Michael McWilliams

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• Thermo-tectonic history of the Issyk-Kul basement (Kyrgyz Northern Tien Shan, Central Asia) GONDWANA RESEARCH De Grave, J., Glorie, S., Buslov, M. M., Stockli, D. F., McWilliams, M. O., Batalev, V. Y., Van den Haute, P. 2013; 23 (3): 998-1020

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.gr.2012.06.014

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• Thermochronology of the Talkeetna intraoceanic arc of Alaska: Ar/Ar, U-Th/He, Sm-Nd, and Lu-Hf dating TECTONICS Hacker, B. R., Kelemen, P. B., Rioux, M., McWilliams, M. O., Gans, P. B., Reiners, P. W., Layer, P. W., Soderlund, U., Vervoort, J. D. 2011; 30

  View details for DOI 10.1029/2010TC002798

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• New Ar-40/Ar-39 ages reveal contemporaneous mafic and silicic eruptions during the past 160,000 years at Mammoth Mountain and Long Valley caldera, California GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Mahood, G. A., Ring, J. H., Manganelli, S., McWilliams, M. O. 2010; 122 (3-4): 396-407

  View details for DOI 10.1130/B26396.1

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• 40Ar/39Ar Constraints on the tectonic history and architecture of the ultrahigh-pressure Sulu orogen 33rd International Geological Congress (IGC) Hacker, B. R., Wallis, S. R., McWilliams, M. O., Gans, P. B. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2009: 827–44

  View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00840.x

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• The Gilsa excursion and the Matuyama/Brunhes transition recorded in Ar-40/Ar-39 dated lavas from Lanai and Maui, Hawaiian Islands GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL Leonhardt, R., McWilliams, M., Heider, F., Soffel, H. C. 2009; 179 (1): 43-58

  View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04264.x

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• 500 m.y. of thermal history elucidated by multi-method detrital thermochronology of North Gondwana Cambrian sandstone (Eilat area, Israel) GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Vermeesch, P., Avigad, D., McWilliams, M. O. 2009; 121 (7-8): 1204-1216

  View details for DOI 10.1130/B26473.1

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• The North American-Caribbean Plate boundary in Mexico-Guatemala-Honduras Conference on Geology of the Area Between North and South America with Focus on the Origin of the Caribbean Plate Ratschbacher, L., Franz, L., Min, M., Bachmann, R., Martens, U., Stanek, K., Stuebner, K., Nelson, B. K., Herrmann, U., Weber, B., Lopez-Martinez, M., Jonckheere, R., Sperner, B., Tichomirowa, M., McWilliams, M. O., Gordon, M., Meschede, M., Bock, P. GEOLOGICAL SOC PUBLISHING HOUSE. 2009: 219–293

  View details for DOI 10.1144/SP328.11

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• Multi-method chronometry of the Teletskoye graben and its basement, Siberian Altai Mountains: new insights on its thermo-tectonic evolution THERMOCHRONOLOGICAL METHODS: FROM PALAEOTEMPERATURE CONSTRAINTS TO LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION MODELS De Grave, J., Buslov, M. M., Van den Haute, P., Metcalf, J., Dehandschutter, B., McWilliams, M. O., Lisker, F., Ventura, B., Glasmacher, U. A. 2009; 324: 237–59

  View details for DOI 10.1144/SP324.17

  View details for Web of Science ID 000277774000018

• Geometric model of conjugate faulting in the Gyeongsang Basin, southeast Korea TECTONICS Hwang, B., Ernst, W. G., McWilliams, M., Yang, K. 2008; 27 (6)

  View details for DOI 10.1029/2008TC002343

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• Chronology of gold mineralization in the Sierra Nevada Foothills from Ar-40/Ar-39 dating of Mariposite INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW Snow, C. A., Bird, D. K., Metcalf, J., McWilliams, M. 2008; 50 (6): 503-518

  View details for DOI 10.2747/0020-6814.50.6.503

  View details for Web of Science ID 000256394300001

• Rapid exhumation and mountain building in the Western Alps: Petrology and Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronology of detritus from Tertiary basins of southeastern France TECTONICS Morag, N., Avigad, D., Harlavan, Y., McWilliams, M. O., Michard, A. 2008; 27 (2)

  View details for DOI 10.1029/2007TC002142

  View details for Web of Science ID 000254719100001

• Tectonic and magmatic evolution of the northwestern Basin and Range and its transition to unextended volcanic plateaus: Black Rock Range, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Lerch, D. W., Miller, E., McWilliams, M., Colgan, J. 2008; 120 (3-4): 300-311

  View details for DOI 10.1130/B26151.1

  View details for Web of Science ID 000253750900003

• Tectonic implication of A-type granites across the Yangsan fault, Gigye and Gyeongju areas, Southeast Korean Peninsula INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW Hwang, B., McWilliams, M., Son, M., Yang, K. 2007; 49 (12): 1094-1102

