Recent Publications

Apen, F. E., Rudnick, R. L., Ionov, D. A., Cottle, J. M., Moyen, J.-F., Golovin, A. V., & Korsakov, A. V. 2022. Heat transfer and production in cratonic continental crust: U-Pb thermochronology of xenoliths from the Siberian craton. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, e2022GC010497. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010497

​Graziani R., Larson K.P., Smit, M.A., Cottle, J.M., Lamming, J., Piette-Lauziere, N. 2022. Modern style nappe stacking in the Paleoproterozoic lower crust: An example from the snowbird tectonic zone, Canadian Shield. Precambrian Research. 380. 106817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106817

Soucy La Roche, R., Dyer, S.C., Zagorevski, A., Cottle, J.M., Gaidies, F. 2022. 150 Myr of episodic metamorphism recorded in the Yukon-Tanana terrane, northern Canadian Cordillera: evidence from monazite and xenotime petrochronology. Lithosphere. https://doi.org/10.2113/2022/7708357

Babazadeh, S., Raeisi, D., D'Antonio, M., Zhao, M., Long, L.E., Cottle, J.M., Modabberi, S. 2022. Petrogenesis of Miocene igneous rocks in the Tafresh area (Central Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc, Iran): Insights into mantle sources and geodynamic processes. Geological Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4451

Soret, M., Bonnet, G., Agard, P., Larson, K.P., Cottle, J.M., Dubacq, B., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Button, M., Rividi, N. 2022. Timescales of subduction initiation and evolution of subduction thermal regimes. Earth & Planetary Science Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117521

Larson, K.P., Cottle, J.M., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C. Lageson, D. 2022. A Plate Tectonic View from the Top of the World. Terra Nova. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12582

​Apen, F.A., Wall, C.J., Cottle, J.M., Schmitz, M.D., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Seward, G.G. 2021. Apatites for destruction: New reference apatites from Morocco and Brazil for U-Pb petrochronology and Nd and Sr isotope geochemistry. Chemical Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120689

Lihter, I., Larson, K.P., Smit, M.A., Cottle, J.M., Ashley, K.T., Shrestha, S. 2022. Decrypting the polymetamorphic record of the Himalaya. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G49467.1

Larson, K.P., Shrestha, S., Cottle, J.M., Guilmette, C., Johnson, T.A., Gibson, H.D., Gervais, F. 2021. Re-evaluating Monazite as a Record of Metamorphic Reactions. Geoscience Frontiers. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2021.101340

Larson, K.P., Cottle, J.M., Camacho, A., Piercey, S.J., Grujic, D. 2021. Miocene anatexis, cooling and exhumation in the Khumbu Himal, Nepal. International Geology Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2021.1969524

Barnes, C.G., Coint, N., Barnes, M.A., Chamberlain, K.M., Cottle, J.M., Rämö, T., Strickland, A., Valley, J.W. 2021. Open-system Evolution of a Crustal-scale, Magma Column, Klamath Mountains, California. Journal of Petrology. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egab065 . Data set on Dryad: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pvmcvdnk2

Peak, B., Flowers, R.M., Macdonald, F.A., Cottle, J.M. 2021. Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology reveals pre-Great Unconformity paleotopography in the Grand Canyon region, USA. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G49116.1

Del Papa, C., Payrola, P., Hongn, F., Pingel, H., Do Campo, C., Cottle, J.M., Lapiana, A., Strecker, M.R. 2021. Stratigraphic Response to Fragmentation of The Miocene Andean Foreland Basin, NW Argentina. Basin Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12589

Simonetti, M., Carosi, R., Montomoli, C., Law, R.D., Cottle, J.M. 2021. Unravelling the development of regional-scale shear zones by a multidisciplinary approach: the case study of the Ferriere-Mollières Shear Zone (Argentera Massif, Western Alps). Journal of Structural Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2021.104399

Bendokht, M., Shabanian, N., Davoudian, A.R., Dong, Y., Cottle, J.M., Johnson, T.A. 2021. Geochronology and geochemistry of the Cadomian basement orthogneisses from the Tutak Metamorphic Complex, Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, Iran. Precambrian Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106288

Soret, M., Larson, K.P., Cottle, J.M., Ali, A. 2021. How Himalayan collision stems from subduction. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G48803.1

Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Avery, M.S., Zhang, Y., Hodgin, E.B., Sherwood, R.J., Apen, F.E., Boerboom, T.J., Keller, C.B., Cottle, J.M. 2021. The paleogeography of Laurentia in its early years: new constraints from the Paleoproterozoic East-Central Minnesota batholith. Tectonics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC006751

Schaen, A.J., Schoene, B., Dufek, J., Singer, B.S., Eddy, M.P., Jicha, B.R., Cottle, J.M. 2021. Transient rhyolite melt extraction to produce a shallow granitic pluton. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf0604

