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Recent research highlights
My original field of expertise is metamorphic petrology and I have developed a special interest on the evolution of crust in large hot orogens.
Recent/current research focuses on: 
  • high-T metamorphic processes and anatexis in the middle to lower crust in large hot orogens (and in other high-T environments)
  • earlier features that may have influenced the development of an orogen 
  • reassessment of the Grenville orogen
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Research on the hinterland of the central Grenville Province /Why ? ​
  • The Mesoproterozoic (~1.0 Ga) Grenville Province in the Eastern Canadian Shield, commonly compared  to the modern Himalaya-Tibet system, was developed on the long-lived Andean -style margin of Laurentia and is part of a global-scale network of hot to ultra-hot orogens of similar age.  
  • it provides a record of (a) crustal formation processes in active margins; (b) crustal evolution in a continental collision setting; and (c) orogenic processes in middle to lower crust, which is not accessible in modern analogues.                                                                                   
Reassessment of the Grenville Province - see Indares 2024, CJES
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Recent and current work on the Laurentian margin
-   crustal evolution between 1.6 and  1.1 Ga in the central Grenville  (e.g. Dunning & Indares 2010; Groulier et al. 2018, 2020 ).
-  protolith identification and tectonic setting of ~1.2 Ga volcaniclastic sequences, metamorphosed under granulite facies conditions during the Grenvillian orogeny (e.g. Indares & Moukhsil 2013; Lasalle et al. 2013; Hindemith et al. 2017). 
-- U-Pb  geochronology in collaboration with Dunning, MUN
-- Groulier et al. (2018a,b): in collaboration with MRN, Quebec.
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*** evolution of the SE laurentian margin from 1.50 ti 1.35 Ga- Daniel et al. (2023), Indares et al. (2023).

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Recent and current work on high-T metamorphism in large hot orogens- thematic studies & applications to the Grenville

 
Widespread exposure of granulite-facies, deep to relatively shallow levels of the orogenic infrastructure in the central Grenville, makes it an ideal laboratory to investigate high-T metamorphic processes and anatexis at wide range of depths.  

- Metamorphic diversity across the hinterland: P–T paths,  tectonic implications (e.g. Indares et al. 2008; Lasalle & Indares 2014; Patrick & Indares 2017); and 1st order time constrains (Dunning & Indares 2010; Lasalle et al. 2014), using aluminous granulites.
For this research component, were used diverse and novel imaging of microstructures (e.g. Kendrick & Indares 2018a,b) integrated with thermodynamic modelling, and U-Pb geochronology.


- garnet petrochronology on the high-P segment of central Grenville- an example of localized crustal thickening against rigid Archean lithosphere (​Lotout et al. 2023).

- Relations between metamorphism and synorogenic magmatism (Groulier et al. 2018; & Yip in progress; Fonseca-Martinez, in progress).
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Decoding metamorphic microstructures holds the key for assessing the P–T evolution of metamorphic rocks; examples from aluminous granulites
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