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  1. Karlstrom, K., Hagadorn, J., Gehrels, G., Matthews, W., Schmitz, M., Madronich, L., Mulder, J., Pecha, M., Geisler, D., Crossey, L., 2018, Cambrian Sauk transgression in the Grand Canyon region redefined by detrital zircons: Nature Geoscience, v. 11, p. 438-443.
  2. Davydov, V.I., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., and Snyder, W.S., 2018, New U–Pb constraints identify the end-Guadalupian and possibly end-Lopingian extinction events conceivably preserved in the passive margin of North America: implication for regional tectonics: Geological Magazine, v. 155, p. 119–131, doi: 10.1017/S0016756816000959.
  3. Davydov, V.I., Biakov, A.V., Schmitz, M.D., and Silantiev, V.V., 2018, Radioisotopic calibration of the Guadalupian (middle Permian) series: review and updates: Earth Science Reviews, v. 176, p. 222–240, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.10.011.
  4. Verbaas, J., Thorkelson, D.J., Crowley, J., Davis, W.J., Foster, D.A., Gibson, H.D., Marshall, D.D. & Milidragovic, D. 2018, A sedimentary overlap assemblage links Australia to northwestern Laurentia at 1.6 Ga, Precambrian Research, vol. 305, pp. 19-39.
  5. Wainman, C.C., McCabe, P.J. & Crowley, J.L. 2018, Solving a tuff problem; defining a chronostratigraphic framework for Middle to Upper Jurassic nonmarine strata in eastern Australia using uranium-lead chemical abrasion-thermal ionization mass spectrometry zircon dates, AAPG Bulletin, vol. 102, no. 6, pp. 1141-1168.
  6. Jannin, S., Gervais, F., Moukhsil, A., Augland, L.E. & Crowley, J.L. 2018, Deformations tardi-grenvilliennes dans la Ceinture parautochtone (Province de Grenville centrale); contraintes geochronologiques par couplage de methodes U-Pb de haute resolution spatiale et de haute precision, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences = Revue Canadienne des Sciences de la Terre, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 406-435.
  7. Phillips, L.J., Crowley, J.L., Mantle, D.J., Esterle, J.S., Nicoll, R.S., McKellar, J.L. & Wheeler, A. 2018, U-Pb geochronology and palynology from Lopingian (Upper Permian) coal measure strata of the Galilee Basin, Queensland, Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 153-173.
  8. Tesfamichael, T., Jacobs, B., Tabor, N., Michel, L., Currano, E., Feseha, M., Barclay, R., Kappelman, J., and Schmitz, M., 2017, Settling the issue of “decoupling” between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature: [CO2]atm reconstructions across the warming Paleogene-Neogene divide: Geology, v. 45, p. 999–1002, doi: 10.1130/G39048.1.
  9. Aguirre-Urreta, B., Schmitz, M., Lescano, M., Tunik, M., Rawson, P.F., Concheyro, A., Buhler, M., and Ramos, V.A., 2017, A high precision U-Pb radioisotopic age for the Agrio Formation, Neuquen Basin, Argentina: Implications for the chronology of the Hauterivian Stage: Cretaceous Research, v. 75, p. 193–204, doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.03.027.
  10. Gaschnig, R.M., Macho, A.S., Fayon, A., Schmitz, M., Ware, B.D., Vervoort, J.D., Kelso, P., Lamaskin, T.A., Kahn, M.J., and Tikoff, B., 2017, Intrusive and depositional constraints on the Cretaceous tectonic history of the southern Blue Mountains, eastern Oregon: Lithosphere, v. 9, p. 265–282, doi: 10.1130/L554.1.
  11. Kurz, G.A., Schmitz, M.D., Northrup, C.J., and Vallier, T.L., 2017, Isotopic compositions of intrusive rocks from the Wallowa and Olds Ferry arc terranes of northeastern Oregon and western Idaho: Implications for Cordilleran evolution, lithospheric structure, and Miocene magmatism: Lithosphere, v. 9, p. 235–264, doi: 10.1130/L550.1.
