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Task 7	TL-OSL Geochronology

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Task 2 - Radiogenic Isotopes - TIMS

Presentations

Bern, A., Hammarstrom, J., Morton, D., Premo, W. and Snee, L., 2002, Plutonic and metamorphic rocks, northern Peninsular Ranges Batholith, southern CA - structural and uplift history based on new geobarometric and isotopic data: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 124. View Bern GSA abstract.
Christiansen, W.D., Premo, W.R., Hofstra, A.H., Emsbo, P., and Lange,I.M., 2002, Stratabound SRHDG resource in Middle Proterozoic rocks of the Big Belt Mountains near York, Montana: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 143. View Christiansen GSA abstract.
Church, S.E., Unruh, D.M., and Fey, D.L., 2003, Where have all the tailings gone?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 5, p. 6. View Church GSA abstract.
Cline, J.S., Stuart, F.M., Hofstra, A.H., Tretbar, D.R., Riciputi, L., and Premo, W., 2002, He, Nd, and stable isotope constraints on Carlin-type ore fluid components, Getchell, NV, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 141. View Cline GSA abstract.
Cline, J.S., Stuart, F.M., Hofstra, A.H., Tretbar, D.R., Riciputi, L., and Premo, W., 2003, Multiple Sources of Ore-fluid Components at the Getchell Carlin-type Gold Deposit, Nevada, U.S.A.: submitted to SGA Meeting in Aug. 2003.
Dean, W.E., Bischoff, J.L, Forester, R.M., Rosenbaum, J.R., Simmons, K.R. and Skipp, G.L., 2002, Glacial-interglacial contrasts in carbonate sedimentation in Bear Lake Utah/Idaho -- A downstream recorder of Pacific climate: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 292. View Dean GSA abstract.
Dusel-Bacon, C., Premo, W.R. and Aleinikoff, J.N, 2005, Geochemical and Nd isotopic evidence for an extending continental-margin arc/back arc setting for peralkaline rhyolite-hosted massive sulfide deposits of the Bonnifield District, east-central Alaska: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, no. 7, p. 97. View Dusel-Bacon GSA abstract.
Espinoza, I., Iriondo, A., Premo, W.R., Paz, F., and Valencia, M., 2003, Geochemistry and SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of anorthositic rocks at Sierra El Tecolote in the Caborca Block, northwestern Sonora, Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 4, p. A84. View I. Espinoza GSA abstract.
Espinoza, M., Nourse, J.A., Premo, W.R. and Iriondo, A., 2005, Stratigraphy, structure, and U-Pb geochronology of Paleoproterozoic gneisses in Sierra Hornaday and Cerro El Aguila, NW Sonora, Mexico: Fingerprints at the truncated margin of Laurentia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, no. 4, p. 57. View M. Espinoza GSA abstract.
Iriondo, A., Miggins, D., and Premo, W.R., 2003, The Aibo-type (~1.1 Ga) Granitic Magmatism in NW Sonora, Mexico: Failed Continental Rifting of Rodinia?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 4, p. A84. View Iriondo GSA abstract 1.
Iriondo, A. and Premo, W.R., 2003, The Caborca Block: An inhomogeneous piece of Paleoproterozoic crust in Sonora: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 4, p. 67. View Iriondo GSA abstract 2.
Kaufmann, D.S., Anderson, R.S., Bright, J., Colman, S.M., Dean, W.E., Forester, R.M., Heil, C.W., Jr., Moser, K., Rosenbaum, J.G. and Simmons, K.R., 2005, Multi-proxy evidence for 2environmental change during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles from core BL00-1, Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, no. 7, p. 336. View Kaufman GSA abstract.
Kellogg, K.S. and Premo, W.R., 2005, U/Pb geochronology and structural analysis of Proterozoic rocks in the Sierra Nacimiento region, northwestern New Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, no. 6, p. 42. View Kellogg GSA abstract.
Kuntz, M.A., Snee, L.W. and Unruh, D.M., 2005, Temporal, compositional, and structural development of the Idaho Batholith near McCall, Idaho: Goldschmidt Conference, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 69, suppl. 10, p. 248.
Lowell, G.R., Harrison, R.W. and Unruh, D.M., 2005, Contrasting rift-margin volcanism in the St. Francois Terrane of Missouri at 1.47 Ga: Goldschmidt Conference, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 69, suppl.10, p. 81.
Lund, K.I., Aleinikoff, J.N., Unruh, D.M., Jacob, E.Y. and Fanning, C.M., 2005, Evolution of the Salmon River suture and continental delamination in the Syringa Embayment: Goldschmidt Conference, Geochimica et Cosmochimica, vol. 69, suppl. 10, p. 246.
Mayer, L., Umhoefer, P.J., Macy, J., Dorsey, R.J. Kaufman, D.S. and Simmons, K.R., 2002, Ages and uplift rates of marine terraces near Loreto and on Isla Carmen, Baja California Sur: VI International Meeting on the Geology of the Baya California Peninsula, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas at La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Muhs, D.R., Simmons, K.R., Kennedy, G.L., Ludwig, K.R. and Groves, L., 2002, A cool eastern Pacific Ocean at the close of the last interglacial complex, ~80,000 Year B.P.: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 131. View Muhs GSA abstract 1.
Muhs, D.R., Simmons, K.R., Taggart, B.E., Prentice, C., Joyce, J. and Troester, J., 2004, Timing and duration of the Last Interglacial period from U-series ages of unaltered reef corals, northern and western Puerto Rico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p. 288. View Muhs GSA abstract 2.
Multer, H.G., Gischler, E., Lundberg, J., Simmons, K.R. and Shinn, E.A., 2002, The Key Largo Limestone revisited: Pleistocene shelf-edge facies, Florida Keys, USA: European meeting of the International Society for Reef Studies, September 4-7, 2002, Cambridge, England.
Multer, H.G., Gischler, E., Lundberg, J., Simmons, K.R. and Shinn, E.A., 2002, The Key Largo Limestone revisited: Pleistocene shelf-edge facies, Florida Keys, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 6, p. A333. View Multer GSA abstract.
Nourse, J.A. and Premo, W.R., 2005, Proterozoic basement in the Pinacate region of NW Sonora, Mexico: Possible connections to northeastern Australia?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, no. 4, p. 57. View Nourse GSA abstract 1.
Nourse, J.A., Premo, W.R., and Iriondo, A., 2003, Gneisses of the NW Sonora-SW Arizona border region: Two distinct Paleoproterozoic complexes at the southwest esge of Laurentia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 4, p. A67. View Nourse GSA abstract 2.
Premo, W.R., Howard, K.A. and Castineiras, P., 2005, New SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages and Nd isotopic signatures for plutonism in the northern Ruby - East Humboldt ranges of NE Nevada: implications for the timing of Tertiary Core Complex Formation: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, no. 7, p. 359. View Premo GSA abstract 1.
Premo, W.R., Iriondo, A., and Nourse, J.A., 2003, U-Pb zircon geochronology of Paleoproterozoic basement in northwestern Sonora, Mexico: Evidence for affinity to SW US provinces: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 4, p. A67. View Premo GSA abstract 2.
Premo, W.R. and Kellogg, K.S., 2005, Timing and origin of Proterozoic basement rocks in the Sierra Nacimiento region, NW New Mexico: Evidence from SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology and Nd isotopic tracer studies: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, no. 6, p. 42. View Premo GSA abstract 3.
Premo, W.R., Morton, D.M. and Snee, L.W., 2002, SHRIMP U-Pb ages of provenance from detrital zircon populations of intra-batholithic metasedimentary rocks, N. Peninsular Ranges Batholith, southern California: Implications for their tectonic setting: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 6, p. A124. View Premo GSA abstract 4.
Prentice, C.S., McGeehin, J., Simmons, K.R., Muhs, D.R., Roig, C., Joyce, J. and Taggart, B.E., 2004, Holocene marine terraces in Puerto Rico: Evidence fortectonic uplift?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Progams, vol. 36, no. 5, p. 288. View Prentice GSA abstract.
Sherman, C.E., Fletcher, C.H., Rubin, K.H., Simmons, K.R. and Adey, W.H., 2005, Age and facies of submerged Late Pleistocene reefs, Ohau, Hawaii: Implications for stage 7 and late stage 5 sea levels: Caribbean Geology Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Snee, L.W., Unruh, D.M. and Kuntz, M.A., 2005, Tectonics of the Salmon River suture zone near, Orofino, Idaho: Goldschmidt Conference, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 69, suppl. 10, p. 247.
Taylor, C.D., Winick, J.A., Unruh, D. and Kunk, M.J., 2004, Geochronology and geochemistry of the Idaho-Montana Porphyry Belt: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 36, no. 4, p. 4. View Taylor GSA abstract.
Valenzuela-Navarro, L.C., Valencia-Moreno, M., Iriondo, A., and Premo, W.R., 2003, The El Crestón Granite: A new confirmed Paleoproterozoic locality in the Opodepe area, north-central Sonora, Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 4, p. 83. View Valenzuela-Navarro GSA abstract.
Winick, J.A., Taylor, C.D., Kunk, M.J. and Unruh, D.M., 2002, Revised ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of the White Cloud molybdenum deposit, Custer County, Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 6, p. A337. View Winick GSA abstract.
Wintsch, R.P., Aleinikoff, J.N., Unruh, D.M. and Walsh, G., 2005, Evidence for tectonic wedging of Avalon terrane rocks into the Gander zone, southern New England: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, no. 1, p. 31. View Wintsch GSA abstract.

