john.gosse @ Dal.Ca

Department of Earth Sciences
Dalhousie University
1459 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
B3H 4R2

Life Sciences Centre
4th floor, Ocean Wing [plan]
Rm. 4617

902 494-6632

902 494-6889 (fax)

John is a geochronologist and geomorphologist who specializes in the application of terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides (isotopes produced in rocks exposed to cosmic rays) to solve questions regarding: slip rates of faults in Tibet, USA, and southern central Andes; glacial history of Canada; rates of erosion and exhumation by landslides, streams, and glaciers; geoarcheology; and the influences of climate change, particularly the Pliocene-Quaternary change) on landscape change. Current field areas include Ellesmere, Devon, and Baffin Islands and the western Canadian Arctic archipelago, and southern South America.

For more detailed information about the research of John and his group, go to geochronology.earthsciences.dal.ca

Antinao, J.L., Gosse, J.C., Caffee, M., Taylor, K., Stockli, D., Reynolds, P. (submitting Feb 2012) High erosion rates in the southern central Andes in response to Plio-Pleistocene reactivation in west-verging structures. Nature Geosciences.

Hidy, A.J., Gosse, J.C., Froese, D.G., Bond, J.D., Rood, D.H. (submitting Feb 2012) Late Pliocene timing of the most extensive Cordilleran Ice Sheet and rearrangement of Yukon River drainage. Quaternary Science Reviews.

Taylor, M.H., Gosse, J., Horton, B., Styron, R., Al-Zayer, Y., Yang, G., Caffee, M. (submitted). Active shortening along the Andean thrust front, Precordillera, Argentina: Implications for rates of deformation and eastward advance of the Andes. Tectonics.

Rybczynski, N., Gosse, J., Harington, C.R., Wogelius, R.A., Hidy, A.J., Buckley, M. (submitted). Collagen fingerprinting reveals giant camels in the Pliocene High Arctic. Nature.

Gold, R., dePolo, C., Briggs, R., Crone, A., Gosse, J. (submitted) Suppressed post-15.8 ka slip rate along the Warm Springs Valley fault system, northern Walker Lane, California-Nevada border. Geology.

Mercader, J., Gosse, J.C., Bennett, T., Hidy, A.J., Raja, M., Rood, D.H. (submitted) Cosmogenic nuclide constraints on Final Middle Stone Age lithic technology from Niassa, Mozambique. Quaternary Sciences Reviews.

Laabs, B.J.C., Marchetti, D.W., Munroe, J.S., Refsnider, K.A., Gosse, J.C., Lips, E.W., Becker, R.A., Mickelson, D.M., Singer, B.S. (2011) Chronology of latest Pleistocene mountain glaciation in the western Wasatch Mountains, Utah, U.S.A. Quaternary Research, 76, 272-284.

Hewitt, K., Gosse, J., Clague, J., Yang, G., Finkel, R. (2011) Rock avalanches and the pace of late Quaternary development of river valleys in the Karakoram Himalaya. GSA Bulletin. doi:10.1130/B30341.1

Hidy, A., Gosse, J.C, Pederson, J., Mattern, P., Finkel, R. (2010). A constrained Monte Carlo approach to modeling exposure ages from profiles of cosmogenic nuclides: an example from Lees Ferry, AZ. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 11. Q0AA10, doi:10.1029/2010GC003084

Gold R. D., Cowgill, E., Arrowsmith, J.R., Gosse, J., Chen, X, Wang, X.-F. (2009), Riser diachroneity, lateral erosion, and uncertainty in rates of strike-slip faulting: A case study from Tuzidun along the Altyn Tagh Fault, NW China, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B04401, doi:10.1029/2008JB005913.

Lee, J., Garwood, J, Stockli, D.F., Gosse, J. (2009). Quaternary faulting in Queen Valley, California-Nevada: Implications for kinematics of fault-slip transfer in the eastern California shear zone-Walker Lane belt GSA Bulletin, 121: 599 - 614.

