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Seth D. Burgess

I am a research geologist in the Volcano Science Center specializing in accessory mineral geochronology. 

My doctoral research focused on utilizing accessory mineral U-Pb ID-TIMS (isotope dilution thermal ionization mass spectrometry) geochronology to examine the plausibility of a causal link between large igneous province (LIP) magmatism and mass extinction, with particular focus on the end-Permian and early-Jurassic extinction events. This work yielded high-precision timelines for extinction and LIP magmatism, as well as the ability to resolve their relative timing, and lead to a general model predicting the efficacy of magmatism as the primary trigger of mass extinction.

My current research is focused on application of uranium-based geochronometers (U-Pb, U-Th, (U-Th)/He) to date volcanic rocks by utilizing TIMS, SIMS (secondary ion mass spectrometry) analysis on accessory phase minerals (e.g., zircon, allanite) primarily for the purpose of accurately determining the timing of voluminous eruption and for constructing comprehensive eruption histories of long-lived volcanic systems characterized by potential future volcanic hazard.

Ongoing projects include: (1) Leading a group of CalVO scientists in an effort to better understand the threat of volcanic hazards from the Clearlake Volcanic Field (CLVF). The CLVF is the closest young, long-lived volcanic system to the densely populated CA Bay Area. In this project I'm employing U-Pb zircon surface dating to better constrain the eruption history of the volcanic field. (2) Determining the timing of large Pleistocene volcanic eruptions in Alaska by zircon surface U-Th-Pb SIMS geochronology. (2) (3) Using zircon U-Pb SIMS and TIMS to date the eruption of key Neogene and Quaternary stratigraphic-marker volcanic ash beds in western North America for use in regional correlation and paleo-climate and paleo-environment reconstruction. (4) Employing zircon and allanite U-Th SIMS dating of the Pleistocene record of rhyolite dome extrusion at the Coso volcanic field (California) in order to better constrain magma petrogenesis and more accurately assess hazard potential. (5) Using zircon U-Pb ID-TIMS dating of volcanic ash beds intercalated with the Miocene Columbia River LIP basalt flows to investigate eruption tempo at the millennial scale, which informs magma generation and climate feedback models.

Professional Experience

  • Research Geologist
       U.S. Geological Survey, California Volcano Observatory, Menlo Park, CA, 2016–

  • Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow
       U.S. Geological Survey, California Volcano Observatory, Menlo Park, CA, 2014–2016

  • Research/Teaching Assistant 
       Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2008–2014

  • Staff Scientist
       NASA-Ames Research Center, Sunnyvale, CA, 2006–2007

  • California State University Lecturer 
       San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 2006–2007

  • Soil Scientist 
       USDA, Natural Resource Conservation Service, Soil Survey of Yosemite National Park, CA, 2001

Education and Certifications

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Geology 2014
    Thesis: High–precision U-Pb geochronology of large igneous provinces and mass extinctions: testing coincidence and causation

  • San Jose State University, M.S. Geology 2006
    Thesis: Field, geochemical, and geochronologic study of the inner Tuolumne Intrusive Series, Sierra Nevada Batholith

  • California Polytechnic State University, B.S. Soil Science 2002
    Thesis: Effect of lichen colonization on mineral weathering 

Affiliations and Memberships*

  • American Geophysical Union since 2006

  • Geological Society of America since 2005

  • European Geophysical Union 2010-2014

Honors and Awards

  • National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Cozzarelli Prize in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 2014

  • Outstanding Teaching Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012

  • Student Research Scholarship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009, 2010, 2011

  • Presidential Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007

  • Outstanding Thesis Award, College of Science, San Jose State University, 2006

  • Norman H. Doloff Scholarship, San Jose State University, 2004

  • National Outstanding Senior, National Agronomy Student Recognition Program, 2002

  • Outstanding Student in the College of Agriculture, California Polytechnic State University, 2002

  • Royce Lambert Scholarship for Outstanding Student, California Polytechnic State University, 1998, 1999

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Pacific Northwest Geologic Mapping: Northern Pacific Border, Cascades and Columbia

The Pacific Northwest is an area created by active and complex geological processes. On its path to the Pacific Ocean, the Columbia River slices through a chain of active volcanoes located along the western margin of the U.S. in Washington, Oregon, and northern California. These volcanoes rest above the active Cascadia subduction zone, which is the boundary where the oceanic tectonic plate dives...
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Pacific Northwest Geologic Mapping: Northern Pacific Border, Cascades and Columbia