  View details for Web of Science ID 000251588900002

• Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Cryogenian diamictites and Lower Paleozoic sandstone in Ethiopia (Tigrai): Age constraints on Neoproterozoic glaciation and crustal evolution of the southern Arabian-Nubian Shield PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH Avigad, D., Stern, R. J., Beyth, M., Miller, N., McWilliams, M. O. 2007; 154 (1-2): 88-106

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.12.004

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• Provenance of north Gondwana Cambrian-Ordovician sandstone: U-PbSHRIMP dating of detrital zircons from Israel and Jordan GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE Kolodner, K., Avigad, D., McWilliams, M., Wooden, J. L., Weissbrod, T., Feinstein, S. 2006; 143 (3): 367-391

  View details for DOI 10.1017/S0016756805001640

  View details for Web of Science ID 000238672300006

• Dome formation and extension in the Tethyan Himalaya, Leo Pargil, northwest India GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Thiede, R. C., Arrowsmith, J. R., Bookhagen, B., McWilliams, M., Sobel, E. R., Strecker, M. R. 2006; 118 (5-6): 635-650

  View details for DOI 10.1130/B25872.1

  View details for Web of Science ID 000237310200009

• Multimethod detrital thermochronology of the Great Valley Group near New Idria, California GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Vermeesch, P., Miller, D. D., Graham, S. A., De Grave, J., McWilliams, M. O. 2006; 118 (1-2): 210-218

  View details for DOI 10.1130/1325797.1

  View details for Web of Science ID 000234587600014

• Magnetic properties of Lake Lisan and Holocene Dead Sea sediments and the fidelity of chemical and detrital remanent magnetization NEW FRONTIERS IN DEAD SEA PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH Ron, H., Nowaczyk, N. R., Frank, U., Marco, S., McWilliams, M. O., Enzel, Y., Agnon, A., Stein, M. 2006; 401: 171–82

  View details for DOI 10.1130/2006.2401(11)

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• Timing of Cenozoic volcanism and Basin and Range extension in northwestern Nevada: New constraints from the northern Pine Forest Range GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Colgan, J. P., Dumitru, T. A., McWilliams, M., Miller, E. L. 2006; 118 (1-2): 126-139

  View details for DOI 10.1130/1325681.1

  View details for Web of Science ID 000234587600008

• The Early Ordovician age of deformations in the Kokchetav subduction-collision zone: New structural and Ar-40/Ar-39 data RUSSIAN GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS De Grave, J., Buslov, M. M., Zhimulev, F., Vermeesch, P., McWilliams, M. O., Metcalf, J. 2006; 47 (4): 441-450

  View details for Web of Science ID 000237414700003

• Polyphase subduction and exhumation of the Sulu high-pressure-ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane 32nd International Geological Congress Xu, Z., Zeng, L., Liu, F., Yang, J., Zhang, Z., McWilliams, M., Liou, J. G. GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER INC. 2006: 93–113

  View details for DOI 10.1130/2006.2403(05)

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• Mass-production of Cambro-Ordovician quartz-rich sandstone as a consequence of chemical weathering of Pan-African terranes: Environmental implications EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Avigad, D., Sandler, A., Kolodner, K., Stern, R. J., McWilliams, M., Miller, N., Beyth, M. 2005; 240 (3-4): 818-826

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.09.021

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• Oxygen isotopic composition and U-Pb discordance in zircon GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA Booth, A. L., Kolodny, Y., CHAMBERLAIN, C. P., McWilliams, M., Schmitt, A. K., Wooden, J. 2005; 69 (20): 4895-4905

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.gca.2005.05.013

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• Ar-40/Ar-39 ages of silicic volcanic rocks in the Tauranga-Kaimai area, New Zealand: dating the transition between volcanism in the Coromandel Arc and the Taupo Volcanic Zone NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS Briggs, R. M., Houghton, B. F., McWilliams, M., Wilson, C. J. 2005; 48 (3): 459-469

  View details for Web of Science ID 000232753500005

• From tectonically to erosionally controlled development of the Himalayan orogen GEOLOGY Thiede, R. C., Arrowsmith, J. R., Bookhagen, B., McWilliams, M. O., Sobel, E. R., Strecker, M. R. 2005; 33 (8): 689-692

  View details for DOI 10.1130/G21483.1

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• Near-ultrahigh pressure processing of continental crust: Miocene crustal xenoliths from the Pamir JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY Hacker, B., Luffi, P., Lutkov, V., Minaev, V., Ratschbacher, L., Plank, T., Ducea, M., Patino-Douce, A., McWilliams, M., Metcalf, J. 2005; 46 (8): 1661-1687

