Dan Gibson
Associate Professor
& Graduate Program Chair
Structural Geology
Metamorphic Petrology
Geochronology
Tectonics


Department of Earth Sciences
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive

Burnaby, BC
V5A 1S6


Tel.: (778) 782-7057
Fax: (778) 782-4198

Email: hdgibson@sfu.ca

 

I belong to the Petrology and Tectonics Research Group at SFU. We undertake research in areas ranging from structural geology and crustal seismology to mineralogy 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.

 

 


Research:

My students and I work on field-based projects that typically include structural, metamorphic, and U-Th-Pb geochronologic analyses of rocks exhumed from mid- to lower crustal levels during and after orogenesis.

Supervised Graduate Students:

Graduated - 2010
Sarah Brown - PhD
Working on the southern Okanagan Valley fault system, southern BC.
Graduated - 2010
Elizabeth Westberg - MSc
Working on the tectonic evolution of the Yukon Tanana terrane, Pelly Mountains, south-central Yukon Territory.
Current
Reid Staples - PhD
Working on the tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Yukon Tanana terrane, south-central Yukon Territory.

Current
Ivanka Mitrovic - MSc

Ivanka Examining the interplay of the arc magmatism, deformation and metamorphism within the southern coast-cascade orogen, Harrison Lake, British Columbia

Current
Luke Bickerton - MSc

   
Current
Vince Twomey - MSc
   

Field Areas for Current Research:

Southern Okanagan, British Columbia


Harrison Lake, southwestern British Columbia


Northern Selkirk Mts, British Columbia


Yukon Territory

Satellite images courtesy of "maps.google.ca"

 

Author: Dan Gibson (hdgibson@sfu.ca).
Updated: 01/12/2010