Publications
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Condon, D. J. and Schmitz, M. D., 2013, One Hundred Years of Isotope Geochronology, and Counting: Elements 9, 15–17 (2013).
- Schmitz, M. D. and Kuiper, K. F. High-Precision Geochronology: Elements 9, 25–30 (2013).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Northrup, C. J., Schmitz, M.D., Kurz, G. & Tumpane, K., 2011, Tectonomagmatic evolution of distinct arc terranes in the Blue Mountains Province, Oregon and Idaho. Geological Society of America Field Guide 21:67–88.
- 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.
- Gervais, F., Brown, R.L. & Crowley, J.L. 2010, Tectonic implications for a Cordilleran orogenic base in the Frenchman Cap Dome, southeastern Canadian Cordillera, Journal of Structural Geology, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 941-959.
- Yang, Wan; Feng, Qiao; Liu, Yiqun; Tabor, Neil; Miggins, Dan; Crowley, James L.; Lin, Jinyan; and Thomas, Stephanie, 2010, Depositional Environments and Cyclo- and Chronostratigraphy of Uppermost Carboniferous–Lower Triassic Fluvial–Lacustrine Deposits, Southern Bogda Mountains, NW China — A Terrestrial Paleoclimatic Record of Mid-Latitude NE Pangea. Global and Planetary Change, 73(1-2), 15-113.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.