Some recent publications (students underlined)

Orlandini, O.F., Mahan, K.H., Mueller, K., Williams, M.L., and Regan, S.P., 2016, Frictional melt below the brittle- ductile transition: Two explanations from a shear zone in northern Saskatchewan, GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Regan, S.P., Williams, M.L., Grohn, L.J., Chiarenzelli, J., Mahan, K.H., Cousens, B., Aspler, L.B., and Jercinovic, M.J., 2016, Two transects across the Snowbird Tectonic Zone, western Churchill Province,: Exploring the continuity of the Rae-Hearne boundary and its role during the growth of Laurentia, GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Orlandini, O.F., Allaz, J., and Mahan, K.H., 2016, Using electron microprobe techniques to illuminate anomalous fault behavior in the deep crust, Electron probe microanalyzer Topical Conference, Madison, WI.

Regan, S., Williams, M.L., Mahan, K.H., Jercinovic, M.J., Chiarenzelli, J.R., and Aspler L., 2016, A transect across the Rae-Hearne boundary: implications for Neoarchean growth and Paleoproterozoic disruption of the western Churchill Province, Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada annual meeting, Yukon.

Leslie, S.R., Mahan, K.H., Regan, S., Williams, M.L., and Dumond, G., 2015, Contrasts in sillimanite deformation in felsic tectonites from anhydrous granulite- and hydrous amphibolite-facies shear zones, western Canadian Shield, Journal of Structural Geology, v. 71, p. 112-124, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2014.12.002.

Orlandini, O.F., Mahan, K.H., Mueller, K.J., and Williams, M.L., 2015, Deep-crustal rupture of an intraplate strike- slip fault system recorded by pseudotachylyte networks, Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA.

Webber, J.R., Brown, L.L., Williams, M.L., Jercinovic, M.J., and Mahan, K.H., 2015, Metamorphic and structural context of magnetism within the lower continental crust, observations and implications from the Canadian Shield, GSA Annual meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Regan, S., Williams, M.L., Jercinovic, M.J., Mahan, K.H., Chiarenzelli, J.R., Dumond, G., Walsh, G., Geer, P., Webber, J.R., Orlandini, O.F., and Holland, M.E., 2015, Interaction of igneous, metamorphic, and structural processes from the lower to middle continental crust: insights from two isobaric terranes, GSA Annual meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Williams, M.L., Seaman, S.J., Mahan, K.H., Dumond, G., Koteas, G.C., and Regan, S.P., 2015, Structural and petrologic implications of magmatic underplating in a continental arc: observations from the Athabasca granulite terrane, GSA Annual meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Orlandini, O.F., Mahan, K.H., Allaz, J.M., Brenner, K.A., Regan, S.P., and Williams, M.L., 2015, Investigation into the P/T conditions of multiple frictional melt vein generations hosted by a deep-crustal shear zone, GSA Annual meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Regan, S.P., Williams, M.L., Leslie, S., Mahan, K.H., Jercinovic, M.J., and Holland, M.E., 2014, The Cora Lake shear zone, Athabasca granuilite terrane (Snowbird Tectonic Zone), an intraplate response to far-field orogenic processes during amalgamation of Laurentia, Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 51, p. 877-901, doi: 10.1139/cjes-2014-0015.

Williams, M.L., Dumond, G., Mahan, K.H., Regan, S.P., Holland, M., 2014, Garnet-forming reactions in felsic orthogneiss: Implications for densification and strengthening of the lower continental crust, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 405, p. 207-219.

Orlandini, O., Mahan, K.H., Mueller, K., Williams, M.L., and Regan, S., 2014, Cora Lake shear zone pseudotachylyte: deep rupture of an intraplate strike-slip crustal fault and implications for seismology of earthquakes, GSA Annual meeting, Oct 19-22, 2014, Vancouver, BC.

Mahan, K.H., Regan, S., Orlandini, O., Williams, M.L., Dumond, G., and Leslie, S., 2014, Strain localization in deep continental crust: Examples from an exhumed section in the western Canadian shield, GSA Annual meeting, Oct 19-22, 2014, Vancouver, BC.

Mahan, K.H., Regan, S., Orlandini, O., Williams, M.L., Schulte-Pelkum, V., Dumond, G., and Leslie, S., 2014, Strain localization (and de-localization?) in deep continental crust: Examples from an exhumed section and remote observations from still deep crust in North America, Structure and Tectonics Forum, June 16-18, 2014, Golden, CO.

Orlandini, O., Mahan, K.H., Regan, S., Williams, M.L., Leite, A.*, 2013, Microstructure of deep crustal pseudotachylyte-bearing mylonites, Abstracts with Programs v. 45, no. 7, Paper # 216-10, GSA Annual meeting, Denver.

Dumond, G., Mahan, K.H., Williams, M.L., and Jercinovic, M.J., 2013, Transpressive uplift and exhumation of continental lower crust revealed by syn-kinematic monazite reactions, Lithosphere, doi: 10.1130/L292.1.

Mahan, K.H., Smit, A., Williams, M.L., Dumond, G., & Van Reenen, D.D., 2011, 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, 269-287, doi: 10.1130/2011.1207(14).

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.

Garnet porphyroblast in granulite mylonite	Legs Lake from air	Zodiac on Fon du Lac
Single Otter, Obre Lake	Anorthosite mylonite, Cora Lake	Mafic granulite reaction texture, Cora Lake
Asymmetric Grt, Cora Lake shear zone	Sheath folds, Grease River shear zone	Greg Dumond, Fon du Lac
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More publications

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.

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.

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. & 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.