Chercheurs

Sciences de la Terre / GEE, DAVID G.

david.gee

Position

Professor Emeritus at Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences - Geophysics, Uppsala, Sweden.

Thèmes de recherche

Geologist specializing in Tectonics (structure, stratigraphy, etc.), mainly of Palaeozoic mountain belts of Eurasia.

Throughout his career, David Gee's personal research has concentrated on Proterozoic and Paleozoic orogens in Scandinavia and northern Europe, including the logistically difficult high Arctic. His name is synonymous with the Caledonian Orogen.

He has led challenging expeditions to Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, the Polar Urals and the Taimyr Peninsula. This has resulted in an impressive list of publications.

Perhaps his most important contribution to the earth sciences was the initiation and scientific leadership of EUROPROBE, a multidisciplinary research endeavour that brought hundreds of senior scientists, postdocs and doctoral students together to study some of the most important tectonic structures within Europe. EUROPROBE was a project of the International Lithosphere Program and the European Science Foundation.

Under his guidance, EUROPROBE scientists combined surface observations with deep geophysical and geochemical probing to provide exciting new knowledge on the dynamic evolution of the European continental lithosphere. This research resulted in fundamental new understandings of such diverse structures as:

- the tectonically active Pannonian Basin-Carpathian arc-Dinaride Mountain System,
Cenozoic collision-related foredeep sedimentary basins along the northern slopes of the Great Caucasus
- the Paleozoic Uralides in Russia and Variscan Orogen in Iberia,
- the enigmatic Trans-European Suture Zone, Late Proterozoic-Palaeozoic sedimentary basins of the east European platform with emphasis on the Pripyat-Dniepr-Donets Basin, the largest and deepest Late Palaeozoic rift in Europe, huge Proterozoic and Archean orogenic belts in northern and eastern Europe.

Prix et récompenses

Swedish Committee for ILP (Scandinavian Caledonides)
IGCP projects – Caledonide Orogen and Stratabound Sulphides
IGC 1980 Excursion leader (Caledonides)
Chairman, Uppsala Caledonide Symposium, 1981
Chairman of EUROPROBE 1988 – (with ESF 1992 – 2001)
President of European Union of Geosciences 1999 – 2001
Dean of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University 1996 – 2002
Chairman of Swedish Polar Research Committee 2000 – 2003
Swedish representative, International Arctic Science Committee 2001 – 2004
Coordinator of several INTAS projects - mainly Arctic, e.g. “High Arctic Lithosphere of Europe (HALE)”, “Northern Eurasian Margin & Lomonosov Ridge (NEMLOR)” 1994 - 2006
U.N. International Year of Planet Earth 2007-2009, Senior advisor
Chairman of Crafoord Committee for Geoscience Prize 2006 and jubilee 2007.
Chairman of Science Committee for IGC 2008.
Chairman of Swedish Research Council’s UNESCOråds Committee 2003 –
EGU Stephan Mueller Medallist 2007

Publications

1. Peer-reviewed articles :

Gromet, L.P. & Gee, D.G. 1998. An evaluation of the age of high-grade metamorphism in the Caledonides of Biskayerhalvøya, NW Svalbard. GFF , 120, 199-208.

Witt-Nilsson, P., Gee, D.G. & Hellman, F.J. 1998. Tectonostratigraphy of the Caledonides, Atomfjella Antiform of northern Ny Friesland, Svalbard. Norsk Geologisk Tidskrift, 78, 67-80.

Larionov, A.N., Teben'kov, A.M. & Gee, D.G. 1998. Pb-Pb single-zircon ages of granitoid boulders from the Vendian tillite of Wahlenbergfjorden, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. Polar Research, 17, 71-80.

Hellman, F., Gee, D.G., Gjelsvik, T. & Teben'kov, A.M. 1998. Provenance and Tectonic Implications of Paleoproterozoic (c.1740 Ma) Quartz Porphyry Clasts in the basal Old Red Sandstone (Lilljeborgfjellet Conglomerate Formation) of Northwestern Svalbard´s Caledonides. Geological Magazine, 135, 755-768.

