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Overview

Denis Lavoie is affiliated with the Geological Survey of Canada and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering, and Environmental Science. Their work spans key subfields including Mechanics of Materials, Geology, Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research largely focuses on topics related to hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, methane hydrates and related phenomena, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and geological and geochemical analysis. Lavoie's work is grounded in geological studies and exploration, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research.

Several recent papers highlight their involvement in diverse areas of geological sciences. These publications include:

  • U-Pb VEIN CALCITE DATING REVEALS THE AGE OF CARLIN-TYPE GOLD DEPOSITS OF CENTRAL YUKON AND A CONTEMPORANEITY WITH A REGIONAL INTRUSION-RELATED METALLOGENIC EVENT, 2022, Economic Geology
  • Source rock kinetics and petroleum generation history of the Upper Ordovician calcareous shales of the Hudson Bay Basin and surrounding areas, 2020, Fuel
  • Clumped and oxygen isotopes reveal differential disequilibrium in the formation of carbonates from marine methane seeps, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • A systematic multi-isotope approach to unravel methane origin in groundwater: Example of an aquifer above a gas field in southern New Brunswick (Canada), 2021, Applied Geochemistry
  • Clumped isotope geothermometry of an Ordovician carbonate mound, Hudson Bay Basin, 2020, Journal of the Geological Society

Lavoie's frequent coauthors include Nicolas Pinet, Geneviève Bordeleau, Christine Rivard, Shunxin Zhang, and René Lefebvre, reflecting collaboration across multiple research endeavors. These partnerships contribute to various studies published in venues such as Economic Geology, Geological Society London Memoirs, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Fuel, and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

The combination of Lavoie's affiliations, research fields, and publication record demonstrates a comprehensive engagement with both theoretical and applied aspects of geology and environmental science, particularly in the context of resource exploration and geochemical processes.

Best Publications

  • An overview of Canadian shale gas production and environmental concerns

    Christine Rivard;Denis Lavoie;René Lefebvre;Stephan Séjourné

  • Hydrothermal dolomitization in the Lower Ordovician Romaine Formation of the Anticosti Basin: significance for hydrocarbon exploration

    D. Lavoie;G. Chi;P. Brennan-Alpert;A. Desrochers

  • Diachronous tectonic collapse of the Ordovician continental margin, eastern Canada: comparison between the Quebec Reentrant and St. Lawrence Promontory

    Denis Lavoie

  • Stratigraphie framework for the Cambrian–Ordovician rift and passive margin successions from southern Quebec to western Newfoundland

    Denis Lavoie;Elliott Burden;Daniel Lebel

  • Hydrocarbon evaporative loss from shale core samples as revealed by Rock-Eval and thermal desorption-gas chromatography analysis: Its geochemical and geological implications

    Chunqing Jiang;Zhuoheng Chen;Andy Mort;Marina Milovic

  • A Late Ordovician high‐energy temperate‐water carbonate ramp, southern Quebec, Canada: implications for Late Ordovician oceanography*

    Denis Lavoie

  • Magnesium-isotope and REE compositions of Lower Ordovician carbonates from eastern Laurentia: Implications for the origin of dolomites and limestones

    Karem Azmy;Denis Lavoie;Zhengrong Wang;Uwe Brand

  • Surface and subsurface signatures of gas seepage in the St. Lawrence Estuary (Canada): Significance to hydrocarbon exploration

    Nicolas Pinet;Mathieu Duchesne;Denis Lavoie;Andrée Bolduc

  • Origin of dolomites in the Boat Harbour Formation, St. George Group, in western Newfoundland, Canada: implications for porosity development

    Karem Azmy;I. Knight;Denis Lavoie;G. Chi

  • The Utica Shale and gas play in southern Quebec: Geological and hydrogeological syntheses and methodological approaches to groundwater risk evaluation.

    Denis Lavoie;Christine Rivard;René Lefebvre;Stephan Séjourné

  • Do all fractions of organic matter contribute equally in shale porosity? A case study from Upper Ordovician Utica Shale, southern Quebec, Canada

    Omid H. Ardakani;Hamed Sanei;Amin Ghanizadeh;Denis Lavoie

  • Dolomitization of the Lower Ordovician Aguathuna Formation carbonates, Port au Port Peninsula, western Newfoundland, Canada: implications for a hydrocarbon reservoir

    Karem AzmyK. Azmy;Denis LavoieD. Lavoie;Ian KnightI. Knight;Guoxiang ChiG. Chi

  • Architecture and subsidence history of the intracratonic Hudson Bay Basin, northern Canada

    Nicolas Pinet;Denis Lavoie;Jim Dietrich;Kezhen Hu

  • Structure and Petroleum Plays of the St. Lawrence Platform and Appalachians in Southern Quebec: Insights from Interpretation of MRNQ Seismic Reflection Data

    Sébastien Castonguay;Denis Lavoie;Jim Dietrich;Jean-Yves Laliberté

  • Reappraisal of the Beekmantown Group sedimentology and stratigraphy, Montréal area, southwestern Quebec: implications for understanding the depositional evolution of the Lower-Middle Ordovician Laurentian passive margin of eastern Canada

    O Salad Hersi;D Lavoie;G S Nowlan

  • Hydrothermal Dolomitization in the Lower Silurian Sayabec Formation in Northern Gaspe - Matapedia (Quebec): Constraint on Timing of Porosity and Regional Significance for Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

    Denis Lavoie;Claude Morin

  • Lower Paleozoic foreland basins in eastern Canada: tectono-thermal events recorded by faults, fluids and hydrothermal dolomites

    Denis Lavoie;Guoxiang Chi

  • Model-assisted Rock-Eval data interpretation for source rock evaluation: Examples from producing and potential shale gas resource plays

    Zhuoheng Chen;Chunqing Jiang;Denis Lavoie;Julito Reyes

  • Petroleum Resource Assessment, Paleozoic successions of the St. Lawrence Platform and Appalachians of eastern Canada

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  • Geological setting and resource potential of conventional petroleum plays in Paleozoic basins in eastern Canada

    James Dietrich;Denis Lavoie;Peter Hannigan;Nicolas Pinet

  • Structural analysis of supracrustal faults in the Charlevoix area, Quebec: relation to impact cratering and the St-Laurent fault system

    Yvon Lemieux;Alain Tremblay;Denis Lavoie

Frequent Co-Authors

Guoxiang Chi
Guoxiang Chi University of Regina
Pierre Ladevèze
Pierre Ladevèze École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Karem Azmy
Karem Azmy Memorial University of Newfoundland
Zhuoheng Chen
Zhuoheng Chen Geological Survey of Canada
Martine M. Savard
Martine M. Savard Geological Survey of Canada
Hamed Sanei
Hamed Sanei Aarhus University
Martin G. Fowler
Martin G. Fowler Applied Petroleum Technology (Norway)
William A. Thomas
William A. Thomas University of Kentucky
Simon E. Jackson
Simon E. Jackson Geological Survey of Canada
Richard Martel
Richard Martel University of Montreal

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