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Peer-reviewed publications:

Lowe, D.G. (2024). Aulacogens of the Neoproterozoic to Ordovician Laurentian Iapetan Margin. Earth-Science Reviews, V. 255, 104929. (DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104829).

Mills, A.J., Normore, L., Gomez, N.*, Dunning, G.R., and Lowe, D.G. (2024). A tale of two basins: juxtaposition of the Ediacaran fossil-bearing St. John’s Basin against the Ediacaran glaciovolcanic Bonavista Basin on the Bonavista Peninsula, Avalon Zone, Newfoundland. Atlantic Geoscience, V. 60, pp. 131-150. (DOI: 10.4138/atlgeo.2024.007).

Serna Ortiz, S., and Lowe, D.G. (2024). Stratal evolution and provenance of a Precambrian delta in a tectonically active terrane: The lower Signal Hill Group, Avalon Zone, Newfoundland. Precambrian Research, V. 401, 107274. (DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107274).

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, V. 18, pp. 1055-1076. (DOI: 10.1130/GES02458.1).

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).

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).

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).

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. (DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2016.39).

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. (doi:10.1306/12081010005).

Book Reviews:

Lowe, D.G. (2024). Introducing Sedimentology (by Stuart Jones, Liverpool University Press). Geoscience Canada. V. 51, pp. 61-62. (DOI: 10.12789/geocanj.2024.51.210).


Reports, maps, and field trip guides:

Mills, A., and Lowe, D.G. (2022). A trail of discovery through the Ediacaran Musgravetown Group of Avalonia. Virtual fieldtrip guidebook as part of the session “SY-02 Pre-Atlantic geological connections among northwest Africa, western Europe, and eastern North America”. GAC-MAC-IAH-CNC-CSPG Halifax 2022: Riding the Waves of Change, Halifax, Canada.

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.

sdam 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.