Publications

Papers in preparation

2019

  • Kennedy, K. and Eyles, N. (2019b). Subaqueous debrites ('mixtites') of the Grand Conglomérat Formation, Democratic Republic of Congo: a model for anomalously thick Neoproterozoic 'glacial' diamictites. Journal of Sedimentary Research 89, 1-21.
  • Sookhan, S., Eyles, N., Arbelaez-Moreno, L., (2019a). Converging ice streams: a new paradigm for reconstructions of the Laurentide Ice sheet in southern Ontario and deposition of the Oak Ridges Moraine. Reply to comments. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 56, 889-893.
  • Kennedy, K. and Eyles, N, and Broughton, D. (2019) Basinal setting and origin of thick (1.8 km) mass-flow dominated Grand Conglomerat diamictites, Kamoa, Democratic Republic of Congo: resolving climate and tectonic controls during Neoproterozoic glaciations. Sedimentology 66, 556-589.

2018

  • Sookhan, S., Eyles, N. and Putkinen, N. (2018b). LiDAR-based mapping of paleo-ice streams in the eastern Great Lakes sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and a model for the evolution of drumlins and MSGLs. Journal of the Geological Society of Sweden 140, 202-228.
  • Sookhan, S., Eyles, N. and Arbelaez-Moreno, L. (2018a). Converging ice streams: a new paradigm for understanding the Laurentide Ice sheet in southern Ontario and deposition of the Oak Ridges Moraine. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 55, 373-396.
  • Eyles, N, Arbelaez-Moreno, L., and Sookhan, S. (2018) Ice streams within the Late Wisconsin Cordilleran Ice Sheet of western North America. Quaternary Science Reviews 179, 87-122.

2017

  • Putkinen, N., Eyles, N., S. Putkinen, A.E.K. Ojala J.-P. Palmu, P. Sarala, T. Väänänen, J. Räisänen, J. Saarelainen, N. Ahtonen, H. Rönty, A. Kiiskinen T. Rauhaniemi and T. Tervo. (2017a) High-resolution LiDAR mapping of glacial landforms and ice streams in Finland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland 89, 64-81.
  • Krabbendam, M., Bradwell, T., Everest, J. and Eyles, N. (2017). Joint-bounded crescentic scars formed by subglacial clast-bed contact forces: implications for bedrock failure beneath glaciers. Geomorphology 290, 114-127.

2016

  • Delpomdor, F., Eyles, N., Tack, L. and Préat, A. (2016e) West-Congolian pre- and post-Marinoan carbonates in the Democratic Republic of Congo: glacially- or tectonically-influenced deep-water sediments? Paleogeography, Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology 457, 144-157.
  • Riley, S., Binder, R., Tucker, T.R., Menzies, J., Eyles, N., Janssen, J., Muir, A.M., Bronte, C.R., Wattrus, N.J. and Krueger, C.C. (2016). Islands in the ice stream: were spawning habitats for native salmonids in the Great Lakes created by paleo-ice streams? Fish and Fisheries 18,347-359.
  • Krabbendam, M., Eyles, N., Putkinen, N. Bradwell, T., Arbelaez-Moreno, L. (2016). Streamlined 'hard beds' cut by paleo-ice streams: a preliminary review. Sedimentary Geology 338, 24-50.
  • Eyles, N., Putkinen, N, Sookhan, S., Arbelaez-Moreno, L. (2016) Erosional origin of drumlins and megaridges. Sedimentary Geology 338, 2-23.
  • Sookhan, S., Eyles, N., Putkinen, N. (2016) LiDAR-based volume assessment of the origin of the Wadena Drumlin Field, Minnesota, USA. Sedimentary Geology 338, 72-83.
  • Eyles, N. and Doughty, M. (2016). Glacially-streamlined hard and soft beds of the paleo-Ontario Ice Stream in central Canada. Sedimentary Geology 338, 51-71.

2015

  • Eyles, N and Daurio, L. (2015) Little Ice Age debris lobes inside Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley, California: analog for Mars craters? Geomorphology 245, 231-242.
  • Yu, P., Eyles, N., Sookhan, S. (2015) Automated drumlin volume estimation using LiDAR curvature imagery: a test from the Wadena Drumlin Field, Minnesota. Geomorphology 246, 589-601.
  • Wallace, K. and Eyles, N. (2015c) Seismites in Paleozoic carbonates and siliciclastics; Southern Ontario. Sedimentary Geology 316, 80-95.
  • Eyles, N., Zajc, A. and Doughty, M. (2015b) High-resolution seismic sub-bottom reflection record of low Hypsithermal levels in Ontario lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 41, 41-52.
  • Battram, N.M., Lau, P.S., Simpson, M.J. and Eyles, N. (2015a). Organic matter biomarker analysis as a potential chemostratigraphic tool for Late Pleistocene tills from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 418, 377-385.
  • Eyles, N., Boyce, J.I and Putkinen, N. (2015) Neoglacial (< 3000 years) till and flutes at Saskatchewan Glacier, Canadian Rocky Mountains, formed by subglacial deformation of a soft bed. Sedimentology 62, 182-203.

