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U-Pb SHRIMP and 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data and backscatter electron (BSE) and panchromatic cathodoluminescent (CL) imagery of sample materials for study of dikes, country rock, and alteration systems, Butte, U.S.A. U-Pb SHRIMP and 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data and backscatter electron (BSE) and panchromatic cathodoluminescent (CL) imagery of sample materials for study of dikes, country rock, and alteration systems, Butte, U.S.A.
These data are for a multidisciplinary study of dikes, country rock, and alteration systems, Butte, U.S.A. Results of the study are described and interpreted in Lund and others (2018). Data included are U-Pb SHRIMP geochronology for quartz porphyry dikes, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic data for biotite, hornblende, and K-feldspar from Butte granite country rock, and 40Ar/39Ar...
40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield districts, Nevada 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield districts, Nevada
Ar/Ar data are reported from minerals and rocks that were collected as part of a mineral resource investigation of the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield districts in Nevada. Data are reported from 92 samples and associated standards from eight separate neutron irradiations in the Denver USGS TRIGA reactor, including separated mineral grains and whole rocks. Data were collected by infrared...
Argon geochronology data from the Austroalpine-Pennine boundary, Central Alps, Switzerland Argon geochronology data from the Austroalpine-Pennine boundary, Central Alps, Switzerland
Ar/Ar data are reported from eight samples of white mica separated from rock samples collected along the Austroalpine-Pennine boundary in the Central Alps of Switzerland. These samples were collected as part of a Caltech PhD study to examine the tectonic history of this boundary and these argon geochronology data represent one small part of the study. Data are reported from these eight...
Data release of Geologic Map of the Upper Arkansas River Valley Region, North-Central, Colorado Data release of Geologic Map of the Upper Arkansas River Valley Region, North-Central, Colorado
This 1:50,000-scale geologic map represents a compilation of the most recent geologic studies of the upper Arkansas River valley, between Leadville and Salida, Colorado. The valley is structurally controlled by an extensional fault system that forms part of the prominent northern Rio Grande rift, an intra-continental region of crustal extension. This work also incorporates new detailed...
Argon data for Poncha Pass Geologic Map Argon data for Poncha Pass Geologic Map
This dataset was collected by Leah E. Morgan and Michael A. Cosca in the Argon Geochronology Laboratory of the USGS in Denver, Colorado in 2015. The dataset contains full raw argon isotopic data for samples presented in: Geologic Map of the Poncha Map Area, Chaffee, Fremont, and Saguache Counties, Colorado.
Geologic map of the Sunshine 7.5' quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico Geologic map of the Sunshine 7.5' quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico
The Sunshine 7.5' quadrangle is located in the south-central part of the San Luis Basin of northern New Mexico, in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, and contains deposits that record volcanic, tectonic, and associated alluvial and colluvial processes over the past four million years. Sunshine Valley, named for the small locale of Sunshine, is incised by a series of northeast...
Geologic map of the Harvard Lakes 7.5' quadrangle, Park and Chaffee Counties, Colorado Geologic map of the Harvard Lakes 7.5' quadrangle, Park and Chaffee Counties, Colorado
The Harvard Lakes 1:24,000-scale quadrangle spans the Arkansas River Valley in central Colorado, and includes the foothills of the Sawatch Range on the west and Mosquito Range on the east. The Arkansas River valley lies in the northern end of the Rio Grande rift and is structurally controlled by Oligocene and younger normal faults mostly along the west side of the valley. Five separate...
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Two-event genesis of Butte lode veins: Geologic and geochronologic evidence from ore veins, dikes, and host plutons Two-event genesis of Butte lode veins: Geologic and geochronologic evidence from ore veins, dikes, and host plutons
The long-standing ore-genesis model for world-class deposits of the Butte mining district, Montana, is of deep pre-Main Stage porphyry Cu-Mo and overlying Main Stage Ag-Zn-Cu-zoned lode veinsformed from discrete hydrothermal systems related to rhyolite dikes. The lode-specific model describes metals zones that formed in the lode veins as hydrothermal processes diminished in intensity...
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Karen Lund, Ryan J. McAleer, John N. Aleinikoff, Michael Cosca
Age and mantle sources of Quaternary basalts associated with “leaky” transform faults of the migrating Anatolia-Arabia-Africa triple junction Age and mantle sources of Quaternary basalts associated with “leaky” transform faults of the migrating Anatolia-Arabia-Africa triple junction
The Anatolia (Eurasia), Arabia, and Africa tectonic plates intersect in southeast Turkey, near the Gulf of İskenderun, forming a tectonically active and unstable triple junction (the A3 triple junction). The plate boundaries are marked by broad zones of major, dominantly left-lateral transform faults including the East Anatolian fault zone (the Anatolia-Arabia boundary) and the Dead...
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Michael Cosca, Mary Reid, Jonathan Delph, Gonca Gencalioglu Kuscu, Janne Blichert-Toft, Wayne R. Premo, Donna Whitney, Christian Teyssier, Bora Rojay
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ecemiş fault zone and adjacent basins, central Anatolia, Turkey during the transition from Arabia - Eurasia collision to escape tectonics Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ecemiş fault zone and adjacent basins, central Anatolia, Turkey during the transition from Arabia - Eurasia collision to escape tectonics
The effects of Arabia-Eurasia collision are recorded in faults, basins, and exhumed metamorphic massifs across eastern and central Anatolia. These faults and basins also preserve evidence of major changes in deformation and associated sedimentary processes along major suture zones including the Inner Tauride suture where it lies along the southern (Ecemiş) segment of the Central...
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Paul J. Umhoefer, Stuart Thompson, Come Lefebre, Michael Cosca, Christian Teyssier, Donna L. Whitney
Petrology of volcanic rocks associated with silver-gold (Ag-Au) epithermal deposits in the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield Mining Districts, Nevada Petrology of volcanic rocks associated with silver-gold (Ag-Au) epithermal deposits in the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield Mining Districts, Nevada
Miocene calc-alkaline volcanic rocks, part of the southern segment of the ancestral Cascades magmatic arc, are spatially, temporally, and likely genetically associated with precious metal epithermal deposits in the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield Districts of west-central Nevada. In the Tonopah mining district, volcanic rocks include the Mizpah Trachyte, Fraction Tuff, and Oddie Rhyolite...
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Edward A. du Bray, David A. John, Joseph P. Colgan, Peter G. Vikre, Michael A. Cosca, Leah E. Morgan
Petrographic, geochemical, and geochronologic data for cenozoic volcanic rocks of the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield Mining Districts, Nevada Petrographic, geochemical, and geochronologic data for cenozoic volcanic rocks of the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield Mining Districts, Nevada
The purpose of this report is to summarize geochemical, petrographic, and geochronologic data for samples, principally those of unmineralized Tertiary volcanic rocks, from the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield mining districts of west-central Nevada (fig. 1). Much of the data presented here for the Tonopah and Divide districts are for samples collected by Bonham and Garside (1979) during...
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Edward A. du Bray, David A. John, Peter G. Vikre, Joseph P. Colgan, Michael A. Cosca, Leah E. Morgan, Robert J. Fleck, Wayne R. Premo, Christopher S. Holm-Denoma
A supervolcano and its sidekicks: A 100 ka eruptive chronology of the Fish Canyon Tuff and associated units of the La Garita magmatic system A supervolcano and its sidekicks: A 100 ka eruptive chronology of the Fish Canyon Tuff and associated units of the La Garita magmatic system
Establishing temporal constrains on major volcanic eruptions is limited by the precision of existing geochronometers. Prior work on the La Garita caldera, created by the eruption of the Fish Canyon Tuff, failed to resolve temporal differences between pre-, syn-, and post-collapse eruptive units. Here, we report 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data supporting a ca. 100 ka eruptive history of the...
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Leah E. Morgan, Samuel Johnstone, Amy K. Gilmer, Michael A. Cosca, Ren A. Thompson
Non-USGS Publications**
Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M A., and Chamberlain, C.P., 2007, Stable isotope paleoaltimetry of Eocene core complexes in the North American Cordillera, Tectonics, 26 (4), TC4001, doi:10.1029/2006TC00199.
