SHRIMP publications list 1977 to 2004

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1977 to 2004

• 1977 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
• 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
• 2001 2002 2003 2004

1977

Clement, S.W., Compston, W. and Newstead, G., 1977.
Design of a large, high resolution ion microprobe. Proceedings of the First International Conference on SIMS, Muenster. (Volume never published).

1982

Compston, W., Williams, I.S. and Black, L.P., 1982.
Use of the ion microprobe in geological dating. BMR 82. Yearbook of Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 39-42.

1983

Collerson, K.D., 1983.
Ion microprobe zircon geochronology of the Uivak gneisses: implications for the evolution of early terrestrial crust in the North Atlantic Craton. LPI Technical Report, 83-03, 28-32.

Froude, D.O., Ireland, T.R., Kinny, P.D., Williams, I.S., Compston, W., Williams, I.R. and Myers J.S., 1983.
Ion microprobe identification of 4100-4200 Myr-old terrestrial zircons. Nature, 304, 616-618.

Williams, I.S., Compston, W., Collerson, K.D., Arriens, P.A. and Lovering, J.F., 1983.
A reassessment of the age of the Windmill metamorphics, Casey area. Antarctic Earth Science, Oliver, R.L., James, P.R. and Jago, J.B. (eds) Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 73-76.

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1984

Compston, W., Williams, I.S. and Meyer, C., 1984.
U-Pb geochronology of zircon from lunar breccia 73217 using a sensitive high mass-resolution ion microprobe. Journal of Geophysical Resources, 89, Supplement, B525-B534.

Williams, I.S., Compston, W., Black, L.P., Ireland, T.R. and Foster, J.J., 1984.
Unsupported radiogenic Pb in zircon: a cause of anomalously high Pb-Pb, U-Pb and Th-Pb ages. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 88, 322-327.

1985

Heydegger, H.R., Compston, W., Ireland, T.R., Foster, J.J. and Williams, I.S., 1985.
Ion-microprobe investigation of titanium isotopic ratios of solar system materials. In: Todd, J.F.J. (ed.) Advances in Mass Spectrometry, Wiley, 1037-1038.

Ireland, T.R., Compston, W. and Heydegger, H.R., 1985.
Titanium isotopic anomalies in hibonites from the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 49, 1989-1993.

Williams, I.S., Kinny, P.D., Black, L.P., Compston, W., Froude, D.O. and Ireland, T.R., 1985.
Dating Archaean zircon by ion microprobe - new light on an old problem. LPI Technical Report., 85-01, 84-86, Houston.

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1986

Bristow, J.W., 1986.
Updating dating down under. Nuclear Active, 34, 12-15.

Compston, W. and Pidgeon, R.T., 1986.
Jack Hills, evidence of more very old detrital zircons in Western Australia. Nature, 321, 766-769.

Compston, W., Kinny, P.D., Williams, I.S. and Foster, J.J., 1986.
The age and Pb loss behaviour of zircons from the Isua Supracrustal Belt as determined by ion microprobe. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 80, 71-81.

Compston, W., Williams, I.S. and McCulloch, M.T., 1986.
Contrasting zircon U-Pb and model Sm-Nd ages for the Logue Brook Granite. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 33, 193-200.

Compston, W., Williams, I.S., Campbell, I.H. and Gresham, J.J., 1986.
Zircon xenocrysts from the Kambalda volcanics: age constraints and direct evidence for older continental crust below the Kambalda-Norseman greenstones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 76, 299-311.

Gostin, V.A., Haines, P.W., Jenkins, R.J.F., Compston, W. and Williams, I.S., 1986.
Impacta ejecta horizon within late Precambrian shales, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia. Science, 233, 198-200.

Ireland, T.R., Compston, W. and Esat, T.M., 1986.
Magnesium isotopic compositions of olivine, spinel, and hibonite from the Murchison carbon-aceous chondrite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 50, 1413-1421.

Kinny, P.D., 1986.
3820 Ma zircons from a tonalitic Amîtsoq gneiss in the Godthåb district of southern West Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 79, 337-347.

Williams, I.S., 1986.
Ion microprobe mass analysis. Newsletter of the Geological Society of Australia Special Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, 21, 18-26.

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1987

Compston, W., Williams, I.S., Jenkins, R.J.F., Gostin, V.A. and Haines, P.W., 1987.
Zircon age evidence for the Late Precambrian Acraman ejecta blanket. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34, 435-445.

Eldridge, C.S., Compston, W., Williams, I.S. Walshe, J.L. and Both, R.A., 1987.
In situ microanalysis for 34S/32S ratios using the ion microprobe SHRIMP. International Journal of Mass Spectromeytry Ion Processes, 76, 65-83.

Harrison, T.M., Aleinikoff, J.N. and Compston, W., 1987.
Observations and controls on the occurrence of inherited zircon in Concord-type granitoids, New Hampshire. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 51, 2549-2558.

Ireland, T.R. and Compston, W., 1987.
Large heterogeneous 26Mg excesses in a hibonite from the Murchison meteorite. Nature, 327, 689-692.

Kröner, A., Stern, R.J., Dawoud, A.S., Compston, W. and Reischmann, T., 1987.
The Pan-African continental margin in northeastern Africa: evidence from a geochronological study of granulites at Sabaloka, Sudan. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 85, 91-104.

Kröner, A., Williams, I.S., Compston, W., Baur, N., Vitanage, P.W. and Perera, L.R.K., 1987.
Zircon ion microprobe dating of high-grade rocks in Sri Lanka. Journal of Geology, 95, 775-791.

Rudnick, R.L. and Williams, I.S., 1987.
Dating the lower crust by ion microprobe. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 85, 145-161.

Williams, I.S., 1987.
Zircon. New South Wales Gemology Review, 206, 11-14.

Williams, I.S. and Claesson, S., 1987.
Isotopic evidence for the Precambrian provenance and Caledonian metamorphism of high grade paragneisses from the Seve Nappes, Scandinavian Caledonides. II. Ion microprobe zircon U-Th-Pb. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 97, 205-217.

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1988

Campbell, I.H. and Hill, R.I., 1988.
A two-stage model for the formation of the granite-greenstone terrains of the Kalgoolie-Norseman area, Western Australia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 90, 11-25.

Claoué-Long, J.C., Compston, W. and Cowden, A., 1988.
The age of the Kambalda greenstones resolved by ion-microprobe: implications for Archaean dating methods. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 89, 239-259.

Compston, W. and Kroner, A., 1988.
Multiple zircon growth within early Archaean tonalitic gneiss from the Ancient Gneiss Complex, Swaziland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 87, 13-28.

Dodson, M.H., Compston, W., Williams, I.S. and Wilson, J.F., 1988.
A search for ancient detrital zircons in Zimbabwe sediments. Journal of the Geological Society London, 145, 977-983.

Eldridge, C.S., Walshe, J.L., Compston, W., Williams, I.S., Both, R.A. and Ohmoto, H., 1988.
Sulfur isotopic variability in sediment-hosted massive sulfide deposits as determined using the ion microprobe SHRIMP I. An example from the Rammelsberg orebody. Economic Geology, 83, 443-449.

Eldridge, C.S., Bourcier, W.L., Ohmoto, H. and Barnes, H.L., 1988.
Hydrothermal innoculation and incubation of the chalcopyrite disease in sphalerite. Economic Geology, 83, 978-990.

Gebauer, D., Quadt, A., Compston, W. and Williams, I.S., 1988.
Archaean zircons in a retrograded, Caledonian eclogite of the Gotthard Massif (Central Alps, Switzerland). Schweizerische Mineralogische Petrographische Mitteilungen, 68, 485-490.

Gebauer, D. Williams, I.S. Compston, W. and Grünenfelder, M., 1988.
The development of the Central European continental crust since the early Archaean based on conventional and ion-microprobe dating of detrital zircons up to 3.84 b.y. old. Bulletin der Vereinigung Schweizerisches Petroleum -Geologen und -Ingenieur, 54, 126, 65-82.

Ireland, T.R., 1988.
Correlated morphological, chemical, and isotopic characteristics of hibonites from the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 52, 2827-2839.

Kinny, P.D., Compston, W. and McGregor, V.R., 1988.
Early Archaean crustal history of Greenland as recorded by detrital zircons. In: LPI Technical Report, 88-02, 79-81.

Kinny, P.D., Williams, I.S., Froude, D.O., Ireland, T. and Compston, W., 1988.
Early Archaean zircon ages from orthogneisses and anorthosites at Mount Narryer, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 38, 325-341.

Kröner, A. and Compston, W., 1988.
Ion microprobe ages of zircons from early Archaean granite pebbles and greywacke, Barberton Greenstone Belt, Southern Africa. Precambrian Research, 38, 367-380.

Kröner, A., Compston, W., Guo, A., Zhang, G. and Todt, W., 1988.
Age and tectonic setting of late Archaean greenstone-gneiss terrain in Hunan Province, China, as revealed by single grain zircon dating. Geology, 16, 211-215.

Kröner, A., Wendt, I., Liew, T.C., Compston, W., Todt, W., Fiala, J., Vankova, V. and Vanek, J., 1988.
U-Pb zircon and Sm-Nd model ages of high-grade Moldanubian metasediments, Bohemian Massif, Czechoslovakia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 99, 257-266.

Page, R.W. and Williams, I.S., 1988.
Age of the Barramundi Orogeny in northern Australia by means of ion microprobe and conventional U-Pb zircon studies. Precambrian Research, 40/41, 21-36.

Schiøtte, L., Compston, W. and Bridgwater, D., 1988.
Late Archaean ages for the deposition of clastic sediments belonging to the Malene supracrustals, southern West Greenland: evidence from an ion probe U-Pb zircon study. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 87, 45-58.

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1989

Aleinikoff, J.N., Williams, I.S., Compston, W., Studkless, J.S. and Worl, R.G., 1989.
Evidence for an early Archaean component in the Middle to Late Archaean gneisses of the Wind River Range, west-central Wyoming: conventional and ion microprobe U-Pb data. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 101, 198-206.

Barton, E.S., Compston, W., Williams, I.S., Bristow, J.W., Hallbauer, D.K. and Smith, C.B., 1989.
Provenance ages for the Witwatersrand Supergroup and the Ventersdorp contact reef: constraints from ion microprobe U-Pb ages of detrital zircons. Economic Geology, 84, 2012-2019.

Bowring, S.A., Williams, I.S. and Compston, W., 1989.
3.96 Ga gneisses from the Slave province, Northwest Territories, Canada. Geology, 17, 971-975.

Eldridge, C.S., Walshe, J.L. , Compston, W. and Williams, I.S., 1989.
Sulfur isotopic analysis on the SHRIMP Ion Microprobe, in Shanks, W.C. and Criss, R.E. (eds.) New Frontiers in stable isotope research: Laser probes, ion probes, and small-sample analysis, US Geological Survey Bulletin, 1890, 163-174.

Eldridge, C.S., Walshe, J.L., Compston, W., Williams, I.S., Both, R.A., and Ohmoto, H., 1989.
Sulfur Isotope variability in sediment-hosted massive sulfide deposits as determined using the ion microprobe SHRIMP I. An example from the Rammelsberg orebody - a reply: Economic Geology, 84, 453-458.

Gebauer, D., Williams, I.S., Compston, W. and Grünenfelder, M., 1989.
The development of the Central European continental crust since the Early Archaean based on conventional and ion-microprobe dating of up to 3.84 b.y.old detrital zircons. Tectonophysics, 157, 81-96.

Goodfellow, W.D. and Turner, R.J.W., 1989.
Sulfur isotope variability in sediment-hosted massive sulfide deposits as determined using the ion microprobe SHRIMP I; An economic example from the Rammelsberg orebody: discussion. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 84, 451-452.

Hill, R.I., Campbell, I.H. and Compston, W., 1989.
Age and origin of granitic rocks in the Kalgoorlie-Norseman region of Western Australia: implications for the origin of Archaean crust. Geochim.ica et Cosmochimica Acta, 53, 1259-1275.

Hill, R.I. and Campbell, I.H., 1989.
Geological Note. A post-metamorphic age for gold mineralization at Lady Bountiful, Yilgarn Block, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36, 313-316.

Kinny, P.D., Compston, W., Bristow, J.W. and Williams, I.S., 1989.
Archaean mantle xenocrysts in a Permian Kimberlite: Two generations of Kimberlitic zircon in Jwaneng DK2, southern Botswana. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication, 14, 833-842.

McKibben, M.A. and Eldridge, C.S., 1989.
Sulfur isotopic variations among minerals and aqueous species in the Salton Sea geothermal system: a SHRIMP ion microprobe and conventional study of active ore genesis in a sediment-hosted environment. American Journal of Science, 289, 661-707.

Schiøtte, L., Compston, W. and Bridgwater, D., 1989.
Ion probe U-Th-Pb zircon dating of polymetamorphic orthogneisses from northern Labrador, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 26, 1533-1556.

Schiøtte, L., Compston, W. and Bridgwater, D., 1989.
U-Pb single-zircon age for the Tinissaq gneiss of southern West Greenland: A controversy resolved. Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience), 79, 21-30.

Schiøtte, L., Compston, W. and Bridgwater, D., 1989.
U-Th-Pb ages of single zircons in Archaean supracrustals from Nain Province, Labrador, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 26, 2636-2644.

Zeitler, P.K., 1989.
The geochronology of metamorphic processes. In: Evolution of Metamorphic Belts (J.S. Daly, R.A. Cliff and B.W.D. Yardley, eds), Geological Society of London Special Publication, 43, 131-147.

Zeitler, P.K., Sutter, J.F., Williams, I.S., Zartman, R. and Tahirkheli, R.A.K., 1989.
Geochronology and temperature history of the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh Massif, Pakistan. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 232, 1-22.

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1990

Armstrong, R.A., Compston, W., de Wit, M. and Williams, I.S., 1990.
The stratigraphy of the 3.5 - 3.2 Ga Barberton Greenstone Belt revisited: A zircon ion microprobe study. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 101, 90-106.

Barton, E.S., Compston, W., Williams, I.S., Bristow, J.W., Hallbauer, D.K. and Smith, C.B., 1990.
Provenance ages for the Witwatersrand Supergroup and the Ventersdorp contact reef: constraints from ion microprobe U-Pb ages of detrital zircons - a reply. Economic Geology, 85, 1951-1952.

Bibikova, E.V. and Williams, I.S., 1990.
Ion microprobe U-Th-Pb isotopic studies of zircons from three early Precambrian areas in the U.S.S.R. Precambrian Research . 48, 203-221.

Black, L.P. and Sheraton, J.W., 1990.
The influence of Precambrian source components on the U-Pb zircon age of a Palaeozoic granite from Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Precambrian Research, 46, 275-293.

Chen, Y.D. and Williams, I.S., 1990.
Zircon inheritance in mafic inclusions from Bega Batholith granites, southeastern Australia: an ion microprobe study. Journal of Geophysical Resources. 95, (B11), 17, 787-17, 796.

Claoué-Long, J.C., King, R.W. and Kerrich, R., 1990.
Archaean hydrothermal zircon in the Abitibi greenstone belt: constraints on the timing of gold mineralisation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 98, 109-128.

Clement, S.W. and Compston, W., 1990.
SIMS at high sensitivity and high mass resolution, In: Benninghoven, A., Evans, C.A., McKeegan, K.D., Storms, H.A. and Werner, H.W., eds., Secondary ion mass spectrometry SIMS VII, Chichester, John Wiley, 815-819.

Coenraads, R.R., Sutherland, F.L. and Kinny, P.D., 1990.
The origin of sapphires: U-Pb dating of zircon inclusions sheds new light. Mineralogical Magazine, 54, 113-122

Drennan, G.R., Meyer, M., Robb, L.J., Armstrong, R.A. and De Bruiyn, H., 1990.
The nature of the Archaean Basement in the hinterland of the Witwatersrand Basin, II. A crustal profile west of the Welkom goldfields and comparisons with the Vredefort crustal profile. South Africal Journal of Geology, 93, 41-53.

Ireland, T.R., Compston, W., Williams, I.S. and Wendt, I., 1990.
U-Th-Pb systematics of individual perovskite grains from the Allende and Murchison carbonaceous chondrites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,101, 379-387.

Kinny, P.D., Wijbrans, J.R., Froude, D.O., Williams, I.S. and Compston, W., 1990.
Age constraints on the geological evolution of the Narryer Gneiss Complex, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 37, 51-69.

Kröner, A. and Compston, W., 1990.
Archaean tonalitic gneiss of Finnish Lapland revisited: zircon ion-microprobe ages. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 104, 348-352.

McKibben, M.A. and Eldridge, C.S., 1990.
Radical sulfur isotope zonation of pyrite accompanying boiling and epithermal gold deposition: A SHRIMP study of the Valles Caldera, New Mexico. Economic Geology, 85, 1917-1925.

Perkins, C., McDougall, I., Claoué-Long, J.C. andHeithersay, P., 1990.
40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb geochronology of the Goonumbla porphyry Cu-Au deposits, NSW, Australia. Economic Geology, 85, 1808-1824.

Pidgeon, R.T., Wilde, S.A., Compston, W. and Shield, M.W., 1990.
Archaean evolution of the Wongan Hills Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 37, 279-292.

Schiøtte, L. and Compston, W., 1990.
U-Pb age pattern for single zircons from early Archaean Akilia association south of Ameralik fjord, southern West Greenland. Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience Section), 80, 147-157.

Williams, I.S. and Collins, W.J., 1990.
Granite-greenstone terranes in the Pilbara Block, Australia, as coeval volcano-plutonic complexes; evidence from U-Pb zircon dating of the Mount Edgar Batholith. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 97, 41-53.

Zeitler, P.K., Barreiro, B., Chamberlain, C.P. and Rumble, III D., 1990.
Ion-microprobe dating of zircon from quartz-graphite veins at the Bristol, New Hampshire, metamorphic hot spot. Geology, 18, 626-629.

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1991

Armstrong, R.A., Compston, W., Retief, E.A., Williams, I.S. and Welke, H.J., 1991.
Zircon ion microprobe studies bearing on the age and evolution of the Witwatersrand triad. Precambrian Research, 53, 243-266.

Arndt, N.T., Nelson, D.R., Compston, W., Trendall, A.F. and Thorne, A.M., 1991.
The age of the Fortescue Group, Hammersley Basin, Western Australia, from ion microprobe zircon U-Pb results. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 38, 26-281.

