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The Fraser River Delta (FRD) is a large sedimentary system and home to Metro Vancouver, situated within the unceded territories of several First Nations. This review provides an overview of the geological evolution of the FRD, connecting hydrodynamic processes with sedimentary deposits across its diverse environments, from the river to the delta slope. The study emphasizes the implications of sedimentation and delta evolution for natural hazards and coastal/delta management, pinpointing knowledge gaps. Comprising four main zones--river, delta plain, tidal flats, and delta slope--the FRD is subject to several natural hazards, including subsidence, flooding, earthquakes, liquefaction, and tsunamis. The delta plain, bordering the Fraser River's distributary channels, hosts tidal marshes and flats, including both active and abandoned areas. Active tidal flats like Roberts Bank and Sturgeon Bank receive sediment directly from the Fraser River, while abandoned tidal flats, like those at Boundary Bay and Mud Bay, no longer receive sediment. The tidal flats transition into the delta slope, characterized by sand in the south and mud in the north of the Main Channel. The FRD's susceptibility to hazards necessitates protective measures, with approximately 250 km of dykes shielding the delta plain from river floods and storm surges. Subsidence amplifies the impact of rising sea levels. Earthquakes in the region can induce tsunamis, submarine slope failures, and liquefaction of delta sediments, emphasizing the importance of incorporating sedimentation patterns and delta evolution into management strategies for sustainable urban development, habitat restoration, and coastal defence initiatives. Key words: sedimentology, stratigraphy, deltas, tidal flats, coastal management, natural hazards, 1. Introduction Deltas sit at the nexus of fluvial and marine environments and are a storage place and staging ground for sediment, pollutants, and organic carbon that are transported from [...]

We review currently available Canadian and international lithostratigraphic and lithodemic schemes and find most of them inadequate for classifying intrusive and strongly metamorphosed rocks of Canada and beyond. A new system is proposed, one that unifies, complements, and extends components of the revised North American Stratigraphic Code, the British Geological Survey Rock Unit Classification System of 2021, and the International Stratigraphic Guide of 1999. This new Cooperative Lithodemic and Stratigraphic System (CLASS) is intended to serve as a practical guide to geoscientists who need to classify and report on lithodemic units in North America and has broad applicability to other jurisdictions. It is built with database management practices in mind and employs the concept of inheritance of root characteristics between seven formal rock unit ranks, which will allow incorporation of the scheme into compact object-oriented and relational databases designed for purpose. Broad application of CLASS, especially to historically problematic lithodemic units, should help to foster jurisdictional interoperability, data sharing, global compilations, and thematic studies. At the heart of this proposed system is a subdivision and accompanying nomenclature that allows classification of rocks into seven formal ranks. Following the well-established lithostratigraphic supergroup, group, subgroup, formation, member, submember, and bed approach, CLASS proposes three classes of lithodemic subdivisions for formally naming lithodemic rock units. Key words: nomenclature, North American Stratigraphic Code, International Stratigraphic Guide, lithodeme, lithotectonic assemblage, suite, 1. Introduction As outlined by the North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature (NACSN 1983, 2021), a stratigraphic code is 'a formulation of current views on stratigraphic principles [...] that [...] [...]

Dykes intruding along the Melanson Brook Fault record two magmatic episodes in northern New Brunswick. Dykes at the South Gold Zone of the Elmtree gold deposit are aphanitic and magnesian-calcic, whereas those at Ellis Brook (2.5 km to the west) are ilmenite-series and weakly peraluminous with hornblende- and plagioclase-porphyritic phases. Elevated [.sup.147]Sm/[.sup.144]Nd generated by partial melting, titanium depletion, absence of rare earth element fractionation, and trondhjemite-like compositions indicate that the South Gold Zone dykes were sourced from low-volume fluid-fluxed melting of gabbroic crust. An Sm-Nd-depleted model mantle age of 1.1 Ga for the Ellis Brook dykes suggests that they were sourced from melting of Ganderian crustal rocks rather than the sinking Acadian slab. [.sup.143]Nd/[.sup.144]Nd evolution curves for the South Gold Zone dykes intersect that of the Ellis Brook dykes at 432 and 427 Ma. This suggests that the magma from which the South Gold Zone dykes crystallized was extracted from a similar source area as the magma that generated the Ellis Brook dykes. Evidence of fluid exsolution in the Ellis Brook dykes indicates that they could be a potential source for reduced intrusion-related gold mineralization. The Ellis Brook dykes yielded a U-Pb zircon age of 391 [+ or -] 5 Ma, which is consistent with the timing of oceanic slab break-off at the end of the Acadian orogenic cycle. Extraction of South Gold Zone magma occurred up to 40 Myr earlier, likely during the Salinic orogenic cycle. Key words: U-Pb (zircon) geochronology, New Brunswick, slab failure magmatism, intrusion-related gold, Elmtree Inlier, Introduction Intrusion-related mineralization systems emplaced during the Appalachian orogenic cycle are a significant source of metal endowment in Atlantic Canada (van Staal 2007). Understanding the role of intrusions in mineralizing [...]

Regional subsurface mapping of glacial depositional systems preserved in buried bedrock paleovalleys, and quantitative analysis of new LiDAR imagery of surface glacial landforms using machine learning techniques, when combined, are powerful tools for assessing the dynamics of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) during the last (Wisconsinan) glaciation in southern Ontario. While age dating of deposits preserved below Last Glacial Maximum tills (LGM: marine isotope stage (MIS) 2 < c.24 000 years B.P. (ybp)) is still sparse, newly available sedimentological data derived by cored drilling, combined with legacy outcrop data, identify thick (100 m+) successions of glaciolacustrine sediments and a lack of till(s), indicating that the ice sheet margin did not extend beyond the Niagara Escarpment at the western end of Lake Ontario, during the earliest phases of the glaciation (MIS 4) or the ensuing mid-Wisconsinan (MIS 3). Ice was able to extend into New York State blocking the Rome outlet to the Hudson Valley ponding deep proglacial lakes in the glacio-isostatically depressed Huron-Ontario-Erie basins recorded by thick glaciolacustrine sediments in paleovalleys. These were cannibalized by an expanding Late Wisconsinan ice sheet after ~24 000 ybp recorded by extensive till sheets resting on a marked erosional unconformity, with drumlinized surfaces. Analysis and visualization of LiDAR data identifies discrete statistically validated flow sets of highly elongated streamlined bedforms (mega-scale glacial lineations (MSGLs)). These provide key evidence of a major reorganization of the ice sheet margin during deglaciation into lobate paleo ice streams shortly after 17 400 ybp. MSGLs are cut across earlier LGM drumlinized tills creating widespread 'palimpsest' surfaces. At least two principal phases of fast ice flow can be identified, marked by large fluxes of sediment and the rapid building of large gravel and sand-dominated moraine complexes within interlobate depocentres, the largest glacial landforms in southern Ontario. Analysis of LiDAR data further reveals the common presence of DeGeer moraines where ice margins retreated in water, and iceberg scours. Future work using LiDAR mapping has the objective of fully documenting the number, extent, and timing of ice streams to enhance glaciological modelling when the ice sheet rapidly lost mass. Key words: Laurentide Ice Sheet, drilling of paleovalleys, LiDAR mapping, ice streams, Quaternary stratigraphy, southern Ontario, 1. Introduction Glaciological modelling of ancient ice sheets is fundamentally reliant on temporal, stratigraphic, and geomorphological data that constrain the timing, extent, volume, and changing dynamics of the ice sheet. [...]

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