Zechmeister, M.S., Ferre, E., Cosca, M.A., Geissman, J.W., 2007, Slow and fast deformation in the Dora Maira Massif, Italian Alps: Pseudotachylytes and inferences on exhumation history. Journal of Stuctural Geology, 29 (7), p. 1114-1130, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2007.03.009.
Cosca, M. A., Giorgis, D., Rumble, D., and Liou, J. G. 2006, Limiting effects of UHP metamorphism on length scales of oxygen, hydrogen, and argon isotope exchange: an example from the Qinglongshan UHP ecologites, Sulu Terrain, China: In: Phase relations, high-pressure terranes, P-T-ometry, and plate pushing: a tribute to W. G. Ernst. International Book Series, v. 9, p. 290-323.
Keane, S.D., DeWolf, C.P., Essene, E.J., Halliday, A.N., Hall, C.M., Cosca, M.A., 2006, Isotopic Constraints on the Thermal History of the Wind River Range, Wyoming: Implications for Archean Metamorphism. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 43 (10), 1511-1532, doi:10.1139/e06-090.
Manatschal, G., Engström, A., Desmurs, L., Schaltegger, U., Cosca, M., Müntener, O., Bernoulli, D., 2006, What is the tectono-metamorphic evolution of continental break-up: the example of the Tasna ocean-continent transistion. Journal of Structural Geology,28 (10), 1849-1869, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2006.07.014.
Mulch, A., Teyssier, C, Cosca, M.A, and Vennemann, T.W., 2006, Thermomechanical analysis of strain localization in a ductile detachment zone. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, 111 (B12), doi:10.1029/2005JB004032.
Cosca, M.A., Caby, R., and Bussy, F., 2005, Geochemistry and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of pseudotachylyte associated with UHP whiteschists from the Dora Maira massif, Italy. Tectonophysics, 402 (1-4), 93-110, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2004.12.033.
Cosca, M.A., Giorgis, D., Rumble, D., Liou, J.G., 2005, Limiting effects of UHP metamorphism on length-scales of oxygen, hydrogen, and argon isotope exchange: an example from the Qinglongshan UHP eclogites. International Geology Review, 47 (7), 716-749, doi:10.2747/0020-6814.47.7.716.
Mulch, A., Cosca, M.A., Fiebig, J., and Andresen, A., 2005, Time scales of deformation and exhumation in extensional detachment systems determined by high-spatial resolution in situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233 (3-4), 375-390, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.042.
Putlitz, B., Cosca, M.A., and Schumacher, J., 2005, Prograde mica 40Ar/39Ar growth ages recorded in high pressure rocks (Syros, Cyclades, Greece). Chemical Geology, 214 (1-2), 79-98, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.08.056.
Haeberlin, Y., Moritz, R., Fontboté, L., and Cosca, M., 2004, Carboniferous orogenic gold deposits at Pataz, Eastern Andean Cordillera, Peru: Geological and structural framework, paragenesis, alteration, and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Economic Geology, 99 (1), 73-112, doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.99.1.73.
Mulch, A. and Cosca, M.A., 2004, Recrystallization or cooling ages? In situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of muscovite in mylonitic rocks. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 161 (4), 573-582, doi:10.1144/0016-764903-110.
Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., Vanderhaeghe, O., and Vennemann, T., 2004, Reconstructing paleoelevation in eroded orogens. Geology, 32 (6), 525-528, doi:10.1130/G20394.1.
Vannay, J-C., Grasemann, B., Rahn, M., Frank, W., Carter, A., Baudraz, V., Cosca, M., 2004, Miocene to Holocene exhumation of metamorphic crustal wedges in the NW Himalaya: evidence for tectonic extrusion coupled to fluvial erosion. Tectonics, 23 (1), doi:10.1029/2002TC001429.
Winer, G.S., Feeley, T.C., and Cosca, M.A., 2004, Basaltic volcanism in the Bering Sea: geochronology and volcanic evolution of St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 134 (4), 277-301, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.02.003.
Bendezú, R., Fontbonté, L., Cosca, M., 2003, Relative age of Cordilleran base metal lode and replacement deposits, and high sulfidation Au-(Ag) epithermal mineralization in the Colquijirca district, central Peru. Mineralium Deposita, 38, 683-694, doi:10.1007/s00126-003-0358-z.
Camprubí, A., Ferrari, L., Cosca, M.A., Cardellach, E., Canals, A., 2003, Ages of epithermal deposits in Mexico: regional significance and links with the evolution of Tertiary volcanism. Economic Geology, 98 (5), 1029-1037, doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.98.5.1029.
Feeley, T.C., and Cosca, M.A., 2003, Time vs. composition trends of magmatism at Sunlight volcano, Absaroka Volcanic Province, Wyoming. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 115 (6), 714-728, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2003)115<C0714:TVCTOM>2.0.CO;2.
Giorgis, D., Cosca, M.A., Rumble, D., 2003, Pre-metamorphic d18O signatures in morphologically complex zircons from the Qinglongshan UHP meta-granite (Sulu terrain, China). Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology, 83 (2), 133-144, https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ssmp/sbmp/2003/00000083/00000002/art00002.
Jourdan, F., Marzoli, A., Bertrand, H., Cosca, M., Fontignie, D., 2003, The Northernmost CAMP: 40Ar/39Ar age, petrology and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry of the Kerforne dike, Brittany, France. In: Hames, W.C et al. (eds.) The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province: Fragments of Pangea, AGU Geophysical Monograph, 136, 209-226, doi:10.1029/136GM11.
Kirschner, D.L., Cosca, M.A., and Masson, H., 2003, An 40Ar/39Ar, Rb/Sr, and stable isotope study of micas in low-grade fold-and-thrust belt: An example from the Swiss Helvetic Alps. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 145 (4), 460-480, doi:10.1007/s00410-003-0461-2.
Kramar, N., Cosca, M.A., Buffat, P.A., and Baumgartner, L.P., 2003, Stacking fault-enhanced argon diffusion in naturally deformed muscovite. In Vance, D., Muller, W., and Villa, I., eds., Geochronology: Linking the Isotopic Record with Petrology and Textures, Geological Society of London. Special Publication, 220, 249-260, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.220.01.15.
Rodríguez Aller, J., Cosca, M. A., Gil Ibarguchi, J. I., and Dallmeyer, R. D., 2003, Strain partitioning and preservation of 40Ar/39Ar ages for the eclogite-facies stage during Variscan exhumation of a subducted crust (Malpica-Tui allochthon, NW Spain) Lithos, 70 (3-4), 111-139, doi:10.1016/S0024-4937(03)00095-1.
Schlup, M., Carter, A., Cosca, M., and Steck, A., 2003, Exhumation history of eastern Ladakh revealed by 40Ar/39Ar and fission-track ages: the Indus River-Tso Morari transect, NW Himalaya. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 160, 385-369, doi:10.1144/0016-764902-084.
Feeley, T.C., Cosca, M.A., and Lindsay, C.R., 2002, Petrogenesis and implications of calc-alkaline cryptic hybrid magmas from Washburn volcano, Absaroka Volcanic Province, USA. Journal of Petrology, 43 (4), 663-703, doi:10.1093/petrology/43.4.663.
Markley, M., Teyssier, C., and Cosca, M., 2002, The relation between grain size and 40Ar/39Ar date for Alpine white mica from the Siviez-Mischabel Nappe, Switzerland. Journal of Stuctural Geology, 24 (12), 1937-1955, doi:10.1016/S0191-8141(02)00006-8.
Mulch, A., Cosca, M.A., and Handy, M.R., 2002, In situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of a micaceous mylonite: an example of defect-enhanced argon loss. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 142, 738-752, doi:10.1007/s00410-001-0325-6.
