Dan Gibson

McKenzie, Will F., Gibson, H. Daniel, Colpron, Maurice, Dyck, Brendan, Davies, Joshua H.F.L., Perrot, Morgann G. 2025. New detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope constraints for the Kluane Schist, southwestern Yukon, Canada, and their implications for Cretaceous Insular terrane accretion. Geosphere. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02845.1

Bowie, S., Gibson, H.D., Dyck, B., Godin, L., and Larson, K.P. 2025. Protracted (>100 Myr) deep crustal orogenesis revealed by in situ monazite petrochronology in the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, British Columbia. Submitted to the Geological Society of America Bulletin, 137, 1777-1796. https://doi.org/10.1130/B37491.1

Huang, C., Dashtgard, S.E., and Gibson, H.D. 2025. Forearc Depressions Develop in Warm Subduction Zones by Underplating-Induced Crustal Flexure. Terra Nova. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.70005

Girotto, K., Dashtgard, S E., Huang, C., MacEachern, J. A., Gibson, H. D., and Cathyl-Huhn, G. 2024. Stratigraphy, palaeogeography and evolution of the lower Nanaimo Group (Cretaceous), Georgia Basin, Canada. Basin Research 36. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12830

Young, E. Flowers, G.E., Jiskoot, H.E., and Gibson, H.D. 2024. Reconstructing Glacier Surge Kinematics Using a Numerical Ice-Flow Model Applied to the Dusty Glacier, St. Elias Mountains, Canada. Geophysical Research Letters 51. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107386

McKenzie, W., Gibson, H.D., Dyck, B., and Steele-MacInnis, M. 2024. A record of Late Cretaceous to early Paleogene Insular terrane accretion within the northern Cordillera: Insights from monazite petrochronology across the Kluane Schist, southwest Yukon, Canada. Geological Society of America Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/b37198.1

McKenzie, W., Gibson, H.D., Dyck, B., and Steele-MacInnis, M. 2024. Tectono-Metamorphic Evolution of the Cretaceous Kluane Schist, Southwest Yukon. Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 62, 189-224. https://doi.org/10.3749/2300031

Fietz, S.W., Crowley, J.L., MacEachern, J.A., Dashtgard, S.E., and Gibson, H.D. 2023. Geochronology of reworked ash and its implications for accommodation space variations in distal foreland basins, McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada. Sedimentologika, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.57035/journals/sdk.2023.e11.1131

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Turner, E.C., Rainbird, R.H., Gibson, H.D., and Marshall, D.D. 2023. Mesoproterozoic Basins (Yukon, Canada) in the Evolution of Supercontinent Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 60, 912-973. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2022-0055

Young, E. Flowers, G.E., Jiskoot, H.E., and Gibson, H.D. 2022. Kinematic evolution of kilometre-scale fold trains in surge-type glaciers explored with a numerical model. Journal of Structural Geology 161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2022.104644

Larson, K.P., Shreshta, S., Cottle, J.M., Guilmette, C., Johnson, T.A., Gibson, H.D., and Gervais, F. 2022. Re-evaluating monazite as a record of metamorphic reactions. Geoscience Frontiers 13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2021.101340

Thiessen, E., Gibson, H.D., Pehrsson, S., Regis, D. 2022. A lithospheric-scale Arrowsmith (2.4 Ga) detachment system with major Trans-Hudson (1.8 Ga) reactivation documented in the Howard Lake shear zone, Rae Craton, Canada. Precambrian Research 376. https:// 10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106683

Neil, B.J.C., Gibson, H.D., Pehrsson, S.J., Martel, E., Thiessen, E.J. and Crowley, J.L. 2021 Provenance, stratigraphic and precise depositional age constraints for an outlier of the 1.9 to 1.8 Ga Nonacho Group, Rae craton, Northwest Territories, Canada. Precambrian Research 352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105999

Rinke-Hardekopf, L., Dashtgard, S.E., Huang, C. and Gibson, H.D. 2021 Application of grouped detrital zircon analyses to determine provenance and closely approximate true depositional age: Early Cretaceous McMurray-Clearwater succession, Canada. Geoscience Frontiers 12, 877-892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2020.11.016

Thiessen, E.J., Gibson, H.D., Regis, D., Pehrsson, S.J., Ashley, K.T. and Smit, M.A. 2020. The distinct metamorphic stages and structural styles of the 1.94–1.86 Ga Snowbird Orogen, Northwest Territories, Canada. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 38, 963-992. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12556

Vice, L., Gibson, H.D. and Israel, S. 2020. Late Cretaceous to Paleocene Tectonometamorphic Evolution of the Blanchard River Assemblage, Southwest Yukon: New Insight into the Terminal Accretion of Insular Terranes in the Northern Cordillera. Lithosphere 2020, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.2113/2020/2298288Kent, B.A.P., Dashtgard, S.E, Huang, C., MacEachern, J.A., Gibson, H.D., Cathyl‐Huhn, G. 2020. Initiation and early evolution of a forearc Basin: Georgia Basin, Canada. Basin Research. v. 32, p. 163-185. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12378.

