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Department News

Recent Publications

• Professor Ron Frost's Upcoming Book Featured in UWTV's Wyoming Signatures Series

• Associate Professor Mike Cheadle Invited to Present Keynote Lecture in Cyprus

• Recently Published Paper Details New Method for Dating Mafic Rocks

• Professor Holbrook Receives $472,262 Grant from Office of Naval Research

• Rare UW Mammoth Specimen Joins Major Traveling Exhibition

• Industry Partners Emerge to Aid UW's Carbon Sequestration Efforts

• Fall 2009 Issue of Rocky Mountain Geology Published

• UW Students Selected for NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellowships

• Graduating Students Participate in Fall '09 Commencement

• Department Participates in UW SER-Hosted Uraniam Workshop

• Assistant Professor Mark Clementz Receives Honorable Mention Paper Award

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• In situ U–Pb dating of micro-baddeleyite by secondary ion mass spectrometry—Chamberlain & Swapp

• Images of internal tides near the Norwegian continental slope—Holbrook

• Distribution of recycled crust within the upper mantle: Insights from the oxygen isotope composition of MORB from the Australian-Antarctic Discordance—Sims

• Tracing exhumation and orogenic wedge dynamics in the European Alps with detrital thermochronology—Carrapa

• On the occurrence, trace element geochemistry, and crystallization history of zircon from in situ ocean lithosphere—John, Cheadle, Swapp, Grimes

• Timescales of magmatic processes and eruption ages of the Nyiragongo volcanics—Sims

• Woodland-to-forest transition during prolonged drought in Minnesota after ca. AD 1300—Shuman

• Holocene Lake-Level Trends in the Rocky Mountains, U.S.A—Shuman

• Structure of the Wallowa-Baker terrane boundary—Schwartz, Snoke, & C. Frost

• Apatite triple dating and white mica 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of syntectonic detritus in the Central Andes—Carrapa

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