Johansson, Å. & Gee, D.G. 1999. The Eskolabreen granitoids of southern Ny Friesland, Svalbard Caledonides - geochemistry, age and origin. GFF, 121, 113-126.

Gee, D.G., Johansson, Å., Larionov, A.N. & Teben'kov, A.M. 1999. A Caledonian Granitoid Pluton at Djupkilsodden, Central Nordaustlandet, Svalbard: age, magnetic signature and tectonic significance. Polarforschung. 66, 19-32.

Gee, D.G. 2000. Exhumation of Eclogite-bearing Rocks by Thrusting and Upper Crustal Extension in the Western Gneiss Region of the Scandinavian Caledonides. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 218, 307-320.

Friberg, M., Larionov, A., Petrov, G.A. & Gee, D.G. 2000. Palaeozoic Amphibolite-Granulite Facies Magmatic Complexes in the Hinterland of the Uralide Orogen. Int. J. Earth Sci., 89, 21-39

Metelkin, D.V., Kazansky, Yu.A., Vernikovsky, V.A., Gee, D.G. & Torsvik,T. 2000. First palaeomagnetic data on the early Palaeozoic rocks from Severnaya Zemlya (Siberian Arctic) and their geodynamic interpretation. Geology and Geophysics, 41, 1816-1820 (in Russian)

Johansson, A., Larionov, A., Teben'kov, A.M., Gee, D.G., Whitehouse, M.J. & Vestin, J. 2000: Grenvillian magmatism of western and central Nordaustlandet, northeast Svalbard. Trans. Royal. Soc. Edin., Earth Sciences, 90, 221-254.

Gee, D.G., Beliakova, L., Pease, V. Larionov, A. & Dovzhikova, E. 2000. New, single zircon (Pb-evaporation) ages from Vendian intrusions in the basement beneath the Pechora Basin, Northeastern Baltica.

Sandelin, S, Teben'kov, A. & Gee, D. G. 2001. The stratigraphy of the lower part of the Neoproterozoic Murchisonfjorden Supergroup in Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. GFF, 123, 113-127

Johansson, Å., Maluski, H. & Gee, D.G. 2001. Ar-Ar dating of Caledonian and Grenvillian rocks from northeast Svalbard - evidence of two stages of Caledonian tectonothermal activity in the high Arctic. Norsk GeologiskTidsskrift. 81, 263-281

Hellman, F., Gee, D.G. & Witt-Nilsson, P. 2001. Late Archaean basement in the Bangenhuken Complex of the Nordbreen Nappe, western Ny Friesland, Svalbard. Polar Research. 20, 49-59

Pease, V., Gee, D.G., Vernikovsky, V., Vernikovskaya, A. & Kireev, S. 2001. The Mamont-Shrenk terrane: A Mesoproterozoic complex in the Neoproterzoic accretionary belt of Central Taimyr, northern Siberia. Terra Nova, 13, 270-280.

Gee, D.G., Witt-Nilsson, P., Johansson, A., & Hellman, F.G. 2001. Comments on “Continental collision and lateral escape deformation in the lower and upper crust: An example from Caledonide Svalbard” by N. Lyberis and G. Manby (1999). Tectonics, 20, 788-793.

Vernikovsky, V., Vernikovskaya, A. Pease, V. & Gee, D.G. 2002. Geochemistry and tectonic significance of Neoproterozoic granites. Geochemistry, 5, 486-498 (in Russian)

Teben'kov, A., Sandelin, S., Gee, D.G. & Johansson, Å. 2002. Caledonian migmatization in central Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. NGT, 82, 15-28.

Vernikovskaya, A.E., Pease, V.L., Vernikovsky, V.A., Gee, D.G. & Travin, A.V. 2002. Geochemistry and Petrology of Neoproterozoic Granites of the Mamont-Shrenk Terrane, Central Taimyr. Geochemical International, 40, 435-446.

