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Mark Schmitz Publications

Books and Book Chapters

  1. Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., Schmitz, M.D., and Ogg, G.M., 2020, The Geologic Time Scale 2020. Elsevier: Amsterdam, 1357 pp.
  2. Schmitz, M.D., Singer, B.S., Rooney, A.D., 2020, Radioisotope Geochronology: in Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., Schmitz, M.D., and Ogg, G.M., 2020, The Geologic Time Scale 2020. Elsevier: Amsterdam, p. 193-209, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-824360-2.00006-1.
  3. Schmitz, M.D., 2016, Geologic Time Scale: in White, W.M., The Encyclopedia of Geochemistry (Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series). Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, p. 1-4, doi. 10.1007/978-3-319-39193-9_283-1.
  4. Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., Schmitz, M.D., and Ogg, G.M., 2012, The Geologic Time Scale 2012. Elsevier: Boston, 1176 pp.
  5. Schmitz, M.D., 2012, Radiogenic Isotope Geochronology: in Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., Schmitz, M.D., and Ogg, G.M., The Geologic Time Scale 2012. Elsevier: Boston, p. 115-126, doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-59425-9.00006-8.
  6. Schmitz, M.D., 2012, Appendix 2 – Radiometric ages used in GTS2012: in Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., Schmitz, M.D., and Ogg, G.M., The Geologic Time Scale 2012. Elsevier: Boston, p. 1045-1082, doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-59425-9.15002-4.
  7. Davydov, V.I., Schmitz, M.D., Korn, D., 2012, The Carboniferous Period: in Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., Schmitz, M.D., and Ogg, G.M., The Geologic Time Scale 2012. Elsevier: Boston, p. 603-651, doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-59425-9.00023-8.
  8. Bickford, M.E., Wooden, J.L., Bauer, R.L., and Schmitz, M.D., 2007, Chapter 6.1 Paleoarchean Gneisses in the Minnesota River Valley and Northern Michigan, USA, in Van Kranendonk, M.J., Smithies, R.H., and Bennett, V.C. eds., Earth’s Oldest Rocks, Elsevier, Developments in Precambrian Geology, v. 15, p. 731–750.

Refereed Articles

  1. Budzyń, B., Sláma, J., Corfu, F., Crowley, J., Schmitz, M., Williams, M.L., Jercinovic, M.J., Kozub-Budzyń, G.A., Konečny, P., Rzepa, G., and Włodek, A., 2021, TS-Mnz – A new monazite age reference material for U-Th-Pb microanalysis: Chemical Geology, v. 572, p. 120195, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120195.
  2. Davydov, V.I., Karasev, E.V., Nurgalieva, N.G., Schmitz, M.D., Budnikov, I.V., Biakov, A.S., Kuzina, D.M., Silantiev, V.V., Urazaeva, M.N., Zharinova, V.V., Zorina, S.O., Gareev, B., and Vasilenko, D.V., 2021, Climate and biotic evolution during the Permian-Triassic transition in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, Kuznetsk Basin, Siberia, Russia: Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v. 573, p. 110432, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110432.
  3. Gibson, T.M., Faehnrich, K., Busch, J.F., McClelland, W.C., Schmitz, M.D., and Strauss, J.V., 2021, A detrital zircon test of large-scale terrane displacement along the Arctic margin of North America: Geology, v. 49, p. 545–550, doi: 10.1130/G48336.1.
  4. Viskupic, Karen, Egger, A.E., McFadden, R.R., and Schmitz, M.D., 2021, Comparing desired workforce skills and reported teaching practices to model students’ experiences in undergraduate geoscience programs: Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 69, no. 1, p. 27–42, doi: 10.1080/10899995.2020.1779568.
  5. Landing, E., Geyer, G., Schmitz, M.D., Wotte, T., and KOUCHINSKY, A., 2020, (Re)proposal of three Cambrian Subsystems and their Geochronology: Episodes, p. 1–11, doi: 10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020088.
  6. Rivera, T.A., White, C.M., Schmitz, M.D., and Jicha, B.R., 2021, Petrogenesis of Pleistocene basalts from the Western Snake River Plain, Idaho: Journal of Petrology,, doi: 10.1093/petrology/egaa108.
  7. Schwartz, D.M., Wanless, V.D., Soule, S.A., Schmitz, M.D., and Kurz, M.D., 2020, Monogenetic Near-Island Seamounts in the Galápagos Archipelago: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v. 21, no. 12, p. e2020GC008914, doi: 10.1029/2020GC008914.
  8. Hodgin, E.B., Nelson, L.L., Wall, C.J., Barrón-Díaz, A.J., Webb, L.C., Schmitz, M.D., Fike, D.A., Hagadorn, J.W. & Smith, E.F. 2021. A link between rift-related volcanism and end-Ediacaran extinction? Integrated chemostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and U-Pb geochronology from Sonora, Mexico. Geology, v. 49, p. 115–119, doi:http://dx.doi.org.libproxy.boisestate.edu/10.1130/G47972.1
  9. Swanson-Hysell, N., Hoaglund, S. A., Crowley, J. L., Schmitz, M. D., Zhang, Y., & Miller, J.D., Jr. 2021, Rapid emplacement of massive Duluth complex intrusions within the North American Midcontinent Rift. Geology, v. 49, p. 185–189, doi:http://dx.doi.org.libproxy.boisestate.edu/10.1130/G47873.1
  10. Wall, C.J., Hanson, R.E., Schmitz, M., Price, J.D., Donovan, R.N., Boro, J.R., Eschberger, A.M. & Toews, C.E. 2021. Integrating zircon trace-element geochemistry and high-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology to resolve the timing and petrogenesis of the late Ediacaran–Cambrian Wichita igneous province, Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, USA. Geology, v. 49, p. 268–272, doi:http://dx.doi.org.libproxy.boisestate.edu/10.1130/G48140.1
  11. Nelson, L.L., Smith, E.F., Hodgin, E.B., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., and Macdonald, F.A., 2021, Geochronological constraints on Neoproterozoic rifting and onset of the Marinoan glaciation from the Kingston Peak Formation in Death Valley, California (USA): Geology, v. 48, p. 1083–1087, doi: 10.1130/G47668.1.
  12. Landing, E., Schmitz, M.D., Geyer, G., Trayler, R.B. & Bowring, S.A. 2020. Precise early Cambrian U–Pb zircon dates bracket the oldest trilobites and archaeocyaths in Moroccan West Gondwana. Geological Magazine 29, 1–20.
  13. Davydov, V.I., Arefiev, M.P., Golubev, V.K., Karasev, E.V., Naumcheva, M.A., Schmitz, M.D., Silantiev, V.V. & Zharinova, V.V. 2020. Radioisotopic and biostratigraphic constraints on the classical Middle–Upper Permian succession and tetrapod fauna of the Moscow syneclise, Russia. Geology 48, 742–747.
  14. Karlstrom, K.E., Mohr, M.T., Schmitz, M.D., Sundberg, F.A., Rowland, S.M., Blakey, R., Foster, J.R., Crossey, L.J., Dehler, C.M. & Hagadorn, J.W. 2020. Redefining the Tonto Group of Grand Canyon and recalibrating the Cambrian time scale. Geology 48, 425–430. doi:10.1130/G46755.1.