Reports

Bradley, D.C., Leach, D.L., Symons, D., Emsbo, P., Premo, W.R., Breit, G. and Sangster, D.F., 2004, Tectonic controls of Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc mineralization in orogenic forelands: Mineralium Deposita, vol. 39, pp. 515-519.
Brown, S.M., Johnson, C.A., Watling, R.J. and Premo, W.R., 2003, Constraints on the composition of ore fluids and implications for mineralising events at the Cleo gold deposit, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 50, pp. 19-38.
Budahn, J.R., Unruh, D.M., Kunk, M.J., Byers, F.M., Jr., Kirkham, R.M., and Streufert, R.K., 2002, Correlation of late Cenozoic basaltic lava flows in the Carbondale and Eagle collapse centers in west-central Colorado based on geochemical, isotopic, age and petrographic data: Geological Society of America Special Paper 366, pp.167-196.
Church, S.E., Fey, D.L., and Unruh, D.M., 2004, Trace elements and lead isotopes in modern streambed and terrace sediment—determination of current and premining geochemical baselines, in Church, S.E., von Guerard, P., and Finger, S.E., eds., Integrated investigations of environmental effects of historical mining in the Animas River watershed San Juan County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper1651, vol. 2, pp. 571-642.
Church, S.E., Unruh, D.M., Fey, D.L., and Sole, T.C., 2002, Trace elements and lead isotopes in streambed sediment in streams affected by historical mining, in, Nimick, D.A., Church, S.E., and Finger S.E., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1652, pp. 279-335.
Dean, W., Forester, R., Colman, S., Liu, A., Skipp, G., Simmons, K., Swarzenski, P., and Anderson, R., 2005, Modern and glacial-Holocene carbonate sedimentation in Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1124, 21 p.
Dean, W., Rosenbaum, J., Skipp, G., Colman, S., Forester, R., Liu, A., Simmons, K. and Bischoff, J., 2006, Unusual Holocene and late Pleistocene carbonate sedimentation in Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho: Sedimentary Geology, vol. 185, pp. 93-112.
Fey, D.L., Church, S.E., Unruh, D.M., and Bove, D.J., 2002, Water and sediment study of the Snake River watershed, Colorado, Oct. 9-12, 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-0330, 41 p.
Harlan, S.S., Geissman, J.W. and Premo, W.R., 2002, Paleomagnetism and geochronology of an Early Proterozoic quartz diorite in the southern Wind River Mountains, Wyoming: Tectonophysics, vol. 362, pp. 105-122.
Harlan, S.S., Heaman, L., LeCheminant, A.N. and Premo, W.R., 2003, The Gunbarrel Mafic Magmatic Event: A key 780-Ma time marker for Rodinia Plate reconstructions: Geology, vol. 31, pp. 1053-1056.
Harlan,S.S., Premo, W.R., Unruh, D.M. and Geissman, J.W., 2005, Isotopic dating of Meso- and Neoproterozoic mafic magmatism in southern Tobacco Root Mountains, southwestern Montana: Precambrian Research, vol. 136, pp. 269-281.
Iriondo, A., Martinez-Torres, L.M., Kunk, M.J. and Atkinson, W.W. Jr., 2005, Northward Laramide thrusting in the Quitovac region, northwestern Sonora, Mexico: implications for the juxtaposition of Paleoproterozoic basement blocks and the Mojave-Sonora Megashear hypothesis: Geological Society of America Special Paper, vol. 393, pp. 631-669.
Iriondo, A., Premo, W.R., Martinez-Torres, L.M., Budahn, J.R., Atkinson, W.W. Jr., Siems, D.F., and Guaras-Gonzalez, B., 2004, Isotopic, geochemical, and temporal characterization of Proterozoic basement rocks in the Quitovac region, northwestern Mexico: Implications for the reconstruction of the SW margin of Laurentia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 116, pp. 154-170.
Kellogg, K., Snee, L.W. and Unruh, D.M., 2003, The Mesoproterozoic Beaverhead impact structure and its tectonic setting, Montana-Idaho--⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and U-Pb isotopic constraints: Journal of Geology,vol. 111, pp.639-652.
Kessler, S.E., Carrigan, C.W., Leach, D.L., Bradley, D., Lewchuk, M.T., Symons, D.T.A., Premo, W.R., Brannon, J., and de Marsily, G., 2002, Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc deposits through geological time: implications from recent age-dating research; discussion and reply: Mineralium Deposita, vol. 37, pp. 800-805.
Kunk, M.J., Budahn, J.R., Unruh, D.M., Stanley, J.O., Kirkham, R.M., Bryant, B., Scott, R.B., Lidke, D.J., and Streufert, R.K., 2002, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of late Cenozoic volcanic rocks within and around the Carbondale and Eagle collapse centers, Colorado: constraints on the timing of evaporite-related collapse and incision of the Colorado River: Geological Society of America Special Paper vol. 366, pp. 213-234.
Leach, D., Macquar, J.-C., Lagneau, V., Leventhal, J., Emsbo, P. and Premo, W.R., 2005, Precipitation of lead-zinc ores in the Mississippi Valley-type deposit at Treves, Cevennes region of southern France: Geofluids, vol. 5, pp. 1-21.
Lund, K., Aleinikoff, J.N., Kunk, M.J., Unruh, D.M., Zeihen, G.D., Hodges, W.C., du Bray, E.A., and O'Neill, J.M., 2002, SHRIMP U-Pb and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age constraints for relating plutonism in the Boulder Batholith: Economic Geology, vol. 97, pp. 241-267.
Muhs, D.R., Simmons, K.R., and Steinke, B., 2002, Timing and warmth of the last interglacial period: new U-series evidence from Hawaii and Bermuda and a new fossil compilation for North America: Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 21, pp. 1355-1383.
Muhs, D.R., Simmons, K.R., Kennedy, G.L. and Rockwell, T.K., 2002, The last interglacial period on the Pacific Coast of North America: Timing and paleoclimate: Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 114, pp. 569-592.
Muhs, D.R., Simmons, K.R., Kennedy, G.L., Ludwig, K.R. and Groves, L.T., 2006, A cool eastern Pacific Ocean at the close of the last interglacial complex: Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 25, pp. 235-262.
Muhs, D.R., Wehmiller, J.F., Simmons, K.R. and York, L.L., 2004, Quaternary sea level history of the United States, in, Gillespie, A.R., Porter, S.C., Atwater, B.F. (Editors), The Quaternary Period in the United States: Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 147-183.
Multer, H.G., Gischler, E., Lundberg, J., Simmons, K.R. and Shinn, E.A., 2002, Key Largo Limestone revisited: Pleistocene shelf-edge facies, Florida Keys, U.S.A.: Facies, vol. 46, pp. 229-272.
Multer, H.G., Gischler, E., Lundberg, J., Simmons, K.R. and Shinn, E.A., 2002, The Key Largo Limestone revisited: Pleistocene shelf-edge facies, Florida Keys, U.S.A.: Schriftenreihe der Duetschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, vol. 17, pp. 145-156. Sediment-2002-meeting in Darmstadt, Germany.
Munoz, M., Premo, W.R. and Courjault-Rade, P., 2005, Sm-Nd dating of fluorite from the world class Montroc fluorite deposit, southern Massif Central, France: Mineralium Deposita, vol. 39, pp. 970-975.
Nourse, J.A., Premo, W.R., Iriondo, A. and Stahl, E.R., 2005, Contrasting Proterozoic basement complexes near the truncated margin of Laurentia, northwestern Sonora-Arizona international border region: Geological Society of America Special Paper, vol. 393, pp. 123-182.
Thornber, C.R., Budahn, J.R., Ridley, W.I. and Unruh, D.M., 2003, Trace element and Nd, Sr, Pb isotope geochemistry of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, near-vent eruptive products 1983-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-0493, 5 p.
Unruh, D.M., 2002, Lead isotopic analyses of selected soil samples from the USEPA Vasquez Blvd.-I-70 study area: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-0321, 57 p.
Weber, B., Iriondo, A., Premo, W.R., Hecht, L. and Schaaf, P., 2007, New insights into the history and origin of the southern Maya block, SE Mexico: U-Pb SHRIMP zircon geochronology from metamorphic rocks of the Chiapas massif: International Journal of Earth Science, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 253-269.
Wehmiller, J.F., Simmons, K.R., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Martin-McNaughton, J., York, L.L., Krantz, D.E., and Shen, C.-C., 2004, Uranium-series coral ages from the US Atlantic Coastal Plain - the "80Ka problem" revisited: Quaternary International, vol. 120, pp. 3-14.
Zielinski, R.A., Budahn, J.R., Grauch, R.I., Paces, J.B., and Simmons, K.R., 2002, Weathering of the Meade Peak phosphatic shale member of the Phosphoria Formation: Observations based on uranium and its decay products, in, Life Cycle of the Phosphoria Formation: From Deposition to the Post-mining Environment, Chapter 9, pp. 227-250.

