List of works - William R. Dickinson

A century of Cordilleran research

scientific article published in 1999

Age and tectonic setting of the Mesozoic McCoy Mountains Formation in western Arizona, USA

scholarly article

Alluvial to Marine Facies Transition in the Antler Overlap Sequence, Pennsylvanian and Permian of North-Central Nevada

scientific article published in 1982

Alternate Origins of the Coast Range Ophiolite (California): Introduction and Implications ⬇️

Among Polynesia's first pots

scientific article published in May 2010

Bidahochi Paleogeography and Incision of the Grand Canyon ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Ceramic petrography and cultural interaction in Palau, Micronesia

scientific article published in September 2003

Chemical Characterization of Micronesian Ceramics Through Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis: A Preliminary Provenance Study

scientific article published in November 2001

Comment and Reply on "Discordant paleomagnetic poles from the Canadian Coast Plutonic Complex: Regional tilt rather than large displacement?"

article

Comment and Reply on “Time-thickness bar diagrams: Simultaneous display of lithostratigraphic thickness and chronostratigraphic range”: REPLY

scholarly article

Comment on "Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He evidence for an ancient Grand Canyon"

scientific article published in April 2013

Comment on “Shallow magnetic inclinations in the Cretaceous Valle Group, Baja California: Remagnetization, compaction, or terrane translation?” by Douglas P. Smith and Cathy J. Busby

scientific article published in February 1995

Contractional nature of Devonian-Mississippian Antler tectonism along the North American continental margin

scholarly article

Cordilleran sedimentary assemblages

academic chapter

Cretaceous Sinistral Strike Slip Along Nacimiento Fault in Coastal California

scientific article published in 1983

Detrital modes of upper Paleozoic sandstones derived from Antler Orogen in Nevada; implications for nature of Antler Orogeny

Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of the Roberts Mountains allochthon: New insights into the early Paleozoic tectonics of western North America

scientific article published on 7 April 2016

Detrital zircon geochronology of the Antler overlap and foreland basin assemblages, Nevada

scientific article published in 2000

Detrital zircon reference for Cambrian to Triassic miogeoclinal strata of western North America

scientific article published in 1995

Detrital zircons from fluvial Jurassic strata of the Michigan basin: Implications for the transcontinental Jurassic paleoriver hypothesis

article

Detrital zircons from fluvial Jurassic strata of the Michigan basin: Implications for the transcontinental Jurassic paleoriver hypothesis: REPLY

article

Detrital-zircon U-Pb evidence precludes paleo–Colorado River sediment in the exposed Muddy Creek Formation of the Virgin River depression

scientific article published in December 2014

Dilemma of a Cretaceous Time Scale and Rates of Sea-Floor Spreading

scholarly article

Earliest Pottery on New Guinea Mainland Reveals Austronesian Influences in Highland Environments 3000 Years Ago.

scientific article

Eureka Valley Tuff, East-Central California and Adjacent Nevada

scholarly article

Evolution of the North American Cordillera

article

Exxon global cycle chart: An event for every occasion?: Comments and Reply

article

First paleoenvironmental interpretation of a pre-Quaternary rock-varnish site, Davidson Canyon, southern Arizona

article

Generic types of stratigraphic cycles controlled by eustasy

article

Generic types of stratigraphic cycles controlled by eustasy: Comment and Reply

scientific article published in 1995

Geological perspectives on the Monte Verde archeological site in Chile and pre-Clovis coastal migration in the Americas

article

Geometry of Subducted Slabs Related to San Andreas Transform

article

Geometry of triple junctions related to San Andreas Transform

scientific article published in 1979

Geotectonic evolution of the Great Basin

article

Impact of differential zircon fertility of granitoid basement rocks in North America on age populations of detrital zircons and implications for granite petrogenesis

scientific article published in October 2008

Insights into North American Paleogeography and Paleotectonics from U–Pb ages of detrital zircons in Mesozoic strata of the Colorado Plateau, USA

article

Introduction: Making the Southern Margin of Laurentia

scientific article published in December 2010

Laurentian Sources for Detrital Zircon Grains in Turbidite and Deltaic Sandstones of the Pennsylvanian Haymond Formation, Marathon Assemblage, West Texas, U.S.A

scientific article published in November 2007

Low-angle normal-fault system along the range front of the southwestern Galiuro Mountains in southeastern Arizona

scientific article

Making composite continents

scientific article published in Nature

Mesozoic Paleogeography and Paleotectonics, Suplee-Izee and Aldrich Mountains Inlier, Central Oregon: ABSTRACT

