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40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic constraints on deformation, metamorphism and cooling/exhumation of a Mesozoic accretionary wedge, Otago Schist, New Zealand

scientific article published in July 2004

40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and thermobarometry of metamorphism, plutonism, and tectonic denudation in the Old Woman Mountains area, California

scientific article published in February 1992

40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the Pan-African Damara Orogen, Namibia, with implications for tectonothermal and geodynamic evolution

40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the southern Gawler Craton, Australia: Implications for Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic tectonics of East Gondwana and Rodinia

scientific article published on 10 May 1998

A Damara orogen perspective on the assembly of southwestern Gondwana

A geochronological framework for orogenic gold mineralisation in central Victoria, Australia

scientific article published in December 2001

Accreted Turbidite Fans and Remnant Ocean Basins in Phanerozoic Orogens: A Template for a Significant Precambrian Crustal Growth and Recycling Process

scientific article published on 27 November 2013

Ancient and juvenile components in the continental crust and mantle: Hf isotopes in zircon from Svecofennian magmatic rocks and rapakivi granites in Sweden

scholarly article by U.B. Andersson et al published December 2011 in Lithosphere

Assembly of central Gondwana along the Zambezi Belt: Metamorphic response and basement reactivation during the Kuunga Orogeny

scientific article published in April 2020

Birth of the East African Rift System: Nucleation of magmatism and strain in the Turkana Depression

scholarly article

Character and kinematics of faults within the turbidite-dominated Lachlan Orogen: implications for tectonic evolution of eastern Australia

scientific article published in December 1998

Character and kinematics of faults within the turbidite-dominated Lachlan Orogen: implications for tectonic evolution of eastern Australia: Reply

scientific article published in April 2000

Chronology and tectonic framework of turbidite-hosted gold deposits in the Western Lachlan Fold Belt, Victoria: – results

scientific article published in April 1998

Chronology of deformation within the turbidite-dominated, Lachlan orogen: Implications for the tectonic evolution of eastern Australia and Gondwana

scientific article published in June 1999

Contemporaneous Paleogene arc-magmatism within continental and accreted oceanic arc complexes in the northwestern Andes and Panama

scientific article published in December 2019

Continental Growth and Recycling in Convergent Orogens with Large Turbidite Fans on Oceanic Crust

article published in 2013

Continental growth and recycling by accretion of deformed turbidite fans and remnant ocean basins: Examples from Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic orogens

scientific article published in January 2007

Crustal shear-wave velocity structure of central Idaho and eastern Oregon from ambient seismic noise: Results from the IDOR Project

scientific article

Crustal structure beneath the Blue Mountains terranes and cratonic North America, eastern Oregon, and Idaho, from teleseismic receiver functions

scientific article

Deformation correlations, stress field switches and evolution of an orogenic intersection: The Pan-African Kaoko-Damara orogenic junction, Namibia

scientific article published in November 2017

Denudation of metamorphic core complexes and the reconstruction of the transition zone, West central Arizona: Constraints from apatite fission track thermochronology

scientific article published on 10 February 1993

Determining the cooling history of in situ lower oceanic crust—Atlantis Bank, SW Indian Ridge

scientific article published in May 2004

Detrital mineral chronology of the Uinta Mountain Group: Implications for the Grenville flood in southwestern Laurentia

scholarly article

Detrital zircon U-Pb data from the Hellenic south Aegean belts: Constraints on the age and source of the South Aegean basement

Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology, Lu–Hf isotopes and REE geochemistry constrains on the provenance and tectonic setting of Indochina Block in the Paleozoic

scientific article published in May 2016

Detrital zircon ages: A key to unraveling provenance variations in the eastern Yinggehai–Song Hong Basin, South China Sea

scientific article published in July 2019

Detrital-zircon geochronology of the Sawtooth metamorphic complex, Idaho: Evidence for metamorphosed lower Paleozoic shelf strata within the Idaho batholith

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

Did the Delamerian Orogeny Start in the Neoproterozoic?

