Staff

Shunxin Zhang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist (Nunavut Stratigrapher)

Canada - Nunavut Geoscience Office
626 Tumiit Plaza, Suite 202, Box 2319
Iqaluit, Nunavut
Canada X0A 0H0
Telephone: 867-979-3539 Extension: 26
Fax: (867) 979-0708
Email: Shunxin Zhang

Education:

Ph.D. China University of Geosciences (1988)

Research Interests:

I have undertaken Pan-LITHOPROBE / NSERC and LITHOPROBE / SNORCLE projects to study the tectonic/sea level events in Canada through the Early Paleozoic, and I also involved in a project to study Upper Triassic stratigraphy in the western America. My research has been focused on stratigraphy, paleontology, sedimentology and data analysis on the Arctic, Canadian Cordilleran, and Appalachian margins, as well as interior basins. Recently I have carried on a project on the Early Paleozoic biostratigraphy and regional thermal maturation in Hudson Bay area.

Field of specialization:

Paleozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology; data analysis

Recent publications:

Articles published in refereed journals

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
In press: Late Ordovician and Early Silurian conodont fauna from Omulev Mountains, North-west Russia and their paleogeographic affinity. Journal of Paleontology.

Zhang, S., Barnes, C. R. and Jowett, D. M. S.
2006: The paradox of the global standard Late Ordovician-Early Silurian sea level curve: evidence from conodont community analysis from both Canadian Arctic and Appalachian margins. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 236 (3-4), p. 246-271.

Zhang, S., Pyle, L. J. and Barnes, C. R.
2005: Evolution of the Early Paleozoic Cordilleran margin of Laurentia: tectonic and eustatic events interpreted from sequence stratigraphy and conodont community patterns. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, p. 999-1031.

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
2004a: Arenigian (Early Ordovician) sea level history and the response of shelf and slope conodont communities, western Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41, p. 843-865

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
2004b: Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician conodont communities from platform and slope facies, western Newfoundland: a statistic approach. In: Beaudoin, A. B. and Head, M. J. (eds), The Palynology and Micropaleontology of Boundaries. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 230, p. 47-72

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
2004c: Conodont bioevents, cladistics and response to glacio-eustasy, Ordovician-Silurian boundary through Llandovery, Anticosti Basin, Québec. In: Beaudoin, A. B. and Head, M. J. (eds), The Palynology and Micropaleontology of Boundaries. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 230, p. 73-104

Barnes, C. R., Zhang, S. and Pyle, L. J.
2003: Interpreting conodont communities, tectonics, and eustasy of the Ordovician-Early Silurian Laurentian margins. In: Albanesi, G.L., Beresi, M.S., and Peralta, S.H. (eds.), Ordovician from the Andes. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Ordovician System, Instituto Superior de Correlacion Geologica (INSUGEO), Serie Correlacion Geologica 17, p. 477-480

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
2002a: A new Llandovery (Early Silurian) biozonation and conodonts from the Becscie, Merrimack and Gun River formations, Anticosti Island, Québec. The Paleontological Society Memoir 57 [Journal of Paleontology, 76 (supplement to No. 2)], 46 p.

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
2002b: Paleoecology of Llandovery conodonts, Anticosti Island, Québec. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 180 (1-3), 33-55.

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
2002c: Eustatic sea level curve for the Ashgillian-Llandovery derived from conodont community analysis, Anticosti Island, Québec. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 180 (1-3), 5-32.

Zhang, S., Barnes, C. R. and Pohler, S.
2002: Relationship between lithofacies belts and conodont faunas, Gun River Formation (Lower Silurian), Anticosti Island, Québec: a statistical approach. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39, 1767-1782.

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
2000: Anticostiodus, a new multielement conodont genus from the Lower Silurian, Anticosti Island, Québec. Journal of Paleontology, 74 (4), 662-669.

Barnes, C. R. and Zhang, S.
1999: Pattern of conodont extinction and recovery across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary interval. Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Geologica 1999, 43 (1/2), 211-212

Zhang, S.
1998a: Parapachycladina peculiaris and reflection on its study. Acta Micropalaeotologica Sinica, 15 (1), 1-12.

Zhang, S.
1998b: A review of the reconstruction of conodont apparatuses taken Triassic as example. Acta Micropalaeotologica Sinica, 15 (2), 111-124.

Zhang, S.
1997a: A review of conodonts and the first vertebrates. Acta Micropalaeotologica Sinica, 14(1), 93-109.

Zhang, S.
1997b: A review of conodont's catastrophe-resisting ability taking events at Permo-Triassic boundary as example. The laboratory of lithosphere tectonics and its dynamics 1996 annual report, 64-77.