Solé, J., Cosca, M., Sharp, Z., and Enrique, P, 2002, 40Ar/39Ar geochronolgy and stable isotope geochemistry of late-Hercynian intrusions from north-eastern Iberia with implications for argon loss in K-feldspar. International Journal of Earth Science, 91, 865-881, doi:10.1007/s00531-001-0251-x.
Crowe, W.A., Cosca, M.A., Harris, L.B., 2001, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and Neoproterozoic tectonics along the northern margin of the Eastern Ghats Belt in north Orissa, India. Precambrian Research, 108 (3-4), 237-266, doi:10.1016/S0301-9268(01)00132-2.
D’Atri, A., Dela Pierre, Ruffini, R., Novaretti, A., Cosca, M., Hunziker, J.C., 2001, Calcareous plankton biostratigraphy and 40Ar/39Ar dating of Miocene volcanoclastic layers from Monferrato (NW Italy). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 94 (2), 137-144.
de Sigoyer, J., Chavagnac, V., Blichert-Toft, J., Villa, I., Luais, B., Guillot, S., Cosca, M., and Mascle, G., 2001, Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: Multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites. Comment and Reply, Geology, 29 (2), 192-193, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0192:R>2.0.CO;2.
Edel, J-B., Dubois, D., Marchant, R., Hernandez, J., and Cosca, M., 2001, La rotation miocène inférieur du bloc corso-sarde. Nouvelles contraintes paléomagnetiques sur la fin du mouvement. Bulletin Societé Géologique de France, 172 (3), 275-283, doi:10.2113/172.3.275.
Janák, M., Plašienka, D., Frey, M., Cosca, M., Schmidt, S., Lupták, B., and Meres, S., 2001, Cretaceous evolution of a metamorphic core complex, the Verporic unit, Western Carpathians (Slovakia): P-T conditions and in situ 40Ar/39Ar UV laser probe dating of metapelites. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19 (2), 197-216, doi:10.1046/j.0263-4929.2000.00304.x.
Kramar, N., Cosca, M.A., Hunziker, J.C., 2001, Heterogenous 40Ar* distributions in naturally deformed muscovite: in situ UV-laser ablation evidence for microstructurally controlled intragrain diffusion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 192 (3), 377-388, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00456-3.
Odin, G.S., Takahashi, M., and Cosca M.A., 2001, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Middle Miocene calcareous nannofossil biohorizhons in central Japan. Chemical Geology, 171 (3-4), 239-252, doi:10.1016/S0009-2541(00)00250-3.
de Sigoyer, J., Chavagnac, V., Blichert-Toft, J., Villa, I., Luais, B., Guillot, S., Cosca, M., and Mascle, G., 2000, Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: Multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites. Geology, 28 (6), 487-490, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<487:DTICSA>2.0.CO;2.
Giorgis, D., Cosca, M.A., Li, S., 2000, Distribution and significance of extraneous argon in UHP eclogite (Sulu terrane, China): insights from in-situ 40Ar/39Ar UV-laser ablation analysis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 181 (4), 605-615, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00221-1.
Zeh, A., Cosca, M., Brätz, H., Okrusch, M., and Tichomirova, M., 2000, Simultaneous horst-basin formation and magmatism during Late Variscan transtension: evidence from40Ar/39Ar and 207Pb/206Pb geochronology of the Ruhla Crystalline Complex, International Journal of Earth Science, 89 (1), 52-71, doi:10.1007/s005310050317.
Cosca, M.A., Shimron, A., and Caby, R., 1999, Late Precambrian metamorphism and cooling in the Arabian-Nubian Shield: petrology and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of metamorphic rocks of the Elat area (southern Israel). Precambrian Research, 98 (1-2), 107-127, doi:10.1016/S0301-9268(99)00044-3.
Dèzes, P.J., Vannay, J.-C., Steck, A., Bussy, F., and Cosca, M., 1999, Synorogenic extension: quantitative constraints on the age and throw of the Zanskar Shear Zone (NW Himalaya). Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111 (3), 364-374, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0364:SEQCOT>2.3.CO;2.
Guillot, S., Cosca, M.A., Allemand, P., and Le Fort, P., 1999, Contrasting metamorphic and geochronologic evolution along the Himalayan Belt. In: Macfarlane, A., Sorkhabi, R.B., Quade, J. (eds) Himalaya and Tibet: Mountain Roots to Mountain Tops. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 328, 117-128, doi:10.1130/0-8137-2328-0.117.
Haeberlin, Y., Moritz, R., Fontboté, L., and Cosca, M., 1999, The Pataz gold province (Peru) within the frame of a mesothermal gold and antimony belt of the Eastern Andean Cordillera. In: Stanley, C.J., et al. (eds.) Mineral deposits: processes to processing. Balkema, 2, 1323-326.
Jaboyedoff, M., and Cosca, M.A., 1999, Dating incipient metamorphism using 40Ar/39Ar geochronolgy and XRD modeling: a case study from the Swiss Alps. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 135, 93-113, doi:10.1007/s004100050500.
Mezger, K., and Cosca, M.A., 1999, The thermal history of the Eastern Ghats (India) as revealed by U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar dating of metamorphic and magmatic minerals: implications for the SWEAT correlation. Precambrian Research 94 (3-4), 251-271, doi:10.1016/S0301-9268(98)00118-1.
Cosca, M.A., Arculus, R.J., Pearce, J.A., and Mitchell, J.G., 1998, Inception and early evolution of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc system: evidence from 40Ar/39Ar and K-Ar geochronology. The Island Arc, v. 7, p. 579-595.
Cosca, M.A., Mezger, K., and Essene, E.J., 1998, The Baltica-Laurentia connection: Sveconorwegian (Grenvillian) metamorphism, cooling, and unroofing in the Bamble Sector, Norway. Journal of Geology, 106 (5), 539-552, doi:10.1086/516040.
Markley, M.J., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., Caby, R., Hunziker, J.C. and Sartori, M., 1998, Alpine deformation and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of synkinematic white mica in the Siviez-Mischabel Nappe, western Pennine Alps, Switzerland. Tectonics, v. 17, p. 407-425.
Roberts, D., Cosca, M.A., and Rice, A.H.N., 1998, A 40Ar/39Ar dating study of very low-grade metamorphism from the Rybachi and Sredni Peninsulas, NW Russia-a preliminary report. Norwegian Geological Survey Report, 168, 1-17.
Bill, M., Bussy, F., Cosca, M., Masson, H., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, High-precision U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar dating of an Alpine ophiolite (Gets nappe, French Alps). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 90, 43-54.
Bryant, C.J., Cosca, M.A., and Arculus, R.J., 1997, 40Ar/39Ar ages of Clarence River Supersuite intrusions from the northern portion of the New England Batholith, southern New England Orogen. In Ashley, P.M. and Flood, P.G., eds., Tectonics and Metallogenesis of the New England Orogen, Geological Society of Australia Special Publication, 19, 242-253.
Hoinkes, G., Thöni, M., Lichem, C., Bernhard, F., Kaindl, R., Schweigel, J., Tropper P., and Cosca, M., 1997, Metagranitoids and associated metasediments as indicators for the pre-Alpine magmatic and metamorphic evolution of the western Austroalpine Oetztal Basement (Kaunertal, Tirol). Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology, 77, 299-314.
Moecher, D.M., Cosca, M.A., and Hanson, G.N., 1997, Petrologic and 40Ar/39Ar geochronological constraints on the middle to late Paleozoic thermotectonic history of the southern Connecticut Valley zone, New England Appalachians. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 109 (2), 164-175, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0164:PAAAGC>2.3.CO;2.
Odin, G.S., Amorosi, A., Tateo, F., Coccioni, R., Cosca, M., Negri, A., Pini, G.A., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter C2 Integrated stratigraphy (biostratigraphy and geochronology) of the Early Miocene sequence from the Emilian Apennines (Italy). In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 221-248. Elsevier, Amsterdam, doi:10.1016/S0920-5446(06)80020-8.
