Department of Geology

Publications That Include Graduate Student Authors

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2009

Arevalo Jr., R., McDonough, W.F., and Luong, M. (2009) The K/U ratio of the silicate Earth: Insights into mantle composition, structure and thermal evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (278), 361-369.

Day J. M. D., Ash R. D., Liu Y., Bellucci J. J., Rumble III D., McDonough W. F., Walker R. J., and Taylor L. A. (2009) Early formation of evolved asteroidal crust. Nature (457), 179-183.

Guo, Q., Strauss, H., Kaufman, A.J., Schröder, S., Gutzmer, J., Wing, B., Baker, M.A., Bekker, A., Jin, Q., Kim, S.-T., and Farquhar, J. (2009) Reconstructing Earth’s surface oxidation across the Archean-Proterozoic transition. Geology (37), 399-402.

Cottrell, E., Kelley, K.A., Lanzirotti, A. and Fischer, R.A. (2009) High-precision determination of iron oxidation state in silicate glasses using XANES. Chemical Geology (268), 167–179

Ireland, T.J., Arevalo Jr., R.D., Walker, R.J. and McDonough, W.F. (2009) Tungsten in Hawaiian picrites: a compositional model for the sources of Hawaiian lavas. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (73), 4517-4530.

Ireland, T.J., Walker, R.J. and Garcia, M.O. (2009) Highly siderophile element and 187Os isotope systematics of Hawaiian picrites: Implications for parental melt composition and source heterogeneities. Chemical Geology (260), 112-128.

Klochko, K., Cody, G., Tossell, J.A., Dera, P. and Kaufman, A.J. (2009) Re-evaluating boron speciation in biogenic calcite and aragonite using 11B MAS NMR. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (73), 1890-1900.

Mikucki J.A., Pearson A., Johnston D.T., Turchyn A. V., Farquhar J., Schrag D. P., Anbar A.D., Priscu J.C., and Lee P.A. (2009) A Contemporary Microbially Maintained Subglacial Ferrous "Ocean". Science 324(5925), 397-400.

Qiu, L., Rudnick, R. L., McDonough, W. F. and Merriman, R. J. (2009) Li and d7Li in mudrocks from the British Caledonides: metamorphism and source influences. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (in press)

Reno, B.L. , Brown, M., Kobayashi, K., Nakamura, E., Piccoli, P.M., and Trouw, R.A.J. (2009) Timing of High-Pressure Granulite Facies Metamorphism in the Southern Brasília Belt, Brazil. Journal of the Geological Society of London (166), 1-19.

Schulte, R.F. , Schilling, M., Horan, M.F., Anma, R., Komiya, T., Farquhar, J., Piccoli, P.M., Pitcher, L., and Walker, R.J. (2009) Chemical and chronologic complexity in the convecting upper mantle: Evidence from the Taitao Ophiolite, southern Chile. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta (73), 5397-5819.

Teng, F. Z., Rudnick, R.L., McDonough, W. F. and Wu, F-Y. (2009) Lithium isotopic systematics of A-type granites and their mafic enclaves: Further constraints on the Li isotopic composition of the continental crust. Chemical Geology (262) 415–424.

2008

Arevalo Jr., R. and McDonough, W.F. (2008) Tungsten geochemistry and implications for understanding the Earth's interior. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (272), 656-665.

Farquhar, J., and Johnston, D.T. (2008) The oxygen cycle of the terrestrial planets: Insights into the processing and history of oxygen in surface environments. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry: OXYGEN IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM 68: 463-492.

Johnston D. T., Farquhar J., Habicht K. S., and Canfield D. E. (2008) Sulphur isotopes and the search for life: strategies for identifying sulphur metabolisms in the rock record and beyond. Geobiology (6) 425-435.

Johnston, D.T., Farquhar J, Summons R, Shen Y, Kaufman A.J., Masterson, A.L., Canfield D.E. (2008) Late Paleo-Mesoproterozoic sulfur isotope biogeochemistry: insight from the McArthur Basin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (72), 4278-4290.

McDonough, W.F. and Arevalo Jr., R. (2008) Uncertainties in the composition of Earth, its core and silicate sphere. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. (136), 022006.

Schleicher, L.S., Miller, J.W., Watkins-Kenney, S.C., Carnes-McNaughton, L.F., and Wilde-Ramsing, M.U. (2008) Non-destructive chemical characterization of ceramic shards from Shipwreck 31CR314 and Brunswick Town, North Carolina. Journal of Archaeological Science (35), 2824-2838.

Simon, A.C., Candela, P.A, Piccoli, P.M., Mengason, M., Englander, L. (2008) The effect of crystal-melt partitioning on the budgets of Cu, Au, and Ag. American Mineralogist (93), 1437-1448.