scholarly article

Divergent double subduction:Tectonic and petrologic consequences: Comment and Reply

scholarly article

Early Miocene CO2 estimates from a Neotropical fossil leaf assemblage exceed 400 ppm

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Equatorial paleomagnetic time-averaged field results from 0-5 Ma lavas from Kenya and the latitudinal variation of angular dispersion

scientific article

Event geochronology of the Pan-African Kaoko Belt, Namibia

scientific article published in November 2005

Evolution and Structure of the Lachlan Fold Belt (Orogen) of Eastern Australia

scientific article published in May 2000

Exhumation of the Panama basement complex and basins: Implications for the closure of the Central American seaway

scientific article published in May 2016

Exhumation, crustal deformation, and thermal structure of the Nepal Himalaya derived from the inversion of thermochronological and thermobarometric data and modeling of the topography

scholarly article by Frédéric Herman et al published 24 June 2010 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Extension of the Anaconda metamorphic core complex: 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and implications for Eocene tectonics of the northern Rocky Mountains and the Boulder batholith

scientific article published in 2010

Extensional deformation along the southern boundary of the Gyeonggi Massif, South Korea: structural characteristics, age constraints, and tectonic implications

scientific article published in 2013

First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange

scientific article

Fission track data from the Bathurst Batholith: Evidence for rapid mid‐Cretaceous uplift and erosion within the eastern highlands of Australia

Fission-Track Thermochronology in Structural Geology and Tectonic Studies

academic chapter

Formation of a metamorphic complex along an obliquely convergent margin: Structural and thermochronological evolution of the Chugach Metamorphic Complex, southern Alaska

scientific article published in April 2011

From the Alleghanian to the Atlantic: Extensional collapse of the southernmost Appalachian orogen

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Gangdese arc detritus within the eastern Himalayan Neogene foreland basin: Implications for the Neogene evolution of the Yalu–Brahmaputra River system

scientific article published in July 2009

Geodynamics of Cenozoic extension along a transect across the Colorado River extensional corridor, southwestern USA

scientific article published in 2018

Heterogeneous Neogene cooling and exhumation of the Los Cabos block, southern Baja California: Evidence from fission-track thermochronology

scholarly article

How the Harcuvar Mountains metamorphic core complex became cool: Evidence from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry

scholarly article

Influence of Rift Superposition on Lithospheric Response to East African Rift System Extension: Lapur Range, Turkana, Kenya

scholarly article by Samuel C. Boone et al published January 2018 in Tectonics

Kinematics and timing of exhumation of metamorphic core complexes along the Lewis and Clark fault zone, northern Rocky Mountains, USA

scientific article published in 2007

Late-stage evolution of the Chemehuevi and Sacramento detachment faults from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry--Evidence for mid-Miocene accelerated slip

scientific article

Limits on the tectonic significance of rapid cooling events in extensional settings: Insights from the Bitterroot metamorphic core complex, Idaho-Montana: Comment and Reply

scientific article published in 1995

Linking Late Pleistocene alpine glacial erosion and continental margin sedimentation: Insights from 40Ar/39Ar dating of silt-sized sediment, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand

scientific article published in January 2016

Long-term erosion and exhumation of the “Altiplano Antioqueño”, Northern Andes (Colombia) from apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronology

scholarly article by Sergio A. Restrepo-Moreno et al published 15 February 2009 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Low-temperature thermochronological record of exhumation of the Bitterroot metamorphic core complex, northern Cordilleran Orogen

scientific article published in May 2002

Lu–Hf systematics of magmatic zircons reveal a Proterozoic crustal boundary under the Cretaceous Pioneer batholith, Montana

scientific article published in June 2012

Magma mixing and mingling between synplutonic mafic dikes and granite in the Idaho-Bitterroot batholith

scientific article

Magmatic evolution in the N-Gondwana margin related to the opening of the Rheic Ocean—evidence from the Upper Parautochthon of the Galicia-Trás-os-Montes Zone and from the Central Iberian Zone (NW Iberian Massif)

