Index Of Proceedings Volumes And Field Trip Guidebooks

Of The Institute On Lake Superior Geology
1955-1996

compiled by Mark Jirsa
I.L.S.G. secretary-treasurer

* denotes abstracts volumes and guidebooks which can be ordered from the secretary-treasurer.

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St. Paul MN 55114-1057

Phone: (612)-627-4539

Fax: 612-627-4778

e-mail: jirsa001@maroon.tc.umn.edu

A complete list containing such information as author, editor, chairperson, and sponsoring organization is maintained by:

MTU Archives & Copper Country Historical Collections

J. Robert Van Pelt Library

Michigan Technological University

Houghton MI 49931

Phone: 906-487-2505

e-mail: copper@mtu.edu

Photocopies of most back volumes can be ordered from the MTU Archives at the prevailing copy rate. Some guidebooks were published separately by the Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS), and Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (WGNHS), as indicated below; however, many are no longer available.

(Each italicized item is a separate bound document)

Vol. Year Location

1. 1955 Minneapolis, Minnesota
   Program and Abstracts
   (contains no record of field trips)

2. 1956 Houghton, Michigan
   Program and Abstracts
   Geological Exploration (inferred to be a field guide)

3. 1957 East Lansing, Michigan
   Program and Abstracts

4. 1958 Duluth, Minnesota
   Program and Abstracts

5. 1959 Minneapolis, Minnesota
   Program and Abstracts

6. 1960 Madison, Wisconsin
   Program and Abstracts

7. 1961 Port Arthur, Ontario
   Program and Abstracts (misprinted label reads 6th annual meeting)

8. 1962 Houghton, Michigan
   Program and Abstracts

9. 1963 Duluth, Minnesota
   Program and Abstracts
   Field Itinerary: Stratigraphy of the Biwabik Iron Formation

10. 1964 Ishpeming, Michigan
    Program and Abstracts
    Field Trip: Marquette iron-mining district and Republic trough

11. 1965 St. Paul, Minnesota
    Program and Abstracts
    Field Trip Guide to the St. Cloud granite district, central Minnesota

12. 1966 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
    Program and Abstracts, includes field guides to:
    
    1. Regional geology of the Sault Ste. Marie area
    2. Geology and mineral deposits of the Manitouwadge Lake area, Ontario
    3. The relationship of mineralization to the Precambrian stratigraphy, Blind River area, Ontario
    4. Sudbury nickel irruptive tour, Ontario

13. 1967 East Lansing, Michigan
    Program and Abstracts
    Field Trip: Grenville Province of southeastern Ontario, Bancroft-Madoc area

14. 1968 Superior, Wisconsin
    Technical Sessions and Abstracts
    Guide for Field Trip in the Duluth Complex near Ely, Minnesota

15. 1969 Oshkosh, Wisconsin
    Technical Sessions and Abstracts
    Guidebook: Central Wisconsin volcanic belt

16. 1970 Thunder Bay, Ontario
    Technical Sessions, Abstracts and Field Guides
    
    Field trips:
    
    1. Proterozoic formations in the Thunder Bay area
    2. Sturgeon River metavolcanic-metasedimentary formations in the Beardmore-Geraldton area
    3. The Port Coldwell alkalic complex
    4. Geology of the Atikokan area (title not exact)

17. 1971 Duluth, Minnesota
    Technical Sessions, Abstracts and Field Guides
    
    Field trips:
    
    1. North Shore Volcanic Group
    2. Precambrian rocks of northwestern Cook County as exposed along the Gunflint Trail
    3. Mesabi Range magnetite taconite
    4. Geology of the Vermilion metavolcanic-metasedimentary belt, northeastern Minnesota

18. 1972 Houghton, Michigan
    Part I. Technical Sessions-Agenda and Abstracts (describes trips A-D)
    Field Trips:
    Penokean Orogeny in the central and western Gogebic region, Wisconsin and Michigan
    Guide to Penokean deformation style and regional metamorphism at the western Marquette Range, Michigan

19. 1973 Madison, Wisconsin
    Technical Program and Abstracts*

    Field Trip: Guidebook to the geology and mineral deposits of the central part of Jackson County and part of Clark County, Wisconsin (WGNHS)
    Field Trip: Guidebook to the Precambrian geology of northeastern and north-central Wisconsin
    Field Trip: Guidebook to the upper Mississippi Valley base-metal district (WGNHS Information circular No. 16)

    Bibliography of Current Research in the Lake Superior Region

20. 1974 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
    Field Trip 1: Middle Keweenawan rocks of the Batchawana-Mamainse Point area
    Field Trip 2: unknown
    Field Trip 3: Precambrian igneous rocks of the north shore of Lake Huron region
    Field Trip 4: Stratigraphy and sedimentation of the Huronian Supergroup
    Field Trip 5: The Michipicoten greenstone belt

    Bibliography of Current Research in the Lake Superior Region (First Supplement)