Arndt, N.T., Todt, W., Chauvel, C., Tapfer, M. and Weber, K., 1991.
U-Pb zircon age and Nd isotopic compositions of granitoids, charnockites and supracrustal rocks from Heimefrontfjella, Antarctica. Geologische Rundschau, 80, 759-777.

Baur, N., Kröner, A., Liew, T.C., Todt, W., Williams, I.S. and Hofmann, A.W., 1991.
U-Pb isotopic systematics of zircons from prograde and retrograde transition zones in high-grade orthogneisses, Sri Lanka. Journal of Geology, 99, 527-545.

Black, L.P., Kinny, P.D. and Sheraton, J.W., 1991.
The difficulties of dating mafic dykes: an Antarctic example. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 109, 183-194.

Black, L.P., Kinny, P.D., Sheraton, J.W. and Delor, C.P., 1991.
Rapid production and evolution of late Archaean felsic crust in the Vestfold Block of East Antarctica. Precambrian Research, 50, 283-310.

Claoué-Long, J.C., King, R.W. and Kerrich, R., 1991.
Comment on "Archaean hydrothermal zircon in the Abitibi greenstone belt: constraints on the timing of gold mineralisation". Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 104, 531-.

Claoué-Long, J.C., Sobolev, N.V., Shatsky, V.S. and Sobolev, A.V., 1991.
Zircon response to diamond-pressure metamorphism in the Kokchetav Massif, USSR. Geology, 19, 710-713.

Claoué-Long, J.C., Zhang Z., Ma G. and Du S., 1991.
The age of the Permian-Triassic boundary. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 105, 182-190.

Compston W., Williams, I.S. and Meyer, C., 1991.
Initial Pb isotopic compositions of lunar granites as determined by ion microprobe. In: H.P. Taylor, Jr., J.R. O'Neil and I.R. Kaplan (Eds.) Stable Isotope Geochemistry: A Tribute to Samuel Epstein. The Geochemical Society Special Publication, 3, 473-486.

Eldridge, C.S., Compston, W., Williams, I.S., Harris, J.W. and Bristow, J.W., 1991.
Isotope evidence for the involvement of recycled sediments in diamond formation. Nature, 353, 649-53.

Friend, C.R.L. and Nutman, A.P., 1991.
SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of the Closepet granite and peninsular gneiss, Karnataka, south India. Journal Geological Society of India, 38, 357-368.

Huhma, H., Claesson, S., Kinny, P.D. and Williams, I.S., 1991.
Provenance of early Proterozoic Svecofennian metasediments: U-Pb dating of detrital zircons. Geological Survey of Finland Special Paper, 12, 63-65.

Huhma, H., Claesson, S., Kinny, P.D. and Williams, I.S., 1991.
The growth of Early Proterozoic crust: new evidence from Svecofennian detrital zircons. Terra Nova, 3, 175-179.

Ireland, T.R., Zinner, E.K. and Amari, S., 1991.
Isotopically anomalous Ti in presolar SiC from the Murchison meteorite. Astrophysical Journal, 376, L53-L56.

Kinny, P.D., Compston, W. and Williams, I.S., 1991.
A reconnaissance ion-probe study of hafnium isotopes in zircons. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 55, 849-859.

Kröner, A., Retief, E.A., Compston, W., Jacob, R.E. and Burger, A.J., 1991.
Single-grain and conventional zircon dating of remobilized basement gneisses in the central Damara belt of Namibia. South African Journal of Geology, 94, 379-387.

Kröner, A., Wendt, J.I., Tegtmeyer, A.R., Milisenda, C. and Compston, W., 1991.
Geochronology of the Ancient Gneiss Complex, Swaziland, and implications for Crustal Evolution. In: L.D. Ashwal (Ed.), Two Cratons and an Orogen - Excursion Guidebook. IGCP Project 280, Department of Geology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 8-36.

Maas, R. and McCulloch, M.T., 1991.
The provenance of Archaean clastic metasediments in the Narryer Gneiss Complex, Western Australia: Trace element geochemistry, Nd isotopes, and U-Pb ages for detrital zircons. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , 55, 1915-1932.

Maboko, M.A.H., Williams, I.S. and Compston, W., 1991.
Zircon U-Pb chronometry of the pressure and temperature history of granulites in the Musgrave Ranges, central Australia. Journal of Geology, 99, 675-697.

McGregor, V.R., Friend, C.R.L. and Nutman, A.P., 1991.
The late Archaean mobile belt through Godthåbsfjord, southern West Greenland: a continent-continent collision zone? Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 39, 179-197.

Nutman, A.P., 1991.
Tectonostratigraphic terranes within Archaean gneiss complexes: examples from Western Australia and southern West Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 39, 198-210.

Nutman, A.P. and Collerson, K.D., 1991.
Very early Archaean crustal-accretion complexes preserved in the North Atlantic Craton. Geology, 19, 791-795.

Nutman, A.P., Kinny, P.D., Compston, W. and Williams, I.S., 1991.
SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Narryer Gneiss Complex, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 52, 275-300.

Roberts, J., Claoué-Long, J.C. and Jones, P.J., 1991.
Calibration of the Carboniferous and Early Permian of the southern New England Orogen by SHRIMP ion microprobe zircon analyses. In: Twenty fifth Newcastle symposium on Advances in the study of the Sydney Basin, Proceedings, 25, 38-43.

Rudnick, R.L. and Cameron, K.L., 1991.
Age diversity of the deep crust in northern Mexico. Geology, 19, 1197-1200.

Williams, A.E., McKibben, M.A. and Eldridge, C.S., 1991.
An overview of fluid geochemistry and ore genesis in the Salton Sea Geothermal System and comparison with the Gulf of California Hydrothermal Systems. In: The Gulf and Peninsular Province of the Californias, ed. Dauphin, J.P. and Simoneit, B.R.T., American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 47, 781-792.

Withnall I.W., Black L.P. and Harvey K.J., 1991.
Geology and geochronology of the Balcooma area; part of an early Palaeozoic magmatic belt in north Queensland. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 38, 15-29.

Young, D.N. and Black, L.P., 1991.
U-Pb zircon dating of Proterozoic igneous charnockites from the Mawson Coast, East Antarctica. Antartic Science, 3, 205-216.

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1992

Aitchison, J.C., Ireland, T.R., Blake, M.C., Jr and Flood, P.G., 1992.
530 Ma U-Pb ion probe age for ophiolite from the New England Orogen: The oldest rocks known from eastern Australia. Geology, 20, 125-128.

Biher, M., Abouchami, W., Michard, A., Albarède, F. and Arndt, N., 1992.
Crustal growth in West Africa at 2.1Ga. Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 345-369.

Black, L.P., Bultitude, R.J., Sun, S-s., Knutson, J. and Blewett, R.S., 1992.
Emplacement ages of granite rocks in the Coen Inlier (Cape York): implications for local geological evolution and regional correlation. BMR Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 13, 191-200.

Black, L.P., Harris, L.B. and Delor, C.P., 1992.
Reworking of Archaean and Early Proterozoic components during a progressive, Middle Proterozoic tectonothermal event in the Albany Mobile Belt, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 59, 95-123.

Black, L.P. and Shaw, R.D., 1992.
U-Pb zircon chronology of prograde Proterozoic events in the Central and Southern Provinces of the Arunta Block, central Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39, 153-171.

Black, L.P., Sheraton, J.W. and Kinny, P.D., 1992.
Archaean events in Antarctica In: Yoshida, Y., et al. (eds), Recent progress in Antarctic Earth Science, Terra Scientific Publishing Company, Tokyo, 1-6.

Black, L.P., Sheraton, J.W., Tingey, R.J. and McCulloch, M.T., 1992.
New U-Pb zircon ages from the Denman Glacier area, East Antarctica, and their significance for Gondwana reconstruction. Antarctic Science, 4, 447-460.

Brimhall, G.H., Chadwick, O.A., Lewis, C.J., Compston, W., Williams, I.S., Danti, K.J., Dietrich W.E., Power M.E., Hendricks D. and Bratt J., 1992.
Deformational mass transport and invasive processes in soil evolution. Science, 255, 695-702.

Campbell, I.H., Czamanske, G.K., Hill, R.I., Kunilov, V.E. and Stepanov, V., 1992
Synchronism of the Siberian Traps and the Permian-Triassic boundary. Science, 258, 1760-1763.

Claoué-Long, J.C., Jones, P.J., Roberts, J. and Maxwell, S., 1992.
The numerical age of the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary. Geological Magazine, 129, 281-291.

Compston, W. and Williams, I.S., 1992.
Ion probe ages for the British Ordovician and Siluriam stratotypes. In: Global Perspectives on Ordovician Geology, B.D. Webby and J.R. Laurie (eds), Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the Ordovician System, Sydney, 59-67.

Compston, W., Williams, I.S., Kirschvink, J.L., Zhang Zichao and Ma Guogan, 1992.
Zircon U-Pb ages for the Early Cambrian time-scale. Journal Geological Society London, 149, 171-184.

Cooper, J.A., Jenkins, R.J.F., Compston, W. and Williams, I.S., 1992.
Ion Probe Zircon dating of a mid, early Cambrian tuff in South Australia. Journal of the Geological Society London, 149, 185-192.

Friend, C.R.L. and Nutman, A.P., 1992.
Response of zircon U-Pb isotope systematics to CO2 fluid-induced granulite facies metamorphism, Kabbaldurga, South India. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 111, 299-310.

Gebauer, D., Schmid, R. and Von Quadt, A., 1992.
Oliocene, Permian and Panafrican zircon ages from rocks of the Balmuccia Peridotite and of the Lower Layered Group in the Ivrea Zone. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen (Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology), 72, 113-122.

Hill, R.I., Chappell, B.W. and Campbell, I.H., 1992.
Late Archaean granites of the southeastern Yilgarn Block, Western Australia: age, geochemistry, and origin. Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences, 83, 211-226.

Ireland, T.R., 1992.
Crustal evolution of New Zealand: Evidence from age distributions of detrital zircons in Western Province paragneisses and Torlesse greywacke. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 56, 911-920.

Ireland, T.R. and Wlotzka, F., 1992.
The oldest zircons in the solar system. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 109, 1-10.

Ireland, T.R., Zinner, E.K., Fahey, A.J. and Esat, T.M., 1992.
Evidence for distillation in the formation of HAL and related hibonite inclusions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 56, 2503-2520.

Kinny, P.D. and Dawson, J.B., 1992,
A mantle metasomatic injection event linked to late Cretaceous kimberlite magmatism. Nature, 360, 726-728.

Liu, D.Y., Nutman, A.P., Compston, W., Wu, J.S. and Shen, Q.H., 1992.
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Maas, R., Kinny, P.D., Williams, I.S., Froude, D.O. and Compston, W., 1992.
The Earth's oldest known crust: A geochronological and geochemical study of 3900-4200 Ma old detrital zircons from Mt Narryer and Jack Hills, Western Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 56, 1281-1300.

Maboko, M.A.H., McDougall, I., Zeitler, P.K. and Williams, I.S., 1992.
Geochronological evidence for ~530-550 Ma juxtaposition of two Proterozoic metamorphic terranes in the Musgrave Ranges, central Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39, 457-471.

Mueller, P.A., Wooden, J.L. and Nutman, A.P., 1992.
An Extended Record of Archaean Crustal Evolution in the Wyoming Province and Further Evidence for 3.96 Ga Crust in North America. Geology, 20, 327-330.

Nutman, A.P., Chadwick, B., Ramakrishnan, M. and Viswanatha, M.N., 1992.
U-Pb ages of detrital zircon in supracrustal rocks older than c. 3000 Ma in southern Peninsular India. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 39, 367-374.

Nutman, A.P., Chernyshev, I.V., Baadsgaard, H. and Smelov, A.P., 1992.
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Page, R.W. and Laing, W.P., 1992.
Felsic metavolcanic rocks related to the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag orebody, Australia: geology, depositional age, and timing of high-grade metamorphism. Economic Geology, 87, 2138-2168.

Paterson, B.A., Stephens, W.E., Rogers, G., Williams, I.S., Hinton, R.W. and Herd, D.A., 1992.
The nature of zircon inheritance in two granite plutons. Transactions of the Royal Society Edinburgh, 83, 459-471.

Paterson, B.A., Stephens, W.E., Rogers, G., Williams, I.S., Hinton, R.W. and Herd, D.A., 1992.
The nature of zircon inheritance in two granite plutons. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 272, 459-471.

Perkins, C., McDougall, I. and Walshe, J.L., 1992.
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Pidgeon, R.T., 1992.
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Pidgeon, R.T. and Compston, W., 1992.
Zircon Th-U-Pb systems as indicators of source rocks and magmatic processes: a SHRIMP study of four granites from the Scottish Caledonides. The second Hutton symposium on the origin of granites and related rocks. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Earth Sciences, 83, 473-483.

Pidgeon, R.T. and Compston, W., 1992.
A SHRIMP ion microprobe study of inherited and magmatic zircons from four Scottich Caledonian granites. In: The second Hutton symposium on the origins of granites and related rocks; proceedings, Geological Society of America Special Paper, 272, 473-483.

Schiøtte, L., Nutman, A.P. and Bridgwater, D., 1992.
U-Pb ages of single zircons within "Upernavik" metasediments from the Archaean Nain Province: regional implications. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 29, 260-276.

Shiraishi, K., Hiroi, Y., Ellis, D.J., Fanning, C.M., Motoyoshi, Y. and Naka, Y., 1992.
The first report of a Cambrian Orogenic belt in east Antarctica - an ion microprobe study of the Lützow-Holm Complex. Recent progress in Antarctic Earth Science: (Y. Yoshida et al., Eds) 67-73.

Williams, I.S., 1992.
Some observations on the use of zircon U-Pb geochronology in the study of granitic rocks. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Earth Sciences, 83, 447-458.

Williams, I.S., 1992.
Some observations on the use of zircon U-Pb geochronology in the study of granitic rocks. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 272, 447-458.

Zhao, J.X., McCulloch, M.T. and Bennett, V.C., 1992.
Sm-Nd and U-Pb zircon isotopic constraints on the provenance of sediments from the Amadeus Basin, central Australia: Evidence for REE fractionation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 56, 921-940.

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1993

Bennett, V.C., Nutman, A.P. and McCulloch, M.T., 1993.
Nd isotopic evidence for transient, highly depleted mantle reservoirs in the early history of the Earth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 119, 299-318.

Black, L.P. and Withnall, I.W., 1993.
The ages of Proterozoic granites in the Georgetown Inlier of northeastern Australia, and their relevance to the dating of technothermal events. AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 14, 331-341.

Bradshaw, J.D., Dean, A., Ireland, T.R., Muir, R.J. and Weaver, S.D., 1993.
Fingerprinting the sources of allocthonous sedimentary terranes - an example from the Torlesse Terrane of New Zealand. In: Ortega-Gutiérrez, F., Coney, P.J., Centeno-Garciá, E. and Gómez-Caballero, A. (eds), Proceedings of the First Circum-Pacific and Circum-Atlantic Terrane Conference, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Guanajuato, 19-20.

Claesson, S., Huhma, H., Kinny, P.D. and Williams, I.S., 1993.
Svecofennian detrital zircon ages - implications for the Precambrian evolution of the Baltic Shield. Precambrian Research, 64, 109-130

Claoué-Long, J.C., Jones, P.J. and Roberts, J., 1993.
The age of the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary. Annales de la Societe Geologique de Belgique, 115, 531-.

Creaser, R.A. and Fanning, C.M., 1993.
A U-Pb zircon study of the Mesoproterozoic Charleston Granite, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 40, 519-526.

Crocker, C.H., Collerson, K.D., Lewry, J.F. and Bickford, M.E., 1993.
Sm-Nd, U-Pb, and Rb-Sr geochronology and lithostructural relationships in the southwestern Rae Province: constraints on crustal assembly in the western Canadian Shield. Precambrian Research, 61, 27-50.

Daly, S.J. and Fanning, C.M., 1993.
Chapter 3. Archaean. In: Drexel, J.F., Preiss, W.V. and Parker, A.J. (eds), The Geology of South Australia, Vol.1. The Precambrian. South Australia Geological Survey Bulletin, 54, 33-49.

Eldridge, C.S., Williams, N. and Walshe, J.L., 1993.
Sulfur isotope variability in sediment-hosted massive sulfide deposits as determined using the Ion Microprobe SHRIMP II. A Study of the HYC Deposit at McArthur River, Northern Territory, Australia. Economic Geology, 88, 1-26.

Gavrikova, S.N., Nutman, A.P., Nikolaeva, L.L., Orlov, V.N. and Sultanov, D.M., 1993.
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White Island, New Zealand, volcanic-hydrothermal system represents the geochemical environment of high-sulfidation Cu and Au ore deposition. Geology, 21, 731-734.

Hill, R.I. and Campbell, I.H., 1993.
Age of granite emplacement in the Norseman region of Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 40, 559-574.

Kalsbeek, F., Nutman, A.P. and Taylor, P.N., 1993.
Palaeoproterozoic basement province in the Caledonian fold belt of North-East Greenland. Precambrian Research, 63, 163-178.

Kinny, P.D. Black, L.P. and Sheraton, J.W., 1993
. Zircon ages and the distribution of Archaean and Proterozoic rocks in the Rauer Islands. Antarctic Science, 5, 193-206.

Kröner, A. and Williams, I.S., 1993.
Age of metamorphism in the high-grade rocks of Sri Lanka. Journal of Geology, 101, 513-521.

Lanyon, R., Black, L.P. and Seitz, H-M., 1993.
U-Pb zircon dating of mafic dykes and its application to the Proterozoic geological history of the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 115, 184-203.

McDonough, W.F. and Ireland, T.R., 1993.
Intraplate origin of komatiites inferred from trace elements in glass inclusions. Nature, 365, 432-434.

McNaughton, N.J., Compston, W. and Barley, M.W., 1993.
Constraints on the age of the Warrawoona Group, eastern Pilbara Block, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 60, 69-98.

Nutman, A.P., Bennett, V.C., Kinny, P.D. and Price, R., 1993.
Large-scale crustal structure of the northwest Yilgarn craton, Western Australia: Evidence from Nd isotopic data and SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology. Tectonics, 12, 971-981.

Nutman, A.P., Chadwick, B., Ramakrishnan, M. and Viswanatha, M.N., 1993.
SHRIMP U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in Sargurs: reply. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 41, 168-172.

Nutman, A.P. and Cordani, U.G., 1993.
SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of Archaean gneisses, Sao Francisco Craton, Bahia, Brazil. Precambrian Research, 63, 179-188.

