Timothy Gibson, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

Office Address:

KGL 305

Address:

Mailing address: PO Box 208109, New Haven CT 06520-8109

Street address: 210 Whitney Ave., New Haven CT 06511

Bio:

I am a field geologist broadly interested in reconstructing Earth’s history using its sedimentary record. My research combines sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochemistry and geochronology to decipher how interactions between geological and biological processes have regulated our planet’s environment through time. I am currently investigating various 1.2 to 0.8 billion-year-old sedimentary basins through the lens of geobiology, with an emphasis on the lower Tonian Veteranen Group in Svalbard. This work aims to shed light on the environmental landscape in which early animals and crown group eukaryotes emerged, and also to test various trigger mechanisms for Cryogenian Snowball glaciation.

Selected Publications:

Attachment	Size
Tonian deltaic and storm-influenced marine sedimentation...	20.15 MB
A detrital zircon test of large-scale terrane displacement...	2.13 MB
Geochemical signatures of transgressive shale intervals...	3.52 MB
Radiogenic isotope chemostratigraphy reveals marine and nonmarine...	3.91 MB
Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis	1.37 MB