Faculty
John Waldron
Adjunct Professor
PDF., (1981) Memorial University
Phone: (780) 729 3892
Office: S438
Email: john.waldron@smu.ca
Overview:
John Waldron grew up in the UK, where he developed a teenage enthusiasm for collecting fossils. He attended Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and carried out graduate research in the Taurus Mountains of western Turkey. In 1981, he came to Canada as a post-doctoral fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland. From 1981 until 2000 he worked at Saint Mary's University, Halifax Nova Scotia, before moving as a professor to the University of Alberta in 2000. He teaches introductory Earth science, tectonics, structural and field geology, and developed an outdoor classroom, the Geoscience Garden, at the University of Alberta. His research deals with the deformed sedimentary rocks of mountain belts from both sedimentary and structural geological perspectives. His continuing focus has been on the early Paleozoic Appalachian orogen of Atlantic Canada, its continuation as the Caledonides of the British Isles, and the history of strike-slip and salt tectonics that affected the Northern Appalachians in the later Paleozoic. He has also worked on deformed sedimentary basins ranging from the Archean of the Slave Craton in the Canadian Shield, to the Cenozoic foothills and thrust front of the Nepal Himalaya. John Waldron received the Gesner medal of the Atlantic Geoscience Society in 2009.
Selected Publications:
Thomas, A.K., and Waldron, J.W.F., 2024, A primary evaporite weld revealed in the late Paleozoic Antigonish sub-basin of Nova Scotia: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, in press, doi:10.1139/cjes-2024-0030.
Zhang, M., Waldron, J.W.F., Wu, Z., Zhang, X., 2023. Growth and transtensional reactivation of a basin-bounding fault: Chengbei Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, East China. Tectonophysics 862, 229937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.229937
Wu, L., Murphy, J.B., Collins, W.J., Waldron, J.W.F., Li, Z.-X., Pisarevsky, S.A., Halverson, G.P., 2022. A trans-Iapetus transform fault control for the evolution of the Rheic Ocean: Implications for an early Paleozoic transition of accretionary tectonics. Geological Society of America Bulletin 134, 2790–2808. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36158.1
Waldron, J.W.F., McCausland, P.J.A., Barr, S.M., Schofield, D.I., Reusch, D., Wu, L., 2022. Terrane history of the Iapetus Ocean as preserved in the northern Appalachians and western Caledonides. Earth-Science Reviews 233, 104163.
White, S.E., Waldron, J.W.F., 2022. Along-strike variations in the deformed Laurentian margin in the Northern Appalachians: Role of inherited margin geometry and colliding arcs. Earth-Science Reviews 226, 10391.
Snyder, M.E., Waldron, J.W.F., 2021. Deformation of soft sediments and evaporites in a tectonically active basin: Bay St. George sub-basin, Newfoundland, Canada. Atlantic Geoscience 57, 275–304.
Duvall, M.J., Waldron, J.W.F., Godin, L., Najman, Y., and Copley, A., 2021, Indian plate structural inheritance in the Himalayan foreland basin, Nepal: Basin Research, 33 2792-2816.
Reynolds, M.A., Gleeson, S.A., Creaser, R.A., Friedlander, B.A., Haywood, J.C., Hnatyshin, D., McCusker, J., Waldron, J.W.F., 2021. Diagenetic Controls on the Formation of the Anarraaq Clastic-Dominated Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, Red Dog District, Alaska. Economic Geology 116, 1803–1824.
Brooks, K., McCausland, P.J.A., and Waldron, J.W.F. 2021. Paleolatitude and Tectonic Rotations of the Early Carboniferous Fountain Lake Group, Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58, 1103-1115.
Duvall, M.J., Waldron, J.W.F., Godin, L., and Najman, Y. 2020. Active strike-slip faults and an outer frontal thrust in the Himalayan foreland basin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117: 17615–17621.
Lacombe, R.A., Waldron, J.W.F., and Williams, S.H. 2020. Tectonics and foreland basin development at the leading edge of the Humber Arm Allochthon, western Newfoundland, Canadian Appalachians. American Journal of Science, 320: 450–477.
Lancaster, S.A., and Waldron, J.W.F. 2020. Boundary|Time|Surface: assessing a meeting of art and geology through an ephemeral sculptural work. Geoscience Communication, 3: 249–262.
Kugler, J., Waldron, J.W.F., Durling, P.W., 2020. Fault development in transtension, McCully gas field, New Brunswick, Canada. Tectonophysics 776, 228313.
White, S.E., Waldron, J.W.F., and Harris, N.B. 2020. Anticosti Foreland Basin Offshore of Western Newfoundland: Concealed Record of Northern Appalachian Orogen Development. Basin Research, 32: 25–50. doi:10.1111/bre.12364.
Webinars:
Using the stereographic projection on your computer screen:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmf6V5wU-DAYocWG_fxGL-1ZPASucke-s
Books:
Waldron, J.W.F., Snyder, M.E., Thomas, A.K., 2022. Salt Tectonics along a Late Paleozoic Transform Fault, Nova Scotia. Field Trip Guidebook A1, GAC-MAC-IAH-CNC-CSPG annual meeting, Halifax, 88 p.
Lancaster, S.A., and Waldron, J.W.F. 2019. Boundary|Time|Surface - a record of change. Arts and Heritage Foundation St. Albert. 63 p.
Waldron, John W.F., Larry Hicks, and S.E. White. 2012. Field Trip B3: Stratigraphy, Tectonics and Petroleum Potential of the Deformed Laurentian Margin and Foreland Basins in Western Newfoundland. GAC-MAC-CSPG-CSSS Annual Meeting Field Guides. St. John’s NL.
Waldron, J.W.F., White, J.C., MacInnes, E., and Roselli, C.G. 2005. Field Trip B7: Transpression and transtension along a continental transform fault: Minas Fault Zone, Nova Scotia. GAC-MAC-CSPG-CSSS Atlantic Geoscience Society, Halifax, N.S.