The Pacific Northwest is an area created by active and complex geological processes. On its path to the Pacific Ocean, the Columbia River slices through a chain of active volcanoes located along the western margin of the U.S. in Washington, Oregon, and northern California. These volcanoes rest above the active Cascadia subduction zone, which is the boundary where the oceanic tectonic plate dives...
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Imaging the magmatic plumbing of the Clear Lake Volcanic Field using 3-D gravity inversions

The Quaternary Clear Lake Volcanic Field (CLVF) in the Northern California Coast Range is the youngest of a string of northward-younging volcanic centers in the state. The CLVF is located within the broad San Andreas Transform Fault System and has been active intermittently for ∼2 million years. Heat beneath the CLVF supports The Geysers, one of the largest producing geothermal fields in the world
Authors
Michael Albert Mitchell, Jared R. Peacock, Seth D. Burgess
By
Volcano Hazards Program, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Volcano Science Center

High-precision ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology of perovskite (CaTiO3) from the Ice River Complex, southeastern British Columbia

Uranium‑lead perovskite in situ geochronology has become a cornerstone technique for determining the emplacement timing of alkaline, ultrapotassic, and silica-undersaturated igneous rocks, kimberlites, and carbonatites. Accurate in situ dates are dependent on the availability of matrix matched mineral reference materials which themselves are chemically well characterized and dated accurately to th
Authors
Seth D. Burgess, Larry M Heaman, Samuel A. Bowring
By
Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

Zircon geochronology and geochemistry of Quaternary rhyolite domes of the Coso volcanic field, Inyo County, California

The Quaternary Coso volcanic field (CVF) is a compositionally bimodal volcanic field located within a releasing bend along the eastern range-front Sierra Nevada fault zone in California's southern Owens Valley. The erupted products of CVF silicic magmatism since ~1 Ma comprise 38 high-silica rhyolite domes, with the volumetric majority (~99%) of rhyolite emplaced within the past ~300 ka. The CVF h
Authors
Seth D. Burgess, Matthew Coble, Jorge A. Vazquez
By
Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

U–Pb zircon eruption age of the Old Crow tephra and review of extant age constraints

Eruption of the Old Crow tephra deposited ~200 km3 of volcanic ash throughout Alaska and the northwestern Yukon (eastern Beringia), providing an isochronous marker across the region on a scale unique in the Pleistocene. The Old Crow tephra represents a critical temporal piercing point used extensively to link geographically disparate stratigraphic sections and the paleo-environmental records they
Authors
Seth D. Burgess, Jorge A. Vazquez, Christopher F. Waythomas, Kristi L. Wallace
By
Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

Petrology and geochronology of 1.48 to 1.45 Ga igneous rocks in the St. Francois Mountains terrane, southeast Missouri

The igneous geology of the St. Francois Mountains terrane in southeast Missouri is dominated by the products of 1.48 to 1.45 billion year old volcanic and plutonic magmatism but also includes volumetrically minor, compositionally bimodal contributions added during plutonism between 1.34 and 1.27 billion years ago. The 1.48 to 1.45 billion year old igneous rocks in the St. Francois Mountains terran
Authors
Edward A. du Bray, John N. Aleinikoff, Warren C. Day, Leonid A. Neymark, Seth D. Burgess
By
Mineral Resources Program, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center

Radiometric constraints on the timing, tempo, and effects of large igneous province emplacement

There is an apparent temporal correlation between large igneous province (LIP) emplacement and global environmental crises, including mass extinctions. Advances in the precision and accuracy of geochronology in the past decade have significantly improved estimates of the timing and duration of LIP emplacement, mass extinction events, and global climate perturbations, and in general have supported
Authors
Jennifer Kasbohm, Blair Schoene, Seth D. Burgess
By
National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, Volcano Hazards Program, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Volcano Science Center

On the eruption age and provenance of the Old Crow tephra

Tephrochronology is used to correlate and reconstruct geographically disparate sedimentary records of changing environment, climate, and landscape throughout geologic time. Single tephra layers represent isochronous markers across broad regions, thus accurate and precise radiometric constraints on the timing of eruption are critical to their utility. The Old Crow tephra is found throughout eastern
Authors
Seth D. Burgess, Matthew Coble, Jorge A. Vazquez, Michelle L. Coombs, Kristi L. Wallace
By
Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

GHR1 Zircon – A new Eocene natural reference material for microbeam U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic analysis of zircon

