1991


1991 McDonough, W. F. (1991) Partial melting of subducted oceanic crust and isolation of its residual eclogitic lithology. Phil. Transactions of The Royal Society , A 335: 407-418.

McDonough, W. F. and Chauvel, C. (1991) Sample contamination explains the Pb isotopic composition of some Rurutu island and Sasha seamount basalts. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. , 105: 397-404.

McDonough, W. F. , Rudnick, R.L. and McCulloch, M.T. (1991) The isotopic and chemical composition of the lower portion of the eastern Australian lithosphere. In B. Drummond (ed.) Eastern Australian Lithosphere Geol. Soc. Aust. Spec. Publ. , 17: 163-188.

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1990


1990 McDonough, W. F. (1990) Comment on "Abundance and distribution of gallium in some spinel and garnet lherzolites" by D.B. McKay and R.H. Mitchell. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta , 54: 471-47.

Briggs, R. M. and McDonough, W. F. (1990) Contemporaneous convergent margin and intraplate magmatism, North Island, New Zealand. Journal of Petrology , 31: 813-851.

Loock, G., McDonough, W. F. , Goldstein, S.L. & Hofmann, A.W. (1990) Isotopic compositions of volcanic glasses from the Lau Basin. Marine Mining , 9: 235-245.

McDonough, W. F. (1990) Constraints on the composition of the continental lithospheric mantle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. , 101: 1-18. Link to pdf   (1453Kb)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1989


1989 Sun, Shen-su and McDonough, W. F. (1989) Chemical and Isotopic Systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for Mantle Composition and Processes. In A.D. Saunders and M.J. Norry (eds.) Magmatism in the Ocean Basins , Spec. Publ. Vol. Geol. Soc. Lond. , No. 42, pp. 313-345. Link to pdf (3716 KB)

Sun, Shen-su, McDonough, W. F. and Ewart, A. (1989) Four Component Model for East Australian Basalts. In: R.W. Johnson, J. Knutson and S.R. Taylor (eds.) Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand , Cambridge Univ. Press , Cambridge pp. 333-347.

Jochum, K.P., McDonough, W. F. , Palme, H. and Spettel, B. (1989) Compositional constraints on the continental lithospheric mantle from trace elements in spinel peridotite xenoliths. Nature , 340: 548-550 (with News and Views article) .

McDonough, W. F. , Jochum, K.P., Palme, H. and Spettel, B. (1989) Sampling the lithosphere. Nature , 342: 743.

Sutherland, F.L., Ewart, A. Raynor, L.R., Hollis, J.D. and McDonough, W. F. (1989) Tertiary basaltic magmas and the Tasmanian lithosphere. In: C.F. Burrett and E.L. Martin (eds.) Geology and Mineral Resources of Tasmania , Geol. Soc. Australia , No. 15, pp. 386-398.

McDonough, W. F. and Frey, F.A. (1989) Rare Earth Elements in Upper Mantle Rocks. In: B.R. Lipin and G.A. McKay (eds.) Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Rare Earth Elements , Reviews in Mineralogy , Vol. 21, pp. 99-145.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1987


1987 McDonough, W. F. and McCulloch, M.T. (1987) The southeast Australian Lithospheric Mantle: Implications for its Growth and Evolution. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. , 86, 327-340. Link to pdf   (1277Kb)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1986


1986 Coombs, D.S., Cas, R.A., Kawachi, Y., Landis, C.A., McDonough, W. F. & Reay, A. (1986) Cenozoic volcanism in North, East, and Central Otago. In I. E. M. Smith (ed.) Late Cenozoic Volcanism in New Zealand Roy. Soc. N.Z. Bull. , 23: 278-312.

Rudnick, R.L., McDonough, W. F. , McCulloch, M.T. and Taylor, S.R. (1986) The chemical and isotopic composition of lower crustal xenoliths from Queensland, Australia: evidence for deep crustal assimilation and fractionation of continental basalts. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 50: 1099-1115.

 

 

 

 

1985


1985 McDonough, W. F. , McCulloch, M.T. and Sun, S.-s. (1985) Isotopic and geochemical systematics in Tertiary-Recent basalts from southeastern Australia and implications for the evolution of the sub-continental lithosphere. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta , 49: 2051-2067. Link to pdf

 

 

 

 

 

1984


1984 McDonough, W. F. , Waibel, A.F. and Gannett, M.W. (1984) The reinterpretation of Leone Lake sediments as a pyroclastic surge deposit and its tectonic significance. Jour. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. , 20: 101-115.

Francis, P.W., McDonough, W. F. , Hammill, M., O'Callaghan, L.J. and Thorpe, R.S. (1984) The Cerro Purico shield complex, North Chile. In R.S. Harmon and B.A. Barreiro (eds.) Andean Magmatism Chemical and Isotopic Constraints Shiva Publishing Ltd , Cheshire, pp. 106-123.

McDonough, W. F. and Nelson, D.O. (1984) Geochemical constraints on magma processes in a peralkaline system: Paisano volcano, west Texas. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta , 48: 2443-2455.

Non-Reviewed News items 29th international Geological Congress, Kyoto - a CEI viewpoint. IAVCEI News, Bull. Volcanology 55: 229-230 (1993).

Geoscientists Unite to Develop Earth Reference Model. EOS , Nov 5, 1996, pp. 443.

Second GERM Workshop, La Jolla, CA, March 1998. The Geochemical Newsletter, July 1998, pp. 12-13.