21. 1975 Marquette, Michigan
    Proceedings
    Includes the following field trip guides and a supplement by Burton Boyum containing color map of the Marquette Mineral District:
    
    1. Glacial geology (trip canceled, no guidebook)
    2. Greenstone
    3. The Jacobsville Sandstone: Evidence for a Lower-Middle Keweenawan age
    4. Marquette Iron Range
    5. The Empire Mine and Mill, Palmer, Michigan
    6. The Empire Mine and Mill, Palmer, Michigan (continued)

22. 1976 St. Paul, Minnesota
    Proceedings includes abstracts and guide to trip B

    Field Trip A: Minnesota River Valley field conference (no formal guidebook was printed)
    Field Trip B: Engineering and Pleistocene geology in the Twin Cities area

23. 1977 Thunder Bay Ontario
    Proceedings

    Field Trip A: Geology of the Coldwell alkaline Complex
    Field Trip B: Proterozoic rocks of the Thunder Bay area, northwestern Ontario ("Proterozoic Trip")
    Field Trip C: Archean metallogeny and stratigraphy of the South Sturgeon Lake area ("Mattabi Trip")

24. 1978 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Abstracts and Proceedings

    Field Trip I: Southwestern Wisconsin zinc-lead district (WGNHS Field Trip Guide Book Number 1)
    Field Trip II: Mineral extraction and processing equipment manufacturers in the Greater Milwaukee area (no guidebook)
    Field Trip III: Precambrian rhyolite and granite inliers in south-central Wisconsin (WGNHS Field Trip Guide Book Number 2)

25. 1979 Duluth, Minnesota
    Technical Sessions and Abstracts Joint meeting with North-Central Section GSA.

    Field Trip Guidebooks: some were published separately as MGS Guidebook Series referenced below, the remainder are apparently unavailable. A total of 8 trips were listed in GSA proceedings:

    1. Middle Precambrian volcanic and plutonic rocks of northern Wisconsin
    2. Stratigraphy, structure and mineral resources of east-central Minnesota (MGS Field Trip Guidebook Series no. 9)
    3. Quaternary geology of the Duluth area
    4. Geology of the Mesabi Iron Range
    5. Geologic history and engineering geology of the western Lake Superior region
    6. Cambrian and Ordovician stratigraphy and paleontology of southeastern Minnesota
    7. Keweenawan (Upper Precambrian) North Shore Volcanic Group, Minnesota (MGS Field Trip Guidebook no. 11)
    8. Archean volcanism and sedimentation of the western Vermilion District, northeastern Minnesota (MGS Guidebook Series no. 10)

26. 1980 Eau Claire, Wisconsin
    Proceedings and Abstracts

    Field Trip 1 Precambrian geology of the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin
    Field Trip 2 Precambrian tectonic history of the Black River Valley
    Field Trip 3 Petrology, geochemistry, and contact relations of the Wausau and Stettin syenite plutons, Central Wisconsin
    Field Trip 4 Precambrian geology and tectonics of Marathon County, Wisconsin
    

27. 1981 East Lansing, Michigan
    Abstracts and Proceedings

    Field Excursion Guide--The Huronian rocks between Sault Ste. Marie and Thessalon, District of Algoma, Ontario

28. 1982 International Falls, Minnesota
    Proceedings: Abstracts and Field Trips: (in one volume)

    Field Trip I--Mineral deposits of the Fort Frances-Mine Centre area, Ontario
    Field Trip II--Archean geology of the International Falls-Kabetogama area, Minnesota

29. 1983 Houghton, Michigan
    Volume I: Abstracts and Field Trip--Ropes gold mine and its geological setting
    Volume II: Field guide to the geology of the Keweenaw Peninsula

30. 1984 Wausau, Wisconsin
    Abstracts
    Field Trip 1 Guide to the geology of the Early Proterozoic rocks in northeastern Wisconsin
    Field Trip 2 Early Proterozoic tectonostratigraphic terranes of the southern Lake Superior region
    Field Trip 3 The Wausau Syenite Complex

31. 1985 Kenora, Ontario
    Abstracts
    Field Trip Guidebook
    1. The Cameron Lake Deposit
    2. Geologic setting and style of gold mineralization in the Lake of the Woods area
    3. Geological relationships in the vicinity of the Wabigoon-Winnipeg River subprovincial interface in the Kenora area
    4. A volcanic facies interpretation of the Berry River Formation
    5. Granitoid related mineralization in the Dryden area

32. 1986 Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
    Abstracts*

    Field Trip I The Wolf River Batholith and Baraboo interval (published as Field Trip Guide Book Number 12, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey)
    Field Trip II Penokean deformation and metamorphism in central Wisconsin: volcanic rocks and gneisses (published as un-numbered Field Trip Guide Book of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey)

    (compiler note: new reference designations were adopted to conform to ISSN standards in 1987)