Nutman, A.P., Friend, C.R.L., Kinny, P.D., McGregor, V.R., 1993
Anatomy of an Early Archaean gneiss complex: 3900 to 3600 Ma crustal evolution in southern West Greenland. Geology, 21, 415-418.

Perkins, C. and Walshe, J.L., 1993.
Geochronology of the Mount Read Volcanics, Tasmania, Australia. Economic Geology, 88, 1176-1197.

Rudnick, R.L., Eldridge, C.S. and Bulanova, G.P., 1993.
Diamond growth history from in situ measurement of Pb and S isotopic compositions of sulfide inclusions. Geology, 21, 13-16.

Schäfer, H-J., Gebauer, D., Nägler, T.F. and Eguiluz, L., 1993.
Conventional and ion-microprobe U-Pb dating of detrital zircons of the Tentudía Group (Seria Negra, Southwest Spain): implications for zircon systematics, stratigraphy, tectonics and the Precambrian/Cambrian boundary. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 113, 289-299.

Wiedenbeck, M. and Watkins, K.P., 1993.
A time scale for granitoid emplacement in the Archean Murchison Province, Western Australia, by single zircon geochronology. Precambrian Research, 61, 1-26.

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1994

Barley, M.E., McNaughton, N.J., Williams, I.S. and Compston, W., 1994.
Age of Archaean volcanism and sulfide mineralization in the Whim Creek Belt, west Pilbara. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41, 175-177.

Barton, E.S. Altermann, W., Williams, I.S. and Smith, C.B., 1994.
U-Pb zircon age for a tuff in the Campbell Group, Griqualand West Sequence, South Africa: Implications for Early Proterozoic rock accumulation rates. Geology, 22, 343-346.

Brimhall, G.H., Compston, W., Williams, I.S., Reinfrank, R.F. and Lewis, C.J., 1994.
Darwinian zircons as provinance tracers of dust-size exotic components in laterites; mass balance and SHRIMP ion microprobe results. In: Ringroase-Voase, A.J. and Humphreys, G.S. (eds.), Soil micromorphology; studies in management and genesis, Developments in Soil Science, 22, 65-81.

Bruguier, O., DaDa, S. and Lancelot, J.R., 1994.
Early Archeaen component (>3.5 Ga) within a 3.05 Ga orthogneiss from northern Nigeria; U-Pb evidence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 125, 89-103.

Chen, Y.D., O'Reilly, S.Y., Kinny, P.D. and Griffin, W.L., 1994.
Dating lower crust and upper mantle events; an ion microprobe study of xenoliths from kimberlitic pipes, South Australia. Lithos, 32, 77-94.

Costa, M., Cadoppi, P., Sacchi, R. and Fanning, C.M., 1994.
U-Pb "SHRIMP" dating of zircons from Mozambique gneiss. Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana, 113, 173-178.

Friend, C.R.L. and Nutman, A.P., 1994.
Two Archaean granulite facies metamorphic events in the Nuuk-Maniitsoq region, West Greenland: correlation with the Saglek block, Labrador. Journal of the Geological Society London, 151, 421-424.

Hoppe, P., Amari, S., Zinner, E. Ireland, T. and Lewis, R.S., 1994.
Carbon, nitrogen, magnesium, silicon and titanium isotopic compositions of single interstellar silicon carbide grains from the Murchison Carbonaceous Chondrite. The Astrophysical Journal, 430, 870-890.

Ireland, T.R., 1994.
Isotopically normal zirconium in Murchison hibonite 13-13: Implications for a link between the e and r processes. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 434, L79-L81.

Ireland, T.R., Rudnick, R.L. and Spetsius, Z., 1994.
Trace elements in diamond inclusions from eclogites reveal link to Archaean granites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 128, 199-213.

Kinny, P.D. and Meyer, H.O.A., 1994.
Zircon from the mantle; a new way to date old diamonds. Journal of Geology, 102, 475-481.

Kröner, A., Jaeckel, P. and Williams, I.S., 1994.
Pb-loss patterns in zircons from a high-grade metamorphic terrain as revealed by different dating methods: U-Pb and Pb-Pb ages for igneous and metamorphic zircons from northern Sri Lanka. Precambrian Research, 66, 151-181.

Kröner, A. and Tegtmeyer, A., 1994.
Gneiss-greenstone relationships in the ancient gneiss complex of southwestern Swaziland, Southern Africa, and its implications for early crustal evolution. Precambrian Research, 67, 109-139.

Lee, J.K.W., 1994.
Microstructural geochronology. In: Deformation processes in the Earth; from microcracks to mountain belts; field conference, 36, 91-92.

Li, X. H., 1994.
SHRIMP Ion Microprobe Zircon U-Pb Age and Sm-Nd Isotopic Characteristics of the NE Jiangxi Ophiolite and Its Tectonic Implications. Chinese Journal of Geochemistry, 13, 317-.

Liu, D., Nutman, A.P., Williams, I.S, Compston, W., Wu, J. and Sheng Q., 1994.
The remnants of >=3800 Ma crust in the Sino-Korean Craton; the evidence from ion microprobe U-Pb dating of zircons. Acta Geoscientia Sinica, 1-2(30-31) , 3-13.

McDougall, I., Maboko, M.A.H., Symonds, P.A., McCulloch, M.T., Williams, I.S. and Kudrass, H.R., 1994.
Dampier Ridge, Tasman Sea, as a stranded continental fragment. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41, 395-406.

McKibben, M.A., and Eldridge, C.S., 1994.
Micron-scale isotopic zoning in minerals; a record of large scale geological processes. Mineralogical Magazine, 58A, 587-588.

McLaren, A.C., Fitz Gerald, J.D. and Williams, I.S., 1994.
The microstructure of zircon and its influence on the age determination from Pb/U ratios measured by the ion microprobe. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58, 993-1005.

Mueller, P.A., Heatherington, A.L., Shuster, R.D., Wooden, J.L., Nutman, A.P. and Williams, I.S., 1994.
Precambrian zircons from the Florida basement: A Gondwanan connection. Geology, 22, 119-122.

Muir, R.J., Bradshaw, J.D., Weaver, S.D. and Ireland, T.R., 1994.
Crustal extension prior to the opening of the Tasman Sea Basin: Evidence from New Zealand granites. In Evolution of the Tasman Sea Basin, (eds. G.J. van der Lingen, K.M. Swanson and R.J. Muir), Balkema, 55-64.

Muir, R.J., Ireland, T.R., Weaver, S.D. and Bradshaw, J.D., 1994.
Ion microprobe U-Pb zircon geochronology of granitic magmatism in the Western Province of the South Island, New Zealand. Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience), 113, 171-189.

Murrowchick, J.B., Coveney, R.M., Jr., Grauch, R.I., Eldridge, C.S. and Shelton, K.L., 1994.
Cyclic variations of sulfur isotopes in Cambrian stratified Ni-Mo-(PGE-Au) ores of southern China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58, 1813-1823.

Nutman, A.P., 1994.
Anatomy of an Early Archaean gneiss complex: 3900 to 3600 Ma crustal evolution in southern West Greenland: Reply. Geology, 22, 571.

Nutman, A.P., Cordani, U.G. and Sabaté, P., 1994.
SHRIMP U-Pb ages of detrital zircons from the mid Proterozoic Contendas-Mirante supracrustal belt, Sao Francisco Craton, Bahia, Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 7, 109-114.

Nutman, A.P. and Kalsbeek, F., 1994.
A minimum age of 2944+/-7 Ma for the Tartoq Group, South-West Greenland. Geological Survey of Greenland Report, 161, 35-38.

Nutman, A.P. and Kalsbeek, F., 1994.
Search for Archaean basement in the Caledonian fold belt of North-East Greenland. Geological Survey of Greenland Report, 162, 129-133.

Nutman, A.P. and Rosing, M.T., 1994.
SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of the late Archaean Ruinæsset syenite, Skjoldungen alkaline province, South-East Greenland. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58, 3515-3518.

Riley, N.J., Claoué-Long, J., Higgins, A.C., Owens, B., Spears, A., Taylor, L. and Varker, W.J., 1994.
Geochronometry and geochemistry of the European Mid Carboniferous boundary global stratotype proposal, Stonehead Beck, North Yorkshire, UK. In: Streel, M. and Paproth, E. (eds.), Carboniferous Biostratigraphy, Annales de la Societe Geologique de Beldique, 116, 275-289.

Roddick, J.C. and van Breemen, O, 1994.
U-Pb zircon dating: a comparison of ion microprobe and single grain conventional analyses. Radiogenic Age and Isotope Studies: Report 8, Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research, 1-9.

Sambridge, M.S. and Compston, W., 1994.
Mixture modelling of multicomponent data sets with application to ion-probe zircon ages. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 128, 373-390.

Shiraishi, K., Ellis, D.J., Hiroi, Y., Fanning, C.M., Motoyoshi, Y. and Nakai, Y., 1994.
Cambrian Orogenic Belt in east Antarctica and Sri Lanka: implications for Gondwana assembly. Journal of Geology, 102, 47-65.

Smith, H.A., Chamberlain, C.P. and Zeitler, P.K., 1994.
Timing and duration of Himalayan metamorphism within the Indian Plate, Northwest Himalaya, Pakistan. Journal of Geology, 102, 493-508.

Turner N.J., Black L.P. and Kamperman M., 1994.
Pre-Middle Cambrian stratigraphy, orogenesis and geochronology in western Tasmania. In: Contentious issues in Tasmanian geology. Geological Society of Australia, Tasmania Division. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 51-57.

Varva, G., Gebauer, D. and Schmid, R., 1994.
The thermal history of the lower crust recorded by zircon growth and recrystallisation, an ion microprobe (SHRIMP) study from the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps). Mineralogical Magazine, 58A, 936-937.

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1995

Aitchison, J.C. and Ireland, T.R., 1995.
Age profile of ophiolitic rocks across the Late Palaeozoic New England Orogen, New South Wales: implications for tectonic models. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 11-23.

Baldwin, S.L. and Ireland T.R., 1995.
A tale of two eras: Plio-Pleistocene unroofing of Cenozoic and Late Archean zircons from active metamorphic core complexes, Solomon Sea, Papua New Guinea. Geology, 23, 1023-1026.

Black, L.P. and Shaw, R.D., 1995.
An assessment, based on U-Pb zircon data, of Rb-Sr dating in the Arunta Inlier, central Australia. Precambrian Research, 71, 3-15.

Camacho, A. and Fanning, C.M., 1995.
Some isotopic constraints on the evolution of the granulite and upper amphibolite facies terranes in the eastern Musgrave Block, central Australia. Precambrian Research, 71, 155-181.

Claoué-Long, J.C., Compston, W., Roberts, J. and Fanning C.M., 1995.
Two carboniferous ages: a comparison of SHRIMP zircon dating with conventional zircon ages and 40Ar/39Ar analysis. In: Geochronology Time Scales and Global Stratigraphic Correlation, SEPM Special Publication, 54, 3-21.

Clifford, T.N., Barton, E.S., Retief, E.A., Rex, D.G. and Fanning, C.M., 1995.
A crustal progenitor for the intrusive anorthosite - Charnockite kindred of the cupriferous Koperberg Suite, O'okiep District, Namaqualand, South Africa; New isotope data for the country rocks and the intrusives. Journal of Petrology, 36, 231-258

Collins, W.J. and Williams, I.S., 1995.
SHRIMP ion probe dating of short-lived Proterozoic tectonic cycles in the northern Arunta Inlier, central Australia. Precambrian Research, 71, 69-89.

Collins, W.J., Williams, I.S., Shaw, S.E. and McLaughlin, N.A., 1995.
The age of the Ormiston Pound granite: implications for Mesoproterozoic evolution of the Arunta Inlier, central Australia. Precambrian Research, 71, 91-105.

Compston, D.M., 1995.
Time constraints on the evolution of the Tennant Creek Block, northern Australia. Precambrian Research, 71, 107-129.

Compston, W., Sambridge, M.S., Reinfrank, R.F., Moczydlowska, M., Vidal, G. and Claesson, S., 1995.
Numerical ages of volcanic rocks and the earliest faunal zone within the late Precambrian of east Poland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 152, 599-611.

Connors, K.A. and Page, R.W., 1995.
Relationships between magmatism, metamorphism and deformation in the western Mount Isa Inlier, Australia. Precambrian Research, 71, 131-153.

Eldridge, C.S., Compston, W., Williams, I.S., Harris, J.W., Bristow, J.W. and Kinny, P.D. 1995.
Applications of the SHRIMP ion microprobe to the understanding of processes and timing of diamond formation. Economic Geology, 90, 271-280.

Gatehouse, C.G., Fanning, C.M. and Flint, R.B., 1995.
Geochronology of the Big Lake Suite, Warburton Basin, northeastern South Australia. Quarterly Geological Notes - Geological Survey of South Australia, 128, 8-16.

Gibson G.M. and Ireland T.R. 1995.
Granulite formation during continental extension in Fiordland, New Zealand. Nature, 375, 479-482.

Hanchar, J.M. and Ruddick, R.L., 1995.
Revealing hidden structures; the application of cathodoluminesence and back-scattered electron imaging to dating zircons from lower crustal xenoliths. In: Special issue; The xenolith window to the lower crust. Lithos, 36, 289-303.

Ireland, T.R., 1995.
Ion microprobe mass spectrometry: Techniques and applications in cosmochemistry, geochemistry and geochronology. In: M. Hyman and M. Rowe (eds) Advances in Analytical Geochemistry, JAI Press, 2, 1-118.

Johnson, J.P. and Cross, K.C., 1995.
U-Pb geochronological constraints on the genesis of the Olympic Dam Cu, U, Au, Ag deposit, South Australia. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 90, 1046-1063.

Kent, A.J.R. and McDougall, I., 1995.
40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb age constraints on the timing of gold mineralisation in the Kalgoolie gold field, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 90, 845-859.

Lafrance, B., Clarke, G.L., Collins, W.J. and Williams, I.S., 1995.
The emplacement of the Wuluma granite: melt generation and migration along steeply dipping extensional fractures at the close of the Late Strangways orogenic event, Arunta Block, central Australia. Precambrian Research, 72, 43-67.

Lee, K.J.W., 1995
Multipath diffusion in geochronology. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 120, 60-82.

Lee, K.J.W. and Tromp, J., 1995
Self-induced fracture generation in zircon. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, B9, 17, 753-17, 770.

McDougall, I., Maboko, M.A.H., Symonds, P.A., McColloch, M.T., Williams, I.S. and Kudrass, H.R., 1995.
Dampier Ridge, Tasman Sea, as stranded continental fragment: reply to discussion. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 228-229.

McKibben, M.A. and Eldridge, C.S., 1995.
Microscopic sulfur isotope variations in ore minerals from the Viburnum Trend, Southeast Missouri; a SHRIMP study. In: A group of papers devoted to the application of microanalytical techniques to economic geology. Economic Geology, 90, 228-245.

Mueller, P.A., Shuster, R.D., D'Arcy, K.A., Heatherington, A.L., Nutman, A.P. and Williams, I.S., 1995.
Source of the Northeastern Idaho Batholith: Isotopic evidence for a Paleoproterozoic terrane in the northwestern US. Journal of Geology, 103, 63-72.

Nelson, D.R., Myers, J.S. and Nutman, A.P., 1995.
Chronology and evolution of the Middle Proterozoic Albany-Fraser orogen, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 481-495.

Nutman, A.P., Hagiya, H. and Maruyama, S., 1995.
SHRIMP U-Pb single zircon geochronology of a Proterozoic mafic dyke, Isukasia, southern West Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 42, 16-20.

Partington, G.A., McNaughton, J.H. and Williams, I.S. 1995.
A review of the geology, mineralization and geochronology of the Greenbushes pegmatite, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 90, 616-635.

Peucat, J.J., Bouhallier, H., Fanning, C.M. and Jayananda, M., 1995.
Age of the Holenarsipur Greenstone Belt, relationships with the surrounding gneisses (Karnataka, South India). Journal of Geology, 103, 701-710.

Roberts, J., Claoué-Long, J.C. and Jones, P.J., 1995.
Australian Early Carboniferous time. In: Geochronology, time scales and global stratigraphic correlation, Eds. Bergen, W.A., et. al., SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), Special Publication, 54, 23-40.

Roberts, J., Claoué-Long, J.C., Jones, P.J. and Foster C.B. 1995.
SHRIMP zircon age control of Gondwanan sequences in Late Carboniferous and Early Permian Australia. In: Non-biostratigraphical methods of dating and correlation, Eds. Dunay, R.E. and Hailwood, E.A., Geological Society (London) Special Publication, 89, 145-174.

Roddick, J.C. and Bevier, M.L., 1995.
U-Pb dating of granites with inherited zircon: Conventional and ion microprobe results from two Paleozoic plutons, Canadian Appalachians. Chemical Geology, 119, 307-330.

Shiraishi, K, Ellis, D.J., Hiroi, Y., Fanning, C.M., Motoyoshi, Y. and Nakai, Y., 1995.
Cambrian Orogenic Belt in east Antarctica and Sri Lanka: Implications for Gondwana Assembly: a reply. Journal of Geology, 103, 469-471.

Strachan, R., Nutman, A.P. and Frederichsen, D., 1995.
SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology and metamorphic history of the Smallefjord sequence, NE Greenland Caldeonides. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 152, 779-784.

Taylor, W.R., Page, R.W., Esslemont, G., Rock, N.M.S. and Chalmers, D.I., 1995.
Geology of the volcanic-hosted Brockman rare-metals deposit, Halls Creek Mobile Zone, northwest Australia. I. Volcanic environment, geochronology and petrography of the Brockman volcanics. Mineralogy and Petrology, 52, 209-230.

Tyler, I.M, Griffin, T.J, Page, R.W. and Shaw, R.D., 1995.
Are there terranes within the Lamboo Complex of the Halls Creek Orogen?. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Annual Review. 1993-94, 37-46.

Watanabe, T., Fanning, C.M., Uruno, K. and Kano, H., 1995.
Pre-Middle Silurian magmatism and associated metamorphism in northern Japan: SHRIMP U-Pb chronology. Geological Journal, 30, 273-280.

Wiedenbeck, M., 1995.
An example of reverse discordance during ion microprobe zircon; an artifact of enhanced ion yields from a radiogenic labile Pb. Chemical Geology, 125, 197-218.

Wilson, J.F., Nesbitt, R.W. and Fanning, C.M., 1995.
Zircon geochronology of Archaean felsic sequences in the Zimbabwe craton: a revision of greenstone stratigraphy and a model for crustal growth. From Coward, M.P. and Ries, A.C. (eds), 1995, Early Precambrian Processes, Geological Society Special Publication, 95, 109-126.