Zhang, S., Aldridge, R. J. and Donoghue, P.
1997: An Early Triassic conodont with periodic growth? Journal of Micropaleontology (British Micropaleontology Society), 16 (1), 41-47.

Published Conference Abstracts

Barnes, C. R., Zhang, S., Trotter, J. A., and Pyle, L. J.
2006: Interpreting past oceanographic, climatic and tectonic changes from conodont data. International Conodont Symposium, 2006, p. 15 (Leicester, England).

Zhang, S., Barnes, C. R. and Jowett, D. M. S.
2005: Tracking non-uniform Late Ordovician-Early Silurian global sea level events using conodont community analyses from both the Canadian Arctic and Appalachian margins. Canadian Paleontology Conference Proceedings No. 3, p. 23-24 (Prince George).

Zhang, S., Barnes, C. R. and Jowett, D. M. S.
2004: Differentiating sea level events across Laurentia in the Early Silurian using the pattern of conodont communities. GAC - MAC 2004 Joint Annual Meeting (St. Catharines).

Barnes, C. R., Zhang, S., and Pyle, L. J.
2004: Interpreting Laurentian-wide Early Ordovician sea level and tectonic events using the pattern of conodont communities. GAC - MAC 2004 Joint Annual Meeting (St. Catharines).

Zhang, S., Pyle, L. J. and Barnes, C. R.
2003: Evolution of the western margin of Laurentia during the Early Paleozoic: Tectonic and eustatic events interpreted from sequence stratigraphy and conodont community patterns in the Canadian Cordillera. Geological Society of America 2003 Annual Meeting (Seattle), Abstracts with Programs, p. 336.

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
2003: Latest Cambrian-Early Ordovician sea level history deduced from the evolution and interaction of platform to slope conodont communities, western Newfoundland. GAC - MAC 2003 Joint Annual Meeting (Vancouver), Abstract on conference CD.

Barnes, C. R., Zhang, S., Ji, Z., Johnston, D. I., Pohler, S, M. L. and Sullivan, C.
2001: Conodont evolution and community patterns and the refinement of sealevel curves for the Lower Paleozoic Laurentian margin of Iapetus. GAC - MAC 2001 Joint Annual Meeting (St. John's), Program with Abstracts, v. 26, p. 8.

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
2001: Conodonts and glaciation: An example from the Late Ordovician and Early Silurian, Anticosti Island, Québec. Abstracts for 4th British Columbia Paleontological Symposium (Kamloops, BC), p. 47-48.

Barnes, C. R. and Zhang, S.
2000: Changes in Iapetus paleogeography and paleoceanography revealed by conodont data from the Laurentian margin. Abstract for 31st International Geological Congress, Brazil, Program with Abstratcs CD.

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
2000a: Biofacies partitioning and response to eustatic changes of Llandovery (Early Silurian) conodonts, Anticosti Basin, Québec, Canada. Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy and Second Australian Conodont Symposium, Orange, NSW, July 2000. Program with Abstracts, p. 138.

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
2000b: The post-extinction evolutionary radiation, biofacies partitioning, and response to eustatic changes of Early Silurian conodonts, Anticosti Basin, Québec. GeoCanada 2000, Geoscience Summit (Calgary), Abstract on conference CD.

Zhang, S., Orchard, M.J. and Stanley, G. D. Jr.
2000: Late Triassic conodonts from Martin Bridge Formation, Oregon and Hosselkus Limestone, California. GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting (Vancouver), Abstract with program, 32 (6), p. 77.

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
1999: Evolutionary radiation of Early Silurian conodonts from Anticosti Island, Québec. XIV ICCP, Pander Society, Canadian Paleontology Conference (Calgary), Programme with Abstracts, p. 163.

Zhang, S., Orchard, M. J. and Stanley, G.D. Jr.
1999: Late Triassic conodonts from Hosselkus Limestone, California and Martin Bridge Limestone, Oregon. XIV ICCP, Pander Society, Canadian Paleontology Conference (Calgary), Programme with Abstracts, p. 163.

Zhang, S. and Stanley, G. D. Jr
1999: Conodont studies reveal correlations within the Upper Triassic Martin Bridge Formation of the Blue Mountains Province. Geological Society of America 1999 Annual Meeting, Abstract with Programs, 31 (7), p. 473.

Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R.
1998: Evolutionary radiation of conodonts following the terminal Ordovician glaciation based on the Lower Llandovery sequence of Anticosti Island, Québec. Geological Society of America 1998 Annual Meeting (Toronto), Abstract with Programs, A-285.

Joined C-NGO:

August, 2006