John Menzies

Professor, Earth Sciences

Office: Mackenzie Chown D421
905 688 5550 x3865
jmenzies@brocku.ca

Books

Menzies, J., Meer, J.J.M., (Editors) 2018. Past Glacial Environments (Second Edition). Elsevier, p.859.
Menzies, J. (ed.) 2002. Modern & Past Glacial Environments . Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, U.K. 543 p.
Menzies, J. (ed.), 1996. Past Glacial Environments: Sediments, Forms and Techniques . Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, UK, 598 p.
Menzies, J. (ed.), 1995. Modern Glacial Environments: Processes, Dynamics and Sediments . Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, UK, 621 p.
Menzies, J. and Rose, J. (Eds.), 1987. Drumlin Symposium: Proceedings of the Drumlin Symposium, First International Conference on Geomorphology, Manchester, 1985. Balkema, Rotterdam & Boston, 360 p.

Refereed articles, Reports, Reviews, Conferences, Posters and Book Chapters (since 1995)

Song, F., He, Y., Niu, Z., Menzies, J., Yang, W., An, Z., Wang, Z., 2024. Ediacaran diamictite deposition in South China: Detrital zircon u-pb age evidence and macro sedimentary texture of the Aiqiling formation in southeastern Hunan Province. Precambrian Research 413, 107580.
Monegato, G., Fioraso, G., Sciascia, F., Borgatti, L., Menzies, J., Benedetti, G., Rodani, S., 2024. Stratigraphic evidence of glacier interactions in the Isarco-Pusteria valley junction (Italian Alps): unraveling the Late Pleistocene landscape evolution. ITALIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES 143.
Reitner, J. M. and Menzies, J. 2024. Subglacial deformation and till formation in a stratigraphic complex Late Pleistocene sequence (Einödgraben/Aurach, Kitzbühel Alps, Austria),. E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 74, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-73-101-2024
Reitner, J. M. and Menzies, J.: Till formation and subglacial deformation in a stratigraphic complex Late Pleistocene sequence (Einödgraben / Aurach, Kitzbühel Alps, Austria), EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-4566,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-4566, 2024.
Menzies, J., Paulen, R.C., Reitner, J.M., Gao, C., Hodder, T., Ross, M., 2023. Subglacial tills: a process model based on microsedimentological clues. Journal of Sedimentary Research 93, 705-728. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2022.017
Menzies, J., Paulen, R.C., Rice, J.M., 2023. A time-transgressive model for microstructures in subglacial tills – Examples from beneath the Late Wisconsinan (MI 2) Laurentide Ice Sheet. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.05.005
L. Zoet, D. D. Hansen, N. Morgan-Witts, J. Menzies, P. Sobol and N. Lord , 2023. An experimental baseline for ice-till strain indicators. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2022-0074
Menzies J., (2023) A micromorphological perspective on the Neoproterozoic Smalfjord and Mortensnes Formation diamictites—Varangerfjord, Norway: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2022-0019.
Menzies, J., 2023. Glacial microsedimentology—a new lens to investigate glacial sediments—a review. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60(4): 366-387.https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2022-0048
Menzies, J., (2022) Differentiation of diamictons (glacigenic – non-glacigenic) using microstructure abundancies and types. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 133(6): 603-615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2022.07.006
Menzies, J., and Ross, M. 2020. Glacial Processes and Landforms—Transport and Deposition. In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier. 21pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00027-4
Reitner, J. M., & Menzies, J., 2020. Microsedimentology of tills near Ainet, Austria – were palaeo-ice streams in the European Alps underlain by soft deforming bed zones? Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 113(1), 71-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17738/ajes.2020.0005
Rice, J., Menzies, J., Paulen, R.C., and McClenaghan, M.B. 2018. Microsedimentological evidence of vertical fluctuations in subglacial stress from the northwest sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 56: 363-379. doi: 10.1139/cjes-2018-0201.