  12. Krause, J.M., Clyde, W.C., Ibanez-Mejia, M., Schmitz, M.D., Barnum, T., Bellosi, E.S., and Wilf, P., 2017, New age constraints for early Paleogene strata of central Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for the timing of South American Land Mammal Ages: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 129, p. 886–903, doi: 10.1130/B31561.1.
  13. Kubínová, Š., Faryad, S.W., Verner, K., Schmitz, M., and Holub, F., 2017, Ultrapotassic dykes in the Moldanubian Zone and their significance for understanding of the post-collisional mantle dynamics during Variscan orogeny in the Bohemian Massif: Lithos, v. 272-273, p. 205–221, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.12.007.
  14. Malone, D.H., Craddock, J.P., Schmitz, M.D., Kenderes, S., Kraushaar, B., Murphey, C.J., Nielsen, S., and Mitchell, T.M., 2017, Volcanic Initiation of the Eocene Heart Mountain Slide, Wyoming, USA: The Journal of Geology, v. 125, p. 439–457, doi: 10.1086/692328.
  15. Opluštil, S., Jirasek, J., Schmitz, M., and Matysek, D., 2017, Biotic changes around the radioisotopically constrained Carboniferous-Permian boundary in the Boskovice Basin (Czech Republic): Bulletin of Geosciences,, p. 95–122, doi: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1638.
  16. Pellenard, P., Gand, G., Schmitz, M., Galtier, J., Broutin, J., and Stéyer, J.-S., 2017, High-precision U-Pb zircon ages for explosive volcanism calibrating the NW European continental Autunian stratotype: Gondwana Research, v. 51, p. 118–136, doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2017.07.014.
  17. Rivera, T.A., Darata, R., Lippert, P.C., Jicha, B.R., and Schmitz, M.D., 2017, The duration of a Yellowstone super-eruption cycle and implications for the age of the Olduvai subchron: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 479, p. 377–386, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.08.027.
  18. Santos, M.M., Lana, C., Scholz, R., Buick, I., Schmitz, M.D., Kamo, S.L., Gerdes, A., Corfu, F., Tapster, S., Lancaster, P., Storey, C.D., Basei, M.A.S., Tohver, E., Alkmim, A., et al., 2017, A new appraisal of Sri Lankan BB zircon as a reference material for LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotope tracing: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, v. 41, p. 335–358, doi: 10.1111/ggr.12167.
  19. Craddock, J. P., Schmitz, M. D., Crowley, J. L., Larocque, J., Pankhurst, R. J., Juda, N., Konstantinou, A., Storey, B., 2017, Precise U-Pb zircon ages and geochemistry of Jurassic granites, Ellsworth-Whitmore terrane, central Antarctica. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 129, p. 118-136.
  20. Roche, S.L., Godin, L. & Crowley, J.L. 2017, Reappraisal of emplacement models for Himalayan external crystalline nappes; the Jajarkot Klippe, western Nepal, Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 130, no. 5-6, pp. 1041-1056.
  21. Karabinos, P.M., Macdonald, F.A. & Crowley, J.L. 2017, Bridging the gap between the foreland and hinterland; I, Geochronology and plate tectonic geometry of Ordovician magmatism and terrane accretion on the Laurentian margin of New England, American Journal of Science, vol. 317, no. 5, pp. 515-554.
  22. Macdonald, F.A., Karabinos, P.M., Crowley, J.L., Hodgin, E.B., Crockford, P.W. & Delano, J.W. 2017, Bridging the gap between the foreland and hinterland; II, Geochronology and tectonic setting of Ordovician magmatism and basin formation on the Laurentian margin of New England and Newfoundland, American Journal of Science, vol. 317, no. 5, pp. 555-596.
