Brette Harris

Research

Brette is a PhD student working with Dr. Murray Gingras on ichnology and sedimentology.

Abstracts, Posters and Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • LaGrange, M. T., Li, K., Li, L., Kabanov, P., Konhauser, K. O., Harris, B. S., Biddle, S. K., Terlaky, V., & Gingras, M. K. 2023. An example of the Middle to Late Devonian marine nitrogen cycle from mudstones of the Horn River Group, Northwest Territories, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 111512.
  • LaGrange, M. T., Atienza, N. M. M., Biddle, S. K., Harris, B. S., Fiess, K. M., Terlaky, V., Konhauser, K. M., & Gingras, M. K. 2022. The nature, origin, and predictors of porosity in the middle to Late Devonian Horn River Group of the Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 105738.
  • Harris, B.S., LaGrange, M.T., Biddle, S. K., Playter, T., Fiess, K. M., & Gingras, M. K. 2022. Chemostratigraphy as a tool for sequence stratigraphy in the Devonian Hare Indian Formation in the Mackenzie Mountains and Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 59(1), 29-45.
  • Biddle, S. K., LaGrange, M. T., Harris, B. S., Fiess K. M., Terlaky, V., & Gingras, M. K. 2021. A fine detail physico-chemical depositional model for Devonian organic-rich mudstones: A petrographic study of the Hare Indian and Canol Formations, Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories. Sedimentary Geology, 414, 105838. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105838LaGrange, M. T., Konhauser, K. O., Catuneanu, O., Harris, B. S., Playter, T. L., & Gingras, M. K. 2020. Sequence stratigraphy in organic-rich marine mudstone successions using chemostratigraphic datasets. Earth-Science Reviews, 203, 103137. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103137
  • Harris, B. S., Timmer, E. R., Ranger, M. J., & Gingras, M. K.  2016. Continental ichnology of the Lower McMurray Formation inclined heterolithic strata at Daphne Island, Athabasca River, north-eastern Alberta, Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v. 64 (2), p. 218-232.

Other Publications

  • LaGrange, M., Harris, B., Biddle, S., Atienza, N.M., Fiess, K., & Gingras, M., 2020. Preliminary data for an integrated depositional and sequence stratigraphic framework for the Hare Indian and Canol formations (Horn River Group), Central Mackenzie Valley and Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories — Part II; Northwest Territories Geological Survey, NWT Open Report 2019‐002, 27 pages and appendices.
  • LaGrange, M., Harris, B., Ansell, M., Gingras, M., Fiess, K., and Long, L. 2017. Preliminary data for an integrated depositional and sequence stratigraphic framework for the Hare Indian and Canol formations (Horn River Group), Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories; Northwest Territories Geological Survey, NWT Open Report 2017-017, 24 pages.

Presentations

  • LaGrange, M. T., Li, K., Li, L., Konhauser, K. O., Harris, B. S., Biddle, S. K., Terlaky, V., Gingras, M. K. Biological productivity and primary producers recorded in the depositional record of Middle to Late Devonian mudstones from the Horn River Group, Northwest Territories, Canada. Abstract and presentation for 2022 Goldschmidt Conference, July 2022.
  • Harris, B. S., LaGrange, M. T., Biddle, S. K., Fiess, K. and Gingras, M. K. Comparing the lithofacies, chemofacies and microfacies analyses of the Hare Indian Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada. Abstract and ePoster for GSA 2020 Connects Online, October 2020.
  • Harris, B.S., LaGrange Rao, M. T., Terlaky, V., Fiess, K.M., and Gingras, M.K. A Sequence Stratigraphic Framework Based on High-Resolution Chemostratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Hare Indian Formation, Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories. Abstract and presentation for the Yellowknife Geosciences Forum, November 2018.
  • LaGrange, M.T. Harris, B.S., Biddle, S., Fiess, K.M, Terlaky, V., Gingras, M.K. Establishing a sequence stratigraphic framework for the Hare Indian and Canol formations (Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada) by integrating high-resolution chemostratigraphy with sedimentological and ichnological datasets. Abstract and poster for AAPG ACE Annual Convention and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, May 2018
  • Harris, B.S., LaGrange, M.T. Fiess, K.M., Terlaky, V., Gingras, M.K. Forming a sequence stratigraphic framework for the Hare Indian Formation using high-resolution chemostratigraphy and sedimentology, Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories. Abstract and poster for the Yellowknife Geosciences Forum, November 2017.
  • Harris, B.S., LaGrange, M., Ansell, M., Gingras, M.K. Depositional paleoredox conditions of the organic rich mudstone intervals in the Horn River Group, Mackenzie Mountains and Central Mackenzie Valley, NWT, Canada. In: Geobiology Society Conference. June 11 – 14, 2017. Banff, Alberta, Canada. Poster
  • LaGrange, M., Harris, B.S., Herbers, D., Ansell, M., Fiess K., Terlaky V., Gingras, M.K. Framing mudrocks of the Hare Indian and Canol formations (Horn River Group, Central Mackenzie Valley) in a sequence stratigraphic context using high-resolution chemostratigraphy. In: CSPG Core Conference. May 18-19, 2017. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.