Adams, J.V., Jackson, M.G., Spera, F.J., Price, E., Byerly, B., Seward, G.G.E., Cottle, J.M. 2021. Extreme isotopic heterogeneity in Samoan clinopyroxenes helps constrain sediment recycling. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21416-9

Godin, L., Ahenda, M., Grujic, D., Stevenson, R., Cottle, J.M. 2021. Gurla Mandhata Protolith affiliation and tectonometamorphic evolution of the Gurla Mandhata Core Complex, NW Nepal Himalaya. Geosphere. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02326.1

Mako, C., Law, R.D., Caddick, M., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Thigpen, R., Ashley, K., Cottle, J.M., Piccoli, P. 2021. Constraints on the timing and conditions of metamorphism in the Moine Supergroup rocks of northern Scotland using U-Pb geochronology and accessory phase thermometry. Precambrian Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.106089

Johnson, T.A., Cottle, J.M., Larson, K.P. 2020. Delineation of multiple metamorphic events in the Himalayan Kathmandu Complex, central Nepal. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12583

Babazadeh, S., Massimo D’Antonio, M., Cottle, J.M., Ghalamghash, J., Raeisi, D., An, Y. 2020. Constraints from geochemistry, zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf-Nd isotopic compositions on the origin of Cenozoic volcanic rocks from central Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc, Iran. Gondwana Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.10.010

Apen, F.E., Rudnick, R.L., Cottle, J.M., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Blondes, M.S., Piccoli, P.M., Seward, G. 2020. Four-dimensional thermal evolution of the East African Orogen: accessory phase petrochronology of crustal profiles through the Tanzanian Craton and Mozambique Belt, northeastern Tanzania. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-020-01737-6

Montero-Lopez, C., Hongf, F., Lopez-Steinmetz, R.L., Aramayo, A., Pingel, H., Strecker, M.R., Cottle, J.M., Bianchi, B. 2020. Development of an incipient Paleogene topography between the present‐day Eastern Andean Plateau (Puna) and the Eastern Cordillera, southern Central Andes, NW Argentina. Basin Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12510

Brubacher, A.D., Larson, K.P. Cottle, J.M., Matthews, W., Camacho, A. 2020. Progressive development of E-W extension in the Tibetan plateau: A case study of the Thakkhola graben, west-central Nepal. International Geology Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2020.1808860

​Larson, K.P., Graziani, R., Cottle, J.M., Apen, F., Corthouts, T., Lageson, D. 2020. The Structural Evolution of the Qomolangma Formation, Mount Everest, Nepal. Journal of Structural Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104123

Shrestha, S., Larson, K.P., Martin, A., Guilmette, C., Smit, M., Cottle, J.M. 2020. The Greater Himalayan thrust belt: Insight into the assembly of the exhumed Himalayan metamorphic core, Modi Khola valley, central Nepal. Tectonics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006252

Simonetti M., Carosi R., Montomoli C., Corsini M., Petroccia A., Cottle J.M. 2020. Kinematic of the flow, strain analysis and geochronology of transpressive deformation in the Maures Massif (Southern France). International Journal of Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01898-6

Simonetti M., Carosi R., Montomoli C., Cottle J.M., Law, R.D. 2020. Transpressive deformation in the Southern European Variscan Belt: new insights from the Aiguilles Rouges Massif (Western Alps). Tectonics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006153

Lihter, I., Larson, K.P., Shrestha, S., Cottle, J.M., Brubacher, A.D. 2020. Contact metamorphism of the Tethyan Sedimentary Sequence, Upper Mustang region, west-central Nepal. Geological Magazine. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756820000229

Pingel, H., Strecker, M.R., Mulch, A., Alonso, R.N., Cottle, J.M., Rohrmann, A. 2020. Late Cenozoic topographic evolution of the Eastern Andean Cordillera and Puna Plateau margin in the southern Central Andes (NW Argentina). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116112

Cadena, E., Jaramillo, C., Vanegas, A., Cottle, J.M., Johnson, T.A. 2020. A new Miocene turtle from Colombia sheds light on the evolutionary history of the extant genus Mesoclemmys Gray, 1873. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1716777

Attia, S., Cottle, J.M., Paterson, S. 2020. The erupted zircon record of continental crust formation during mantle driven arc flare-ups. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G46991.1

Larson, K.P. Kellett, D.A., Cottle, J.M., Camacho, A., Brubacher, A.D. 2019. Mid‐Miocene initiation of E‐W extension and recoupling of the Himalaya. Terra Nova. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12443

