Acadia Grad Student Takes Top Thesis Award
Donnelly Archibald is
the winner of the 2012 Gelinas Award of the Volcanology
and Igneous Petrology Division of the Geological Association of Canada for the
best MSc thesis in the field of volcanology and igneous petrology. The medal
will be presented at the business meeting of the division during GAC/MAC Annual
General Meeting in St. John’s in May. Donnelly's MSc thesis was co-supervised
by Drs. Sandra Barr (Acadia) and Brendan Murphy (St. FX) and entitled
"Field relations, petrology, and tectonic setting of the Ordovician West
Barneys River plutonic suite, southern Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia".