Faculty
Dawn Kellett
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., (2010) Dalhousie University
Email: dawn.kellett@canada.ca
Overview:
Dr. Dawn Kellett is a Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada (since 2011) and adjunct professor at SMU, with previous degrees from UBC (BSc), Queen's U (MSc) and Dalhousie U (PhD), and post-doctoral work at U California-Santa Barbara. Kellett is Associate Editor for Tectonics and Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, and is past Chair of the Canadian Tectonics Group division of the Geological Association of Canada.
Research Interests:
Kellett's research focuses on orogen deformation and exhumation and their relationships to ore deposits by applying a wide range of structural, metamorphic and especially geochronological methods. Her work spans the Cordilleran, Appalachian, Trans-Hudson and Himalayan orogens.
Selected Publications:
Whipp, D*, Kellett, D.A.*, Coutand, I., and Ketcham. R. 2022. Short communication: Modelling competing effects of cooling rate, grain size and radiation damage in low temperature thermochronometers. Geochronology, 4, 143–152, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-143-2022.
Kellett, D.A., and Zagorevski, A., 2022. The Jurassic Laberge Group in the Whitehorse Trough of the Canadian Cordillera: Using detrital mineral geochronology and thermochronology to investigate tectonic evolution. Geoscience Canada, v. 49, p. 7-27, https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2022.49.183
Kellett, D.A., Coutand, I., Zagorevski, A., Grujic, D., Dewing, K., Beranek, L., 2023. Whitehorse Trough records Late Triassic-Cretaceous accretionary orogenic cycle in the Northern Canadian Cordillera via detrital mineral thermochronometry. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, doi:10.1139/cjes-2023-0082.
Book:
Kellett, D.A., Warren, C.J. and Camacho, A., 2024. Approaches and best practices for dating orogenic processes using 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. In Methods and Applications of Geochronology (pp. 367-400). Elsevier.