We present multitechnique U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic data from zircon separated from rapakivi biotite granite within the Eocene Golden Horn batholith in Washington, USA. A weighted mean of twenty-five Th-corrected 206Pb/238U zircon dates produced at two independent laboratories using chemical abrasion-isotope dilution-thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (CA-ID-TIMS) is 48.106 ± 0.023 Ma (
Authors
Michael P Eddy, Mauricio Ibanez-Mejia, Seth D. Burgess, Matthew A. Coble, Umberto G Gordani, Joel DesOrmeau, George E. Gehrels, Xianhua Li, Scott MacLennan, Mark Pecha, Kei Sato, Blair Schoene, Victor A. Valencia, Jeffrey D. Vervoort, Tiantian Wang
By
Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

New zircon (U-Th)/He and U/Pb eruption age for the Rockland tephra, western USA

Eruption ages of a number of prominent Quaternary volcanic deposits remain inaccurately and/or imprecisely constrained, despite their importance as regional stratigraphic markers in paleo-environment reconstruction and as evidence of climate-altering eruptions. Accurately dating volcanic deposits presents challenging analytical considerations, including poor radiogenic yield, scarcity of datable m
Authors
Matthew A. Coble, Seth D. Burgess, Erik W. Klemetti
By
Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction

Mass extinction events are short-lived and characterized by catastrophic biosphere collapse and subsequent reorganization. Their abrupt nature necessitates a similarly short-lived trigger, and large igneous province magmatism is often implicated. However, large igneous provinces are long-lived compared to mass extinctions. Therefore, if large igneous provinces are an effective trigger, a subinterv
Authors
Seth D. Burgess, James D. Muirhead, Samuel A. Bowring
By
Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

U/Pb zircon geochronology of the southern part of the Nabitah mobile belt and Pan-African continental collision in the Saudi Arabian Shield

Authors
D. B. Stoeser, J. S. Stacey, W.R. Greenwood, L.B. Fisher

Non-USGS Publications**

Burgess, S.D., Bowring, S.A., 2015, High-precision geochronology confirms voluminous magmatism before, during, and after Earth’s most severe extinction: Science Advances, v. 1, no. 7, doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500470.
Burgess, S.D., Bowring, S.A., Fleming, T.H., Elliot, D.H., 2015, High-precision geochronology links the Ferrar large igneous province with early-Jurassic ocean anoxia and biotic crisis: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 415, p. 90–99, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.037.
Burgess, S.D., Blackburn, T.J., and Bowring, S.A., 2015, High-precision U–Pb geochronology of Phanerozoic large igneous provinces, in Schmidt, A., Fristad, K., and Elkins-Tanton, L., eds., Volcanism and Global Environmental Change, p. 47–62: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/CBO9781107415683.006
Burgess, S.D., Bowring, S.A., Shen, S.Z., 2014, A new high-precision timeline for Earth's most severe extinction: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 111, p. 3316–3321, doi:10.1073/pnas.1317692111.

Winner of 2014 PNAS Cozzarelli prize in Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Burgess, S.D., Maloof, A.C., Bowring, S.A., 2014, Magmatic activity and plate motion during the latent stage of Midcontinent Rift development: Geology, v. 42, p. 475–478, doi:10.1130/G35271.1.
Elkins-Tanton, L.T., Burgess, S., Yin, Q.-Z., 2011, The lunar magma ocean: Reconciling the solidification process with lunar petrology and geochronology: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 304, p. 326–336, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.02.004.
Burgess, S.D., Miller, J.S., 2008, Construction, solidification and internal differentiation of a large felsic arc pluton: Cathedral Peak granodiorite, Sierra Nevada Batholith, in Annen, C., and Zellmer, G.F., eds., Dynamics of Crustal Magma Transfer, Storage and Differentiation: Geological Society, London, Special Publications, v. 304, p. 203–233, doi:10.1144/SP304.11.
D'Antoni, H., Rothschild, L., Schultz, C., Burgess, S. D., Skiles, J.W., 2007, Extreme environments in the forests of Ushuaia, Argentina: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 34, L22704, doi:10.1029/2007GL031096.
Miller, J.S., Matzel, J.E.P., Miller, C.F., Burgess, S.D., Miller, R.B., 2007, Zircon growth and recycling during the assembly of large, composite arc plutons: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 167, p. 282–299, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.04.019.