  23. Gervais, F. & Crowley, J.L. 2017, Prograde and near-peak zircon growth in a migmatitic pelitic schist of the southeastern Canadian Cordillera, Lithos (Oslo), vol. 282-283, pp. 65-81.
  24. Mory, A.J., Crowley, J.L., Backhouse, J., Nicoll, R.S., Bryan, S.E., Lopez-Martinez, M. & Mantle, D.J. 2017, Apparent conflicting Roadian-Wordian (Middle Permian) CA-IDTIMS and palynology ages from the Canning Basin, Western Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 64, no. 7, pp. 889-901.
  25. Ducea, M.N., Bergantz, G.W., Crowley, J.L. & Otamendi, J. 2017, Ultrafast magmatic buildup and diversification to produce continental crust during subduction, Geology (Boulder), vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 235-238.
  26. Cobbett, R., Israel, S., Mortensen, J., Joyce, N. & Crowley, J. 2017, Structure and kinematic evolution of the Duke River Fault, southwestern Yukon, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences = Revue Canadienne des Sciences de la Terre, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 322-344.
  27. Suarez, C.A., Knobbe, T.K., Crowley, J.L., Kirkland, J.I. & Milner, A.R.C. 2017, A chronostratigraphic assessment of the Moenave Formation, USA using C-isotope chemostratigraphy and detrital zircon geochronology; implications for the terrestrial end Triassic extinction, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 475, pp. 83-93.
  28. McLaughlin, W.N.F., Hopkins, S.S.B., and Schmitz, M.D., 2016, A new late Hemingfordian vertebrate fauna from Hawk Rim, Oregon, with implications for biostratigraphy and geochronology: Journal Of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 36, p. e1201095, doi: 10.1038/nature06588.
  29. Stevens, L.M., Baldwin, J.A., Crowley, J.L., Fisher, C.M. & Vervoort, J.D. 2016, Magmatism as a response to exhumation of the Priest River Complex, northern Idaho; constraints from zircon U/Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes, Lithos (Oslo), vol. 262, pp. 285-297.
  30. Bold, U., Crowley, J.L., Smith, E.F., Sambuu, O. & Macdonald, F.A. 2016, Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Zavkhan Terrane of Mongolia; implications for continental growth in the Central Asian orogenic belt, Lithosphere, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 729-750.
  31. Bold, U., Smith, E.F., Rooney, A.D., Bowring, S.A., Buchwaldt, R., Dudas, F.O., Ramezani, J., Crowley, J.L., Schrag, D.P. & Macdonald, F.A. 2016, Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of the Zavkhan Terrane of Mongolia; the backbone for Cryogenian and early Ediacaran chemostratigraphic records, American Journal of Science, vol. 316, no. 1, pp. 1-63.
  32. Laurie, J.R., Bodorkos, S., Nicoll, R.S., Crowley, J.L., Mantle, D.J., Mory, A.J., Wood, G.R., Backhouse, J., Holmes, E.K., Smith, T.E. & Champion, D.C. 2016, Calibrating the Middle and Late Permian palynostratigraphy of Australia to the geologic time-scale via U-Pb zircon CA-IDTIMS dating, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 701-730.
  33. Kilian, T.M., Swanson-Hysell, N., Bold, U., Crowley, J. & Macdonald, F.A. 2016, Paleomagnetism of the Teel basalts from the Zavkhan Terrane; implications for Paleozoic paleogeography in Mongolia and the growth of continental crust, Lithosphere, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 699-715.
  34. Rivera, T.A., Schmitz, M.D., Jicha, B.R. Crowley, J.L., 2016, Zircon petrochronology and 40Ar/39Ar sanidine dates for the Mesa Falls Tuff: crystal scale records of magmatic evolution and the short lifespan of a large Yellowstone magma chamber. Journal of Petrology, doi: 10.1093/petrology/egw053.
