Publications (**,* indicate undergraduate and graduate students, respectively )
2024
Li* ZMG, Gaidies F, Chen Y-C, Zhao Y-L, Wu C-M. Petrogenesis of sector-zoned garnet in graphitic metapelite from the Danba dome, eastern Tibetan Plateau (SW China). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology:CTMP-D-24-00029
Yogi* MTAG, Gaidies F, Heldwein* OKA, Rice AHN. Mechanisms and durations of metamorphic garnet crystallization in the lower nappes of the Caledonian Kalak Nappe Complex, Arctic Norway. Journal of Metamorphic Geology doi:10.1111/jmg.12766.
Li* ZMG, Chen Y-C, Gaidies F, Zhao Y-L, Wu C-M. Identical metamorphic record in distinct petrochemical systems: Case study of microscopically interlayered garnet amphibolite and metapelite from the Danba dome, SW China. Lithos:107488 doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107488
Gaidies F, McCarron* T, Simpson AD, Easton RM, Glorie S, Putlitz B, Trebus K*. Polymetamorphism during the Grenvillian Orogeny in SE Ontario: Results from trace element mapping, in-situ geochronology, and diffusion geospeedometry. Journal of Metamorphic Geology doi:10.1111/jmg.12745
2023
Chu X, Akça O, Gaidies F, Gennaro I, Ji W-Q. Thermal pulse induced by emplacement of Ramba leucogranites in southern Tibet. Journal of Metamorphic Geology doi:10.1111/jmg.12690
Diffusion in a garnet dodecahedron at 560 C, 6.4 kbar. Size of crystal is 1 mm. See Gaidies et al. (2022) for details.
2022
Soucy La Roche R, Dyer* SC, Zagorevski A, Cottle JM, Gaidies F. 150 Myr of episodic metamorphism recorded in the Yukon-Tanana terrane, northern Canadian Cordillera: evidence from monazite and xenotime petrochronology. Lithosphere doi: https://doi.org/10.2113/2022/7708357
Christison** BE, Gaidies F, Pineda-Munoz S, Evans AR, Fraser D. Dietary niches of creodonts and carnivorans of the late Eocene Cypress Hills Formation. Journal of Mammalogy doi: 10.1093/jmammal/gyab123
Gaidies F, Heldwein* OKA, Yogi* MTAG, Cutts JA, Smit MA, Rice AHN. Testing the equilibrium model: An example from the Caledonian Kalak Nappe Complex (Finnmark, Arctic Norway). Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 40(5), 859–886. doi:10.1111/jmg.12648 (preprint here)
Schematic derivation of the relative radial growth rates of two differently sized crystals (Gaidies & George, 2021). Read here.
2021
Gaidies F, George* FR. The interfacial energy penalty to crystal growth close to equilibrium. Geology 49:988-992
Gaidies F, Morneau* Y, Petts D, Jackson SE, Zagorevski A, Ryan JJ. Major and trace element mapping of garnet: Unraveling the conditions, timing and rates of metamorphism of the Snowcap assemblage, west-central Yukon. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 39: 133-164
Gaidies F. Disequilibrium microstructures of metamorphic rocks. In: Elias S, Alderton D (eds) Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd edition, Elsevier, Amsterdam, doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-102908-4.00001-1
2020
George* FR, Gaidies F. Simultaneous operation of opposing reaction mechanisms: the influence of matrix heterogeneity on post-kinematic garnet crystallisation in an inverted metamorphic sequence. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 38: 743-769
This publication has been awarded the Mike Brown Annual Early Career JMG Research Paper Prize for its ”scientific originality, rigour in research methodology, relevance and significance to understanding metamorphic processes and/or evolution of a metamorphic terrane”.
Trace element zoning of polyphase garnet from the Snowcap assemblage of west-central Yukon (Gaidies et al., 2021). Find out more here.
2019
McCarron* T, McFarlane CRM, Gaidies F. The significance of Mn-rich ilmenite and the determination of P-T paths from zoned garnet in metasedimentary rocks from the western Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 37: 1171-1192
Dziawa* C, Gaidies F, Percival J. Conditions and Timing of LP-HT Metamorphism in the Montresor Belt, Rae Province, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 56: 654-671
2018
George* FR, Gaidies F, Boucher B. Population-wide garnet growth zoning revealed by LA-ICP-MS mapping: implications for trace element equilibration and syn-kinematic deformation during crystallisation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 173:74
Powell* J, Schneider DA, Desrochers A, Flowers RM, Metcalf J, Gaidies F, Stockli DF. Low-temperature thermochronology of Anticosti Island: A case study on the application of conodont (U-Th)/He thermochronology to carbonate basin analysis. Marine and Petroleum Geology 96: 441-456
3D distribution (left) and major and trace element zoning of garnet from Sikkim Himalaya (George et al., 2018). Details can be found here.
Observed and modeled major element zoning of a garnet population from Sikkim Himalaya (George & Gaidies, 2017). More here.