Menzies, J., and Reitner, J.M. 2019. Microstructures, subglacial till deposition, and shear band development revealing up-section changes in shear-A study from Weissbach, Austria. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 130(2): 196-209. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.11.001.
Menzies, J., 2018. Glacial Geomorphology, Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier, p. 16 pp.
Menzies, J., Meer, J.J.M., 2018. Micromorphology and Microsedimentology of Glacial Sediments Chapter 21, in: Menzies, J., Meer van der, J.J.M. (Ed.), Past Glacial Environments (Second Edition). Elsevier, pp. 753-806.
Menzies, J., van der Meer, J.J.M., 2018. glacial Environments: Themes and Issues, Chapter 22, in: Menzies, J., Meer van der, J.M.M. (Eds.), Past Glacial Environments (Second Edition). Elsevier, pp. 809-815.
Menzies, J., Meer van der, J.J.M., Shilts, W.W., 2018. Subglacial Processes and Sediments, Chapter 5 in : Menzies, J., Meer van der, J.J.M. (Eds.), Past Glacial Environments (Second Edition). Elsevier, PP. 105-158.
Buechi, M.W., Frank, S.M., Graf, H.R., Menzies, J., Anselmetti, F.S., 2017. Subglacial emplacement of tills and meltwater deposits at the base of overdeepened bedrock troughs. Sedimentology 64, 658–685.
Menzies, J., van der Meer, J.J.M. & Ravier, E., 2016. A kinematic unifying theory of microstructures in subglacial tills. Sedimentary Geology. 344, 57-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.03.024.
Menzies, J. & Reitner, J. M. 2016: Microsedimentology ice stream tills from the Eastern Alps, Austria – a new perspective on till microstructures. Boreas, 45, 804-827: doi. 10.1111/bor.12189.
Buechi, M. W., Menzies, J., & Anselmetti, F.S. 2016. Stratified basal diamicts and their implications for subglacial conditions in deeply incised bedrock troughs. EGU General Assembly 2016, 17-22 April, 2016 Vienna Austria, p.7030.
Riley, S.C., Binder, T.R., Tucker, T.R., Menzies, J., Eyles, N., Janssen, J., Muir, A.M., Esselman, P.C., Wattrus, N.J., Krueger, C.C., 2016. Islands in the ice stream: were spawning habitats for native salmonids in the Great Lakes created by paleo-ice streams? Fish and Fisheries, doi: 10.1111/faf.12173.
Menzies, J., Hess, D., Rice, J.M., Wagner, K.G., Ravier, E. 2016. A case study in the New York Drumlin Field, an investigation using microsedimentology, resulting in the refinement of a theory of drumlin formation. Sedimentary Geology, 338, 84-96. doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.01.017.
Hodder, T.J., Ross, M., Menzies, J., 2016. Sedimentary record of ice divide migration and ice streams in the Keewatin core region of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Sedimentary Geology. 338, 97-114. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.01.001.
Larson, G. J., Menzies, J., Lawson, D. E., Evenson, E. B. & Hopkins, N. R. 2015: Macro- and micro-sedimentology of a modern melt-out till – Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, USA. Boreas 45, 235-251. doi: 10.1111/bor.12149.
Menzies, J. & Ellwanger, D. 2015 Climate and paleo-environmental change within the Mannheim Formation near Heidelberg, Upper Rhine Valley, Germany: A case study based upon microsedimentological analyses. Quaternary International 386, 137-147.
Ravier, E., Buoncristiani, J.-F., Menzies, J., Guiraud, M., Portier, E. 2015 Clastic injection dynamics during ice front oscillations: A case example from Sólheimajökull (Iceland). Sedimentary Geology, 323, 92-109.
Ravier, E., Buoncristiani, J.-F., Menzies, J., Guiraud, M., Clerc, S., Portier, E., 2015. Does porewater or meltwater control tunnel valley genesis? Case studies from the Hirnantian of Morocco. Conference: 3^rdPlanetary Cryosphere Workshop, Nantes, 26-28^th Jan, 2015.
Ellis, C.J., Keron, J.R., Menzies, J., S.G., M., Stewart, A., 2015. For Immediate Occupancy: Cosy 3000 Year Old Heritage Winter House with River View Near Lake Huron. Apply to Terminal Archaic Realty., In: Redmond, B.G.G., R.A. (Ed.), Building the Past: Studies of Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture in the Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Region,. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, FL, pp. 29-62.
Jaeger, D. & Menzies, J., 2015 Micromorphology in unconsolidated landslide sediments – investigating mass movement deposits at a different scale. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-2916.
Ravier, E., Buoncristiani, J.-F., Menzies, J., Guiraud, M., Clerc, S., Portier, E., 2015. Does porewater or meltwater control tunnel valley genesis? Case studies from the Hirnantian of Morocco. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 418, 359-376.
Jäger, D. Menzies, J., Terhorst, B. 2014 Micromorphology in landslide sediments – a different approach for investigating mass movement deposits. International Conference Analysis and Management of Changing Risks for Natural Hazards, 18‐19 November 2014 l Padua, Italy, AP17, 10pp.