  35. Ashwal, L.D., Palzelt, M., Schmitz, M.D., Burke, K., 2016, Isotopic evidence for a lithospheric origin of alkaline rocks and carbonatites: an example from southern Africa. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 53, p. 1216-1226.
  36. Craddock, J. P., Schmitz, M. D., Crowley, J. L., Larocque, J., Pankhurst, R. J., Juda, N., Konstantinou, A., Storey, B., 2016, Precise U-Pb zircon ages and geochemistry of Jurassic granites, Ellsworth-Whitmore terrane, central Antarctica. Geological Society of America Bulletin, Pre-Issue Publication.
  37. MacNaughton, Robert B.; Moynihan, David P.; Roots, Charles F.; and Crowley, James L. (2016). “New Occurrences of Oldhamia in Eastern Yukon, Canada: Stratigraphic Context and Implications for Cambrian Deep-Marine Biostratigraphy”. Ichnos: An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces, 23(1-2), 33-52.
  38. Lanik, A., Over, D. J., Schmitz, M. D., & Kirchgasser, W. T., 2016, Testing the limits of chronostratigraphic resolution in the Appalachian basin, Late Devonian (middle Frasnian), eastern North America; new U-Pb zircon dates for the Belpre tephra suite. Geological Society of America Bulletin, Pre-Issue Publication.
  39. Kurz, G.A., Schmitz, M.D., Northrup, C.J., Vallier, T.L., 2016, Isotopic compositions of intrusive rocks from the Wallowa and Olds Ferry arc terranes of northeastern Oregon and western Idaho: Implications for Cordilleran evolution, lithospheric structure, and Miocene magmatism. Lithosphere, Pre-Issue Publication.
  40. Opluštil, S., Schmitz, M.D., Cleal, C.J., Martínek, K., 2016, A review of the Middle–Late Pennsylvanian west European regional substages and floral biozones, and their correlation to the Geological Time Scale based on new U–Pb ages. Earth-Science Reviews 154, 301-335.
  41. Smith, Emily F.; MacDonald, Francis A.; Crowley, James L.; Hodgin, Eben B.; and Schrag, Daniel P. (2016). “Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the c. 780–730 Ma Beck Spring Dolomite: Basin Formation in the Core of Rodinia”. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 424, 213-239.
  42. Spandler, C., Hammerli, J., Sha, P., Hilbert-Wolf, H., Hu, Y., Roberts, E., Schmitz, M.D., 2016, MKED1: a new titanite standard for in situ analysis of Sm-Nd isotopes and U-Pb geochronology. Chemical Geology 425, 110-126.
  43. Michel, L.A., Schmitz, M.D., Tabor, N.J., Montanez, I.P., Davydov, V.I., 2016, Reply to the comment on “Chronostratigraphy and Paleoclimatology of the Lodève Basin, France: Evidence for a pan-tropical aridification event across the Carboniferous-Permian boundary” by Michel et al.,(2015). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 430, 118-131. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 441, 1000–1004.
  44. Wainman, C. C.; McCabe, P. J.; Crowley, J. L.; and Nicoll, R. S., 2015, U-Pb Zircon Age of the Walloon Coal Measures in the Surat Basin, Southeast Queensland: Implications for Paleogeography and Basin Subsidence. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 62(7), 807-816.
  45. Samperton, K.M., Schoene, B., Cottle, J.M., Keller, C.B., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., 2015, Magma differentiation and cooling in the middle crust: integrated zircon geochronological-geochemical constraints from the Bergell Intrusion, Central Alps. Chemical Geology 417, 322-340.
  46. Gulbranson, E.L., Ciccioli, P.L., Montanez, I.P., Marenssi, S.A., Limarino, C.O., Schmitz, M.D., Davydov, V.I., 2015, Paleoenvironments and age of the Talampaya Formation: The Permo-Triassic boundary in northwestern Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 63, 310-322.
