Peer-reviewed publications:
Lowe, D.G., DeSantis, E., Arnott, R.W.C., and Conliffe, J. (2022). Groundwater silcrete linked to brine migration in a continental rift: An alternative to the near-surface model of silcrete. Geosphere. In Press
Lowe, D.G., Arnott, R.W.C., Chiarenzelli, J.R., Rainbird, R.H., and Nowlan, G.S. (2019). Early Paleozoic rifting and reactivation of a passive‑margin rift: Insights from detrital zircon provenance signatures of the Potsdam Group, Ottawa graben: Reply. GSA Bulletin, V. 131, pp. 699-703. (DOI: 10.1130/B35176.1).
Lowe, D.G., Arnott, R.W.C., Chiarenzelli, J.R., and Rainbird, R.H. (2018). Early Paleozoic rifting and reactivation of a passive‑margin rift: Insights from detrital zircon provenance signatures of the Potsdam Group, Ottawa graben. GSA Bulletin, V.130, pp.1397-1376. (DOI: 10.1130/B31749.1), (citations: 6).
Lowe, D.G., Arnott, R.W.C., Nowlan, G.S., and McCracken, A.D. (2017). Lithostratigraphic and allostratigraphic
framework of the Cambrian-Ordovician Potsdam Group and correlations across Early Paleozoic southern Laurentia.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, V. 54, pp. 550-585. (doi: 10.1139/cjes-2016-0151), (citations: 10).
Gall, Q., Davis, W.J., Lowe, D.G., and Dabros, Q. (2017). Diagenetic apatite character and in-situ ion microprobe
UPb age, Keeseville Formation, Potsdam Group, New York State. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, V.54, pp. 785-797. (DOI: 10.1139/cjes-2016-0195), (citations: 3).
Lowe, D.G., and Arnott, R.W.C. (2016). Stratal Composition and Architecture of Braided and Sheetflood-Dominated Ephemeral Fluvial Strata in the Cambrian-Ordovician Potsdam Group: A Case Example of the Response of Pre-Vegetation Fluvial Systems and Climate Change. Journal of Sedimentary Research, V.86, pp. 587 – 612. (2015 impact factor: 2.119), (DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2016.39), (citations: 18).
Lowe, D.G., Sylvester, P.S., and Enachescu, M.E. (2011). Provenance and paleodrainage patterns of Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous synrift sandstones in the Flemish Pass Basin, Offshore Newfoundland, East Coast of Canada. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v.95, pp. 1295 – 1320. (2010 impact factor: 1.964), (doi:10.1306/12081010005), (citations: 16).
Reports, maps, and field trip guides:
Lowe, D.G., Brink, R., Mehrtens, C (2015). Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Cambrian-Ordovician Potsdam Group (Altona, Ausable and Keeseville Formations), Northwestern NY. In New York State Geological Association 87th annual meeting guidebook. pp. 143-189.
Lowe, D.G (2014). Stratigraphy and Terrestrial to Shallow Marine Environments of the Potsdam Group in the Southwestern Ottawa Embayment. In Geology of the Northwestern Adirondacks and St. Lawrence River Valley, New York State Geological Association 86th annual meeting guidebook, pp.183 – 203.
Van Nostrand, T.S., Lowe, D.G. (2010) Geology of the Seal Lake Area, Central Labrador (Parts of NTS map areas 13K/3, 4, 5 and 6). Current Research, Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 10-1, pp. 351 – 371.
MacDonald, C.A., ter Meer, M., Lowe, D.G., Isaac, C. and Stott, G.M. (2009) Precambrian geology of the Caribou Lake greenstone belt, northwestern Ontario. Ontario Geological Survey, Preliminary Map P.3613, scale 1:50 000.
Contributed to Numerous 43-101 reports and press releases for Atlantic Gold and St. Barbara from 2018-2019.
Conference presentations and abstracts:
Lowe, D.G., Serna, S., Mills, A., Stanley, B., and Khatrine, G. (2022). The Signal Hill Group: a record of fluvio-deltaic response to progressive Neoproterozoic deformation during the Avalonian Orogeny. GAC-NL 2022 Annual Technical Meeting 2022, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, February 22, 2022.