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• Formation, subduction, and exhumation of Penninic oceanic crust in the Eastern Alps: time constraints from Ar-40/(39) Ar geochronology TECTONOPHYSICS Ratschbacher, L., Dingeldeya, C., Miller, C., Hacker, B. R., McWilliams, M. O. 2004; 394 (3-4): 155-170

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.08.003

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• Assembly of the Pamirs: Age and origin of magmatic belts from the southern Tien Shan to the southern Pamirs and their relation to Tibet TECTONICS Schwab, M., Ratschbacher, L., Siebel, W., McWilliams, M., Minaev, V., Lutkov, V., Chen, F. K., Stanek, K., Nelson, B., Frisch, W., Wooden, J. L. 2004; 23 (4)

  View details for DOI 10.1029/2003TC001583

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• Building the Pamirs: The view from the underside GEOLOGY Ducea, M. N., Lutkov, V., Minaev, V. T., Hacker, B., Ratschbacher, L., Luffi, P., Schwab, M., Gehrels, G. E., McWilliams, M., Vervoort, J., Metcalf, J. 2003; 31 (10): 849-852

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• Lithofacies control in detrital zircon provenance studies: Insights from the Cretaceous Methow basin, southern Canadian Cordillera GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN DeGraaff-Surpless, K., Mahoney, J. B., Wooden, J. L., McWilliams, M. O. 2003; 115 (8): 899-915

  View details for Web of Science ID 000184652300001

• Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the White Mountains, California and Nevada GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Stockli, D. F., Dumitru, T. A., McWilliams, M. O., Farley, K. A. 2003; 115 (7): 788-816

  View details for Web of Science ID 000183770800002

• When did the ultrahigh-pressure rocks reach the surface? A Pb-207/Pb-206 zircon, Ar-40/Ar-39 white mica, Si-in-white mica, single-grain provenance study of Dabie Shan synorogenic foreland sediments CHEMICAL GEOLOGY Grimmer, J. C., Ratschbacher, L., McWilliams, M., Franz, L., Gaitzsch, I., Tichomirowa, M., Hacker, B. R., Zhang, Y. Q. 2003; 197 (1-4): 87-110

  View details for DOI 10.1016/S0009-2541(02)00321-2

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• Tectonics of the Qinling (Central China): tectonostratigraphy, geochronology, and deformation history TECTONOPHYSICS Ratschbacher, L., Hacker, B. R., Calvert, A., Webb, L. E., Grimmer, J. C., McWilliams, M. O., Ireland, T., Dong, S. W., Hu, J. M. 2003; 366 (1-2): 1-53

  View details for DOI 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00053-2

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• Origin of northern Gondwana Cambrian sandstone revealed by detrital zircon SHRIMP dating GEOLOGY Avigad, D., Kolodner, K., McWilliams, M., Persing, H., Weissbrod, T. 2003; 31 (3): 227-230

  View details for Web of Science ID 000181199100009

• Detrital zircon provenance analysis of the Great Valley Group, California: Evolution of an arc-forearc system GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN DeGraaff-Surpless, K., Graham, S. A., Wooden, J. L., McWilliams, M. O. 2002; 114 (12): 1564-1580

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• Normal faulting in central Tibet since at least 13.5 Myr ago NATURE Blisniuk, P. M., Hacker, B. R., Glodny, J., Ratschbacher, L., Bi, S. W., Wu, Z. H., McWilliams, M. O., Calvert, A. 2001; 412 (6847): 628-632

  Abstract

  Tectonic models for the evolution of the Tibetan plateau interpret observed east-west thinning of the upper crust to be the result of either increased potential energy of elevated crust or geodynamic processes that may be unrelated to plateau formation. A key piece of information needed to evaluate these models is the timing of deformation within the plateau. The onset of normal faulting has been estimated to have commenced in southern Tibet between about 14 Myr ago and about 8 Myr ago and, in central Tibet, about 4 Myr ago. Here, however, we report a minimum age of approximately 13.5 Myr for the onset of graben formation in central Tibet, based on mineralization ages determined with Rb-Sr and 40Ar-39Ar data that post-date a major graben-bounding normal fault. These data, along with evidence for prolonged activity of normal faulting in this and other Tibetan grabens, support models that relate normal faulting to processes occurring beneath the plateau. Thinning of the upper crust is most plausibly the result of potential-energy increases resulting from spatially and temporally heterogeneous changes in thermal structure and density distribution within the crust and upper mantle beneath Tibet. This is supported by recent geophysical and geological data, which indicate that spatial heterogeneity exists in both the Tibetan crust and lithospheric mantle.