  15. Sundberg, F.A., Karlstrom, K.E., Geyer, G., Foster, J.R., Hagadorn, J.W., Mohr, M.T., Schmitz, M.D., Dehler, C.M. & Crossey, L.J. 2020. Asynchronous trilobite extinctions at the early to middle Cambrian transition. Geology 48, 441–445.
  16. Trayler, R.B., Schmitz, M.D., Cuitiño, J.I., Kohn, M.J., Bargo, M.S., Kay, R.F., Strömberg, C.A.E., Vizcaíno, S.F., 2020. An improved approach to age-modeling in deep time: Implications for the Santa Cruz Formation, Argentina. GSA Bulletin 132, 233–244. doi:10.1130/B35203.1
  17. Ellis, B.S., Schmitz, M.D., Hill, M., 2019. Reconstructing a Snake River Plain “super-eruption” via compositional fingerprinting and high-precision U/Pb zircon geochronology. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 174, 1837–17. doi:10.1007/s00410-019-1641-z
  18. Hayman, N.W., Rioux, M., Anma, R., Tani, K., Dunkley, D.J., Crowley, J., Schmitz, M., 2019. Accretion and oxidation of a superfast-spread axial melt lens: TIMS and SIMS zircon analyses of the IODP Hole 1256D gabbros. Lithos 348-349, 105184. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105184
  19. Herriott, T.M., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., Wartes, M.A., Gillis, R.J., 2019. Exploring the law of detrital zircon: LA-ICP-MS and CA-TIMS geochronology of Jurassic forearc strata, Cook Inlet, Alaska, USA. Geology 47, 1044–1048. doi:10.1130/G46312.1
  20. Aguirre-Urreta, B., Martinez, M., Schmitz, M., Lescano, M., Omarini, J., Tunik, M., Kuhnert, H., Concheyro, A., Rawson, P.F., Ramos, V.A., Reboulet, S.P., Noclin, N., Frederichs, T., Nickl, A.-L., Pälike, H.P., 2019. Interhemispheric radio-astrochronological calibration of the time scales from the Andean and the Tethyan areas in the Valanginian-Hauterivian (Early Cretaceous). Gondwana Research 70, 104–132. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2019.01.006
  21. D’Emic, M.D., Foreman, B.Z., Jud, N.A., Britt, B.B., Schmitz, M., Crowley, J.L., 2019, Chronostratigraphic Revision of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Western Interior, USA). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History v. 60, p. 3–39. doi:10.3374/014.060.0101.
  22. Davydov, V.I., Schmitz, M.D., 2019, High-precision radioisotopic ages for the lower Midian (upper Wordian) Stage of the Tethyan time scale, Shigeyasu Quarry, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Palaeogeogr Palaeocl v. 527, p. 133–145. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.04.008.
  23. Hodgskiss, M.S.W., Dagnaud, O.M.J., Frost, J.L., Halverson, G.P., Schmitz, M.D., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Sperling, E.A., 2019, New insights on the Orosirian carbon cycle, early Cyanobacteria, and the assembly of Laurentia from the Paleoproterozoic Belcher Group. Earth and Planetary Science Letters v. 520, p. 141–152. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.023.
  24. Laurin, J., Barclay, R.S., Sageman, B.B., Dawson, R.R., Pagani, M., Schmitz, M., Eaton, J., McInerney, F.A., McElwain, J.C., 2019, Terrestrial and marginal-marine record of the mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE 2)_ High-resolution framework, carbon isotopes, CO2 and sea-level change. Palaeogeogr Palaeocl v. 524, p. 118–136. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.03.019.
  25. Reagan, M.K., Heaton, D.E., Schmitz, M.D., Pearce, J.A., Shervais, J.W., Koppers, A.A.P., 2019. Forearc ages reveal extensive short-lived and rapid seafloor spreading following subduction initiation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters v. 506, p. 520–529. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.11.020
  26. Cox, G.M., Isakson, V., Hoffman, P.F., Gernon, T.M., Schmitz, M.D., Shahin, S., Collins, A.S., Preiss, W., Blades, M.L., Mitchell, R.N., and Nordsvan, A., 2018, South Australian U-Pb zircon (CA-ID-TIMS) age supports globally synchronous Sturtian deglaciation: Precambrian Research, v. 315, p. 257–263, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.07.007.
  27. Nasdala, L., Corfu, F., Schoene, B., Tapster, S.R., Wall, C.J., Schmitz, M.D., Ovtcharova, M., Schaltegger, U., Kennedy, A.K., Kronz, A., Reiners, P.W., Yang, Y.-H., Wu, F.-Y., Gain, S.E.M., et al., 2018, GZ7 and GZ8 – Two Zircon Reference Materials for SIMS U-Pb Geochronology: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, v. 42, p. 431–457, doi: 10.1111/ggr.12239.
  28. Van Waveren, I.M., Booi, M., Crow, M.J., Hasibuan, F., Van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert, J.H.A., Perdono, A.P., Schmitz, M.D., and Donovan, S.K., 2018, Depositional settings and changing composition of the Jambi palaeoflora within the Permian Mengkarang Formation (Sumatra, Indonesia): Geological Journal v. 53, p. 2969–2990, doi: 10.1002/gj.3136.
  29. Craddock, J.P., Malone, D.H., Schmitz, M.D., and Gifford, J.N., 2018, Strain variations across the Proterozoic Penokean Orogen, USA and Canada: Precambrian Research, v. 318, p. 25–69, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.09.004.
  30. Eyster, A., Ferri, F., Schmitz, M.D., and Macdonald, F.A., 2018, One diamictite and two rifts: Stratigraphy and geochronology of the Gataga Mountain of northern British Columbia: American Journal of Science, v. 318, p. 167–207, doi: 10.2475/02.2018.1.
  31. Jirásek, J., Opluštil, S., Sivek, M., Schmitz, M.D., and Abels, H.A., 2018, Astronomical forcing of Carboniferous paralic sedimentary cycles in the Upper Silesian Basin, Czech Republic (Serpukhovian, latest Mississippian)_ New radiometric ages afford an astronomical age model for European biozonations and substages: Earth Science Reviews, v. 177, p. 715–741, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.12.005.
  32. Macdonald, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Strauss, J.V., Halverson, G.P., Gibson, T.M., Eyster, A., Cox, G., Mamrol, P., and Crowley, J.L., 2018, Cryogenian of Yukon: Precambrian Research, v. 319, p. 114-143, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2017.08.015.
  33. McAdams, N.E.B., Schmitz, M.D., Kleffner, M.A., Verniers, J., Vandenbroucke, T.R.A., Ebert, J.R., and Cramer, B.D., 2018, A new, high-precision CA-ID-TIMS date for the “Kalkberg” K-bentonite (Judds Falls Bentonite): Lethaia, v. 51, 344-356, doi: 10.1111/let.12241.
  34. Maguire, K.C., Samuels, J.X., and Schmitz, M.D., 2018, The fauna and chronostratigraphy of the middle Miocene Mascall type area, John Day Basin, Oregon, USA: Paleobios, v. 35, p. 1–51.