Antinao, J.-L., Gosse, J. (2009). Large rockslides in the Southern Central Andes of Chile (32-34.5? S): Tectonic control and significance for post-Miocene landscape evolution. Geomorphology. 144: 117-133

Baker, S.E., Gosse, J.C., McDonald, E., Evenson, E.B., Martinez, O. (2009). Quaternary history of the piedmont reach of the Rio Diamante, Mendoza, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

Mangerud, J, Gosse, J., Matiouchkov, A., Dolvik, T. (2008), Glaciers in the Polar Urals, Russia, were not much larger during the Last Global Glacial Maximum than today. Quat Sci Rev. 27, 1047-1057

Ruzzante, D. Walde, S. Gosse, J. Cussac, Habit, Zemlak, Adams. (2008). Climate control on ancestral population dynamics: insight from Patagonian fish phylogeography. Molecular Ecol. 17, 2234-2244.

Belmont, P., Pazzaglia, F., Gosse, J. (2007). Cosmogenic 10Be as a tracer for hillslope and channel sediment dynamics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Utting, D J; Gosse, J C; Hodgson, D A; Trommelen, M S; Vickers, K J; Kelley, S E; Ward, B. 2007 Report on ice-flow history, deglacial chronology, and surficial geology, Foxe Peninsula, southwest Baffin Island, Nunavut; Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 2007-C2, 2007; 13 pages

Ward, B.C., Bond, J.D., Gosse, J.C., 2007. Evidence for an MIS-4 (Early Wisconsinan) advance of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Yukon Territory, Canada. Quaternary Research.

Plug, L., Gosse, J., West, J., Bigley, R. 2007 Attenuation of cosmic ray flux in temperate forest. Journal of Geophysical Research. 112, F02022, doi:10.1029/2006JF000668.

Osborn, J., Spooner, I., Gosse, J., Clarke, D.,2007. Alpine glacial geology of the Tablelands, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44, 819-834.

Staiger, J., Gosse, J., Toracinta, R., Oglesby, R., Fastook, J., Johnson, J. 2007, Atmospheric scaling of cosmogenic nuclide production: the climate effect. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 112, B02205, doi:10.1029/2005JB003811.

Staiger, J., Gosse, J., Little, E., Utting, D. Finkel, R., Johnson, J., Fastook, J.2006. Glacial erosion and sediment dispersion from detrital cosmogenic nuclide analyses of till. Quaternary Geochronology. 1, 29-42.

Gosse, J.C., Lal, D., Schaeffer, J., Ivy-Ochs, S., Granger, D. 2006. Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide exposure methods. In. The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science. Ed. S. Elias. Blackwell Publishers. 3460 p.

Webster, T.J., Murphy, B., Gosse, J., Spooner, I. 2006. Coupling LIDAR-derived landscape metrics and surface processes: An example from the Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 32, 173-193.

Pederson J.L., Anders, M.D., Rittenhour, T.M., Sharp,W.D., Gosse, J.C.,Karlstrom, K.E. 2006. Using fill terraces to understand incision rates and evolution of the Colorado River in eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona, J. Geophys. Res., 111, F02003, doi:10.1029/2004JF000201.

Gosse, J. 2006. Editorial. Quaternary Geochronology. 1,1, 2-3.

Briner, J., Gosse, J. Bierman, P., 2006, Applications of terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides on the history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, North America. in Siame, L.L., Bourlès, D.L., and Brown, E.T., eds., Application of cosmogenic nuclides to the study of Earth surface processes: The practice and the potential: Geological Society of America Special Paper 415, p. 29-41, doi: 10.1130/2006.2415(03)

Webster, T., Murphy, B., Gosse, J. 2006, Mapping subtle structures with light detection and ranging (LIDAR): flow units and phreatomagmatic rootless cones in the North Mountain Basalt, Nova Scotia Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43, 157-176.

Gosse, J.C., Bell, T., Gray, J., Klein, J., Yang, G., and Finkel, R., 2006. Using cosmogenic isotopes to interpret the landscape record of glaciation: Nunataks in Newfoundland Glaciers and Earth's Changing Environment. Ed. P. Knight. Blackwell Publishers. 442-446. ISBN: 1405100184

Anders, M.D., Pederson, J.L., Rittenour, T.M., Sharp, W.D., Gosse, J.C., Karlstrom, K.E., Crossey, L.J., Goble, R.J., Stockli, L., Yang, G. 2005. Pleistocene geomorphology and geochronology of eastern Grand Canyon: linkages of landscape components during climate changes, Quaternary Science Reviews. 24, 2428-2448.

