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Jason Mackenzie, PhD Candidate

Jason picking mineralsJason hails from southwest Nova Scotia as evidenced by the way he says "car". He was the founding president of the Fletcher Geology club in junior high school but truly fell in love with geology after an undergraduate field school. He studied mantle xenoliths from the Slave Province for an MSc and worked in diamond exploration thereafter. Seeking a new challenge, he began working on developing a crystal growth process with Redlen Technologies, which then prompted him to pursue a PhD in experimental petrology. Outside school and work, Jason can be found on the water in an outrigger canoe.

Jason in the arcticMag survey in the arcticWith Amy at Botanical BeachPaddling

 

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Curriculum Vitae

CV - Jason Mackenzie (PDF, 100kb)

Current Research

Publications

  1. Jason M. MacKenzie, Dante Canil, Stephen T. Johnston, Joseph English, Mitchell G. Mihalynuk, and Brian Grant (2005). First evidence for ultrahigh-pressure garnet peridotite in the North American Cordillera. Geology 33 n.2: 105–108. Download (PDF, 222kb)

  2. Davis W. J., Canil D., MacKenzie J. M., and Carbno G. B. (2003). Petrology and U-Pb geochronology of lower crustal xenoliths and the development of a craton, Slave Province, Canada. Lithos 71: 541-573.

  3. MacKenzie J.M., Canil D. (1999). Composition and thermal evolution of cratonic mantle beneath the central Archean Slave Province, NWT, Canada, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 134: 313-324. Download (PDF, 301kb)

  4. MacKenzie J.M., Canil D. (1998). Upper mantle xenoliths from the Archean Slave craton: Composition and thermal evolution of a kimberlite province. In: Abstracts; GAC/MAC annual meeting, Quebec City 1998: A-114.

  5. MacKenzie J.M., Canil D. (1998). Thermal state of the lower crust and upper mantle of the Archean Slave Province, NWT, Canada: A xenolith study, In: Abstracts; Workshop on Continental Roots (Harvard/MIT 1997).

  6. MacKenzie J.M., Canil D. (1998). Composition and thermal evolution of the upper mantle beneath the Archean Slave Province: Evidence from xenolith studies, In: Cook F. and Erdmer (compilers) Slave-Northern Cordillera Lithospheric evolution (SNORCLE) transect and Cordillerian tectonics workshop meeting (Simon Fraser University 1998), LITHRPROBE Report No. 64: 37-38.

  7. Canil D., MacKenzie J.M. (1997). Lower crust and upper mantle beneath the Archean Slave craton: A view from xenolith studies, In: Abstracts; GAC/MAC annual meeting, Ottawa 1997: A-22.

  8. MacKenzie J.M., Canil D. (1997). Petrologic Nature of the Lower Crust and Upper mantle Beneath the Archean Slave Province NWT, Canada. In: Cook F. and Erdmer (compilers) Slave-Northern Cordillera Lithospheric evolution (SNORCLE) transect and Cordillerian tectonics workshop meeting (University of Calgary 1997), LITHRPROBE Report No. 56: 223-224.

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