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Email: dpiper@nrcan.gc.ca
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Education Background
Research Interests
Piper, D.J.W., and Campbell, D.C. - 2003 - Quaternary geology of Flemish Pass and its application to geohazard evaluation for hydrocarbon development. - GAC Special Paper.
Skene, K.I. and Piper, D.J.W. - 2003 - Late Quaternary stratigraphy of Laurentian Fan: a record of events off the eastern Canadian continental margin during the last deglacial period. - Quaternary International, 99-100, 135-152.
Zelilidis, A., Piper, D.J.W., and Kontopoulos, N. - 2002 - Sedimentation and basin evolution of the Oligocene-Miocene Mesohellenic basin, Greece. - American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 86, 161-182.
Pe-Piper, G. and Piper, D.J.W. - 2002 - Late Cenozoic, post-collisional Aegean igneous rocks: Nd and Pb isotopic constraints on petrogenetic and tectonic models. - Geological Magazine.
Shaw, J., Piper, D.J.W., and Taylor, R.B. - 2002 - The Geology of the Bras d'Or Lakes, Nova Scotia. - Proceedings of Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 42, 127-148.
Pe-Piper, G., Piper, D.J.W., and Matarangas, D. - 2002 - Shear zone emplacement of I-type granites in the Cyclades, Greece. - Lithos, 60, 47-66.
Pe-Piper, G., Piper, D.J.W., and Matarangas, D. - 2002 - Shear zone emplacement of I-type granites in the Cyclades, Greece. - Lithos, 60, 47-66.
Normark, W.R., Piper, D.J.W., Posamentier, H.W., Pirmez, C., and Migeon, S. - 2002 - Variability in form and growth of sediment waves on turbidite channel levees - Marine Geology, 192, 23-58.
Wynn, R.B., Piper, D.J.W., and Gee, M. - 2002 - Generation and migration of coarse-grained sediment waves in turbidity current channels and channel-lobe transition zones - Marine Geology, 192, 59-78.
Piper, D.J.W., and Hundert, T. - 2002 - A stratigraphic record on the Sohm Abyssal Plain of detritus from the Wisconsinan glaciation in eastern Canada. - Geo-marine Letters, 22, 75-85.
Koukouvelas, I., Pe-Piper, G., and Piper, D.J.W. - 2002 - Evolution of a mafic-felsic plutonic and volcanic complex under dextral transpressional faulting: an example from the Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada. - Tectonophysics, 348, 219-246.
Dunning, G., Barr, S.M., Giles, P.S., McGregor, D.C., Pe-Piper, G., and Piper, D.J.W. - 2002 - Chronology of Devonian to early Carboniferous rifting and igneous activity in southern Magdalen Basin based on U-Pb (zircon) dating. - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
Piper, D.J.W. and DeWolfe, M. - 2002 - Petrographic evidence from the eastern Canadian margin of shelf-crossing glaciations. - Quaternary International.
Pe-Piper, G. and Piper, D.J.W. - 2002 - The Igneous Rocks of Greece. - Borntraeger, Stuttgart, 645pp.
Piper, D.J.W., and MacDonald, A. - 2001 - Timing and position of late Wisconsinan ice margins on the upper slope seaward of the Laurentian Channel - Geographie Physique et Quaternaire, 55, 131-140.
Piper, D.J.W. and Pe-Piper, G. - 2001 - Tournaisian thrusting in the northeastern Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia and its regional significance. - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 38, 43-58.
Piper, D.J.W. and Normark, W.R. - 2001 - Sandy fans - from Hueneme to Amazon and beyond. - Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 85, 1407-1438.
Hesse, R., Klaucke, I., Khodabakhsh, S., Ryan, W.B.F., Piper, D.J.W., and the NAMOC Study Group - 2001 - Sandy submarine braid plains - potential deep-water reservoirs in subpolar settings. - American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 85, 1499-1521.
Pe-Piper, G., Piper, D.J.W., Matarangas, D., and Varti-Matarangas, M. - 2001 - The sub-ophiolitic melange of the island of Lesbos, Greece. - Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie Monatshefte 2001(6), 241-260.