Bickerton, L., Colpron, M., Gibson, H.D., Thorkelson, D. and Crowley, J.L. 2020. The northern termination of the Cache Creek terrane in Yukon: Middle Triassic arc activity and JurassicCretaceous structural imbrication. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. v. 57, p. 227-248. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0262

Kent, B.A.P., Dashtgard, S.E, Huang, C., MacEachern, J.A., Gibson, H.D., Cathyl‐Huhn, G. 2020. Initiation and early evolution of a forearc Basin: Georgia Basin, Canada. Basin Research. v. 32, p. 163-185. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12378.

Thiessen, E.J., Gibson, H.D., Regis, D., Pehrsson, S.J., Cutts, J.A. and Smit, M.A. 2019. Highgrade metamorphism flying under the radar of accessory minerals. Geology. v. 47, p. 568- 572. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1130/G45979.1

Monger, J.M. and Gibson, H.D. 2019. Mesozoic-Cenozoic deformation in the Canadian Cordillera: The record of a “Continental Bulldozer”? Tectonophysics, v. 757, p. 153-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2018.12.023

Schultz, S.K., MacEachern, J.A., and Gibson, H.D. 2019. Late Mesozoic reactivation of Precambrian basement structures and their resulting effects on the sequence stratigraphic architecture of the Viking Formation of east-central Alberta, Canada. Lithosphere. v. 11, p. 308-321. https://doi.org/10.1130/L1005.1

Huang, C., Dashtgard, S.E., Kent, B.A.P., Gibson, H.D. and Matthews, W.A. 2019. Resolving the Architecture and Early Evolution of a Forearc Basin (Georgia Basin, Canada) Using Detrital Zircon. Scientific Reports. v. 9, Article number 15360. https://doi.org. 10.1038/s41598-019-51795-5

Parsons, A.J., Coleman, M.J., Ryan, J.J., Zagorevski, A., Joyce, N.L., Gibson, H.D. and Larson, K.P. 2018. Structural evolution of a crustal-scale shear zone through a decreasing temperature regime; the Yukon River shear zone, Yukon-Tanana Terrane, Northern Cordillera. Lithosphere. v. 10, p. 760-782. https://doi.org/10.1130/L724.1

Thiessen, E.J., Gibson, H.D. Regis, D. and Pehrsson, S. 2018. Deformation and extensional exhumation of 1.9 Ga high‑pressure granulites along the Wholdaia Lake shear zone, south Rae craton, Northwest Territories. Lithosphere. 10 (5): 641–661. https://doi.org/10.1130/L704.1

Verbaas, J., Thorkelson, D.J., Milidragovic, D., Crowley, J., Foster, D.A., Gibson, H.D., Marsahll, D.D., and 2018. Rifting of western Laurentia at 1.38 Ga: The Hart River sills of Yukon, Canada. Lithos. v. 316-317, p. 243-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2018.06.018

Verbaas, J., Thorkelson, D.J., Crowley, J., Davis, W.J., Foster, D.A., Gibson, H.D., Marsahll, D.D., and Milidragovic, D. 2017. A sedimentary overlap assemblage links Australia to northwestern Laurentia at 1.6 Ga. Precambrian Research. v. 305, p. 19-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2017.10.001

Furlanetto F., Thorkelson D.J., Rainbird R.R., Davis W.J., Gibson H.D., Marshall D.D. 2016. The Paleoproterozoic Wernecke Supergroup of Yukon, Canada: Relationships to orogeny in northwest Laurentia and basins in North America, East Australia and China. Gondwana Research. v. 39, p. 14-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2016.06.007 Brown, S.R., Andrews, G.D.M. and Gibson, H.D. 2016. The corrugated architecture of the Okanagan Valley shear zone and the Shuswap metamorphic complex, Canadian Cordillera. Lithosphere. v. 8, p. 412-421. doi:10.1130/L524.1

Brown, S.R., Andrews, G.D.M. and Gibson, H.D. 2016. The corrugated architecture of the Okanagan Valley shear zone and the Shuswap metamorphic complex, Canadian Cordillera. Lithosphere. v. 8, p. 412-421. doi:10.1130/L524.1

Staples, R.D., Gibson, H.D., Colpron, M. and Ryan, J.J. 2016. An orogenic wedge model for diachronous deformation, metamorphism, and exhumation in the hinterland of the northern Canadian Cordillera. Lithosphere, v. 8, p. 165-184. doi:10.1130/L472.1

Staples, R.D., Murphy, D.C., Gibson, H.D., Colpron, M., Ryan, J.J., Berman, R.G. 2014. Middle Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous mid-crustal tectonometamorphism in the northern Canadian Cordillera: Recording foreland-directed migration of an orogenic front. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.126, p. 1511-1530. doi:10.1130/B31037.1.