Odin, G.S., Cosca, M., Tateo, F., Negri, A., Vai, G. B., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter E2 Integrated stratigraphy of the Late Tortonian Peive di Gesso section (Romagna, Italy). In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 449-460. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., Cuenca Bescós, G., Canuda, J.J., Cosca, M., and Lago, M., 1997, Chapter C5 Biostratigraphy and geochronology of a Miocene continental volcanoclastic layer from the Ebro basin, Spain. In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 297-310. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., d’Atri, A., Tateo, F., Cosca, M., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter C1 Integrated stratigraphy near the Oligocene-Miocene boundary in the Piedmont basin (Italy): biostratigraphy and geochronology. In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 209-220. Elsevier, Amsterdam, doi:10.1016/S0920-5446(06)80019-1.
Odin, G.S., Deino, A., Cosca, M., Laurenzi, M.A., and Montanari, A., 1997, Chapter F1 Miocene geochronology: methods, techniques, and results. In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 581-594. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., Miculan, P., Cosca, M., Tateo, F., Amorosi, A., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter D3Biostratigraphy and geochronology of an Early Serravallian volcanoclastic layer from Sicily. In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 351-360. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., Ricci Lucchi, F., Tateo, F., Cosca, M., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter E7 Integrated stratigraphy of the Maccarone section, Late Messinian (Marche region, Italy). In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 529-544. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., Takahashi, M., Coccioni, R., and Cosca, M., 1997, Chapter D7 Géochronologie de niveaux situés autour de l’apparition de Globigerina nepenthes au Japon et in Italie: âge de la limite Serravallien/Tortonien. In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 393-400. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., Vai, G.B., Cosca, M., Tateo, F., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter E6 Contribution to the geochronology of the Tortonian/Messinian bundary in the Faenza (Romagna, Italy). In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 519-528. Elsevier, Amsterdam, doi:10.1016/S0920-5446(06)80038-5.
Restrepo-Pace, P.A., Ruiz, J., Gehrels, G., and Cosca, M., 1997, Geochronology and Nd isotopic data of Grenville-age rocks in the Colombian Andes: new constraints for Late Proterozoic-Early Paleozoic paleocontinental reconstructions of the Americas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 150 (3-4), 427-441, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(97)00091-5.
Kirschner, D.L., Cosca, M.A., Hunziker, J.C., and Masson, H., 1996, Staircase 40Ar/39Ar spectra of fine-grained white mica: timing and duration of deformation and empirical constraints on argon diffusion. Geology, v. 24, p. 747-750.
Schärer, U., Cosca, M., Hunziker, J., and Steck, A., 1996, Termination of major ductile strike-slip shear and differential cooling along the Insubric line (Central Alps): U/Pb, Rb/Sr and 40Ar/39Ar ages of cross-cutting pegmatites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 142, p. 331-352.
Cosca, M.A., Essene, E.J., Mezger, K., and van der Pluijm, B.A., 1995, Constraints on the duration of tectonic processes: protracted extension and deep crustal rotation in the Grenville Orogen. Geology, 23 (4), 361-364, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1995)023<0361:COTDOT>2.3.CO;2.
Crespo-Blanc, A., Masson, H., Sharp, Z., Cosca, M., and Hunziker, J., 1995, A stable and 40Ar/39Ar isotope study of a major thrust in the Helvetic nappes (Swiss Alps): evidence for fluid flow and constraints on nappe kinematics. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 107 (10), 1129-1144, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1995)107<1129:ASAAAI>2.3.CO;2.
Odin, G.S., Coccioni, R., Cosca, M., and Montanari, A., 1995, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of biostratigraphically controlled Miocene tuffs from central Japan: Comparison with Italy and age of the Serravallian-Tortonian boundary. Chemical Geology, 125 (1-2), 105-121, doi:10.1016/0009-2541(95)00075-W.
Ruffini, R., Cosca, M.A., d’Atri, A., Hunziker, J.C., and Polino, R., 1995, The volcanic supply of the Taveyanne turbidites (Savoie, France): a riddle for Tertiary Alpine volcanism. In: Polino, R. And Sacchi, R. (eds.) Rapporti Alpi-Appennino e Guide Alle Escursioni, Accademia Nazionale Delle Scienze Detta Dei XL, Roma, p. 359-376.
Schmädicke, E., Mezger, K., Cosca, M.A., and Okrusch, M., 1995, Variscan Sm/Nd and Ar/Ar ages of eclogite-facies rocks from the Erzgebirge, Bohemian Massif. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 13 (5), 537 - 552, doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.1995.tb00241.x.
Cosca, M.A. and O'Nions R.K., 1994, A re-examination of the influence of composition on argon retentivity in metamorphic calcic amphiboles. Chemical Geology, 112 (1-2), 39-56, doi:10.1016/0009-2541(94)90103-1.
Odin, G.S., Assorgia, A., Barca, S., Porcu, A., Spano, J., and Cosca, M., 1994, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of a Burdigalian tuff from central-northern Sardinia. Giornale Geologia, v. 56, p. 185-197.
Odin, G.S., Jelen, B., Drobne, K., Uhan, J., Skaberne, D., PavŠic, J., Cimerman, F.. Cosca, M., and Hunziker, J.C., 1994, Premiers âge géochronologiques de niveaux volcaniclastiques oligocènes de la Région de Zasavje, Slovénie. Giornale Geologia, v. 56, p. 199-212.
van der Pluijm, B.A., Mezger, K., Cosca, M.A., and Essene, E.J., 1994, Determining the significance of high-grade shear zones by using temperature-time paths, with examples from the Grenville Orogen. Geology, 22 (8), 743-746, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<0743:DTSOHG>2.3.CO;2.
Spring, L., Bussy, F., Vannay, J.C., Huon, S., and Cosca, M.A., 1993, Early Permian granitic dykes of alkaline affinity in the Indian High Himalaya of Upper Lahul and SE Zanskar: geochemical characterization and geotectonic implications. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 74, 251-264, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1993.074.01.18.
Cosca, M.A., Essene, E.J., Kunk, M.J., and Sutter, J.F., 1992, Differential unroofing within the Central Metasedimentary Belt of the Grenville Orogen: constraints from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 110, 211-225, doi:10.1007/BF00310739.
Cosca, M.A., Hunziker, J.C., Huon, S., and Masson, H., 1992, Radiometric age constraints on mineral growth, metamorphism, and tectonism of the Gummfluh Klippe, Briançonnais domain of the Préalpes, Switzerland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 112, 439-449, doi:10.1007/BF00310776.
Cosca, M.A., Essene, E.J., and Bowman, J.R., 1991, Complete chemical analyses of metamorphic hornblendes: implications for normalizations, calculated H2O activities and thermobarometry. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 108, 472-484, doi:10.1007/BF00303451.
Cosca, M.A., Sutter, J.F., and Essene, E.J., 1991, Cooling and inferred uplift/erosion history of the Grenville Orogen, Ontario: constraints from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology. Tectonics, 10 (5), 959-977, doi:10.1029/91TC00859.
Cosca, M.A., Sutter, J.F., and Essene, E.J., 1990, Comment on "Interpretation of K/Ar mineral dates from the Grenville Orogenic Belt." American Journal of Science, 290 (2), 202-204, doi:10.2475/ajs.290.2.202.
Cosca, M.A., 1989, Cooling and inferred uplift history of the Grenville Orogen, Ontaria: constraints from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology: PhD thesis University of Michigan, 235 pp.
Cosca, M.A., Essene, E.J., Geissman, J.G., Simmons, W.B., and Coates, D.A., 1989, Pyrometamorphic rocks associated with naturally burned coal beds, Powder River Basin, Wyoming. American Mineralogist, 74 (1-2), 85-100, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ammin/article/74/1-2/85/42195/Pyrometamorphic-rocks-associated-with-naturally.
Cosca, M.A., Rouse, R.C., and Essene, E.J., 1988, Dorrite (Ca2(Mg2 Fe3+4)(Al4Si2)O20), a new member of the aenigmatite group from a pyrometamorphic melt-rock. American Mineralogist, 73 (11-12), 1440-1449, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ammin/article/73/11-12/1440/42089/Dorite-Ca-2-Mg-2-Fe-super-3-4-Al-4-Si-2-O-20-a-new.