Mesozoic forearc basin in central Oregon

scholarly article

Nd isotopes link Ouachita turbidites to Appalachian sources

scientific article

Nd isotopes link Ouachita turbidites to Appalachian sources: Comment and Reply

scientific article published in 1995

Net Dextral Slip, Neogene San Gregorio-Hosgri Fault Zone, Coastal California: Geologic Evidence and Tectonic Implications ⬇️

Origin and significance of a founding settlement in Polynesia

scientific article (publication date: 25 September 2001)

Pacific Atoll Living: How Long Already and Until When

article

Paleoproterozoic orogenesis and quartz-arenite deposition in the Little Chino Valley area, Yavapai tectonic province, central Arizona, USA

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

Petrologic Intervals and Petrofacies in the Great Valley Sequence, Sacramento Valley, California

scientific article published in 1972

Petrology and diagenesis of Jurassic andesitic strata in central Oregon

scientific article published in September 1962

Phanerozoic palinspastic reconstructions of Great Basin geotectonics (Nevada-Utah, USA)

scientific article published on 14 August 2013

Plainware ceramics from Sāmoa: Insights into ceramic chronology, cultural transmission, and selection among colonizing populations

article

Plate Tectonics and Sandstone Compositions

article

Plate Tectonics and Sedimentation

scientific article published in 1974

Plate settings and provenance of sands in modern ocean basins

scientific article

Plate tectonics of the Laramide orogeny

article

Plate-Tectonic Evolution of Sacramento Valley, California: ABSTRACT

Potash-Depth (K-h) Relations in Continental Margin and Intra-Oceanic Magmatic Arcs

article

Provenance of North American Phanerozoic sandstones in relation to tectonic setting

scientific article published in 1983

Quaternary History of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Reappraisal of hypothetical Franciscan thrust wedging at Coalinga: Implications for tectonic relations along the Great Valley flank of the California Coast Ranges

scientific article published on 12 September 2002

Reconciliation of San Andreas slip discrepancy by a combination of interior Basin and Range extension and transrotation near the coast

scholarly article

Recycling detrital zircons: A case study from the Cretaceous Bisbee Group of southern Arizona

scholarly article

Reevaluation of the Crooked Ridge River—Early Pleistocene (ca. 2 Ma) age and origin of the White Mesa alluvium, northeastern Arizona

scientific article published in 2016

Reinterpretation of Lime Peak thrust as a low-angle normal fault: Implications for the tectonics of southeastern Arizona

scholarly article

Relations of andesites, granites, and derivative sandstones to arc-Trench tectonics

scientific article published in 1970

Remnant-ocean submarine fans: Largest sedimentary systems on Earth

scientific article published in 2003

Sand temper of probable Fijian origin in prehistoric potsherds from Tuvalu

Scientists should be heard, but not expect to set policy

journal article; published in Nature on 2006-03-22

Sediment delivery to the Cordilleran foreland basin: Insights from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous strata of the Colorado Plateau

scientific article published in 2008

Sedimentary Serpentinite of the Miocene Big Blue Formation Near Cantua Creek, California: ABSTRACT

Sedimentary basins developed during evolution of Mesozoic–Cenozoic arc–trench system in western North America

article

Sedimentation of volcaniclastic strata of the Pliocene Koroimavua group in northwest Viti Levu, Fiji

Sourcing Olive Jars Using U-Pb Ages of Detrital Zircons: A Study of 16th Century Olive Jars Recovered from the Solomon Islands

Sourcing temper sands in ancient ceramics with U–Pb ages of detrital zircons: a southwest Pacific test case

scientific article published in July 2012

Spatial digital database of the geologic map of Catalina Core Complex and San Pedro Trough, Pima, Pinal, Gila, Graham, and Cochise counties, Arizona

scientific article published in 2002

Stone tools from the ancient Tongan state reveal prehistoric interaction centers in the Central Pacific.

scientific article

Stratigraphic trends in detrital zircon geochronology of upper Neoproterozoic and Cambrian strata, Osgood Mountains, Nevada, and elsewhere in the Cordilleran miogeocline: Evidence for early Cambrian uplift of the Transcontinental Arch

scientific article published in December 2014

Stratigraphy and Structure of Compressional Continental Margins: ABSTRACT

Structure and Stratigraphy of Forearc Regions

Subduction and Oil Migration

article

Tectonic implications of space-time patterns of Cenozoic magmatism in the western United States

scientific article published in September 1976

Tectonosedimentary Relations of Pennsylvanian to Jurassic Strata on the Colorado Plateau

article

The Basin and Range Province as a Composite Extensional Domain

article

The Gulf of Mexico and the southern margin of Laurentia

scholarly article

The Lapita Occupation at Naitabale, Moturiki Island, Central Fiji ⬇️

The Paleogene California River: Evidence of Mojave-Uinta paleodrainage from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons

article

The Paleogene California River—Evidence of Mojave-Uinta Paleodrainage from U-Pb Ages of Detrital Zircons ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