Lowe, D.G., Serna, S., Mills, A., Stanley, B., and Khatrine, G. (2022). The Signal Hill Group: a record of pre-vegetated fluvio-deltaic response to progressive Neoproterozoic deformation during the Avalonian orogeny. The Atlantic Geoscience Society (AGS) 48th Colloquium and Annual Meeting, held online, February 11-12, 2022.
Lowe, D.G., DeSantis, E., Arnott, R.W.C., and Conliffe, J. (2021). Brine silcrete: And expansion of the definition of silcrete and a unique early diagenetic feature of basin-basement interaction. Geoconvention 2021, held online, September 14, 2021.
Lowe, D.G., Arnott, R.W.C., DeSantis, E., and Conliffe, J. (2021). Groundwater silcrete in the Potsdam Group, Ottawa Graben: A case example of shallow fault-controlled silicification and desilicifiation in a tectonically active basin. Geological Society of America 2021 Northeastern Section Meeting, held online, March 14-15, 2021
Lowe, D.G., Arnott, R.W.C., DeSantis, E., and Conliffe, J. (2021). Fault-controlled groundwater silicification of sediment in a continental Rift: an example from the Potsdam Group, Ottawa Graben. The Atlantic Geoscience Society (AGS) 47th Colloquium and Annual Meeting, held online, February 5-6, 2021.
Lowe, D.G. (2020). The Fifteen Mile Stream Gold Project. Canada’s Atlantic Edge: Mineral sector investment and trade opportunities in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick (PDAC 2020). Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 3, 2020.
Currie, D., Lowe, D.G., Bourque, T. (2019). The discovery of the 149 Deposit. Geoscientists Nova Scotia’s Annual General Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 24, 2019.
Lowe, D.G., Arnott, R.W.C., Chiarenzelli, J.R., and Rainbird, R.H. (2017). Early Paleozoic reactivation of a passive margin intra-plate rift: insights into reactivation of the Ottawa graben from detrital zircon provenance signatures of the Potsdam Group. Atlantic Geoscience Society 43rd Colloquium and Annual Meeting, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, February 10-11, 2017.
Lowe, D.G., Arnott, R.W.C (2016). Paleotopographic Controls on Fluvial Architecture of Pre-Vegetated Braided Fluvial Strata in a Basal Cambrian-Ordovician Sandstone: Potsdam Group of the Ottawa Embayment and Quebec Basin. AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 19-22, 2016.
Lowe, D.G., Arnott, R.W.C (2015). Supercritical strata in Lower Paleozoic fluvial rocks: a super critical link to upper flow regime processes and preservation in nature. EGU General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, April 12-17, 2015. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17.
Lowe, D.G, Arnott, R.W.C (2014). Variations in Braided Fluvial Styles Related to Topography and Climate in the Cambrian-Ordovician Potsdam Group, Ottawa Embayment and Quebec Basin. AAPG Datapages/Search and Discovery Article #90189. AAPG 2014 Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, U.S.A., April 6-9, 2014.
Lowe, D.G., Arnott, R.W.C. (2014). Coeval Tectonism and Epeiric Transgression on the Early Paleozoic Laurentian Platform Recorded by Strata of the Potsdam Group in the Northwestern Ottawa Embayment. AAPG Datapages/Search and Discovery Article #90189. AAPG 2014 Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, U.S.A., April 6-9, 2014.
Lowe, D.G, Arnott, R.W.C, Chiarenzelli, J., Sanford, B.V. (2013). Cratonic arch activity and basin dissection in Early Paleozoic Southeast Laurentia recorded by pre- and syn-transgressive strata of the Potsdam Group. GSA 2013 Annual Meeting and Exposition, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., October 27-30, 2013. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 45, 7, p.475.
Lowe, D.G,Arnott, R.W.C, Sanford, B.V. (2013). Before the Great North American Carbonate Bank: A complex Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Transgressive History Recorded in Siliciclastic Strata of the Potsdam Group, Southeast Laurentia. AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90163. AAPG 2013 Annual Convention and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. May 19-22, 2013.
Lowe, D.G,Arnott, R.W.C. (2012). The Potsdam Group in New York State, Ontario and Quebec: Stratigraphic relationships and character of continental and shallow marine sedimentation in a tectonically active continental basin. GAC-MAC Abstract Volume 35, pg. 80. Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, May 27-29, 2012.
