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Nicholas Eyles

Nicholas Eyles

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Earth Science

D-Index
60
Citations
10943
World Ranking
1942
National Ranking
84

Overview

Nicholas Eyles is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada, contributing extensively to fields intersecting engineering and Earth sciences. Their research engages primarily with areas of ocean and mechanical engineering, alongside atmospheric science, paleontology, and geology.

Their scholarly output includes work categorized under two main fields of study:

  • Engineering
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broad disciplines, Eyles focuses on specialized subfields:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Paleontology
  • Geology

Key research topics covered by their publications include:

  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological formations and processes

Their recent identified publications are:

  • The Laurentian Neoproterozoic Glacial Interval: reappraising the extent and timing of glaciation (2020), published in Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft/Austrian journal of earth sciences
  • The Paleoproterozoic (c. 2.3 Ga) Gowganda Formation: Deep water, glacially-influenced debrites and related mass flow along a passive margin (2024), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Mapping of glacial erratic boulders for mineral exploration: A review with LiDAR-based examples from modern and ancient glaciated terrains (2025), published in Geomorphology
  • ODP Leg 178, Hole 1103A - Well Logging Data (2021), published by OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • ODP Leg 178, Hole 1096C - Well Logging Data (2021), published by Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Eyles frequently collaborates with several scientists, including:

  • Angelo Camerlenghi
  • P. F. Barker
  • Gary D Acton
  • Stefanie Brachfeld
  • Ellen A. Cowan

Their work appears recurrently in a select set of publication venues, which include:

  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft/Austrian journal of earth sciences
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Geomorphology

Best Publications

  • Lithofacies types and vertical profile models; an alternative approach to the description and environmental interpretation of glacial diamict and diamictite sequences

    Nicholas Eyles;Carolyn H. Eyles;Andrew D. Miall

  • Earth's glacial record and its tectonic setting

    N. Eyles

  • 'Zipper-rift': a tectonic model for Neoproterozoic glaciations during the breakup of Rodinia after 750 Ma

    Nicholas Eyles;Nicole Januszczak

  • Models of glaciomarine sedimentation and their application to the interpretation of ancient glacial sequences

    C.H. Eyles;N. Eyles;A.D. Miall

  • The Late Devensian (<22,000 BP) Irish Sea Basin: The sedimentary record of a collapsed ice sheet margin

    Nicholas Eyles;A. Marshall McCabe

  • Initiation and development of the Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice Sheets following the last interglaciation

    P.U. Clark;J.J. Clague;B. Brandon Curry;A. Dreimanis

  • Facies of supraglacial sedimentation on Icelandic and Alpine temperate glaciers

    Nicholas Eyles

  • Glacio-epochs and the supercontinent cycle after ∼ 3.0 Ga: Tectonic boundary conditions for glaciation

    Nick Eyles

  • Drumlins carved by deforming till streams below the Laurentide ice sheet

    Joseph I. Boyce;Nicholas Eyles

  • Architectural element analysis applied to glacial deposits: Internal geometry of a late Pleistocene till sheet, Ontario, Canada

    Joseph I. Boyce;Nicholas Eyles

  • Sedimentation in a large lake: A reinterpretation of the late Pleistocene stratigraphy at Scarborough Bluffs, Ontario, Canada

    Carolyn H. Eyles;Nicholas Eyles

  • Timing of late Cenozoic tidewater glaciation in the far North Pacific

    Martin B. Lagoe;Carolyn H. Eyles;Nicholas Eyles;Christopher Hale

  • Hummocky moraine: sedimentary record of stagnant Laurentide Ice Sheet lobes resting on soft beds

    N Eyles;J.I Boyce;R.W Barendregt

  • Glaciation and tectonics in an active intracratonic basin: the Late Palaeozoic Itararé Group, Paraná Basin, Brazil

    C. H. Eyles;N. Eyles;A. B. Franca

  • Hydrogeological impacts of road salt from Canada's busiest highway on a Lake Ontario watershed (Frenchman's Bay) and lagoon, City of Pickering.

    Mandana Meriano;Nick Eyles;Ken W.F. Howard

  • A depositional model for stratigraphic complexes and facies superimposition in lodgement tills

    Nicholas Eyles;James A. Sladen;Stephen Gilro

  • GLACIAL GEOLOGY. AN INTRODUCTION FOR ENGINEERS AND EARTH SCIENTISTS

    N Eyles

  • Constraints on the preservation of diamict facies (melt-out tills) at the margins of stagnant glaciers

    M.A. Paul;N. Eyles

  • Coarse-grained sediment gravity flow facies in a large supraglacial lake

    Nicholas Eyles;Bryan M. Clark;John J. Clague

  • Glacial facies models

    Nicholas Eyles;Carolyn Eyles;Andrew D. Miall

Frequent Co-Authors

Carolyn H. Eyles
Carolyn H. Eyles McMaster University
Henry T. Mullins
Henry T. Mullins Syracuse University
Ken W. F. Howard
Ken W. F. Howard University of Toronto
Andrew D. Miall
Andrew D. Miall University of Toronto
John J. Clague
John J. Clague Simon Fraser University
Andrés Maldonado
Andrés Maldonado University of Granada
Tom Bradwell
Tom Bradwell University of Stirling
Carol J. Pudsey
Carol J. Pudsey British Antarctic Survey
Myrna J. Simpson
Myrna J. Simpson University of Toronto
Patricia Chow-Fraser
Patricia Chow-Fraser McMaster University

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