Cosca, M.A., and Peacor, D.R., 1987, Chemistry and structure of esseneite (CaFe3+AlSiO6), a new pyroxene produced by pyrometamorphism: American Mineralogist, 72 (1-2), 148-156, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ammin/article/72/1-2/148/41909/Chemistry-and-structure-of-esseneite-CaFe-super-3.
Yau, Y.C., Peacor, D.R., Essene, E.J., Lee, J.H., Kuo, L.C., and Cosca, M.A., 1987, Hydrothermal experiments on candidate packing materials. Clays and Clay Mineralalogy, 35 (4), 241-250, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ccm/article/35/4/241/47021/Hydrothermal-treatment-of-smectite-illite-and.
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U-Pb SHRIMP and 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data and backscatter electron (BSE) and panchromatic cathodoluminescent (CL) imagery of sample materials for study of dikes, country rock, and alteration systems, Butte, U.S.A. U-Pb SHRIMP and 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data and backscatter electron (BSE) and panchromatic cathodoluminescent (CL) imagery of sample materials for study of dikes, country rock, and alteration systems, Butte, U.S.A.
These data are for a multidisciplinary study of dikes, country rock, and alteration systems, Butte, U.S.A. Results of the study are described and interpreted in Lund and others (2018). Data included are U-Pb SHRIMP geochronology for quartz porphyry dikes, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic data for biotite, hornblende, and K-feldspar from Butte granite country rock, and 40Ar/39Ar...
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Argon geochronology data from the Austroalpine-Pennine boundary, Central Alps, Switzerland Argon geochronology data from the Austroalpine-Pennine boundary, Central Alps, Switzerland
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Data release of Geologic Map of the Upper Arkansas River Valley Region, North-Central, Colorado Data release of Geologic Map of the Upper Arkansas River Valley Region, North-Central, Colorado
This 1:50,000-scale geologic map represents a compilation of the most recent geologic studies of the upper Arkansas River valley, between Leadville and Salida, Colorado. The valley is structurally controlled by an extensional fault system that forms part of the prominent northern Rio Grande rift, an intra-continental region of crustal extension. This work also incorporates new detailed...
Argon data for Poncha Pass Geologic Map Argon data for Poncha Pass Geologic Map
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Geologic map of the Sunshine 7.5' quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico Geologic map of the Sunshine 7.5' quadrangle, Taos County, New Mexico
The Sunshine 7.5' quadrangle is located in the south-central part of the San Luis Basin of northern New Mexico, in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, and contains deposits that record volcanic, tectonic, and associated alluvial and colluvial processes over the past four million years. Sunshine Valley, named for the small locale of Sunshine, is incised by a series of northeast...
Geologic map of the Harvard Lakes 7.5' quadrangle, Park and Chaffee Counties, Colorado Geologic map of the Harvard Lakes 7.5' quadrangle, Park and Chaffee Counties, Colorado
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Two-event genesis of Butte lode veins: Geologic and geochronologic evidence from ore veins, dikes, and host plutons Two-event genesis of Butte lode veins: Geologic and geochronologic evidence from ore veins, dikes, and host plutons
The long-standing ore-genesis model for world-class deposits of the Butte mining district, Montana, is of deep pre-Main Stage porphyry Cu-Mo and overlying Main Stage Ag-Zn-Cu-zoned lode veinsformed from discrete hydrothermal systems related to rhyolite dikes. The lode-specific model describes metals zones that formed in the lode veins as hydrothermal processes diminished in intensity...
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Age and mantle sources of Quaternary basalts associated with “leaky” transform faults of the migrating Anatolia-Arabia-Africa triple junction Age and mantle sources of Quaternary basalts associated with “leaky” transform faults of the migrating Anatolia-Arabia-Africa triple junction
The Anatolia (Eurasia), Arabia, and Africa tectonic plates intersect in southeast Turkey, near the Gulf of İskenderun, forming a tectonically active and unstable triple junction (the A3 triple junction). The plate boundaries are marked by broad zones of major, dominantly left-lateral transform faults including the East Anatolian fault zone (the Anatolia-Arabia boundary) and the Dead...
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Michael Cosca, Mary Reid, Jonathan Delph, Gonca Gencalioglu Kuscu, Janne Blichert-Toft, Wayne R. Premo, Donna Whitney, Christian Teyssier, Bora Rojay
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ecemiş fault zone and adjacent basins, central Anatolia, Turkey during the transition from Arabia - Eurasia collision to escape tectonics Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ecemiş fault zone and adjacent basins, central Anatolia, Turkey during the transition from Arabia - Eurasia collision to escape tectonics
The effects of Arabia-Eurasia collision are recorded in faults, basins, and exhumed metamorphic massifs across eastern and central Anatolia. These faults and basins also preserve evidence of major changes in deformation and associated sedimentary processes along major suture zones including the Inner Tauride suture where it lies along the southern (Ecemiş) segment of the Central...
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Paul J. Umhoefer, Stuart Thompson, Come Lefebre, Michael Cosca, Christian Teyssier, Donna L. Whitney
Petrology of volcanic rocks associated with silver-gold (Ag-Au) epithermal deposits in the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield Mining Districts, Nevada Petrology of volcanic rocks associated with silver-gold (Ag-Au) epithermal deposits in the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield Mining Districts, Nevada
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Edward A. du Bray, David A. John, Joseph P. Colgan, Peter G. Vikre, Michael A. Cosca, Leah E. Morgan
Petrographic, geochemical, and geochronologic data for cenozoic volcanic rocks of the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield Mining Districts, Nevada Petrographic, geochemical, and geochronologic data for cenozoic volcanic rocks of the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield Mining Districts, Nevada
The purpose of this report is to summarize geochemical, petrographic, and geochronologic data for samples, principally those of unmineralized Tertiary volcanic rocks, from the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield mining districts of west-central Nevada (fig. 1). Much of the data presented here for the Tonopah and Divide districts are for samples collected by Bonham and Garside (1979) during...
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Edward A. du Bray, David A. John, Peter G. Vikre, Joseph P. Colgan, Michael A. Cosca, Leah E. Morgan, Robert J. Fleck, Wayne R. Premo, Christopher S. Holm-Denoma
A supervolcano and its sidekicks: A 100 ka eruptive chronology of the Fish Canyon Tuff and associated units of the La Garita magmatic system A supervolcano and its sidekicks: A 100 ka eruptive chronology of the Fish Canyon Tuff and associated units of the La Garita magmatic system
Establishing temporal constrains on major volcanic eruptions is limited by the precision of existing geochronometers. Prior work on the La Garita caldera, created by the eruption of the Fish Canyon Tuff, failed to resolve temporal differences between pre-, syn-, and post-collapse eruptive units. Here, we report 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data supporting a ca. 100 ka eruptive history of the...
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Leah E. Morgan, Samuel Johnstone, Amy K. Gilmer, Michael A. Cosca, Ren A. Thompson
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Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M A., and Chamberlain, C.P., 2007, Stable isotope paleoaltimetry of Eocene core complexes in the North American Cordillera, Tectonics, 26 (4), TC4001, doi:10.1029/2006TC00199.
Zechmeister, M.S., Ferre, E., Cosca, M.A., Geissman, J.W., 2007, Slow and fast deformation in the Dora Maira Massif, Italian Alps: Pseudotachylytes and inferences on exhumation history. Journal of Stuctural Geology, 29 (7), p. 1114-1130, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2007.03.009.
Cosca, M. A., Giorgis, D., Rumble, D., and Liou, J. G. 2006, Limiting effects of UHP metamorphism on length scales of oxygen, hydrogen, and argon isotope exchange: an example from the Qinglongshan UHP ecologites, Sulu Terrain, China: In: Phase relations, high-pressure terranes, P-T-ometry, and plate pushing: a tribute to W. G. Ernst. International Book Series, v. 9, p. 290-323.
