HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3557
Keith Louden
Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS B3H 4R2
Room 3616 LSC
Phone: (902) 494-3452
Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: keith.louden@Dal.Ca
Webpage: http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/seismic/
Education Background
- PhD - Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MEd - Secondary Ed., Temple University
- BA - Physics, Oberlin College
Awards and Honours
- Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth (1998-)
Research Interests
- Marine geophysics
4110.03/5110.03: Geological Oceanography
4470.03/5470.03: Introduction to Seismic Imaging
4480.03/5480.03: Advanced Seismic Imaging
Gerlings, J., Funck, T., Jackson, H.R., Louden, K.E. and Klingelhöfer, F. - 2009 - Seismic evidence for plume-derived volcanism during formation of the continental margin in southern Davis Strait and northern
Minshull, T.A., Louden, K.E. and Dean, S.M. - 2008 - Analysis of gas hydrate provinces by ocean bottom seismic methods - In: M. Riedel et al., eds., Gas Hydrates, Soc. Explor. Geophys. (accepted)
Funck, T., Hansen, A.K., Reid, I.D. and Louden, K.E. - 2008 - The crustal structure of the Southern Nain and Makkovik Provinces of Labrador derived from seismic refraction data - Can. J. Earth. Sci., 45, 465-481
Jackson, H.R., Chian, D., Louden, K. and Salisbury, M. - 2008 - Crustal structure of the Meguma Terrane offshore of Nova Scotia and its tectonic implications - Can. J. Earth Sci. (submitted)
Funck, T., H.R. Jackson, K.E. Louden, and F. Klingelhopfer - 2007 - Seismic study of the transform-rifted margin in Davis Straight between Baffin Island (Canada) and Greenland: What happens when a plum meets a transform - J. Geophys. Res., 112, B04402, doi:10.1029/2006JB004308
LeBlanc, C., Louden, K. and Mosher, D. - 2007 - Gas hydrates on the Nova Scotian slope: Velocity models from wide-angle seismic profiles - Mar. Pet. Geol., 24, 321-335
Hopper, J.R., Funck, T., Tucholke, B.E., Louden, K.E., Holbrook, W.S., and Larsen, H.C. - 2006 - A deep seismic investigation of the Flemish Cap margin: implications for the origin of deep reflectivity and evidence for asymmetric breakup between Newfoundland and
Lau, K.W.H., Louden, K.E., Deemer, S., Hall, J., Hopper, J.R., Tucholke, B.E., Holbrook, W.S., and Larsen, H.C. - 2006 - Crustal structure across the Grand Banks – Newfoundland Basin continental margin (Part II): a seismic reflection profile across the ocean-continent transition - Geophys. J. Int., 167, 157-170
Wu, Y., Louden, K.E., Funck, T., Jackson, H.R., and Dehler, S.A. - 2006 - Crustal structure of the central Nova Scotia margin off Eastern Canada - Geophy. J. Int., 166, 878–906, 2006
Shillington, D. J., W. S. Holbrook, H. J. A Van Avendonk, B. E. Tucholke, J. R. Hopper, K. E. Louden, H. C. Larsen, and G. T. Nunes - 2006 - Evidence for asymmetric nonvolcanic rifting and slow incipient oceanic accretion from seismic reflection data on the
Van Avendonk, H. J. A., W. S. Holbrook, G. T. Nunes, D. J. Shillington, B. E. Tucholke, K. E. Louden, H. C. Larsen, and J. R. Hopper - 2006 - Seismic velocity variations across the rifted margin of the eastern
Lau, K.W.H., Louden, K.E., Funck, T., Tucholke, B.E., Holbrook, W.S., Hopper, J.R., and Larsen, H.C. - 2006 - Crustal structure across the Grand Banks - Newfoundland Basin continental margin (Part I): Results from a seismic refraction profile - Geophys. J. Int., 167, 127-156
Louden, K., Lau, H., Funck, T., and Wu, J. - 2005 - Large-scale structural variations across the eastern Canadian continental margins: Documenting the rift-to-drift transition - In P.J. Post et al., eds., Petroleum Systems of Divergent Continental Margin Basins, GCSSEPM 25th Annual Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, pp. 56-74, CD_ROM, ISSN 1544-2462
Funck, T., Jackson, H.R., Louden, K.E., Dehler, S.A. and Wu, Y. - 2004 - Crustal structure of the northern Nova Scotia rifted continental margin (Eastern Canada) - J. Geophys. Res., 109, B09102, doi:10.1019/2004JB003008
Shillington, D.J., Holbrook, W.S., Tucholke, B.E., Hopper, J.R., Louden, K.E., Larsen, H.C., Van Avendonk, H.J.A.,Deemer, S., and Hall, J. - 2004 - Data report: Marine geophysical data on the Newfoundland non-volcanic rifted margin around SCREECH transect 2 - In Tucholke, B.E., Sibuet, J.-C., Klaus, A., et al., Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 210, 1-36
Louden, K.E., Tucholke, B.E. and Oakey, G.N. - 2004 - Regional variations of sediment thickness, basement depth and crustal thickness during formation fo the North Atlantic Ocean - Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 224, 193-211
Funck, T., Hopper, J.R., Larsen, H.C., Louden, K.E., Holbrook, W.S., and Tucholke, B.E. - 2003 - Crustal strucure of the ocean-continent transition at Flemish Cap: Seismic refraction results - J. Geophys. Res., 108(B11), 2531, doi:10.1029/2003JB001434
Hopper, J.R., Funck, T., Tucholke, B.E., Larsen, H.C., Holbrook, W.S., Louden, K.E., Shillington, D., Lau, H. - 2003 - Continental breakup and the onset of ultra-slow seafloor spreading off Flemish Cap on the Newfoundland rifted margin - Geology, 32, 93-96
Conrad, C.P., Lithgow-Bertelloni, C. and Louden, K.E. - 2003 - The Farallon slab and dynamic topography of the North Atlantic - Geology, 32, 177-180
Whitmarsh, R. B., Minshull, T. A., Louden, K. E., Russell, S. M., Dean, S. M., and Chian, D. - 2002 - The role of syn-rift magmatism in the rift-to-drift evolution of the west Iberia continental margin: Geophysical observations - In: Non-volcanic Rifting of Continental Margins: A Comparison of Evidence from Land and Sea, M.-O. Beslier, R.B. Whitmarsh, B. Taylor, and N. Froitzheim (Eds.), Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Publ., 187, 107-124
Louden, K. - 2002 - Tectonic evolution of the east coast of Canada - CSEG Recorder, 27, 37-49
Mirshak, R., M.R. Nedimovic, B.J.W. Greenan, B.R. Ruddick, and K.E. Louden - 2010 - Coincident reflection images of the Gulf Stream from seismic and hydrographic data - Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L05602, doi:10.1029/2009GL042359