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  View details for PubMedID 11493918

• Multiple centers of mineralization in the Indio Muerto district, El Salvador, Chile ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND THE BULLETIN OF THE SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS Gustafson, L. B., Orquera, W., McWilliams, M., Castro, M., Olivares, O., ROJAS, G., Maluenda, J., Mendez, M. 2001; 96 (2): 325-350

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• Global correlation of the 223 ka Pringle Falls event INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW McWilliams, M. 2001; 43 (3): 191-195

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• Exhumation of the ultrahigh-pressure continental crust in east central China: Cretaceous and Cenozoic unroofing and the Tan-Lu fault JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Ratschbacher, L., Hacker, B. R., Webb, L. E., McWilliams, M., Ireland, T., Dong, S., Calvert, A., Chateigner, D., Wenk, H. R. 2000; 105 (B6): 13303-13338

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• Exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure continental crust in east central China: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic tectonic unroofing JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Hacker, B. R., Ratschbacher, L., Webb, L., McWilliams, M. O., Ireland, T., Calvert, A., Dong, S. W., Wenk, H. R., Chateigner, D. 2000; 105 (B6): 13339-13364

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• Hot and dry deep crustal xenoliths from Tibet SCIENCE Hacker, B. R., Gnos, E., Ratschbacher, L., Grove, M., McWilliams, M., Sobolev, S. V., Wan, J., Wu, Z. H. 2000; 287 (5462): 2463-2466

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• Tephrochronologic constraints on temporal distribution of large landslides in northwest Argentina JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY Hermanns, R. L., Trauth, M. H., Niedermann, S., McWilliams, M., Strecker, M. R. 2000; 108 (1): 35-52

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• First seamount age evidence for significantly slower African plate motion since 19 to 30 Ma EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS O'Connor, J. M., Stoffers, P., van den Bogaard, P., McWilliams, M. 1999; 171 (4): 575-589

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• Thermochronologic constraints on deformation and cooling history of high- and ultrahigh-pressure rocks in the Qinling-Dabie orogen, eastern China TECTONICS Webb, L. E., Hacker, B. R., Ratschbacher, L., McWilliams, M. O., Dong, S. W. 1999; 18 (4): 621-638

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• Thermochronometry and palaeomagnetism of the Archaean Nelshoogte Pluton, South Africa GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL Layer, P. W., Lopez-Martinez, M., Kroner, A., York, D., McWilliams, M. 1998; 135 (1): 129-145

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• High-resolution record of geomagnetic secular variation from Late Pleistocene Lake Lisan sediments (paleo Dead Sea) EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Marco, S., Ron, H., McWilliams, M. O., Stein, M. 1998; 161 (1-4): 145-160

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• New ages for the climactic eruptions at Yellowstone: Single-crystal Ar-40/Ar-39 dating identifies contamination GEOLOGY Gansecki, C. A., Mahood, G. A., McWilliams, M. 1998; 26 (4): 343-346

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• Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronology of Cu-Au and Au-Ag mineralization in the Potrerillos District, Chile ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND THE BULLETIN OF THE SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS Marsh, T. M., Einaudi, M. T., McWilliams, M. 1997; 92 (7-8): 784-806

  View details for Web of Science ID 000071927500004

• An Archean geomagnetic reversal in the Kaap Valley pluton, South Africa SCIENCE Layer, P. W., Kroner, A., McWilliams, M. 1996; 273 (5277): 943-946

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• Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronology of rhyolites erupted following collapse of the Yellowstone caldera, Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field: Implications for crustal contamination EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Gansecki, C. A., Mahood, G. A., McWilliams, M. O. 1996; 142 (1-2): 91-107

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• Palaeomagnetism and chronology of the central Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL Tanaka, H., Turner, G. M., Houghton, B. F., Tachibana, T., Kono, M., McWilliams, M. O. 1996; 124 (3): 919-934

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• AN EXCEPTIONALLY WIDESPREAD IGNIMBRITE WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR PYROCLASTIC FLOW EMPLACEMENT NATURE Wilson, C. J., Houghton, B. F., Kamp, P. J., McWilliams, M. O. 1995; 378 (6557): 605-607

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• Time-space mapping of Easter Chain volcanism EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS OCONNOR, J. M., Stoffers, P., McWilliams, M. O. 1995; 136 (3-4): 197-212

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• VOLCANIC AND STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE, NEW-ZEALAND - A REVIEW JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH Wilson, C. J., Houghton, B. F., McWilliams, M. O., Lanphere, M. A., Weaver, S. D., Briggs, R. M. 1995; 68 (1-3): 1-28

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• TIMESCALES OF OROGENY - JURASSIC CONSTRUCTION OF THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS TECTONICS Hacker, B. R., Donato, M. M., Barnes, C. G., McWilliams, M. O., Ernst, W. G. 1995; 14 (3): 677-703

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• AR-40/AR-39 DATING OF COMBUSTION METAMORPHISM (MOTTLED ZONE,ISRAEL) CHEMICAL GEOLOGY Gur, D., Steinitz, G., Kolodny, Y., Starinsky, A., McWilliams, M. 1995; 122 (1-4): 171-184