Riley, S.C., Binder, T.R., Wattrus, N.J., Faust, M.D., Janssen, J., Menzies, J., Marsden, J.E., Ebener, M.P., Bronte, C.R., He, J.X., Tucker, T.R., Hansen, M.J., Thompson, H.T., Muir, A.M., Krueger, C.C., 2014. Lake trout in northern Lake Huron spawn on submerged drumlins. Journal of Great Lakes Research 40, 415-420.
Ravier, E., Buoncristiani, J.-F., Clerc, S., Guiraud, M., Menzies, J., Portier, E., 2014. Sedimentological and deformational criteria for discriminating subglaciofluvial deposits from subaqueous ice-contact fan deposits: A Pleistocene example (Ireland). Sedimentology 61, 1382-1410. doi: /10.1111/sed.12111.
Ravier, E., Buoncristiani, J.-F., Guiraud, M., Menzies, J., Clerc, S., Goupy, B., Portier, E., 2014. Porewater pressure control on subglacial soft sediment remobilization and tunnel valley formation: a case study from the Alnif Tunnel Valley (Morocco). Sedimentary Geology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2014.02.005.
Rice, J.M., Paulen, R.C., Menzies, J., McClenaghan, M.B., 2014. Micromorphological descriptions of till from pit K-62, Pine Point mining district, Northwest Territories; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7526, 30 p doi:10.4095/293478.
Menzies, J., Gao, C., & Kodors, C., 2013. Microstructural analyses of a Middle Pliocene till from the James Bay Lowlands, Canada—evidence of “potential” fast ice streaming. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 124(5), 790-801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2012.07.002
Menzies, J., 2013. Glacitectonics-Field Guide, E. Phillips, J.R. Lee, H.M. Evans (Eds.). Quaternary Research Association (2012), ISBN: 0907780830. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 124(6): 1022-1023.
Gao, C.; McAndrews, J.H.; Wang, X.; Menzies, J.; Turton, C.L.; Wood, B.D.; Pei, J.; and Kodors, C. 2013. Late Tertiary glacial and none-glacial deposits in the James Bay Lowland, Canada. CANQUA-CGRG 2013. Canadian Quaternary Association and Canadian Geomorphology Research Group Conference. August 2013. University of Alberta, Edmonton. Issue : Program and Abstracts. P. 103.
Rice, J.M.; Paulen, R.C.; Menzies, J.; and McClenaghan, M.B. 2013. Stratigraphic and micromorphologic analysis of the Quaternary sediment cover in the southern Great Slave Lake region, Northwest Territories: Implications for glacial history of the western sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. CANQUA-CGRG 2013. Canadian Quaternary Association and Canadian Geomorphology Research Group Conference. August 2013. University of Alberta, Edmonton. Issue : Program and Abstracts. P. 209.
Rice, J.M., Paulen, R.C., Menzies, J., McClenaghan, M.B and Oviatt, N.M. 2013. Glacial stratigraphy of the Pine Point Pb-Zn mine site, Northwest Territories: Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 2013-5, 14p. doi: 10.4095/292184
Menzies J. & Hess D.P. 2013. Depositional Features. In: John F. Shroder (ed.) Treatise on Geomorphology, Vol. 8, pp. 127-140. San Diego: Academic Press.
Narloch, W., Piotrowski, J. A., Wysota, W., Larsen, N.K., Menzies, J. (2012) The signature of strain magnitude in tills associated with the Vistula Ice Stream of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet, central Poland, Quaternary Science Reviews 57, 105-120. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.09.022.
Menzies, J., 2012. The Micromorphology of the Mannheim Formation Sediments from the Heidelberg Basin Drilling Project – the elucidation of a Quaternary succession. Abstract. Quaternary International 279–280, 323.
Menzies, J. & Ellwanger, D. 2012. Micromorphology of the Mannheim Formation taken from the UniNord Core, Heidelberg Basin Depocentre, Upper Rhine Graben. – LGRB-Informationen, v. 26: 87-106.
Linch, L. D., van der Meer, J. J. M., and Menzies, J., 2012, Micromorphology of iceberg scour in clays: Glacial Lake Agassiz, Manitoba, Canada: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 55, 125-144. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.07.008.
Gao, C., McAndrews, J.H., Wang, X., Menzies, J., Turton, C.L., Wood, B.D., Pei, J., Kodors, C., 2012. Glaciation of North America in the James Bay Lowland, Canada, 3.5 Ma. Geology doi:10.1130/G33092.1.
Menzies, J., 2012 Strain pathways, till internal architecture and microstructures – perspectives on a general kinematic model – a ‘blueprint’ for till development. Quaternary Science Reviews 50:105-124.
Menzies, J., 2012. Jeremy P. Ingham, ,Geomaterials Under the Microscope: A Colour Guide (2011) Manson Publishing 978-1-84076-132-0 £50.00. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 123, 226-227.