**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.

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    Physiographic image of the Pacific Northwest

    Pacific Northwest Geologic Mapping: Northern Pacific Border, Cascades and Columbia

    The Pacific Northwest is an area created by active and complex geological processes. On its path to the Pacific Ocean, the Columbia River slices through a chain of active volcanoes located along the western margin of the U.S. in Washington, Oregon, and northern California. These volcanoes rest above the active Cascadia subduction zone, which is the boundary where the oceanic tectonic plate dives...
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    National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, Earthquake Science Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Oregon Water Science Center, Washington Water Science Center, Western Fisheries Research Center
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    Pacific Northwest Geologic Mapping: Northern Pacific Border, Cascades and Columbia

    The Pacific Northwest is an area created by active and complex geological processes. On its path to the Pacific Ocean, the Columbia River slices through a chain of active volcanoes located along the western margin of the U.S. in Washington, Oregon, and northern California. These volcanoes rest above the active Cascadia subduction zone, which is the boundary where the oceanic tectonic plate dives...
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  • Publications

    Imaging the magmatic plumbing of the Clear Lake Volcanic Field using 3-D gravity inversions

    The Quaternary Clear Lake Volcanic Field (CLVF) in the Northern California Coast Range is the youngest of a string of northward-younging volcanic centers in the state. The CLVF is located within the broad San Andreas Transform Fault System and has been active intermittently for ∼2 million years. Heat beneath the CLVF supports The Geysers, one of the largest producing geothermal fields in the world
    Authors
    Michael Albert Mitchell, Jared R. Peacock, Seth D. Burgess
    By
    Volcano Hazards Program, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Volcano Science Center

    High-precision ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology of perovskite (CaTiO3) from the Ice River Complex, southeastern British Columbia

    Uranium‑lead perovskite in situ geochronology has become a cornerstone technique for determining the emplacement timing of alkaline, ultrapotassic, and silica-undersaturated igneous rocks, kimberlites, and carbonatites. Accurate in situ dates are dependent on the availability of matrix matched mineral reference materials which themselves are chemically well characterized and dated accurately to th
    Authors
    Seth D. Burgess, Larry M Heaman, Samuel A. Bowring
    By
    Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

    Zircon geochronology and geochemistry of Quaternary rhyolite domes of the Coso volcanic field, Inyo County, California

    The Quaternary Coso volcanic field (CVF) is a compositionally bimodal volcanic field located within a releasing bend along the eastern range-front Sierra Nevada fault zone in California's southern Owens Valley. The erupted products of CVF silicic magmatism since ~1 Ma comprise 38 high-silica rhyolite domes, with the volumetric majority (~99%) of rhyolite emplaced within the past ~300 ka. The CVF h
    Authors
    Seth D. Burgess, Matthew Coble, Jorge A. Vazquez
    By
    Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

    U–Pb zircon eruption age of the Old Crow tephra and review of extant age constraints

    Eruption of the Old Crow tephra deposited ~200 km3 of volcanic ash throughout Alaska and the northwestern Yukon (eastern Beringia), providing an isochronous marker across the region on a scale unique in the Pleistocene. The Old Crow tephra represents a critical temporal piercing point used extensively to link geographically disparate stratigraphic sections and the paleo-environmental records they
    Authors
    Seth D. Burgess, Jorge A. Vazquez, Christopher F. Waythomas, Kristi L. Wallace
    By
    Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

    Petrology and geochronology of 1.48 to 1.45 Ga igneous rocks in the St. Francois Mountains terrane, southeast Missouri

    The igneous geology of the St. Francois Mountains terrane in southeast Missouri is dominated by the products of 1.48 to 1.45 billion year old volcanic and plutonic magmatism but also includes volumetrically minor, compositionally bimodal contributions added during plutonism between 1.34 and 1.27 billion years ago. The 1.48 to 1.45 billion year old igneous rocks in the St. Francois Mountains terran
    Authors
    Edward A. du Bray, John N. Aleinikoff, Warren C. Day, Leonid A. Neymark, Seth D. Burgess
    By
    Mineral Resources Program, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center

    Radiometric constraints on the timing, tempo, and effects of large igneous province emplacement

    There is an apparent temporal correlation between large igneous province (LIP) emplacement and global environmental crises, including mass extinctions. Advances in the precision and accuracy of geochronology in the past decade have significantly improved estimates of the timing and duration of LIP emplacement, mass extinction events, and global climate perturbations, and in general have supported
    Authors
    Jennifer Kasbohm, Blair Schoene, Seth D. Burgess
    By
    National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, Volcano Hazards Program, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Volcano Science Center

    On the eruption age and provenance of the Old Crow tephra

    Tephrochronology is used to correlate and reconstruct geographically disparate sedimentary records of changing environment, climate, and landscape throughout geologic time. Single tephra layers represent isochronous markers across broad regions, thus accurate and precise radiometric constraints on the timing of eruption are critical to their utility. The Old Crow tephra is found throughout eastern
    Authors
    Seth D. Burgess, Matthew Coble, Jorge A. Vazquez, Michelle L. Coombs, Kristi L. Wallace
    By
    Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

