Yvette Kuiper

Education

• Ph.D., Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 2003
• M.Sc., Geology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1997

Full CV

Research Interests

• Evolution of mountain belts with an emphasis on shear zones and fold belts, currently focused on the southeastern New England Appalachians, the Colorado Front Range, and Morocco.
• Structural analysis and geochronology of complexly deformed metamorphosed regions.
• Link between microstructures and growth of accessory minerals with tectonic motions and the evolution of mountain belts and (super)continents.
• Use of geochronologic methods to date deformation and investigate rates of deformation.
• Comparison of field structural data with numerical models that predict the formation and development of structures.
• Structural setting of ore deposits.
• Recent field areas include: Rackla Gold Belt, Yukon, Canada; Foxe Fold Belt, Nunavut, Canada; Monashee Complex, British Columbia, Canada; Hudson Valley fold-thrust belt, NY; Superior Boundary Zone, Manitoba, Canada, and the southern Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Ontario and Quebec.

Teaching

• • GEGN 316: Field Geology (Field Camp)
  • GEOL 440: Plate Tectonics
  • GEOL 505: Advanced Structural Geology
  • GEOL 540: Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology
  • GEOL 598 courses: (recently developed courses with 500-level course number to be assigned):
  • • Virtual Structural Field Mapping (online)
    • Applied Structural Field Mapping (online)
    • Plate Tectonics (online)