Young, D.N., Fanning, C.M., Shaw, R.D., Edgoose, C.J., Blake, D.H., Page, R.W. and Camacho, A., 1995.
U-Pb zircon dating of tectonomagmatic events in the northern Arunta Inlier, central Australia. Precambrian Research, 71, 45-68.

Zhao, J.-X. and Bennet, V.C., 1995.
SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of granites in the Arunta Inlier, central Australia: implications for Proterozoic crustal evolution. Precambrian Research, 71, 17-43.

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1996

Aitchison, J.C., Hada, S., Ireland, T.R. and Yoshikura, S., 1996.
Ages of Silurian radiolarians from the Kurosegawa terrane, southwest Japan constrained by U/Pb SHRIMP data. Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences, 14, 53-70.

Appleby, K., Circosta, G, Fanning, C.M. and Logan, K., 1996.
New model for controls on gold-silver mineralisation on Misima Island. Mining Engineering, 48, 33-36.

Ashely, P.M., Cook, N.D.J. and Fanning, C.M., 1996.
Geochemistry and age of metamorphosed felsic igneous rocks with A-type affinities in the Willyama Supergroup, Olary Block, South Australia, and implications for mineral exploration. Lithos, 38, 167-184.

Bradley, J. and Ireland, T.R., 1996.
The search for interstellar components in interplanetary dust particles. In: Physics, chemistry and dynamics of interplanetary dust. Gustafson, A.S. and Hanner, M.S. (Eds.), Proceedings International Astronomy Union, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 104,.

Bultitude, R.J., Rees, I.D., Garrad, P.D., Champion, D.C. and Fanning, C.M., 1996.
Mossman, second edition. Queensland 1:250 000 Geological Series - Explanatory Notes. Geological Survey of Queensland, Department of Mines and Energy, Queensland.

Byerly, G.R., Kröner, A., Lowe, D.R., Todt, W. and Walsh, M.M., 1996.
Prolonged magmatism and time constraints for sediment deposition in the early Archeaen Barberton greenstone belt; evidence from the upper Onverwacht and Fig Tree groups. In: The oldest rocks on Earth, Precambrian Research, 78, 125-138.

Carson, C.J., Fanning, C.M. and Wilson, C.J.L., 1996.
Timing of the Progress Granite, Larsemann Hills: additional evidence for Early Palaeozoic orogenesis within the east Antarctic Shield and implications for Gondwana assembly. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43, 539-553.

Compston, W., 1996.
SHRIMP: Origins, impact and continuing evolution. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 79, 109-117.

Condie, K.C., Kröner, A. and Milisenda, C.C., 1996.
Geochemistry and geochronology of the Mkhondo suite, Swaziland: evidence for passive-margin deposition and granulite facies metamorphism in the Late Archean of Southern Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 22, 483-506.

Cornell, D.H., Thomas, R.J., Bowring, S.A., Armstrong, R.A. and Grantham, G.H., 1996.
Protolith interpretation in metamorphic terranes: a back-arc environment with Besshi-Type base metal potential for the Quha Formation, Natal Province, South Africa. Precambrian Research, 77, 243-271.

Crawford, A.J., Donaghy, A.G., Black, L.P. and Stuart-Smith, P., 1996.
Mt Read Volcanics correlates in western Victoria: a new exploration opportunity. Recent Developments in Victorian Geology and Mineralisation. AIG Bulletin, 20, 97-102.

Friend, C.R.L., Nutman, A.P., Baadsgaard, H., Kinny, P.D. and McGregor, V.R., 1996.
Timing of late Archaean terrane assembly, crustal thickening and granite emplacement in the Nuuk region, southern West Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 142, 353-365.

Gebaüer, D., 1996.
A P-T-t path for an (ultra?-) high-pressure ultramafic/mafic rock-association and its felsic country rocks based on SHRIMP-dating of magmatic and metamorphic zircon domains. Example: Alpe Arami (Central Swiss Alps). In: Basu, A. and Hart, S. (Eds.), Earth Processes: Reading the Isotopic Code, Geophysical Monographs, 95. AGU, Washington, DC, 307-329.

Gibson, G.M. and Ireland, T.R., 1996.
Extension of Delamarian (Ross) Orogen into western New Zealand: evidence from zircon ages and implications for crustal growth along the Pacific margin of Gondwana. Geology, 24, 1087-1090.

Graham, I.T., Franklin, B.J., Marshall, B., Leitch, E.C. and Fanning, C.M., 1996.
Tectonic significance of 400 Ma zircons for ophiolitic rocks from the Lachlan Fold Belt, eastern Australia. Geology, 24, 1111-1114.

Heatherington, A.L., Mueller, P.A. and Nutman, A.P., 1996.
Neoproterozoic magmatism in the Suwannee Terrane: Implications for terrane correlation. In: Avalonian and related peri-Gondwanan terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic, (Nance, R.D. and Thompson, M.D., eds.). Geological Society of America Special Paper, 304, 257-268.

Heatherington, A.L., Mueller, P.A., Smith, M.S. and Nutman, A.P., 1996.
The Corbin gneiss: Evidence for Grenvillian magmatism and older continental basement in the southernmost Blue Ridge. Southeastern Geology, 36, 15-22.

Ireland, T.R., 1996.
Isotopic anomalies in extraterrestrial grains. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 79, 43-50.

Kalsbeek, F. and Nutman, A.P., 1996.
Anatomy of the early Proterozoic Nagssugtoqidian orogen, West Greenland, explored by reconnaissance SHRIMP U-Pb zircon dating. Geology, 24, 515-518.

Kent, A.J.R., Cassidy, K.F. and Fanning, C.M., 1996.
Archean gold mineralisation synchronous with the final stages of cratonisation, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Geology, 24, 879-882.

Kinny, P.D. and Nutman, A.P., 1996.
Zirconology of the Meeberrie gneiss, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: An early Archaean migmatite. In: The oldest rocks on Earth, Precambrian Research, 78, 165-178.

Lu, J., Seccombe, P.K. and Eldridge, C.S., 1996.
SHRIMP S-isotope evidence for fluid mixing during gold mineralisation in a slate-belt gold deposit (Hill End, New South Wales, Australia). Chemical Geology, 127, 229-240.

McKibben, M.A. and Eldridge, 1996.
Sulfur isotopic systematics of the June 1991 Mount Pinotubo eruptions; a SHRIMP ion microprobe study. In: Fire and mud; eruptions and lahars of Mount Pinotubo, Philippines. Ed: Newhall, C.G. and Punongbayan, R.S., Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Quezon City, Philippines/University of Washington Press, United States, 825-843.

Meyer, C., Williams, I.S. and Compston, W., 1996.
Uranium-lead ages for lunar zicons: Evidence for a prolonged period of granophyre formation from 4.32 to 3.88 Ga. Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences, 31, 370-387.

Mojzsis, S.J., Arrhenius, G., McKeegan, K.D., Harrison, T.M., Nutman, A.P. and Friend, C.R.L., 1996.
Evidence for life on Earth before 3,800 million years ago. Nature, 384, 55-59.

Monnier, O., Menot, R.P., Peucat, J.J., Fanning, M.C. and Giret, A., 1996
Actualisation des donnees geologiques sur Terre Adelie (Antarctique Est); mise en evidence d'un collage tectonique au Proterozoique. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes, 322, 55-62.

Morton, A.C., Claoué-Long, J.C. and Berge, C., 1996.
SHRIMP constraints on sediment provenance and transport history in the Mesozoic Statfjord Formation, North Sea. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 153, 915-929.

Mueller, A.G., Campbell, I.H.., Schiotte, L., Sevigny, J.H. and Layer, P.W., 1996.
Constraints on the age of granitoid emplacement, metamorphism, gold mineralisation, and subsequent cooling of the Archean greenstone terrane at Big Bell, Western Australia. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 91, 896-915.

Mueller, P.A., Kozuch, M., Heatherington, A.L., Wooden, A.L., Offied, T., Koeppen, T., Klein, T. and Nutman, A.P., 1996.
Evidence for Mesoproterozoic basement in the Carolina slate belt and speculations on its origin. In: Avalonian and related peri-Gondwanan terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic, (Nance, R.D. and Thompson, M.D., eds.). Geological Society of America Special Paper, 304, 207-218.

Mueller, P.A., Heatherington, A.L., D-Arcy, K.A, Wooden, J.L. and Nutman, A.P., 1996.
Contrasts between Sm-Nd whole-rock and U-Pb zircon systematics in the Tobacco Root Batholith, Montana; implications for the determination of crustal age provinces In: Tectonic setting and terrane accretion in Precambrian orogens. Eds: Van der Pluijm, B.A., Kusky, T.M., Condie, K.C., and Coney, P.J. Tectonophysics, 265, 169-179.

Mueller, P.A., Wooden, J.L., Mogk, D.W., Nutman, A.P. and Williams, I.S., 1996.
Extended history of a 3.5 Ga trondhjemitic gneiss, Wyoming Province, USA: evidence from U-Pb systematics in zirconIn: The oldest rocks on Earth, Precambrian Research, 78, 41-52.

Muir, R.J., Ireland, TR, Weaver, S.D., and Bradshaw, J.D., 1996.
Ion microprobe dating of Paleozoic granitoids: Devonian magmatism in New Zealand and correlations with Australia and Antarctica. Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience) , 127, 191-210.

Muir, R.J., Weaver, S.D., Bradshaw, J.D., Eby, G.N., Evans, J.A. and Ireland, T.R., 1996.
Geochemistry of the Karamea Batholith, New Zealand and comparisons with the Lachlan fold belt granites of SE Australia. Lithos, 39, 1-20.

Nakajima, T., 1996.
Cretaceous granitoids in SW Japan and their bearing on the crustforming process in he Eastern Eurasian margin. In: The third Hutton symposium on the Origin of granites and related rocks, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 87, 183-191.

Nutman, A.P., Chadwick, B., Krishna Rao, B. and Vasudev, V.N., 1996.
SHRIMP U/Pb zircon ages in the Chitradurga and Sandur Groups, and granites adjacent to the Sandur schist belt, Karnataka. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 47, 153-164.

Nutman, A.P., McGregor, V.R., Friend, C.R.L., Bennett, V.C. and Kinny, P.D., 1996.
The Itsaq gneiss complex of southern West Greenland; the world's most extensive record of early crustal evolution (3,900 - 3,600 Ma). Precambrian Research, 89, 1-40.

Peucat, J.J, Capdevila, R., Drareni, A., Choukroune, P., Fanning, C.M., Bernard-Griffiths, J. and Fourcade, S., 1996.
Major and trace element geochemistry and isotope (Sr, Nd, Pb, O) systematics of an Archaean basement involved in a 2.0 Ga very-high-temperature (1000°C) metamorphic event: In Ouzzal Massif, Hoggar, Algeria. Journal of Metamorphic Petrology, 14, 667-692.

Potrel, A. Peucat, J.J., Fanning, C.M., Auvray, B., Burg, J.P. and Caruba, C., 1996.
3.5 Ga terranes in the West African Craton, Mauritania. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 153, 507-510.

Roberts, J., Claoué-Long, J.C. and Foster C.B., 1996.
SHRIMP zircon dating of the Permian System of eastern Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43, 401-421.

Rubatto, D. and Gebauer, D., 1996.
Timing of formation and subduction of the Zermatt-Saas Ophiolites (Western Alps): A combined cathodoluminescence-SHRIMP study using zircon. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft, 141, 193-195.

Samsonov, A.V., Chernyshev, I.V., Nutman, A.P. and Compston, W., 1996.
Evolution of the Archaean Aulian Gneiss Complex, Ukraine: SHRIMP U-Pb zircon evidence. In: The oldest rocks on Earth, Precambrian Research, 78, 65-78.

Schiotte, L. and Campbell, I.H., 1996.
Chronology of the Mount Magnet granite-greenstone terrain, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia; implications for field based predictions for the relative timing of granitoid emplacement. In: The oldest rocks on Earth, Precambrian Research, 78, 237-260.

Song, B., Nutman, A.P., Liu, D. and Wu, J., 1996.
3800 to 2500 Ma crustal evolution in the Anshan area of Liaoning Province, northeastern ChinaIn: The oldest rocks on Earth, Precambrian Research, 78, 79-94.

Tassinari, C.G., Cordani, U.G., Nutman, A.P., Van, S.W.R., Bettencourt, J.S. and Taylor, P.N., 1996.
Geochronological systematics on basement rocks from the Rio Negro, Juruena Province (Amazonian Craton) and tectonic implications. International Geology Review, 38, 161-175.

Varva, G., Gebauer, D., Schmid, R. and Compston, W., 1996.
Multiple zircon growth and recrystallisation during polyphase Late Carboniferous to Triassic metamorphism in granulites of the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps); an ion microprobe (SHRIMP) study. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 122, 337-358.

Vry, J., Compston, W. and Cartwright, I., 1996.
SHRIMP II dating of zircons and monazites: reassessing the timing of high-grade metamorphism and fluid flow in the Reynolds Range, northern Arunta Block, Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 14, 335-350.

Wang, Q., Schiotte, L. and Campbell, I.H., 1996.
Geochronological constraints on the age of komatiites and nickel mineralisation in the Lake Johnston greenstone belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43, 381-385.

Williams, I.S., Buick, I.S. and Cartwright, I. 1996.
An extended episode of early Mosoproterozoic metamorphic fluid flow in the Reynolds Range, central Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 14, 29-47.

Williams, I.S., Shah, J.S. and Stowe, S., 1996.
Elemental and isotopic microanalysis of zircon and backscattered electron contrast. Surface and Interface Analysis (ECASIA 95) Montreux, Eds. H.J. Miathieu, B. Reihl, and D. Briggs. Published by J. Wiley, 1007-1010.

Winslow, D.M., Zeitler, P.K., Chamberlain C.P. and Williams, I.S., 1996.
Geochronological constraints on syntaxial development in the Nanga Parbay region, Pakistan. Tectonics, 15, 1292-1308.

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1997

Barnett, W., Armstrong, R.A. and de Wit, M.J., 1997.
Stratigraphy of the upper Neoproterozoic Kango and lower Palaeozoic Table Mountain Groups of the Cape Fold Belt revisited. South African Journal of Geology, 100, 237-250.

Buick, I.S., Cartwright, I. and Williams, I.S., 1997.
High-temperature retrogression of granulite-facies marbles from the Reynolds Range Group, central Australia; phase equilibria, isotopic resetting and fluid fluxes. Journal of Petrology, 38, 877-910.

Camacho, A., Compston, W., McCulloch, M. and McDougall I., 1997.
Timing and exhumation of eclogite facies shear zones, Musgrave Block, central Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 15, 735-751.

Cooper, A.F., Worley, B.A., Armstrong, R.A. and Price, R.C. 1997.
Synorogenic alkaline and carbonatitic magmatism in the Transantarctic Mountains of South Victoria Land, Antarctica. In: The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes. Ed: C.A. Ricci, Proceedings of the VII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Siena, 1995, 245-252.

Cornejo, P., Tosdal, R.M., Mpodozis, C., Tomlinson, A.J., Rivera, O. and Fanning, C.M., 1997.
El Salvador, Chile porphyry copper deposit revisited: Geologic and geochronologic framework. International Geology Review, 39, 22-54.

Crawford, A.J., Stevens, B.P.J. and Fanning, M., 1997.
Geochemistry and tectonic setting of some Neoproterozoic and early Cambrian volcanics in western New South Wales. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44, 831-852.

Dawson, J.B., Harley, S.L., Rudnick, R.L. and Ireland, T.R., 1997.
Equilibration and reaction in Archaean quartz-sapphirine granulite xenoliths from the Lace kimberlite pipe, South Africa. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 15, 253-266.

Foster, D.A. and Fanning, C.M., 1997.
Geochronology of the northern Idaho batholith and Bitterroot metamorphic core complex: Magmatism preceding and contemporaneous with extension. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 109, 379-394.

Gebaüer, D., Schertl, H.-P., Brix, M. and Schreyer, W., 1997.
35 Ma old ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism and evidence for very rapid exhumation in the Dora Maira Massif, Western Alps. Lithos, 41, 5-24.

Gibson, R.L., Armstrong, R.A. and Reimold, W.U., 1997.
The age and thermal evolution of the Vredefort impact structure: a single grain U-Pb zircon study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 1531-1540.

Goldstein, S.L., Arndt, N.T, Stallard, R.F., 1997.
The history of a continent from U-Pb ages of zircons from Orinoco River sand and Sm-Nd isotopes in Orinoco Basin river sediments. Chemical Geology, 139, 271-286.

Gray, M.B. and Zeitler, P.K., 1997.
Comparison of clastic wedge provenance in the Appalachian foreland using U/Pb ages of detrital zircons. Tectonics, 16 , 151-160.

Harley, S.L. and Black, L.P., 1997.
A revised Archaean chronology for the Napier Complex, Enderby Land, from SHRIMP ion-microprobe studies. Antarctic Science, 9, 74-91.

Kinny, P.D., Black, L.P and Sheraton, J.W., 1997
Zircon U-Pb ages and geochemistry of igneous and metamorphic rocks from the northern Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 16, 637-654.

Koeberl, C., Armstrong, R.A. and Reimold, W.U., 1997.
Morokweng, South Africa: A large impact structure of Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary age. Geology, 25, 731-734.

Lee, J.K.W., Williams, I.S. and Ellis, D.J., 1997.
Pb, U and Th diffusion in natural zircon. Nature, 390, 6656, 159-162.

Li, X.H., 1997.
Timing of the Cathayaysia initiation: constraints from SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology. Episodes, 20, 188-192.

Martin, H., Peucat, J.J., Sabate, P. and Cunha, J.C., 1997.
Crustal evolution in the early Archean of South America; example of the Sete Voltas Massif, Bahia State, Brazil. Precambrian Research, 82, 35-62.

Mortimer, N., Tulloch, A.J. and Ireland, T.R., 1997.
Geology of the basement beneath Taranaki and Wanganui basins, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 40, 223-236.

Muir, R.J., Ireland, T.R., Bentley, M.R., Fitches, W.R. and Maltman, A.J., 1997.
A Caledonian age for the Kiloran Bay appinite intrusion on Colonsay, Inner Hebrides. Scottish Journal of Geology, 33, 75-83.

Muir, R.J., Ireland, T.R., Weaver, S.D., Bradshaw, J.D., Waight, T.E., Jongens, R. and Eby, G.N., 1997.
SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of Cretaceous magmatism in northwest Nelson-Westland, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 40, 453-463.

