540-604.
Dostal, J. and MacRae, A. 2018. Cretaceous basalts of the High Arctic large igneous province at Axel Heiberg Island (Canada): Volcanic stratigraphy, geodynamic setting, and origin. Geological Journal, 53, 2918-2934.
Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J. and Yeh, M.W. 2018. Mantle source heterogeneity of the Early Jurassic basalt of eastern North America. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 107, 1033-1058.
Keppie, J.D., Dostal, J. and Li, J.W. 2018. Nd isotopic data indicating Oaxacan source of Ordovician granitoids in the Acatlan Complex, southern Mexico: Paleogeographic implications. Tectonophysics, 740-741, 1-9.
Keppie, J.D., Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J. and Keppie, D.F. 2018. An autochthonous Avalonian basement source for the latest Ordovician Brenton Pluton in the Meguma terrane of Nove Scotia: U-Pb-Hf isotopic constraints and paleogeographic implications. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 107, 955-969.
Dostal, J. 2017. Rare Earth Element Deposits of Alkaline Igneous Rocks. Resources, 6, 34, 98-109.
Dostal, J., Hamilton, T.S. and Shellnutt, J.G. 2017. Generation of felsic rocks of bimodal volcanic suites from thinned and rifted continental margins: Geochemical and Nd, Sr, Pb-isotopic evidence from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada. Lithos, 292-293, 146-160.
Dostal, J. Shellnutt, J.G., and Ulrych J. 2017. Petrogenesis of the Cenozoic alkaline volcanic rock series of the Ceske Stredohori complex (Bohemian Massif), Czech Republic: a case for two lineages. American Journal of Sciences, 317, 677-706.
Dostal, J. and Jutras, P. 2016. Upper Paleozoic mafic and intermeditate volcanic rocks of the Mount Pleasant caldera associated with the Sn-W deposit in southwestern New Brunswick (Canada): Petrogenesis and metallogenic implications. Lithos, 262, 428-441.
Dostal, J., van Hengstum, T.R., Shellnutt, J.G. and Hanley, J.J. 2016. Petrogenetic evolution of Late Paleozoic rhyolites of the Harvey Group, southwestern New Brunswick (Canada) hosting uranium mineralization. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 171, 59, 1-20.
Dostal, J. 2016. Rare metal deposits associated with alkaline/peralkaline igneous rocks. Reviews in Economic Geology, 18, 33-54.
Keppie, J. D., Dostal, J. and Shellnutt, J.G. 2016. Old and juvenile source of Paleozoic and Mesozoic basaltic magmas in the Acatlan and Ayu complexes, Southern Mexico: Nd isotopic constraints. Tectonophysics, 681, 376-384. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.01.026
Dostal, J. and Shellnutt, J.G. 2016. Origin of peralkaline granites of the Jurassic Bokan Mountain complex (southeastern Alaska) hosting rare metal mineralization. International Geology Review, 58, 1-13.
Dostal, J., Keppie, J.D. and Wilson, R.A. 2015. Nd isotopic and trace element constraints on the source of Silurian-Devonian mafic lavas in the Chaleur Bay Synclinorium of New Brunswick (Canada): Tectonic implications. Tectonophysics, 681, 364-375. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2015.10.002
Dostal, J., Kontak, D.J., Gerel, O., Shellnutt, J.G. and Fayek, M. 2015. Cretaceous ongonites (topaz-bearing albite-rich microleucogranites) from Ongon Khairkhan, Central Mongolia: Products of extereme magmatic fractionation and pervasive metasomatic fluid: rock interaction. Lithos, 236-237, 173-189.
Shellnutt, J.G. and Dostal, J. 2015. Granodiorites of the South Mountain Batholith (Nova Scotia, Canada) derived by partial melting of Avalonia granulite rocks beneath the Meguma terrane: Implications for the heat source of the Late Devonian granites of the Northern Appalachians. Tectonophysics, 665, 206-212.
Barresi, T., Nelson, J.L., Dostal, J. and Friedman, R. 2015. Evolution of the Hazelton arc near Terrace, British Columbia: stratigraphic, geochronological and geochemical constraints on a Late Triassic-Early Jurassic arc and Cu-Au porphyry belt. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52, 466-494.
Dostal, J., Owen, J.V., Shellnutt, J.G., Keppie, J.D., Gerel, O. and Corney, R. 2015. Petrogenesis of the Triassic Bayan-Ulan alkaline granitic pluton in the North Gobi rift of central Mongolia: Implications for the evolution of the Early Mesozoic granitoid magmatism in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 109, 50-62.
Barresi, T., Nelson, J.A. and Dostal, J. 2015. Geochemical constraints on magmatic and metallogenic processes: Iskut River Formation, volcanogenic massive sulfide-hosting basalts, NW British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52, 1-20.