Payrola, P., del Papa, C., Aramayo, A., Pingel, H., Hongn, F., Sobel, E.R., Zeilinger, G., Strecker, M.R., Zapata, S., Cottle J.M., Paz, N.S. 2019. Episodic out-of-sequence deformation promoted by Cenozoic fault reactivation in NW Argentina. Tectonophysics. 23:228276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228276

Cottle, J.M., Lederer, G.L., Larson, K.P. 2019. The Monazite Record of Pluton Assembly: Mapping Manaslu Using Petrochronology. Chemical Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119309

Nelson, D.A., Cottle, J.M., Schoene, B. 2019. The Butcher Ridge Igneous Complex: a glassy layered silicic magma distribution center in the Ferrar Large Igneous Province, Antarctica. GSA Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B35340.1

​Babazadeh, S., Furman, T., Cottle, J.M., Raeisi, D., Lima, I. 2019. Combining mineral chemistry, zircon trace-element composition and crystal size distribution to unravel magma chamber evolution: a case study from the Ardestan pluton, Central Iran. Mineralogical Magazine. ​https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2019.44

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Yakymchuk, C., Rehm, A., Zhao, Z., Cottle, J.M. 2019. Petrochronology of oxidized granulites from Southern Peru. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. DOI: 10.1111/jmg.12501

Gogoi, A., Majumdar, D., Cottle, J.M., and Dutta. P. 2019. Geochronology and Geochemistry of Mesoproterozoic Granitoids in the Northern Karbi Hills, NE India: Implications for Early Tectonic Evolution of the Karbi Massif. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.04.013

Embui, V.F., Suh, C.E., Cottle, J.M., Etame, J., Mendes, J., Agyingi, C.M., Vishiti, A., Shemang, E.M., Lehmann, B. 2019. Zircon chemistry and new laser ablation U-Pb ages for uraniferous granitoids in SW Cameroon. Acta Geochimica. DOI:10.1007/s11631-019-00337-x.

Fitz-Diaz, E., Cottle, J.M., Vidal Reyes, M.I., van der Pluijm, B. 2019. In situ Th/Pb dating of monazite in fibrous veins: direct dating of deformation in the shallow upper crust of the Mexican Orogen. Journal of Structural Geology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2019.04.004

Mako, C., Law, R.D., Caddick, M., Thigpen, R., Ashley, K., Cottle, J.M., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C. 2019. Thermal evolution of the Scandian hinterland, Naver nappe, northern Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society of London. DOI: 10.1144/jgs2018-224

Shresta, S., Larson, K.P., Duesterhoeft, E., Soret, M., Cottle, J.M. 2019. Thermodynamic modelling of phosphate minerals and its implications for the development of PTt histories: A case study in garnet-monazite bearing metapelites. Lithos. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.03.021

Nelson, D.A., Cottle, J.M. 2019. Tracking voluminous Permian volcanism of the Choiyoi Province into central Antarctica. GSA Lithosphere. https://doi.org/10.1130/L1015.1

Soret, M., Larson, K.P., Cottle, J.M., Shrestha, S., Smit, M.A., Faisal, S., Asghar, A. 2019. Mesozoic to Cenozoic tectono-metamorphic history of the South Pamir – Hindu Kush (Chitral, NW Pakistan): insights from phase equilibria modelling, and garnet – monazite petrochronology. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12479

Pingel, H., Alonso, R., Altenberger, U., Cottle, J.M., Strecker, M. 2019. Miocene to Quaternary basin evolution at the southeastern Andean Plateau (Puna) margin (~24°S lat, Northwestern Argentina). Basin Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12346

Edwards, M., Jackson, M.G., Kylander-Clark, A., Harvey, J., Hagen-Peter, G.A., Seward, G., Till, C.B., Adams, J.V., Cottle, J.M., Hacker, B.R., Spera, F.J. 2019. Beyond EM2: extreme enriched and heterogeneous 87Sr/86Sr ratios recorded in magmatic plagioclase from the Samoan hotspot. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.01.040

Mottram, C.M., Cottle, J.M., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C. 2018. Along-strike variations in titanite U-Pb petrochronology in the core of the Himalaya. Geoscience Frontiers. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2018.09.007

Briggs, S.I., Cottle, J.M. 2018. Accessory mineral petrochronology reveals 30 m.y. of partial melting during the separation of Zealandia from eastern Gondwana. GSA Lithosphere. https://doi.org/10.1130/L1021.1

Soucy La Roche, R., Godin, L., Cottle, J.M., Kellett, D.A. 2018. Tectonometamorphic evolution of the tip of the Himalayan metamorphic core in the Jajarkot klippe, west Nepal. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12459

Schaen, A., Singer, B.S., Cottle, J.M., Garibaldi, N., Schoene, B., Satkoski, A.M., Fournelle, J. 2018. Textural and Mineralogical Record of Low Pressure Melt Extraction and Silicic Cumulate Formation in the late Miocene Risco Bayo-Huemul Plutonic Complex, Southern Andes. Journal of Petrology. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egy087