33. 1987 Wawa, Ontario
    Part 1: *Abstracts
    Part 2: *Geology of the Wawa area and gold mineralization
    Part 3: *Geology and stratigraphy of the Michipicoten Iron-Formation
    Part 4: *Geology of the Hemlo Deposit
    Part 5: *The Kapuskasing Uplift: Archean greenstones and granulites

34. 1988 Marquette, Michigan
    Part 1: *Abstracts
    Part 2:Field Trip Guidebooks
    
    1. An introduction to Archean geology and precious metal mineralization of the Marquette Greenstone Belt, Michigan
    2. Marquette mineral district of Michigan, mining history and geology
    3. A structural traverse across a part of the Penokean orogen illustrating Early Proterozoic overthrusting in northern Michigan
35. 1989 Duluth, Minnesota
    Part 1: Abstracts
    Part 2: Field Trip Guidebook
    
    1. North Shore rhyolites, Minnesota
    2. Penokean Structural Terranes in east-central Minnesota
    3. Mellen Complex, Wisconsin
    4. Archean gold occurrences and their structural settings (Virginia Horn)

36. 1990 Thunder Bay, Ontario
    Part 1: Abstracts
    Part 2: Field Trip Guidebook
    
    1. Mafic intrusions, PGE mineralization, and granitoid rocks of Lac des Illes area
    2. Geology of the Shebandowan and Quetico Archean subprovinces,
    3. Granitoid-related mineral deposits in the western Lake Superior region
    4. Base metal mineralization in the Shebandowan Greenstone Belt)

37. 1991 Eau Claire, Wisconsin
    Part 1: *Abstracts
    Part 2: *Field Trips
    
    1. Mountain Shear Zone-a post Penokean discrete ductile deformation zone
    2. Features and significance of the Precambrian-Cambrian contact in western Wisconsin
    3. Proterozoic volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of NW Wisconsin

38. 1992 Hurley, Wisconsin
    Part 1: * Program and Abstracts
    Part 2: * Field Trips
    
    1. Archean and Early Proterozoic geology of the Gogebic District
    2. Evolution of the Keweenawan sedimentary sequence
    3. Geology of the Keweenawan Supergroup at Porcupine Mountains
    4. Geology of the Great Lakes Tectonic Zone-Marquette area-a late Archean paleosuture

39. 1993 Eveleth, Minnesota
    Part 1: * Program and Abstracts
    Part 2: * Field Trips:
    
    1. Geology and taconite mines of the Mesabi range
    2. DNR Core Library (Biwabik Iron Formation, Partridge River and South Kawishiwi intrusions, Regolith in Rotasonic cores-northern Minnesota)
    3. Geology of Archean greenstone-granite terrane: Cook-Side Lake area
    4. Duluth Complex at Duluth

40. 1994 Houghton, Michigan
    Part 1: * Program and Abstracts
    Part 2: * Self-guided geological field trip to the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan (available from Dr. T.J. Bornhorst, 402 Emerald Street, Houghton, MI 49931-1413 (906-482-5507))
    Part 3: Volcanic geology of eastern Isle Royale, Michigan
    Part 4: * Michigan kimberlites and diamond exploration techniques
    Part 5: * Lessons from mining case histories: West Menominee Range, Michigan

41. 1995 Marathon, Ontario
    Part 1.* Program and Abstracts
    Part 2: Field Trip Guidebooks (some may also be acquired from Ontario Geological Survey, Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, Field Services Section, Suite B 002, 435 South James Street, Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada, P7E6E3, Phone: 807-475-1331)
    

    2a.* Alkalic rocks of the Midcontinent Rift

    2b.* Geology and base metal deposits of the Manitouwadge Greenstone Belt

    2c.* Geology of the Schreiber Greenstone assemblage and it gold and base metal mineralization

    2d. *Geology and gold deposits of the Hemlo area

    2e.* Kimberlite, base metal, and gold exploration using overburden, Wawa area

42. 1996 Cable, Wisconsin
    Part 1: *Program and Abstracts
    Part 2: *Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of northern Wisconsin: a commemorative volume (and guide for tour of Flambeau Mine, Field Trip #3)
    Part 3: *Field Trip guidebook (#1 Glacial geology of northwestern Wisconsin, #2 Middle Proterozoic-Archean transect, #4 Early to Middle Proterozoic geology of the Lake Namekagon region, #5 Stratigraphy and structure of the Early Proterozoic Penokee Gap region)

43. 1997 Sudbury, Ontario
    Part 1: *Program and Abstracts
    Part 2: *The Huronian Supergroup between Sault Ste. Marie and Elliot Lake
    Part 3: *New Developments in Grenville Front Geology, Sudbury Area, Ontario
    Part 4: *The Sudbury Structure with Emphasis on the Whitewater Group
    Part 5: *Magmatic Ore Deposits of the Sudbury Igneous Complex
    Part 6: *Alkalic rocks of the Sudbury Region
    Part 7: *Regreening of Sudbury

    Future Meeting Locations:
    

44. 1998 Minneapolis, Minnesota