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• AR-40/AR-39 THERMOCHRONOLOGY OF EPIDOTE BLUESCHISTS FROM THE NORTH DAGUILAR BLOCK, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA - TIMING AND KINEMATICS OF SUBDUCTION COMPLEX UNROOFING GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Little, T. A., McWilliams, M. O., Holcombe, R. J. 1995; 107 (5): 520-535

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• CHRONOLOGY AND DYNAMICS OF A LARGE SILICIC MAGMATIC SYSTEM - CENTRAL TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE, NEW-ZEALAND GEOLOGY Houghton, B. F., Wilson, C. J., McWilliams, M. O., Lanphere, M. A., Weaver, S. D., Briggs, R. M., Pringle, M. S. 1995; 23 (1): 13-16

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• RECONSIDERATION OF THE AGE OF BLUESCHIST FACIES METAMORPHISM ON THE SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA, BASED ON PHENGITE AR-40/AR-39 RESULTS JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY Hannula, K. A., McWilliams, M. O. 1995; 13 (1): 125-139

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• AGE AND CORRELATION OF A PALEOMAGNETIC EPISODE IN THE WESTERN UNITED-STATES BY AR-40/AR-39 DATING AND TEPHROCHRONOLOGY - THE JAMAICA, BLAKE, OR A NEW POLARITY EPISODE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH HERREROBERVERA, E., Helsley, C. E., SARNAWOJCICKI, A. M., LAJOIE, K. R., Meyer, C. E., McWilliams, M. O., Negrini, R. M., Turrin, B. D., DONNELLYNOLAN, J. M., Liddicoat, J. C. 1994; 99 (B12): 24091-24103

  View details for Web of Science ID A1994PX33800021

• TERTIARY PLUTONS MONITOR CLIMATE-CHANGE IN EAST GREENLAND GEOLOGY NEVLE, R. J., Brandriss, M. E., Bird, D. K., McWilliams, M. O., ONEIL, J. R. 1994; 22 (9): 775-778

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• COOLING HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN FORD RANGES, MARIE BYRD LAND, WEST ANTARCTICA TECTONICS Richard, S. M., Smith, C. H., Kimbrough, D. L., FitzGerald, P. G., Luyendyk, B. P., McWilliams, M. O. 1994; 13 (4): 837-857

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• AR-40 AR-39 GEOCHRONOLOGY AND EXHUMATION OF HIGH-PRESSURE TO ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC ROCKS IN EAST-CENTRAL CHINA GEOLOGY Eide, E. A., McWilliams, M. O., Liou, J. G. 1994; 22 (7): 601-604

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• TESTING THE ACCURACY OF THE GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY TIME-SCALE (GPTS) AT 2-5 MA, UTILIZING AR-40/AR-39 INCREMENTAL HEATING DATA ON WHOLE-ROCK BASALTS EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Baksi, A. K., Hoffman, K. A., McWilliams, M. 1993; 118 (1-4): 135-144

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• GENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF A PERMIAN-JURASSIC MAGMATIC ARC ACCRETIONARY WEDGE, AND REEVALUATION OF TERRANES IN THE CENTRAL KLAMATH MOUNTAINS TECTONICS Hacker, B. R., Ernst, W. G., McWilliams, M. O. 1993; 12 (2): 387-409

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• PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM THE LATE PRECAMBRIAN CHELA GROUP OF SOUTHWEST ANGOLA PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH Jones, D. L., McFadden, P. L., Kroner, A., McWilliams, M. O. 1992; 59 (1-2): 1-13

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• COEVAL AR-40/AR-39 AGES OF 65.0 MILLION YEARS AGO FROM CHICXULUB CRATER MELT ROCK AND CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY TEKTITES SCIENCE Swisher, C. C., GrajalesNishimura, J. M., Montanari, A., MARGOLIS, S. V., Claeys, P., Alvarez, W., Renne, P., CedilloPardo, E., Maurrasse, F. J., Curtis, G. H., Smit, J., McWilliams, M. O. 1992; 257 (5072): 954-958

  Abstract

  (40)Ar/(39)Ar dating of drill core samples of a glassy melt rock recovered from beneath a massive impact breccia contained within the 180-kilometer subsurface Chicxulub crater in Yucatán, Mexico, has yielded well-behaved incremental heating spectra with a mean plateau age of 64.98 +/- 0.05 million years ago (Ma). The glassy melt rock of andesitic composition was obtained from core 9 (1390 to 1393 meters) in the Chicxulub 1 well. The age of the melt rock is virtually indistinguishable from (40)Ar/(39)Ar ages obtained on tektite glass from Beloc, Haiti, and Arroyo el Mimbral, northeastern Mexico, of 65.01 +/- 0.08 Ma (mean plateau age for Beloc) and 65.07 +/- 0.10 Ma (mean total fusion age for both sites). The (40)Ar/(39)Ar ages, in conjunction with geochemical and petrological similarities, strengthen the recent suggestion that the Chicxulub structure is the source for the Haitian and Mexican tektites and is a viable candidate for the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary impact site.