  47. Cottle, J.M., Searle, M.P., Jessup, M.J., Crowley, J.L. & Law, R.D. 2015, Rongbuk re-visited; geochronology of leucogranites in the footwall of the South Tibetan detachment system, Everest region, southern Tibet, Lithos (Oslo), vol. 227, pp. 94-106.
  48. Soucy La Roche, Renaud; Gervais, Félix; Tremblay, Alain; Crowley, James L.; and Ruffet, Gilles, 2015, Tectono-Metamorphic History of the Eastern Taureau Shear Zone, Mauricie Area, Québec: Implications for the Exhumation of the Mid-Crust in the Grenville Province. Precambrian Research, 257, 22-46.
  49. Colpron, Maurice; Crowley, James L.; Gehrels, George; Long, Darrel G.F.; Murphy, Donald C.; Beranek, Luke; and Bickerton, Luke. (2015). Birth of the Northern Cordilleran Orogen, as Recorded by Detrital Zircons in Jurassic Synorogenic Strata and Regional Exhumation in Yukon. Lithosphere, 7(5), 541-562.
  50. Davydov, V.I., Biakov, A.S., Isbell, J.L., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., Vedernikov, I.L., 2015, Middle Permian U–Pb zircon ages of the “glacial” deposits of the Atkan Formation, Ayan-Yuryakh anticlinorium, Magadan province, NE Russia: their significance for global climatic interpretations. Gondwana Research, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2015.10.014.
  51. Cox, G.M., Strauss, J.V., Halverson, G.P., Schmitz, M.D., McClelland, W.C., Stevenson, R.S., Macdonald, F.A., 2015. Kikiktat volcanics of Arctic Alaska—Melting of harzburgitic mantle associated with the Franklin large igneous province. Lithosphere 7, 275–295. doi:10.1130/L435.1.
  52. LaMaskin, T.A., Dorsey, R.J., Vervoort, J.D., Schmitz, M.D., Tumpane, K.P., Moore, N.O., 2015. Westward Growth of Laurentia by Pre–Late Jurassic Terrane Accretion, Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho, United States. The Journal of Geology 123, 233–267. doi:10.1086/681724.
  53. Aguirre-Urreta, B., Lescano, M., Schmitz, M.D., Tunik, M., Concheyro, A., Rawson, P.F., and Ramos, V.A., 2015, Filling the gap: new precise Early Cretaceous radioisotopic ages from the Andes: Geological Magazine, online, doi: 10.1017/S001675681400082X.
  54. Metcalfe, I., Crowley, J.L., Nicoll, R.S., Schmitz, M., 2015, High-precision U-Pb CA-TIMS calibration of Middle Permian to Lower Triassic sequences, mass extinction and extreme climate-change in eastern Australian Gondwana. Gondwana Research 28, 61–81. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2014.09.002.
  55. Michel, L.A., Tabor, N.J., Montanez, I.P., Schmitz, M.D., Davydov, V.I., 2015, Chronostratigraphy and Paleoclimatology of the Lodève Basin, France: Evidence for a pan-tropical aridification event across the Carboniferous-Permian boundary. Palaeogeogr Palaeocl 430, 118–131. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.03.020.
  56. Cramer, B.D., Schmitz, M.D., Huff, W.D., and Bergstrom, S.M., 2015, High-precision U-Pb zircon age constraints on the duration of rapid biogeochemical events during the Ludlow Epoch (Silurian Period): Journal Of The Geological Society, online, doi: 10.1144/jgs2014-094.
  57. Kennedy, A.K., Wotzlaw, J.F., Schaltegger, U., Crowley, J.L., and Schmitz, M., 2014, Eocene zircon reference material for microanalysis of U-Th-Pb isotopes and trace elements: The Canadian Mineralogist 52(3):409–421, doi: 10.3749/canmin.52.3.409.
