Publications -- W.S.F. Kidd

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1    J.M. Bird, J.F. Dewey, and W.S.F. Kidd, 1971.  Appalachian-Caledonian ophiolites/Proto-Atlantic oceanic crust and mantle.  Nature Phys. Sci., 231, 28-31.

2    K.C. Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, and J.T. Wilson, 1973.  Plumes and concentric plume traces of the Eurasian plate.  Nature Phys. Sci., 241, 128-129.

3    K.C. Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, and J.T. Wilson, 1973.  Relative and latitudinal motion of Atlantic hot spots.  Nature, 245, 133-137.

4    J.F. Dewey and W.S.F. Kidd, 1974.  Continental collisions in the Appalachian/Caledonian orogenic belt:  style variations related to complete and incomplete suturing.  Geology, 2, 543-546.

5    K.C. Burke and W.S.F. Kidd, 1975.  Earth - heat flow in; hot spots: article in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia Yearbook of Science and Technology 1975, pp. 165-168.

6    K.C. Burke, J.F. Dewey, and W.S.F. Kidd, 1976.  Dominance of horizontal movements, arcs and microcontinental collisions during the later Permobile regime, pp. 113-130 in The Early History of the Earth (B.F. Windley, ed.), John Wiley & Sons, London.

7    K.C. Burke, J.F. Dewey, and W.S.F. Kidd, 1976.  Precambrian palaeomagnetic results compatible with contemporary operation of the Wilson Cycle.  Tectonophysics, 33, 287-299.

8    K.C. Burke, J.F. Dewey, and W.S.F. Kidd, 1977.  World distribution of sutures - the sites of former oceans, in  The Past Distribution of Continents (M.W. McElhinny, ed.), Tectonophysics, 40, 69-99.

9    J.F. Dewey and W.S.F. Kidd, 1977.  Geometry of plate accretion.  Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 88, 960-968.

10    W.S.F. Kidd, 1977.  The Baie Verte Lineament, Newfoundland: ophiolite complex floor and mafic volcanic fill of a small Ordovician marginal basin, pp. 407-418 in Island Arcs, Deep-Sea Trenches, and Back Arc Basins (M. Talwani and W.C. Pitman, eds.), Maurice Ewing Series, 1, Amer. Geophys. Union, Washington.

11    K.C. Burke and W.S.F. Kidd, 1978.  Were Archean continental geothermal gradients much steeper than those of today?  Nature 272, 240-241.
        [also later discussion & reply]

12    W.S.F. Kidd, J.F. Dewey, and J.M. Bird, 1978.  The Mings Bight Ophiolite Complex, Newfoundland:  Appalachian Oceanic Crust and Mantle.  Can. J. Earth Sci., 15, 781-804.

13    K.C. Burke, L. Delano, J.F. Dewey, A. Edelstein, W.S.F. Kidd, K.D. Nelson, A.M.C. Sengor and J. Stroup, 1979.  Rifts and Sutures of the World.  Contract Report NAS 5-24094.  Geophysics Branch, ESA Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 238 pp. [rift map]  [suture map]

14    R. Thiessen, K.C. Burke, and W.S.F. Kidd, 1979.  African hotspots and their relation to the underlying mantle.  Geology, 7, 263-266.

15    A.M.C. Sengor and W.S.F. Kidd, 1979.  Post-collisional tectonics of the Turkish-Iranian plateau and a comparison with Tibet.  Tectonophysics, 55, 361-376.

16    D.B. Rowley, W.S.F. Kidd, and L.L. Delano, 1979.  Detailed stratigraphic and structural features of the Giddings Brook slice of the Taconic Allochthon in the Granville area.  pp. 186-242, in  Friedman, G.M. (ed.)  Guidebook, 51st N.Y. State Geol. Assoc. Ann. Mtg. and N.E.I.G.C., 71st Mtg., Rensselaer Poly. Inst., Troy, N.Y.

17    K.C. Burke and W.S.F. Kidd, 1980.  Volcanism on Earth through time. pp. 503-522 in  D. Strangway (ed.)  The continental crust of the Earth and its mineral deposits, Geol. Assoc. Canada Spec. Publ. 20.