Nutman, A.P., 1997.
The Greenland Archaean Gneiss Complex. In: De Wit, M.J. and Ashwal, L., (eds), Greenstone Belts, Oxford University Press, Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics, 35, 665-674.

Nutman, A.P., Bennett, V.C., Friend, C.R.L. and Rosing, M.T., 1997.
~3710 and >=3790 Ma volcanic sequences in the Isua (Greenland) supracrustal belt; structural and Nd isotope implications. Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience), 141, 271-287.

Nutman, A.P., Mozjsis, S. and Friend, C.R.L., 1997.
Recognition of >= 3850 Ma water-lain sediments in West Greenland and their significance for the early Archaean Earth. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , 61, 2475-2484.

Ojala, V.J., McNaughton, N.J., Ridley, J.R., Groves, D.I. and Fanning, C.M., 1997.
The Archaean Granny Smith gold deposit, Western Australia: Age and Pb-isotope tracer studies. Chronique de la Recherche Minière, 529, 75-89.

Oliver, R.L. and Fanning, C.M., 1997.
Australia and Antarctica: precise correlation of Palaeoproterozoic terrains. In: Ricci, C.A. (ed) The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes. Proceedings of the VII International Conference on Antarctic Earth Sciences, 163-172.

Pell, S.D., Williams, I.S. and Chivas, A.R., 1997.
The use of protolith zircon-age fingerprints in determining the protosource areas for some Australian dune sands. Sedimentary Geology, 109, 233-260.

Picanço, J., Tassinari, C.C.G., Cordani, U.G. and Nutman, A.P., 1997.
Idades U-Pb (SHRIMP), Sm-Nd e Rb-Sr em Rochas do Maciço Itatins (SP): Evidências de Evolução Policíclica. (Translation: SHRIMP U-Pb, Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr ages of the Itatins Massif (Sao Paulo); evidence of polycyclic evolution.) Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias , 70, 139-150.

Roberts, J., Claoué-Long, J.C. and Foster C.B., 1997.
SHRIMP zircon dating of the Permian System of eastern Australia; discussion and reply. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44, 535-538.

Selverstone, J., Hodgins, M., Shaw, C., Aleinikoff, J., and Fanning, C.M., 1997.
Proterozoic tectonics of the northern Colorado Front Range. In: Bolyard, D.W. and Sonnenberg, S.A. eds., Geologic History of the Colorado Front Range. Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, Denver, 9-18.

Shaw, R.K., Arima, M., Kagami, H., Fanning, C.M., Shiraishi, K. and Motoyoshi, Y., 1997.
Proterozoic events in the eastern Ghats granulite belt, India: Evidence from Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, and SHRIMP dating. The Journal of Geology, 105, 645-656.

Shiraishi, K., Ellis, D.J., Fanning, C.M.,Hiroi, Y., Kagami, H. and Motoyoshi, Y., 1997.
Re-examination of the Metamorphic and Protolith Ages of the Rayner Complex, Antarctica: Evidence for the Cambrian (Pan-African) regional metamorphic event. In Ricci, C.A. (ed) The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes. Proceedings of the VII International Conference on Antarctic Earth Sciences, 79-88.

Snape, I., Black, L.P. and Harley, S.L., 1997.
Refinement on the timing of magmatism and high-grade deformation in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica, from new SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology. In: Ricci, C.A. (ed) The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication, 139-148.

Vickery, N.M., Ashley, P.M. and Fanning, C.M., 1997.
Dumboy-Gragin Granite. northeastern New South Wales: age and compositional affinities. In: Ashley P.M. and Flood, P.G. (eds) Tectonics and metallogenesis of the New England Origin : Alan H. Voisey Memorial Volume. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication, 19, 266-271.

Waight, T.E., Weaver, S.D., Ireland, T.R., Maas, R., Muir, R.J. and Shelley, D., 1997.
Field characteristics and geochronology of the Hohonu Batholith, North Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 40, 1-17.

Wysoczanski, R.J., Gibson, G.M. and Ireland, T.R., 1997.
Detrital zircon age patterns and provenance in late Paleozoic-early Mesozoic New Zealand terranes and development of the paleo-Pacific Gondwana margin. Geology, 25, 939-942.

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1998

Aitchison, J.C., Ireland, T.R, Clarke, G.L., Cluzel, D., Davis, A.M. and Meffre, S., 1998.
Regional implications of U/Pb SHRIMP age constraints on the tectonic evolution of New Caledonia, Tectonophysics, 299, 333-343.

Aleinikoff, J.N., Muhs, D.R. and Fanning, C.M., 1998.
Isotopic evidence for the sources of Late Wisconsin (Peoria) loess, Colorado and Nebraska: implications for paleoclimate. , , 124-127.

Allen, C.M., Williams, I.S., Stephens, C.J. and Fielding, C.R., 1998.
Granite genesis and basin formation in an extensional setting: the magmatic history of the northernmost New England Orogen. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 875-888.

Allibone, A.H., Windh, J., Etheridge, M.A., Burton, D., Anderson, G., Edwards, P.W., Miller, A., Graves, C., Fanning, C.M. and Wysoczanski, R.J., 1998.
Timing relationships and structural controls on the location of Au-Cu mineralization at the Boddington Gold Mine, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 93, 245-270.

Barnett, W., Armstrong, R.A. and de Wit, M.J., 1998.
Stratigraphy of the upper Neoproterozoic Kango and lower Palaeozoic Table Mountain Groups of the Cape Fold Belt revisited: a reply to discussion of J.P. le Roux. South African Journal of Geology, 101, 161-163.

Bennett, V.C. and Nutman, A.P., 1998.
Extreme Nd isotope heterogeneity in the early Archean - fact or fiction? Case histories from northern canada and West Greenland - Comment. Chemical Geology, 148, 213-217.

Black, L.P, Gregory, P., Withnall, I.W. and Bain, J.H.C., 1998.
U-Pb zircon age for the Etheridge Group, Georgetown region, north Queensland: implications for relationship with the Broken Hill and Mt Isa sequences. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 925-935.

Blewett, R.S. and Black, L.P., 1998.
The structural and temporal framework of the Coen Region (North Queensland); implications for major tectonothermal events in east and north Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 597-609.

Blewett, R.S., Black, L.P., Sun, S-s., Knutson, J., Hutton, L.J. and Bain, J.H.C., 1998.
U-Pb zircon and Sm-Nd geochronology of the Mesoproterozoic of North Queensland: implications for a Rodinian connection with the Belt Supergroup of North America. Precambrian Research, 89, 101-127.

Brueckner, H.K., Gilotti, J.A. and Nutman, A.P., 1998.
Caledonian eclogite-facies metamorphism of Early Proterozoic protoliths from the North-East Greenland Eclogite Province. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 130, 103-120.

Campbell, I.H., Compston, D.M., Richards, J.P., Johnson, J.P. and Kent, A.J.R., 1998.
Isotopic evidence for syn-magmatic mineralization at Porgera, Olympic Dam, Tennant Creek and Eastern Goldfields. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 201-218.

Chappell, B.W., Bryant, C.J., Wyborn, D., White, A.J.R. and Williams, I.S., 1998.
High- and low- temperature I-type granites. Resource Geology, 48, 225-235.

Cornell, D.H., Armstrong, R.A. and Walraven, F., 1998.
Geochronology of the Proterozoic Hartley Basalt Formation, South Africa: constraints on the Kheis tectogenesis and the Kaapvaal Craton's earliest Wilson Cycle. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 26, 5-27.

Cox, R., Armstrong, R.A. and Ashwal, L.D., 1998.
Sedimentology geochronology and provenance of the Proterozoic Itremo Group, Central Madagascar. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 155, 1009-1024.

Daly, S.J., Fanning, C.M. and Fairclough, M.C., 1998.
Tectonic evolution and exploration potential of the Gawler Craton. AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 17, 145-168.

Davis, B.K., Henderson, R.A. and Wysoczanski, R.J., 1998.
Timing of granite emplacement under conditions of low strain in the northern Tasman Orogenic Zone, Australia. Tectonophysics, 284, 179-202.

Goscombe, B., Armstrong, R.A. and Barton, J.M. (1998).
Tectonothermal evolution of the Chewore Inliers: partial re-equilibration of high-grade basement during the Pan-African Orogeny. Journal of Petrology, 39, 1347-1384.

Hacker, B.R., Ratschbacher, L., Webb, L., Ireland, T., Walke, D. and Dong, S., 1998.
U/Pb zircon ages constrain the architecture of the ultrahigh-pressure Qinling-Dabie Orogen, China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 161, 215-230.

Harley, S.L., Snape, I. and Black, L.P., 1998.
The evolution of a layered metaigneous complex in the Rauer Group, East Antarctica: evidence for a distinct Archaean terrane. Precambrian Research, 89, 175-205.

Henderson, R.A., Davis, B.K. and Fanning, C.M., 1998.
Stratigraphy, age relationships and tectonic setting of rift-phase infill in the Drummond Basin, Central Queensland. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 579-595.

Hoskin, P.W.O., 1998.
Minor and trace element analysis of natural zircon (ZrSiO4) by SIMS and laser ablation ICPMS: A consideration and comparison of two broadly competitive techniques. Journal of Trace and Microprobe Techniques, 16, 301-306.

Hoskin, P.W.O., Arslan, M. and Aslan, Z., 1998.
Clinopyroxene phenocryst formation in an alkaline magma: interpretations from oscillatory zoning. Mineralogical Magazine, 62A, 653-654.

Hoskin, P.W.O., Kinny, P.D. and Wyborn, D., 1998.
Chemistry of hydrothermal zircon: Investigating timing and nature of water-rock interaction. In: Arehart, G.B. and Hulston, J.R. (eds.) Water-Rock Interaction. Balkema, Rotterdam, 545-548.

Hoskin, P.W.O. and Wysoczanski, R.J., 1998.
In situ accurate and precise lead isotopic analysis of ultra-small analyte Volumes (10-16m3) of solid inorganic samples by High Resolution SIMS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 13, 597-601.

Ireland, T.R., Flötmann, T., Fanning, C.M., Gibson, G.M. and Preiss, W.V., 1998.
Development of the early Paleozoic Pacific margin of Gondwana from detrital-zircon ages across the Delamerian orogen. Geology, 26, 243-246.

Ireland, T.R. and Gibson, G.M., 1998.
SHRIMP monazite and zircon geochronology of high-grade metamorphism in New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 16, 149-167.

Jacobs, J., Fanning, C.M., Henjes-Kunst F., Olesch, M. and Paech, H.-J.C., 1998.
Continuation of the Mozambique Belt into East Antarctica: Grenville-age metamorphism and polyphase Pan-African high-grade events in central Dronning Maud Land. Journal of Geology, 106, 385-406.

Kalsbeek, F., Pulvertaft, T.C.R. and Nutman, A.P., 1998.
Geochemistry, age and origin of metagreywackes from the Palaeoproterozoic Karrat Group, Rinkian belt, West Greenland. Precambrian Research, 91, 383-399.

Konzett, J., Armstrong, R.A., Sweeney, R.J and Compston, W., 1998.
The timing of MARID metasomatism in the Kaapvaal mantle: an ion probe study of zircons from MARID xenoliths. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 160, 133-145.

McCourt, S. and Armstrong, R.A., 1998.
SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of granites from the Central Zone, Limpopo Belt, southern Africa: Implications for the age of the Limpopo Orogeny. In: Special issue on enigmas in the geological records of South Africa (McCourt, S., ed.) South African Journal of Geology, 101, 329-338.

Mueller, P.A., Wooden, J.L., Nutman, A.P. and Mogk, D.W., 1998.
Early Archean crust in the northern Wyoming Province; evidence from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons. Precambrian Research, 91, 295-307.

Muir, R.J., Ireland, T.R., Weaver, S.D., Bradshaw, J.D., Evans, J.A., Eby, G.N. and Shelley, D., 1998.
Geochronology and geochemistry of a Mesozoic magmatic arc system, Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 155, 1037.

Nutman, A.P. and Ehlers, K., 1998.
Archaean crust near Broken Hill? Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 687-694.

Nutman, A.P. and Ehlers, K., 1998.
Evidence for multiple Palaeoproterozoic thermal events and magmatism adjacent to the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag orebody, Australia, Precambrian Research, 90, 203-238.

Oliver, G.J.H., Johnson, S.P., Williams, I.S. and Herd, D.A., 1998.
Relict 1.4 Ga oceanic crust in the Zambesi Valley, northern Zimbabwe: Evidence for Mesoproterozoic supercontinental fragmentation. Geology, 26, 571-573.

Page, R.W. and Sun.S.S., 1998.
Aspects of geochronology and crustal evolutionin the Eastern Fold Belt, Mt Isa Inlier. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 343-361.

Page, R.W. and Sweet, I. P., 1998.
Geochronoly of basin phases in the western Mt Isa Inlier, and correlation with the McArthur Basin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 219-232.

Pankhurst, R.J., Rapela, C.W., Saavedra, J., Baldo, E., Dalquist, J., Pascua, I. and Fanning, C.M., 1998.
The Famatinian magmatic ard in the central Sierra Pampeanas: an Early to Mid-Ordovician continental arc on the Gondwana margin. In: Pankhurst, R.J. and Rapela, C.W. (eds) The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142, 343-367.

Pankhurst, R.J., Weaver, S.D., Bradshaw, J.D., Storey, B.C. and Ireland, T.R., 1998.
Geochronology and geochemistry of pre-Jurassic superterranes in Marie Byrd Land, Antartica. Journal of Geophysical Research, B, Solid Earth and Planets, 103, 2529-2547.

Parker, A.J. and Fanning, C.M., 1998.
WHYALLA, South Australia, sheet SI53-8. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 00 Series - Explanatory Notes.

Perkins, C. and Kennedy, A.K., 1998.
Permo-Carboniferous gold epoch of northeast Queensland. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 185-200.

Pilot, J., Werner, C.D., Haubrich, F. and Baumann, N., 1998.
Palaeozoic and Proterozoic zircons from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Nature, 393, 676-679.

Potrel, A., Peucat, J.J. and Fanning, C.M., 1998.
Archean crustal evolution of the West African Craton: example of the Amsaga Area (Reguibat Rise). U-Pb and Sm-Nd evidence for crustal growth and recycling. Precambrian Research, 90, 107-117.

Rapela, C.W., Pankhurst, R.J., Casquet, C., Baldo, E., Saavedra, J., Galindo, C. and Fanning, C.M., 1998.
The Pampean Orogeny of the southern proto-Andes: Cambrian continental collision in the Sierra de Cordoba. In: Pankhurst, R.J. and Rapela, C.W. (eds) The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142, 181-217.

Rapela, C.W., Pankhurst, R.J., Casquet, C., Baldo, E., Saavedra, J. and Galindo, C., 1998.
Early evolution of the Proto-Andean margin of South America, Geology, 26, 707-710.

Rubatto, R., Gebauer, D. and Fanning, C.M., 1998.
Jurassic formation and Eocene subduction of the Zermatt-Saas-Fee ophiolites: implications for the geodynamic evolution of the Central and Western Alps. Contributions to Mineral Petrology, 132, 269-287.

Sato, T., Yanase, N., Williams, I.S., Compston, W., Zaw, M., Payne, T.E. and Airey, P.L., 1998.
Uranium micro-isotopic analysis of weathered rock by a senitive high resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP II). Radiochimica et Acta, 82, 335-340.

Sims, J.P., Ireland, T.R., Camacho, A., Lyons, P., Pieters, P.E., Skirrow, R.G., Stuart-Smith, P.G and Miró, R., 1998.
U-Pb, Th-Pb and Ar-Ar geochronolgy from the southern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: implications for the Paloezoic tectonic evolution of the western Gondwana margin. In: Pankhurst, R.J. and Rapela, C.W. (eds) The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142, .

Sutherland, F.L., Hoskin, P.W.O., Fanning, C.M. and Coenraads, R.R., 1998.
Models of corundum formation in alkali basalt terrains: a reappraisal. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 133, 356-372.

Teixeira, W., Cordani, U.G., Nutman, A.P. and Sato, K., 1998.
Polyphase Archean evolution in the Campo Belo metamorphic complex, Southern São Francisco Craton, Brazil: SHRIMP U-Pb zircon evidence. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 11, 279-289.

Turner, N.J., Black, L.P. and Kamperman, M., 1998.
Proterozoic and Cambrian orogenies in Tasmania. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 789-806.

Wang, Q., Beeson, J. and Campbell, I.H., 1998.
Granite-greenstone zircon U-Pb chronology of the Gum Crekk Greenstone Belt, South Cross Province, Yilgarn Craton: tectonic implications. Geodynamics, 26, 175-186.

Wang, Q., Schiotte, L. and Campbell, I.H., 1998.
Geochronology of supracrustal rocks from the Golden Grove area, Murchison Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 571-577.

Whitehouse, M.J., Kalsbeek, F. and Nutman, A.P., 1998.
Crustal growth and crustal recycling in the Nagssugtoqidian orogen of West Greenland: constraints from radiogenic isotope systematics and U-Pb zircon geochronology. Precambrian Research, 91, 365-381.

Whitehouse, M.J., Windley, B.F., Ba-Bttat, M.A.O., Fanning, C.M. and Rex, D.C., 1998.
Crustal evolution and terrane correlation in the eastern Arabian Shield, Yemen: geochronological constraints. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 155, 281-295.

Williams, I.S., 1998.
U-Th-Pb geochronology by ion microprobe. In: McKibben, M.A. and Shanks, W.C. (eds). Applications of microanalytical techniques to understanding mineralizing processes, Reviews in Economic Geology, 7, 1-35.

Wingate, M.T.D., 1998.
A paleomagnetic test of the Kaapvaal-Pilbara (Vaalbara) connection at 2.78 Ga. South African Journal of Geology, 101, 257-274.

Wingate, M.T.D., Campbell, I.H., Compston, W. and Gibson, G.M., 1998.
Ion microprobe U-Pb ages for Neoproterozoic-basalitic magmatism in south-central Australia and implications for the breakup of Rodinia. Precambrian Research, 87, 135-159.

Zeck, H.P., Kristensen, A.B. and Williams, I. S., 1998.
Post-collisional volcanism in a sinking slab setting - crustal anatectic origin of pyroxene-andesite magma, Caldear Volcanic Group, Neogene Alborán volcanic province, southeastern Spain. Lithos, 45, 499-522.