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Task 3 - Stable Isotope Geochemistry Group

Presentations

Barros, N.B., P.H. Ostrom, C.A. Stricker and R.S. Wells, 2006, Bottlenose dolphin population differentiation and trophic studies using carbon, nitrogen, sulfur stable isotopes and stomach content analyses: Carnivores, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Breit, G.N., Rye, R.O., John, D.A., Kester, C.L., and Berry, C.J., 2003, Isotopic studies of sulfur-bearing minerals in the clasts and mattrix of Holocene debirs flow from Mount Rainier, Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, vol. 34, no. 7, p. 553. View Breit GSA abstract.
Farmer, A., Abtil, Mónica, B., Carelton, F., Kester, C., Landis, G., Ridely, I., Rye, R., and Torres, J., 2004, Identifying South American winter sites of migatory shorebirds: a case for multiple stable isotope and trace element analyses: The 4th International Conference Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studiees, Program and abstracts, p. 56.
John, D.A., Breit, G.N., Rye, R.O., Sisson, T.W., and Vallance, J.W., 2003, Hypogene hydrothermal alteration of Quaternary volcanic rocks from Mount Rainier, Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 7, p. 553. View John GSA abstract.
Johnson, C.A., Grimes, D.J. Leinz, R.W., and Rye, R.O., 2005, Cobalt-cyanide complexing in ore processing effluents at gold mines: significance for cyanide persistence and cobalt mobility: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, p. 179. View Johnson GSA abstract 1.
Johnson, C.A., and Emsbo, P., 2005, Possible impact of hydrothermal brine discharge events on sulfur isotopes in marine basins and the global oceans: Earth System Processes 2, Geological Society of America Specialty Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, no. 1, p. 55. View Johnson GSA abstract 2.
Johnson, C.A., and Emsbo, P., 2004, Sulfur- and oxygen isotopes of barite deposits in sedimentary basins: Implications for barite genesis, massive sulfide genesis, and sulfur redox reactions: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 36, no. 5, p. 200. View Johnson GSA abstract 3.
Kovach, S.D., Collins, G.H., Stricker, C.A., Rye, R.O., and Farley, S.D., and Hinkes, M.T., 2006, Hair segment analysis of female Alaskan brown bears: resolving seasonal salmon consumption with sulfur isotopes: The 5th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques in Ecological Studies, Belfast, Ireland.
Kovach, S.D., Collins, G.H., Stricker, C.A., Rye, R.O., and Farley, S.D., and Hinkes, M.T., 2006, Stable isotope evidence that salmon are important to brown bears in southwest Alaska:The Wildlife Society, Anchorage, Alaska.
Little, E.E., Calfee, R.D., and Johnson, C.A., 2005, Photo-enhanced toxicity of cobalt-cyanide to aquatic life: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, p. 179.
Plumlee, G.S., Rye, R.O., Breit, G.N., and John, D.A., 2003, Chemical modeling of volcanic gas interactions with ground water and andesites: insights into hydrothermal alteration at Mount Rainier, Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 7, p. 553. View Plumlee GSA abstract.
Rea, L., Stegall, V., Farley, S., Pitcher, K, Rye, R., Kester, C., and Bern, C., 2004, Changes in carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) vibrissae as a biochemical marker for weaning: The 4th International Conference Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies, Program and abstracts, p. 163.
Stegall. V.K.., Farley, S.D., Rea, L.D., Pitcher, K.W., Rye, R.O., and Kester, C.L., 2004, Stable isotope comparisons of Alaska Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) milk, serum, and vibrissae: nutritional independence and trophic dynamics: The 4th International Conference Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies, Program and abstracts, p. 171.
Stricker, C.A., Guntenspergen, G.R., Rye, R.O., Marot, M., and Johnson, W.C., 2006, Prairie wetland sediment records: can stable isotopes detail hydroperiod and climate variability?: 10th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Duluth, Minnesota.
Stricker, C.A., Guntenspergen, G.R., and Rye, R.O., 2005, Linking food webs and biogeochemical processes in wetlands: insights from sulfur isotopes: North American Benthological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Stricker, C.A., Guntenspergen, G.R., and Rye, R.O., 2006, Sulfur geochemistry of prairie wetlands: Invited Seminar, St. Denis NWA Wetland Workshop, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Stricker, C.A., Rye, R.O., Johnson, C.A., and Bern, C., 2006, An automated cryo-focusing approach for sulfur isotope analysis of organic and other low-level sulfur materials: The 5th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques in Ecological Studies, Belfast, Ireland.
Vikre, P., Fleck, R., and Rye, R., Ages and Geochemistry of alunites in the Goldfield district Esmeralda Co., Nevada.