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Magmatic evolution of Panama Canal volcanic rocks: A record of arc processes and tectonic change

scientific article

Magma‐facilitated transpressional strain partitioning within the Sawtooth metamorphic complex, Idaho: A zone accommodating Cretaceous orogen‐parallel translation in the Idaho batholith

scientific article published in March 2017

Mechanisms for accommodation of Miocene extension: Low-angle normal faulting, magmatism, and secondary breakaway faulting in the southern Sacramento Mountains, southeastern California

scientific article published in June 2000

Mesozoic crustal melting and metamorphism in the U.S. Cordilleran hinterland: Insights from the Sawtooth metamorphic complex, central Idaho

scientific article

Metallogenic relationships to tectonic evolution – the Lachlan Orogen, Australia

scientific article published in August 2002

Metamorphic response and crustal architecture in a classic collisional orogen: The Damara Belt, Namibia

scientific article published in December 2017

Metamorphic response to collision in the Central Himalayan Orogen

scientific article published in May 2018

Metamorphic response within different subduction–obduction settings preserved on the NE Arabian margin

scientific article published in July 2020

Middle tertiary hydrothermal activity and uplift of the northern flinders ranges, South Australia: Insights from apatite fission‐track thermochronology

Miocene regional hotspot-related uplift, exhumation, and extension north of the Snake River Plain: Evidence from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology

scientific article published in 2014

Morphotectonic and Orogenic Development of the Northern Andes of Colombia: A Low-Temperature Thermochronology Perspective

scientific article published in 2019

Multiple post-depositional thermal events in the Drummond Basin, Australia: Evidence from apatite and zircon (U Th)/He thermochronology

scientific article published in September 2019

Multiple postorogenic denudation events: An example from the eastern Lachlan fold belt, Australia

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Neoarchaean metamorphic evolution of the Yilgarn Craton: A record of subduction, accretion, extension and lithospheric delamination

scientific article published in December 2019

Ophiolite accretion in the Lachlan Orogen, Southeastern Australia

scientific article published in January 2004

Origin of the white shark Carcharodon (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) based on recalibration of the Upper Neogene Pisco Formation of Peru

article by Dana J. Ehret et al published November 2012 in Palaeontology

Palaeozoic Lachlan orogen, Australia; accretion and construction of continental crust in a marginal ocean setting: isotopic evidence from Cambrian metavolcanic rocks

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Peralkaline and alkaline magmatism of the Ossa-Morena zone (SW Iberia): Age, source, and implications for the Paleozoic evolution of Gondwanan lithosphere

scientific article published in 2015

Petrology and geochemistry of Alkaline Basalts and Gabbroic xenoliths from Utila Island (Bay Islands, Honduras): Insights into back - Arc processes in the Central American Volcanic Arc

scientific article published in January 2020

Post-orogenic (<1500 Ma) thermal history of the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic, Mt. Isa province, NE Australia

scientific article published in May 2002

Precambrian Crustal Evolution in the Great Falls Tectonic Zone: Insights from Xenoliths from the Montana Alkali Province

scientific article published in September 2014

Proterozoic evolution of the western margin of the Wyoming craton: implications for the tectonic and magmatic evolution of the northern Rocky Mountains

scholarly article

Provenance and Drainage Evolution of the Red River Revealed by Pb Isotopic Analysis of Detrital K‐Feldspar

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Provenance of Eocene–Oligocene sediments in the San Jacinto Fold Belt: Paleogeographic and geodynamic implications for the northern Andes and the southern Caribbean

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Quantifying tectonic exhumation in an extensional orogen with thermochronology: examples from the southern Basin and Range Province

scientific article published in 1999

Rapid Exhumation of High-Pressure Metamorphic Rocks in Kythera-Peloponnese (Greece) Revealed by Apatite (U-Th)/He Thermochronology

article by Antonios E. Marsellos et al published July 2014 in The Journal of Geology