Gosse, J.C. 2005. The contribution of cosmogenic nuclides to unraveling alpine paleoclimate histories. Ed. U. Huber, H. Bugmann, and M. Reasoner, In Global Change and Mountain Regions - A State of Knowledge Overview., MRI, Zurich; Kluwer Academics. Springer. The Netherlands. pp. 39-50.

Staiger, J. W., Gosse, J. C., Johnson, J., Fastook, J., Gray, J. T., Stockli, D., Stockli, L., and Finkel, R., invited, 2005, Quaternary relief generation by polythermal glacier ice: a field calibrated glacial erosion model: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 30. 1145-1159.

Benson, L., Madole, R., Landis, G., and Gosse, J., 2005, Late Pleistocene glaciation in the western U.S.-New data from southwestern Colorado and Wyoming: Quaternary Science Reviews, 24, 49-65.

Marquette, G. C., Gray, J. T., Gosse, J. C., Courchesne, F., Stockli, L., Macpherson, G., and Finkel, R., 2004, Felsenmeer persistence through glacial periods in the Torngat and Kaumajet Mountains, Quebec-Labrador, as determined by soil weathering and cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41, p. 19-38

Easterbrook, D.J., Pierce, K.L., Gosse, J.C., Gillespie, A., Evenson, E., Hamblin, K. 2003. Quaternary geology of the western United States. Easterbrook, D.J. Ed., in: Quaternary geology of the United States. INQUA 2003 Field guide volume. Desert Research Institute, NV (USA). 19-80.

Gosse, J.C., ed. ACID Workgroup, 2003. Report on the Atlantic Canada Glacier Ice Dynamics Workshop, May 22-24, 2002: Geoscience Canada

Morris, J., Gosse, J.C. and Brachfeld, S., 2002. Cosmogenic 10Be and the Solid Earth: Studies in Geomagnetism, Subduction Zone Processes, and Active Tectonics. Reviews of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Spec. Vol. 50

Gosse, J. C., and Phillips, F. M. (2001). Terrestrial in situ cosmogenic nuclides: theory and applications. Quaternary Science Reviews 20, 1475-1560.

Gosse, J. C., and Stone, J. O. (2001). Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide methods passing milestones toward palaeo-altimetry. EOS 82, 82, 86, 89.

McGeehin, J., Burr, G., Jull, A., Reines, D., Gosse, J., Davis, P., Muhs, D., and Southon, J., 2001, Stepped-combustion C-14 dating of sediment: A comparison with established techniques: Radiocarbon, v. 43, p. 255-261.

Dahms, D.E., Shroba, R.R., Gosse, J.C., Hall, R.D., Sorenson, C.J., and Reheis, M.C. 1997, Relation between soil age and silicate weathering rates determined from the chemical evolution of a glacial chronosequence: Comment and Reply. Geology, April, 381-382.

Phillips, F.M., Zreda, M.G., Gosse, J.C., Klein, J., Evenson, E.B., Hall, R.D., Chadwick, O.A., and Sharma, P., 1997, Cosmogenic 36Cl and 10Be ages of Quaternary glacial and fluvial deposits of the Wind River Range, Wyoming: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 1453-1463.

Gosse, J.C., Harrington, C.D., and Whitney, J.W., 1996, Applications of in situ cosmogenic nuclides in the geologic site characterization of Yucca Mountain, Nevada: Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, v. 412, p. 799-806.

Gosse, J.C., Reedy, R.C., Harrington, C.D., Poths, J., and Gillespie, A.R., June, 1996, Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide dating: tested and ready for action: EOS. v. 77, n. 29, p. 275-276.

Gosse, J.C., Reedy, R., Harrington, C.D., and Poths, J., 1996, Overview of the Workshop on Secular Variations in the Production Rate of Cosmogenic Nuclides on Earth: Radiocarbon, v. 38, p. 135-147.

Gosse, J.C., Klein, J., Evenson, E.B., Lawn, B., and Middleton, R., 1995, Beryllium-10 dating of the duration and retreat of the last Pinedale glacial sequence: Science, v. 268, p. 1329-1333.

Gosse, J.C., Evenson, E.B., Klein, J., Lawn, B., and Middleton, R., 1995, Precise cosmogenic 10Be measurements in western North America: Support for a global Younger Dryas cooling event: Geology, v. 23, p. 877-880.