Reports

Bethke, P.M., Rye, R.O., Stoffregen, R.E., and Vikre, P.G., 2005, Evolution of the magmatic-hydrothermal acid-sulfate system at Summitville, Colorado: Integration of geological, stable-isotope and fluid-inclusion evidence: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 281-315.
Cunningham, C.G., Austin, G.W., Naeser, C.W., Rye, R.O., Ballantyne, G.H., Stamm, R.G., and Barker, C.E., 2004, Formation of disseminated gold deposits in the waning stages of the Bingham Canyon porphyry Cu-Au-Mo system, Utah: Economic Geology, vol. 99, pp. 789-806.
Cunningham, C.G., Rye, R.O., Rockwell, B.W, Kunk, M.J., and Councell, T.B., 2005, Supergene distruction of a hydrothermal replacement alunite deposit at Big Rock Candy Mountain, Utah: mineralogy, spectroscopic remote sensing, stable isotope and argon-age evidences: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 317-338.
Dennen, K.O., Johnson, C.A., Otter, M.L., Silva, S.R., and Wandless, G.A., 2006, delta 15N and non-carbonate delta 13C values for two petroleum sourcerock reference materials and a marine sediment reference material: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1071, 17 p.
Deyell, C.L., Leonardson, R., Rye, R.O., Thompson, J.F.H., Bissig, T., and Cooke, D., 2005, Alunite in the Pascua-Lama high-sulfidation system: constraints on alteration and ore-fluid chemistry: Economic Geology, vol. 100, pp. 131-148.
Deyell, C.L., Bissig, T., and Rye, R.O., 2004, Isotopic evidence for magmatic-dominated epithermal processes in the El Indio-Pascua Au-Cu-Ag belt and relationship to geomorphologic setting, in Andean Metallogeny: New discoveries, concepts and updates, Sillitoe, R.H., Perelló, J., and Vidale, C.E., (eds.), Society of Economic Geologists Special Publication 11, pp. 55-74.
Deyell, C.L., Rye, R.O., Landis, G.P., and Bissig, T., 2005, Alunite and the role of magmatic fluids in the Tambo high-sulfidation deposit, El Indio-Pascua belt, Chile: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 185-218.
Duuring, P., Hagemann, S.G., Cassidy, K.F., and Johnson, C.A., 2004, Hydrothermal alteration, ore fluid characteristics, and gold depositional processes along a trondhjemite-komatiite contact at Tarmoola, Western Australia: Economic Geology, c. 99, pp. 423-451.
Farmer, A.H., Rye, R.O., Landis, G.P., Bern, C.R., and Kester, C.L., 2003, Tracing the pathways of neotropical migratory shorebirds using stable isotopes: Isotopes in Environmental and Health studies, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 169-177.
Felicetti, L.A., Schwartz, C.C., Rye, R.O., Haroldson, M.A., Gunter, K.A., and Robbins, C.T., 2003, Use of sulfur and nitrogen stable isotopes to determine the importance of whitebark pine nuts to yellowstone grizzly bears: Canadian Journal of Zoology, vol. 81, pp. 763-770.
Field, C.W., Zhang, L., Dilles, J.H., Rye, R.O., and Reed, M.H., 2005, Sulfur and oxygen isotopic record in sulfate and sulfide minerals of early, deep, pre-main Stage porphyry Cu-Mo and late Main Stage base-metal mineral deposits, Butte district, Montana: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 61-93.
Fifarek, R.H., and Rye, R.O., 2005, Stable-sotope geochemistry of the Pierina high sulfidation Au-Ag deposit, Peru: Influence of hydrodynamics and SO₄--H₂S isotopic exchange in magmatic-steam and steam-heated environments: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 253-279.
Goldfarb, R.J. Ayuso, R., Miller, M.L., Ebert, S.W., Marsh, E.E., Petsel, S.A., Miller, L.D., Bradley, D. Johnson, C., and McClellend, W., 2004, The Late Cretaceous Donlin Creek gold deposit, southwestern Alaska: controls on epizonal ore formation: Economic Geology, vol. 99, pp. 643-671.
Iko, W.M., Kester, C.L., Bern, C.R., Stendell, R.C., and Rye, R.O., 2003, Stable isotope variation in white-tailed kites from various habitants in California: possible limitations in assessing prey utilization and population dynamics: Isotopes in Environmental and Health studies, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 159-167.
Johnson, C.A., Kelley, K.D., and Leach, D.L., 2004, Sulfur and oxygen isotopes in barite deposits of the western Brooks Range, Alaska, and implications for the origin of the Red Dog massive sulfide deposits: Economic Geology, vol. 99, pp. 1435-1448.
Juliani, C., Rye, R.O., Nunes, C.M.D., Snee, L.W., Correa Silva, R.H., Monteiro, L.V.S., Benttencourt, J.S., Neumann, R., and Neto, A.A., 2005, Paleoproterozoic high-sulfidation mineralization in the Tapajos gold province, Amazonian Craton, Brazil: Geology, mineralogy, alunite argon age, and stable isotope constraints: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 95-125.
Landis, G.P., and Rye, R.O., 2005, Characterization of gas chemistry and noble-gas isotope ratios of inclusion fluids in magmatic-hydrothermal and magmatic-steam alunite: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 155-184.
Leuth, V.W., Rye, R.O., and Peters, L., 2005, “Sour gas” hydrothermal jarosite: Ancient to modern acid-sulfate mineralization in the southern Rio Grande Rift: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 339-360.
Monteiro, L.V.S., Xavier, R.P., Johnson, C., Hitzman, M.W., Carvalho, E.R., and Souza Filho, C.R., 2005, The Sossego iron oxide-copper-gold deposit, Carajas Mineral Province, Brazil: stable isotope constraints on the genesis and hydrothermal system evolution, in, Simposio Basileiro de Metalogenia, 1, Gramado, Short Papers [CD-ROM].
Otton, J.K., Zielinski, R.A., and Johnson, C.A., 2005, Origin of saline soils in the Front Range area north of Denver, Colorado, Chapter D, in Fishman, N.S., ed., Energy resource studies, northern Front Range, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1698, pp. 73-87.
Rye, R.O., 2005, A review of the stable-isotope geochemistry of sulfate minerals in selected igneous environments and related hydrothermal systems: Chemical Geology vol. 215, pp. 5-36.
Rye, R.O., Breit, G.N., and Zimbleman, D.R., 2003, Preliminary mineralogic and stable isotope studies of altered summit and flank rocks and Osceola Mudflow deposits on Mount Rainier: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-0464, 26 p.
Stricker, C.A., 2006, Stable Isotope Reconnaissance of Forested Wetland Source Waters in Cape May County, NJ.: Chapter in report of project.
Stricker, C.A., R.O. Rye, and G.R. Guntenspergen. 2006. New developments in sulfur isotope analysis and applications to ecological research: The 5th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques in Ecological Studies, Belfast, Ireland.
Zielinski, R.A., Johnson, C.A., and Adams, J.L., 2005, Use of sulfur isotopes to monitor dissolved sulfate derived from a fly ash emplacement site, north-central Colorado: Proceedings Volume, World of Coal Ash Conference, April 11-15, 2005, Lexington, KY, http://www.flyash.info
Zimbleman, D.R., Rye, R.O., and Breit, G.N., 2005, Origin of secondary sulfate minerals on active andesitic stratovolcanoes: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 37-60.
Wunder, M.B., Kester, C.L., Knopf, F.L., and Rye, R.O., 2005, A test of geographic assignment using isotope tracers in featers of known origin: Oecologia, vol. 144, pp. 607-617.

