Cancelled due to poor weather
Ice Streams and Tribology: A New Look at the origins of Drumlins and Other Landforms in Canada with Nick Eyles
The availability of high-resolution digital topographic data such as Li-DAR is transforming many areas of geology. This talk will review the impact of such data on glacial geology and our understanding of the last ice sheet to have covered Canada
The Laurentide Ice sheet was structured similar to modern ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica with many corridors of fast flowing ice ( ice streams), we will review landscape evidence of their existence in Southern Ontario and elsewhere and the role of ice streams in the formation of the Oak Ridges Moraine and erosion of the New York Finger Lakes.
Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. It includes the study and application of the principles of friction, lubrication and wear. Tribology is highly interdisciplinary. It draws on many academic fields, including physics,chemistry ,materials science, mathematics, biology and engineering. People who work in the field of tribology are referred to as trobologists.
Nick Eyles holds a Ph.D and a B.Sc and is a recently retired professor of Geology at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, where he taught for about 35 years. His primary interest is in glacial sedimentology and he has 35 years of field work experience worldwide.
Nick is well known for his public outreach activities and the publication of several books, the latest of which is Road Rocks Ontario, containing more than 250 Geological wonders to discover.
In 2015 nick was awarded the E R Ward Neale Medal by the Geological Association of Canada for sustained outstanding efforts in sharing Earth Science with Canadians and outstanding efforts to communicate geosciences to the public.