Hacker, B.R., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Holder, R.M., 2018. REE Partitioning Between Monazite and Garnet: Implications for Petrochronology. Journal of Metamorphic Geology https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12458

Nanda, J., Gupta, S., Hacker, B.R., 2018. U-Pb zircon and titanite ages from granulites of the Koraput area, Eastern Ghats Belt, India – evidence for Columbia break-up and repeated Neoproterozoic reworking. Precambrian Research https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2018.06.013

Clark, C, Taylor, RJM, Kylander-Clark, ARC, and Hacker, B.R., 2018. Prolonged (>100 Myr) ultrahigh temperature metamorphism in the Napier Complex, East Antarctica: A Petrochronological investigation of Earth’s hottest crust. Journal of Metamorphic Geology https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12430

Holder, R, Hacker, B.R., Horton, F, Rakotondrazafy, M., 2018. Ultrahigh-temperature osumilite gneisses in southern Madagascar record combined heat advection and high rates of radiogenic heat production in a long-lived high-temperature orogen. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. doi: 10.1111/jmg.12316 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jmg.12316

Viete, DR., Hacker, B.R,, Allen, MB, Seward GGES, Tobin, MJ, Kelley, CS, Cinque, G, Duckworth, AR, 2018. Metamorphic record of multiple seismic cycles during subduction. Science Advances doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq0234 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/3/eaaq0234

Hacker, B.R., Ratschbacher, L, Rutte, R, Stearns, M.A., Malz, N., 2017. Building the Pamir–Tibet Plateau—Crustal stacking, extensional collapse, and lateral extrusion in the Pamir: 3. Thermobarometry and Petrochronology of Deep Asian Crust. Tectonics http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017TC004488/full

Shaffer, M.E.F., Hacker, B.R., Ratschbacher, L, Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., 2017. Foundering triggered by the collision of India and Asia captured in xenoliths. Tectonics, DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004704 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017TC004704/pdf

Nuriel, P., Weinberger, R., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Hacker, B.R., and Craddock, J. P., 2017. The origin of the Dead Sea Transform based on calcite age-strain analyses. Geology 45, 587–590 http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G38903.1

Garber, J.M., Hacker, B.R., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Stearns, M., Seward, G., 2017. Trace element uptake in metamorphic titanite: Implications for petrochronology. Journal of Petrology https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egx046

Babazadeh, S., Ghorbani, M.R., Cottle, J.M., Bröcker, M. 2018. Multi-stage tectono-magmatic evolution of the central Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc, south Ardestan, Iran: Insights from zircon geochronology and geochemistry. Geological Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3306

Nelson, D.A., Cottle, J.M. 2018. Zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopes link the Gondwana arc record for West Antarctica, Australia, and South America. Gondwana Research. doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2018.06.002

Cottle, J.M., Larson, K.P., Yakymchuk, C. 2018. Contrasting Accessory Mineral behavior in minimum-temperature melts: empirical constraints from the Himalayan Metamorphic Core. Lithos. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2018.05.003

Mosolf, J.G., Gans, P.B., Wyss, A.R., Cottle, J.M., Flynn, J.F. 2018. Late Cretaceous to Miocene magmatism and upper crustal deformation in the Principal Cordillera, central Chile: Evidence of protracted arc volcanism and implications for Andean tectonics. GSA Bulletin.

Braden, Z., Godin, L., Cottle, J.M. Yakymchuk, C. 2018. Renewed late Miocene (< 8 Ma) hinterland ductile thrusting, western Nepal Himalaya. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G40097.1

Mazza, S.E., Mako, C., Law, R.D., Caddick, M.J., Krabbendam, M., Cottle, J.M. 2018. Thermobarometry of the Moine and Sgurr Beag thrust sheets, northern Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.05.002

Soucy La Roche, R., Godin, L., Cottle, J.M., Kellett, D.A. 2018. Preservation of the early evolution of the Himalayan middle crust in foreland klippen: insights from the Karnali klippe, west Nepal. Tectonics. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017TC004847

Larson, K.P., Asghar, A., Shrestha, S., Soret, M., Ahmad, R., Cottle, J.M. 2018. Timing of metamorphism and deformation in the Swat valley, northern Pakistan: Insight into garnet-monazite HREE partitioning. Geoscience Frontiers. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2018.02.008

Briggs, S.I., Cottle, J.M., Smit. M.A. 2018. Record of Gondwana breakup in New Zealand from Lu-Hf garnet geochronology of the Alpine Schist. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12313

Bate Tibang, E.E., Suh, C.E., Cottle, J.M., Ateh, K.I., Tiabou, A.F., Nche, L.A., Che, V.B., Vishiti., A. 2017. Petrology and geochronology of felsic volcanics in the Sabga area (Bamenda Highlands): implications for age variation along the Cameroon Volcanic line. Journal of Geosciences 62, 231-246. Doi: 10.3190/jgeosci.247.