Selected Publications

• Kuiper, Y.D., Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., Strachan, R.A., Thompson, M.D., 2022. New developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan orogen – Introduction: In: Kuiper, Y.D., Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., Strachan, R.A., Thompson, M.D. (eds.), New developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan orogen: Geological Society of America Special Paper 544 (3p.) https://doi.org/10.1130/2022.2554(01)
• Severson, A.R., Kuiper, Y.D., Eby, G.N., Lee, H.-Y., Hepburn, J.C., 2022. New detrital zircon U-Pb ages and Lu-Hf isotopic data from metasedimentary rocks along the western boundary of the composite Avalon terrane in the southeastern New England Appalachians. In: Kuiper, Y.D., Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., Strachan, R.A., Thompson, M.D. (eds.), New developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan orogen: Geological Society of America Special Paper 544 (19p.) https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2554(04)
• Kuiper, Y.D., Murray, D.P., Ellison, S., Crowley, J.L., 2022. U-Pb detrital zircon analysis of sedimentary rocks of the southeastern New England Avalon terrane in the US Appalachians: Evidence for a separate crustal block. In: Kuiper, Y.D., Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., Strachan, R.A., Thompson, M.D. (eds.), New developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan orogen: Geological Society of America Special Paper 544 (27p.) https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2554(05)
• Hepburn, J.C., Kuiper, Y.D., McClary, K.J., Loan, M.L., Tubrett, M.N., Buchwaldt, R., 2021. Detrital zircon ages and the origins of the Nashoba terrane and Merrimack belt in southeastern New England, USA. Atlantic Geology 57, 343–396. https://doi.org/10.4138/atlgeol.2021.015
• Luo, Y., Long, M.D., Karabinos, P., Kuiper, Y.D., Rondenay, S., Aragon, J.C., 2021. High-resolution Ps receiver function imaging of the crust and mantle lithosphere beneath Southern New England and tectonic implications. Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth 126 (24p.) https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022170.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Michard, A., Ruellan, E., Holm-Denoma, C.S., Crowley, J.L., 2021. New petrographic and U-Pb geochronology data from the Mazagan Escarpment, offshore Morocco: support for an African origin. Journal of African Earth Sciences 181 (15p.) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2021.104249.
• Frieman, B.M., Kelly, N.M., Kuiper, Y.D., Monecke, T., Kylander-Clark, A., Guitreau, M., 2021. Insight into Archean crustal growth and mantle evolution from multi-isotope U-Pb and Lu-Hf analysis of detrital zircon grains from the Abitibi and Pontiac subprovinces, Canada. Precambrian Research 357 (15p.) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106136.
• Hall, W.S., Stein, H.J., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Hitzman, M.W., Kuiper, Y.D., Knight, C., Enders, M.S., 2021. Diagenetic and Epigenetic Mineralizing Events in the Kalahari Copperbelt, Botswana: Evidence from Re-Os Sulfide Dating and U-Th-Pb Xenotime Geochronology. Economic Geology 116, 863–881.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Hepburn, J.C., 2021. Detrital zircon populations of the eastern Laurentian margin in the Appalachians. Geology 49, 233–237. doi.org/10.1130/G48012.1
• Bea, F., Montero, P., Haissen, F., Molina, J.K., Lodeiro, F.G., Mouttaqi, A., Kuiper, Y.D., Chaib, M., 2020. The architecture of the Oulad Dlim Massif, the main Gondwanan indenter during the late Paleozoic collision with Laurentia. Earth-Science Reviews (46p.) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103273
• Frieman, B.M., Kuiper, Y.D., 2019. Evolution of gold-bearing splays of crustal-scale fault zones of the south-central Archean Abitibi subprovince: Constraints from the Kirana deformation zone Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. Journal of Structural Geology 127 (19p.) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2019.103867.
• Hall, W.S., Hitzman, M.W., Kuiper, Y.D., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Holm-Denoma, C.S., Moscati, R.J., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Enders, M.S., 2018. Igneous and detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotope geochemistry of the late Meso- to Neoproterozoic northwest Botswana rift: Implications for the timing of deposition and provenance of the Ghanzi Basin (Kalahari Copperbelt) in eastern Namibia and northwestern Botswana. Precambrian Research 318, 133–155.
• Nassif, M.T., Kuiper, Y.D., Goldfarb, R., Monecke, T., Holm-Denoma, C., 2018. Structural evolution of and age constraint on a gold-bearing transtensional zone within the Archean Porcupine-Destor deformation zone, southern Abitibi greenstone belt, eastern Ontario, Canada. Journal of Structural Geology 117, 203–218.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Wakabayashi, J., 2018. A comparison between mid-Paleozoic New England, USA, and the modern western USA: subduction of an oceanic ridge-transform fault system. Tectonophysics 75, 278–292.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Thompson, M.D., Barr, S.M., White, C.E., Hepburn, J.C., Crowley, J.L., 2017. Detrital zircon evidence for Paleoproterozoic West African crust along the eastern North American continental margin, Georges Bank, offshore Massachusetts, USA. Geology 45, 811–814.