  View details for Web of Science ID A1992JH82700032

  View details for PubMedID 17789640

• AR-40/AR-39 DATING OF QUATERNARY FELDSPAR - EXAMPLES FROM THE TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE, NEW-ZEALAND GEOLOGY Pringle, M. S., McWilliams, M., Houghton, B. F., Lanphere, M. A., Wilson, C. J. 1992; 20 (6): 531-534

  View details for Web of Science ID A1992HW49500013

• AR-40/AR-39 DATING OF THE BRUNHES-MATUYAMA GEOMAGNETIC-FIELD REVERSAL SCIENCE Baksi, A. K., Hsu, V., McWilliams, M. O., Farrar, E. 1992; 256 (5055): 356-357

  Abstract

  Magnetostratigraphic studies are widely used in conjunction with the geomagnetic polarity time scale (GPTS) to date events in the range 0 to 5 million years ago. A critical tie point on the GPTS is the potassium-argon age of the most recent (Brunhes-Matuyama) geomagnetic field reversal. Astronomical values for the forcing frequencies observed in the oxygen isotope record in Ocean Drilling Project site 677 suggest that the age of this last reversal is 780 ka (thousand years ago), whereas the potassium-argon-based estimate is 730 ka. Results from 4039; Ar incremental heating studies on a series of lavas from Maui that straddle the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal give an age of 783 + 11 ka, in agreement with the astronomically derived value. The astronomically based technique appears to be a viable tool for dating young sedimentary sequences.

  View details for Web of Science ID A1992HP03200029

  View details for PubMedID 17743111

• EXHUMATION OF LATE PALEOZOIC BLUESCHISTS IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, BY EXTENSIONAL FAULTING GEOLOGY Little, T. A., Holcombe, R. J., Gibson, G. M., Offler, R., Gans, P. B., McWilliams, M. O. 1992; 20 (3): 231-234

  View details for Web of Science ID A1992HG52000010

• PALEOMAGNETIC INVESTIGATION OF UPPER PERMIAN SEDIMENTS IN THE SOUTH JUNGGAR BASIN, CHINA JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Sharps, R., Li, Y. P., McWilliams, M., Li, Y. G. 1992; 97 (B2): 1753-1765

  View details for Web of Science ID A1992HD47700006

• LATE PALEOZOIC PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM THE JUNGGAR BLOCK, NORTHWESTERN CHINA JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Li, Y. P., Sharps, R., McWilliams, M., Li, Y. G., Li, Q., Zhang, W. 1991; 96 (B10): 16047-16060

  View details for Web of Science ID A1991GH50800001

• SINIAN PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM THE TARIM BLOCK, WESTERN CHINA PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH Li, Y. P., Li, Y. G., Sharps, R., McWilliams, M., Gao, Z. G. 1991; 49 (1-2): 61-71

  View details for Web of Science ID A1991EY52300004

• A DEVONIAN PALEOMAGNETIC POLE FROM RED BEDS OF THE TARIM BLOCK, CHINA JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH AND PLANETS Li, Y. P., McWilliams, M., Sharps, R., Cox, A., Li, Y. G., Li, Q., Gao, Z. G., Zhang, Z. K., Zhai, Y. J. 1990; 95 (B12): 19185-19198

  View details for Web of Science ID A1990EH86900003

• NO RELATIVE ROTATION DETECTED BETWEEN CORSICA AND SARDINIA EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Vigliotti, L., Alvarez, W., McWilliams, M. 1990; 98 (3-4): 313-318

  View details for Web of Science ID A1990DR53200006

• APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH FROM THE TARIM BLOCK IN CHINA ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION Li, Y. P., Sharps, R., McWilliams, M., Zhang, Z. K., Li, Y., Li, Q., ZHAI, T. J., Gao, Z. J. 1990; 3 (1): 1-13

  View details for Web of Science ID A1990DB06600001

• INTENSITY OF THE EARTHS MAGNETIC-FIELD - EVIDENCE FOR A MESOZOIC DIPOLE LOW EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Prevot, M., Derder, M. E., McWilliams, M., Thompson, J. 1990; 97 (1-2): 129-139

  View details for Web of Science ID A1990CV48100011

• GEOMAGNETIC-FIELD INTENSITY IN EARLY JURASSIC - INVESTIGATION OF THE NEWARK SUPERGROUP (EASTERN NORTH-AMERICA) PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS Derder, M. E., Thompson, J., Prevot, M., McWilliams, M. 1989; 58 (2-3): 126-136