  35. Rivera, T.A., Furlong, R., Vincent, J., Gardiner, S., Jicha, B.R., Schmitz, M.D., and Lippert, P.C., 2018, Volcanism at 1.45 Ma within the Yellowstone Volcanic Field, United States: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 357, p. 224–238, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2018.04.030.
  36. Rooney, A.D., Austermann, J., Smith, E.F., Li, Y., Selby, D., Dehler, C.M., Schmitz, M.D., Karlstrom, K.E., and Macdonald, F.A., 2018, Coupled Re-Os and U-Pb geochronology of the Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 130, p. 1085-1098, doi: 10.1130/B31768.1.
  37. Schmitz, M.D., Southwick, D.L., Bickford, M.E., Mueller, P.A., and Samson, S.D., 2018, Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic events in the Minnesota River Valley subprovince, with implications for southern Superior craton evolution and correlation: Precambrian Research, v. 316, p. 206–226, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.08.010.
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. Jirásek, J., Otava, J., Matýsek, D., Sivek, M., and Schmitz, M.D., 2017, The radioisotopically constrained Viséan onset of turbidites in the Moravian‐Silesian part of the Rhenohercynian foreland basin (Central European Variscides): International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 107, p. 711–727, doi: 10.1007/s00531-017-1524-3.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. 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.
  53. 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.
  54. 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.
  55. 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, v. 57, p. 1677-1704.
  56. 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.
  57. 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, v. 128, p. 1813-1821.
  58. 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, v. 154, p. 301-335.
  59. 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, v. 425, p. 110-126.
  60. 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, v. 441, p. 1000–1004.
  61. Davydov, V.I., Biakov, A.S., Isbell, J.L., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., Vedernikov, I.L., 2016, 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, v. 38, p. 74-85, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2015.10.014.
  62. 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, v. 417, p. 322-340.
  63. 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, v. 63, p. 310-322.
  64. 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.
  65. 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.
  66. Aguirre-Urreta, B., Lescano, M., Schmitz, M.D., Tunik, M., Concheyro, A., Rawson, P.F., Ramos, V.A., 2015. Filling the gap: new precise Early Cretaceous radioisotopic ages from the Andes. Geological Magazine 1–8. doi:10.1017/S001675681400082X.
  67. Cramer, B.D., Schmitz, M.D., Huff, W.D., Bergstrom, S.M., 2015. High-precision U-Pb zircon age constraints on the duration of rapid biogeochemical events during the Ludlow Epoch (Silurian Period). J Geol Soc London. doi:10.1144/jgs2014-094.
  68. 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.
  69. 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.
  70. 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, v. 52, no. 3, p. 409–421, doi: 10.3749/canmin.52.3.409.
  71. 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.
  72. 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, v. 15, no. 2, p. 492–498, doi: 10.1002/2013GC005125.
  73. 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, v. 42, no. 8, p. 643–646, doi: 10.1130/G35808.1.
  74. 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, no. C, p. 41–61, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.12.038.
  75. Forasiepi, A.M., Cerdeño, E., Bond, M., Schmidt, G.I., Naipauer, M., Straehl, F.R., Martinelli, A.G., Garrido, A.C., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., 2014. New toxodontid (Notoungulata) from the Early Miocene of Mendoza, Argentina. Paläontol Z. doi:10.1007/s12542-014-0233-5.
  76. 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.
  77. 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, v. 126, no. 3-4, p. 289–306, doi: 10.1130/B30915.1.
  78. 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, doi: 10.1130/G34568.1.
  79. 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.
  80. Rivera, T.A., Storey, M., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., 2013, Age intercalibration of 40Ar/39Ar sanidine and chemically distinct U/Pb zircon populations from the Alder Creek Rhyolite Quaternary geochronology standard: Chemical Geology 345:87-98.
  81. Condon, D. J. and Schmitz, M. D., 2013, One Hundred Years of Isotope Geochronology, and Counting: Elements 9, 15–17 (2013).
  82. Schmitz, M. D. and Kuiper, K. F. High-Precision Geochronology: Elements 9, 25–30 (2013).
  83. 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.
  84. 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 102, 989-1006, doi:10.1007/s00531-012-0853-5.
  85. 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., 2012, A New Chronology for Middle Eocene-Early Miocene South American Land Mammal Ages, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B30660.1.
  86. 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.
  87. 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.
  88. 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.
  89. 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.
  90. 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.
  91. 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.
  92. 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.
  93. 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.
  94. 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.
  95. 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.
  96. Gulbranson, E.L., Montanez, I.P., Schmitz, M.D., Limarino, C.O., Isbell, J.L., Marenssi, S.A., Crowley, J.L., 2010, High-resolution U-Pb calibration of Carboniferous glacigenic deposits, Rio Blanco and Paganzo basins, northwest Argentina: Geological Society of America Bulletin, 122:1480-1498, 10.1130/B30025.1.
  97. 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.
  98. 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 (G3) 8, Q08006, doi:10.1029/2006GC001492.
  99. Baldwin, J.A., Brown, M., Schmitz, M.D., 2007, First application of titanium-in-zircon thermometry to ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism: Geology 35:295-298; doi: 10.1130/G23285A.1.
  100. Ramezani, J. Davydov, V.I., Schmitz, M.D., Bowring, S.A., Snyder, W.S., Northrup, C.J., 2007, High-precision U-Pb zircon age constraints on the Carboniferous-Permian boundary in the southern Urals stratotype: Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters 256:244-257.
  101. Aleinikoff, J.N., Wintsch, R.P., Tollo, R.P., Unruh, D.M., Fanning, C.M., Schmitz, M.D., 2007, Ages and origins of rocks of the Killingworth Dome, south-central Connecticut: implications for the tectonic evolution of southern New England: American Journal of Science 307:63-118.
  102. Ashwal, L.D., Armstrong, R.A., Roberts, R.J., Schmitz, M.D., Corfu, F., Hetherington, C.J., Burke, K., Gerber, M., 2007, Geochronology of zircon megacrysts from nepheline-bearing gneisses as constraints on tectonic setting: implications for the resetting of the U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic systems: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 153:389-403.
  103. Chernykh, V.V., Chuvashov, B.I., Davydov, V.I., Schmitz, M.D., Snyder, W.S., 2006, Usolka section (southern Urals, Russia): a potential candidate for GSSP to define the base of the Gzhelian Stage in the global chronostratigraphic scale. Geologija (Ljubljana) 49/2:205-217.
  104. Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., Bowring, S.A., Williams, M.L., Karlstrom, K.E., 2006, U-Pb and Hf isotopic analysis of zircon in lower crustal xenoliths from the Navajo volcanic field: 1.4 Ga mafic magmatism and metamorphism beneath the Colorado Plateau: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 151:313-330.
  105. Schmitz, M.D., Bowring, S.A., Southwick, D.L., Boerboom, T.J., Wirth, K.R., 2006, High-precision U-Pb geochronology in the Minnesota River Valley subprovince and its bearing on the Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic evolution of the southern Superior Province: Geological Society of America Bulletin 118:82-93.