Hagen-Peter, G.A., Cottle, J.M. 2017. Evaluating the relative roles of crustal growth versus reworking through continental arc magmatism: A case study from the Ross orogen, Antarctica. Gondwana Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2017.11.006

Nelson, D.A., Cottle, J.M. 2017. Long term geochemical and geodynamic segmentation of the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana: insight from the Antarctic and adjacent sectors. Tectonics. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017TC004611/full

Schaen, A.J., Cottle, J.M., Singer, B.R., Keller, C.B., Garibaldi, N., Schoene, B. 2017. Complementary crystal accumulation and rhyolite melt segregation in a late Miocene Andean pluton. Geology. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/geology/article-pdf/45/9/835/2615133/835.pdf

Tofelde, S., Schildgen, T., Savi, S., Pingel, H., Wiskert, A.D., Bookhagen, B., Wittmann, H., Alonso, R.N., Cottle, J.M., Strecker, M.R. 2017. 100-kyr fluvial fill terrace cycles since the Middle Pleistocene in the southern Central Andes, Toro Basin, NW Argentina. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X17303102

Larson, K.P., Piercey, S. Cottle, J.M. 2017. Preservation of a Paleoproterzoic Rifted Margin in the Himalaya: Insight from the Ulleri-Phaplu-Melung Orthogneiss. Geoscience Frontiers. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987117301081

Larson, K.P., Camacho, A., Cottle, J.M., Buckingham, H.A., Coutand, I., Ambrose, T.K., Rai, S-M. 2017. Cooling, exhumation and kinematics of the Kanchenjunga Himal, Far East Nepal. Tectonics. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017TC004496/full

Braden, Z., Godin, L., Cottle, J.M. 2017. Segmentation and rejuvenation of the Greater Himalayan sequence in western Nepal revealed by in situ U-Th/Pb monazite petrochronology. Lithos. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002449371730172X

Babazadeh, S., Ghorbani, M.R., Brocker, W., D'Antonio, M., Cottle, J.M., Gebbing, T., Mazzeo, F.C., Ahmadi, P. 2017. Late Oligocene–Miocene mantle upwelling and interaction inferred from mantle signatures in gabbroic to granitic rocks from the Urumieh–Dokhtar arc, south Ardestan, Iran. International Geology Review. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00206814.2017.1286613

Rutte, D., Ratschbacher, L., Khan, J., Stübner, K., Hacker, B.R., Stearns, M.A., Enkelmann, E., Jonckheere, R., Pfänder, J.A., Sperner, B., and Tichomirowa, M., 2016. Building the Pamir-Tibet Plateau—Crustal stacking, extensional collapse, and lateral extrusion in the Central Pamir: 2. Timing and rates. Tectonics http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tect.20059/full

Peresty, V., Lexa, O., Štípská, P., Holder, R., Jeřábek, P., Racek, M., Schulmann, K., Hacker, B.R., 2016. Metamorphic inheritance of Rheic passive margin evolution and its early Variscan overprint in the Teplá-Barrandian Unit, Bohemian Massif. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jmg.12234/full

Viete, D.R., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Hacker, B.R., 2016. Single-shot laser ablation split stream (SS-LASS) petrochronology deciphers multiple, short-duration metamorphic events. Chemical Geologyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.09.013

Schwartz, J.J., Stowell, H., Klepeis, K., Tulloch, A., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Hacker, B.R., Coble, M., 2016. Thermochronology of extensional orogenic collapse in the deep crust, Fiordland, New Zealand, Geosphere, http://geosphere.gsapubs.org/content/12/3/647.full.pdf

Woodhead, J.D., Horstwood, M.S.A., Cottle, J.M. 2016. Advances in Isotope Ratio Determination by LA–ICP–MS. Elements. doi: 10.2113/gselements.12.5.317

Diedesch, T.F., Jessup, M.J., Cottle, J.M., & Zheng, L. 2016. Tectonic evolution of the middle crust in southern Tibet from structural and kinematic studies in Lhagoi Kangri gneiss dome. GSA Lithosphere. http://lithosphere.geoscienceworld.org/content/8/5/480

Poletti, J.E., Cottle, J.M., Hagen-Peter, G.A., Lackey, J.S. 2016. Petrochronological Constraints on the Origin of the Mountain Pass Ultrapotassic and Carbonatite Intrusive Suite, California. Journal of Petrology. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egw050

Hagen-Peter, G.A., Cottle, J.M. 2016. Synchronous alkaline and subalkaline magmatism in the Ross orogen, Antarctica: Insights into magmatic sources and processes within a continental arc. Lithos, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2016.07.032

Larson, K.P., Kellett, D.A., Cottle, J.M., King, J., Lederer, G., Rai, S.M. 2016. Anatexis, Cooling, And Kinematics During Orogenesis: Miocene Development Of The Himalayan Metamorphic Core, East-Central Nepal. GSA Geosphere.