18    K.C. Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, D.L. Turcotte, J.F. Dewey, P. Mougounis-Mark, E.M. Parmentier, A.M.C. Sengor and P.E. Tapponnier, 1981.  Chapter 6 - Tectonics of Basaltic Volcanism, pp. 801-898 in  W.M. Kaula (ed.) Basaltic Volcanism on the Terrestrial Planets, Pergamon, New York. [6.1, 6.2]  [6.3, 6.4]  [6.5, 6.6]  [6.7 refs] [book front matter]

19    D.B. Rowley and W.S.F. Kidd, 1981.  Stratigraphic relationships and detrital composition of the medial Ordovician flysch of western New England:  implications for the tectonic evolution of the Taconic orogeny.  J. Geol., 89, 199-218. [reply to Rodgers]  [reply to Geiser]

20    J.F. Casey and W.S.F. Kidd, 1981.  A parallochthonous group of sedimentary rocks unconformably overlying the Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex, North Arm Mountain, Newfoundland.  Can. J. Earth Sci., 18, 1035-1050.

21    K. Burke, J.F. Dewey, W.S.F. Kidd, and A.M.C. Sengor, 1981.  Continental collisions analogous to that forming the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.  pp. 743-746 in  Proceedings of Symposium on Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Vol. 1.  Science Press, Beijing.

22    J.F. Dewey, M.J. Kennedy, and W.S.F. Kidd, 1983.  A geotraverse through the Appalachians of Northern Newfoundland.  pp. 205-241 in  N. Rast and F.M. Delany (editors), Profiles of Orogenic Belts, Geodynamics Series, 10, Amer. Geophys. Union, Washington. [coloured figures as separate pages] [coloured figures as original folded insert]

23    D.G. Gallo, W.S.F. Kidd, P.J. Fox, J.A. Karson, K. Macdonald, K. Crane, P. Choukroune, M. Seguret, R. Moody, and K. Kastens, 1984.  Tectonics of the intersection of the East Pacific Rise with Tamayo Transform Fault.  Mar. Geophys. Res., 6, 159-185.

24    J.A. Karson, P.J. Fox, H. Sloan, K.T. Crane, W.S.F. Kidd, E. Bonatti, J.B. Stroup, D.J. Fornari, D. Elthon, P. Hamlyn, J.F. Casey, D.G. Gallo, D. Needham, and R. Satori, 1984.  The geology of the Oceanographer Transform:  The ridge-transform intersection.  Mar. Geophys. Res., 6, 109-141.

25    K. Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, and T. Kusky, 1985.  The Pongola structure of southeastern Africa, the world's oldest preserved rift?  J. Geodynamics, 2, 35-49.

26    K. Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, and T. Kusky, 1985.  Is the Ventersdorp rift system of southern Africa related to a continental collision between the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe cratons at 2.64 Ga ago?  Tectonophysics, 115, 1-24.

27    W.S.F. Kidd, L.L. Delano, and D.B. Rowley, 1985.  Geologic compilation map and notes of mapping in Granville and Thorn Hill quadrangles, N.Y.-Vt. in  D.W. Fisher, Bedrock Geology of the Whitehall-Glens Falls region.  N.Y. State Museum and Science Service Map and Chart Series 35.  [text p26-27, and map legend part]  [Taconic Allochthon part of published map] [submitted manuscript map] [published cross-sections (uncolored)]  [manuscript cross-sections (colored)] [Taconic and adjacent parts of published sections with quarried slate units colored]

28    P.J. Fox, R.H. Moody, J.A. Karson, E. Bonatti, W.S.F. Kidd, K. Crane, D.G. Gallo, J.B. Stroup, D.J. Fornari, D. Elthon, P. Hamlyn, J.F. Casey, D. Needham, and R. Satori, 1985.  The geology of the Oceanographer Transform:  the transform domain.  Mar. Geophys. Res., 7, 329-358.