2014

  • Doughty, M., Eyles, N., Wallace, K.W., Boyce, J.I., and Eyles, C. (2014a) Lake sediments as natural seismographs: earthquake-related deformations (seismites) in central Canadian (Ontario and Quebec) lakes produced by reactivation of Precambrian structures. Sedimentary Geology 313, 45-67.
  • Eyles, N. and Putkinen, N. (2014) Glacially-megalineated limestone terrain of Anticosti Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada: onset zone of the Laurentian Channel ice stream. Quaternary Science Reviews 88, 125-134.

2013

  • Doughty, M., Eyles, N. and Eyles, C.H. (2013) Seismic reflection profiling of neotectonic faults in glacial and postglacial sediment in Lake Timiskaming, Timiskaming Graben, Ontario/Quebec, Canada. Sedimentology 60, 683-706
  • Eyles, N. Meriano, M. and P. Chow-Fraser,P. (2013) Impacts of European settlement (1840-present) in a Great Lake watershed and lagoon: Frenchman’s Bay, Lake Ontario, Canada. Environmental Earth Sciences 68, 2211-2228 DOI 10.1007/s12665-012-1904-8

2012

  • Eyles, N. and Meulendyk, T. (2012c) Ground penetrating radar stratigraphy and depositional model for evolving Late Holocene dunes on the Lake Huron coast, Ontario. Journal of Great Lakes Research 38, 708-719
  • Eyles, N. (2012) Glacially-cut rock drumlins and megagrooves of the Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, Canada cut below the Saginaw-Huron Ice Stream. Quaternary Science Reviews 55, 34-49.
  • Carto, S. and Eyles, N. (2012) Sedimentology of the Neoproterozoic (c. 580 Ma) Squantum ‘Tillite’, Boston Basin USA: mass flow deposition in a non-glacial deep water arc basin. Sedimentary Geology 269, 1-14.
  • Carto, S. and Eyles, N. (2012) Modern volcano-sedimentary analogs for Neoproterozoic volcanic back arc basins during the Gaskiers glaciation (c. 580 Ma). Sedimentary Geology 261, 1-14.

2011

  • Eyles, N., Eyles, C.H. and Menzies, J. (2011a) End moraine construction by submarginal incremental till deposition below the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Southern Ontario, Canada. Boreas 40, 92-104.
  • Meriano, M., Howard, K. and Eyles, N. (2011) The role of midsummer urban aquifer recharge in storm flow generation using isotopic and chemical hydrograph separation techniques. Journal of Hydrology 396, 82-93

2010

  • Eyles, N. and Doughty, M. (2010c) Ongoing neotectonic activity in the Timiskaming-Kipawa area of Ontario and Quebec. Geoscience Canada 37, 97-104.
  • Doughty, M., Eyles, N. and Daurio, L. (2010b) Earthquake-triggered slumps (1935 Timiskaming M6.2) in Lake Kipawa, Western Quebec Seismic Zone, Canada. Sedimentary Geology 228, 113-118.
  • Xu, Y.P., Simpson. A., Eyles, N., Simpson, M.J. (2010a) Sources and molecular composition of cryoconite organic matter from the Athabasca Glacier, Canadian Rocky Mountains. Organic Geochemistry 41, 177-186.
  • Eyles, N. and Meriano, M. (2010) Road impacted sediment and water in a Lake Ontario watershed and lagoon, City of Pickering, Ontario, Canada: an example of urban basin analysis. Sedimentary Geology 224, 15-28.

2009

  • Xu, Y.P., Simpson. A., Eyles, N., Simpson, M.J. (2009c) Biomarker record of organic matter inputs into Northwest Atlantic sediments during Marine Isotope Stages 11 and 12. Applied Geochemistry 24, 1934-1940.
  • Meriano, M., Eyles, N. and Howard, K.W.F. (2009b) Hydrogeological impacts of road salt from Canada’s busiest highway on a Lake Ontario watershed and lagoon (Frenchman’s Bay), City of Pickering. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 107, 66-81.
  • Meriano, M. and Eyles, N. (2009a) Quantitative assessment of the hydraulic role of subglaciofluvial interbeds in promoting deposition of deformation till (NorthernTill, Ontario). Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 608-620.
  • James, N.P., Eyles, C.H., Eyles, N., Hiatt, E., and Kyser, T.K. (2009) Oceanographic significance of a cold-water carbonate environment: glaciomarine sediments of the Pleistocene Yakataga Formation, Middleton Island, Alaska. Sedimentology 56, 367-397.