2017
George* FR, Gaidies F. Characterisation of a garnet population from the Sikkim Himalaya: insights into the rates and mechanisms of porphyroblast crystallisation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 172: 57
Morneau* YE, Gaidies F, Ryan JJ, Zagorevski, A. Estimates of garnet crystallization and rates of metamorphism for metapelites of the Snowcap assemblage, Yukon-Tanana terrane, Yukon. Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research (Online) 2017-2, https://doi.org/10.4095/304229
Gaidies F, Milke R, Heinrich W, Abart R. Metamorphic mineral reactions. In: Abart, R and Heinrich, W (ed) Mineral Reaction Kinetics: Microstructures, Textures, Chemical and Isotopic Signatures. European Mineralogical Union and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, EMU Notes in Mineralogy, 16, pp 469-540
Gaidies F. Nucleation in geological materials. In: Abart, R and Heinrich, W (ed) Mineral Reaction Kinetics: Microstructures, Textures, Chemical and Isotopic Signatures. European Mineralogical Union and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, EMU Notes in Mineralogy, 16, pp 347-371
Mukhopadhyay D, Chakraborty S, Trepmann C, Rubatto D, Anczkiewicz R, Gaidies F, Dasgupta S, Chowdhury P. The nature and evolution of the Main Central Thrust: Structural, geochronological and petrological constraints from the Sikkim Himalaya, NE India. Lithos 282-283: 447-463
Chakraborty S, Mukhopadhyay D, Chowdhury P, Rubatto D, Anczkiewicz R, Trepmann C, Gaidies F, Sorcar N, Dasgupta S. Channel Flow and localized fault bounded slice tectonics (LFBST): Insights from petrological, structural, geochronological and geospeedometric studies in the Sikkim Himalaya, NE India. Lithos 282-283: 464-482
Modelling the 3D shape and size distribution of cordierite in hornfels from the Bugaboo contact aureole (Petley-Ragan et al., 2016). More here.
2016
Chakraborty S, Anczkiewicz R, Gaidies F, Rubatto D, Sorcar N, Faak K, Mukhopadhyay D, Dasgupta S. A review of therrmal history and timescales of tectonometamorphic processes in Sikkim Himalaya (NE India) and implications for rates of metamorphic processes. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 34: 785-803
Petley-Ragan* A, Gaidies F, Pattison, DRM. A statistical analysis of the distribution of cordierite and biotite in hornfels from the Bugaboo contact aureole: Implications for the kinetics of porphyroblast crystallization. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 34: 85-101
2015
ElAgamy* N, Laliberte J, Gaidies F. Quantitative analysis of fatigue cracks in laminated carbon fibre-reinforced polymer composites using micro-computed tomography. Journal of Composite Materials doi:10.1177/0021998315608252
Gaidies F, Petley-Ragan** A, Chakraborty S, Dasgupta S, Jones P. Constraining the conditions of Barrovian metamorphism in Sikkim, India: P-T-t paths of garnet crystallization in the Lesser Himalayan Belt. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 33:23-44
2014
McCarron* T, Gaidies F, McFarlane CRM, Easton RM, Jones P. Coupling thermodynamic modeling and high-resolution in-situ LA-ICP-MS monazite geochronology: Evidence for Barrovian metamorphism late in the Grenvillian history of southeastern Ontario. Mineralogy and Petrology 108:741-758
ElAgamy* N, Laliberte J, Gaidies F, Goldach J. Qualitative characterization of fatigue damage propagation in laminated carbon fibre reinforced polymers by using micro-computed tomography. SAMPE Journal
2011
Pattison DRM, de Capitani C, Gaidies F. Petrologic consequences of variations in metamorphic reaction affinity. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 29:953-977
Gaidies F, Pattison DRM, de Capitani C. Toward a quantitative model of metamorphic nucleation and growth. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 162:975-993
Parallel tangent method to estimate the properties of a nucleus (Gaidies et al., 2011). For details see here.
2009
Gaidies F, John T. Conditions and processes during metamorphic and igneous petrogenesis. Mineralogy and Petrology 97:145-147
Garnet growth zoning modeled with THERIA_G (Gaidies et al., 2008). See details here.
2008
Gaidies F, Krenn E, de Capitani C, Abart R. Coupling forward modelling of garnet growth with monazite geochronology: an application to the Rappold Complex (Austroalpine crystalline basement). Journal of Metamorphic Geology 26:775-793
Gaidies F, de Capitani C, Abart R, Schuster R. Prograde garnet growth along complex P-T-t paths: results from numerical experiments on polyphase garnet from the Wölz Complex (Austroalpine Basement). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 155:673-688
Gaidies F, de Capitani C, Abart R. THERIA_G: a software program to numerically model prograde garnet growth. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 155:657-671
2006
Gaidies F, Abart R, de Capitani C, Schuster R, Connolly JAD, Reusser E. Characterization of polymetamorphism in the Austroalpine basement east of the Tauern Window using garnet isopleth thermobarometry. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 24:451-475