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  1. Quantifying crustal thickness over time in magmatic arcs

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2015, Nature

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  2. Across and along arc geochemical variations in altered volcanic rocks: Evidence from mineral chemistry of Jurassic lavas in northern Chile, and tectonic implications

    Article • Lithos, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  3. Origin and evolution of the South Carpathians basement (Romania): a zircon and monazite geochronologic study of its Alpine sedimentary cover

    Article • International Geology Review, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  4. A MASH Zone Revealed: the Mafic Complex of the Sierra Valle Fértil

    Article • Journal of Petrology, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  5. Unraveling crustal growth and reworking processes in complex zircons from orogenic lower-crust: The Proterozoic Putumayo Orogen of Amazonia

    Article • Precambrian Research, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  6. Tracking changes in crustal thickness during orogenic evolution with Sr/Y: An example from the North American Cordillera

    Article • Geology, August 2015, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  7. Constraints on plateau architecture and assembly from deep crustal xenoliths, northern Altiplano (SE Peru)

    Article • Geological Society of America Bulletin, June 2015, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  8. The Architecture, Chemistry, and Evolution of Continental Magmatic Arcs

    Article • Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, May 2015, Annual Reviews

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  9. Arc Magmatic Tempos: Gathering the Evidence

    Article • Elements, March 2015, GeoScienceWorld

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  10. High-Volume Magmatic Events in Subduction Systems

    Article • Elements, March 2015, GeoScienceWorld

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  11. Preface and Acknowledgments

    Article • January 2015, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  12. Southern Tibetan Oligocene–Miocene adakites: A record of Indian slab tearing

    Article • Lithos, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  13. Temporal growth of the Puna Plateau and its bearing on the post–Salta Rift system subsidence of the Andean foreland basin at 25°30′S

    Article • November 2014, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  14. Foundering-driven lithospheric melting: The source of central Andean mafic lavas on the Puna Plateau (22°S–27°S)

    Article • October 2014, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  15. A novel approach to lead isotope provenance studies of tin and bronze: applications to South African, Botswanan and Romanian artifacts

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, October 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  16. Geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of the Salinian arc, central California: Implications for the origin of intermediate magmas

    Article • Lithos, July 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  17. Peri-Gondwanan terranes in the Romanian Carpathians: A review of their spatial distribution, origin, provenance, and evolution

    Article • Geoscience Frontiers, May 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  18. Day 1: Guadalupe Igneous Complex

    Article • March 2014, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  19. Age and geochemistry of western Hoh-Xil–Songpan-Ganzi granitoids, northern Tibet: Implications for the Mesozoic closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean

    Article • Lithos, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  20. Tectonic implications of postcontractional magmatism of the Alisitos arc segment of the Peninsular Ranges, Baja California, Mexico

    Article • January 2014, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  21. The Early Andean subduction system as an analog to island arcs: Evidence from across-arc geochemical variations in northern Chile

    Article • Lithos, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  22. Dust and temperature influences on glaciofluvial sediment deposition in southwestern Tibet during the last millennium

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  23. Shear heating not a cause of inverted metamorphism

    Article • Geology, June 2013, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  24. Mantle-drip magmatism beneath the Altiplano-Puna plateau, central Andes

    Article • Geology, June 2013, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  25. The evolution of a key segment in the Europe–Adria collision: The Fruška Gora of northern Serbia

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  26. Detrital zircon and isotopic constraints on the crustal architecture and tectonic evolution of the northeastern Pamir

    Article • Tectonics, April 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  27. The Association Between the Hla-Dr Genotype and the Age of Onset in Type 1 Diabetes

    Article • Pediatric Research, November 2011, Nature

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  28. U-Pb-Hf characterization of the central Coast Mountains batholith: Implications for petrogenesis and crustal architecture

    Article • Lithosphere, July 2011, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  29. Peri-Amazonian, Avalonian-type and Ganderian-type terranes in the South Carpathians, Romania: The Danubian domain basement

    Article • Gondwana Research, June 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  30. Fingerprinting orogenic delamination

    Article • Geology, January 2011, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  31. Geochemical evidence of a near-surface history for source rocks of the central Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia

    Article • International Geology Review, January 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  32. Peri-Amazonian provenance of the Central Dobrogea terrane (Romania) attested by U/Pb detrital zircon age patterns

    Article • Geologica Carpathica, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  33. K–Ca ages of authigenic sediments: examples from Paleozoic glauconite and applications to low-temperature thermochronometry

    Article • International Journal of Earth Sciences, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  34. Provenance of Eocene river sediments from the central northern Sierra Nevada and implications for paleotopography

    Article • Tectonics, December 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  35. Avalonian and Cadomian terranes in North Dobrogea, Romania

    Article • Precambrian Research, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  36. Role of extrusion of the Rand and Sierra de Salinas schists in Late Cretaceous extension and rotation of the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity

    Article • Tectonics, September 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  37. Timing constraints on building an intermediate plutonic arc crustal section: U- Pb zircon geochronology of the Sierra Valle Fértil-La Huerta, Famatinian arc, Argentina

    Article • Tectonics, July 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  38. Isotopic and geochemical evidence for a recent transition in mantle chemistry beneath the western Canadian Cordillera