Lowe, D.G. and Arnott, R.W.C. (2011) Stratigraphy and depositional setting of Potsdam Group strata along the northwestern Ottawa Embayment — A preliminary report. GAC-MAC Abstract Volume 34, Abstract No.631. Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 25-27, 2011.
Sylvester, P.J., Lowe, D.G., Souders, A.K., Tubrett, M.N., and Lam, R. (2010) Provenance of Mesozoic sandstones of the Flemish Pass and Orphan Basins, offshore Newfoundland – the view from isotopic studies of detrital zircon and tourmaline. CM 2010- Abstracts, Vol.1- Short Abstracts, pg.93. 2nd Central & North Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference, Lisbon, Spain, September 29- October 1, 2010.
Lowe, D.G. and Sylvester, P.J. (2010). Provenance and paleodrainage patterns of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous synrift sandstones in the Flemish Pass Basin, offshore Newfoundland. Atlantic Geology, 46, p. 60. Atlantic Geoscience Society, 36th annual colloquium and annual general meeting 2010, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Lowe, D.G., and Sylvester, Paul J. (2009) Heavy Mineral Provenance of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Reservoir Sandstones in the Flemish Pass and Orphan Basins, Offshore Newfoundland. Eos Transactions. 90: 22. Joint Assembly Supplement, abstract GA33C-03. American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 27, 2009.
Lowe, D.G., Sylvester, P.J., and Enachescu, M.E. (2009). Heavy Mineral Provenance of Prospective Reservoir Sandstones in the Flemish Pass and Orphan Basins. 2009 CSPG CSEG CWLS Convention Abstracts. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 15, 2009.
Lowe, D.G., Sylvester, P.J., and Enachescu, M.E. (2007). Heavy Mineral Provenance of reservoir sandstones in the Flemish Pass and Orphan basins, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society, the Canadian Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society (CMOS-CGU-AMS) 2007 Annual Meeting, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, May 29, 2007.
Lowe, D.G., Sylvester, P.J., and Enachescu, M.E. (2007). Heavy Mineral Provenance of the Flemish Pass and Orphan basins, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. GAC-MAC Abstract Volume 32, pg. 51. Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, May 23, 2007.
Lowe, D.G., and Van Wagoner, N.A. (2006). Stratigraphy, Depositional Setting, and Volcanism of the Letete Formation, southwestern New Brunswick. Atlantic Geology, 42, 1, p.96-97. Atlantic Geoscience Society, 32nd annual colloquium and annual general meeting 2006, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Lowe, D.G. and Van Wagoner, N.A. (2005). Stratigraphy, Depositional Setting, and Volcanism of the Letete Formation, southwestern New Brunswick. Atlantic Geology, 41, 2-3, p.190-191. Atlantic Universities Geological Conference 2006, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, October 26, 2005.
Seminars:
November 2, 2016: Fluvial sedimentary record and tectonostratigraphy of the Cambrian – Lower Ordovician Potsdam Group: Insights into Early Phanerozoic terrestrial sedimentary processes and the pre-Appalachian evolution of the southern Laurentian margin. Geological Survey of Canada Science Hour, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
September 9, 2016: Sedimentology, Stratigraphic Evolution and Provenance of the Cambrian – Early Ordovician Potsdam Group in the Ottawa Embayment and Quebec Basin. DIRT Talk, Dalhousie University Department of Earth Science, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
February 1, 2016: Stratal Evolution and Depositional Systems of the Potsdam Group, New York, Ontario and Quebec. Geology Seminar Series, University of Vermont Department of Geology, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A.
April 10, 2015: Supercritical strata in Lower Paleozoic fluvial rocks: a super critical link to upper flow regime processes and preservation in nature. DIRT Talk, Dalhousie University Department of Earth Science, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
January 31, 2014: Stratal evolution and depositional systems of the Potsdam Group, New York, Ontario and Quebec. Invited Geology Seminar Series, St. Lawrence University Department of Geology, Canton, New York, U.S.A.
May 16, 2013: A Complex Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Transgressive History Recorded in Siliciclastic Strata of the Potsdam Group, Southeast Laurentia. Geological Survey of Canada Ottawa Discussion Group, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.