29    W. Bosworth and W.S.F. Kidd, 1985.  Thrusts, melanges, folded thrusts and duplexes in the Taconic foreland.  pp. 117-147 in  New York State Geologists Assoc. Guide to field trips, 57th Ann. Mtg., Skidmore Coll. 28-29 September 1985.

30    J.F. Dewey, M.R. Hempton, W.S.F. Kidd, F. Saroglu, and A.M.C. Sengor, 1986.  Shortening of continental lithosphere: the Neotectonics of Eastern Anatolia - a young collision zone.  pp. 3-36 in Coward, M.P., and Ries, A.C., (eds).  Collision Tectonics.  Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 19.

31    Chang Chenfa, Chen Nansheng, M.P. Coward, Deng Wangming, J.F. Dewey, A. Gansser, N.B.W. Harris, Jin Chengwei, W.S.F. Kidd, M.R. Leeder, Li Huan, Lin Jinlu, Liu Chengjie, Mei Houjun, P. Molnar, Pan Yun, Pan Yusheng, J.A. Pearce, R.M. Shackleton, A.B. Smith, Sun Yiyin, M. Ward, D.R. Watts, Xu Juntao, Xu Ronghua, Yin Jixiang, Zhang Yuquan, 1986.  Preliminary conclusions of the Royal Society and Academia Sinica 1985 Geotraverse of Tibet.  Nature, 323, 501-507.

32    K. Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, and T. Kusky, 1986.  Archean foreland basin tectonics in the Witwatersrand, South Africa.  Tectonics, 5, 439-456.

33    T.M. Kusky, W.S.F. Kidd, and D.C. Bradley, 1987.  Displacement history of the Northern Arm Fault and its bearing on the post-Taconic evolution of north-central Newfoundland.  J. Geodynamics, 7, 105-133.

34    P. Copeland, T.M. Harrison, W.S.F. Kidd, Xu Ronghua, and Zhang Yuquan, 1987. Rapid early Miocene acceleration of uplift in the Gangdise belt, Xizang (southern Tibet) and its bearing on accommodation mechanisms of the India-Asia collision.  Earth and Planetary Sci. Lett., 86, 240-252.

35    W. Bosworth, D.B. Rowley, W.S.F. Kidd, and C. Steinhardt, 1988.  Geometry and style of post-obduction thrusting in a Palaeozoic orogen:  the Taconic Frontal thrust system.  J. Geol., 96, 163-180.

36    K.A. Eriksson, W.S.F. Kidd, and B. Krapez, 1988.  Basin analysis in regionally metamorphosed and deformed early Archean Terrains: examples from Africa and western Australia.  pp. 371-404 in  K.L. Kleinspehn and C. Paola (editors)  New perspectives in basin analysis, Springer-Verlag, New York.

37    W.S.F. Kidd, and P. Molnar, 1988.  Quaternary and active faulting observed on the Academia Sinica-Royal Society geotraverse of Tibet.  Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London. A, 327, 337-363.

38    W.S.F. Kidd, Pan Yusheng, Chang Chenfa, M.P. Coward, J.F. Dewey, A. Gansser, P. Molnar, R.M. Shackleton, and Sun Yiyin, 1988.  Geological mapping of the 1985 Chinese-British Tibetan (Xizang-Qinghai) Plateau geotraverse route.  Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London. A, 327, 287-305.  [geotraverse outcrop data and location maps - microfiche in original]

39    W.S.F. Kidd, compiler, 1988.  Geological Map of the Geotraverse route.  Coloured Geological Map (1:500,000 scale, 2 sheets, each 40” by 46”) to accompany Royal Society of London volume on the 1985 Geotraverse across the Tibetan Plateau (The Geological Evolution of Tibet; Royal Society of London, 1988).
 [South sheet - Lhasa-Tanggula Pass] [North sheet - Tanggula Pass-Golmud] [map envelope face]

40    M.P. Coward, W.S.F. Kidd, Pan Yun, R.M. Shackleton and Zhang Hu, 1988.  The structure of the 1985 Tibet Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud.  Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London.  A, 327, 307-336.

