Crustal Imaging and Characterization Team
USGS 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology Laboratory
Geologic Map of quadrangle 3568, Pulkhumri (503) and Charaikar (504) quadrangles, Afghaistan: Lindsay, C.R., Snee, L.W., Bohannon, R.G., Wahl, R., and Sawyer, D., in press, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-10xx.
Geologic Map of quadrangle 3570, Tagab-Munjan (505) and Samar-Kamdes (506) quadrangles, Afghanistan: Lindsay, C.R., Snee, L.W., Bohannon, R.G., Wahl, R., and Sawyer, D., in press, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-10xx.
40Ar/39Ar geochronology of hypabyssal igneous rocks in the Maranon basin of Peru: A record of thermal history, structure, and alteration: Prueher, L.M., Erlich, R., and Snee, L.W., in press, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigation Report.
Composition, age, and petrogeneisis of Late Cretaceous intrusive rocks in the central Big Belt Mountains, Broadwater and Meagher Counties, Montana: duBray, E.A., and Snee, L.W., U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 46 ms p., 18 figures, 11 tables
Geologic, geochmical, and 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb thermo-chronologic constraints for the tectonic development of the Salmon River suture zone near Orofino, Idaho: Snee, L.W., Davidson, G.F., and Unruh, D.M., in press, in Kuntz, M., ed., Geology of the Salmon River suture zone, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper, 66 ms pages, 17 figures, and 5 tables
Emerald deposits of the Panjsher Valley, Afghanistan-preliminary assessment of geologic setting and origin of the deposits: L.W. Snee, 2005, Administrative Report submitted to U.S. Agency for International Development
40Ar/39Ar and K-Ar geochronology and tectonic significance of the upper Cretaceous Adel Mountain Volcanics and spatially associated Tertiary igneous rocks, northwestern Montana: Harlan, S.S., Snee, L.W., Reynolds, M.W., Mehnert, H.H., Schmidt, R.G., Sheriff, S.D., and Irving, A.J., 2005, USGS Professional Paper 1696, 29 p
Paleoproterozoic high-sulfidation mineralization in the Tapajos gold province, Amazonian Craton, Brazil: geology, mineralogy, alunite argon age, and stable-isotope constraints: Caetano, J., Rye, R.O., Nunes, C.M.D., Snee, L.W., Correa Silva, R.H., Monteiro, L. V.S., Bettencourt, J.S., Neumann, R., Neto, A.A., 2005, Chemical Geology, v. 215, p. 95-125
Evaluation of argon ages and integrity of fluid-inclusion compositions: stepwise noble gas heating experiments on 1.87 Ga alunite from Tapajos province, Brazil:: Landis, G.P., Snee, L.W., Juliani, C., 2005, Chemical Geology, v. 215, p. 127-153
Geochemistry and geochronology of Middle Tertiary volcanic rocks of the central Chiricahua Mountains, southeast Arizona: dubray, E.A., Snee, L.W., and Pallister, J.S., 2004, u.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1684, 45 p.
Geology and timing of mineralization at the Cangshang gold deposit, north-western Jiaodong Peninsula, China: Zhang, X., Cawood, P.A., Wilde, S.A., Liu, R., Song, H., Li, W., and Snee, L.W., 2003, Mineralium Deposita, v. 38, p. 141-153
The Mesoproterozoic Beaverhead impact structure and its tectonic setting, Montana-Idaho: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb isotopic constraints: Kellogg, K.S., Snee, L.W., and Unruh, D.M., 2003, The Journal of Geology, v. 111, p. 639-652
Dextral slip reactivation of an arc-forearc boundary, southern Alaska: Roeske, S.M., Snee, L.W., and Pavlis, T., 2003, in Pavlis, T., and Sisson, V., (eds.), Studies along the Border Ranges Fault System, Alaska, Geological Society of America Special Paper 371, p. 141-169
Multiple gold mineralizing events in the northern margin of the North China craton: Ar geochronology and fluid chemistry: Hart, C., Qiu, Y., Goldfarb, R., Snee, L.W., Miller, L., Miller, M., and Nie, F.-J., 2002, Mineralium Deposita, v. 37, p. 326-351
Geochronological constraints on pre-,syn-, and postmineralization events at the world-class Cleo gold deposit, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia: Brown, S.M., Fletcher, I.R., Stein, H.J., Snee, L.W., and Groves, D.I., 2002, Economic Geology, v. 97, p. 541-559
New constraints on the opening of the northern Rio Grande rift: evidence from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, south-central Colorado and northern New Mexico: Miggins, D.P., Thompson, R.A., Pillmore, C.L., Snee, L.W., Stern, C.R., 2002, in Menzies, M., and others (eds.), Volcanic rifted margins, Geological Society of America Special Paper 362, p. 47-64
Argon thermochronology of mineral deposits - a review of analytical methods, formulations, and selected applications: Snee, L.W., 2002, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2194, 39 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/b2194/