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1999

Bangert, B., Stollhofen, H., Lorenz, V. and Armstrong, R.A., 1999.
The geochronology and significance of ash fallout tuffs in the Permo-Carboniferous Dwyka Group of southern Namibia and South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 29, 33-49.

Bowring, S.A. and Williams, I.S., 1999.
Priscoan (4.00-4.03 Ga) orthogneisses from northwestern Canada. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 134, 3-16.

Chappell, B.W., White, A.J.R., Williams, I.S., Wyborn, D., Hergt, J.M. and Woodhead, J.D., 1999.
Evaluation of petrogenetic models for Lachlan Fold Belt granitoids: implications for crustal architecture and tectonic models: discussion. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 46, 827-831.

Compston W., 1999.
Geological age by instrumental analysis: the 29th Hallimond Lecture. Mineralogical Magazine, 63, 297-311.

Foden, J., Sandiford, M., Dougherty-Page, J.S. and Williams, I., 1999.
Geochemistry and geochronology of the Rathjen Gneiss: implications for the early tectonic evolution of the Delamerian Orogen. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 46, 377-387.

Gamble, J.A., Wysoczanski, R.J. and Meighan, I.G., 1999.
Constraints on the age of the British Tertiary Volcanic Province from ion-microprobe U-Pb (SHRIMP) ages for acid igneous rocks from NE Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 156, 291-299.

Geslin, J.K., Link, P.K. and Fanning, C.M., 1999.
High-precision provenance determination using detrital-zircon ages and petrography of Quaternary sands on the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho. Geology, 27, 295-298.

Gibson, G.M. and Ireland, T.R., 1999.
Black Giants Anorthosite, New Zealand: A Paleozoic analogue of Archean stratiform anorthosites and implications for the formation of Archean high-grade gneiss terranes. Geology, 27, 131-134.

Goodge, J.W. and Fanning, C.M., 1999.
2.5 b.y. of punctuated Earth history as recorded in a single rock. Geology, 27, 1007-1010.

Grün, R., Tani, A., Gurbanov, A., Koshchug, D., Williams, I. and Braun, J., 1999.
A new method of estimation of cooling and denudation rates using paramagnetic centers in quartz: a case study on the Eldzhurtinskiy Granite, Caucasus. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 17531-17549.

Heatherington, A.L., Mueller, P.A. and Nutman, A.P., 1999.
A Jurassic granite from Southern Georgia, U.S.A.: silicic, extension-related magmatism along the southeastern coastal plain. The Journal of Geology, 107, 375-384.

Hoskin, P.W.O., 1999.
SIMS determination of µg g-1-level fluorine in geological samples and its concentration in NIST SRM 610. Geostandards Newsletter: The Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis, 23, 69-76.

Jacobs, J., Thomas, R.J., Armstrong, R.A. and Henjes-Kunst, F., 1999.
Age and thermal evolution of the Mesoproterozoic Cape Meredith Complex, West Falkland. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 156, 917-928.

Jagodzinski, E. A. and Black, L.P., 1999.
U-Pb dating of silicic lavas, sills and syneruptive resedimented volcanoclastic deposits of the Lower Devonian Crudine Group, Hill End Trough, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 46, 749-764.

Johnson, S.E., Tate, M.C. and Fanning, C.M., 1999.
New geologic mapping and SHRIMP U-Pb zircon data in the Peninsular Ranges batholith, Baja California, Mexico: Evidence for a suture? Geology, 27, 743-746.

Kalsbeek, F., Nutman, A.P., Escher, J.C., Friderichsen, J.D., Hull, J.M., Jones, K.A. and Pedersen, S.A.S., 1999.
Geochronology of granitic and supracrustal rocks from the northern part of the East Greenland Caledonides: ion microprobe U-Pb zircon ages. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 184, 31-48.

Karabinos, P., Aleinikoff, J.N. and Fanning, C.M., 1999.
Distinguishing Grenville basement from Pre-Taconian cover rocks in the northern Appalachians. American Journal of Science, 299, 502-515.

Keay, S., Steele, D. and Compston, W., 1999.
Identifying granite sources by SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology: an application to the Lachlan foldbelt. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 137, 323-341.

Larson, S.A., Cornell, D.H. and Armstrong, R.A., 1999.
Emplacement ages and metamorphic overprinting of granitoids in the Sveconorwegian Province in Värmland, Sweden - an ion microprobe study. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 79, 87-95.

Liati, A. and Gebauer, D., 1999.
Constraining the prograde and retrograde P-T-t path of Eocene HP rocks by SHRIMP dating of different zircon domains: inferred rates of heating, burial, cooling and exhumation for central Rhodope, northern Greece. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 135, 340-354.

Mahoney, B.J., Mustard, P.S., Haggart, J.W., Friedman, R.M., Fanning, C.M. and McNicoll, V.J., 1999.
Archean zircons in Cretaceous strata of the western Canadian Cordillera: The "Baja B.C." hypothesis fails a "crucial test". Geology, 27, 195-198.

Nagano, T., Sato, T., Yanase, N., Isobe, H., Ohnuki, T., Williams, I.S., Zaw, M., Payne, T.E. and Airey, P.L., 1999.
Analogue studies in the Alligator Rivers region - in-situ measurement of uranium series nuclides with SHRIMP. JAERI-Research, 99-024, 1-52, Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute, Japan.

Nesbitt, R.W., Pascual, E., Fanning, C.M., Toscano, M., Sáez, R. and Almodóvar, G.R., 1999.
U-Pb dating of stockwork zircons from the eastern Iberian Pyrite Belt. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 156, 7-10.

Nutman, A.P., Bennett, V.C., Friend, C.R.L. and Norman, M.D., 1999.
Meta-igneous (non-gneissic) tonalites and quartzdiorites from an extensive ca. 3800 Ma terrane south of the Isua supracrustal belt, southern West Greenland: constraints on early crust formation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 137, 364-388.

Nutman, A.P. and Ehlers, K., 1999.
Evidence for multiple Palaeoproterozoic thermal events and magmatism adjacent to the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag orebody, Australia: Reply. Precambrian Research, 98, 7-10.

Nutman, A.P. and Kalsbeek, F., 1999.
SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages for Archaean granitoid rocks, Ataa area, north-east Disko Bugt, West Greenland. Greenland Geological Survey Bulletin, 181, 49-54.

Nutman, A.P., Kalsbeek, F., Marker, M., van Gool, J.A.M., and Bridgewater, D., 1999.
U-Pb zircon ages of Kangâmiut dykes and detrital zircons in metasediments in the Palaeoprotozoic Nagssugtoqidian Orogen (West Greenland): Clues to the pre-collisional history of the orogen. Precambrian Research, 93, 87-104.

Pankhurst, R.J., Weaver, S.D., Hervé and Larrondo, P., 1999.
Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the North Patagoian Batholith in Aysén, southern Chile. Journal of the Geological Society London, 156, 673-694.

Pell, S.D., Chivas, A.R. and Williams, I.S., 1999.
Great Victoria Desert: development and sand provenance. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 46, 289-300.

Peucat, J.J., Ménot, R.P., Monnier, O. and Fanning, C.M., 1999.
The Terre Adélie basement in the East-Antarctica Shield: geological and isotopic evidence for a major 1.7 Ga thermal event; comparison with the Gawler Craton in South Australia. Precambrian Research, 94, 205-224.

Rawlings, D.J. and Page, R.W., 1999.
Geology, geochronology and emplacement structures associated with the Jimbu Microgranite, McArthur Basin, Northern Territory. Precambrian Research, 94, 225-250.

Robb, L.J., Armstrong, R.A. and Waters, D.J., 1999.
The history of granulite-facies metamorphism and crustal growth from single zircon U-Pb geochronology: Namaqualand, South Africa. Journal of Petrology, 40, 1747-1770.

Rubatto, D.R., Gebauer, D. and Compagnoni, R., 1999.
Dating of eclogite-facies zircons: the age of Alpine metamorphism in the Sesia-Lanzo Zone (Western Alps). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 167, 141-158.

Rubatto, D. and Gebaüer, D., 1999.
Eo/Oligocene (35 Ma) high-pressure metamorphism in the Monte Rosa nappe (Western Alps): implications for paleogeography. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 79, 353-362.

Sano, Y., Terada, K., Hidaka, H., Yokoyama, K. and Nutman, A.P., 1999.
Palaeoproterozoic thermal events recorded in the ~4.0 Ga Acasta gneiss, Canada: evidence from SHRIMP U-Pb dating of apatite and zircon. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 63, 899-905.

Sano, Y., Terada, K., Takahashi, Y. and Nutman, A.P., 1999.
Origin of life from apatite dating?: correspondence. Nature, 400, 127.

Schaltegger, U., Fanning, C.M., Günther, D., Maurin, J.C., Schulmann, K. and Gebauer, D., 1999.
Growth, annealing and recrystalisation of zircon and preservation of monazite in high-grade metamorphism: conventional and in-situ U-Pb isotope, cathodoluminesence and microchemical evidence. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 134, 186-201.

Schaltegger, U. and Gebaüer, D., 1999.
Pre-Alpine geochronology of the Central, Western and Southern Alps. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 79, 79-87.

Sircombe, K.N., 1999.
Tracing provenance through the isotope ages of littoral and sedimentary detrital zircon, eastern Australia. Sedimentary Geology, 124, 47-67.

Sircombe, K.N. and Freeman, M.J., 1999.
Provenance of detrital zircons on the Western Australia coastline - Implications for the geologic history of the Perth basin and denudation of the Yilgarn craton. Geology, 27, 879-882.

Tate, M.C., Norman, M.D., Johnson, S.E., Fanning, C.M. and Anderson, J.L., 1999.
Generation of tonalite and trondhjemite by subvolcanic fractionation and partial melting in the Zarza Intrusive Complex, Western Peninsular Ranges Batholith, northwestern Mexico. Journal of Petrology, 40, 983-1010.

Thomas, R.J., Cornell, D.H. and Armstrong, R.A., 1999.
Provenance age and metamorphic history of the Quha Formation, Natal Metamorphic Province: A U-Th-Pb zircon SHRIMP study. South African Journal of Geology, 102, 83-88.

Tyler,I.M., Page,R.W. and Griffin,T.J., 1999.
Depositional age and provenance of the Marboo Formation from SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology: Implications for the early Palaeoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Kimberley region, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 95, 225-243.

Vanderhaeghe, O., Teyssier, C. and Wysoczanski, R.J., 1999.
Structural and geochronologic constraints on the role of melt from migmatites to leucogranites, during the formation of the Shuswap metamorphic core complex. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36, 917-943.

Vavra, G., Schmid, R. and Gebauer, D., 1999.
Internal morphology, habit and U-Th-Pb microanalysis of amphiboloite-to-granulite facies zircon: geochronology of the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 134, 380-404.

Wingate, M.T.D., 1999.
Ion microprobe baddeleyite and zircon ages for late Archaean mafic dykes of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 46, 493-500.

Zucchetto, R.G., Henderson, R.A., Davis, B.K. and Wysoczanski, R.J., 1999.
Age constraints on deformation of the eastern Hodgkinson Province, north Queensland: new perspectives on the evolution of the northern Tasman Orogenic Zone. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 46, 105-114.

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2000

Armstrong, R. and Wilson, A.H., 2000.
A SHRIMP U-Pb study of zircons from the layered sequence of the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe, and a granitoid anatectic dyke. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 180, 1-12.

Barth, A.P., Wooden, J.L., Coleman, D.S. and Fanning, C.M., 2000.
Geochronology of the Proterozoic basement of southwesternmost North America, and the origin and evolution of the Mojave crustal province. Tectonics, 19, 616-629.

Boger, S.D., Carson, C.J., Wilson, C.J.L. and Fanning, C.M., 2000.
Neoproterozoic deformation in the Radok Lake region of the northern Prince Charles Mountains, east Antarctica; evidence for a single protracted orogenic event. Precambrian Research, 104, 1-24.

Carson, C.J., Boger, S.D., Fanning, C.M., Wilson, C.J.L. and Thost, D.E., 2000.
SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology from Mount Kirkby, northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 12, 429-442.

Chappell, B.W. , White, A.J.R., Williams, I.S., Wyborn, D. and Wyborn, L.A.I., 2000.
Lachlan Fold Belt granites revisited: high- and low-temperature granites and their implications. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47, 123-138.

Cheng, Y., Liu, D., Williams, I.S., Jian, P., Zhuang, Y. and Gao, T., 2000.
SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircons of a dark eclogite and a garnet-bearing gneissic granitic rock from Bixiling, eastern Dabie area, Anhui Province: Isotopic chronological evidence of Neoproterozoic UHP metamorphism. Acta Geologica Sinica, 74 (4), 748-765.

Clark, D.J., Hensen, B.J. and Kinny, P.D., 2000.
Geochronological constraints for a two-stage history of the Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 102, 155-183.

Compston, W., 2000.
Interpretations of SHRIMP and isotope dilution zircon ages for the geological time-scale: I. The early Ordovician and late Cambrian. Mineralogical Magazine, 64, 43-57.

Compston, W., 2000.
Interpretation of SHRIMP and isotope dilution zircon ages for the geological time-scale: II. Silurian to Devonian. Mineralogical Magazine, 64, 1127-1171.

Elworthy, T., Eglington, B.M., Armstrong, R.A. and Moyes, A.B., 2000.
Rb-Sr isotope constraints on the timing of late to post-Archæan tectonometamorphism affecting the southeastern Kaapvaal Craton. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 30, 641-650.

Evans, K.V., Aleinikoff, J.N., Obradovich, J.D. and Fanning, C.M., 2000.
SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of volcanic rocks, Belt Supergroup, western Montana: evidence for rapid deposition of sedimentary strata. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 37, 1287-1300.

Fraser, G., McDougall, I., Ellis, D.J. and Williams, I.S., 2000.
Timing and rate of isothermal decompression in Pan-African granulites from Rundvagshetta, East Antarctica. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 18, 441-454.

Garde, A.A., Friend, C.R.L., Marker, M. and Nutman, A.P., 2000.
Rapid maturation and stabilisation of middle Archaean continental crust: The Akia terrane, southern West Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 47, .

Goscombe, B., Armstrong, R. and Barton, J.M., 2000.
Geology of the Chewore Inliers, Zimbabwe: constraining the Mesoproterozoic to Palœozic evolution of the Zambezi Belt. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 30, 589-627.

Griffin, T.J., Page, R.W., Sheppard, S. and Tyler, I.M., 2000.
Tectonic implications of Palaeoproterozoic post-collisional, high-K felsic igneous rocks from the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Precambrian Research, 101, 1-23.

Hallsworth, C.R., Morton, A.C., Claoue-Long, J. and Fanning C.M., 2000.
Carboniferous sand provenance in the Pennine Basin, UK: constraints from heavy mineral and detrital zircon age data. Sedimentary Geology, 137, 147-.

Hoskin, P.W.O., 2000.
Patterns of chaos: fractal statistics and the oscillatory chemistry of minerals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 64, 1905-1923.

Hoskin, P.W.O. and Black, L.P., 2000.
Metamorphic zircon formation by solid-state recrystallization of protolith igneous zircon. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 18, 423-440.

Hoskin, P.W.O. and Ireland, T.R., 2000.
Rare earth element chemistry of zircon and its uses as a provenance indicator. Geology, 28, 627-630.

Hoskin, P.W.O., Kinny, P.D., Wyborn, D. and Chappell, B.W., 2000.
Identifying accessory mineral saturation during differentiation in granitoid magmas: an integrated approach. Journal of Petrology, 41, 1365-1396.

Jian, P., Liu, D., Yang, W. and Williams, I.S., 2000.
Petrographic and SHRIMP studies of zircons from the Caledonian Xiongdian eclogite, northwestern Dabie Mountains. Acta Geologica Sinica, 74 (4), 766-773.

Kalsbeek, F., Thrane, K., Nutman, A.P. and Jepsen, H.F., 2000.
Late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic history of the East Greenland Caledonides: evidence for Grenvillian orogenesis? Journal of the Geological Society of London, 157, 1215-1225.

Kampunzu, A.B., Armstrong, R.A., Modisi, M.P. and Mapeo, R.B.M., 2000.
Ion microprobe U-Pb ages on detrital zircon grains from the Chanzi Group: implications for the identification of a Kibaran-age crust in northwest Botswana. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 30, 579-587.

Kent, A.J.R. Ashley, P.M. and Fanning, C.M., 2000.
Metasomatic alteration associated with regional metamorphism: an example from the Willyama Supergroup, South Australia. Lithos, 54, 33-62.

Konzett, J., Armstrong, R.A. and Günther, D., 2000.
Modal metasomatism in the Kaapvaal craton lithosphere: constraints on timing and genesis from U-Pb zircon dating of metasomatized peridotites and MARID-type xenoliths. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 139, 704-719.

Leslie, A.G. and Nutman, A.P., 2000.
On the evidence for episodic tectno-thermal activity in southern Renland, Caledonian fold belt, East Greenland. Report of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, 47, .

Liati, A., Gebauer, D. and Fanning C.M., 2000.
U-Pb SHRIMP dating of zircon from the Novate granite (Bergell, Central Alps): evidence for Oligocene-Miocene magmatism, Jurassic/Cretaceous continental rifting and opening of the Valais trough. Schweizerische Mineralogische Und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 80, 305-316.

Morton, A.C., Humphreys, B., Manggal, G. and Fanning, C.M., 2000.
Provenance and correlation of Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Reservoir Sandstones in Papua New Guinea using heavy mineral analysis. Papua New Guinea's Petroleum Industry in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the Fourth PNG Petroleum Convention, Port Moresby, Buchanan, P.G., Grainge, A.M. and Thorton, R.C.N. (Eds.), 187-203.

Nagano, T., Sato, T., Williams, I.S., Zaw, M., Payne, T.E., Airey, P.L.,Yanase, N., Isobe, H. and Ohnuki, T., 2000.
SHRIMP measurements of U and Pb isotopes in the Koongarra secondary ore deposit, Northern Australia. Geochemical Journal, 34, 349-358.

Nutman, A.P., Bennett, V.C., Friend, C.R.L. and McGregor, V.P., 2000.
The early Archaean Itsaq Gneiss Complex of southern West Greenland: the importance of geology in interpreting geochronological and isotopic data on early terrestrial evolution. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 64, 3035-3060.

Opdyke, D., Roberts, J., Claoué-Long, J., Irving, E. and Jones, P.J., 2000.
Base of the Kiaman: its definition and global stratigraphical significance. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 112, 1315-1341.

Page, R.W., Jackson, M.J. and Krassay, A.A., 2000.
Constraining sequence stratigraphy in northern Australian basins: SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology between Mt. Isa and McArthur River. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47, 431-459.