  58. Rivera, T.A., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., and Storey, M., 2014, Rapid magma evolution constrained by zircon petrochronology and 40Ar/39Ar sanidine ages for the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, Yellowstone, USA: Geology 42(8):643–646, doi: 10.1130/G35808.1.
  59. Israel, Steve; Bernanek, Luke; Friedman, Richard M.; and Crowley, James L.. (2014). “New Ties Between the Alexander Terrane and Wrangellia and Implications for North America Cordilleran Evolution”. Lithosphere, 6(4), 270-276.
  60. Goudie, D. J., Fisher, C. M., Hanchar, J. M., Crowley, J. L. & Ayers, J. C., 2014, Simultaneous in situ determination of U-Pb and Sm-Nd isotopes in monazite by laser ablation ICP-MS. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst 15:2575–2600.
  61. Jirásek, J., Wlosok, J., Sivek, M., Matýsek, D., Schmitz, M., Sýkorová, I., and VAŠÍČEK, Z., 2014, U-Pb zircon age of the Krásné Loučky tuffite: the dating of Visean flysch in the Moravo-Silesian Paleozoic Basin (Rhenohercynian Zone, Czech Republic): Geological Quarterly 58(4):659-672, doi: 10.7306/gq.1201.
  62. Nettle, D., Halverson, G.P., Cox, G.M., Collins, A.S., Schmitz, M., Gehling, J., Johnson, P.R., and Kadi, K., 2014, A middle-late Ediacaran volcano-sedimentary record from the eastern Arabian-Nubian shield: Terra Nova, v. 26, no. 2, p. 120–129, doi: 10.1111/ter.12077.
  63. Hoke, G.D., Schmitz, M.D., and Bowring, S.A., 2014, An ultrasonic method for isolating nonclay components from clay-rich material: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 15(2):492–498, doi: 10.1002/2013GC005125.
  64. Khodjanyazova, R.R., Davydov, V.I., Montanez, I.P., and Schmitz, M.D., 2014, Climate- and eustasy-driven cyclicity in Pennsylvanian fusulinid assemblages, Donets Basin (Ukraine): Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v. 396(C):41–61, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.12.038.
  65. Macdonald, F.A., Ryan-Davis, J., Coish, R.A., Crowley, J.L., and Karabinos, P., 2014, A newly identified Gondwanan terrane in the northern Appalachian Mountains: Implications for the Taconic orogeny and closure of the Iapetus Ocean: Geology 42(6):539–542, doi: 10.1130/G35659.1.
  66. Israel, S., Beranek, L., Friedman, R.M. & Crowley, J.L. 2014, New ties between the Alexander Terrane and Wrangellia and implications for North America Cordilleran evolution, Lithosphere, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 270-276.
  67. Thompson, M.D., Ramezani, J., and Crowley, J.L., 2014, U-Pb zircon geochronology of Roxbury Conglomerate, Boston Basin, Massachusetts: Tectono-stratigraphic implications for Avalonia in and beyond SE New England: American Journal of Science 314(6):1009–1040, doi: 10.2475/06.2014.02.
  68. Nettle, D., Halverson, G.P., Cox, G.M., Collins, A.S., Schmitz, M., Gehling, J., Johnson, P.R., and Kadi, K., 2014, A middle-late Ediacaran volcano-sedimentary record from the eastern Arabian-Nubian shield: Terra Nova 26(2):120–129, doi: 10.1111/ter.12077.
  69. Clyde, W.C., Wilf, P., Iglesias, A., Slingerland, R.L., Barnum, T., Bijl, P.K., Bralower, T.J., Brinkhuis, H., Comer, E.E., Huber, B.T., Ibanez-Mejia, M., Jicha, B.R., Krause, J.M., Schueth, J.D., et al., 2014, New age constraints for the Salamanca Formation and lower Rio Chico Group in the western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction recovery and land mammal age correlations: Geological Society of America Bulletin 126(3-4):289–306, doi: 10.1130/B30915.1.
