Laboratory for Crustal Petrology

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Articles (1998 - present)

Brown, M., 1998. Unpairing metamorphic belts: P-T paths and a tectonic model for the Ryoke Belt, southwest Japan. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 16, 3-22.

Brown, M. and Solar, G.S., 1998. Shear zone systems and melts: Feedback relations and self-organization in orogenic belts. Journal of Structural Geology, 20, 211-227.

Solar, G.S., Pressley, R.A., Brown, M. and Tucker, R.D., 1998. Granite ascent in convergent orogenic belts: testing a model. Geology, 26, 711-714.

Brown, M. and Solar, G.S., 1998. Granite ascent and emplacement during contractional deformation in convergent orogens. Journal of Structural Geology, 20, 1,365-1,393.4

Pressley, R.A. and Brown, M., 1999. The Phillips Pluton, Maine, USA: Evidence of heterogeneous crustal sources, and implications for granite ascent and emplacement mechanisms in convergent orogens. Lithos, 46,335-366.

Brown, M. and Pressley, R.A., 1999. Crustal melting in nature: Prosecuting source processes. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (A), 24, 3, 305-316.

Solar, G.S. and Brown, M., 1999. The classic high-T - low-P metamorphism of west-central Maine, USA: Is it post-tectonic or syn-tectonic? Evidence from porphyroblast-matrix relations. Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 289-311.

Barboza, S.A., Bergantz, G.W. Brown, M., 1999. Regional granulite facies metamorphism in the Ivrea zone: Is the Mafic Complex the smoking gun or a red herring? Geology, 27, 447-450.

Brown, M. and Solar, G.S., 1999. The mechanism of ascent and emplacement of granite magma during transpression: a syntectonic granite paradigm. Tectonophysics, 312, 1-33.

Brown, M.A., Brown, M., Carlson, W.D. and Denison, C., 1999. Topology of syntectonic melt flow networks in the deep crust: inferences from three-dimensional images of leucosome geometry in migmatites. American Mineralogist, 84, 1793-1818.

Solar, G.S. and Brown, M., 2000. The classic high-T - low-P metamorphism of west-central Maine, USA: Is it post-tectonic or syn-tectonic? Evidence from porphyroblast-matrix relations. Reply. Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 1007-1026.

Handy, M.R., Braun, J., Brown, M., Kukowski, N., Paterson, M.S., St`ckhert, B., Sthwe, K., Thompson, A.B. and Wosnitza, E., 2001. Rheology and geodynamic modelling: The next step forward. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 90, 149-156, DOI 10.1007/s005310000161.

Milord, I., Sawyer, E.W. and Brown M., 2001. Formation of diatexite migmatite and granite magma during anatexis of semi-pelitic metasedimentary rocks: An example from St. Malo, France. Journal of Petrology, 42, 487-505.

Solar, G.S. and Brown, M., 2001. Petrogenesis of Migmatites in Maine, USA: Possible Source of Peraluminous Leucogranite in Plutons. Journal of Petrology, 42, 789-823.

Solar, G.S. and Brown, M., 2001. Deformation partitioning during transpression in response to Early Devonian oblique convergence, Northern Appalachian orogen, USA. Journal of Structural Geology, 23, 1043-1065.

Brown, M., 2001. Crustal melting and granite magmatism: key issues. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (A), 26, 201-212.

Marchildon, N. and Brown, M., 2001. Melt segregation in late syn-tectonic anatectic migmatites: an example from the Onawa Contact Aureole, Maine, U.S.A. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (A), 26, 225-229.

Brown, M., 2001. From microscope to mountain belt: 150 years of petrology and its contribution to understanding geodynamics, particularly the tectonics of orogens. Journal of Geodynamics, 32, 115-164. 5

Brown, M., 2001. Orogeny, migmatites and leucogranites: a review. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth and Planetary Science), 110, 313-336.

Brown, M. and Clarke, G.L., 2002. Metamorphic processes: A celebration of the career contribution of Ron Vernon. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 1-6.

Brown, M., 2002. Prograde and Retrograde Processes in Migmatites Revisited. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 25-40.

Marchildon, N. and Brown, M., 2002. Grain-scale melt distribution in two contact aureole rocks: Implication for controls on melt localization and deformation. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 381-396.

Brown, M., 2002. Plate margin processes and 'paired' metamorphic belts in Japan. Comment on "Thermal effects of ridge subduction and its implication for the origin of granitic batholith and paired metamorphic belts" by H. Iwamori. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 199, 483-492.

Moraes, R., Brown, M., Fuck, R.A., Camargo, MA and Lima, T.M., 2002. Characterization and P-T evolution of melt-bearing ultrahigh-temperature granulites: an example from the Anápolis-Itauçu Complex of the Brasília Fold Belt, Brazil. Journal of Petrology, 43, 1673-1705.

Percival, J.A., Brown, M., Heaman, L., Hynes, A., Rivers, T. and Skulski, T., 2002. Tectonic and Magmatic Processes in Crustal Growth: A Pan-Lithoprobe Perspective. Geoscience Canada, 29, 3, 121-125

Johnson, T.E., Gibson, R.L., Brown, M., Buick, I.S. and Cartwright, I., 2003. Partial melting of metapelitic rocks beneath the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Journal of Petrology, 44, 789-813.

Johnson, T.E., Brown, M. and Solar, G.S., 2003. Low-pressure subsolidus and suprasolidus phase equilibria in the MnNCKFMASH system: Constraints on conditions of regional metamorphism in western Maine, northern Appalachians. American Mineralogist, 88, 624-638.

Marchildon, N. and Brown, M., 2003. Spatial distribution of melt-bearing structures in anatectic rocks from Southern Brittany: implications for melt-transfer at grain- to orogen-scale. Tectonophysics, 364, 215-235.

Brown, M., 2003. Hot orogens, tectonic switching, and creation of continental crust: Comment and Reply. Geology: On-Line Forum. June 2003, DOI 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)31<e9:HOTSAC>2.0.CO;2.

Brown, M., 2003. Metamorphic petrology at the Millennium: Retrospection and prospects for the future. In: Mohan, A. (ed) Milestones in Petrology and Future Perspectives. Geological Society of India, Bangalore, Memoir 52, pp. 21-48.

Tomascak, P.B., Brown, M., Solar, G.S., Becker, H.J., Centorbi, T.L. and Tian, Jinmei (in review) Geochemistry of Acadian Granites: Source Contributions to Magmatism Near the Laurentian Border, New Hampshire and Western Maine, USA. Lithos.

Johnson, T. and Brown, M. (in review) Quantitative Constraints on Metamorphism in the Variscides of Southern Brittany - a Complementary Pseudosection Approach. Journal of Petrology.