  106. Schoene, B., Crowley, J.C., Condon, D.J., Schmitz, M.D., Bowring, S.A., 2006, Reassessing the uranium decay constants for geochronology using ID-TIMS U–Pb data: Geochemical et Cosmochimica Acta, 70:426-445.
  107. Silver, P.G., Behn, M.D., Kelley, K., Schmitz, M.D., Savage, B., 2006, Understanding cratonic flood basalts: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 245:190-201.
  108. Schmitz, M.D. and Smith, I.E.M., 2004, The petrology of the Rotoiti eruption sequence, Taupo Volcanic Zone: an example of fractionation and mixing in a rhyolitic system: Journal of Petrology 45:2045-2066.
  109. Schmitz, M.D., Bowring S.A., de Wit, M.J. and Gartz, V., 2004, Subduction and terrane collision stabilized the western Kaapvaal craton tectosphere 2.9 billion years ago: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 222:363-376.
  110. Schmitz M.D., Vervoort J.D., Bowring S.A. and Patchett P.J., 2004, Decoupling of the Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd isotopic systems during the evolution of granulitic lower crust beneath southern Africa: Geology, 32:405-408.
  111. Schmitz, M.D. and Bowring, S.A., 2004, Lower crustal granulite formation during Mesoproterozoic Namaqua-Natal collisional orogenesis, southern Africa: South African Journal of Geology 107:175-190.
  112. Silver, P.G., Fouch, M.J., Gao, S.S., Schmitz, M.D., Kaapvaal Seismic Group, 2004, Seismic anisotropy, mantle fabric, and the magmatic evolution of Precambrian southern Africa: South African Journal of Geology 107:104-119.
  113. Bell, D.R., Schmitz, M.D. and Janney, P.E., 2003, Mesozoic thermal evolution of the southern African mantle lithosphere: Lithos 71, 273-287.
  114. Bowring, S.A., Schmitz, M.D., 2003, High precision zircon geochronology and the stratigraphic record: in Hanchar, J.M., Hoskins, P.W.O. Zircon: Experiments, Isotopes, and Trace Element Investigations Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 53, 305-326.
  115. Schmitz, M.D., Bowring, S.A. and Ireland, T.E., 2003, Evaluation of the Duluth Complex Anorthositic Series (AS3) zircons as a geochronological standard: new high-precision IDTIMS analyses: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67:3665-3672.
  116. Schmitz, M.D., Bowring, S.A., Ludwig, K.R. and Renne, P.R., 2003, Comment on “Precise K-Ar, 40Ar-39Ar, Rb-Sr and U-Pb mineral ages from the 27.5 Ma Fish Canyon Tuff reference standard: by M.A. Lanphere and H. Baadsgaard”: Chemical Geology 199:277-280.
  117. Schmitz, M.D. and Bowring, S.A., 2003, Constraints on the thermal evolution of continental lithosphere from U-Pb accessory mineral thermochronology of lower crustal xenoliths, southern Africa: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 144:592-618.
  118. Schmitz, M.D. and Bowring, S.A., 2003, Ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in the lower crust during Neoarchean Ventersdorp rifting and magmatism, Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa: Geological Society of America Bulletin 115:533-548.
  119. Schmitz, M.D. and Bowring, S.A., 2001, U-Pb zircon and titanite systematics of the Fish Canyon Tuff: an assessment of high-precision U-Pb geochronology and its application to young volcanic rocks: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 65:2571-2587.
  120. Schmitz, M.D. and Bowring, S.A., 2001, The significance of U-Pb zircon dates in lower crustal xenoliths from the southwestern margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa: Chemical Geology 172:59-76.
  121. Carlson, R.W., Boyd, F.R., Shirey, S.B, Janney, P.E., Grove, T.L., Bowring, S.A., Schmitz, M.D., Dann, J.C., Bell, D.R., Gurney, J.J., Richardson, S.H., Tredoux, M., Menzies, A.H., Pearson, D.G., Hart, R.J., Wilson, A.H. and Moser, D., 2000, Continental growth, preservation and modification in southern Africa: GSA Today 10 (2).
  122. Holzheid, A, Schmitz, M.D. and Grove, T.L., 2000, Textural equilibria of iron sulfide liquids in partly molten silicate aggregates and their relevance to core formation scenarios: Journal of Geophysical Research 105:13555-13567.
  123. Schmitz M.D., Wirth K.R. and Craddock J.P., 1995, Major and trace element geochemistry of Early Proterozoic mafic dikes of northern Minnesota and southern Ontario: in, Baer, G., and Heiman, A., eds., Physics and Chemistry of Dykes, Proceedings of the Third Mafic Dyke Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, A.A. Balkema: Rotterdam, p. 219-233.

Abstracts (last ten years)

  1. Ostwald, C., Kahn, M., Schmitz, M.D., Tikoff, B., 2017, Finding strain localization and dating the onset of deformation in the Western Idaho Shear Zone using titanite U-Pb geochronology and crystallographic vorticity axis analysis. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 49(6), Abstract no. 386-4.
  2. Trayler, R.B., Schmitz, M.D., Bargo, S., Cuitino, J.I., Kay, R.F., Kohn, M.J., 2017, A new approach for developing continuous age-depth models from dispersed chronologic data: applications to the Miocene Santa Cruz Formation, Argentina. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 49(6), Abstract no. 88-12.
  3. Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., Myers, J.S., Walters, J.B., 2017, CA-TIMS U-Pb dates from Hadean zircon from the Jack Hills, Australia: improving the accuracy of ages of metamorphosed detrital zircon. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 49(6), Abstract no. 139-13.
  4. Wintzer, N.E., Gillerman, V.S., Schmitz, M.D., 2017, U-Pb scheelite LA-ICP-MS dates from the historic Yellow Pine pit, Yellow Pine Au-Sb-W mining area, central Idaho, USA. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 49(6), Abstract no. 2-7.
  5. Hodgskiss, M.S.W., Frost, J.L., Dagnaud, O., Halverson, G.P., Schmitz, M.D., Sperling, E.A., 2017, Revisiting the ~2.0 Ga Belcher Group with high-resolution carbon isotope chemostratigraphy and zircon geochronology. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 49(6), Abstract no. 279-2.
  6. D’Emic, M.D., Foreman, B.Z., Jud, N.A., Britt, B.B., Crowley, J.L, Schmitz, M.D., 2017, Revised age of the Cloverly Formation (Cretaceous, Western Interior, USA). Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 49(6), Abstract no. 303-11.
  7. Reinhardt, L., von Gosen, W., Piepjohn, K., Luckge, A., Schmitz, M.D., 2017, Identification of the Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 (ETM-2) in a terrestrial section of the High Arctic based on new U-Pb zircon ages and carbon isotope records (Stenkul Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Canada). Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 49(6), Abstract no. 28-5.
  8. Rooney, A.D., Strauss, J.V., Cohen, P., Condon, D., Schmitz, M.D., 2017, New Re-Os and U-Pb age constraints for the biological innovations and geochemical and climatic perturbations of the Neoproterozoic. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 49(6), Abstract no. 346-1.
