Publications (students underlined)

Butcher, L., Mahan, K.H., Jones, C., and Farmer, L., 2013, Colorado Plateau uplift through lower crustal hydration?, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco.

Butcher, L., Mahan, K.H., Jones, C., and Farmer, L., 2013, Deep crustal hydration of the Colorado Plateau and implications for Laramide uplift, Abstracts with Programs v. 45, no. 7, Paper # 14-2, GSA Annual meeting, Denver.

Mahan, K.H., Schulte-Pelkum, V., Butcher, L., Blackburn, T.J., Bowring, S.A., and Jones, C.H., 2013, Deep crustal structure, processes, and properties from xenoliths and seismic observations in the Rocky Mountains, USA, EarthScope National Meeting, Raleigh, NC.

Mahan, K.H., Schulte-Pelkum, V., Blackburn, T.J., Bowring, S.A., and Dudas, F.O., 2012, Seismic structure and lithospheric rheology from deep crustal xenoliths, central Montana, USA, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v. 13, Q10012, doi:10.1029/2012GC004332.

Barnhart, K.R., Mahan, K.H., Blackburn, T.J., Bowring, S.A., and Dudas, F.O., 2012, Deep crustal xenoliths from central Montana: Implications for the timing and mechanisms of high-velocity lower crust formation. Geosphere, First published online November 16, 2012, doi: 10.1130/GES00765.1.

Blackburn, T.J., Bowring, S.A., Perron, J.T., Mahan, K.H., Dudas, F.O., and Barnhart, K.R.*, 2012, A thermal and exhumation history of continents at billion year time-scales, Science, v. 335, p. 73-76, doi: 10.1126/science.1213496.

Blackburn, T.J., Shimizu, N., Bowring, S.A., Schoene, B., Mahan, K.H., 2012, Zirconium in rutile speedometry: constraining deep lithosphere temperature-time histories over a 1000-500 °C temperature range, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 317-318, p. 231-240.

Blackburn, T.J., Bowring, S., Schoene, B., Mahan, K.H., Dudas, F., 2011, U-Pb Thermochronology: creating a temporal record of lithosphere thermal evolution, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 162, p. 479-500, DOI: 10.1007/s00410-011-0607-6.

EBSD and anisotropy data, Leucite Hills, WY xenoliths

photomicrograph of mafic granulite xenolith, Sweet Grass Hills, MT

Nd X-ray map of monazite from Robinson Ranch, MT, crustal xenolith

More publications

Barnhart, K., Mahan, K.H., Blackburn, T., Bowring, S., Dudas, F., 2010, Xenoliths from high velocity lower crust, Montana: constraints on timing and mechanisms of high-velocity lower crust formation, Abs. No. 177286, GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

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.

Barnhart, K., Mahan, K.H., Blackburn, T., Bowring, S., 2009, Deep crustal xenoliths from the Great Falls Tectonic Zone, Montana: Investigating the timing and mechanisms of high-velocity lower crust formation, GSA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.

Mahan, K.H., Blackburn, T., Schulte-Pelkum, V., Sheehan, A., and Bowring, S.A., 2008, Hydration and deformation in the lower crust of southern Wyoming: evidence from Leucite Hills crustal xenoliths and implications for the evolution of seismic structure in the Wyoming Craton, GSA Annual Meeting, Houston, TX.

Blackburn, T., Bowring, S., Mahan, K.H., and Burdick, S., 2008, Geochronology and thermochronology of lower crustal xenoliths; Creating a temporal record of North American lithosphere thermal evolution, GSA Annual Meeting, Houston, TX.