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Sampling in eastern Canada (W. Leng)

September 13 - 22, 2016 Halifax, Canada

After ArcTrain Annual Meeting in Banff (Sept.5-12, 2016), I flew with my supervisor Tilo von Dobeneck to Halifax, the capital of the province of Nova Scotia of Canada. During Sept.14-15, we visited David J.W. Piper at BIO (Geological Survey of Canada Bedford Institute of Oceanography). David J.W. Piper is an expert of Sedimentology and he has done a lot of work on the glacial outburst events off the eastern Canadian margin. He was very friendly; we discussed my figures and data, he gave me a lot of feedback and new ideas which could contribute to my current manuscript. He kindly shared with me many unpublished data and allowed me to take samples from his gravity cores.
From September 16th, we rented a car and drove from Halifax back to Montreal. Along the Gulf of St. Lawrence and St. Lawrence estuary we took smaples of surficial and riverine sediments, which could contribute to study provenance of the reddish layer sediments in my gravity cores. We studied the geologic maps and made a sampling plan, but with the help of navigator sometimes we reached unexpected locations where we could not step into the river or could not get suitable sediments. We had a lot of fun during sampling and the strong feeling of the changing of landscape and terrestrial landforms during our driving. We finished the sampling tour on September 22nd in Montreal, finally 27 samples were obtained. These samples will be measured grain size, geochemical and rock magnetic parameters later on.
On September 19th, in the middle of sampling tour, we stopped at Rimouski and visited Guillaume St-Onge at ISMER (Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski) as expected. Guillaume St-Onge has rich experience working at St. Lawrence estuary and Gulf with combination of stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleomagnetism. But the pity was he had an urgent appointment so we only met few hours. Although so, we took the time and discussed my data. He is very friendly and he’d like to be my co-supervisor as my ArcTrain Canada side partner. We talked about the potential work I can do during the research stay and the possible fieldwork and cruises.
I would like to thank David and Guillaume for the kindly welcome and new ideas about my work, also many thanks to my supervisor Tilo for driving over 2000 Km and helping me with the sampling. I appreciate ArcTrian for providing the financial support for the sampling tour and the research stay.
Wei Leng