Medig, K.P.R., Thorkelson, D.J., Rainbird, R.H., Gibson, H.D., Turner, E.C. and Marshall, D.D. 2014. Pinning northeastern Australia to northwestern Laurentia in the Mesoproterozoic. Precambrian Research, v. 249, p. 88-99. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2014.04.018

Mayer, J.M., Allen, D.M., Gibson, H.D. and Mackie, D.C. 2014. Application of statistical approaches to analyze geological, geotechnical and hydrogeological data at a fractured-rock mine site in Northern Canada. Hydrogeology Journal, v. 22, p. 1707-1723. doi:10.1007/s10040-014-1140-2

Nielsen, A.B., Thorkelson, D.J., Gibson, H.D. and Marshall, D.D. 2013. The Wernecke igneous clasts in Yukon, Canada: Fragments of the Paleoproterozoic volcanic arc terrane Bonnetia. Precambrian Research, v. 238, p. 78-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2013.09.017

Staples, R.D., Gibson, H.D., Berman, R.G., Ryan, J.J. and Colpron, M. 2013. A window into the Early to mid-Cretaceous infrastructure of Yukon-Tanana terrane recorded in multi-stage garnet of west-central Yukon, Canada. Journal Metamorphic Geology, v. 31, p. 729-753. doi:10.1111/jmg.12042 (Won the Dave Elliot Award for Best Paper – administered by the Canadian Tectonics Group of GAC)

Furlanetto F., Thorkelson D.J., Gibson H.D., Marshall D.D., Rainbird R.R., Davis W.J, Crowley J, and Vervoort J. 2013. Late Paleoproterozoic terrane accretion in northwestern Canada and the case for circum-Columbian orogenesis. Precambrian Research, v. 224, p. 512-528, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2012.10.010

Brown, S.R., Gibson, H.D., Andrews, G.D.M., Thorkelson, D.J., Marshall, D.D., Vervoort, J.D., and Rayner, N. 2012. New constraints on Eocene extension within the Canadian Cordillera and identification of Phanerozoic protoliths for footwall gneisses of the Okanagan Valley shear zone. Lithosphere, v. 4, p. 354-377. doi: 10.1130/L199.1.

Milidragovic, D., Thorkelson, D.J., Marshall, D.D, Davis, W. & Gibson, H.D. 2011. Evidence for late Mesoproterozoic tectonism in northern Yukon and the identication of a Grenville-age tectonothermal belt in western Laurentia. Terra Nova, v. 23, p.307-313. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.0015.x

Gibson, H.D., Brown, R.L., and Carr, S.D. 2008. Tectonic evolution of the Selkirk fan, southeastern Canadian Cordillera: A composite Middle Jurassic – Cretaceous orogenic structure. Tectonics, v. 27, p. 1-14, TC6007, doi:10.1029/2007TC002160.

Crowley, J.L., Brown, R.L., Gervais, F. and Gibson, H.D. 2008. Assessing inheritance of zircon and monazite in granites: an example from the Monashee complex, Canadian Cordillera. Journal of Petrology, v. 49, p. 1915-1929, doi:10.1093/petrology/egn047.

Brown, R.L. and Gibson, H.D. 2006. An argument for channel flow in the southern Canadian Cordillera and comparison with Himalayan tectonics. eds. Law, R.D., Searle, M.P. and Godin, L. Geological Society of London Special Publications, v. 268, p. 543-559.

Gibson, H.D., Brown, R.L., and Carr, S.D. 2005. U-Th-Pb geochronologic constraints on the structural evolution of the Selkirk fan, northern Selkirk Mountains, southeastern British Columbia. Journal of Structural Geology, v. 27, No. 10, p. 1899-1924.

Gibson, H.D., Carr, S.D., Hamilton, M.A., and Brown, R.L. 2004. Correlating Yttrium zones and age domains in monazite with metamorphic reactions involving major pelitic phases: an integration of IDTIMS and SHRIMP geochronology with Y-Th-U X-ray mapping. Chemical Geology, v. 211, No.3-4, p. 237-260.