Soucy La Roche, R., Godin, L., Cottle, J.M., Kellett, D.A. 2016. Direct shear fabric dating constrains Early Oligocene onset of the South Tibetan Detachment in the western Nepal Himalaya. Geology. doi: 10.1130/G37754.1

Pingel, H., Mulch, A., Alonso, R.N., Cottle, J.M., Hynek, S.A., Poletti, J., Rohrmann, A., Schmitt, A.K., Stockli, D.F., Strecker, M.R. 2016. Surface uplift and convective rainfall along the southern Central Andes (Angastaco Basin, NW Argentina). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.009

Horton, F., Hacker, B.R., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Jöns, N, Schenk, V, 2016. Focused radiogenic heating of middle crust caused ultrahigh temperatures in southern Madagascar. Tectonics, doi: 10.1002/2015TC004040

Hagen-Peter, G., Cottle, J.M., Smit, M.A., Cooper, A.F., 2016. Coupled garnet Lu-Hf and monazite U-Pb geochronology constrain early convergent margin dynamics in the Ross orogen, Antarctica. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. doi: 10.1111/jmg.12182

Stearns, M.A., Cottle, J.M., Hacker, B.R., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., 2016. Extracting thermal histories from the near-rim zoning in titanite using coupled U-Pb and trace-element depth profiles by single-shot laser-ablation split stream (SS-LASS) ICP-MS. Chemical Geology. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.12.011

Samperton, K.M., Schoene, B., Cottle, J.M., Keller, B.C., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., 2015. Magma emplacement, differentiation and cooling in the middle crust: integrated zircon geochronological–geochemical constraints from the Bergell Intrusion, Central Alps. Chemical Geology. 417, 322-340. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.10.024

Štípská, P., Hacker, B.R., Racek, M, Holder, R., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Schulmann, K., Hasalová, P., 2015. Monazite dating of prograde and retrograde P−T−D paths in Barrovian-type metamorphism (Thaya Window, Bohemian Massif). Journal of Petrology. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egv026

Rioux, M., Jöns, N., Bowring, S., Lissenberg, J., Bach, W., Kylander-Clark, A., Hacker, B.R., Dudás, F., 2015. U-Pb dating of interspersed gabbroic magmatism and hydrothermal metamorphism during lower crustal accretion, Vema lithospheric section, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Journal of Geophysical Research DOI: 10.1002/2014JB011668.

Horton, F., Lee., J., Hacker, B.R., Bowman-Kamaha’o, M., Cosca, M., 2015. Himalayan gneiss dome formation in the middle crust and exhumation by normal faulting: New geochronology of Gianbul dome, northwestern India. Geological Society of America Bulletin 127, 162-180

DesOrmeau, J., Gordon, S.M., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Hacker, B.R., Bowring, S.A., Schoene, B., Samperton, K.M., 2015. Insights into (U)HP metamorphism of the Western Gneiss Region, Norway: A high-spatial resolution and high-precision zircon study. Chemical Geology doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.08.004

Nagy, C., Godin, L., Antolin, B., Cottle, J.M., Archibald, D. 2015. Mid-Miocene Initiation of Orogen-Parallel Extension, NW Nepal Himalaya. GSA Lithosphere. doi: 10.1130/L425.1

Streit, R.L., Burbank, D.W., Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R.N., Cottle, J.M., & Kylander-Clark, A.R. 2015. Controls on intermontane basin filling, isolation, and incision on the margin of the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina (~23°S). Basin Research. doi: 10.1111/bre.12141

Faisal, S., Larson, K.P., King, J., & Cottle, J.M. 2015. Rifting, subduction and collisional records from pluton petrogenesis and geochronology in the Hindu Kush, NW Pakistan. Gondwana Research, . doi:10.1016/j.gr.2015.05.014

Cottle, J.M., Searle, M.P., Jessup, M.J., Crowley, J.L., & Law, R.D. 2015. Rongbuk Re-visited: Geochronology of Leucogranites in the Footwall of the South Tibetan Detachment System, Everest Region, Southern Tibet. Lithos. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2015.03.019.

Ambrose, T.K., Larson, K.P., Guilmette, C., Cottle, J.M., Buckingham, H., Rai, S. 2015. Lateral extrusion, underplating and out-of-sequence thrusting within the Himalayan metamorphic core, Kanchenjunga, Nepal. GSA Lithosphere. doi: 10.1130/L437.1

Larson, K.P. & Cottle, J.M. 2015. Initiation of crustal shortening in the Himalaya. Terra Nova. doi/10.1111/ter.12145.