• Frieman, B.M., Kuiper, Y.D., Monecke, T., Kelly, N.M., 2017. Precambrian geology and new structural data, Kirkland Lake area, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8245, 8 p., with 1:10 000 scale bedrock geological map.
• Kay, A., Hepburn, J.C., Kuiper, Y.D., Baxter, E.F., 2017. Geochemical evidence for a Ganderian arc/back-arc remnant in the Nashoba terrane, SE New England, USA. American Journal of Science 317, 413–448.
• Frieman, B.M., Kuiper, Y.D., Kelly, N.M., Monecke, T., Kylander-Clark, A., 2017. Constraints on the geodynamic evolution of the southern Superior province from U-Pb LA-ICP-MS analysis of detrital zircon in successor basins of the Archean Abitibi and Pontiac subprovinces of Ontario and Quebec, Canada. Precambrian Research 292, 398–416.
• Palmer, J.C., Kuiper, Y.D., 2017. Structural geology of the eastern Nadaleen Trend, Yukon Territory, Canada: implications for recently discovered sedimentary rock-hosted gold. Ore Geology Reviews. Ore Geology Reviews 80, 48–60.
• Kuiper, Y.D., 2016. Development of the Norumbega fault system in mid-Paleozoic New England, USA: an integrated subducted oceanic ridge model. Geology 44, 455–458.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Williams, P.F., Hamilton, M.A., 2015. Effects of Paleogene faults on the reconstruction of the metamorphic history of the northwestern Thor–Odin dome of the Monashee Complex, southeastern British Columbia. Lithosphere 7, 321–335.
• Capistrant, P.L., Hitzman, M.W., Wood, D., Kelly, N.M., Williams, G., Zimba, M., Kuiper, Y.D., Jack, D., Stein, H., 2015. Geology of the Enterprise Hydrothermal Nickel Deposit, North-Western Province, Zambia. Economic Geology 110, 9–38.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Shields, C.D., Tubrett, M.N., Bennett, V. Buchwaldt, R., 2014. Age and provenance of a Paleoproterozoic to Devonian Canadian Cordilleran passive margin sequence, Thor–Odin dome, southeastern British Columbia. Geological Society of America Bulletin 126, 1259–1274.
• Zanoni, D., Kuiper, Y.D., Williams, P.F., 2014. Pre- to post-Cordilleran transposition history at Joss Mountain: insights into the exhumation of the Shuswap complex, southeastern Canadian Cordillera. Lithosphere 6, 419–442.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Buchanan, J.W., Charnock, R.C., Hepburn, J.C., Kopera, J.P., 2014. Structural history of the Nashoba terrane – Merrimack belt boundary zone, eastern Massachusetts. Guidebook for Field Trips, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference Field Trip C4.
• Hepburn, J.C., Kuiper, Y.D., Buchanan, J.W., Kay, A., Dabrowski, D.R., 2014. Evolution of the Nashoba terrane, an early Paleozoic Ganderian arc remnant in eastern Massachusetts. Guidebook for Field Trips, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, Field Trip B3.
• McPherren, E.D., Kuiper, Y.D., 2013. The effects of dissolution-precipitation creep on quartz fabrics within the Purgatory Conglomerate, Rhode Island. Journal of Structural Geology 51, 105–117.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Lin, S., Böhm, C.O., 2011. Himalayan-type escape tectonics along the Superior Boundary Zone in Manitoba, Canada. Precambrian Research 187, 248-262.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Lin, S., Jiang, D., 2011. Deformation partitioning in transpressional shear zones with an along-strike stretch component: an example from the Superior Boundary Zone, Manitoba, Canada. Journal of Structural Geology 33, 192-202.
• Short, H.A., Kuiper, Y.D., Johnson, S.E., Jiang, D., 2011. Estimation of vorticity from fibrous calcite veins, central Maine, USA – Corrigendum. Journal of Structural Geology 33, p. 59.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Jiang, D., 2010. Kinematics of deformation constructed from deformed planar and linear elements: the method and its application. Tectonophysics 492, 175-191.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Ebel, J.E., 2010. Fault-related rocks in eastern Massachusetts: how is fault movement accommodated at various crustal levels? Field trip for the 82nd annual meeting of the Eastern Section of the Seismological Society of America, 14 pp.
• Marshak, S., Burmeister, K.C., Sen, P., Yakovlev, P., Kuiper, Y.D., 2009. Structures of the Hudson-Valley Fold-Thrust belt in the Appalachian Foreland in Eastern New York. New York State Geological Association 81st Annual Meeting (25-27 September), New Paltz, NY, 1.1-1.18.
• Kuiper, Y.D., 2009. Sheath fold in mylonite of the Assean Lake shear zone, northern Manitoba, Canada. Journal of Structural Geology 31, p. 1442.
• Kuiper, Y.D., 2008. The dry-erase cube: making three-dimensional visualization easy. Journal of Geoscience Education 56, 261-268.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Jiang, D., Lin, S., 2007. Relationship between non-cylindrical fold geometry and the shear direction in monoclinic and triclinic shear zones. Journal of Structural Geology 29, 1022-1033.
• Kuiper, Y.D., Williams, P.F., Kruse, S., 2006. Possibility of channel flow in the southern Canadian Cordillera; a new approach to explain existing data. In: R.D. Law, M. Searle and L. Godin (eds). Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation of Lower-mid Crust in Continental Collision Zones. Journal of the Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 268, 587-609.
• Kuiper, Y.D., 2005. Isotopic age constraints from electron microprobe U-Th-Pb dates, using a three-dimensional concordia diagram. American Mineralogist, 90, 586-591.
• Kuiper, Y.D., 2002. The interpretation of inverse isochron diagrams in 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 203, 499-506.