In Press

Mahan, K.H., Smit, A., Williams, M.L., Dumond, G., and Van Reeenen, 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, in Edited by D.D. van Reenen, J.D. Kramers, S. McCourt, & L. L. Perchuk, Origin and Evolution of Precambrian High-Grade Gneiss Terranes, with Special Emphasis on the Limpopo Complex of Southern Africa, GSA Memoir 207.

2010

Blackburn, T.J., Bowring, S., Burdick, S., van der Hilst, R., Mahan, K.H., Barnhart, K., 2010, U-Pb thermochronology: 4-Dimensional Imaging of the North American Lithosphere, inSights: the EarthScope newsletter, Spring 2010.

Mahan, K.H., Wernicke, B., and Jercinovic, M.J., 2010, Th-U-total Pb geochronology of authigenic monazite in the Adelaide rift complex, South Australia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 289, 76-86.

2009

Mahan, K.H., Guest, B., Wernicke, B., and Niemi, N.A., 2009, Low-temperature thermochronologic constraints on the kinematic history and spatial extent of the Eastern California shear zone. Geosphere, v. 5, 1-13, doi: 10.1130/GES00226.1.

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 Special Paper 456, 219-241.

2008

Mahan, K.H., Goncalves, P., Flowers, R.M., Williams, M.L., and Hoffman-Setka, D., 2008, The role of heterogeneous strain in development and preservation of a polymetamorphic record in high-pressure granulites, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 26, p. 669-695.

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.

Hetherington, C.J., Williams, M.L., Jercinovic, M.J., and Mahan, K.H., 2008, Application of electron-probe microanalysis to composition, chronology, and occurrence of xenotime for understanding geologic processes. Chemical Geology, v. 254, p. 133-147.

2007

Dumond, G., Mahan, K.H., Williams, M.L., and Karlstrom, K., 2007, Metamorphism in middle continental crust, Upper Granite Gorge, Grand Canyon, Arizona: implications for segmented crustal architecture, processes at 25-km-deep levels, and unroofing of orogens, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 119; no. 1-2; p. 202-220; DOI:10.1130/B25903.1.

2006

Mahan, K.H., 2006, Retrograde mica in deep crustal granulites: implications for crustal seismic anisotropy, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 33, L24301, doi:10.1029/2006GL028130.

Mahan, K.H., Goncalves, P., Williams, M.L., and Jercinovic, M.J., 2006, Dating metamorphic reactions and fluid flow: application to exhumation of high-P granulites in a crustal-scale shear zone, western Canadian Shield, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 24, p. 193-217, doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2006.00633.x.

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, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. v. 152, p. 223-242, doi:10.1007/s00410-006-0106-3

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, v. 25, TC4003, doi:10.1029/2005TC001912.

Williams, M.L., Jercinovic, M.J., Goncalves, P., and Mahan, K.H., 2006, Format and Philosophy for Collecting, Compiling, and Reporting Microprobe Monazite Ages, Chemical Geology, v. 225, p. 1-15.

Baldwin, J.A., Bowring, S.A., Williams, M.L., and Mahan, K.H., 2006, Geochronological constraints on the crustal evolution of felsic high-pressure granulites, Snowbird tectonic zone, Canada, Lithos, v. 88, p. 173-200, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2005.08.009.

2005

Mahan, K.H. and 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, v. 33, p. 385-388, DOI:10.1130/G21273.1.

2003

Mahan, K.H., Williams, M.L., and Baldwin, J.A., 2003, Contractional uplift of deep crustal rocks along the Legs Lake shear zone, western Churchill Province, Canadian Shield. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 40, p. 1085-1110, doi: 10.1139/E03-039.

Mahan, K.H., Bartley, J.M., Coleman, D.S., Glazner, A.F., Carl, B.S., 2003, Sheeted intrusion of the synkinematic McDoogle pluton, Sierra Nevada, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 1570-1582, DOI:10.1130/B22083.1.

2001

Mahan, K.H., Williams, M.L., Baldwin, J.A., and Bowring, S.A., 2001, Juxtaposition of deep crustal and middle crustal rocks across the Legs Lake shear zone in northern Saskatchewan. In Summary of Investigations, Vol. 2. Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Saskatchewan Energy Mines, 2001-4.2.