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Lyal B. Harris is affiliated with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Canada. Their scholarly work is primarily centered within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Geophysics. Additional areas of study include Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology, and Geology, demonstrating a multidisciplinary approach.

Their research contributions cover various topics, including earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, geochemistry and geologic mapping, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, and geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Harris have included Laurent Godin, Haakon Fossen, Carolina Cavalcante, Carlos José Archanjo, and Carlos Fernando Ávila.

Harris has published multiple papers across notable venues, with multiple contributions to the Journal of Structural Geology and Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, as well as works appearing in Geological Society London Special Publications, National Science Review, and Inquiry Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings. Key recent publications are:

  • The Patos-Pernambuco shear system of NE Brazil: Partitioned intracontinental transcurrent deformation revealed by enhanced aeromagnetic data, 2022, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Influence of décollement-cover thickness variations in fold-and-thrust belts: Insights from centrifuge analog modeling, 2022, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Late Devonian syntaxis in the Northern Appalachian orogen, 2023, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Mantle plume trail beneath the ca. 1.1 Ga North American Midcontinent Rift revealed by magnetotelluric data, 2024, National Science Review
  • THE ROLE OF TRANSVERSE BASEMENT STRUCTURES AND OBLIQUE TERRANE BOUNDARIES ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF LARGE-HOT LONG OROGENS - EXAMPLES FROM THE HIMALAYA-TIBET AND GRENVILLE OROGENS, 2020, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • The hunting of the snArc

    Jean H. Bédard;Lyal B. Harris;Phillips C. Thurston

  • Fault-valve behaviour in optimally oriented shear zones: an example at the Revenge gold mine, Kambalda, Western Australia

    Phung T Nguyen;Lyal B Harris;Chris McA Powell;Stephen F Cox

  • Tracking basement cross-strike discontinuities in the Indian crust beneath the Himalayan orogen using gravity data – relationship to upper crustal faults

    Laurent Godin;Lyal B. Harris

  • Development of conjugate shear bands during bulk simple shearing

    L.B Harris;P.R Cobbold

  • Neoarchean disaggregation and reassembly of the Superior craton

    Jean H. Bédard;Lyal B. Harris

  • Structural and Tectonic Synthesis for the Perth Basin, Western Australia

    L. B. Harris

  • Mechanisms for folding of high-grade rocks in extensional tectonic settings

    Lyal B. Harris;Hemin A. Koyi;Haakon Fossen

  • Structural control of greenstone-hosted gold mineralization by transcurrent shearing: A new interpretation of the Kalgoorlie mining district, Western Australia

    Andreas Mueller;Lyal Harris;Adrian Lungan

  • Transfer zones and fault reactivation in inverted rift basins: Insights from physical modelling

    Elena A. Konstantinovskaya;Lyal B. Harris;Jimmy Poulin;Gennady M. Ivanov

  • U-Pb chronology of the Northampton Complex, Western Australia - evidence for Grenvillian sedimentation, metamorphism and deformation and geodynamic implications

    O. Bruguier;D. Bosch;R. T. Pidgeon;D. I. Byrne

  • Reworking of Archaean and Early Proterozoic components during a progressive, Middle Proterozoic tectonothermal event in the Albany Mobile Belt, Western Australia

    Lance P. Black;Lyal B. Harris;Claude P. Delor

  • Delineation of lithostructural domains in northern Orissa (India) from Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery

    C.R. Nash;L.R. Rankin;P.M. Leeming;L.B. Harris

  • The geology of the Rengali Province: implications for the tectonic development of northern Orissa, India

    Warwick A Crowe;Colin R Nash;Lyal B Harris;Prue M Leeming

  • Crustal Evolution and Deformation in a Non-Plate-Tectonic Archaean Earth: Comparisons with Venus

    Lyal B Harris;Jean H Bédard

  • SHRIMP baddeleyite age for the Fraser Dyke Swarm, southeast Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

    M. T. D. Wingate;M. T. D. Wingate;I. H. Campbell;L. B. Harris

  • The effect of cover composition on extensional faulting above re-activated basement faults: results from analogue modelling

    R.I. Higgins;L.B. Harris

  • Tholeiitic to calc-alkaline cyclic volcanism in the Roy Group, Chibougamau area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt — revised stratigraphy and implications for VHMS explorationGeological Survey of Canada Contribution 20100254. Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune Contribution 8439-2010-2011-17.

    François LeclercF. Leclerc;Jean H. BédardJ.H. Bédard;Lyal B. HarrisL.B. Harris;Vicki J. McNicollV.J. McNicoll

  • Intra-sill magmatic evolution in the Cummings Complex, Abitibi greenstone belt: Tholeiitic to calc-alkaline magmatism recorded in an Archaean subvolcanic conduit system

    Jean H. Bédard;François Leclerc;Lyal B. Harris;Normand Goulet

  • Gondwanaland significance of Lower Palaeozoic deformation in central India and SW Western Australia

    L. B. Harris;J. Beeson

  • Late Mesoproterozoic (ca 1.2 Ga) palaeomagnetism of the Albany–Fraser orogen: no pre-Rodinia Australia–Laurentia connection

    S.A. Pisarevsky;Michael Wingate;L.B. Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean H. Bédard
Jean H. Bédard Geological Survey of Canada
Laurent Godin
Laurent Godin Queen's University
Michael T.D. Wingate
Michael T.D. Wingate University of Western Australia
Hemin Koyi
Hemin Koyi Uppsala University
Sergei Pisarevsky
Sergei Pisarevsky Curtin University
Stephen F. Cox
Stephen F. Cox Australian National University
Ian H. Campbell
Ian H. Campbell Australian National University
Haakon Fossen
Haakon Fossen University of Bergen
Delphine Bosch
Delphine Bosch University of Montpellier

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