Teng, F.-Z., Rudnick, R. L., McDonough, W. F., Gao, S., Tomascak, P. B. and Liu, Y. (2008) Lithium isotopic composition and concentration of the deep continental crust. Chemical Geology (255) 47-59.

Walker R. J., McDonough W. F., Honesto J., Chabot N. L., McCoy T. J., Ash R. D., and Bellucci J. J. (2008) Modeling fractional crystallization of group IVB iron meteorites. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta (72(8)), 2198-2216.

2007

Farquhar, J., Johnston, D.T., Wing., B.A. (2007) Influence of network structure on sulfur isotope phase space of dissimilatory sulfate reduction: Implications of conservation of mass effects on mass-dependent isotope fractionations Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71 (24): 5862-5875.

Farquhar, J., Peters, M., Johnston, D.T., Strauss, H., Masterson, A., Wiechert, U., and Kaufman, A.J. (2007) Isotopic evidence for Mesoarchean anoxia and changing atmospheric sulfur chemistry. Nature (449) 706.

France, C.A.M., Zelanko, P.M., Kaufman, A.J., and Holtz, T.R. (2007) Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of Pleistocene mammals from the Saltville Quarry (Virginia, USA): implications for trophic relationships. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (249), 271-282.

Johnston, D.T. , Farquhar, J., and Canfield, D.E. (2007) Sulfur isotope insights into microbial sulfate reduction: when microbes meet models, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (71)3929-3947.

Kaufman, A.J., Johnston D.T., Farquhar, J., Masterson, A.L., Lyons, T.W., Bates, S., Anbar, A., Arnold, G.L., Garvin, J., Buick, R. (2007) Global biospheric oxygenation and atmospheric evolution at the close of the Archean Eon. Science (317)1900-1903.

Teng, F.Z., McDonough, W.F., Rudnick, R.L., and Wing, B. (2007). Limited lithium isotopic fractionation during progressive metamorphic dehydration in metapelites: A case study from the Onawa contact aureole, Maine. Chemical Geology (239) 1-12.

Tyra M.A., J. Farquhar, B.A. Wing, G.K. Benedix, A.J.T. Jull, T. Jackson, M.H. Thiemens (2007) Terrestrial alteration of carbonate in a suite of Antarctic CM chondrites: Evidence from oxygen and carbon isotopes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (71) 782-795.

Walker , R.J., Bohlke, J.K., McDonough, W.F. and Li, J. (2007) Effects of Mother Lode-Type Gold Mineralization on 187Os/ 188Os and Platinum Group Element Concentrations in Peridotite: Alleghany District, California. Economic Geology (102) 1079-1089.

2006

Byrne, R.H., Yao, W., Klochko, K., Tossell, J.A. and Kaufman, A.J. (2006) Experimental evaluation of the isotope exchange equilibrium 10B(OH)3 + 11B(OH)4- = 11B(OH)3 + 10B(OH)4- in aqueous solutions. Deep Sea Research (53), 684-688.

Gangopadhyay, A., Walker , R.J., Hanski, E. and Solheid, P. (2006) Origin of Paleoproterozoic Ti-enriched komatiitic rocks from Jeesiörova, Kittilä Greenstone Complex, Finnish Lapland. Journal of Petrology (47) 773-789.

Jamieson, J.W., Wing, B.A., Hannington, M.D., and Farquhar, J. (2006) Evaluating isotopic equilibrium among sulfide mineral pairs in Archean ore deposits: Case study from the Kidd Creek VMS deposit Ontario, Canada. Economic Geology (101) 1055-1061.

Johnston, D. T. , Poulton, S. W., Fralick, P. W., Wing, B. A., Canfield, D. E., and Farquhar, J. (2006) Evolution of the oceanic sulfur cycle at the end of the Paleoproterozoic. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (70) 5723-5739.

Klochko, K., Kaufman, A.J., Yao, Wengsheng, Byrne, R.H. and Tossell, J.A. (2006) Experimental measurment of boron isotope fractionation in seawater. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (248), 276-285.

Teng* , F.-Z., McDonough, W.F., Rudnick, R.L. and Walker , R.J. (2006) Diffusion-driven extreme lithium isotopic fractionation in country rocks of the Tin Mountain pegmatite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (243) 701-710.

Teng, F.-Z., McDonough, W.F., Rudnick, R.L., Walker , R. and Sirbescu, M.-L. C. (2006) Lithium isotopic systematics of granites and pegmatites from the Black Hills, South Dakota. American Mineralogist (91) 1488-1499.

2005

Gangopadhyay, A., Sproule, R.A., Walker, R.J. and Lesher, M. (2005) Re-Os systematics of komatiites and kimatiiteic basalts at Dundonald Beach, Ontario, Canada: Evidence for a complex alteration history and implications of a late-Archean chondritic mantle source. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (69) 5087-5098.