  View details for Web of Science ID A1989CC68500004

• PALEOMAGNETIC CORRELATION OF NEWARK SUPERGROUP VOLCANICS GEOLOGY Prevot, M., McWilliams, M. 1989; 17 (11): 1007-1010

  View details for Web of Science ID A1989AZ62000009

• M-SEQUENCE REVERSALS RECORDED IN DSDP SEDIMENT CORES FROM THE WESTERN MID-PACIFIC MOUNTAINS AND MAGELLAN RISE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Tarduno, J. A., Sliter, W. V., Bralower, T. J., McWilliams, M., PREMOLISILVA, I., Ogg, J. G. 1989; 101 (10): 1306-1316

  View details for Web of Science ID A1989AV57400008

• PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM LATE PALEOZOIC DIKES FROM THE NORTHWESTERN JUNGGAR BLOCK, NORTHWESTERN CHINA EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Li, Y. P., Sharps, R., McWilliams, M., Nur, A., Li, Y. G., Li, Q., Zhang, W. 1989; 94 (1-2): 123-130

  View details for Web of Science ID A1989AM74600010

• PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS MAUDLOW AND LIVINGSTON FORMATIONS, SOUTHWEST MONTANA GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Swenson, P., McWilliams, M. 1989; 16 (7): 669-672

  View details for Web of Science ID A1989AF07100018

• ELEMENTS OF THE ARCHEAN THERMAL HISTORY AND APPARENT POLAR WANDER OF THE EASTERN KAAPVAAL CRATON, SWAZILAND, FROM SINGLE GRAIN DATING AND PALEOMAGNETISM EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Layer, P. W., Kroner, A., McWilliams, M., York, D. 1989; 93 (1): 23-34

  View details for Web of Science ID A1989AA88800003

• LOWER PERMIAN PALEOMAGNETISM OF THE TARIM BLOCK, NORTHWESTERN CHINA EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Sharps, R., McWilliams, M., Li, Y. P., Cox, A., Zhang, Z. K., Zhai, Y. J., Gao, Z. J., Li, Y. G., Li, Q. 1989; 92 (3-4): 275-291

  View details for Web of Science ID A1989U449800001

• PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM GRANITIC BASEMENT ROCKS IN THE CAJON PASS SCIENTIFIC DRILLHOLE GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS McWilliams, M., Pinto, M. J. 1988; 15 (9): 1069-1072

  View details for Web of Science ID A1988Q101000036

• REGIONAL MAGNETIC OVERPRINTING OF WITWATERSRAND SUPERGROUP SEDIMENTS, SOUTH-AFRICA JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH AND PLANETS Layer, P. W., Kroner, A., McWilliams, M., Clauer, N. 1988; 93 (B3): 2191-2200

  View details for Web of Science ID A1988M578300012

• LATE PERMIAN PALEOMAGNETIC POLE FROM DIKES OF THE TARIM CRATON, CHINA GEOLOGY Li, Y. P., McWilliams, M., Cox, A., Sharps, R., Li, Y. G., Gao, Z. G., Zhang, Z. K., ZHAI, Y. G. 1988; 16 (3): 275-278

  View details for Web of Science ID A1988M656100020

• MESOZOIC PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS OF THE TARIM CRATON - TERTIARY RELATIVE MOTION BETWEEN CHINA AND SIBERIA GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Li, Y. P., Zhang, Z. K., McWilliams, M., Sharps, R., Zhai, Y. J., Li, Y. G., Li, Q., Cox, A. 1988; 15 (3): 217-220

  View details for Web of Science ID A1988M527000005

• PALEOMAGNETISM AND AGE OF THE ARCHEAN USUSHWANA COMPLEX, SOUTHERN-AFRICA JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH AND PLANETS Layer, P. W., Kroner, A., McWilliams, M., BURGHELE, A. 1988; 93 (B1): 449-457

  View details for Web of Science ID A1988L844600012

• CENOZOIC EXTENSION AND TILTING RECORDED IN UPPER CRETACEOUS AND TERTIARY ROCKS AT THE HALL MOLYBDENUM DEPOSIT, NORTHERN SAN-ANTONIO MOUNTAINS, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Shaver, S. A., McWilliams, M. 1987; 99 (3): 341-353

  View details for Web of Science ID A1987K013200004

• APPLICATION OF PALEOMAGNETISM TO ACCRETIONARY TECTONICS AND STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS HILLHOUSE, J. W., McWilliams, M. O. 1987; 25 (5): 951-959

  View details for Web of Science ID A1987J073800021

• DATING RECENT HAWAIIAN LAVA FLOWS USING PALEOMAGNETIC SECULAR VARIATION GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Holcomb, R., Champion, D., McWilliams, M. 1986; 97 (7): 829-839

