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EDITORIAL: Diatoms, diatomite, and diatomaceous earth.
Borden C.A., Diatoms on Gabriola, pp.5–10
Gehlbach J., Unearthing the past -- the diatomaceous earth mine on Gabriola, pp.11–30 short version Doe N.A., The geology of Gabriola's diatomaceous earth, pp.31–36
Humphrey B., Clam curio -- the piddock, with William Flewett, pp.37–39
Hebda A. & Jones G., A boring time at Brickyard Beach, pp.40–42.
NOTES: Minimizing greenhouse gas -- bridge v. ferry. p.42–43 Greenhouse gas emissions from Gabriola. Early estimates were too high, p.43 Ticks. Not the dogs' best friend, p.44 Gabriola's demographics in 1901. And 2006, pp.45–46 Fish and babbling brooks. Trout fishing on Gabriola? pp.46–47 Mussel invasion at False Narrows. The clam beds become mussel beds, temporarily, pp.47–48 Varnish clams. Newcomers to the island, pp.48–49 Ferry memories. From the good old days, pp.49 Land pre-emption on Gabriola and More pre-emption notes. pp.49–54 One-way tides. Where there's no need to paddle, pp.54–56 Crop circles and petroglyphs. But no aliens please, pp.57–59 A heteromorph ammonite. A strange one, p.60.
Gehlbach J., Withey's shipyard in Silva Bay, pp.3–24 short version
White E.J., The South Gabriola Community Hall, pp.25–29
Doe, N.A., Charting Gabriola -- the survey of HMS Egeria, 1904, pp.38–48.
NOTES: The smoking economy. Tobacco was once grown here, p.30 Tatshenshini-Alsek petroglyph. Similarities with one on Gabriola, p.30 Travel broadens the mind. Thoughts on seeing pre-Cambrian shale, p.31 Boat building at Silva Bay. Joseph Silva, pp.31–32 Holes in sandstone at great heights. A popular theory is that honeycombing in sandstone is caused by wind and waves, despite abundant evidence that it's not. Honeycombing at 210 metres above sea level in the hills behind Nanaimo adds to the evidence, pp.32–33 Windy New Mexico. More honeycombing a long way from the sea, p.33 Gabriola's nose and tail. Speculations on why there are two major strike-slip faults on Gabriola and their connection with the Harewood coalmine on Vancouver Island, pp.34–35 Malcolm Lowry's stars. In October ferry to Gabriola, he describes stars seen at dusk. Turns out they're better seen in Mexico, pp.36–37 More Gabriola ammonite fossils. Including some rare ones, p.37.
NOTES: Monster on the beach. Sandstone eroded in a curious way, p.2 Mendaro en Canada. A Spanish magazine article about Gabriola's name and its origin in the Basque country, p.2 Newcastle Island and the US Mint in San Francisco. Do we really know why sandstone from here was used? p.42.
SHALE20, April 2009 (Gabriola structural geology special issue)abstracts
NOTES: Brickyard notes. Chinese workers and Thomas Morgan, pp.31–32 Trace elements. Uncommon elements found in Gabriola's rocks and groundwater, pp.32–35 Depicting asterisms and the behaviour of mirrors. A better reference is Mirrors, pp.36–37.
SHALE17, September 2007 (Gabriola petroglyphs special issue)abstracts
Kimmins J.P., Ecological theatre on Gabriola—managing our forests, pp.3–21
Doe N.A., New radiocarbon dates for False Narrows, pp.29–42
Doe N.A., Polygonalling (a note for alligatoring fans), pp.43–47.
NOTES: Gabriola's coal-mining connections. pp.23–24 Gabriola after the lights went on. Electricity arrived in 1955, pp.24–25 Gabriola's caveman. A curious news item from 1906, p.26 Home groan. Monster vegetables reported in the local press, pp.26–28.
Poulton L., The Roberts family of Mudge Island, pp.7–11
Doe N.A., Malaspina Galleries—what’s in a name, pp.12–15
Barman J., Lost Nanaimo—taking back our past, pp.16–26
Humphrey B., White E.J., Poulton P., Doe N.A., Frozen harbours, pp.35–39
White E.J., Surf Lodge, pp.40–42.
NOTES: Come and gone yet again. The Robert Dombrain story. Letters brought by an immigrant, pp.29–33 Dendrochronology. It works! An experiment on Gabriola, p.34.
SHALE7, January 2004 (Gabriola geology special issue)abstracts
NOTES: So...is this where the dinosaurs went? An eroded Maastrichtian age sandstone formation looking like a dinosaur. Is there a K/T boundary on Gabriola? It is just possible, but it will be very hard to find, p.25.
Humphrey B., Huston S., Reeve P., Szanto K., Ruitenbeek J., Doe N.A., Gabriola and Manhattan—two islands, pp.3–8
Littlefield L., Beryl Cryer and the stories she collected, pp.9–16
Reeve P., Page’s marina—sixty years ago, pp.17–31
Doe N.A., Two tides a day?, pp.25–31.
NOTES: An ammonite for SHALE. Not a late-Cretaceous museum specimen, but it is from here, pp.22–23 Come and gone again-this time for good? The Robert Dombrain mystery solved? pp.23–24.
Poulton L., Captain B.A. Wake and his family, pp.3–13
Earle S., Ups and downs of Gabriola—sea level changes, pp.14–20
Martin D.D., The Martin family of Gabriola, pp.22–23
Poulton L., An old fence—how Indian reserves came to Gabriola, pp.24–27 Pearson J., Gabriola warming—a changing climate?, pp.30–34.
NOTES: Far from home. Erratic boulders on Gabriola, p.21 Gabriola's greenhouse gases. An early estimate, p.35 The wild gardens of Ruxton Island. The advantages of fewer deer, p.41 Come and gone again. More on the Robert Dombrain mystery, pp.42–43 Aboriginal burials on Gabriola Island. Why some were buried in caves and some in the middens, pp.43–45 Summer tides. Why are they always out here in at mid-day in the summer? Isn't the moon supposed to control the tides? pp.45–47.
Humphrey B., Researching family history, pp.4–6
Doe N.A., A Russian map of Gabriola—1849, pp.7–17
GHMS History committee, The Chapple family, pp.18–19
Doe N.A., Hul’qumi’num—Gabriola’s first language, pp.20–22.
NOTES: Old growth? A late-Cretaceous fossil log, p.25 Old dogs. Dogs kept by the Coast Salish people, pp.25–26.
NOTES: Sand, firewood, and the stars at night. If each star were a grain of sand how big would be the pile? pp.34–35 The net shed at Page's. pp.35–36 Come and gone. Robert Dombrain appears only briefly in the historical records. What happened to him? p.36 A French note. The role of French-Canadians in local history, pp.36–37.