Pankhurst, R.J., Riley, T.R., Fanning, C.M. and Kelley, S.P., 2000.
Episodic silicic volcanism in Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula: chronology of magmatism associated with the break-up of Gondwana. Journal of Petrology, 41, 605-625.

Pell, S.D., Chivas, A.R. and Williams, I.S., 2000.
The Simpson, Strzelecki and Tirari Deserts: development and sand provenance. Sedimentary Geology, 130, 107-130.

Pimental, M.M., Jost, H., Armstrong, R.A., Fuck, R.A., Junges, S.L. and Resende, M.G., 2000.
Re-appraisal of the Santa Rita greenstone belt stratigraphy, central Brazil, based on new U-Pb SHRIMP age and Sm-Nd data of felsic metavolcanic rocks. Revista Brasileira de Geociências, 30, 157-160.

Reimold, W.U., Koeberl, C., Brandstätter, F., Kruger, F.J., Armstrong, R.A. and Geological Society of America Special Paper.

Bootsman, K., 2000.
The Morokweng Impact Structure, South Africa: geological, petrographical, and isotopic results, and implications for the size of the structure. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution (Sudbury 1997). Eds. B.O. Dressler and V.L. Sharpton. Geological Society of America Special Paper.

Rubatto, D. and Gebaüer, D., 2000.
Use of cathodoluminescence for U-Pb zircon dating by ion microprobe: some examples from the Western Alps. In: Cathodoluminescence in Geosciences (eds. Pagel, M., Barbin, V., Blanc, P. and Ohnenstetter, D.), Springer Verlag, 373-400.

Sánchez-Rodríguez, L. and Gebaüer, D., 2000.
Mesozoic formation of pyroxenites and gabbros in the Ronda area (southern Spain), followed by Early Miocene subduction metamorphism and emplacement into the middle crust: U-Pb sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe dating of zircon. Tectonophysics, 136, 19-44.

Sano, Y., Hidaka, H., Terada, K., Shimizu, H. and Suzuki, M., 2000.
Ion microprobe U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Hida gneiss: finding of the oldest minerals in Japan. Geochemical Journal, 34, 135-153.

Scherstén, A., Årebäck, H., Cornell, D., Hoskin, P., Åberg, A. and Armstrong, R., 2000.
Dating mafic-ultramafic intrusions by ion-microprobing contact-melt zircon: examples from SW Sweden. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 139, 115-125.

Scott, D.L., Rawlings, D.J., Page, R.W., Tarlowski, C.Z., Idnurm, M., Jackson, M.J. and Southgate, P.N., 2000.
Basement framework and geodynamic evolution of the Paleoproterozoic superbasins of north-central Australia: an integrated review of geochemical, geochronological and geophysical data. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47, 341-380.

Sircombe, K.N., 2000.
Quantitative comparison of large sets of geochronological data using multivariate analysis: a provenance study example from Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 64, 1593-1616.

Sircombe, K.N. McQueen, K.G. 2000.
Zircon dating of Devonian-Carboniferous rocks from the Bombala area, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47, 1041-1052.

Southgate, P.N., Bradshaw, B.E., Domagala, J., Jackson, M.J., Idnurm, M., Krassay, A.A., Page, R.W.,
Sami, T.T., Scott, D.L., Lindsay, J.F., McConachie, B.A. and Tarlowski, C., 2000.
Chronostratigraphic basin framework for Palaeoproterozoic rocks (1730-1575 Ma) in northern Australia and implications for base-metal mineralisation. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47, 461-483.

Steven, N., Armstrong, R., Smalley, T. and Moore, J., 2000.
First geological description of a Late Proterozoic (Kibaran) metabasaltic andesite-hosted chalcocite deposit at Omitiomire, Namibia. In: Geology and Ore Deposits 2000: the Great Basin and Beyond. Eds. Cluer, J.K., Price, J.G., Struhsacker, Hardyman, R.F. and Morris, C.L., Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings, May 15-18, 2000, 711-734.

Teale, G.S. and Fanning, C.M., 2000.
The Portia-North Portia Cu-Au(-Mo) Prospect, South Australia: timing of mineralisation, albitisation and origin of ore fluid. In: Porter, T.M. (Ed.), Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, pp 137-147.

Torrealday, H.I., Hitzman, M.W., Stein, H.J., Markley, R.J., Armstrong, R.A. and Broughton, D., 2000.
Re-Os and U-Pb dating of the vein-hosted mineralisation at the Kansanshi Copper Deposit, Northern Zambia. Economic Geology, 95, 1165-1170.

Turniak, K., Mazur, S. and Wysoczanski, R., 2000.
SHRIMP zircon geochronology and geochemistry of the Orlica-Snieznik gneisses (Varisan belt of Central Europe) and their tectonic implications. Geodinamica Acta, 13, 293-312.

Vasudev, V.N., Chadwick, B., Nutman, A.P. and Hegde, G.V., 2000.
Rapid basin development in the late Archaean Hutti schist belt, northern Karnataka: implications of new field data and SHRIMP U/Pb zircon ages. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 55, 529-540.

Weinberg, R.F. and Dunlap, W.J., 2000.
Growth and deformation of the Ladakh Batholith, northwest Himalayas: implications for timing of continental collision and origin of calc-alkaline batholiths. Journal of Geology, 108, 303-320.

Wingate, M.T.D., Campbell, I.H. and Harris, L.B., 2000.
SHRIMP baddeleyite age for the Fraser Dyke Swarm, southeast Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47, 309-313.

Wingate, M.T.D. and Compston, W., 2000.
Crystal orientation effects during ion microprobe U-Pb analysis of baddeleyite. Chemical Geology, 168, 75-97.

Wingate, M.T.D. and Giddings, J.W., 2000.
Age and paleomagnetism of the Mundine Well dyke swarm, Western Australia: implications for an Australia-Laurentia connection at 755Ma. Precambrian Research, 100, 335-357.

Wingate, M.T.D. and Campbell, I.H., 2000
SHRIMP baddeleyite age for the Fraser dyke swarm, southeast Yilgard Craton, Western Australia, Geol. Soc. Aust., 47, 309-313.

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2001

Ballard, J., Palin, J., Williams, I., Campbell, I., 2001.
Two ages of porphyry intrusion resolved for the super-giant Chuquicamata copper deposit of northern Chile by ELA-ICP-MS and SHRIMP. Geology, 29, 383-386.

Boger, S., Wilson, C., Fanning, C., 2001.
Early Paleozoic tectonism within the East Antarctic craton: The final suture between east and west Gondwana?. Geology, 29, 463-466.

Buick, I.S., Miller, J.A., Williams, I. S. and Cartwright, I., 2001.
Ordovician high-grade metamorphism of a newly recognised late Neoproterozoic terrane in the northern Harts Range, central Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 373-394.

Butera, K.M., Williams, I.S., Blevin, P.L. and Simpson, C.J., 2001.
Zircon U-Pb dating of Early Palaeozoic monzonitic intrusives from the Goonumbla area, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 48, 457-464.

Campbell, I.H., 2001
The identification of old mantle plumes, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Publication, 352: 5-21.

Camacho, A., McDougall, I., Armstrong, R., Braun, J., 2001.
Evidence for shear heating, Musgrave Block, central Australia. Journal of Structural Geology, 23, 1007-1013.

Casquet, C., Baldo, E., Pankhurst, R., Rapela, C., Galindo, C., Fanning, C., Saavedra, J., 2001.
Involvement of the Argentine Precordillera terrane in the Famatinian mobile belt:U-Pb SHRIMP and metamorphic evidence from the Sierra de Pie de Palo. Geology, 29, 703-706.

Chadwick, B., Hegde, G., Nutman, A., Vasudev, V., 2001.
Syenite emplacement during accretion of the late Archaean Dharwar batholith, south India: SHRIMP U/Pb age and structure of the Koppal pluton, Karnataka. Journal Geological Society of India, 58, 381-390.

Compston, W., 2001.
Effect of Pb loss on the ages of reference zircons QGNG and SL13, and of volcanic zircons from the Early Devonian Merrions and Turondale Formations, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48, 797-803.
Conor, C., Fanning, C., 2001.
Geochronology of the Woman-in-White Amphibolite, Olary Domain. MESA Journal, 20, 41-43.

Dodson, M., Williams, I., Kramers, J., 2001.
The Mushandike granite: further evidence for 3.4 Ga magmatism in the Zimbabwe craton. Geological Magazine, 138, 31-38.

Fergusson, C., Carr, P., Fanning, C., Green, T., 2001.
Proterozoic detrital zircon and monazite ages from the Anakie Inlier, central Queensland: Grenville and Pacific-Gondwana signatures. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48, 857-866.

Fischel, D., Pimentel, M., Fuck, R., Armstrong, R., 2001.
U-Pb SHRIMP and Sm-Nd geochronology of the Silvania volcanics and Jurubatuba granite: Paleoproterozoic juvenile magmatic rocks in the basement of the Brasília Belt, central Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciëncias, 73, 4, 390-399.

Friend, C.R.L. and Nutman, A.P., 2001.
U-Pb zircon study of tectonically bounded blocks of 2940-2840 Ma crust with different metamorphic histories, Paamiut region, South-West Greenland: implications for the tectonic assembly of the North Atlantic craton. Precambrian Research, 105, 143-164.

Gatehouse, R., Williams, I. and Pillans, B., 2001.
Fingerprinting windblown dust in southeastern Australian soils by uranium-lead dating of detrital zircon. Australian Journal of Soil Research, 39, 7-12.

Goodge, J., Fanning, C. and Bennett, V., 2001.
U-Pb evidence of ~1.7 Ga crustal tectonism during the Nimrod Orogeny in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: implications for Proterozoic plate reconstructions. Precambrian Research, 112, 261-288.

Hermann, J., Rubatto, D., Korsakov, A. and Shatsky, V., 2001.
Multiple zircon growth during fast exhumation of diamondiferous, deeply subducted continental crust (Kokchetav Massif, Kazakhstan). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 141, 1, 66-82.

Hervé, F. and Fanning, C., 2001.
Late Triassic detrital zircons in meta-turbidites of the Chonos Metamorphic Complex, southern Chile. Revista Geológica de Chile, 28, 91-104.

Jian, P., Liu, D., Yang, W. and Williams, I.S., 2001.
SHRIMP dating of zircons from the Caledonian Xiongdian eclogite, western Dabie Mountains, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 46 (1), 77-79.

Kalsbeek, F., Jepsen, H.F. and Nutman, A. P., 2001.
From source migmatites to plutons: tracking the origin of ca. 435 Ma S-type granites in the East Greenland Caledonian orogen. Lithos, 57, 1-21.

Keay, S., Lister, G. and Buick, I., 2001.
The timing of partial melting, Barrovian metamorphism and granite intrusion in the Naxos metamorphic core complex, Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Greece. Tectonophysics, 342, 275-312.

Liati, A., Gebauer, D., Froitzheim, N. and Fanning, C., 2001.
U-Pb SHRIMP geochronology of an amphibolitised eclogite and an orthogneiss from the Furgg zone (Western Alps) and implications for its geodynamic evolution. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 81, 379-393.

Lopez Sanchez-Vizcaino, V., Rubatto, D., Gomez-Pugnaire, M., Trommsdorff, V. and Müntener, O., 2001.
Middle Miocene high-pressure metamorphism and fast exhumation of the Nevado-Filabride Complex, SE Spain. Terra Nova, 5, 327-332.

Manhica, A., Grantham, G., Armstrong, R., Guise, P. and Kruger, F., 2001.
Polyphase deformation and metamorphism at the Kalahari Craton - Mozambique Metamorphic Belt boundary. In Continental Reactivation and Reworking, Miller J A, Holdsworth R E, Buick I S and Hand M (eds) Special Publication 184, Geological Society of London, London, 303-321.

Mapeo, R., Armstrong, R. and Kampunzu, A., 2001.
SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of gneisses from the Gweta borehole, northeast Botswana: implications for the Palaeoproterozoic Magondi Belt in southern Africa, Geological Magazine, 138, 299-308.

Michaelsen, P., Henderson, R., Crosdale, P. and Fanning, C., 2001.
Age and significance of the Platypus Tuff Bed, a regional reference horizon in the Upper Permian Moranbah Coal Measures, north Bowen Basin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48, 183-192.

Nutman, A.P., 2001.
On the scarcity of >3900 Ma detrital zircons in =3500 Ma metasediments. Precambrian Research, 105, 93-114.

Nutman, A., Green, D.H., Cook, C., Styles, M. and Holdsworth, R., 2001.
SHRIMP U/Pb zircon dating of the exhumation of the Lizard Peridotite and its emplacement over crustal rocks, Cornwall, England. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 158, 809-820.

Nutman, A. and Friend, C., 2001.
Victory Raymond McGregor, 1940-2000 (an obituary). Precambrian Research, 108, 175-177.

Nutman, A., Friend, C. and Bennett, V., 2001.
Review of the oldest (4400-3600 Ma) geological and mineralogical record: Glimpses of the beginning. Episodes, 24, 1-9.

Nutman, A., McGregor, V., Bennett, V. and Friend, C., 2001.
Age significance of U-Th-Pb zircon data from early Archaean rocks of west Greenland - a reassessment based on combined ion-microprobe and imaging studies – Comment. Chemical Geology, 175, 191-199.

Page, R., Griffin, T., Tyler, I. and Sheppard, S., 2001.
Geochronological constraints on tectonic models for Australian Palaeoproterozoic high-K granites. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 158, 535-545.

Pankhurst, R., Rapela, C. and Fanning, C., 2001.
Age and origin of coeval TTG, I- and S-type granites in the Famatinian belt of NW Argentina. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 91, 151-168.

Pell, S.D., Chivas, A.R. and Williams, I.S., 2001.
The Mallee Dunefield: development and sand provenance. Journal of Arid Environments, 48, 149-170.

Poller, U., Huth, J., Hoppe, P. and Williams, I.S., 2001.
REE, U, Th and Hf distribution in zircon from western Carpathian Variscan granitoids: A combined cathodoluminescence and ion microprobe study. American Journal of Science, 301 (10), 858-876.

Rosing, M.T., Nutman, A.P. and Løfqvist, L., 2001.
A new fragment of the early earth crust: the Aasivik terrane of West Greenland. Precambrian Research, 105, 115-128.

Rubatto, D. and Hermann, J., 2001.
Exhumation as fast as subduction? Geology, 29, 3-6.

Rubatto, D., Schaltegger, U., Lombardo, B. and Compagnoni, R., 2001.
Complex Paleozoic magmatic and metamorphic evolution in the Argentera Massif (Western Alps) resolved with U-Pb dating. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 81, 213-228.

Rubatto, D., Williams, I.S. and Buick, I.S., 2001.
Zircon and monazite response to prograde metamorphism in the Reynolds Range, central Australia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 140, 458-468.

Sutherland, F. and Fanning, C., 2001.
Gem-bearing basaltic volcanism, Barrington, New South Wales: Cenozoic evolution, based on basalt K-Ar ages and zircon fission track and U-Pb isotope dating. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48, 221-237.

Thiéblemont, D., Delor, C., Cocherie, A., Lafon, J., Goujou, J., Baldé, A., Bah, M., Hadi Sané, H. and Fanning, C., 2001.
A 3.5 Ga granite-gneiss basement in Guinea: further evidence for early archean accretion within the West African Craton. Precambrian Research, 108, 179-194.

Williams, I.S., 2001.
Response of detrital zircon and monazite, and their U-Pb isotopic systems, to regional metamorphism and host-rock partial melting, Cooma Complex, southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48, 557-580.

Zeck, H.P. and Williams, I.S., 2001.
Hercynian metamorphism in Nappe Core Complexes of the Alpine Betic-Rif Belt, Western Mediterranean – a SHRIMP zircon study. Journal of Petroloy, 42, 7, 1373-1385.

Zhang, W. and Fanning, C., 2001.
Age of the Kimban Orogeny revealed - U-Pb dates on the Corny Point Paragneiss, Yorke Peninsula, MESA Journal, 23, 28-33.

Zeh, A., Brätz, H. Millar, I.L. and Williams, I.S., 2001.
A combined zircon SHRIMP and Sm-Nd isotope study of high-grade paragneisses from the Mid-German Crystalline Rise: evidence for northern Gondwanan and Grenvillian provenance. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 158 (6), 983-994.

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2002

Armstrong, R., Vishnevsky, S. and Koeberl, C., 2002.
U-Pb Analyses of Zircons from the Popigai Impact Structure, Russia: First Results. In Impacts in Precambrian Shields, J Plado & L J Pesonen (eds) First edition, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York, Germany, pp 109-116.

Aleinikoff, J., Horton, J., Drake, A. and Fanning, C., 2002.
SHRIMP and Conventional U-Pb ages of Ordoviciangranites and tonalites in the central Appalachian Piedmont: Implications for Paleozoic tectonic events, American Journal of Science, 302, pp 50-75.

Aleinikoff, J., Wintsch, R., Fanning, C. and Dorais, M., 2002.
U-Pb geochronology of zircon and polygenetic titanite from the Glastonbury Complex, Connecticut, USA: an integrated SEM, EMPA, TIMS and SHRIMP study. Chemical Geology, 188, 125.

Bagai, Z., Armstrong, R. and Kampunzu, A., 2002.
U-Pb single zircon geochronology of granitoids in the Vumba granite-greenstone terrain (NE Botswana): Implications for the evolution of the Archaean Zimbabwe craton. Precambrian Research, 118, 149-168.

Bennett, V., Nutman, A. and Esat, M., 2002.
Constraints on mantle evolution from 187Os/188Os isotopic compositions of Archean ultramafic rocks from southern West Greenland (3.8 Ga) and Western Australia (3.46 Ga). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66, 2615-2630.

Boger, S., Carson, C., Fanning, C., Hergt, J., Wilson, C. and Woodhead, J., 2002.
Pan-African intraplate deformation in the northern Prince Charles Mountains, east Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 195, 195-210.

Campbell, I.H., 2002.
Implications of Nb/U, Th/U and Sm/Nd in plume magmas for the relationship between continental and oceanic crust formation and the development of depleted mantle, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 66: 1651-1661

Camacho, A., Hensen, B. and Armstrong, R., 2002.
Isotopic test of a thermally driven intraplate orogenic model, Australia. Geology, 30, 887-890.

Cesare, B., Rubatto, D., Hermann, J. and Barzi, L., 2002.
Evidence for late carboniferous subduction-type magmatism in mafic-ultramafic cumulates of the SW Tauern Window (Eastern Alps). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 142, 449-464.