Keane, S.D., DeWolf, C.P., Essene, E.J., Halliday, A.N., Hall, C.M., Cosca, M.A., 2006, Isotopic Constraints on the Thermal History of the Wind River Range, Wyoming: Implications for Archean Metamorphism. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 43 (10), 1511-1532, doi:10.1139/e06-090.
Manatschal, G., Engström, A., Desmurs, L., Schaltegger, U., Cosca, M., Müntener, O., Bernoulli, D., 2006, What is the tectono-metamorphic evolution of continental break-up: the example of the Tasna ocean-continent transistion. Journal of Structural Geology,28 (10), 1849-1869, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2006.07.014.
Mulch, A., Teyssier, C, Cosca, M.A, and Vennemann, T.W., 2006, Thermomechanical analysis of strain localization in a ductile detachment zone. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, 111 (B12), doi:10.1029/2005JB004032.
Cosca, M.A., Caby, R., and Bussy, F., 2005, Geochemistry and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of pseudotachylyte associated with UHP whiteschists from the Dora Maira massif, Italy. Tectonophysics, 402 (1-4), 93-110, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2004.12.033.
Cosca, M.A., Giorgis, D., Rumble, D., Liou, J.G., 2005, Limiting effects of UHP metamorphism on length-scales of oxygen, hydrogen, and argon isotope exchange: an example from the Qinglongshan UHP eclogites. International Geology Review, 47 (7), 716-749, doi:10.2747/0020-6814.47.7.716.
Mulch, A., Cosca, M.A., Fiebig, J., and Andresen, A., 2005, Time scales of deformation and exhumation in extensional detachment systems determined by high-spatial resolution in situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233 (3-4), 375-390, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.042.
Putlitz, B., Cosca, M.A., and Schumacher, J., 2005, Prograde mica 40Ar/39Ar growth ages recorded in high pressure rocks (Syros, Cyclades, Greece). Chemical Geology, 214 (1-2), 79-98, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.08.056.
Haeberlin, Y., Moritz, R., Fontboté, L., and Cosca, M., 2004, Carboniferous orogenic gold deposits at Pataz, Eastern Andean Cordillera, Peru: Geological and structural framework, paragenesis, alteration, and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Economic Geology, 99 (1), 73-112, doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.99.1.73.
Mulch, A. and Cosca, M.A., 2004, Recrystallization or cooling ages? In situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of muscovite in mylonitic rocks. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 161 (4), 573-582, doi:10.1144/0016-764903-110.
Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., Vanderhaeghe, O., and Vennemann, T., 2004, Reconstructing paleoelevation in eroded orogens. Geology, 32 (6), 525-528, doi:10.1130/G20394.1.
Vannay, J-C., Grasemann, B., Rahn, M., Frank, W., Carter, A., Baudraz, V., Cosca, M., 2004, Miocene to Holocene exhumation of metamorphic crustal wedges in the NW Himalaya: evidence for tectonic extrusion coupled to fluvial erosion. Tectonics, 23 (1), doi:10.1029/2002TC001429.
Winer, G.S., Feeley, T.C., and Cosca, M.A., 2004, Basaltic volcanism in the Bering Sea: geochronology and volcanic evolution of St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 134 (4), 277-301, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.02.003.
Bendezú, R., Fontbonté, L., Cosca, M., 2003, Relative age of Cordilleran base metal lode and replacement deposits, and high sulfidation Au-(Ag) epithermal mineralization in the Colquijirca district, central Peru. Mineralium Deposita, 38, 683-694, doi:10.1007/s00126-003-0358-z.
Camprubí, A., Ferrari, L., Cosca, M.A., Cardellach, E., Canals, A., 2003, Ages of epithermal deposits in Mexico: regional significance and links with the evolution of Tertiary volcanism. Economic Geology, 98 (5), 1029-1037, doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.98.5.1029.
Feeley, T.C., and Cosca, M.A., 2003, Time vs. composition trends of magmatism at Sunlight volcano, Absaroka Volcanic Province, Wyoming. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 115 (6), 714-728, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2003)115<C0714:TVCTOM>2.0.CO;2.
Giorgis, D., Cosca, M.A., Rumble, D., 2003, Pre-metamorphic d18O signatures in morphologically complex zircons from the Qinglongshan UHP meta-granite (Sulu terrain, China). Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology, 83 (2), 133-144, https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ssmp/sbmp/2003/00000083/00000002/art00002.
Jourdan, F., Marzoli, A., Bertrand, H., Cosca, M., Fontignie, D., 2003, The Northernmost CAMP: 40Ar/39Ar age, petrology and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry of the Kerforne dike, Brittany, France. In: Hames, W.C et al. (eds.) The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province: Fragments of Pangea, AGU Geophysical Monograph, 136, 209-226, doi:10.1029/136GM11.
Kirschner, D.L., Cosca, M.A., and Masson, H., 2003, An 40Ar/39Ar, Rb/Sr, and stable isotope study of micas in low-grade fold-and-thrust belt: An example from the Swiss Helvetic Alps. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 145 (4), 460-480, doi:10.1007/s00410-003-0461-2.
Kramar, N., Cosca, M.A., Buffat, P.A., and Baumgartner, L.P., 2003, Stacking fault-enhanced argon diffusion in naturally deformed muscovite. In Vance, D., Muller, W., and Villa, I., eds., Geochronology: Linking the Isotopic Record with Petrology and Textures, Geological Society of London. Special Publication, 220, 249-260, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.220.01.15.
Rodríguez Aller, J., Cosca, M. A., Gil Ibarguchi, J. I., and Dallmeyer, R. D., 2003, Strain partitioning and preservation of 40Ar/39Ar ages for the eclogite-facies stage during Variscan exhumation of a subducted crust (Malpica-Tui allochthon, NW Spain) Lithos, 70 (3-4), 111-139, doi:10.1016/S0024-4937(03)00095-1.
Schlup, M., Carter, A., Cosca, M., and Steck, A., 2003, Exhumation history of eastern Ladakh revealed by 40Ar/39Ar and fission-track ages: the Indus River-Tso Morari transect, NW Himalaya. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 160, 385-369, doi:10.1144/0016-764902-084.
Feeley, T.C., Cosca, M.A., and Lindsay, C.R., 2002, Petrogenesis and implications of calc-alkaline cryptic hybrid magmas from Washburn volcano, Absaroka Volcanic Province, USA. Journal of Petrology, 43 (4), 663-703, doi:10.1093/petrology/43.4.663.
Markley, M., Teyssier, C., and Cosca, M., 2002, The relation between grain size and 40Ar/39Ar date for Alpine white mica from the Siviez-Mischabel Nappe, Switzerland. Journal of Stuctural Geology, 24 (12), 1937-1955, doi:10.1016/S0191-8141(02)00006-8.
Mulch, A., Cosca, M.A., and Handy, M.R., 2002, In situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of a micaceous mylonite: an example of defect-enhanced argon loss. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 142, 738-752, doi:10.1007/s00410-001-0325-6.
Solé, J., Cosca, M., Sharp, Z., and Enrique, P, 2002, 40Ar/39Ar geochronolgy and stable isotope geochemistry of late-Hercynian intrusions from north-eastern Iberia with implications for argon loss in K-feldspar. International Journal of Earth Science, 91, 865-881, doi:10.1007/s00531-001-0251-x.
Crowe, W.A., Cosca, M.A., Harris, L.B., 2001, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and Neoproterozoic tectonics along the northern margin of the Eastern Ghats Belt in north Orissa, India. Precambrian Research, 108 (3-4), 237-266, doi:10.1016/S0301-9268(01)00132-2.
D’Atri, A., Dela Pierre, Ruffini, R., Novaretti, A., Cosca, M., Hunziker, J.C., 2001, Calcareous plankton biostratigraphy and 40Ar/39Ar dating of Miocene volcanoclastic layers from Monferrato (NW Italy). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 94 (2), 137-144.
de Sigoyer, J., Chavagnac, V., Blichert-Toft, J., Villa, I., Luais, B., Guillot, S., Cosca, M., and Mascle, G., 2001, Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: Multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites. Comment and Reply, Geology, 29 (2), 192-193, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0192:R>2.0.CO;2.