Murphy, J.B., Pe-Piper, G., Piper, D.J.W., Nance, R.D., and Doig, R. - 2001 - Geology of the Eastern Cobequid Highlands. - Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin, 556, 61.
Pickrill, R., Piper, D.J.W., Collins, J.T., Kleiner, A., and Gee, L. - 2001 - Scotian Slope mapping project: benefits of an integrated regional high-resolution multibeam survey. - Offshore Technology Conference Paper, OTC, 12995.
Perissoratis, C., Piper, D.J.W., and Lykousis, V. - 2000 - Alternating marine and lacustrine sedimentation during late Quaternary in the Gulf of Corinth rift basin, central Greece. - Marine Geology, 167, 391-411.
Piper, D.J.W., Cochonat, P., and Morrison, M.L. - 1999 - Sidescan sonar evidence for progressive evolution of submarine failure into a turbidity current: the 1929 Grand Banks event. - Sedimentology, 46, 79-97.
Piper, D.J.W., Hiscott, R.N., and Normark, W.R. - 1999 - Outcrop-scale acoustic facies analysis and the 0-15 ka development of Hueneme and Dume fans, California Continental Borderland. - Sedimentology, 46, 47-78.
Piper, D.J.W., Dessureau, G., and Pe-Piper, G. - 1999 - Occurrence of high-Zr rhyolites, early Carboniferous, Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia: temperature effect of a contemporaneous mafic magma. - Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 619-634.
Zelilidis, A., Kontopoulos, N., Avramidis, P., and Piper, D.J.W. - 1999 - Sedimentological evolution of the Pliocene_Quaternary basins of Zakynthos island, Greece; case study of the transition from compressional to extensional tectonics. - Basin Research, 10, 393-408.
Pe-Piper, G. and Piper, D.J.W. - 1999 - A test of the broad terrane hypotheses for Jurassic tholeiitic magmas in southeastern Canada. - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36, 1509-1516.
Dessureau, G., Piper, D.J.W., and Pe-Piper, G. - 1999 - Geochemical evolution of earliest Carboniferous continental theoliitic basalts along a crustal-scale shear zone, southwestern Maritimes Basin, eastern Canada. - Lithos, 50, 27-50.
Kotopouli, C.N., Pe-Piper, G., and Piper, D.J.W. - 1999 - Petrology and evolution of the Hercynian Pieria granitoid complex (Thessaly, Greece): paleographic and geodynamic interpretations. - Lithos, 50, 137-152.
Stea, R.R., Piper, D.J.W., Fader, G.B.J., and Boyd, R. - 1998 - Wisconsinan glacial and sea level history of Maritime Canada and the adjacent continental shelf: a correlation of land and sea events. - Geological Society of America Bulletin, 110, 821-845.
Piper, D.J.W., and Skene, K.I. - 1998 - Latest Pleistocene ice-rafting events on the Scotian margin (eastern Canada) and their relationship to Heinrich events. - Paleoceanography, 13, 205-214.
Skene, K.I., Piper, D.J. W., Aksu, A.E., and Syvitski, J.P. - 1998 - Evaluation of the global oxygen isotope curve as a proxy for Quaternary sea level by modelling of delta progradation. - Journal of Sedimentary Research, 68, 1077-1092.
Pe-Piper, G., Koukouvelas, I., and Piper, D.J.W. - 1998 - Geochemical and structural evolution of a shear zone granite with dyke-to-pluton emplacement: the Pleasant Hills pluton, Canadian Appalachians. - Geological Society of America Bulletin, 110, 523-536.
Pe-Piper, G. and Piper, D.J.W. - 1998 - Geochemical evolution of Devonian-Carboniferous igneous rocks of the Magdalen basin, Eastern Canada: Pb and Nd isotope evidence for mantle and lower crustal sources. - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 35, 201-221.
Hesse, R., Klaucke, I., Khodabakhsh, S., and Piper, D.J.W. - 1998 - Continental slope sedimentation adjacent to an ice margin. III. The upper Labrador Slope. - Marine Geology, 155, 249-276.
Nisbet, E.G. and Piper, D.J.W. - 1998 - Giant submarine landslides: slumps, megaturbidites and their impact. - Nature, 392, 329-330.