Menzies, J. & Ellwanger, D. 2011. Insights into subglacial processes inferred from the micromorphological analyses of complex diamicton stratigraphy near Illmensee-Lichtenegg, Höchsten, Germany. Boreas, 40 (2), 271-288. doi.10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00194.x.ISSN 0300-9483.
Eyles, N., Eyles, C., Menzies, J. & Boyce, J. 2011. End Moraine construction by incremental till deposition below the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Southern Ontario, Canada. Boreas, Vol. 40, pp. 92-104. doi.10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00171.x.
van der Meer, J.J.M. and Menzies, J. (2011) The micromorphology of unconsolidated sediments. Sedimentary Geology, 238 (3-4), 213-232. doi.org/10.10.16/j.sedgeo.2011.04.013
Menzies, J. 2011. Glacial Geomorphology. In Gregory, K.J. & Goudie, A.S. (eds.) Handbook of Geomorphology, Chapter 22, 378-393. SAGE Publications, London.
Mahaney W.C.; Kalm, V.; Menzies, J.; Milner, M.W. 2010. Reconstruction of the Early Mérida, pre-LGM glaciation with comparison to Late Glacial Maximum till, northwestern Venezuelan Andes. Sedimentary Geology, 226, 29-41.
Ellwanger, D. Gabriel, G., Hahne, J., Hoselmann, Ch., Menzies, J., Simon, Th., Weidenfeller, M., & Wielandt-Schuster, U., 2010. The Heidelberg Basin Drilling Project – Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Quaternary succession Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU General Assembly, Vol. 12, EGU2010-6882.
Menzies, J., van der Meer, J.J.M., Domack, E., & Wellner, J.S. 2010. Micromorphology: as a tool in the detection, analyses and interpretation of (glacial) sediments and man-made materials Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 121, 281-292, doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.07.005.
Menzies, J. 2009. Glacial Geomorphology. In : Gornitz, V. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments. Springer, 361–374.
Menzies, J. 2009. Diamicton. In : Gornitz, V. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments. Springer, 278–279.
Menzies, J. & Whiteman, C. 2009. A comparative analyses of microstructures from Late Jurassic diamictic units, near Helmsdale, Northeast Scotland and a Pleistocene diamicton from near Milton, southern Ontario, Canada – a differential diagnostic method of sediment typing using micromorphology. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw, 88(1), 75–94.
Menzies, J. 2007. Glacial geology and landforms, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, vol. 8, 104-115.
Menzies, J. 2007. Glacial history, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, vol. 8, 115-123.
Larsen, N. K., Piotrowski, J. A. and Menzies, J. 2007. Microstructural evidence of low-strain, time-transgressive subglacial deformation. Journal of Quaternary Science 22, 593–608.
Menzies, J., and Brand, U. 2007. The internal sediment architecture of a drumlin, Port Byron, New York State, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 322–335.
Larsen, N.K., Piotrowski, J.A., Christoffersen, P. and Menzies, J., 2006. Formation and deformation of basal till during a glacier surge; Elisebreen, Svalbard. Geomorphology 81, 217–234.
Menzies, J., van der Meer, J.J.M. and Rose, J., 2006. Till-as a glacial “tectomict”, its internal architecture, and the development of a “typing” method for till differentiation. Geomorphology , 75 (1-2): 172–200.
Piotrowski, J.A., Larsen, N.K., Menzies, J. and Wysota, W., 2006. Formation of subglacial till under transient bed conditions: deposition, deformation, and basal decoupling under a Weichselian ice sheet lobe, central Poland. Sedimentology, 53 (1): 83–106.
Menzies, J. 2004. Drumlins – streamlined terrain markers of glaciation, p. 72–75. In : Harrison, S. et al., (eds.), Patterned Ground, Reaktion Books, Routledge publishers U.K., 312 p.
Mahaney, W.C., Dirszowsky, R.W., Milner, M.W., Menzies, J., Stewart, A., Kalm, V. and Bezada, M., 2004. Quartz microtextures and microstructures owing to deformation of glaciolacustrine sediments in the northern Venezuelan Andes. Journal of Quaternary Science, 19(1), 23–33.
Menzies, J., 2003. Drumlins (#1) and Subglacial Geomorphology (#2) – invited contributions to the new Encyclopaedia of Geomorphology – A. Goudie (ed.) Publisher International Association of Geomorphologists with Routledge Press.
Menzies, J., 2003. Tills and Tillites invited contribution to the Encyclopaedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks. In: G. Middleton et al., (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 744–747.
Menzies, J. and Taylor, J.M., 2003. Seismically induced soft-sediment microstructures (seismites) from Meikleour, western Strathmore, Scotland. Boreas, 32, 314–327.
Menzies, J. and Zaniewski, K. , 2003. Microstructures within a modern debris flow deposit derived from Quaternary glacial diamicton – a comparative micromorphological study. Sedimentary Geology, 157, 31–48.
