Nabil Shawwa

Assistant Professor, Harquail School of Earth Sciences

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Contact

705.675.1151 ext. 5654
Willet Green Miller Centre, B8023
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Education

PhD - Carleton University

MSc - University of Geneva

BSc Hons - Acadia University

Research

Areas Of Expertises
  • Sedimentology
  • Stratigraphy
  • Sedimentary Petrography
  • Clay Mineralogy
  • Basin Analysis

 

Research Interests
  • Stratigraphic analysis of sedimentary basins
  • Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimate reconstructions and evolution of Proterozoic and Phanerozoic sedimentary sucessions
  • The Great Oxidation Event

 

Current Research Projects
  • The depositional and atmospheric record of the early Paleoproterozoic Huronian Supergroup (Ontario and Quebec)
  • The paleoclimate evolution of the late Paleozoic Cantabrian Zone (Spain)
  • Mineralogy and geochemistry of Devonian potash deposits of the Elk Point Basin (southern Saskatchewan)

Publications

Adams, G.R., Shawwa, N.A., Mann, A., Hebert, B., and Maddin, H.C. In press. A review of the depositional environment and tetrapod fauna of the Upper Carboniferous ‘Hebert beds’ of the Joggins Formation (Nova Scotia) with a description of a new, large embolomere from the locality. In The Geological Setting of Romer's Gap, Geological Society, London, Special Publications.


Vimpere, L., Kindler, P., Shawwa, N.A., Peytrotty, G., and Castelltort, S. 2025. Quaternary geology of Long Island (Bahamas): an alternative perception of Bahamian island formation and relative sea-level changes in this area during the Last Interglacial. Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 369, 109640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109640


Shawwa, N.A., McLoughlin-Coleman, T.R., Babechuk, M.G., Shahabi-Far, M., Mungall J.E., and Rainbird, R.H. 2024. Earth’s oldest terrestrial red beds as direct evidence for the Great Oxidation Event ca. 2.3 Ga. Precambrian Research, vol. 409, 107423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2024.107423


Shawwa, N.A., McLoughlin-Coleman, T.R., Babechuk, M.G., and Rainbird, R.H. 2023. Paleoproterozoic (Huronian) valley-controlled deglacial-fluvial sedimentation, northern Cobalt Basin, Ontario, Canada. Sedimentary Geology, vol. 455, 106421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2023.106421


Vimpere, L., Del Piero, N., Shawwa, N.A., Beguelin, K., Kindler, P., and Castelltort, S. 2021. Upper Pleistocene parabolic ridges (i.e. ‘chevrons’) from the Bahamas: Storm-wave sediments or aeolian deposits? A quantitative approach. Sedimentology, vol. 68, p. 1255–1288. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12828


Shawwa, N.A., Raeside, R.P., McMullin, D.W.A., and McFarlane, C.R.M. 2017. Employing contact metamorphism to assess the conditions of pluton emplacement and timing of recrystallization in southwestern Kellys Mountain, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 54, p. 1165–1178. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2017-0052

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