McKinney, S.T., Cottle, J.M., Lederer, G. 2015. Evaluating Rare Earth Element (REE) mineralization mechanisms in Proterozoic gneiss, Music Valley, California. GSA Bulletin. doi:10.1130/B31165.1

Stevens, L.M., Baldwin, J.A., Cottle, J.M., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C. 2015. Phase equilibria modeling and LASS monazite petrochronology: P-T-t constraints on the evolution of the Priest River core complex, northern Idaho. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. doi: 10.1111/jmg.12125.

Holder, R.M, Hacker, B.R., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Cottle, J.M., 2015. Monazite trace-element and isotopic signatures of (ultra)high-pressure metamorphism: Timescales of crustal recycling and crust-mantle interaction in the Western Gneiss Region, Norway. Chemical Geology. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.04.021

Hacker, B.R., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Holder, R., Andersen, T.B., Peterman, E.M., Walsh, E.O., Munnikhuis, J., 2015. Monazite Response to Ultrahigh-Pressure Subduction from U-Pb dating by Laser Ablation Split Stream. Chemical Geology. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.05.008

Broussolle, A., Štípská, P., Lehmann, J., Schulmann, K., Hacker, B.R., Holder, R., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Hanzl, P., Racek, M., Hasalova, P, Lexa, O., Hrdlickova, K., 2015, P–T–t–D record of crustal-scale horizontal flow and magma-assisted doming in the SW Mongolian Altai. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. DOI: 10.1111/jmg.12124

Stearns, M.A., Hacker, B.R., Ratschbacher, L., Rutte, D., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., 2015. Titanite petrochronology of the Pamir gneiss domes: Implications for mid–deep crust exhumation and titanite closure to Pb and Zr diffusion. Tectonics, DOI: 10.1002/2014TC003774

Rioux, M., Jöns, N., Bowring, S., Lissenberg, J., Bach, W., Kylander-Clark, A., Hacker, B.R., Dudás, F., 2015. U-Pb dating of interspersed gabbroic magmatism and hydrothermal metamorphism during lower crustal accretion, Vema lithospheric section, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Journal of Geophysical Research. doi: 10.1002/2014JB011668

Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., and Hacker, B.R., 2014, Age and significance of felsic dikes from the UHP Western Gneiss Region, Tectonics, doi: 10.1002/2014TC003582.

Hagen-Peter, G.A., Cottle, J.M., Tulloch, A.J., Cox, S.C. 2015. Mixing between enriched lithospheric mantle and crustal components in a short-lived subduction-related magma system, Dry Valleys area, Antarctica: Insights from U-Pb geochronology, Hf isotopes, and whole-rock geochemistry. GSA Lithosphere. doi:10.1130/L384.1

From, R., Larson, K.P., Cottle, J.M. 2014. Metamorphism and Geochronology of the Exhumed Himalayan Mid-crust, Likhu Khola Region, East-central Nepal: Recognition of a Tectonometamorphic Discontinuity. GSA Lithosphere, 6, 361-376. doi:10.1130/L381.1.

Faisal, S., Larson, K.P., Cottle, J.M., Lamming, J. 2014. Building the Hindu Kush: monazite records of terrance accretion, plutonism, and the evolution of the Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet orogeny. Terra Nova. 5, 395-401. DOI: 10.1111/ter.12112.

Cottle, J.M. 2014. In-situ Geochronology of Uranothorite. American Mineralogist. 99, 1985-1995. doi: 10.2138/am-2014-4920

Larson, K.P. & Cottle, J.M. 2014. Midcrustal Discontinuities and the Assembly of the Himalayan mid-crust. Tectonics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013TC003452

Kellett, D.A., Cottle J.M., Smit, M.A. 2014. Eocene Deep Crust at Ama Drime Tibet: Early Evolution of the Himalayan Orogen. GSA Lithosphere.