van der Meer, J.J.M., Menzies, J. and Rose, J., 2003. Subglacial till: the deforming glacier bed. Quaternary Science Reviews 22, 1659–1685.
Menzies, J., 2002. Glacial environments – modern and past, p. 1–13. In : Menzies, J. (ed.) 2002. Modern & Past Glacial Environments. Butterworth-Heinemann. Oxford, U.K.
Menzies, J. (with contributions by Hughes, T.J.) 2002. Glaciers and ice sheets, p. 53–78. In : Menzies, J. (ed.) 2002. Modern & Past Glacial Environments . Butterworth-Heinemann. Oxford, U.K.
Menzies, J., 2002. Ice flow and hydrology, p. 79–130. In : Menzies, J. (ed.) 2002. Modern & Past Glacial Environments. Butterworth-Heinemann. Oxford, U.K.
Menzies, J., and Shilts, W.W., 2002. Subglacial environments, p. 183–278. In : Menzies, J. (ed.) 2002. Modern & Past Glacial Environments. Butterworth-Heinemann. Oxford, U.K.
Johnson, W.H., and Menzies, J., 2002. Supraglacial and ice-marginal deposits and landforms, p. 317–333. In: Menzies, J. (ed.) 2002. Modern & Past Glacial Environments. Butterworth-Heinemann. Oxford, U.K.
Rose, J., and Menzies, J., 2002. Glacial stratigraphy, p. 445–473. In : Menzies, J. (ed.) 2002. Modern & Past Glacial Environments. Butterworth-Heinemann. Oxford, U.K.
Menzies, J., 2002. Problems and perspectives, p. 475–481. In : Menzies, J. (ed.) 2002. Modern & Past Glacial Environments. Butterworth-Heinemann. Oxford, U.K.
Menzies, J., 2002. The Pleistocene Legacy: Glaciation. In : Orme, A.R. (ed.) The Physical Geography of North America. Oxford University Press, Chapter 2, 36–54.
Menzies, J., 2001. The Quaternary sedimentology and stratigraphy of small, ice-proximal, subaqueous grounding-line moraines in the central Niagara Peninsula, southern Ontario. Geographie physique et Quaternaire, 55 (1), 75–86.
Menzies, J. , 2000. Micromorphological analyses of microfabrics and microstructures indicative of deformation processes in glacial sediments. In: Maltman, A.J. et al., (eds.) Deformation of Glacial Materials. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 176, 245–257.
Menzies, J. , 2000. Microstructures within diamictites of the Lower Gowganda Formation (Huronian), near Elliot Lake, Ontario. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 35, 210–216.
Hicock, S.R. and Menzies, J., 2000. Aleksis Dreimanis: a legacy in Quaternary Science. Quaternary Science Reviews, 19, 1665–1676.
Menzies, J. and van der Meer, J.J.M., 1998. Sedimentological and micromorphological examination of Late Devensian multiple diamicton sequence near Moneydie, Perthshire, east-central Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 34(1), 15–21.
Menzies, J. , and Taylor, E.M., 1998. Urban Geology of St. Catharines–Niagara Falls, Region Niagara. In : P.F. Karrow and O.L. White (eds.), Urban Geology of Canadian Cities. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 42, 287–321.
Menzies, J., Zaniewski, K., and Dreger, D., 1997. Evidence, from microstructures, of deformable bed conditions within drumlins, Chimney Bluffs, New York State. Sedimentary Geology, 111, 161–176.
Menzies, J., 1996. Past Glacial Environments, p. 1–14. In: Menzies, J. (ed.), Past Glacial Environments: Sediments, Forms and Techniques. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
Menzies, J., and Shilts, W.W., 1996. Subglacial Environments, p. 15–136. In: Menzies, J. (ed.), Past Glacial Environments: Sediments, Forms and Techniques. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
Johnson, W.H., and Menzies, J., 1996. Pleistocene supraglacial and ice-marginal deposits and landforms, p. 137–160. In: Menzies, J. (ed.), Past Glacial Environments: Sediments, Forms and Techniques. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
Rose, J., and Menzies, J., 1996. Glacial stratigraphy, p. 253–284. In: Menzies, J. (ed.), Past Glacial Environments: Sediments, Forms and Techniques . Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
Menzies, J., 1996. Problems and perspectives, p. 479–485. In: Menzies, J. (ed.), Past Glacial Environments: Sediments, Forms and Techniques. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
Menzies, J., 1995. Glacial environments, p. 1–7. In: Menzies, J. (ed.), Modern Glacial Environments: Processes, Dynamics and Sediments. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
Menzies, J., 1995. Glaciers and ice sheets, p. 101–138. In: Menzies, J. (ed.), Modern Glacial Environments: Processes, Dynamics and Sediments. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
Menzies, J., Woodward, J., 1993. Preliminary study of subglacial diamicton microstructures as reflected in drumlin sediments at Chimney Bluffs, New York, In: Aber, J.S. (Ed.), Glaciotectonics and mapping glacial deposits. Proceedings of the INQUA Commission on Formation and Properties of Glacial Deposits, Volume 1. Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, Regina, pp. 36-45.

