My students and I are part of the Petrology and Tectonics Research Group at SFU. The P-T Group undertakes research in areas ranging from structural geology and crustal seismology to metamorphic petrology and geochemistry. We commonly co-supervise graduate students and provide them with intensive and integrated training in petrology and tectonics. Field work forms the basis for many of our students' programs.

My Research Program: I have a field-based research program focused on the tectonic evolution of collisional orogens, with emphasis on the Canadian Cordilllera and Canadian Shield. Typically, projects include structural, metamorphic, and U-Th-Pb geochronologic analyses of rocks exhumed from mid- to lower crustal levels that provide insight into deep-seated orogenic processes.

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Supervised Graduate Students:

Sarah Brown PhD Graduated 2010		Geology and geochronology of the southern Okanagan Valley shear zone, southern Canadian Cordillera, British Columbia
Elizabeth Westberg MSc Graduated 2010		The tectonometamorphic and structural evolution of the Yukon Tanana and Cassiar terranes in the Mendocina Creek area: Implications for the tectonic framework of south-central Yukon
Prince Ofori Amponsah MSc Graduated 2011		Multiscale structural analysis of the Sunyani Basin, Ghana
Ivanka Mitrovic MSc Graduated 2013		Evolution of the Coast Cascade Orogen by Tectonic Thickening and Magmatic Loading: The Cretaceous Breakenridge Complex, Southwestern British Columbia
Reid Staples PhD Graduated 2014		Diachronous Deformation, Metamorphism and Exhumation in the Northern Canadian Cordillera: Revealed from Pressure-Temperature-Time-Deformation Paths of Former Mid-Crustal Rocks
Luke Bickerton MSc Graduated 2014		The northern Cache Creek terrane: a record of Middle Triassic arc activity and Jurassic-Cretaceous terrane imbrication
Vincent Twomey MSc Graduated 2014		Three dimensional strain distribution and deformation temperature interpreted from quartz microstructures and petrofabrics in the Okanagan Valley shear zone, southern Canadian Cordillera
Lucia Theny MSc Graduated 2016		Age, formation and tectonism of the Neoproterozoic Ruddock Creek zinc-lead deposit and host Windermere Supergroup, northern Monashee Mountains, southern Canadian Cordillera
Andy Clark MSc Graduated 2017		Tectonometamorphic history of mid-crustal rocks at Aishihik Lake, southwest Yukon
Lianna Vice MSc Graduated 2017		Late Cretaceous to Paleocene evolution of the Blanchard River assemblage, southwest Yukon; implications for Mesozoic accretionary processes in the northwestern Cordillera
Eric Thiessen PhD Graduated 2019		Paleoproterozoic Tectonometamorphic Evolution of the Southeastern Rae Craton Margin
Will McKenzie PhD Current		Unravelling the tectonic evolution of the enigmatic Jura-Cretaceous basins ofthe Northern Cordillera
Sarah Bowie MSc Current		Thermo-tectonic evolution of the Shuswap complex, southeastern Brisith Columbia
Becca Canam MSc Current		Structural evolution of the western margin of the Rae craton

Field Areas for Current Research:

Harrison Lake, southwestern British Columbia
-tectonic evolution of the southern Coast belt-

Southern Okanagan, British Columbia
-tectonothermal evolution of the Shuswap metamorphic complex-
-Eocene crustal-scale extension accommodated by the Okanagan Valley shear zone-

Northern Selkirk & Monashee Mts, British Columbia
-tectonometamorphic evolution of Selkirk allochthon and the Shuswap and Monashee complexes-

Yukon Territory
-tectonometamorphic evolution of the northern Cordillera-

Southern Rae craton, NWT
-Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic tectonometamorphic evolution of the southern Rae craton-

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Author: Dan Gibson (hdgibson@sfu.ca).
Updated: 04/29/2020