Chardon, D., Peucat, J., Jayananda, M., Choukroune, P. and Fanning, C., 2002.
Archean granite-greenstone tectonics at Kolar (South India): Interplay of diapirism and bulk inhomogeneous contraction during juvenile magmatic accretion. Tectonics, 21, 10.1029/2001TC901032.

Compston, W., Wright, A.E. and Toghill, P., 2002.
Dating the Late Precambrian volcanicity of England and Wales. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 159, 323-339.

Cordani, U., Coutinho, J. and Nutman, A., 2002.
Geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Embu Complex, São Paulo, Brazil, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 14, 903-910.

Demptser, T., Rogers, G., Tanner, P., Bluck, B., Muir, R., Redwood, S., Ireland, T. and Paterson, B., 2002.
Timing of deposition, orogenesis and glaciation within the Dalradian rocks of Scotland: constraints from U-Pb zircon ages. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 159, 83-94.

Dziggel, A., Stevens, G., Poujol, M., Anhaeusser, C. and Armstrong, R., 2002.
Metamorphism of the granite-greenstone terrane south of the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: an insight into the tectono-thermal evolution of the ‘lower’ portions of the Onverwacht Group. Precambrian Research, 114, 221-247.

Fergusson, C. and Fanning, C., 2002.
Late Ordovician stratigraphy, zircon provenance and tectonics, Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 49, 423-436.

Friend, C., Bennett, V. and Nutman, A., 2002.
Abyssal peridotites >3,800 Ma from southern West Greenland: field relationships, petrography, geochronology, whole-rock and mineral chemistry of dunite and harzburgite inclusions in the Itsaq Gneiss Complex. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 143, 71-92.

Friend, C., Nutman, A. and Bennett, V., 2002.
Comment on: Metasomatic origin of quartz-pyroxene rock, Akilia, Greenland and implications for Earth’s earliest life (Fedo & Whitehouse). Science, 298, 917a.

Friend, C., Nutman, A., Bennett, V., 2002.
Protoliths of the 3.8 - 3.7 Ga Isua greenstone belt – comment. Precambrian Research, 117, 145-149.

Geslin, J., Link, P., Riesterer, J., Kuntz, M. and Fanning, C., 2002.
Pliocene and Quaternary stratigraphic architecture and drainage systems of the Big Lost Trough, northeastern Snake River Plain, Idaho. In Geology, Hydrogeology and Environmental Remediation: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Eastern Snake River, Idaho, Link PK and Mink LL (eds) 1 edition, Geological Society of America Inc, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 11-26.

Giles, D. and Nutman, A., 2002.
SHRIMP U-Pb monazite dating of 1600-1580 Ma amphibolite facies metamorphism in the southeastern Mt Isa Block, Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 49, 455-465.

Goodge, J. and Fanning, C., 2002.
Precambrian crustal history of the Nimrod Group, central Transantarctic Mountains, 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, 05/07/1999, pp 43-50.

Goodge, J., Myrow, P., Williams, I. and Bowring, S., 2002.
Age and provenance of the Beardmore Group, Antarctica: Constraints on Rodinia supercontinent breakup, Journal of Geology, 110, 393-406.

Kelly, N., Clarke, G. and Fanning, C., 2002.
A two-stage evolution of the Neoproterozoic Rayner Structural Episode: new U-Pb sensitive high resolution ion microprobe constraints from the Oygarden Group, Kemp Land, East Antarctica. Precambrian Research, 116, 307-330.

Key, R., Liyungu, A., Njamu, F., Somwe, V., Banda, J., Mosley, P., Armstrong, R., 2002.
The western arm of the Lufilian Arc in NW Zambia and its potential for copper mineralization. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 33, 501-528.

Kisters, A., Belcher, R., Armstrong, R., Scheepers, R., Rozendaal, A. and Jordaan, L., 2002.
Timing and kinematics of the Colenso Fault: The early Paleozoic shift from collisional to extensional tectonics in the Pan-African Saldania Belt, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 105, 257-270.

Königer, S., Lorenz, V., Stollhofen, H. and Armstrong, R., 2002.
Origin, age and stratigraphic significance of distal fallout ash tuffs from the Carboniferous-Permian continental Saar-Nahe Basin (SW Germany). International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), 91, 341-356.

Lombardo, B., Rubatto, D. and Castelli, D., 2002.
Ion microprobe U-Pb dating of zircon from a Monviso metaplagiogranite: implications for the evolution of the Piedmont-Ligurian Tethys in the Western Alps. Ofioliti, 27, 109-117.

Mendonidis, P., Armstrong, R., Eglington, B., Grantham, G. and Thomas, R., 2002.
Metamorphic history and U-Pb Zircon (SHRIMP) geochronology of the Glenmore Granite: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Natal Metamorphic Province. South African Journal of Geology, 105, 325-336.

Millar, I., Pankhurst, R. and Fanning, C., 2002.
Basement chronology of the Antarctic Peninsula: recurrent magmatism and anatexis in the Palaeozoic Gondwana Margin. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 159,145-157.

Miller, E., Ireland, T., Klemperer, S., Wirth, K., Akinin, V. and Brocher, T., 2002.
SHRIMP zircon dating of reflective crust and Moho beneath the Bering Shelf, Alaska and Russia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 360, 195-208.

Nutman, A., McGregor, V., Shiraishi, K., Friend, C., Bennett, V. and Kinny, P., 2002.
= 3850 Ma BIF and mafic inclusions in the early Archaean Itsaq Gneiss Complex around Akilia, southern West Greenland? The difficulties of precise dating of zircon-free protoliths in migmatites. Precambrian Research, 117, 185-224.

Nutman, A., Friend, C. and Bennett, V., 2002.
Evidence for 3650-3600 Ma assembly of the northern end of the Itsaq Gneiss Complex, Greenland: Implication for early Archaean tectonics. Tectonics, 21, 1, 10.1029/2000TC001203.

Oliver, R. and Fanning, C., 2002.
Proterozoic geology east and southeast of Commonwealth Bay, George V Land, Antarctica, and its relationship to that of adjacent Gondwana terranes. 8th International Symposium of Antarctic Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, 05/07/1999, 51-58.

Peucat, J., Capdevila, R., Fanning, C., Ménot, R., Pécora, L. and Testut, L., 2002.
1.60 Ga felsic volcanic blocks in the moraines of the Terre Adélie Craton, Antarctica: comparisons with the Gawler Range Volcanics, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 49, 831-845.

Peucat, J., Mascarenhas, J., Barbosa, J., de Souza, S., Marinho, M., Fanning, C. and Leite, C., 2002.
3.3Ga SHRIMP U-Pb zircon age of a felsic metavolcanic rock from the Mundo Novo greenstone belt in the São Francisco craton, Bahia (NE Brazil). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 15, 363-373.

Pittau, P., Barca, S., Cocherie, A., Del Rio, M., Fanning, C. and Rossi, P., 2002.
The Permian basin of Guardia Pisano (SW Sardinia, Italy): palynostratigraphy, paleophytogeography, correlations and radiometric age. GEOBIOS, 35, 561-580.

Poujol, M., Anhaeusser, C. and Armstrong, R., 2002.
Episodic granitoid emplacement in the Archaean Amalia-Kraaipan terrane, South Africa: confirmation from single zircon U-Pb geochronology. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 35, 147-161.

Reimold, W., Armstrong, R. and Koeberl, C., 2002.
A deep drillcore from the Morokweng impact structure, South Africa: petrography, geochemistry, and constraints on the crater size. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 201, 221-232.

Rubatto, D., 2002.
Zircon trace element geochemistry: partitioning with garnet and the link between U-Pb ages and metamorphism. Chemical Geology, 184, 123-138.

Rumble, D., Giorgis, D., Ireland, T., Zhang, Z., Xu, H., Yui, T., Yang, J., Xu, Z. and Liou, J., 2002.
Low d18O zircons, U-Pb dating, and the age of the Qinglongshan oxygen and hydrogen isotope anomoly near Donghai in Jiangsu Province, China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66, 2299-2306.

Scheepers, R. and Armstrong, R., 2002.
New U-Pb SHRIMP zircon ages of the Cape Granite Suite: implications for the magmatic evolution of the Saldania Belt. South African Journal of Geology, 105, 241-256.

Spaggiari, C., Gray, D., Foster, D. and Fanning, C., 2002.
Occurrence and significance of blueschist in the southern Lachlan Orogen. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 49, 255-269.

Stevens, G., Droop, G., Armstrong, R. and Anhaeusser, C., 2002.
Amphibolite facies metamorphism in the Schapenburg schist belt: A record of the mid-crustal response to ~3.23 Ga terrane accretion in the Barberton greenstone belt. South African Journal of Geology, 105, 271-284.

Sun, W., Williams, I. and Li, S., 2002.
Carboniferous and Triassic eclogites in the western Dabie Mountains, east-central China: evidence for protracted convergence of the North and South China Blocks. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 873-886.

Sutherland, F., Graham, I., Pogson, R., Schwarz, D., Webb, G., Coenraads, R., Fanning, C., Hollis, J. and Allen, T., 2002.
The Tumbarumba Basaltic Gem Field, New South Wales: In Relation to Sapphire-Ruby Deposits of Eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 54, 215-248.

Teklay, M., Berhe, K., Reimold, W., Armstrong, R., Asmerom, Y. and Watson, J., 2002.
Geochemistry and Geochronology of a Neoproterozoic Low-K Tholeiite-Boninite Association in Central Eritrea. Gondwana Research, 5, 597-611.

Thomas, R., Chevallier, L., Gresse, P., Harmer, R., Eglington, B., Armstrong, R., de Beer, C., Martini, J., de Kock, G., Macey, P. and Ingram, B., 2002.
Precambrian evolution of the Sirwa Window, Anti-Atlas Orogen, Morocco. Precambrian Research, 118, 1-57.

Van Wyck, N. and Williams, I., 2002.
The age and provenance of basement metasediments from the Kubor and Bena Bena blocks, Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea: constraints on the tectonic evolution of the northern Australian cratonic margin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 49, 565-577.

Vaughn, A., Pankhurst, R. and Fanning, C., 2002.
A mid-Cretaceous age for the Palmer Land event, Antarctic Peninsula: implications for terrane accretion timing and Gondwana palaeolatitudes. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 159, 113-116.

Wu, C., Wooden, J., Yang, J., Li, H., Ireland, T., Liou, J., Wan, Y. and Shi, R., 2002.
Relationship between granite and eclogite on the southern margin of the Qilian Mountains: Evidence from zircon SHRIMP ages of the Aolashan granite. Acta Geologica Sinica (Beijing), 76, 118-125.

Yibas, B., Reimold, W., Armstrong, R., Koeberl, C., Anhaeusser, C. and Phillips, D., 2002.
The tectonostratigraphy, granitoid geochronology and geological evolution of the Precambrian of southern Ethiopia. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 34, 57-84.

Yoshinobu, A., Barnes, C., Nordgulen, Ø., Prestvik, T., Fanning, C. and Pedersen, R., 2002.
Ordovician magmatism, deformation, and exhumation in the Caledonides of central Norway: An orphan of the Taconic orogeny? Geology, 30, 883-886.

Zeck, H. and Williams, I., 2002.
Inherited and magmatic zircon from Neogene Hoyazo cordierite dacite, SE Spain - anatectic source rock provenance and magmatic evolution. Journal of Petrology, 43, 1089-1104.

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2003

Bastos Leal, L.R, Cunha, J.C., Cordani, U.G., Teixeira, W., Nutman, A.P., Menezes Leal, A.B. and Macambira, M.J.B., 2003.
SHRIMP U-Pb, 207Pb/206Pb zircon dating, and Nd isotopic signature of the Umburanas greenstone belt, norther São Francisco craton, Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 15, 775-785.

Black, L.P., Kamo, S.L., Allen, C.M., Aleinikoff, J.N., Davis, D.W., Korsch, R.J. and Foudoulis, 2003.
C. TEMORA 1: A new zircon standard for Phanerozoic U-Pb geochronology. Chemical Geology, 200/1-2, 155-170.

Black, L.P., Kamo, S.L., Williams, I.S., Mundil, R., Davis, D.W., Korsch, R.J. and Foudoulis, C., 2003.
The application of SHRIMP to Phanerozoic geochronology; a critical appraisal of four zircon standards. Chemical Geology, 200/1-2, 171-188.

Compston, W. Wright, A.E and Toghill, P., 2003
Discussion on Dating the Late Precambrian volcanicity of England and Wales – Reply. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160, 329-330.

Hervé, F., Fanning, C.M. and Pankhurst, R.J., 2003.
Detrital zircon age patterns and provenance of the metamorphic complexes of southern Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 16, 107-123.

Huang, M., Maas, R., Buick, I.S. and Williams, I.S., 2003.
Crustal response to continental collisions between the Tibet, Indian, south China and North China Blocks: geochronologic constraints from the Songpan-Garzê Orogenic Belt, western China. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21 (3), 223-240.

Rubatto, D. and Hermann, J., 2003.
Zircon formation during fluid circulation in eclogites (Monviso, Western Alps): implications for Zr and Hf budget in subduction zones. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67(12), 2173-2187.

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2004

Black, L. P., Sandra L. K., Charlotte M. A., Davis, D. W., Aleinikoff, J. N., J. W., Mundil, R., Campbell, I. H., Korsch, R. J., Williams, I. S. and Foudoulis, C., 2004
Improved 206Pb/238U microprobe geochronology by the monitoring of atrace-element related matrix effect; SHRIMP, ID-TIMS, ELA-ICP-MS, and oxygen isotope documentation for a series of zircon standards. Chem. Geol., 205, 115-140, 2004.

Eriksson, K.A., Campbell, I.H., Palin, J.M., Allen, C.M. and Bock, . 2004
Multiple recycling in Neoproterozoic through Pennsylvanian Sedimentary rocks of the central Appalachian basin: evidence from sandstone petrography, detrital zircon geochronology and Nd-isotope geochemistry. J. of Geol.,

Harris, C. A., Allen, C. M., Bryan, S. E., Campbell, I. H., Holcombe, R. J. and Palin, J. M., 2004
ELA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology of regional volcanism hosting the Bajo de la Alumbrera Cu-Au deposit: implication for the genesis of Porphyry ore deposits. Mineralium Deposita., 39, 46-67. - and -
A new geochemical technique for gold exploration: Alkali element mobility associated with gold mineralization in the Western Australian Goldfields. Econ. Geol

In Press

Ballard, J.R., Palin, J.M., Campbell, I.H. and Faunes, A. Geochronology of the Chuquicamata-El Abra porphyry copper belt of northern Chile, by excimer laser ablation ICP-MS analysis of U-Th-Ph isotopes in zircon. Econ. Geol.

Black, L.P. and Jagodzinski, E.A., in press.
The importance of establishing sources of uncertainty for the derivation of reliable SHRIMP ages. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.

Buick, I.S., Williams, I.S., Gibson, R.L., Cartwright, I. And Miller J.A., in press.
Carbon and U-Pb evidence for a Palaeoproterozoic crustal component in the Central zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa. Journal of the Geological Society, London, Accepted 16/12/2002.

Cesare, B., Gómez-Pugnaire, M.T. and Rubatto, D., in press.
Residence time of S-type anatectic magmas beneath the Neogene Volcanic Province of SE Spain: a zircon and monazite SHRIMP study. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.

Claoué-Long, J.C., Jones, P.J. and Roberts, J., in press.
The age of the boundary. Chapter to book “Final Report of the IUGS Working Group on the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary”, ed. E. Paproth.

Compston, D.M., Campbell, I.H., Compston, W.C. and Kent, A.J.R., in press.
A comparison between SHRIMP U-Pb xenocrystic zircon ages and Sm-Nd model ages for felsic rocks from the Tennant Creek area of northern Australia. Chemical Geology,

Hanchar, J.M., Finch, R.J., Burns, P.C., Hoskin, P.W.O., Watson, E.B., Cherniak, D.J. and Mariano, A.N., in press.
Rare-earth elements in zircon: synthesis and rare earth element doping. American Mineralogist.

Hermann, J. and Rubatto, D., in press.
Relating zircon and monazite domains to garnet growth zones: age and duration of granulite facies metamorphism in the Val Malenco lower crust. Journal of Metamorphic Geology.

Manhica, A.D.S.T., Grantham, G.H., Armstrong, R.A., Guise, P.D. and Kruger, F.J., in press.
Polyphase deformation and metamorphism at the Kalahari Craton - Mozambique Metamorphic Province boundary. In: Polyphase tectonism and reactivation mechanisms in metamorphic belts. Eds. Miller et al, Geological Society of London Special Publication

Mapeo, R.B.M., Armstrong, R.A. and Kampunzu, A.B., in press.
Ages of detrital zircon grains from Neoproterozoic siliclastic rocks in the Shakawe area: implications for the evolution of the Proterozoic crust in NW Botswana. South African Journal of Geology,

Mapeo, R.B.M., Armstrong, R.A. and Kampunzu, A.B., in press.
SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of gneisses from the Gweta borehole, NE Botswana: implications for the Paleoproterozoic Magondi Belt. Geological Magazine

Nutman, A.P., Green, D.H., Cook, C.A., Styles, M.T. and Holdsworth, R.E., in press.
U-Pb zircon and monazite age constraints on tectonothermal events in the Lizard Complex, Cornwall, England. Journal of the Geological Society of London,.

Nutman, A.P., McGregor, V.P., Bennett, V.C. and Friend, C.R.L., in press.
Age significance of U-Th-Pb zircon data from early Archaean rocks of west Greenland: a reassessment based on combined ion-microprobe and imaging studies: comment. Chemical Geology,.

Robb, L.J., Freeman, L.A. and Armstrong, R.A., in press.
The nature and longevity of hydrothermal fluid flow and mineralisation in granites of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Rubatto, D., Liati, A. and Gebauer, D., in press.
Dating UHP metamorphism. In: R. Compagnoni and D.A. Carswell (Editors), Ultra-high pressure metamorphism. EMU Notes in Mineralogy. European Mineralogical Union, Budapest.

Rubatto, D. and Scambelluri, M., in press.
U-Pb dating of magmatic zircon and metamorphic baddeleyite in the Ligurian eclogites (Voltri Massif, Western Alps). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.

de Waal, S.A., Armstrong, R.A. and Pitra, P., in press.
Diorite inclusions at Marble hall: early magma emplacement related to the Rustenburg Layered Suite of the Bushveld Complex. South African Journal of Geology.

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