Foster, G., Parrish, R.R., Horstwood, M.S.A., Chenery, S., Pyle, J., and Gibson, H. D. 2004. The generation of prograde P–T–t points and paths; a textural, compositional, and chronological study of metamorphic monazite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 228, p. 125-142.

Foster, G., Gibson, H.D., Parrish, R.R., Fraser, J., and Tindle, A. 2002. Textural, chemical and isotopic insights into the nature and behavior of metamorphic monazite. Chemical Geology, v. 191, No. 1-3, p. 183 - 207.

Gibson, H.D., Brown, R.L., and Parrish, R.R. 1999. Deformation-induced inverted metamorphic field gradients, an example from southeastern Canadian Cordillera. Journal of Structural Geology, v. 21, No. 7, p. 751 - 767.

Other refereed publications – peer reviewed and internally refereed

Government/Industry Reports – Internally Reviewed

Gibson, H.D. and Monger, J.W.H. 2018. The Cretaceous-Cenozoic Coast-Cascade Orogen: The Chilliwack Valley–Harrison Lake connection. Resources for Future Generation, Field trip guide book, pp. 48.

Thiessen, E.J., Regis, D., and Gibson, H.D. 2017. U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Paleoproterozoic Wholdaia Lake shear zone, south Rae craton, Northwest Territories, Canada. In: Geological Survey of Canada Open File 8193. pp. 25.

Gibson, H.D. 2017. Orogenic superstructure and infrastructure and its role in the tectonic evolution of the southern Canadian Cordillera. Canadian Tectonics Group, Field trip guide book, pp. 18.

Theny, L.M., Gibson, H.D. and Crowley, J.L. 2015. Uranium-lead age constraints and structural analysis for the Ruddock Creek zinc-lead deposit: insight into the tectonic evolution and Neoproterozoic metalliferous Windermere Supergroup, northern Monashee Mountains, southern British Columbia. In: Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2014, Geoscience BC, Report 2015-1, p. 151–163.

Gibson, H.D. and Monger, J.W.H. 2014. The Cretaceous-Cenozoic Coast-Cascade Orogen: The Chilliwack Valley–Harrison Lake connection. GSA Annual Meeting, Field trip guide book, Field trip #411, p. 1-45.

Verbaas, J., Thorkelson, D.J., Gibson, H.D., Marshall, D.D. and Milidragovic, D. 2015. Soft sediment textures in clasts in Wernecke Breccia: Reconstruction of an eroded late Paleoproterozoic succession in northern Yukon. 12. Yukon Exploration and Geology 2015.

Bickerton, L., Colpron, M., and Gibson, H.D., 2013. Cache Creek terrane, Stikinia, and overlap assemblages of eastern Whitehorse (NTS 105D) and western Teslin (NTS 105C) map areas. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2012, K.E. MacFarlane, M.G. Nordling, and P.J. Sack (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 1-17.

Brown, S.R., Gibson, H.D. & Andrews, G. 2011. Geology of the Southern Okanagan Valley Shear Zone. Field Trip Guide Book for the Canadian Tectonics Group, Penticton, BC.

Nielsen, A.B., Thorkelson, D.J., Marshall, D.D. & Gibson, H.D. 2011. Paleoproterozoic Bonnet Plume River intrusions: Evidence for a calc-alkaline arc at 1.7 Ga and its partial preservation in Yukon, Canada. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2010, K.E. MacFarlane, L.H. Weston and C. Relf (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 183-196.

Westberg, E., Colpron, M., & Gibson, H.D. 2009. Bedrock geology of western ‘Mendocina Creek’ (NTS 105F5) and eastern Livingstone Creek (NTS 105E/8) areas, south-central Yukon. Yukon Exploration and Geology, Annual Report Paper, p. 227-239.

Gibson, H.D., Brown, S.R., & Thorkelson, D. J. 2009. The Okanagan Valley fault system, southern Okanagan Valley (Oliver to Penticton). GSA Cordilleran Section Annual Meeting, Kelowna May 2009, Field Trip Guide Book, Field Trip #410.

Furlanetto, F., Thorkelson, D.J., Davis, W.J., Gibson, H.D., Rainbird, R.H., & Marshall, D.D., 2009. Preliminary results of detrital zircon geochronology, Wernecke Supergroup, Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2008, L.H. Weston, L.R. Blackburn and L.L. Lewis (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, pp. 125-135.

Fletcher, C., Gibson, H.D. and Ansdell, K.. 2014. Physical Geology – The Science of Earth: Canadian Edition. First Edition. Wiley publishing.