  70. Forasiepi, A.M., Cerdeño, E., Bond, M., Schmidt, G.I., Naipauer, M., Straehl, F.R., Martinelli, A.G., Garrido, A.C., Schmitz, M.D., and Crowley, J.L., 2014, New toxodontid (Notoungulata) from the Early Miocene of Mendoza, Argentina: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, online, doi: 10.1007/s12542-014-0233-5.
  71. Calver, C.R., Crowley, J.L., Wingate, M.T.D., Evans, D.A.D., Raub, T.D., and Schmitz, M.D., 2013, Globally synchronous Marinoan deglaciation indicated by U-Pb geochronology of the Cottons Breccia, Tasmania, Australia: Geology 41(10):1127–1130, doi: 10.1130/G34568.1.
  72. Stevens, N.J., Seiffert, E.R., O’Connor, P.M., Roberts, E.M., Schmitz, M.D., Krause, C., Gorscak, E., Ngasala, S., Hieronymus, T.L., Temu, J., 2013, Palaeontological evidence for an Oligocene divergence between Old World monkeys and apes. Nature, 497:611-614, doi:10.1038/nature12161.
  73. Dunn, R.E., Madden, R.H., Kohn, M.J., Schmitz, M.D., Strömberg, C.A.E., Carlini, A.A., Ré, G.H., Crowley, J.L., 2013, A New Chronology for Middle Eocene-Early Miocene South American Land Mammal Ages, Geological Society of America Bulletin 125:539-555, doi:10.1130/B30660.1.
  74. Rivera, T.A., Storey, M., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., 2013, Magma differentiation and eruption timescales of Alder Creek Rhyolite: A combined 40Ar/39Ar sanidine and U/Pb zircon dating approach: Chemical Geology 345:87-98.
  75. Condon, D. J. and Schmitz, M. D., 2013, One Hundred Years of Isotope Geochronology, and Counting: Elements 9, 15–17 (2013).
  76. Schmitz, M. D. and Kuiper, K. F. High-Precision Geochronology: Elements 9, 25–30 (2013).
  77. Sousa, J., Kohn, M. J., Schmitz, M. D., Northrup, C. J., Spear, F. S., 2013, Strontium isotope zoning in garnet: implications for metamorphic matrix equilibration, geochronology and phase equilibrium modelling. J Metamorph Geol 31, 437–452.
  78. Jirásek, J., Hýlová, L, Sivek, M., Jureczka, J., Martínek, K., Sýkorová, I., and Schmitz, M., 2013, The Main Ostrava Whetstone: composition, sedimentary processes, palaeogeography and geochronology of a major Mississippian volcaniclastic unit of the Upper Silesian Basin (Poland and Czech Republic). International Journal of Earth Sciences, doi:10.1007/s00531-012-0853-5.
  79. Furlanetto, Francesca; Thorkelson, Derek J.; Gibson, H. Daniel; Marshall, Daniel D.; Rainbird, Robert H.; Davis, William J.; Crowley, James L.; and Vervoort, Jeffrey D.. (2013). “Late Paleoproterozoic Terrane Accretion in Northwestern Canada and the Case for Circum-Columbian Orogenesis”. Precambrian Research, 224512-528.
  80. Keeley, J.A., Link, P.K., Fanning, C.M., Schmitz, M.D., 2012, Pre-to synglacial rift-related volcanism in the Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian) Pocatello Formation, SE Idaho: New SHRIMP and CA-ID-TIMS constraints. Lithosphere, doi:10.1130/L226.1.
  81. Pavanetto, P., Funedda, A., Northrup, C. J., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J., Loi, A., 2012, Structure and U-Pb zircon geochronology in the Variscan foreland of SW Sardinia, Italy: Geological Journal, 47:426-455.