Rapid Pliocene exhumation in the Karakoram (Pakistan), revealed by fission-track thermochronology of the K2 gneiss

scholarly article by David A. Foster et al published 1994 in Geology

Rapid exhumation of deep crust in an obliquely convergent orogen: The Kaoko Belt of the Damara Orogen

scientific article published on 2 July 2009

Reactivated tectonic boundaries and implications for the reconstruction of southeastern Australia and northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

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Refrigeration of the western Cordilleran lithosphere during Laramide shallow-angle subduction

scholarly article

Relationships between crustal partial melting, plutonism, orogeny, and exhumation: Idaho–Bitterroot batholith

scientific article published in December 2001

Rheological control on the tectonic evolution of a continental suture zone: the Variscan example from NW Iberia (Spain)

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Strain rate in Paleozoic thrust sheets, the western Lachlan Orogen, Australia: Strain analysis and fabric geochronology

scientific article published in 2007

Structural style and crustal architecture of the Tasmanides of eastern Australia: Example of a composite accretionary orogen

scientific article published in 2006

Structural, metamorphic, and geochronologic constraints on the origin of the Clearwater core complex, northern Idaho

scientific article published in 2007

Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation

scientific article published in October 2002

Tectono-thermal evolution of a long-lived segment of the East African Rift System: Thermochronological insights from the North Lokichar Basin, Turkana, Kenya

scientific article published in October 2018

Temporal Calibration and Biochronology of the Centenario Fauna, Early Miocene of Panama

scholarly article

Tethyan- and Cordilleran-type ophiolites of eastern Australia: implications for the evolution of the Tasmanides

scientific article published in January 2003

The 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the eastern Mojave Desert, California, and adjacent western Arizona with implications for the evolution of metamorphic core complexes

scholarly article

The Evolution of the Damara Orogenic System: A Record of West Gondwana Assembly and Crustal Response

scientific article published in 2018

The Northern Sacramento Mountains, southwest United States. Part II: Exhumation history and detachment faulting

scientific article published in January 1999

The Plume to Plate Transition: Hadean and Archean Crustal Evolution in the Northern Wyoming Province, U.S.A

scientific article published on 27 November 2013

The Suwannee suture: Significance for Gondwana-Laurentia terrane transfer and formation of Pangaea

scientific article published in July 2014

The morphotectonic evolution of rift-margin mountains in central Kenya: Constraints from apatite fission-track thermochronology

scholarly article by David A. Foster & Andrew Gleadow published September 1992 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Thermochronologic constraints on the tectonic evolution of active metamorphic core complexes, D'entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea

scientific article published in June 1993

Thermochronologic evidence for timing of denudation and rate of crustal extension of the south mountains metamorphic core complex and sierra estrella, Arizona

Time-averaged field at the equator: Results from Ecuador

scientific article published in 2006

Timing of extension in the Pioneer metamorphic core complex with implications for the spatial-temporal pattern of Cenozoic extension and exhumation in the northern U.S. Cordillera

scientific article published in February 2012

Timing of orogenic gold mineralisation in northeastern Tasmania: implications for the tectonic and metallogenetic evolution of Palaeozoic SE Australia

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Timing of subduction and exhumation along the Cambrian East Gondwana margin, and the formation of Paleozoic backarc basins

scientific article published in 2005

Transition from subduction- to exhumation-related fabrics in glaucophane-bearing eclogites, Oman: evidence from relative fabric chronology and 40Ar/39Ar ages

scientific article published in September 2004

U-Pb zircon ages of the Wildhorse gneiss, Pioneer Mountains, south-central Idaho, and tectonic implications

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

USArray shear wave splitting shows seismic anisotropy from both lithosphere and asthenosphere

scientific article

U–Pb age and Lu–Hf isotopic data of detrital zircons from the Neoproterozoic Damara Sequence: Implications for Congo and Kalahari before Gondwana

scientific article published in 2015

Western Old Woman Mountains shear zone: Evidence for late ductile extension in the Cordilleran orogenic belt

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Zircon U-Pb geochronology and heavy mineral composition constraints on the provenance of the middle Miocene deep-water reservoir sedimentary rocks in the Yinggehai-Song Hong Basin, South China Sea

scientific article published in November 2016