    GHR1 Zircon – A new Eocene natural reference material for microbeam U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic analysis of zircon

    We present multitechnique U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic data from zircon separated from rapakivi biotite granite within the Eocene Golden Horn batholith in Washington, USA. A weighted mean of twenty-five Th-corrected 206Pb/238U zircon dates produced at two independent laboratories using chemical abrasion-isotope dilution-thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (CA-ID-TIMS) is 48.106 ± 0.023 Ma (
    Authors
    Michael P Eddy, Mauricio Ibanez-Mejia, Seth D. Burgess, Matthew A. Coble, Umberto G Gordani, Joel DesOrmeau, George E. Gehrels, Xianhua Li, Scott MacLennan, Mark Pecha, Kei Sato, Blair Schoene, Victor A. Valencia, Jeffrey D. Vervoort, Tiantian Wang
    By
    Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

    New zircon (U-Th)/He and U/Pb eruption age for the Rockland tephra, western USA

    Eruption ages of a number of prominent Quaternary volcanic deposits remain inaccurately and/or imprecisely constrained, despite their importance as regional stratigraphic markers in paleo-environment reconstruction and as evidence of climate-altering eruptions. Accurately dating volcanic deposits presents challenging analytical considerations, including poor radiogenic yield, scarcity of datable m
    Authors
    Matthew A. Coble, Seth D. Burgess, Erik W. Klemetti
    By
    Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

    Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction

    Mass extinction events are short-lived and characterized by catastrophic biosphere collapse and subsequent reorganization. Their abrupt nature necessitates a similarly short-lived trigger, and large igneous province magmatism is often implicated. However, large igneous provinces are long-lived compared to mass extinctions. Therefore, if large igneous provinces are an effective trigger, a subinterv
    Authors
    Seth D. Burgess, James D. Muirhead, Samuel A. Bowring
    By
    Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

    U/Pb zircon geochronology of the southern part of the Nabitah mobile belt and Pan-African continental collision in the Saudi Arabian Shield

    Authors
    D. B. Stoeser, J. S. Stacey, W.R. Greenwood, L.B. Fisher

    Non-USGS Publications**

    Burgess, S.D., Bowring, S.A., 2015, High-precision geochronology confirms voluminous magmatism before, during, and after Earth’s most severe extinction: Science Advances, v. 1, no. 7, doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500470.
    Burgess, S.D., Bowring, S.A., Fleming, T.H., Elliot, D.H., 2015, High-precision geochronology links the Ferrar large igneous province with early-Jurassic ocean anoxia and biotic crisis: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 415, p. 90–99, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.037.
    Burgess, S.D., Blackburn, T.J., and Bowring, S.A., 2015, High-precision U–Pb geochronology of Phanerozoic large igneous provinces, in Schmidt, A., Fristad, K., and Elkins-Tanton, L., eds., Volcanism and Global Environmental Change, p. 47–62: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/CBO9781107415683.006
    Burgess, S.D., Bowring, S.A., Shen, S.Z., 2014, A new high-precision timeline for Earth's most severe extinction: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 111, p. 3316–3321, doi:10.1073/pnas.1317692111.

    Winner of 2014 PNAS Cozzarelli prize in Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
    Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Burgess, S.D., Maloof, A.C., Bowring, S.A., 2014, Magmatic activity and plate motion during the latent stage of Midcontinent Rift development: Geology, v. 42, p. 475–478, doi:10.1130/G35271.1.
    Elkins-Tanton, L.T., Burgess, S., Yin, Q.-Z., 2011, The lunar magma ocean: Reconciling the solidification process with lunar petrology and geochronology: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 304, p. 326–336, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.02.004.
    Burgess, S.D., Miller, J.S., 2008, Construction, solidification and internal differentiation of a large felsic arc pluton: Cathedral Peak granodiorite, Sierra Nevada Batholith, in Annen, C., and Zellmer, G.F., eds., Dynamics of Crustal Magma Transfer, Storage and Differentiation: Geological Society, London, Special Publications, v. 304, p. 203–233, doi:10.1144/SP304.11.
    D'Antoni, H., Rothschild, L., Schultz, C., Burgess, S. D., Skiles, J.W., 2007, Extreme environments in the forests of Ushuaia, Argentina: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 34, L22704, doi:10.1029/2007GL031096.
    Miller, J.S., Matzel, J.E.P., Miller, C.F., Burgess, S.D., Miller, R.B., 2007, Zircon growth and recycling during the assembly of large, composite arc plutons: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 167, p. 282–299, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.04.019.

    **Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.

*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government