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  39. Characterization of the crust of the Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia, from P to S converted seismic waves and petrologic modeling

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  40. Mafic volcanism on the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina: Implications for lithospheric composition and evolution with an emphasis on lithospheric foundering

    Article • Lithosphere, October 2009, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  41. Unroofing history of Alabama and Poverty Hills basement blocks, Owens Valley, California, from apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronology

    Article • International Geology Review, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  42. Late Cambrian–Early Ordovician Gondwanan terranes in the Romanian Carpathians: A zircon U–Pb provenance study

    Article • Gondwana Research, August 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  43. Cyclicity in Cordilleran orogenic systems

    Article • Nature Geoscience, March 2009, Nature

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  44. Lithospheric mantle duplex beneath the central Mojave Desert revealed by xenoliths from Dish Hill, California

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, March 2009, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  45. Tectonic underplating of trench sediments beneath magmatic arcs: the central California example

    Article • International Geology Review, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  46. Preliminary stratigraphic and structural architecture of Bhutan: Implications for the along strike architecture of the Himalayan system

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  47. Temporal–compositional trends over short and long time-scales in basalts of the Big Pine Volcanic Field, California

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, May 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  48. Chronology of pluton emplacement and regional deformation in the southern Sierra Nevada batholith, California

    Article • January 2008, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  49. A geologic window into a subduction megathrust

    Article • Eos, July 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  50. Similarities between Archean high MgO eclogites and Phanerozoic arc-eclogite cumulates and the role of arcs in Archean continent formation

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, April 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  51. Igniting flare-up events in Cordilleran arcs

    Article • Geology, January 2007, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  52. The distribution of radiogenic heat production as a function of depth in the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California

    Article • Lithos, February 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  53. High temperatures and inverted metamorphism in the schist of Sierra de Salinas, California

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, January 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  54. Geochemical characteristics of crustal anatexis during the formation of migmatite at the Southern Sierra Nevada, California

    Article • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, October 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  55. Subducted carbonates, metasomatism of mantle wedges, and possible connections to diamond formation: An example from California

    Article • American Mineralogist, May 2005, Mineralogical Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  56. U-Pb detrital-zircon geochronology of northern Salinian basement and cover rocks

    Article • Geological Society of America Bulletin, January 2005, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  57. Net dextral slip, Neogene San Gregorio–Hosgri fault zone, coastal California: Geologic evidence and tectonic implications

    Article • January 2005, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  58. Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada in California

    Article • September 2004, Nature

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  59. Rates of sediment recycling beneath the Acapulco trench: Constraints from (U-Th)/He thermochronology

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2004, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  60. Geologic evolution of the Xolapa Complex, southern Mexico: Evidence from U-Pb zircon geochronology

    Article • Geological Society of America Bulletin, January 2004, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  61. Production and loss of high-density batholithic root, southern Sierra Nevada, California

    Article • Tectonics, November 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  62. Conditions and timing of high-pressure Variscan metamorphism in the South Carpathians, Romania

    Article • Lithos, October 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  63. Tectonic and magmatic development of the Salinian Coast Ridge Belt, California

    Article • Tectonics, October 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  64. Sm–Nd dating of spatially controlled domains of garnet single crystals: a new method of high-temperature thermochronology

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, August 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  65. Arc composition at mid-crustal depths: Insights from the Coast Ridge Belt, Santa Lucia Mountains, California

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  66. Anomalous isotopes and trace element zoning in plagioclase peridotite xenoliths of Oahu (Hawaii): implications for the Hawaiian plume

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, February 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  67. Late Cenozoic denudation and uplift rates in the Santa Lucia Mountains, California

    Article • Geology, January 2003, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  68. Building the Pamirs: The view from the underside

    Article • Geology, January 2003, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  69. Constraints on the bulk composition and root foundering rates of continental arcs: A California arc perspective

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2002, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  70. Melt depletion and subsequent metasomatism in the shallow mantle beneath Koolau volcano, Oahu (Hawaii)

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, February 2002, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  71. The California Arc: Thick Granitic Batholiths, Eclogitic Residues, Lithospheric-Scale Thrusting, and Magmatic Flare-Ups

    Article • GSA Today, January 2001, Geological Society of America

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  72. Enhanced Mantle Conductivity from Sulfide Minerals, Southern Sierra Nevada, California

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2000, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  73. 1.57‐Ga Magmatism in the South Carpathians: Implications for the Pre‐Alpine Basement and Evolution of the Mantle under the European Continent: A Discussion

    Article • The Journal of Geology, November 1999, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  74. The age and origin of a thick mafic-ultramafic keel from beneath the Sierra Nevada batholith

    Article • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, October 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  75. Crustal recycling beneath continental arcs: silica-rich glass inclusions in ultramafic xenoliths from the Sierra Nevada, California

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, March 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  76. A Case for Delamination of the Deep Batholithic Crust beneath the Sierra Nevada, California

    Article • International Geology Review, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  77. Buoyancy sources for a large, unrooted mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, California: Evidence from xenolith thermobarometry

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 1996, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mihai N Ducea

  78. Sulfur Variations in Glasses from Volcanic Rocks: Effect of Melt Composition on Sulfur Solubility

    Article • International Geology Review, August 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mihai N Ducea