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Task 4 - Argon Geochronology

Presentations

Berger, B.R., Anderson, R.E., Phillips, J.D., Hildenbrand, T.G., Rye, R.O., Snee, L.W., John, D.A., and Goldhaber, M.B., 2003, Processes that form world-class ore deposits and their application in mineral resource assessment: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6, p. 235. View Berger GSA abstract.
Harlan, S.S., Snee, L.W., Vielreicher, R.M., Goldfarg, R.G., Mortenson, J., and Bradley, D.C., 2003, Age and cooling history of gold deposits and host rocks in the Willow Creek mining district, Talkeetna Mountains, south-central Alaska: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6, p. 235. View Harlan GSA abstract.
Schmidt, J.M., O'Neill, J.M., Snee, L.W., Blodgett, R.B., Ridgway, K.D., Wardlaw, B.R., and Blome, C.D., 2003, The northwestern edge of Wrangellia: stratigraphic and intrusive links between crustal blocks from the Peninsular terrane to Broad Pass: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,vol. 35, no. 6, p. 560. View Schmidt GSA abstract 1.
Schmidt, J.M., Oswald, P.J., and Snee, L.W., 2002, The Deadman and Clark Creek fields: indicators of early Tertiary volcanism in an extensional tectonic environment in the northern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no.5, p. A101. View Schmidt GSA abstract 2.
Snee, L.W., Schmidt, J.M., Oswald, P.J., and Prueher, E.M., 2002, Jurassic to early Tertiary plutonic suites of the northern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no.5, pp. A100-A101. View Snee GSA abstract 1.
Snee, L.W., Vielreicher, N., and Baggott, M., 2003, Australian Archean Argon--Does It Work?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6, p. 235. View Snee GSA abstract 2.

Reports

Brown, S.M., Fletcher, I.R., Stein, H.J., Snee, L.W., and Groves, D.I., 2002, Geochronological constraints on pre-, syn, and post-mineralization events at the world-class Cleo gold deposit, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia: Economic Geology, vol. 97, pp. 541-559.
du Bray, E.A., Snee, L.W., and Pallister, J.S., 2004, Geochemistry and geochronology of Middle Tertiary volcanic rocks of the central Chiricahua Mountains, southeast Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1684, 57 pp.
du Bray, E.A., and Snee, L.W., 2002, Composition, age, and petrogeneisis of Late Cretaceous intrusive rocks in the central Big Belt Mountains, Broadwater and Meagher Counties, Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1657, 30 p.
Harlan, S.S., Snee, L.W., Reynolds, M.W., Mehnert, H.H., Schmidt, R.G., Sheriff, S.D., and Irving, A.J., 2005, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and K -Ar geochronology and tectonic significance of the Upper Cretaceous Adel Mountain Volcanics and spatially associated Tertiary igneous rocks, northwestern Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1696, 33 p.
Hart, C., Qiu, Y., Goldfarb, R., Snee, L. W., Miller, L., and Miller, M., 2002, Gold deposits of the northern margin of the North China craton: multiple late Paleozoic and Mesozoic mineralizing events: Mineralium Deposita, vol. 37, pp. 326-351.
Juliani, C., Rye, R.O., Nunes, C.M.D., Snee, L.W., Correa Silva, R.H., Monteiro, L.V.S., Benttencourt, J.S., Neumann, R., and Neto, A.A., 2005, Paleoproterozoic high-sulfidation mineralization in the Tapajos gold province, Amazonian Craton, Brazil: Geology, mineralogy, alunite argon age, and stable isotope constraints: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 95-125.
Kellogg, K.S., Snee, L.W., and Unruh, D.M., 2003, The Middle Proterozoic Beaverhead impact structure and its tectonic setting, Montana-Idaho-⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and U-Pb isotopic constraints: Journal of Geology, vol. 111, pp. 639-652.
Landis, G.P., and Snee, L.W., 2005, Evaluation of argon ages and integrity of fluid-inclusion compositions: Stepwise noble gas heating experiments on 1.87 Ga alunite from Tapajos Province, Brazil: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 127-153.
Luckow, H.G., Pavlis, T.L., Serpa, L.F., Guest, B., Wagner, D.L., Snee, L., Hensley, T.M., and Korjenkov, A., 2005, Late Cenozoic sedimentation and volcanism during transtensional deformation in Wingate Wash and the Owlshead Mountains, Death Valley: Earth Science Reviews, vol. 73, pp. 177-219.
Miggins, D.P., Thompson, R.A., Pillmore, C.L., Snee, L. W., and Stern, C.R., 2002, 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, in Menzies, M., and others (eds.), Volcanic rifted margins, Geological Society of America Special Paper 362, pp. 47-64.
Pigois, J.P., Groves, D.I., Fletcher, I.R., and Snee, L.W., 2003, Age constraints on Tarkwaian paleoplacer and lode-gold formation in the Tarkwa-Damang district, SW Ghana: Mineralium Deposita, vol. 38, pp. 695-714.
Roeske, S.M., Snee, L.W., Pavlis, T.L., 2003, Dextral-slip reactivation of an arc-forearc boundary during Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene oblique convergence in the northern Cordillera: Geological Society of America Special Paper 371, pp. 141-169.
Sisson, V.B., Avé Lallemant, H.G., Ostos, M., Blythe, A.E., Snee, L.W., Copeland, P., Wright, J.E., Donelick, R.A., and Guth, L.R., 2005, Overview of radiometric ages in three allochthonous belts of northern Venezuela: Old ones, new ones, and their impact on regional geology: Geological Society of America Special Paper 394, pp. 91-117.
Snee, L.W., 2002, Argon thermochronology of mineral deposits–a review of analytical methods, formulations, and selected applications: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2194, 39 p.
Varga, R.J., Faulds, J.E., Snee, L.W., Harlan, S.S., and Bettison-Varga, L. 2004, Miocene extension and extensional folding in an anticlinal segment segment of the Black Mountains accommodation zone, Colorado River extensional corridor, southwestern United States: Tectonics, vol. 23, pp. TC1019 1-19.
Zhang, X., Cawood, P.A., Wilde, S.A., Liu, R., Song, H., Li, W., and Snee, L.W., 2002, Geology and timing of mineralization at the Cangshang gold deposit, northwestern Jiaodong Peninsula, China: Mineralium Deposita, vol. 37, pp. 326-351.

