Publications (students underlined)

Condit, C.B. and Mahan, K.H., 2016, Fracturing, fluid flow, and deep crustal shear zone nucleation in Paleoproterozoic metagabbro, SW Montana, GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Condit, C.B., Mahan, K.H., Ault, A., and Flowers, R.M., 2015, Foreland propagation of high-grade tectonism in the deep roots of a Paleoproterozoic collisional orogen, SW Montana, USA, Lithosphere, v. 7, p. 625-645, doi:10.1130/L460.1.

Jones, C., Mahan, K.H., Butcher, L., Levandowski, W., and Farmer, G.L., 2015, Continental uplift through crustal hydration, Geology, v. 43, p. 355-358, doi:10.1130/G36509.1.

Condit, C.B, Mahan, K.H., Orlandini, O.F., and Rattanasith, D., 2015, Competing chemical and mechanical processes producing gneissic layering in a deep crustal shear zone: an example from SW Montana, GSA Annual meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Allaz, J.M., Pritikel, C., Condit, C.B., Rattanasith, D., Mahan, K.H., Kelly, N.M., and Baird, G.B., 2015, Pressure- temperature and temporal constraints on regional metamorphism near Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado, USA, GSA Annual meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Johnson, J.E., West, D.P., Jr., Condit, C., and Mahan, K.H., In Press, The Spanish Creek mylonite: A zone of high strain in the northern Madison Range, SW Montana, Rocky Mountain Geology.

Johnson, J.E., Flowers, R.M., Mahan, K.H., Baird, G.B., and Metcalf, J.R., 2014, Repeated intracontinental tectonism in the Colorado Front Range: Filling critical gaps in thermal histories with titanite and zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology, GSA Annual meeting, Oct 19-22, 2014, Vancouver, BC.

Condit, C. and Mahan, K.H., 2014, Zircon textures and U-Pb evidence for syn-orogenic crustal melting in the Paleoproterozoic Big Sky orogen, SW Montana, GSA Annual meeting, Oct 19-22, 2014, Vancouver, BC.

Levandowski, W., Jones, C.H., Butcher, L.A., Mahan, K., and Farmer, G.L., 2014, Top-down or bottom-up? Intraplate deformation in the western North American interior recorded and controlled by lithology, GSA Annual meeting, Oct 19-22, 2014, Vancouver, BC.

Mahan, K.H., Allaz, J.M., Baird, G.B., and Kelly, N.M., 2013, Proterozoic metamorphism and deformation in the northern Colorado Front Range, in Abbott, L.D., and Hancock, G.S., eds., Classic Concepts and New Directions: Exploring 125 Years of GSA Discoveries in the Rocky Mountain Region, Geological Society of America Field Guide 33, p. 1-20, doi:10.1130/2013.0033(06).

Condit, C.B., Mahan, K.H., Ault, A.K., and Flowers, R.M., 2013, New evidence for an exhumed crustal section from the Paleoproterozoic Big Sky Orogeny, N. Madison Range, SW Montana, Abstracts with Programs v. 45, no. 7, Paper # 124-9, GSA Annual meeting, Denver.

Karlstrom, K.E., Ilg, B.R., Hawkins, D., Williams, M.L., Dumond, G., Mahan, K., and Bowring, S.A., 2012, Vishnu basement rocks of the Upper Granite Gorge: Continent formation 1.84 to 1.66 billion years ago, Geological Society of America Special Papers 489, p. 7-24, doi: 10.1130/2012.2489(01).

Condit, C.B., Mahan, K.H., Ault, A.K., Flowers, R.M., Johnson, J.E., 2012, Integrating petrology, structure, and geochronology to evaluate a possible crustal cross-section on the NW margin of the Wyoming Province, SW Montana, GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 44, no. 7, Charlotte, NC.

Ault, A., Flowers, R.M., and Mahan, K.H., 2012, Quartz shielding of sub-20 micron zircons from radiation damage-enhanced Pb loss: an example from a granulite facies mafic dike, northwestern Wyoming craton, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 339-340, p. 57-66.

Snowy Range_Cheyenne Belt, southern WY

Grand Canyon, AZ

Glacier Gorge, Rocky Mountain Nat. Pk, CO

More Publications (students underlined)

Parker, A., Ward, D. and Mahan, K., 2010, Investigating an inverted metamorphic gradient in the Cheyenne Belt, southeastern Wyoming, using kinematic vorticity, thermobarometry, and geochronology, Paper # 118-3, GSA annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Williams, M.L., Dumond, G., Mahan, K.H., and Jercinovic, M.J., 2010, Tectonic interpretation of P-T paths: Integrating deformation, metamorphism and geochronology, Paper No. 159-6, GSA Annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Jones, D.S., Premo, W.R., Mahan, K.H. and Snoke, A.W., 2010, Is the Cheyenne Belt the Mazatzal deformation front?: Evidence for reactivation of the Cheyenne Belt at ~1.65-1.63 Ga, Rocky Mountain sectional GSA meeting, Rapid City, SD.

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.