Edel, J-B., Dubois, D., Marchant, R., Hernandez, J., and Cosca, M., 2001, La rotation miocène inférieur du bloc corso-sarde. Nouvelles contraintes paléomagnetiques sur la fin du mouvement. Bulletin Societé Géologique de France, 172 (3), 275-283, doi:10.2113/172.3.275.
Janák, M., Plašienka, D., Frey, M., Cosca, M., Schmidt, S., Lupták, B., and Meres, S., 2001, Cretaceous evolution of a metamorphic core complex, the Verporic unit, Western Carpathians (Slovakia): P-T conditions and in situ 40Ar/39Ar UV laser probe dating of metapelites. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19 (2), 197-216, doi:10.1046/j.0263-4929.2000.00304.x.
Kramar, N., Cosca, M.A., Hunziker, J.C., 2001, Heterogenous 40Ar* distributions in naturally deformed muscovite: in situ UV-laser ablation evidence for microstructurally controlled intragrain diffusion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 192 (3), 377-388, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00456-3.
Odin, G.S., Takahashi, M., and Cosca M.A., 2001, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Middle Miocene calcareous nannofossil biohorizhons in central Japan. Chemical Geology, 171 (3-4), 239-252, doi:10.1016/S0009-2541(00)00250-3.
de Sigoyer, J., Chavagnac, V., Blichert-Toft, J., Villa, I., Luais, B., Guillot, S., Cosca, M., and Mascle, G., 2000, Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: Multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites. Geology, 28 (6), 487-490, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<487:DTICSA>2.0.CO;2.
Giorgis, D., Cosca, M.A., Li, S., 2000, Distribution and significance of extraneous argon in UHP eclogite (Sulu terrane, China): insights from in-situ 40Ar/39Ar UV-laser ablation analysis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 181 (4), 605-615, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00221-1.
Zeh, A., Cosca, M., Brätz, H., Okrusch, M., and Tichomirova, M., 2000, Simultaneous horst-basin formation and magmatism during Late Variscan transtension: evidence from40Ar/39Ar and 207Pb/206Pb geochronology of the Ruhla Crystalline Complex, International Journal of Earth Science, 89 (1), 52-71, doi:10.1007/s005310050317.
Cosca, M.A., Shimron, A., and Caby, R., 1999, Late Precambrian metamorphism and cooling in the Arabian-Nubian Shield: petrology and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of metamorphic rocks of the Elat area (southern Israel). Precambrian Research, 98 (1-2), 107-127, doi:10.1016/S0301-9268(99)00044-3.
Dèzes, P.J., Vannay, J.-C., Steck, A., Bussy, F., and Cosca, M., 1999, Synorogenic extension: quantitative constraints on the age and throw of the Zanskar Shear Zone (NW Himalaya). Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111 (3), 364-374, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0364:SEQCOT>2.3.CO;2.
Guillot, S., Cosca, M.A., Allemand, P., and Le Fort, P., 1999, Contrasting metamorphic and geochronologic evolution along the Himalayan Belt. In: Macfarlane, A., Sorkhabi, R.B., Quade, J. (eds) Himalaya and Tibet: Mountain Roots to Mountain Tops. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 328, 117-128, doi:10.1130/0-8137-2328-0.117.
Haeberlin, Y., Moritz, R., Fontboté, L., and Cosca, M., 1999, The Pataz gold province (Peru) within the frame of a mesothermal gold and antimony belt of the Eastern Andean Cordillera. In: Stanley, C.J., et al. (eds.) Mineral deposits: processes to processing. Balkema, 2, 1323-326.
Jaboyedoff, M., and Cosca, M.A., 1999, Dating incipient metamorphism using 40Ar/39Ar geochronolgy and XRD modeling: a case study from the Swiss Alps. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 135, 93-113, doi:10.1007/s004100050500.
Mezger, K., and Cosca, M.A., 1999, The thermal history of the Eastern Ghats (India) as revealed by U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar dating of metamorphic and magmatic minerals: implications for the SWEAT correlation. Precambrian Research 94 (3-4), 251-271, doi:10.1016/S0301-9268(98)00118-1.
Cosca, M.A., Arculus, R.J., Pearce, J.A., and Mitchell, J.G., 1998, Inception and early evolution of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc system: evidence from 40Ar/39Ar and K-Ar geochronology. The Island Arc, v. 7, p. 579-595.
Cosca, M.A., Mezger, K., and Essene, E.J., 1998, The Baltica-Laurentia connection: Sveconorwegian (Grenvillian) metamorphism, cooling, and unroofing in the Bamble Sector, Norway. Journal of Geology, 106 (5), 539-552, doi:10.1086/516040.
Markley, M.J., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., Caby, R., Hunziker, J.C. and Sartori, M., 1998, Alpine deformation and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of synkinematic white mica in the Siviez-Mischabel Nappe, western Pennine Alps, Switzerland. Tectonics, v. 17, p. 407-425.
Roberts, D., Cosca, M.A., and Rice, A.H.N., 1998, A 40Ar/39Ar dating study of very low-grade metamorphism from the Rybachi and Sredni Peninsulas, NW Russia-a preliminary report. Norwegian Geological Survey Report, 168, 1-17.
Bill, M., Bussy, F., Cosca, M., Masson, H., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, High-precision U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar dating of an Alpine ophiolite (Gets nappe, French Alps). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 90, 43-54.
Bryant, C.J., Cosca, M.A., and Arculus, R.J., 1997, 40Ar/39Ar ages of Clarence River Supersuite intrusions from the northern portion of the New England Batholith, southern New England Orogen. In Ashley, P.M. and Flood, P.G., eds., Tectonics and Metallogenesis of the New England Orogen, Geological Society of Australia Special Publication, 19, 242-253.
Hoinkes, G., Thöni, M., Lichem, C., Bernhard, F., Kaindl, R., Schweigel, J., Tropper P., and Cosca, M., 1997, Metagranitoids and associated metasediments as indicators for the pre-Alpine magmatic and metamorphic evolution of the western Austroalpine Oetztal Basement (Kaunertal, Tirol). Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology, 77, 299-314.
Moecher, D.M., Cosca, M.A., and Hanson, G.N., 1997, Petrologic and 40Ar/39Ar geochronological constraints on the middle to late Paleozoic thermotectonic history of the southern Connecticut Valley zone, New England Appalachians. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 109 (2), 164-175, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0164:PAAAGC>2.3.CO;2.
Odin, G.S., Amorosi, A., Tateo, F., Coccioni, R., Cosca, M., Negri, A., Pini, G.A., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter C2 Integrated stratigraphy (biostratigraphy and geochronology) of the Early Miocene sequence from the Emilian Apennines (Italy). In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 221-248. Elsevier, Amsterdam, doi:10.1016/S0920-5446(06)80020-8.
Odin, G.S., Cosca, M., Tateo, F., Negri, A., Vai, G. B., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter E2 Integrated stratigraphy of the Late Tortonian Peive di Gesso section (Romagna, Italy). In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 449-460. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., Cuenca Bescós, G., Canuda, J.J., Cosca, M., and Lago, M., 1997, Chapter C5 Biostratigraphy and geochronology of a Miocene continental volcanoclastic layer from the Ebro basin, Spain. In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 297-310. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., d’Atri, A., Tateo, F., Cosca, M., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter C1 Integrated stratigraphy near the Oligocene-Miocene boundary in the Piedmont basin (Italy): biostratigraphy and geochronology. In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 209-220. Elsevier, Amsterdam, doi:10.1016/S0920-5446(06)80019-1.
