A Quaternary geomagnetic instability time scale

BS Singer - Quaternary Geochronology, 2014 - Elsevier
Reversals and excursions of Earth's geomagnetic field create marker horizons that are
readily detected in sedimentary and volcanic rocks worldwide. An accurate and precise …

Acoustic gas thermometry

MR Moldover, RM Gavioso, JB Mehl, L Pitre… - Metrologia, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the principles, techniques and results from primary acoustic gas thermometry
(AGT). Since the establishment of ITS-90, the International Temperature Scale of 1990 …

[HTML][HTML] Interpreting and reporting 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data

AJ Schaen, BR Jicha, KV Hodges… - GSA …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The 40 Ar/39 Ar dating method is among the most versatile of geochronometers,
having the potential to date a broad variety of K-bearing materials spanning from the time of …

Early Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic intraplate tectonic and magmatic events in the Cathaysia Block, South China

L Shu, B Wang, PA Cawood, M Santosh, Z Xu - Tectonics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The geodynamic framework of the South China Craton in the Early Paleozoic and Early
Mesozoic has been modeled as developing through either oceanic convergence or …

Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus

DS Adler, KN Wilkinson, S Blockley, DF Mark… - Science, 2014 - science.org
The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition (~ 400,000 to 200,000 years ago) is marked by
technical, behavioral, and anatomical changes among hominin populations throughout …

Isotopes, DUPAL, LLSVPs, and anekantavada

WM White - Chemical Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
The mantle perspective provided by radiogenic isotope geochemistry has evolved over the
last 40 years. Although the idea of an upper mantle depleted in incompatible elements by …

High temperature methane emissions from Large Igneous Provinces as contributors to late Permian mass extinctions

C Chen, S Qin, Y Wang, G Holland, P Wynn… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Methane (CH4) emissions induced by Large Igneous Provinces have the potential to
contribute to global environmental changes that triggered mass extinctions in Earth's history …

Timescales for pluton growth, magma-chamber formation and super-eruptions

ME Van Zalinge, DF Mark, RSJ Sparks, MM Tremblay… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Generation of silicic magmas leads to emplacement of granite plutons, huge explosive
volcanic eruptions and physical and chemical zoning of continental and arc crust …

A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Young Toba Tuff and dating of ultra-distal tephra: forcing of Quaternary climate and implications for hominin occupation of India

DF Mark, M Petraglia, VC Smith, LE Morgan… - Quaternary …, 2014 - Elsevier
A new high-precision inverse isochron 40 Ar/39 Ar age for the youngest Toba super-eruption
is presented: 75.0±0.9 ka (1 sigma, full external precision, relative to the optimisation model …

High-precision 40Ar/39Ar dating of Pleistocene tuffs and temporal anchoring of the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary

DF Mark, PR Renne, RC Dymock, VC Smith… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract High-precision 40 Ar/39 Ar ages for a series of proximal tuffs from the Toba super-
volcano in Indonesia, and the Bishop Tuff and Lava Creek Tuff B in North America have …