2008

  • Couch, A. and Eyles, N. (2008c) Sedimentary record of glacial Lake Mackenzie, Northwest Territories, Canada: implications for Arctic freshwater routing. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 268, 26-38.
  • Eyles, N. and Meulendyk, T. (2008b) Ground penetrating radar study of a Pleistocene ice-scoured glaciolacustrine sequence boundary. Boreas 37, 226-233.
  • Eyles, N. (2008a) Glacioepochs and the supercontinent cycle after ~3.0 Ga: tectonic boundary conditions for global cooling. Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology 258, 89-129.

2007

2006

  • Eyles N (2006): The role of meltwater in glacial processes; Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of fluvial deposits; a tribute to Andrew Miall. Sedimentary Geology, 190(1-4):257-268. - CD: SEGEBX; Based on Publisher-supplied data; CY: GeoRef, Copyright 2007, American Geological Institute. Reference includes data from CAPCAS, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Eyles N, Mory AJ & Eyles CH (2006): 50-million-year-long record of glacial to postglacial marine environments preserved in a Carboniferous-Lower Permian graben, northern Perth Basin, Western Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 76(3-4):618-632. - FE: References: 60; illus. incl. sects., geol. sketch maps; LL: Latitude:S290000,S290000 Longitude:E1150000,E1150000; CY: GeoRef, Copyright 2007, American Geological Institute. Reference includes data supplied by SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), Tulsa, OK, United States.

2004

2001

  • Boone SJ & Eyles N (2001): Geotechnical model for Great Plains hummocky moraine formed by till deformation below stagnant ice. Geomorphology, 38(1-2):109-124. - CD: #53194; FE: References: 57; illus. incl. geol. sketch map; CY: GeoRef, Copyright 2007, American Geological Institute. Reference includes data from CAPCAS, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2000

  • Eyles CH & Eyles N (2000): Suaqueous mass flow origin for Lower Permian diamictites and associated facies of the Grant Group, Barbwire Terrace, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Sedimentology, 47(2):343-356. - CD: SEDIAT; FE: References: 45; illus. incl. 1 table, geol. sketch maps; LL: Latitude:S210000,S190000 Longitude:E1270000,E1250000; CY: GeoRef, Copyright 2007, American Geological Institute.

1999

  • Eyles N, Boyce JI & Barendregt RW (1999): Hummocky moraine; sedimentary record of stagnant Laurentide ice sheet lobes resting on soft beds; reply. Sedimentary Geology, 129(1-2):169-171. - CD: SEGEBX; For reference to discussion see Munro-Stasiuk, M. J. and Sjogren, D. B, Sediment. Geol., Vol. 129, p. 165-168, 1999; for reference to original see Eyles, N., Boyce, J. I. and Barendregt, R. W., Sediment. Geol., Vol. 123, p. 163-174, 1999; LL: Latitude:N483000,N490000 Longitude:W1120000,W1140000; CY: GeoRef, Copyright 2007, American Geological Institute.
  • Shaw J, Eyles N & Boyce JI (1999): Kinematic indicators in fault gouge; tectonic analogy for soft-bedded ice sheets; discussion and reply. Sedimentary Geology, 123(1-2):153-161. - CD: SEGEBX; For reference to original see Eyles, N. and Boyce, J. I., Sediment. Geol., Vol. 116, p. 1-12, 1998; FE: References: 67; illus. incl. geol. sketch maps; CY: GeoRef, Copyright 2007, American Geological Institute. Reference includes data from CAPCAS, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Refereed book contributions

  • Eyles, N. and Lazorek, M. (2012b). Canada’s environment: The challenges of change. In: Clague, J et al. (Eds.). Geology of Canada: 4 Billion years and Counting. Geological Association of Canada, in press
  • Eyles, N. and S. Carto. (2012a). The Squantum ‘Tillite’, Boston Basin, USA. In: E. Arnaud, M. Halverson and G. Shields (Eds). A New Global Synthesis on Neoproterozoic ice ages. Geological Society of London Memoir 30, pp. 475-80.
  • Eyles, N. and S. Carto. (2012). The Gaskiers Formation of Eastern Newfoundland, Canada. In: E. Arnaud, M. Halverson and G. Shields (Eds). A New Global Synthesis on Neoproterozoic ice ages. Geological Society of London Memoir 30, pp. 468-473.
  • Eyles, C.H. and Eyles, N. (2010). In: Glacial Facies 4: N.P. James and G. Dalrymple (Eds.) Facies Models Geological Association of Canada, pp.73-104.
  • Eyles, N. (2009). Ravines, lagoons, cliffs and spits: the ups and downs of Lake Ontario. In: W. Reeves and C. Palassio (Eds.). Toronto’s Water: From Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers. Coach House Books, Toronto. pp. 34-41.