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Task 5 - Thermochronology

Presentations

Boyd, J.L., Kunk, M.J., Aleinikoff, J.N., 2001, Timing of highgrade Alleghanian metamorphic overprint on Acadian metamorphism: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 33, no.1, p. 81. View Boyd GSA abstract.
Bryant, B., Kunk, M.J., Kirkham, R.K., 2002, Timing and rates of late Cenezoic incision by the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, p. 320. View Bryant GSA abstract.
Dorais, M.J., Wintsch, R.P., and Kunk, M.J., 2003, P-T-t conditions of the Massabesic gneiss complex, New Hampshire; Alleghanian loading and exhumation of a portion of the Avalon Terrane: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 3, p. 24. View Dorais GSA abstract.
Horton, W.J., Kunk, M.J., Naeser, C.W., Naeser, N.D., Aleinikoff, J.N., and Izett, G.A., 2002, Petrography, geochronology, and significance of crystalline basement rocks and impact-derived clasts in the Cheasapeake Bay impact structure, southeastern Virginia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, p. 466. View Horton GSA abstract.
Kunk, M.J., and Miiller, A.P., 2002, Completion of NIST calibration of argon spikes, and plans for interlaboratory calibrationMMhb-2: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, p. 340. View Kunk GSA abstract.
Livaccari, R.F., Bowring, T.J., Farmer, E.T., Garhart, K.S., Hosack, A.M., Navarre, A.K., Peterman, J.S., Rollins, S.M., Williams, C.A., Kunk, M., Scott, R.B., and Unruh, D., 2001, Proterozoic rocks of the Uncompahgre Plateau, western Colorado and eastern Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 33, no. 5, p. 44. View Livaccari GSA abstract.
Naeser, C.W., Bryant, B., Kunk, M.J., Kellogg, K., Donelick, R.A., and Perry W.J., 2002, Middle to Late Tertiary cooling of the Gore and western Front Ranges, from apatite fission-track data: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, p. 321. View Naeser GSA abstract 1.
Naeser, C.W., Naeser, N.D., Kunk, M.J., Morgan, B.A., III, Schultz, A.P., Southworth, C.S., and Weems, R.E., 2001, Paleozoic through Cenozoic uplift, erosion, stream capture, and deposition history in the Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge, Piedmont and Coastal Plain Provences of Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 33, p. A-312. View Naeser GSA abstract 2.
Rockwell, B.W., Cunningham, C.G., Rye, R.O., Kunk, M.J., and Councell, T.B., 2002, Mapping Miocene hydeothermal systems and associated mine sites in the Antelope Range, Marysvale volcanic field, Utah, using AVIRIS spectroscopic remote sensing, stable isotopes, argon dating, X-ray defraction and ICP-MS: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, p. 478. View Rockwell GSA abstract.
Winick, J.A., Taylor, C.D., Kunk, M.J., and Uruh, D., 2002, Revised ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of the White Cloud molybdenum deposit, Custer County Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, p. 337. View Winick GSA abstract.

Reports

Budahn, J.R., Unruh, D.M., Kunk, M.J., Byers, F.M. Jr., Kirkham, R.M., and Streufert, R.K., 2002, Correlation of late Cenozoic basaltic lava flows in the Carbondale and Eagle collapse centers in west-central Colorado based on geochemical, isotopic, age, and petrologic data: Geological Society of America Special Paper 366, pp. 167-196.
Coates, A.G., Aubry, M.-P., Berggren, W.A., Collins, L.S., and Kunk, M.J., 2003, Early Neogene history of the Central American arc from Bocas del Toro, western Panama: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (3), pp. 271-287.
Hammarstrom, J.M., Van Gosen, B.S., Kunk, M.J., and Herring, J.R., 2002, Gold-bearing quartz veins in the Virginia City mining district, Madison County, Montana: Northwest Geology, v. 31, p. 12-43.
Horton, J.W., Aleinikoff, J.N., Izett, G.A.,Naeser, N.D., Naeser, C.W., and Kunk, M.J., 2002, Crystalline basement and impact derived clasts from three coreholes in the Cheasapeake Bay impact structure: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol. 83, p. 351.
Horton, J.W., Jr., Aleinikoff, J.N., Kunk, M.J., Naeser, C.W., and Naeser, N.D., 2005, Petrology structure, age, and thermal history of granitic coastal plain basement in the Cheasapeake Bay impact structure, USGS-NASA Langley core, Hampton, Virginia in, Horton, J.W. Jr., Powars, D.S., and Gohn, G.S., eds., Studies of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure -- The USGS-NASA Langely Corehole, Hampton, Virginia, and related coreholes and geophysical surveys: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1688, Chapter B.
Iriondo, A., Kunk, M.J., Winick, J. A. and Consejo de Recursos Minerales, 2003, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of mnerals and rocks in various areas in Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-020.
Kirkham, R.M., Streufert, R.K., Kunk, M.J., Budahn, J.R., Hudson, M.R., and Perry, W.J., Jr., 2002, Evaporite tectonism in the lower Roaring Fork River valley, west-central Colorado: Geological Society of America Special Paper 366, pp. 73-100.
Kunk, M.J., Budahn, J.R., Unruh, D.M., Stanley, J.O., Kirkham, R.M., Bryant, B., Scott, R.B., Lidke, D.J., and Streufert, R.K., 2002, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of late Cenozoic volcanic rocks within and around the Carbondale and Eagle collapse centers, Colorado: Constraints on the timing of evaporite-related collapse and incision of the Colorado River: Geological Society of America Special Paper 366, pp. 213-234.
Kunk, M.J., Wintsch, R.P., Naeser, C.W., Naeser, N.D., Southworth, C.S., Drake, A.A., Jr., and Becker, J.L., 2005, Contrasting tectonothermal domains and faulting in the Potomac composite terrane, Virginia-Maryland—Discrimination by ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and fission-track theromochronology: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, vol. 117, pp. 1347-1366.
Kunk, M.J., Wintsch, R.P., Southworth, C.S., Mulvey, B.K., Naeser, C.W., and Naeser, N.D., 2004, Multiple Paleozoic metamorphic histories, fabrics, and faulting in the Westminster and Potomac terranes, central Appalachian Piedmont, northern Virginia and southern Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1264, pp.163-188.
Lidke, D.J., Hudson, M.R., Scott, R.B., Shroba, R.R., Kunk, M.J., Perry, W.J., Jr., Kirkham, R.M., Budahn, J.R., Streufert, R.K., Stanley, J.O., and Widmann, B.L., 2002, Eagle collapse center: Interpretation of evidence for Late Cenozoic evaporite-related deformation in the Eagle River Basin, Colorado: Geological Society of America Special Paper 366, pp. 101-120.
Lund, K., Aleinikoff, J.N., Kunk, M.J., Unruh, D.M., Zeihen, G.D., Hodges, W.C., du Bray, E.A., and Oneill, J.M., 2002, SHRIMP and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age constraints for relating plutonism and mineralization in the Boulder Batholith region, Montana: Economic Geology, vol. 97, pp. 241-267.
Naeser, C.W., Bryant, B., Kunk, M.J., Kellogg, K., Donelick, R.A., and Perry, W.J., Jr., 2002, Tertiary cooling and tectonic history of the White River uplift, Gore Range, and western Front Range, central Colorado: Evidence from fission-track and ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar data: Geological Society of America Special Paper 366, pp. 31-54.
Wintsch, R.P., Kunk, M.J., Boyd, J.L., and Aleinikoff, J.N., 2003, P-T-t paths and differential Alleghanian loading and uplift of the Bronson Hill terane, south-central New England: American Journal of Science, vol. 303 pp. 410-446.

