Deep crustal processes
Athabasca Granulite Terrane, western Canadian Shield
Some recent publications
Mahan, K.H., Smit, A., Williams, M.L., Dumond, G., & Van Reenen, D.D., In Press, Heterogeneous strain and polymetamorphism in high-grade terranes: Insight into crustal processes from the Athabasca Granulite Terrane, western Canada and Limpopo Complex, southern Africa, GSA Memoir 207.
Williams, M.L., Karlstrom, K.E., Dumond, G., and Mahan, K.H., 2009, Perspectives on the architecture of continental crust from integrated field studies of exposed isobaric sections, in Crustal Cross Sections from the Western North American Cordillera and Elsewhere: Implications for Tectonic and Petrologic Processes (eds. Miller, R.B. and Snoke, A.W.), GSA Spec. Paper 456, 219-241.
Dumond, G., Goncalves, P., Mahan, K.H., Williams, M.L., & Jercinovic, M., 2009, Strain localization due rheological heterogeneity across a crustal-scale intracontinental shear zone, Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco.
Mahan, K.H., Goncalves, P., Flowers, R.M., Williams, M.L. & Hoffman-Setka, D., 2008, The role of heterogeneous strain in development and preservation of a polymetamorphic record in high-pressure granulites, JMG, 26, 669-695.
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More publications
Flowers, R.M., Bowring, S.A., Mahan, K.H., Williams, M.L., 2008, Craton stabilization and disruption from the lower crustal record in the western Canadian shield, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI:10.1007/s00410-008-0301-5.
Mahan, K.H., 2008, Polymetamorphism in high-pressure granulites from the Snowbird Tectonic Zone, western Canadian Shield, Limpopo International Field Conference, Univ. Johannesburg, S. Africa.
Dumond, G., Mahan, K.H., Goncalves, P., McLean, N., Bowring, S., Jercinovic, M., Andronicos, C., 2008, Rheological heterogeneity and the role of strain partitioning in the development of a continental transform fault: A lower crustal record from the western Canadian Shield, GSA Ann. Meeting, Houston, TX.
Mahan, K.H., Williams, M.L., Flowers, R.M., Jercinovic, M.J., Baldwin, J.A., Bowring, S.A., 2006, Geochronological constraints on the Legs Lake shear zone with implications for regional exhumation of lower crust, Western Churchill Province, Canadian Shield, CMP. 152, 223-242.
Flowers, R.M., Mahan, K.H., Bowring, S.A., Williams, M.L., Pringle, M.S. & Hodges, K.V., 2006, Multistage exhumation and juxtaposition of lower continental crust in the western Canadian Shield: Linking high-resolution U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology with P-T-D paths, Tectonics, 25.
Mahan, K.H., Goncalves, P., Flowers, R.M., Williams, M.L., 2006. Polymetamorphic High-Pressure Mafic Granulites and Lower Crustal Processes in the Snowbird Tectonic Zone, Western Canadian Shield. Granulites and Granulites conference, Brasilia, Brazil.
Flowers, R.M., Bowring, S.A., Williams, M.L., Mahan, K.H., 2006, Temporal constraints on the evolution of HP granulites: Metamorphism and multistage exhumation of lower continental crust in the western Canadian Shield. Granulites and Granulites conference, Brasilia, Brazil.
Dumond, G., Goncalves, P., Mahan, K.H., Williams, M.L., Jercinovic, M.J., Bowring, S.A., 2006, White Gneiss of the Snowbird Tectonic Zone, Western Canadian Shield: Neoarchean UHT-HP Melting in Lowermost Continental Crust, Granulites and Granulites conference, Brasilia, Brazil.
Mahan, K.H. & Williams, M.L., 2005, Reconstruction of a large deep-crustal exposure: Implications for the nature of the Snowbird Tectonic Zone and early growth of Laurentia, Geology, 33, 385-388.
Mahan, K.H., Williams, M.L., & Baldwin, J.A., 2003, Contractional uplift of deep crustal rocks along the Legs Lake shear zone, western Churchill Province, Canadian Shield. CJES, 40, 1085-1110.