  9. Pu, J.P., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., Macdonald, F.A., 2017, Geochronological constraints on the emplacement of the Franklin LIP: testing hypotheses for the onset of the Sturtian Snowball Earth. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 49(6), Abstract no. 352-1.
  10. Condon, D., Kuiper, K., Morgan, L.E., Renne, P.R., Schmitz, M.D., Schoene, B., Singer, B.S., 2017, EARTHTIME 2.0, accelerating the development and application of integrated methodologies for the quantification of geological time. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 49(6), Abstract no. 346-1.
  11. Gardiner, S., Rivera, T.A., Jicha, B.R., Schmitz, M.D., 2017, Moving legacy data forward: harmonizing 40Ar/39Ar eruption ages for the three Yellowstone super-eruptions. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 49(6), Abstract no. 352-3.
  12. Ostwald, C. & Schmitz, M.D., 2016, Zircon and titanite U-Pb geochronology reveal migrating magmatism and deformation in the Western Idaho Shear Zone: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract T53D-05.
  13. Schmitz, M.D., 2016, The high-resolution Pennsylvanian-Permian time scale as a tool for integrated Earth systems studies. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(7), Abstract no. 114-1.
  14. Bullard, A. R., Dehler, C. M., & Schmitz, M. D., 2016, Getting younger with age: new ID-TIMS U-Pb detrital zircon age constraints on Neoproterozoic sedimentary successions, southwestern U.S. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(7), Abstract no. 169-4.
  15. Rivera, T.A., Schmitz, M.D. & Jicha, B.R., 2016, Tracking magma evolution within the Yellowstone Volcanic Field using integrated 40Ar/39Ar dating and zircon geochemistry. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(7), Abstract no. 238-1.
  16. Gardiner, S., Rivera, T.A., Jicha, B.R. & Schmitz, M.D., 2016, New 40Ar/39Ar sanidine dates and zircon imaging for the Green Canyon flow, Yellowstone Volcanic Field. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(7), Abstract no. 256-36.
  17. Vincent, J.S., Rivera, T.A., Jicha, B.R., Lippert, P.C. & Schmitz, M.D., 2016, Lithology of the Tuff of Lyle Spring, Yellowstone Volcanic Field. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(7), Abstract no. 175-23.
  18. Furlong, R.V., Rivera, T.A., Lippert, P.C., Jicha, B.R. & Schmitz, M.D., 2016, New 40Ar/39Ar and paleomagnetic data from the Bishop Mountain flow, Yellowstone Volcanic Field. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(7), Abstract no. 175-14.
  19. Darata, R.C., Rivera, T.A., Lippert, P.C., Jicha, B.R.& Schmitz, M.D., 2016, 40Ar/39Ar sanidine dating and paleomagnetic analysis of the Blue Creek flow (Yellowstone Volcanic Field). Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(7), Abstract no. 198-13.
  20. Wintzer, N.E., Gillerman, V.S. & Schmitz, M.D., 2016, Eocene U-Pb scheelite LA-ICP-MS dates of stibnite-scheelite mineralization in the Yellow Pine Au-Sb-W mining area, central Idaho, USA. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(7), Abstract no. 318-8.
  21. Polon, C.K., Pluhar, C.J., Gledhill, T.A., Trayler, R., Crowley, J., Ward, P., Schmitz, M.D., Ngo, M.M., Carlson, C.W. & Larsen, M.T., 2016, 65 kim of dextral slip across Owens Valley, CA since 83 Ma: possible but unnecessary. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(7), Abstract no. 347-32,
  22. Schmitz, M.D. & Crowley, J.L., 2016, Petrochronology of the Fish Canyon Tuff. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(7), Abstract no. 144-9.
  23. Condon, D., Bowring, J.F., Connelly, J.N., Erwin, D.H., He, H., Heizler, M.T., Hemming, S.R., Hodges, K.V., Horstwood, M., Johnson, K., Kuiper, K., Mark, D.F., McLean, N., Morgan, L.E., Parrish, R., Ramezani, J., Rasbury, T., Renne, P.R., Rooney, A.D., Sadler, P., Schaltegger, U., Schmitz, M.D., Schoene, B., Singer, B.S., Turrin, B., Von Quadt, A., Walker, J.D., Wang, C., Wu, H., & Wijbrans, J.R., 2016, The EARTHTIME Initiative: accelerating advances in geochronology since 2003. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(7), Abstract no. 144-4.
  24. Schmitz, M.D. & Viskupic, K., 2016, “ZirChron” Virtual Zircon Analysis App. Earth Educators Rendezvous 2016, Madison, WI, http://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2016/program/demos/tuesdayB/136758.html.
  25. Laib, A., Schmitz, M.D., 2016, Botryoidal zircon crystal aggregates from the Rattlesnake Tuff, Oregon. Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2016 (Yokohama, Japan), p. 1661.
  26. Brown, E. A., Streck, M. J., & Schmitz, M. D., 2016, Ages and petrogenesis of rhyolites at Tower Mountain caldera, eastern Oregon. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 28-2.
  27. Bullard, A. R., Dehler, C. M., & Schmitz, M. D., 2016, ID-TIMS U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology of Neoproterozoic sedimentary successions in the southwestern United States. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 24-5.
  28. Chase, A., & Schmitz, M. D., 2016, A new age constraint on Late Jurassic magmatism and sedimentation in the Coon Hollow Formation (Wallowa terrane). Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 28-4.
  29. Colby, T. A., Northrup, C. J., Snyder, W. S., & Schmitz, M. D., 2016, Triassic-Jurassic stratigraphic relations in the eastern Jackson Mountains, northwest Nevada; insights from new U-Pb zircon geochronology. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 6-3.
  30. Darata, R. C., Rivera, T. A., Schmitz, M. D., & Jicha, B. R., 2016, 40Ar/39Ar sanidine dating of the Blue Creek flow (Yellowstone volcanic field) and the potential recording of the Pre-Olduvai geomagnetic polarity excursion. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 10-1.
  31. Ekhoff, J., & Schmitz, M. D., 2016, Regional geochronology of dikes associated with the Idaho porphyry belt and Trans-Challis fault system. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 28-3.
  32. Feeney, D. M., Lewis, R. S., Isakson, V. H., Schmitz, M. D., & Mertzman, S. A., 2016, Refined stratigraphy of the Weiser embayment, west-central Idaho. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 10-13.
  33. Furlong, R. V., Rivera, T. A., Schmitz, M. D., & Jicha, B. R., 2016, New 40Ar/39Ar ages of the Bishop Mountain flow from the Yellowstone volcanic field. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 10-2.
  34. Gillerman, V. S., Brackebusch, F. W., & Schmitz, M. D., 2016, Lead isotope data for the Murray Au-Ag subdistrict of the Coeur d’Alene Pb-Zn-Ag mining district, with comparison to the Stibnite mining district and Lemhi Pass region, Idaho. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 9-6.
  35. Hendrix, M. S., Winston, D., Crowley, J. L., & Schmitz, M. D., 2016, Detrital zircon results from Proterozoic and Paleozoic rocks of western Montana and implications for geologic evolution of the western North American margin. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 4-8.
