Publications:

Refereed journal articles (Supervised students in bold)

Staples, R.D., Gibson, H.D., Colpron, M. and Ryan, J. 2016. An orogenic wedge model for diachronous deformation, metamorphism, and exhumation in the hinterland of the northern Canadian Cordillera. Lithosphere. v. 8, no. 2, p. 165-184. DOI: 10.1130/L472.1 PDF

Gibson, H.D. and Monger, J.W.H. 2014. The Cretaceous-Cenozoic Coast-Cascade Orogen: The Chilliwack Valley–Harrison Lake Connection. The Geological Society of America Field Guide. Field trip #411. p. 45. PDF

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. doi:10.1130/B31037.1. PDF

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 PDF

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. doi: 10.1007/s10040-014-1140-2 PDF

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.2013.09.017PDF

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 Dave Elliot Award for Best Paper)PDF

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 PDF

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.PDF

Milidragovich, D., Thorkelson, D.J., Davis, W.J., Marshall, D.D. and Gibson, H.D. 2011. Evidence for late Mesoproterozoic tectonism in northern Yukon and the identification of a Grenville-age tectonothermal belt in western Laurentia. Terra Nova, Vol. 23, p. 307-313. PDF

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, Vol. 27. doi:10.1029/2007TC002160. PDF

Crowley, J.L, Brown, R.L., Gervais, F., and Gibson, H.D. 2008. Assessing Inheritance of Zircon and Monazite in Granitic Rocks from the Monashee Complex, Canadian Cordillera. Journal of Petrology, Vol. 49, p. 1915-1929. PDF

Brown, R.L. and Gibson, H.D. 2006. An argument for channel flow in the southern Canadian Cordillera and comparison with Himalayan tectonics. Geological Society special publication, Vol. 268, p. 543-559. PDF

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, Vol. 27, p. 1899-1924. PDF

Gibson H.D., Carr, S.D., Hamilton, M.A., and Brown, R.L. 2004. Correlations between chemical and age domains in monazite, and metamorphic reactions involving major pelitic phases: an integration of ID-TIMS and SHRIMP geochronology with Y-Th-U X-ray mapping. Chemical Geology, Vol. 211, p. 237-260. PDF

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, Vol. 228, p. 125-142. PDF

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

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, Vol.21, No.7, p. 751 - 767. PDF

Unpublished theses

Gibson H.D., 2003. Structural and thermal evolution of the northern Selkirk Mountains, southeastern Canadian Cordillera: Tectonic development of a regional-scale composite structural fan. Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University. p. 298. PDF

Gibson H.D., 1997. Thermotectonic Evolution of the northern Monashee complex, southern Omineca Belt, southeastern British Columbia. M.Sc. Thesis, Carleton University. p. 113. PDF

Textbook:

textbook

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

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