Odin, G.S., Deino, A., Cosca, M., Laurenzi, M.A., and Montanari, A., 1997, Chapter F1 Miocene geochronology: methods, techniques, and results. In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 581-594. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., Miculan, P., Cosca, M., Tateo, F., Amorosi, A., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter D3Biostratigraphy and geochronology of an Early Serravallian volcanoclastic layer from Sicily. In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 351-360. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., Ricci Lucchi, F., Tateo, F., Cosca, M., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter E7 Integrated stratigraphy of the Maccarone section, Late Messinian (Marche region, Italy). In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 529-544. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., Takahashi, M., Coccioni, R., and Cosca, M., 1997, Chapter D7 Géochronologie de niveaux situés autour de l’apparition de Globigerina nepenthes au Japon et in Italie: âge de la limite Serravallien/Tortonien. In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 393-400. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Odin, G.S., Vai, G.B., Cosca, M., Tateo, F., and Hunziker, J.C., 1997, Chapter E6 Contribution to the geochronology of the Tortonian/Messinian bundary in the Faenza (Romagna, Italy). In Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., and Odin, G. S. (eds.) Miocene Integrated Stratigraphic Sequence, p. 519-528. Elsevier, Amsterdam, doi:10.1016/S0920-5446(06)80038-5.
Restrepo-Pace, P.A., Ruiz, J., Gehrels, G., and Cosca, M., 1997, Geochronology and Nd isotopic data of Grenville-age rocks in the Colombian Andes: new constraints for Late Proterozoic-Early Paleozoic paleocontinental reconstructions of the Americas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 150 (3-4), 427-441, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(97)00091-5.
Kirschner, D.L., Cosca, M.A., Hunziker, J.C., and Masson, H., 1996, Staircase 40Ar/39Ar spectra of fine-grained white mica: timing and duration of deformation and empirical constraints on argon diffusion. Geology, v. 24, p. 747-750.
Schärer, U., Cosca, M., Hunziker, J., and Steck, A., 1996, Termination of major ductile strike-slip shear and differential cooling along the Insubric line (Central Alps): U/Pb, Rb/Sr and 40Ar/39Ar ages of cross-cutting pegmatites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 142, p. 331-352.
Cosca, M.A., Essene, E.J., Mezger, K., and van der Pluijm, B.A., 1995, Constraints on the duration of tectonic processes: protracted extension and deep crustal rotation in the Grenville Orogen. Geology, 23 (4), 361-364, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1995)023<0361:COTDOT>2.3.CO;2.
Crespo-Blanc, A., Masson, H., Sharp, Z., Cosca, M., and Hunziker, J., 1995, A stable and 40Ar/39Ar isotope study of a major thrust in the Helvetic nappes (Swiss Alps): evidence for fluid flow and constraints on nappe kinematics. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 107 (10), 1129-1144, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1995)107<1129:ASAAAI>2.3.CO;2.
Odin, G.S., Coccioni, R., Cosca, M., and Montanari, A., 1995, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of biostratigraphically controlled Miocene tuffs from central Japan: Comparison with Italy and age of the Serravallian-Tortonian boundary. Chemical Geology, 125 (1-2), 105-121, doi:10.1016/0009-2541(95)00075-W.
Ruffini, R., Cosca, M.A., d’Atri, A., Hunziker, J.C., and Polino, R., 1995, The volcanic supply of the Taveyanne turbidites (Savoie, France): a riddle for Tertiary Alpine volcanism. In: Polino, R. And Sacchi, R. (eds.) Rapporti Alpi-Appennino e Guide Alle Escursioni, Accademia Nazionale Delle Scienze Detta Dei XL, Roma, p. 359-376.
Schmädicke, E., Mezger, K., Cosca, M.A., and Okrusch, M., 1995, Variscan Sm/Nd and Ar/Ar ages of eclogite-facies rocks from the Erzgebirge, Bohemian Massif. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 13 (5), 537 - 552, doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.1995.tb00241.x.
Cosca, M.A. and O'Nions R.K., 1994, A re-examination of the influence of composition on argon retentivity in metamorphic calcic amphiboles. Chemical Geology, 112 (1-2), 39-56, doi:10.1016/0009-2541(94)90103-1.
Odin, G.S., Assorgia, A., Barca, S., Porcu, A., Spano, J., and Cosca, M., 1994, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of a Burdigalian tuff from central-northern Sardinia. Giornale Geologia, v. 56, p. 185-197.
Odin, G.S., Jelen, B., Drobne, K., Uhan, J., Skaberne, D., PavŠic, J., Cimerman, F.. Cosca, M., and Hunziker, J.C., 1994, Premiers âge géochronologiques de niveaux volcaniclastiques oligocènes de la Région de Zasavje, Slovénie. Giornale Geologia, v. 56, p. 199-212.
van der Pluijm, B.A., Mezger, K., Cosca, M.A., and Essene, E.J., 1994, Determining the significance of high-grade shear zones by using temperature-time paths, with examples from the Grenville Orogen. Geology, 22 (8), 743-746, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<0743:DTSOHG>2.3.CO;2.
Spring, L., Bussy, F., Vannay, J.C., Huon, S., and Cosca, M.A., 1993, Early Permian granitic dykes of alkaline affinity in the Indian High Himalaya of Upper Lahul and SE Zanskar: geochemical characterization and geotectonic implications. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 74, 251-264, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1993.074.01.18.
Cosca, M.A., Essene, E.J., Kunk, M.J., and Sutter, J.F., 1992, Differential unroofing within the Central Metasedimentary Belt of the Grenville Orogen: constraints from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 110, 211-225, doi:10.1007/BF00310739.
Cosca, M.A., Hunziker, J.C., Huon, S., and Masson, H., 1992, Radiometric age constraints on mineral growth, metamorphism, and tectonism of the Gummfluh Klippe, Briançonnais domain of the Préalpes, Switzerland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 112, 439-449, doi:10.1007/BF00310776.
Cosca, M.A., Essene, E.J., and Bowman, J.R., 1991, Complete chemical analyses of metamorphic hornblendes: implications for normalizations, calculated H2O activities and thermobarometry. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 108, 472-484, doi:10.1007/BF00303451.
Cosca, M.A., Sutter, J.F., and Essene, E.J., 1991, Cooling and inferred uplift/erosion history of the Grenville Orogen, Ontario: constraints from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology. Tectonics, 10 (5), 959-977, doi:10.1029/91TC00859.
Cosca, M.A., Sutter, J.F., and Essene, E.J., 1990, Comment on "Interpretation of K/Ar mineral dates from the Grenville Orogenic Belt." American Journal of Science, 290 (2), 202-204, doi:10.2475/ajs.290.2.202.
Cosca, M.A., 1989, Cooling and inferred uplift history of the Grenville Orogen, Ontaria: constraints from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology: PhD thesis University of Michigan, 235 pp.
Cosca, M.A., Essene, E.J., Geissman, J.G., Simmons, W.B., and Coates, D.A., 1989, Pyrometamorphic rocks associated with naturally burned coal beds, Powder River Basin, Wyoming. American Mineralogist, 74 (1-2), 85-100, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ammin/article/74/1-2/85/42195/Pyrometamorphic-rocks-associated-with-naturally.
Cosca, M.A., Rouse, R.C., and Essene, E.J., 1988, Dorrite (Ca2(Mg2 Fe3+4)(Al4Si2)O20), a new member of the aenigmatite group from a pyrometamorphic melt-rock. American Mineralogist, 73 (11-12), 1440-1449, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ammin/article/73/11-12/1440/42089/Dorite-Ca-2-Mg-2-Fe-super-3-4-Al-4-Si-2-O-20-a-new.
Cosca, M.A., and Peacor, D.R., 1987, Chemistry and structure of esseneite (CaFe3+AlSiO6), a new pyroxene produced by pyrometamorphism: American Mineralogist, 72 (1-2), 148-156, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ammin/article/72/1-2/148/41909/Chemistry-and-structure-of-esseneite-CaFe-super-3.
Yau, Y.C., Peacor, D.R., Essene, E.J., Lee, J.H., Kuo, L.C., and Cosca, M.A., 1987, Hydrothermal experiments on candidate packing materials. Clays and Clay Mineralalogy, 35 (4), 241-250, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ccm/article/35/4/241/47021/Hydrothermal-treatment-of-smectite-illite-and.
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