Glacial Geology, Glacial Sedimentology, Microsedimentology / Micromorphology, Drumlins, Till, Subglacial Environments, Glacial Gemorphology, Sedimentology, Glacial Micromorphology / Microsedimentology, Geomaterials

Career History

2000–present: Professor of Earth Sciences and Geography, Brock University
1997–2000: Chair of Geography, Brock University
1995–2000: Adjunct Professor of Geology, Graduate Program, McMaster University
1990–present: Professor of Geography, Brock University
1984–1990: Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Brock University
1982–1984: Chair, Department of Geography, Brock University
1977–1981: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Brock University
1975–77: Higher Scientific Officer, Dept. of Soil Survey, Macaulay Institute of Soil Research, U.K .

Qualifications

Professional Geoscientist, Ontario (Association of Professional Geologists)
Ph.D. University of Edinburgh
B.Sc. University of Aberdeen

Activities

Internal Activities

Member of BUFA Grievance Committee

External Activities

International Committees and Editorial Boards

1990 – Member of the Editorial Board of Quaternary Science Reviews
1990 – Member of the Editorial Board of Sedimentary Geology
1995 – Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Glacial Geology & Geomorphology (electronic journal)

Workshops (since 2000)

Co-Organised Technical Micromorphology Workshops in U. London (R. Holloway) (2000), Tübingen, Germany (2001), SUNY Oneonta (2001), U. London (QMC, 2005)
Micromorphology Technical Workshop – Inst. Geol. U. Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2001

Recent Invited Lectures

Invited Professor: Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge (June 2005)
Invited Professor: Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (Aug. 2004)
Invited Visiting Professor: University of Siena, Italy (Aug. 2004)
Invited Guest Professor: University of Bern, Swizerland (Sept. 2003, 2005)
Invited Guest Professor: University of Leipzig, Germany (Aug. 2003)
Invited Guest Professor: University of Regensburg, Germany (Aug. 2003)
Invited Lecturer: Dept. of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA (Dec. 2003)