Horton, F., Lee, J, Hacker, B.R., Bowman-Kamaha’o, M., and Cosca, M., 2014. Himalayan gneiss dome formation in the middle crust and exhumation by normal faulting: New geochronology of Gianbul dome, northwestern India. GSA Bulletin. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/B31005.1

Smit, M.A., Hacker, B.R., and Lee, J., 2014. Tibetan garnet records early Eocene initiation of thickening in the Himalaya. Geology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G35524.1

Stübner, K., Ratschbacher, L., Weise, C., Hofmann, J., Pfänder, J., Dunkl, I.,. Hacker, B.R., Khan, J., Chow, J., Stearns, M.A., Rutte, D., Jonckheere, R., Tichomirowa, M., Gloaguen, R., Sperner, B., and Minaev, V., 2013. The giant Shakhdara migmatitic gneiss dome, Pamir, India–Asia collision zone, II: Timing of dome formation. Tectonics http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tect.20059

Rose, C.V., Maloof, A.C., Schoene, B., Ewing, R.C., Linnemann, U., Hofmanm, M., Cottle, J.M. 2013. The end Cryogenian glaciation of South Australia. Geoscience Canada, v. 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2013.40.019

Cottle, JM, Burrows, AJ, Kylander-Clark, ARC, Freedman, P, Cohen R., 2013. Enhanced sensitivity in laser ablation multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. J. Anal. At. Spectrom., http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3JA50216.

Stearns, M.A., Hacker, B.R., Ratschbacher, L., Lee, J., Cottle, J.M., and Kylander-Clark, A.K.C., 2013. Synchronous Oligocene–Miocene Metamorphism of the Pamir and North Himalaya driven by plate-scale dynamics. Geology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G34451.1

Lederer., G., Cottle, J.M., Jessup, M.J., Langille, J., Ahmad, T. 2013. Time-scales of partial melting in the Himalayan Middle-Crust: insight from the Leo Pargil Dome, Northwest India. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. doi: 10.1007/s00410-013-0935-9

Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Hacker, B.R., Cottle, J.M., 2013 Laser-ablationsplit-stream ICP petrochronology. Chemical Geology. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.02.019

MacFadden B.J., Zeitler, P.K., Anaya, F., and Cottle, J.M. 2013. Confirmation of the middle Pleistocene age of the fossiliferous sedimentary sequence at Tarija, Bolivia. Quaternary Research 79, 268-273. doi: 10.1016/jyqres.2012.12.009

Kellett, D.A., Grujic, D., Coutand, I., Cottle, J.M., Mukul, M. 2013. The South Tibetan detachment system, Sikkim Himalaya facilitates ultra rapid cooling of granulite-facies rocks. Tectonics. doi: 10.1002/tect.20014.

Spencer, K., Hacker, B.R., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Andersen, T.B., Cottle, J.M., Stearns, M.A., Poletti, J.E., Seward, G.G.E., 2013. Campaign-style titanite U-Pbdating by ICP: implications for crustal flow, phase transformations andtitanite closure. Chemical Geology, v. 341, p. 84-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.11.01

Donaldson, D.G., Webb, A.A.G., Menold, C.A., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., and Hacker, B.R., 2013. Petrochronology of Himalayan ultrahigh-pressure eclogite. Geology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G33699.1

Cottle J.M., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Vrijmoed, J.C. 2012. U-Th/Pb Geochronology of Detrital zircon and monazite by Single Shot Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (SS-LA-ICPMS). Chemical Geology, 332-333, 136-147. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.035.

Gordon, S.M., Little, T.A., Hacker, B.R., Bowring, S.A., Korchinski, M., Baldwin, S.L., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Millet, M.A., 2012. Multi-stage exhumation of young UHP–HP rocks: timescales of melt crystallization in the D’Entrecasteaux Islands, southeastern Papua New Guinea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters v. 351-352, p. 237-246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.014

Langille, J.M., Jessup M.J., Cottle J.M., Lederer, G., Ahmad, T. 2012. Timing of metamorphism, melting, and exhumation of the Leo Pargil dome, NW India. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 30, 769-791. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2012.00998.x.

Mantilla F, L.C., Bissig, T., Cottle, J.M., Hart, C. 2012. Remains of Early Ordovician mantle-derived magmatism in the Santander Massif (Colombian Eastern Cordillera). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 38, 1-12.

Rose, C.V., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Husson, J.M., Poppick, L.N., Cottle, J.M., Schoene, B., Maloof, A.C. 2012. Constraints on the origin and relative timing of Trezona d13C anomaly below the end-Cryogenian glaciation. Earth and Planetary Science letters, 319, 241-250. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.027

Larson, K.P., Cottle, J.M., Godin, L. 2011. Geochronologic record of the upper Greater Himalayan sequence, Manaslu-Himal Chuli Himalaya, west-central Nepal. GSA Lithosphere.

Schmidt, J., Hacker, B.R., Ratschbacher, L., Stübner, K., Stearns, M., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Cottle, J.M., Webb, A.A.G., Gehrels, G., Minaev, V., 2011. Cenozoic deep crust in the Pamir. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 312, p 411–421. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.034

Cottle, J.M., Waters, D.J., Riley, D., Beyssac, O., Jessup, M.J. 2011. Metamorphic history of the South Tibetan Detachment System, Mt. Everest Region, Revealed by RSCM Thermometry and Phase Equilibria Modeling. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2011.00930.x