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Task 6 - Noble Gas Geochemistry

Software

Landis, G.P., Cosmogenic Exposure Age Calculator (software), USGS

Posters

Hunt, A.G., Landis, G.P., and Lambert, R.B., 2005, Noble gas geochemistry of the freshwater/saline water transition zone of the Edwards Aquifer - Implications for ground water flow and mixing: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, no. 7, p. 217. View Hunt GSA abstract 1.

Presentations

Hunt, A.G., Lambert, R.B., Landis, G.P., and Waugh, J.R., 2005, Use of helium isotopes to discriminate between flow paths associated with the freshwater/saline water transition zone of the Edwards Aquifer, south central Texas, in Karst Interest Group annual meeting proceedings.
Hunt, A.R., Lambert, R., Waugh, J.R., and Landis, G.P., 2003, Fluid logging and discrete sampling of the freshwater/saline-water interface of the Edwards Aquifer, south central Teas: Implications for groundwater flow and origin of salinity (Part 2-Geochemistry): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6, p. 280. View Hunt GSA abstract 2.
Lambert, R.B., Hunt, A.G., Landis, G.P., and Waugh, J.R., 2003, Fluid logging and discrete sampling of the freshwater/saline-water interface of the Edwards Aquifer, south central Teas: Implications for groundwater flow and origin of salinity (Part 1 - Fluid Logging): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6, p. 280. View Lambert GSA abstract.
Landis, G.P., Gurrola, L.D., Selting, A.J., and Mills-Herring, L., 2002, Evaluation of cosmogenic ²¹Ne surface exposure ages from a mid-late Pleistocene alluvial fan and Holocene debris flow, Santa Barbara, CA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 124. View Landis GSA abstract.
Manning, A.H., Caine, J.S., and Landis, G.P., 2003, Mountain-block recharge to the western Denver basin, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 5, p. 33. View Manning GSA abstract.
Marchant, D.R., Lewis, A.R., Phillips, W.M., Moore, E.J., Souchez, R.A., and Landis, G.P., 2001, Patterned-ground and sublimation till over buried glacier ice in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica : Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 6, p. 318. View Marchant GSA abstract.
Phillips, W.M., Lewis, A.R., Landis,G.P., Marchant, D.R., and Sudgen, D.E., 2000, Sublimation losses computed with cosmogenic He-3 depth profiles, Beacon Valley relict glacial ice, East Antarctica: EOS Transactions, 81(48), p. F503.
Phillips, W.M., Marchant, D.R., Lewis, A.R., Landis, G.P., and Vandenheuvel, B., 2001, Investigating climatic change in the Dry Valleys of eastern Antarctica with tephrachronology and cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating [extended abstr]: Earth System Processes-Global Meeting, Edinburgh, UK. Joint Geol.Soc.London-Geol.Soc.Am.
Rusk, B., Landis, G.P., Hunt, A.G., Hofstra, A.H., Reed, M., Dilles, J.H., and Rye, R.O., 2005, Origin and evolution of hydrothermal fluids that formed the porphyry Cu-Mo deposit in Butte, Montana: a multifaceted fluid inclusion study: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, no. 7, p. 315. View Rusk GSA abstract.
Velazquez-Oliman, G., Perry, E.C., and Landis, G.P., 2002, Geochemical characterization of groundwater of distinctively high alkalinity and CO₂ pressure from an unconfined aquifer in volcanic terrain: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 195. View Velazquez-Oliman GSA abstract.

Reports

Benson, L., Madole, R., Phillips, W., Landis, G., Thomas, T., and Kubik, P., 2004, The probable importance of snow and sediment shielding on cosmogenic ages of north-central Colorado Pinedale and pre-Pinedale moraines: Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 23, p. 193-206.
Benson, L., Madole, R., Landis, G., and Gosse, J., 2005, New data for Late Pleistocene Pinedale alpine glaciation from southwestern Colorado: Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 24, pp. 49-65.
Clemmens, S., Owen, L., Finkel, R., Matti, J., Landis, G., Goodall, K., Singhvi, A., 2003, Alluvial fans, a much neglected dryland environment proxy: evidence for landscape evolution, paleoenvironmental change and neotectonics along a transform plate boundary, south-central California [abstr], XVI INQUA Congress.
Deyell, C.L., Rye, R.O., Landis, G.P., and Bissig, T., 2005, Alunite and the role of magmatic fluids in the Tambo high-sulfidation deposit, El Indio-Pascua Belt, Chile: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp.185-218.
Gurrola, L.D., Keller, E.A., Dibblee, T.W., Chen, J., Owen, L., Spencer, J., Landis, G.P., Bell, M., 2002, Neotectonics of the Santa Barbara fold belt, CA, in Structural Geomorphology, Petroleum and Water Resources, Northwestern Transverse Ranges, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties; South Coast Geological Society Guidebook No. 30.
Gurrola, L.D., Keller, E.A., and Landis, G.P., 2002, Quaternary chronology of the Santa Barbara fold belt: new rates of deformation and implications for seismic hazards, Santa Barbara, CA, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Conference, 4 pp.
Hayes, T.S., Rye, R.O., Whelan, J.F., and Landis, G.P., 2003, A review of the geology and genesis of the Spar Lake stratabound Cu-Ag deposit, Belt Supergroup, Montana, in Balla, J.C., ed., Mineral deposits of the western Belt Basin: Northwest Mining Association 109th Annual meeting Short Course Notes, Part 7, 3 pp.
Landis, G.P., and Snee, L.W., 2005, Evaluation of alunite ages and fluid inclusion integrity: step-wise noble gas heating experiments on 1.87 Ga alunite from Tapajos gold province, Brazil: Chemical Geology, vol. 215, pp. 127-153.
Marchant, D.R., Lewis, A.R., Phillips, W.M., Moore, E.J., Souchez, R.A., Denton, H., Sugden D.E., Potter Jr., N., and Landis, G.P., 2002, Formation of patterned ground and sublimation till over Miocene glacier ice in Beacon Valley, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, vol. 114, no. 06, pp. 718-730.