Johnston, D. T., Farquhar, J., Wing, B. A., Kaufman, A., Canfield, D. E., and Habicht, K. S. (2005) Multiple sulfur isotope fractionations in biological systems: A case study with sulfate reducers and sulfur disproportionators. American Journal of Science (305) 645-660.

Johnston, D. T., Wing, B. A., Farquhar, J., Kaufman, A. J., Strauss, H., Lyons, T. W., Kah, L. C., and Canfield, D. E. (2005) Active microbial sulfur disproportionation in the Mesoproterozoic. Science (310) 1477-1479.

Simon, A.C., Frank, M.R., Pettke, T., Candela, P.A., Piccoli, P.M. and Heinrich, C. (2005) Gold partitioning in vapor-brine-melt systems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (69) 3321-3335.

2004

Cook, D.L., Walker R.J., Horan, M.F., Wasson, J.T. and Morgan, J.W. (2004) Pt-Re-Os systematics of group IIAB and IIIAB iron meteorites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, 1413-1431.

Johnston, D.T., Farquhar, J., Wing, B.A., Kaufman, A.J., Canfield, D.E. and Habicht, K.S. (2004) Multiple sulfur isotopes in biological systems. American Journal of Science.

Teng, F.-Z., McDonough, W.F., Rudnick, R.L., Dalpe, C., Tomascak, P.B., Chappell, B.W. and Gao, S. (2004) Lithium isotopic composition and concentration of the upper continental crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, 4167-4178.

2003

Koch-Müller, M., Dera, P., Fei, Y., Reno, B.L., Sobolev, N.V., Hauri, E., and Wysoczanski, R. (2003) OH- in synthetic and natural coesite. American Mineralogist (88), 1436-1445.

Jiang, D., Williams, P.F. and Carter, B.L. (2003) Numerical modeling of the development of kink bands in anisotropic plastic materials. Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 11.

Frank, M.R., Candela, P.A. and Piccoli, P.M. (2003) Alkali exchange equilibria between a silicate melt and coexisting magmatic volatile phase: an experimental study at 800°C and 100 MPa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67, 1415-1427

Gangopadhyay, A. and Walker, R.J. (2003) Re-Os systematics of the ca. 2.7 Ga Alexo komatiites, Ontario, Canada. Chemical Geology, 196, 147-162.

Farquhar, J., Johnston, D.T., Wing, B.A., Habicht, K.S., Canfield, D.E., Airieau, S.A. and Thiemens, M.H. (2003) Multiple sulfur isotopic interpretations of biosynthetic pathways: Implications for biological signatures in the sulfur isotope record. Geobiology, 1, 15-27.

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.

2002

Frank, M.R., Candela, P.A., Piccoli, P.M. and Glascock, M.D. (2002) Gold solubility and partitioning as a function of HCl in the brine-silicate melt-metallic gold system at 800°C and 100 MPa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66, 3719-3732. Special volume in tribute to H.D. Holland. (invited)

2001

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.

2000

Piccoli, P.M., DeHarde, A., Wylie, A.G. and Prestegaard, K. (2000) Development of a grout for the Kempton Mine: Characterization (XRD, chemical analyses, and SEM/EPMA data) of starting materials. Power Plant Research Project Report, Maryland Department of Natural Resources. (unrefereed)

Candela, P.A., Frank, M.R. and Piccoli, P.M. (2000) Quantitative modeling of magmatic volatile phase exsolution. Geochemical Society Goldschmidt Conference. Journal of Conference Abstracts 52, 284. (invited)

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.

Tsuru, A., Walker, R.J., Kontinen, A., Peltonen, P. and Hanski, E. (2000) Re-Os isotopic systematics of the Jormua Ophiolite Complex, NW Finland. Chemical Geology, 164, 123-141.

1999

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.

Jugo, P.J., Candela, P.A. and Piccoli, P.M. (1999) Magmatic sulfides and Au:Cu ratios in porphyry deposits: an experimental study of copper and gold partitioning at 850°C, 100 MPa in a haplogranitic melt pyrrhotite intermediate solid solution gold metal assemblage, at gas saturation. Published in a Special Issue of Lithos, 46, 573-589. (invited)

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. (invited)

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. (invited)

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.

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. (invited)

Tuttle M.P., Collier, J., Wolf, L.W. and Lafferty, R.H. (1999) New evidence for a large earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone between AD 1400 and 1670. Geology, 27 (9), 771-774.

1998

Frank, M.R., Candela, P.A. and Piccoli, P.M. (1998) K-feldspar-muscovite-andalusite-quartz-brine phase equilibria: an experimental study at 25-60 MPa and 400-550oC. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 62, 3717-3727.

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.

Horan, M.F., Smoliar M. and Walker R.J. (1998) 182W and 187Re-187Os systematics of iron meteorites: chronology for melting, differentiation and crystallization of asteroids. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 62, 545-554.