Johansson, Å., Larionov, A.N., Teben'kov, A.M., Ohta, Y. & Gee, D.G. 2002. Caledonian granites of western and central Nordaustlandet, northeast Svalbard. GFF, 124, 135-148.

Andreasson, P.G., D.G. Gee, M.J. Whitehouse & H. Schönberg, 2003. Subduction-flip during Iapetus Ocean closure and Baltica-Laurentai collission, Scandinavian Caledonides. Terra Nova, 15, 362 369.

Vernikovsky, V.A., Pease, V., Vernikovskaya, A., Romanov, A., Gee, D.G. & A. Travin. 2003. Early Triassic A-granites from Taimyr: A result of the northern Asia superplume. Lithos, 66, 23-36

Tucker, R., P. Robinson, A.Solli, D.G. Gee, T.Thorsnes, T.E. Krogh, O. Nordgulen & M.E.Bickford 2004. Thrusting and extension in the Scandinavian hinterland, Norway: new U-Pb ages and tectonosptratigraphic evidence. American Journal of Science

Gee, D.G. & V. Pease, 2004. The Neoproterozoic Timanide Orogen of eastern Baltica: introduction. In: Gee & Pease (eds.) Timanides –Neoproterozoic Orogeny Along the Eastern Margin of Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 1-4.

Lorenz, H., Pystin, A., Olovyanishnikov, V. & Gee, D.G., 2004. Neoproterozoic highgrade metamorphism of the Kanin Peninsula, Timanide Orogen, northern Russia. In: Gee & Pease (eds.) Timanides –Neoproterozoic Orogeny Along the Eastern Margin of Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 59-69.

Larionov, A., Andreichev, V. & Gee, D.G., 2004. Northern Timan Alkaline Igneous Suite: Vendian Zingle Zircon Pb-Evaporation Ages of gabbros, granites & syenites. In: Gee & Pease (eds.) Timanides – Neoproterozoic Orogeny Along the Eastern Margin of Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 69-75.

Pease, V., Dovzhikova, E., Beliakova, L. & Gee, D.G., 2004. Late Neoproterozoic granitoid magmatism in basement to the Pechora Basin, northwest Russia: Geochemical constraints indicate westward subduction beneath northeast Baltica. In: Gee & Pease (eds.) Timanides– Neoproterozoic Orogeny Along the Eastern Margin of Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 75-87.

Bogolepova, O.K. & Gee, D.G., 2004. The Palaeozoic unconfornity across the Timanides. In: Gee & Pease (eds.) Timanides – NeoproterozoicOrogeny Along the Eastern Margin of Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 145-159.

Gee, D.G. & Teben'kov, A.M., 2004. Svalbard: Caledonian fragments of the Laurentian margin. In: Gee & Pease (eds.) Timanides – Neoproterozoic Orogeny Along the Eastern Margin of Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 191-207.

Johansson, Å, Larionov, A., Gee, D.G., Tebenkov, A.M. & Sandelin, S., 2004. Grenvillian and Caledonian tectono-magmatic activity on northeasternmost Svalbard. In: Gee & Pease (eds.) Timanides – Neoproterozoic Orogeny Along the Eastern Margin of Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 207-233.

Vernikovsky, V.A., Vernikovskaya, A.E., Pease, V.L., & Gee, D.G., 2004. Neoproterozoic Orogeny along the margins of Siberia. In: Gee & Pease (eds.) Timanides – Neoproterozoic Orogeny Along the Eastern Margin of Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 233-249.

Johansson, Å, Gee, D.G., Larionov, A.N., Ohta, Y. & A. Tebenkov, 2005. Grenvillian and Caledonian evolution of eastern Svalbard – a tale of two orogens. Terra Nova, 17, 317 – 325.

Gee, D.G., Bogolepova, O.K. & Lorenz, H. 2006. The Timanide, Caledonide and Uralide orogens in the Eurasian high Arctic, and relationships to the palaeo-continents Laurentia, Baltica and Siberia. In: Gee & Stephenson (eds.). European Lithosphere Dynamics, Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 32, 507-521.