The place of the Great Basin in the Cordilleran orogeny

scientific article published in 2011

Three-Dimensional Evolution of the Early Paleozoic Western Laurentian Margin: New Insights From Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Hf Isotope Geochemistry of the Harmony Formation of Nevada

scientific article published in November 2017

Time-thickness bar diagrams: Simultaneous display of lithostratigraphic thickness and chronostratigraphic range

scientific article

Times of sand: Sedimentary history and archaeology at the Sigatoka Dunes, Fiji

article

U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in Jurassic eolian and associated sandstones of the Colorado Plateau: Evidence for transcontinental dispersal and intraregional recycling of sediment

article

Use of U–Pb ages of detrital zircons to infer maximum depositional ages of strata: A test against a Colorado Plateau Mesozoic database

article

U–Pb ages of detrital zircons from Permian and Jurassic eolian sandstones of the Colorado Plateau, USA: paleogeographic implications

scientific article published in December 2003

Waterfall is the clue to a case of mistaken identity

scientific article published in Nature

List of works by William R. Dickinson

A century of Cordilleran research

Age and tectonic setting of the Mesozoic McCoy Mountains Formation in western Arizona, USA

Alluvial to Marine Facies Transition in the Antler Overlap Sequence, Pennsylvanian and Permian of North-Central Nevada

Alternate Origins of the Coast Range Ophiolite (California): Introduction and Implications ⬇️

Among Polynesia's first pots

Bidahochi Paleogeography and Incision of the Grand Canyon ⬇️

Ceramic petrography and cultural interaction in Palau, Micronesia

Chemical Characterization of Micronesian Ceramics Through Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis: A Preliminary Provenance Study

Comment and Reply on "Discordant paleomagnetic poles from the Canadian Coast Plutonic Complex: Regional tilt rather than large displacement?"

Comment and Reply on “Time-thickness bar diagrams: Simultaneous display of lithostratigraphic thickness and chronostratigraphic range”: REPLY

Comment on "Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He evidence for an ancient Grand Canyon"

Comment on “Shallow magnetic inclinations in the Cretaceous Valle Group, Baja California: Remagnetization, compaction, or terrane translation?” by Douglas P. Smith and Cathy J. Busby

Contractional nature of Devonian-Mississippian Antler tectonism along the North American continental margin

Cordilleran sedimentary assemblages

Cretaceous Sinistral Strike Slip Along Nacimiento Fault in Coastal California

Detrital modes of upper Paleozoic sandstones derived from Antler Orogen in Nevada; implications for nature of Antler Orogeny

Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of the Roberts Mountains allochthon: New insights into the early Paleozoic tectonics of western North America

Detrital zircon geochronology of the Antler overlap and foreland basin assemblages, Nevada

Detrital zircon reference for Cambrian to Triassic miogeoclinal strata of western North America

Detrital zircons from fluvial Jurassic strata of the Michigan basin: Implications for the transcontinental Jurassic paleoriver hypothesis

Detrital zircons from fluvial Jurassic strata of the Michigan basin: Implications for the transcontinental Jurassic paleoriver hypothesis: REPLY

Detrital-zircon U-Pb evidence precludes paleo–Colorado River sediment in the exposed Muddy Creek Formation of the Virgin River depression

Dilemma of a Cretaceous Time Scale and Rates of Sea-Floor Spreading

Earliest Pottery on New Guinea Mainland Reveals Austronesian Influences in Highland Environments 3000 Years Ago.