  View details for Web of Science ID A1986D275400005

• SOUTHERN-HEMISPHERE ORIGIN OF THE CRETACEOUS LAYTONVILLE LIMESTONE OF CALIFORNIA SCIENCE Tarduno, J. A., McWilliams, M., Sliter, W. V., Cook, H. E., Blake, M. C., PREMOLISILVA, I. 1986; 231 (4744): 1425-1428

  Abstract

  New paleomagnetic, paleontologic, and stratigraphic data from outcrops of the Laytonville Limestone (101 to 88 million years old) support a Southern Hemisphere origin. A paleomagnetic megaconglomerate test is statistically significant and suggests magnetization at 14 degrees +/- 5 degrees south, predating Late Cretaceous to Eocene (70 to 50 million years ago) accretion. Rapid Kula plate movement or the existence and demise of a now vanished oceanic plate (or both) are required to accommodate the greater than 50 degrees of poleward displacement implied by the paleomagnetic data. This rapid motion brings into question the validity of a "speed limit" for absolute plate velocity based on present-day plate motions.

  View details for Web of Science ID A1986A391100035

  View details for PubMedID 17748086

• FRANCISCAN COMPLEX CALERA LIMESTONES - ACCRETED REMNANTS OF FARALLON PLATE OCEANIC PLATEAUS NATURE Tarduno, J. A., McWilliams, M., DEBICHE, M. G., Sliter, W. V., Blake, M. C. 1985; 317 (6035): 345-347

  View details for Web of Science ID A1985ARF9100038

• OROCLINAL BENDING OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA-NEVADA BATHOLITH SCIENCE McWilliams, M., Li, Y. P. 1985; 230 (4722): 172-175

  Abstract

  Structural, magmatic, and isotopic features of the southern Sierra Nevada batholith are deflected clockwise with respect to its central and northern parts. Directions of magnetization at three localities in the southern Sierra Nevada are progressively deflected; this is consistent with the hypothesis that the region was tectonically rotated in an orocline. No paleomagnetic deflection was observed northwest of the White Wolf-Kern Canyon fault system. Oroclinal bending ofa block bounded by the San Andreas, Garlock, and White Wolf-Kern Canyon faults may have occurred before about 16 x l0(6) years ago. The deformation may have been a response to shear at the western boundary of the North American plate caused by oblique subduction.

  View details for Web of Science ID A1985ARS2500024

  View details for PubMedID 17842695

• MESOZOIC PALEOMAGNETISM AND NORTHWARD TRANSLATION OF THE BAJA-CALIFORNIA PENINSULA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN Hagstrum, J. T., McWilliams, M., HOWELL, D. G., GROMME, S. 1985; 96 (8): 1077-1090

  View details for Web of Science ID A1985APG6400011

• CONFIDENCE-LIMITS ON NET TECTONIC ROTATION GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS McWilliams, M. 1984; 11 (9): 825-827

  View details for Web of Science ID A1984TJ38500006

• PALEOMAGNETISM AND THE MOTION OF LARGE AND SMALL PLATES REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS McWilliams, M. O. 1983; 21 (3): 644-651

  View details for Web of Science ID A1983QW96900021

• ROTATION OF THE SOUTHERNMOST SIERRA-NEVADA, CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH Kanter, L. R., McWilliams, M. O. 1982; 87 (NB5): 3819-3830

  View details for Web of Science ID A1982NP45600017

• GEOMAGNETIC SECULAR VARIATION FROM C-14-DATED LAVA FLOWS ON HAWAII AND THE QUESTION OF THE PACIFIC NON-DIPOLE LOW PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES McWilliams, M. O., Holcomb, R. T., Champion, D. E. 1982; 306 (1492): 211-222

  View details for Web of Science ID A1982PE24500022

• EXOTIC TERRANES OF WESTERN CALIFORNIA NATURE McWilliams, M. O., HOWELL, D. G. 1982; 297 (5863): 215-217

  View details for Web of Science ID A1982NQ48500033

• PALEOMAGNETISM AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE PAN-AFRICAN DAMARA BELT, SOUTHERN-AFRICA JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH McWilliams, M. O., Kroner, A. 1981; 86 (NB6): 5147-5162

  View details for Web of Science ID A1981LV58400024

• PALEOMAGNETISM OF LATE PRECAMBRIAN TO EARLY PALEOZOIC MIXTITE-BEARING FORMATIONS IN NAMIBIA (SOUTH-WEST-AFRICA) - THE NAMA GROUP AND BLAUBEKER FORMATION AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE Kroner, A., McWilliams, M. O., Germs, G. J., Reid, A. B., SCHALK, K. E. 1980; 280 (9): 942-968

  View details for Web of Science ID A1980KQ83700005

• PRE-TERTIARY VELOCITIES OF THE CONTINENTS - LOWER BOUND FROM PALEOMAGNETIC DATA JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH Gordon, R. G., McWilliams, M. O., Cox, A. 1979; 84 (NB10): 5480-5486

  View details for Web of Science ID A1979HP33400010