  82. Pigage, L.C., Crowley, J.L., Pyle, L.J., Abbott, J.G., Roots, C.F., Schmitz, M.D., 2012, U-Pb zircon age of an Ordovician tuff in southeast Yukon: implications for the age of the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 49:732-741.
  83. Kurz, G.A., Schmitz, M.D., Northrup, C.J., Vallier, T.L., 2012, U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of basement rocks from the Cougar Creek Complex, Wallowa-Seven Devils arc terrane, Blue Mountains province, Oregon-Idaho: Geological Society of America Bulletin, 124:578-595.
  84. Schmitz, M.D. and Davydov, V.I., 2012, Quantitative radiometric and biostratigraphic calibration of the global Pennsylvanian – Early Permian time scale: Geological Society of America Bulletin, 124:549-577.
  85. Driese, S.A., Jirsa, M.A., Ren, M.H., Brantley, S.L., Sheldon, N.D., Parker, D., Schmitz, M.D., 2011, Neoarchean paleoweathering of tonalite and metabasalt: implications for reconstruction of 2.69 Ga early terrestrial ecosystems and paleoatomospheric chemistry: Precambrian Research, 189:1-17.
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  87. Fisher, C.M., McFarlane, C.R.M., Hanchar, J.M., Schmitz, M.D., Sylvester, P.J., Lam, R., Longerich, H.P., 2011, Sm-Nd isotope systematics by laser ablation-multicollector-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry: Methods and potential natural and synthetic reference materials: Chemical Geology, 284:1-20.
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  90. Jaramillo, C., Ochoa, D., Contreras, L., Pagani, M., Carvajal-Ortiz, H., Pratt, L.M., Krishnan, S., Cardona, A., Romero, M., Quiroz, L., Rodriguez, G., Rueda, M.J., de, l.P., Moron, S., Green, W., Bayona, G., Montes, C., Quintero, O., Ramirez, R., Mora, G., Schouten, S., Bermudez, H., Navarrete, R., Parra, F., Alvaran, M., Osorno, J., Crowley, J.L., Valencia, V. & Vervoort, J.D., 2010, Effects of rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary on neotropical vegetation: Science, vol. 330, no. 6006, pp. 957-961.
  91. Macdonald, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., Roots, C.F., Jones, D.S., Maloof, A.C., Strauss, J.V., Cohen, P.A., Johnston, D.T., Schrag, D.P., 2010, Calibrating the Cryogenian: Science, 327:1241-1243, 10.1126/science.1183325.
  92. Davydov, V.I., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., Poletaev, V.I., 2010, High-precision U-Pb zircon age calibration of the global Carboniferous time scale and Milankovitch-band cyclicity in the Donets Basin, eastern Ukraine: Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems, 10.1029/2009GC002736.
  93. Benford, B., Crowley, J., Schmitz, M.D., Northrup, C.J., Tikoff, B., 2010, Mesozoic magmatism and deformation in the northern Owyhee Mountains, Idaho: implications for along-zone variations in the western Idaho shear zone: Lithosphere 2:93-118.
  94. Gulbranson, E.L., Montanez, I.P., Schmitz, M.D., Limarino, C.O., Isbell, J.L., Marenssi, S.A., Crowley, J.L., 2010, High-precision U-Pb calibration of Carboniferous glacigenic deposits, Rio Blanco and Paganzo basins, northwest Argentina: Geological Society of America Bulletin, 10.1130/B30025.1.
  95. Gastaldo, R.A., Perkynova, E., Simunek, Z., and Schmitz, M.D., 2009, Ecological persistence in the Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian-Namurian A) megafloral record of the Upper Silesian Basin, Czech Republic:Palaois 24:336-350.
  96. Schmitz, M.D. and Schoene, B., 2007, Derivation of Isotope Ratios, Errors and Error Correlations for U-Pb Geochronology Using 205Pb-235U-(233U)-Spiked Isotope Dilution Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometric Data:Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems 8, Q08006, doi:10.1029/2006GC001492.