  36. Isakson, V. H., Schmitz, M. D., Dehler, C. M., Macdonald, F. A., & Yonkee, A., 2016, Revised age constraints for Cryogenian glacial deposits in the Pocatello Formation, southeastern Idaho. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 28-5.
  37. Laib, A., & Schmitz, M. D., 2016, Mixing and hybridization of melts and cumulates in the Rattlesnake Tuff magma system revealed by glass chemistry and zircon textures. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 3-8.
  38. Lewis, R. S., Isakson, V. H., Stewart, D. E., Schmitz, M. D., & Schwartz, D., 2016, Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic strata in the stibnite-edwardsburg area, central idaho. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 18-2.
  39. Ostwald, C., & Schmitz, M. D., 2016, Zircon and titanite petrochronology of deformed and non-deformed Payette River tonalite north of McCall, ID; implications for the timing of high temperature deformation in the western idaho shear zone. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 34-3.
  40. Vincent, J., Rivera, T. A., Schmitz, M. D., & Jicha, B. R., 2016, 40Ar/39Ar age and petrography of the Tuff of Lyle Spring, Yellowstone volcanic field, Idaho. Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 48(6), Abstract no. 10-3.
  41. Gardiner, S., Rivera, T.A., Schmitz, M.D., Jicha, B.R., 2016, New 40Ar/39Ar sanidine dates for the Green Canyon flow, Yellowstone volcanic field, and implications for a revised volcanic stratigraphy. 2016 Multi-Society Undergraduate Virtual Poster Showcase – May 2016.
  42. Eyster, A.E., Macdonald, F.A., Ferri, F., Schmitz, M.D., 2015, One Neoproterozoic glaciation, two episodes of extension, and one rift recorded at Gatago Mountain in northern British Columbia: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 47(7), p. 859.
  43. Over, D.J., Tuskes, K., Danielsen, E., Kohn, J., Leskovec, J. and Schmitz, M.D., 2015, Astrochronology and depositional rates in Upper Devonian sedimentary basins – tephras, cycles, magnetic susceptibility, and what undergraduate research can accomplish—an inspirational tribute to Robert K. Schwartz: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 47(7), p. 651.
  44. Rivera, T.A., Schmitz, M.D., 2015, Records of magmatic evolution of small and large volume rhyolites in the Yellowstone volcanic field: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 47(7), p. 279.
  45. Halverson, G.P., Schmitz, M.D., Cox, G.M., Johnson, P.R., Kunzmann, M., Maguire, T.J., Collins, A.S., 2015, New age constraints on middle Ediacaran chemostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and the East African Orogeny from the Arabian Shield: Joint Assembly (AGU-GAC-MAC-CGU), Montreal, p. 471.
  46. Hanchar, J.M., Aylward, W., Schmitz, M.D., Wirth, R., 2015, Recrystallization and new growth of radiation-damaged zircon: Joint Assembly (AGU-GAC-MAC-CGU), Montreal, p. 544.
  47. Schmitz, M.D., Isakson, V.H., Dehler, C.M., Yonkee, A., Macdonald, F.A., 2015, Epiclastic versus pyroclastic: revised age constraints on Cryogenian glacial deposits in the Pocatello Formation, Idaho, U.S.A.: Joint Assembly (AGU-GAC-MAC-CGU), Montreal, p. 467.
  48. Macdonald, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Condon, D., Zhu, M., Rooney, A., Brandon, A., 2014, Making up for lost time: stratigraphic and geochemical implications of a long-lived Sturtian glaciation: Eos Trans. AGU, 94(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP42B-06.
  49. Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., 2014, Titanite petrochronology in the Fish Canyon Tuff: Eos Trans. AGU, 94(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V34A-08.
  50. Macdonald, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Condon, D., Zhu, M., Rooney, A., Brandon, A., 2014, Making up for lost time: stratigraphic and geochemical implications of a long-lived Sturtian glaciation: Eos Trans. AGU, 94(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP42B-06.
  51. Schmitz, M.D., Viskupic, K., Kausler, S., 2014, “Zir-Chron”: an online app for exploring the science behind U-Pb zircon geochronology: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 46(6), p. 289.
  52. Rivera, T.A., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., Jicha, B.R., 2014, Longevity of the Mesa Falls Tuff magma system constrained by zircon petrochronology and sanidine 40Ar/39Ar dates: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 46(6), p. 826.
  53. Macdonald, F.A., Condon, D., Schmitz, M.D., 2014, The nature and duration of the Sturtian glacial epoch: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 46(6), p. 400.
  54. Davydov, V.I., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., 2014, Permian-Triassic transition exists in the Phosphoria Basin, eastern Idaho: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 46(6), p. 418.
  55. Gillerman, V.S., Isakson, V.H., Schmitz, M.D., Benowitz, J., Layer, P.W., 2014, Geochronology of intrusive rocks and hydrothermal alteration at the structurally controlled Stibnite Au-Sb-W deposit, Idaho: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 46(6), p. 165.
  56. McAdams, N.E.B., Schmitz, M.D., Kleffner, M.A., Ebert, J.R., Cramer, B.D., 2014, Recalibrating the Silurian-Devonian boundary: a new high-precision CA-ID-TIMS date for the ‘Kalkberg’ K-bentonite: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 46(6), p. 438.
  57. Tuskes, K., Over, D.J., Hartvigsen, G., Schmitz, M.D., Davydov, V.I., 2014, Orbital cyclostratigraphy within the Late Devonian Kellwasser crisis indicated by magnetic susceptibility in western New York State – preliminary results: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 46(6), p. 774.
  58. Over, D.J., Lanik, A., Schmitz, M.D., Kirchgasser, W.T., 2014, Frasnian conodonts from the Cashaqua and Rhinstreet Shales of western New York, equivalent stratea in the Dowelltown Member of the Chattanooga Shale in Tennessee, and biostratigraphic control in lreation to new U/Pb dates of the Belpre Tephra Suite, Appalachian Basin, Upper Devonian (Middle Frasnian), eastern North America: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 46(6), p. 820.
  59. Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., 2014, Titanite petrochronology in the Fish Canyon Tuff: 2014 Goldschmidt Conference, Sacramento, CA, June 8-13.
  60. Isakson, V.H., Schmitz, M.D., Macdonald, F.A., Dehler, C., Yonkee, A., 2014, New CA-ID-TIMS maximum age for the ‘Sturtian’ glaciogenic Pocatello Formation, southeastern Idaho: Cordilleran Tectonics Workshop, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, February 21-22.
  61. Ekhoff, J., Bundy, K., Schmitz, M.D., Davydov, V.I., Over, D.J., 2013, U-Pb zircon geochronology in the Late Devonian Exshaw Formation: global correlation with the Hangenberg black shale and extinction event: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 45(7), p. 581.
  62. Cramer, B.D., Schmitz, M.D., Huff, W.D., Bergstrom, S.M., Kolata, D.R., 2013, So what is the Deep Time Earth history revolution?: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 45(7), p. 746.