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Task 7 - USGS Luminescence Laboratory

Maps Delivered

Page, W.R., Lundstrom, S.C., Harris, A.G, Langeheim, V.E., Workman, J.B., Mahan, S.A., Paces, J.B., Dixon, G.L., Rowley, P.D., Burchfiel, B.C., Bell, J.W., and Smith, E. I., 2005, Geologic and Geophysical Maps of the Las Vegas 30 x 60 Quadrangle, Clark and Nye Counties, Nevada, and Inyo County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2814, 58 p., 2 sheets.
Personius, S., Anderson, R.E., Okumura, K., Mahan, S., and Hancock, D.A., 2004, Log and Data from an Investigation of the Orovada Trench Site, Santa Rosa Range Fault Zone, Humboldt County, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2815, 1 sheet.

Posters Delivered

Bradley, D.B., Stockli, D.F., Lee, J., and Winters, N.D., 2003, Constraints on the magnitude and rate of Pliocene to recent slip along the left-lateral Coaldale Fault, Central Walker Lane Belt, Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstract with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6, p. 25. View Bradley GSA poster abstract.
Mahan, S.A., Troost, K.G., and Booth, D., 2003, Dating sediments older than 100 KA in the Seattle-Tacoma urban corridor: A test for infrared stimulated luminescence and thermoluminescence on fine grain deposits: Geological Society of America Abstract with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6, p. 79. View Mahan GSA poster abstract.
Nutt, C.J., and Howard, K.A., 2003, Eocene basins in northeastern Great Basin Utah and Nevada, and their significance: Geological Society of America Abstract with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6, p. 26. View Nutt GSA poster abstract.
Rawling, J.E. III, Mahan, S.A., and Fredlund, G.G., 2003, Quaternary mesa stratigraphy in the White River badlands of South Dakota, USA: XVI INQUA Congress Program with Absrracts,< p. 229.
Tincher, C.R., Stockli, D.F., Lee, J., and Garwood, J.D., Pliocene faulting in eastern Queen Valley, Nevada; Implications for strain transfer in the Central Walker Lanen Belt: Geological Society of America Abstract with Programs, vol. 35, no. 6, p. 25. View Tincher GSA poster abstract.

Presentations Delivered

The Second North American Luminescence Dating Workshop 2003, Abstract with Programs
3rd New World Luminescence Dating Workshop, abstract with program p. 14
Mahan, S.A., Crone, A.J., 2006, Luminescence dating of paleoliquifaction features in the Wabash valley area of Indiana, in Proceedings of the 4th New World Luminescence Dating and Dosimetry Workshop, Denver, Colorado, May 31 - June 2, 2006: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1351. (convener and organizer).
Abstract V LED02 (Luminescence and electron Spin resonance Dosimetry Dating Meeting, Reno, Nevada, July 2002.
GSA Annual Meeting 2003 Abstract with programs 86-1.
Luminescence Dating work included on Day One of field itnerary
The Second North American Luminescence Dating Workshop 2003, Abstract with Program
The Second North American Luminescence Dating Workshop 2003, Abstract with Programs

Reports Delivered

Bavec, M., Tulaczyk, S.M., Mahan, S.A., ad Stock, G.M., 2004, Late Quaternary glaciation of the Upper Soca River Region (Southern Julian Alps, NW Slovenia): Sedimentary Geology, 165 (3-4), pp. 265-283.
Harrison, R.W., Newell, W.L., Batihanli, H., Panayides, I., McGeehin, J.P., Mahan, S.A., Ozhür, A., Tsiolakis, E., and Necdet, M., 2004, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 23 (2) ,pp. 191-210.
Mahan, S.A., 2003, (2001) Chapter 7: Thermoluminescence and Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Studies for FoQUS-LA Basin Drill Hole LWEB, in Macrofossils from Long Beach Webster Core Hole Site (LWEB), Long Beach, Los Angeles County, southern California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-334.
Mahan, S.A., and Brown, D.J., 2007, An optical age chronology of late Quaternary extreme fluvial events recorded in Ugandan dambo soils: Quaternary Geology, 2 (1-4), pp. 174-180.
Mayer, J.H., and Mahan, S.A., 2004, Late Quaternary stratigraphy and geochronology of the western Killpecker Dunes, Wyoming, USA: Quaternary Research, 61 (1), pp.72-84.
Navarro-Gonzalez, R., Mahan, S.A., Singhvi, A.K., Navarro Aceves R., Rajot, J.-L., McKay, C.P., Coll, P., and Raulin, F., 2007, Paleoecology reconstruction from trapped gases in a fulgurite from the late Pleistocene of the Libyan Desert: Geology, 35 (2), pp. 171-174.
Oviatt, C.G., Miller, D.M., McGeehin, J.P., Zachary, C., and Manah, S.A., 2005, The Younger Dryas phase of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 219, pp. 263-284.
Personius, S.F., and Mahan, S.A., 2003, Paleoearthquakes and Eolian-dominated fault sedimentation along the Hubbell Spring fault zone near Albuquerque, New Mexico: Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, vol. 93, pp. 1335-1369.
Personius, S.F., and Mahan, S.A., 2005, Unusually low rates of slip on the Santa Rosa Range fault zone, northern Nevada: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 319-333.
Rawling, J.E. III, Fredlund, G.G., and Mahan, S.A., 2003, Aeolian cliff-top deposits and buruied soils in the White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA: Holocene 13 (1) ,pp.121-129.
Sohn, M.F., Mahan, S.A., Knott, J.R., and Bowman, D.D., 2007, Luminescence ages for alluvial-fan deposits in Southern Death Valley: Implications for climate-driven sedimentation along a tectonically active mountain front: Quaternary International, 166 (1), pp. 49-60.

Workshops Delivered

Mahan, S.A., 2006, coordinated the 4th New World Luminescence Dating and Dosimetry Workshop.

Other Activities

Shannon Mahan, 2003, Hosting Foreign Scientist Dr. Ashok Singhvi (Premier Luminescence Practioner).

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