Gee, D.G. & Stephenson, 2006. The European Lithosphere Dynamics: introduction. In: Gee & Stephenson (eds.). European Lithosphere Dynamics, Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 32, 1-11.

Kostyuchenko, S., R. Sapozhnikov, A. Egorkin, R. Berzin, L. Solodilov & D. Gee. 2006. Crustal structure and tectonic model of the northern East European craton based on combine study of deep seismic and potential field data. In: Gee & Stephenson (eds.). European Lithosphere Dynamics, Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 32, 521-541.

Gee, D.G. & Bogolepova, O.K. 2006. Evidence of Caledonian Orogeny in the Silurian – Devonian successions of the Barents and Kara shelves. OCS Study MMS 2006-003 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Margins, Robert Scott and Dennis Thurston (ed) Halifax, NS 1998, 4-13.

Lorenz, H., Gee, D.G. & Bogolepova, O.K. 2006. Early “Caledonian” unconformity on Severnaya Zemlya and relationships to the Timanian margin of Baltica. OCS Study MMS 2006-003 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Margins, Robert Scott and Dennis Thurston (ed) Halifax, NS 1998, 14-30.

Langinen, A.E., Gee, D.G., Lebedeva-Ivanova, N.N. & Zamansky, Yu.Ya. 2006. Velocity structure and correlation of the sedimentary cover of the Lomonosov Ridge and in the Amerasian Basin, Arctic Ocean. OCS Study MMS 2006-003 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Margins, Robert Scott and Dennis Thurston (ed) Halifax, NS 1998, 179-188.

Lorenz, H., Gee, D.G., & Whitehouse, M. J. 2007. New geochronological data on Palaeozoic igneous activity and deformation in the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russia, and implications for the development of the Eurasian Arctic margin. Geological Magazine, 144, 105-125.

Lorenz, H., Gee, D.G., Männik, P., & Proskurnin, V. 2007. Geology of the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago and new tectonic interpretation for the North Kara Terrane in the Russian high Arctic. International Journal of Earth Sciences,

2. Peer-reviewed conference contributions:

Hundreds of abstracts (no comprehensive documentation)

3. Books (as editor):

Gee, D.G. & Pease. V. (eds.), 2004. Timanides – Neoproterozoic Orogeny Along the Eastern Margin of Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 249pp.

Gee, D.G. & Stephenson, R.A. (eds). 2006. European Lithosphere Dynamics, Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 32, 662pp.

4. Overview articles:

Gee, D.G., 2005. Timanides of Northern Russia. In: R.C. Selley, L.R.M. Cocks & I.R. Plimer (eds.) Encyclopedia of Geology, Elsevier, Oxford, 2, 49-56.

Gee, D.G., 2005. Scandinavian Caledonides (with Greenland), In: R.C. Selley, L.R.M. Cocks & I.R. Plimer (eds.) Encyclopedia of Geology, Elsevier, Oxford, 2, 64-74

5. Expedition reports:

Gee, D.G. & Pease, V. 2000. SWEDARCTIC International Expedition 1999 – northewest Siberia: northern Taimyr and October Revolution Island. Cruise Report. Polarforskningssekretariatets 1999 årsbok, 39-42.

Gee, D.G. 2001.Timan-Kanin international expedition. Cruise report. Polarforskningssekretariatets årsbok 2000. 69-73.

Gee, D.G. 2002. October Revolution Island tectonics: SWEDARCTIC Expedition 2002. Polarforskningssekretariatets Årsbok 2002, 75-80

Gee, D.G. 2005. Novaya Zemlya bedrock Expedition 2004. Polarforskningssekretariatets Årsbok 2004, 92-97.

6. EUROPROBE reports:

Gee, D.G. & Artemieva, I. 2000. EUROPROBE 1992-2000. Uppsala University, 18 pp.