Eureka Valley Tuff, East-Central California and Adjacent Nevada

Evolution of the North American Cordillera

Exxon global cycle chart: An event for every occasion?: Comments and Reply

First paleoenvironmental interpretation of a pre-Quaternary rock-varnish site, Davidson Canyon, southern Arizona

Generic types of stratigraphic cycles controlled by eustasy

Generic types of stratigraphic cycles controlled by eustasy: Comment and Reply

Geological perspectives on the Monte Verde archeological site in Chile and pre-Clovis coastal migration in the Americas

Geometry of Subducted Slabs Related to San Andreas Transform

Geometry of triple junctions related to San Andreas Transform

Geotectonic evolution of the Great Basin

Impact of differential zircon fertility of granitoid basement rocks in North America on age populations of detrital zircons and implications for granite petrogenesis

Insights into North American Paleogeography and Paleotectonics from U–Pb ages of detrital zircons in Mesozoic strata of the Colorado Plateau, USA

Introduction: Making the Southern Margin of Laurentia

Laurentian Sources for Detrital Zircon Grains in Turbidite and Deltaic Sandstones of the Pennsylvanian Haymond Formation, Marathon Assemblage, West Texas, U.S.A

Low-angle normal-fault system along the range front of the southwestern Galiuro Mountains in southeastern Arizona

Making composite continents

Mesozoic Paleogeography and Paleotectonics, Suplee-Izee and Aldrich Mountains Inlier, Central Oregon: ABSTRACT

Mesozoic forearc basin in central Oregon

Nd isotopes link Ouachita turbidites to Appalachian sources

Nd isotopes link Ouachita turbidites to Appalachian sources: Comment and Reply

Net Dextral Slip, Neogene San Gregorio-Hosgri Fault Zone, Coastal California: Geologic Evidence and Tectonic Implications ⬇️

Origin and significance of a founding settlement in Polynesia

Pacific Atoll Living: How Long Already and Until When

Paleoproterozoic orogenesis and quartz-arenite deposition in the Little Chino Valley area, Yavapai tectonic province, central Arizona, USA

Petrologic Intervals and Petrofacies in the Great Valley Sequence, Sacramento Valley, California

Petrology and diagenesis of Jurassic andesitic strata in central Oregon

Phanerozoic palinspastic reconstructions of Great Basin geotectonics (Nevada-Utah, USA)

Plainware ceramics from Sāmoa: Insights into ceramic chronology, cultural transmission, and selection among colonizing populations

Plate Tectonics and Sandstone Compositions

Plate Tectonics and Sedimentation

Plate settings and provenance of sands in modern ocean basins

Plate tectonics of the Laramide orogeny

Plate-Tectonic Evolution of Sacramento Valley, California: ABSTRACT

Potash-Depth (K-h) Relations in Continental Margin and Intra-Oceanic Magmatic Arcs

Provenance of North American Phanerozoic sandstones in relation to tectonic setting

Quaternary History of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado ⬇️

Reappraisal of hypothetical Franciscan thrust wedging at Coalinga: Implications for tectonic relations along the Great Valley flank of the California Coast Ranges

Reconciliation of San Andreas slip discrepancy by a combination of interior Basin and Range extension and transrotation near the coast

Recycling detrital zircons: A case study from the Cretaceous Bisbee Group of southern Arizona

Reevaluation of the Crooked Ridge River—Early Pleistocene (ca. 2 Ma) age and origin of the White Mesa alluvium, northeastern Arizona

Reinterpretation of Lime Peak thrust as a low-angle normal fault: Implications for the tectonics of southeastern Arizona

Relations of andesites, granites, and derivative sandstones to arc-Trench tectonics

Remnant-ocean submarine fans: Largest sedimentary systems on Earth

Sand temper of probable Fijian origin in prehistoric potsherds from Tuvalu

Scientists should be heard, but not expect to set policy

Sediment delivery to the Cordilleran foreland basin: Insights from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous strata of the Colorado Plateau

Sedimentary Serpentinite of the Miocene Big Blue Formation Near Cantua Creek, California: ABSTRACT

Sedimentary basins developed during evolution of Mesozoic–Cenozoic arc–trench system in western North America

Sedimentation of volcaniclastic strata of the Pliocene Koroimavua group in northwest Viti Levu, Fiji

Sourcing Olive Jars Using U-Pb Ages of Detrital Zircons: A Study of 16th Century Olive Jars Recovered from the Solomon Islands

Sourcing temper sands in ancient ceramics with U–Pb ages of detrital zircons: a southwest Pacific test case

Spatial digital database of the geologic map of Catalina Core Complex and San Pedro Trough, Pima, Pinal, Gila, Graham, and Cochise counties, Arizona

Stone tools from the ancient Tongan state reveal prehistoric interaction centers in the Central Pacific.

Stratigraphic trends in detrital zircon geochronology of upper Neoproterozoic and Cambrian strata, Osgood Mountains, Nevada, and elsewhere in the Cordilleran miogeocline: Evidence for early Cambrian uplift of the Transcontinental Arch

Stratigraphy and Structure of Compressional Continental Margins: ABSTRACT