Gosse, J.C., and Thompson, W.B., 1995, Surficial Geology of the Steep Falls 7.5-minute Quadrangle, York and Cumberland Counties, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Open File Report, v. 95-10.

Gosse, J.C., 1994, Surficial Geology of the Standish 7.5-minute Quadrangle, York and Cumberland County, Maine: Maine Geological Survey Open File Report, v. 94-10, 23 p.

Gosse, J.C., and Evenson, E.B., 1994, Reinterpretation of the evidence for a significant mid-Holocene ice advance in the Rio Atuel valley, Mendoza Province, Argentina: Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, v. 38, p. 327-338.

Kodama, K.P., Hedlund, C., Gosse, J.C., and Strasser, J.C., 1994, Rotated paleomagnetic poles from the Sassamansville syncline, Newark Basin, southeastern Pennsylvania: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, p. 4643-4653.

Zimmerman, S.G., Evenson, E.B., Gosse, J.C., and Erskine, C.P., 1994, Extensive boulder erosion resulting from a range fire on the type-Pinedale moraines, Fremont Lake, Wyoming: Quaternary Research, v. 42, p. 255-265.

Current Students

Alan Hidy, (Ph.D. Candidate)
Title: Pliocene climate induced variations in sediment fluxes in the Yukon Territory and Texas Gulf Coast.
Begun: Sept 2005

Annina Margreth (Ph.D. Candidate)
Title: Landscape evolution under a polythermal ice cover: Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island
Begun: Sept. 2009

Anthony Novak (M.Sc. Candidate)
Title: Sediment fluxes during meltwater events along the Atlantic Canadian margin
Begun: Sept. 2009

Kevin Vaughan (M.Sc. Candidate)
Title: Landscape evolution under a polythermal ice cover: Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island
Begun: Sept. 2002 (switched supervisor 2007)

Graduated students for which I was the primary supervisor

Jose Luis Antinao (Ph.D. 2009) (now post-doc at Desert Research Institute)
Jane Willenbring (Staiger) (Ph.D. 2006) (now Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania)
Sophie Baker (M.Sc. 2005) (now research technician at Desert Research Institute)
Chris Spies (M.Sc. 2002 Kansas U) (now at ExxonMobil)
Dan Jackofsky (M.Sc. 2001 Kansas U)(now at ExxonMobil)
Jill Fite (M.Sc. 1999 Kansas U) (last at ConocoPhillips)

Honours Students

K. Zentmire, Hons Kansas U. 1999 environmental consulting
F. MacDonald, Hons Dalhousie U. 2003 completed M.Sc. U. Calgary, now consulting
J. McIntosh, Hons Dalhousie U. 2004 completed M.Sc., Dal, now environmental consulting
A. Hilchey, Hons Dalhousie U. 2004 employed in mineral industry
D. Brushett, Hons Dalhousie U. 2005 M.Sc. at MUN, now at NF Geo Surv
H. Neilson, Hons. Dalhousie U. 2006 research assistant, GSC-Atlantic, NS
S. Kelley, Hons. Dalhousie U. 2007 graduate school at U. Maine
M. Ferguson, Hons. Dalhousie U. 2007 geological consulting Shaw Inc
S. Yaehne, Hons. Dalhousie U. 2008 employed in mineral industry
J. Drysdale, Hons. Dalhousie U. 2008 uncertain

In autumn 2009 I am helping Keith Taylor to assemble a low background 14C vacuum extraction line in Room 5657 (designs from Lifton at U. Arizona, and Hippe at ETH Zurich)
In addition to collaborative research involving cosmogenic isotopes, my funded activities this year include (i) history and timing of rift flank uplift along the eastern Arctic Rim using thermochronometers (U-Th)/He and fission track; (ii) age and significance of the Beaufort Formation, western Arctic Canada; and (iii) deglacial chronology of Atlantic Canada, (iv) landscape evolution of the southern Central Andes; (v) age and landscape evolution of the Haughton Crater, Devon Island, Canada.

W.W. Hutchison Medal, Geological Association of Canada, 2005
Kirk Bryan Award, from Geological Society of America, 2005
Petro-Canada Young Innovators award, 2004
Killam Prize, from Killam Trusts, 2004
J. Ross Mackay award, from the Canadian Geomorphological Research Group, 2003
Atlantic Provinces Council on Science and Atlantic Geological Society lecture series speaker, 2002

Anne Reuther (2006/2007)