  63. Samperton, K.M., Schoene, B., Cottle, J.M., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., 2013, Composite plutons, composite zircons: geochronological and geochemical perspectives on zircon stratigraphy and magma evolution from U-Pb TIMS-TEA: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 45(7), p. 85.
  64. Lanik, A., Over, D.J., Schmitz, M.D., Hogancamp, N., 2013, Conodont biostratigraphy and new zircon dates of the Upper Devonian Belpre Ashes, Chattanooga Shale, Tennessee, and lower Rhinestreet Shale, New York, eastern North America: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 45(7), p. 836.
  65. Laib, A., Schmitz, M.D., 2013, Trace element chemistry in zircon: testing the inverted magma chamber model of Picture Gorge Ignimbrite: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 45(7), p. 389.
  66. Macdonald, F.A., Bold, U., Smith, E.F., Olin, P.H., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., 2012, Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic Geological Evolution of Mongolia: Constraints on Modes of “Crustal Growth” in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Eos Trans. AGU, 92(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T11B-2573.
  67. Ellis, B.S., Wolff, J.A., Mark, D.F., Olin, P.H., Schmitz, M.D., 2012, Transport and deposition of pyroclasts from hot, dry eruptions and the sizes of high-grade ignimbrites: Eos Trans. AGU, 92(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V52C-03.
  68. Covey, A.K., Braun, S.A., Gualda, G.A., Bream, B.R., Fisher, C., Wooden, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., 2012, Zirconia (NC) zircon as a potential standard: Eos Trans. AGU, 92(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V23C-2825.
  69. Hanchar, J.M., Schmitz, M.D., Wirth, R., 2012, New insights on the recrystallization and new growth of extensively radiation-damaged zircon: Eos Trans. AGU, 92(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V12A-04.
  70. Schmitz, M.D., Davydov, V.I., 2012, Abrupt ocean anoxia and mass extinction at the Hangenberg crisis, Devonian-Carboniferous boundary: Eos Trans. AGU, 92(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V14B-03.
  71. Schmitz, M.D., 2012, Current and future radioisotopic calibration of the geological time scale: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 44, p. 329.
  72. Thompson, M.D., Baise, L.G., Daley, D., Ramezani, J., Schmitz, M.D., 2012, Bedrock geologic map of greater Boston, Massachusetts: digital compilation with new U-Pb zircon age constraints: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 44, p. 256.
  73. Khodjanyazova, R., Davydov, V., Schmitz, M., 2012, Pennsylvanian fusulinid distribution on the eastern pangean margin and response to tectonic uplift and long-term climate change: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 44, p. 124.
  74. Khodjanyazova, R., Davydov, V., Schmitz, M.D., 2012, Applications of fusulinid cyclicity model in biostratigraphy, correlation, and interpretation of unconformities: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 44, p. 323.
  75. Macdonald, F.A., Halverson, G.P., Strauss, J.V., Smith, E.F., Prave, A., Olin, P.H., Schmitz, M.D., Cox, G., 2012, Stratigraphic, structural and geochronological constraints on the make-up and break-up of Rodinia: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 44, p. 377.
  76. Viskupic, K., Schmitz, M.D., Snelson, C., Perkins, R., Cossette, G., 2011, Online activities for teaching the science of geochronology: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 43(5), p. 71.
  77. Schmitz, M.D., Olin, P.L., Crowley, J.L., 2011, Integrating geochemistry, thermometry and isotope ratios to improve age interpretation through tandem quadrupole LA-ICPMS and CA-TIMS on the same zircon crystals: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 43(5), p. 569.
  78. Keeley, J.A., Link, P., Fanning, C.M., Schmitz, M.D., 2011, New SHRIMP and CA-TIMS geochronologic constraints on and epsilon Hf data from <685 Ma epiclastic volcanic sandstone on Oxford Mountain, Pocatello Formation, southern Bannock Range, SE Idaho: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 43, p. 55.
  79. Schmitz, M.D., 2011, A window into the middle crust of the northern U. S. Cordillera at House Mountain, southern Idaho Batholith: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 43, p. 76.
  80. Shirley, E.K., Schmitz, M.D., 2011, A history of stabilization and modification of cratonic North American crust in southern Idaho using thermochronology of deep crustal xenoliths and basement exposures along the northern margin of the Snake River plain: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 43, p. 61.
  81. Hill, M., Schmitz, M.D., 2011, Processes of magma evolution and crystal recycling recorded in zircon populations of large volume rhyolites in the western Mount Bennett Hills, central Snake River plain, Idaho, and the implications for constraining the pre- and syn-eruptive evolution of silicic magmas: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 43, p. 65.
  82. Sousa, J.L., Kohn, M.J., Schmitz, M.D., Spear, F.S., Northrup, C.J., 2011, Determining garnet growth rates from strontium isotope zoning: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 43, p. 77.
  83. Ware, B., Schmitz, M., Northrup, C.J., 2011, Age constraints on the Connor Creek Fault and contractional deformation in the Blue Mountains Province, eastern Oregon: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, v. 43, p. 15.
  84. Khodjanyazova, R., Davydov, V.I., Schmitz, M.D., 2011, Fusulinid biozonation as a proxy of Milankovitch cyclicity: the record from Moscovian-Kasimovian transition in Donets Basin (Ukraine): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 43(5), p. 375.
  85. Shirley, E., Schmitz, M.D., 2011, A history of stabilization and modification of cratonic North American crust of the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho using thermochronology of deep crustal xenoliths and basement exposures: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 43(5), p. 434.
  86. Hill, M., Schmitz, Mx.D., 2011, Origin of the crystal load in silicic magma systems: tandem zircon geochemistry and geochronology in rhyolites of the western Mount Bennett Hills, Snake River Plain, ID: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 43(5), p. 128.
  87. Ware, B., Schmitz, M.D., 2011, New U-Pb (CA-TIMS) age constraints on the deposition of the Weatherby Formation, Blue Mountain Province, northeastern Oregon: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 43(5), p. 647.
  88. Davydov, V.I., Schmitz, M.D., Korn, D., 2011, The Hangenberg Event was abrupt and short at the global scale: the quantitative integration and intercalibration of biotic and geochronologic data within the Devonian-Carboniferous transition: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 43(5), p. 128.
  89. Khodjanyazova, R., Davydov, V.I., Schmitz, M.D., 2011, Fusulinid biozonation as a proxy of Milankovitch cyclicity: the record from Moscovian-Kasimovian transition in Donets Basin: in Hakansson, E. and Trotter, J. (Eds), Programme & Abstracts, The XVII International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Perth 3-8 July 2011: Geological Survey of Western Australia Precord 2011/20, p. 80.
  90. Davydov, V.I., Schmitz, M.D., 2011, Early Permian (Cisuralian) time scale, and pan-Euramerican chronostratigraphic correlation: in Hakansson, E. and Trotter, J. (Eds), Programme & Abstracts, The XVII International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Perth 3-8 July 2011: Geological Survey of Western Australia Precord 2011/20, p. 56.
  91. Olin, P.H., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., 2011, Geochemistry, thermometry and isotope ratios on the same zircon crystals: the tandem use of quadrupole LA-ICPMS and CA-TIMS: Eos Trans. AGU, 91(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V53B-2618.
