Atlantic Geoscience Society ABSTRACTS 36th Annual Colloquium & Annual General Meeting 2010 Greenwich, Nova Scotia The 36th Annual Colloquium & Annual General Meeting were held at the Old Orchard Inn, Greenwich, Nova Scotia, on February 5 and 6, 2010. On behalf of the society, we thank Colloquium organizers Rob Raeside and Ian Spooner for providing an excellent meeting. We also wish to acknowledge support of the corporate sponsors: Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick; PotashCorp (Potash Company of Saskatchewan); Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Geological Surveys Branch; and the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources, Mines Branch. In the following pages, we are pleased to publish the abstracts of oral presentations and posters from the Colloquium, which focused on the following themes: Metallic Ore Deposits in Atlantic Canada; Geohazards in Atlantic Canada; Bay of Fundy Studies; Geochronology: Solving and Making(?) Geological Puzzles; Current Research in the Atlantic Provinces; a Workshop on the Teaching of Evolution. THE EDITORS Atlantic Geology 46, 43–75 (2010) Copyright © Atlantic Geology, 2010 0843-5561|08|00043–33$5.95|o atlantic geology . volume 46 . 2010 44 Anomalous Zn concentrations in the West Barneys River tershed systems as unmeasured fog and/or dry deposition. The intrusion, Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia application of chloride as a marine tracer has been verified to some extent in watersheds close to the ocean where sea spray Harun Alrashid Mohamad Idris and Cliff Stanley is easily measured. However, chloride deposition as aerosols Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Acadia University, or fog has not been measured and quantified for watersheds Wolfville, Nova Scotia B4P 2R6, Canada <
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