Doug MacLeod, PhD candidate
Tectonothermal evolution of the Purcell and Selkirk Mountains, Omineca Belt, SE BC
Doug's MSc was concerned with the structure, geochronology and tectonics of a part of the Central Gneiss Complex in northwest British Columbia (references below). For his PhD, he is investigating the metamorphism and exhumation of the southern Selkirk, Purcell and Rocky mountains of southeastern British Columbia, part of the Omineca belt of the Canadian Cordillera. The aim is to constrain depth-temperature-time evolution of these regions, with implications for the style and timing of orogenesis and exhumation.
Selected publications:
MacLeod, D., Pattison, D.R.M. & Enkelmann, E. (2022) Late Cretaceous to Eocene exhumation of the Purcell Mountains, southeastern British Columbia. Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Halifax, May 16, 2022.
MacLeod, D. & Pattison, D.R.M. (2021) Late Cretaceous to Eocene exhumation of the Purcell Mountains, southeastern British Columbia. Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, London ON, Nov. 1, 2021
MacLeod, D., Pearson, D.M. (2018), Zircon U-Pb constraints on the ages and obscured boundaries of terranes in the western North American Cordillera: Central Gneiss Complex, British Columbia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 2
Pearson D. M., D. R. MacLeod, M. N. Ducea, G. E. Gehrels, and P. Jonathan Patchett (2017), Sediment underthrusting within a continental magmatic arc: Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia, Tectonics, 36, 2022–2043, doi: 10.1002/2017TC004594.