  92. Schmitz, M.D., Davydov, V.I., 2010, Quantitative radiometric and biostratigraphic calibration of the Pennsylvanian-Early Permian (Cisuralian) time scale, and pan-Euramerican chronostratigraphic correlation: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42(5), p. 466.
  93. Davydov, V.I., Schmitz, M.D., 2010, GSSP challenges and solutions: marriage of biologically to geochemically determined definitions?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42(5), p. 232.
  94. Gillerman, V.S., Schmitz, M.D., Jercinovic, M.J., Reed, R., 2010, Cambrian and Mississippian magmatism associated with neodymium-enriched rare earth and thorium mineralization, Lemhi Pass District, Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42(5), p. 334.
  95. Vetz, Nicholas Q., Snyder, W.S., Schmitz, M.D., 2010, U-Pb zircon geochronology of the early Triassic Koipato Formation: implications for the Permo-Triassic Sonoma orogeny: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42(5), p. 477.
  96. Condon, D., McLean, N.M., Schoene, B., Bowring, S.A., Mattinson, J.M., Hiess, J., Noble, S.R., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., Parrish, R., 2010, Accuracy of the U-Pb system: tracer calibrations, decay constants and other parameters, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42(5), p. 657.
  97. Macdonald, F.A., Halverson, G.P., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., Cox, G., Smith, E.F., Strauss, J.V., Roots, C.F., 2010, Timing and geometry of the multi-stage breakup of Rodinia in the Yukon, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42(5), p. 617.
  98. Driese, S.G., Jirsa, M.A., Ren, M., Schmitz, M.D., Parker, D.F., 2010, Neoarchean paleoweathering of tonalite and metabasalt: implications for reconstructions of 2.69 Ga early soil ecosystems and paleoatmospheric chemistry: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42(5), p. 261.
  99. Wilkins, D.,Viskupic, K., Schmitz, M.D., Northrup, C.J., Benner, S., van Wijk, K., 2010, Sophomore field-based experiences and curricula for increasing and retaining majors, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42(5), p. 445.
  100. Schmitz, M.D., *Dye, J.H., 2009, U-Pb rutile thermochronology: a review and status report on a vexing conundrum, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V52C-02.
  101. Macdonald, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., Roots, C., Maloof, A.C., Jones, D.S., Strauss, J., 2009, The low-latitude Rapitan glaciation, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U13A-0046.
  102. Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., 2009, A precise comparison of U-Pb dates from baddeleyite and zircon: evidence for excess 207Pb in baddeleyite, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V53B-06.
  103. *Fisher, C.M., McFarlane, C.R., Sylvester, P., Hanchar, J.M., Lam, R., Schmitz, M.D., 2009, Sm-Nd isotopic compositions of LREE minerals for use as reference materials for in situ analysis by LA-MC-ICPMS, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V33E-04.
  104. Schmitz, M.D., Davydov, V.I., Crowley, J.L., Poletaev, V.I., 2009, High-precision U-Pb zircon age calibration of the global Carboniferous time scale and Milankovitch-band cyclicity in the Donets Basin, eastern Ukraine: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 41(7), p. 486.
  105. Viskupic, K., Schmitz, M.D., Nadelson, L., 2009, Delivery and assessment of a half-day integrated field and laboratory experience for understanding geologic time and geochronology: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 41(7), p. 422.
  106. Tumpane, K.P., Schmitz, M.D., 2009, New geochronological constraints on the timing of deposition in the Coon Hollow and Weatherby Formations, and correlations between the Wallowa and Olds Ferry terranes, Blue Mountains province, northern U.S. Cordillera: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 41(7), p. 182.
  107. Hoaglund, S.A., Miller, J.D., Jr., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., 2009, U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Duluth Complex and related hypabyssal intrusions: investigating the emplacement history of a large multiphase intrusive complex related to the 1.1. Ga Midcontinent Rift: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 41(7), p. 437.
  108. Dye, J.H., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., 2009, Metamorphic evolution of the House Mountain gneiss complex, southwest Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 41(7), p. 692.
  109. Kurz, G.A., Northrup, C.J., Schmitz, M.D., 2009, High-precision U-Pb dating of neoblastic sphene from mylonitic rocks of the Cougar Creek Complex, Blue Mountains province, Oregon–Idaho: implications for the interplay between deformation and arc magmatism: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 41(7), p. 182.
  110. Kurz, G.A., Schmitz, M., Northrup, C.J., 2008, Tracer isotope geochemistry and U-Pb zircon geochronology of intrusive rocks from the Wallowa and Olds Ferry arc terranes, Blue Mountains Province, northeastern Oregon and west-central Idaho: Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain Sections Joint Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 40(1), p. 87.
  111. Dye, J.H., Baldwin, J.A., Crowley, J., Schmitz, M., 2008, Late Cretaceous amphibolite facies metamorphism in the Sapphire Mountains, southwestern Montana constrainted by U-Pb dating of monazite, Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain Sections Joint Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 40(1), p. 35.
  112. Tumpane, K., Crowley, J., Schmitz, M., Northrup, C.J., 2008, New geochronological constraints on the deposition of the Huntington Formation, Olds Ferry Terrane, and implications for the evolution of the Blue Mountains Province, Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain Sections Joint Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 40(1), p. 47.
  113. Crowley, J., Bowring, S., Schmitz, M., 2008, High-precision chronologies of magma chamber dynamics: ID-TIMS U-Pb dating of small chemical domains: Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain Sections Joint Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 40(1), p. 74.
  114. Rivera, T.A., White, C.M., Schmitz, M.D., 2007, Preliminary Multi-Isotopic Data and Potential Regional Connections for Late Cenozoic Basalts of the Western Snake River Plain, Idaho: Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V13D-1591.
  115. Schmitz, M.D., Davydov, V.I., Snyder, W.S., 2007, High-precision marine Sr isotope geochronology in deep time: Permian tuffs and conodonts: Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V31G-08.
  116. Kurz, G.A., Schmitz, M.D., Northrup, C.J., 2007, Radiogenic isotopic characteristics of intrusive rocks of the Cougar Creek Complex, Blue Mountains Province, northeastern Oregon and west-central Idaho: implications for the paleogeography and tectonic evolution of the Wallowa terrane: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39(6), p. 208.
  117. Benford, B., Tikoff, B., Schmitz, M.D., and Northrup, C.J., 2007, Southward extent of the Western Idaho Shear Zone, Owyhee Mountains, Idaho: constraining along-strike variations in transpressional shear zones: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39(6), p. 290.
  118. Schmitz, M.D., Davydov, V.I., Snyder, W.S., Northrup, C.J., 2007, New high precision ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon constraints on the durations of Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian (Cisuralian) stages: Abstracts of the 16th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Journal of Stratigraphy, v. 31, suppl. 1, p. 100.
  119. Schmitz, M.D., *Needham, L.L., Davydov, V.I., Snyder, W.S., 2007, A precise and accurate seawater Sr curve from Late Carboniferous – Early Permian conodonts: Abstracts of the 16th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Journal of Stratigraphy, v. 31, suppl. 1, p. 155.
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