41    E-An Zen, J.C. Hepburn, W.S.F. Kidd, P. Robinson, J.W. Skehan, and J.B. Thompson, 1989.  Tectonostratigraphic Terranes in the Northern Appalachians.  28th International Geological Congress Field Trip Guidebook T359.  Amer. Geophys. Union, Washington, 68pp.

42    J.W. Delano, C.Schirnick, B. Bock, W.S.F. Kidd, M.T. Heizler, G.W. Putman, S.E. DeLong, and M. Ohr, 1990.  Petrology and geochemistry of Ordovician K-bentonites in New York State: constraints on the nature of a volcanic arc.  J. Geol., 98, 157-170.

43    J.A. Pearce, J. F. Bender, S.E. Delong, W.S.F. Kidd, P.J. Low, Y. Guner, F. Saroglu, Y. Yilmaz, S. Moorbath, and J.G. Mitchell, 1990.  Genesis of collision volcanism in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey.  J. Volcanol. Geothermal Res., 44, 189-229.

44    D.C. Bradley and W.S.F. Kidd, 1991.  Flexural extension of the upper continental crust in collisional foredeeps.  Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 103, 1416-1438.                 [also later reply to discussion]

45    T.M. Kusky and W.S.F. Kidd, 1992.  Remnants of an Archean oceanic plateau, Belingwe Greenstone belt, Zimbabwe.  Geology, 20, 43-46.

46    T.M. Harrison, P. Copeland, W.S.F. Kidd, and A. Yin, 1992.  Raising Tibet.  Science, 255, 1663-1670.

47    Y. Pan and W.S.F. Kidd, 1992.  The Nyainqentanglha shear zone: a late Miocene extensional detachment in the southern Tibetan Plateau.  Geology, 20, 775-778. [cover photo]

48    T.M. Harrison, P. Copeland, S. Hall, J. Quade, S. Burner, T. Ojha, and W.S.F. Kidd, 1993.  Isotopic preservation of Himalayan/Tibetan uplift, denudation, and climatic histories of two molasse deposits.  J. Geol., 101, 157-175.

49    Y. Pan, P. Copeland, M.K. Roden, W.S.F. Kidd, and T.M. Harrison, 1993. Thermal and unroofing history of the Lhasa area, southern Tibet: evidence from apatite fission track thermochronology. Nucl. Tracks, 21, 543-554.

50    J.B. Thompson, W.A. Bothner, P. Robinson, K.D. Klitgord, C.P. Fallon, A.M. Hussey, D.R. Hutchinson, Y.W. Isachsen, P. Karabinos, W.S.F. Kidd, P.W. Ollila, J.L. Rosenfeld, and J.S. Schlee, 1993. Centennial Ocean/Continent Transect, #17, E-1; Adirondacks to Georges Bank.  Geological Society of America, Boulder.  2 maps & 55 pp. [envelope cover and introductory text (pp. 1-10)]  [Hudson-Champlain Valley and Taconic parts of map and sections] [manuscript cross-section as submitted 1982] [manuscript map as submitted 1982 coloured; outline]

51    V. Bruchert, J.W. Delano, and W.S.F. Kidd, 1994.  Fe- and Mn-enrichment in middle Ordovician haematitic argillites preceding black shale and flysch deposition: the Shoal Arm Formation, north-central Newfoundland.  J. Geol., 102, 197-214.

52    A. Yin, T.M. Harrison, F.J. Ryerson, W. Chen, W.S.F. Kidd, and P. Copeland, 1994.  Tertiary structural evolution of the Gangdese thrust system, southeastern Tibet.  J. Geophys. Res., 99, 18,175-18,201.

53    P. Copeland, T.M. Harrison, Y. Pan, W.S.F. Kidd, M. Roden, and Y. Zhang, 1995.  Thermal evolution of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet: a history of episodic unroofing.  Tectonics, 14, 223-236.

54    T.M. Harrison, P. Copeland, W.S.F. Kidd, and O. Lovera, 1995.  Activation of the Nyainqentanghla shear zone: implications for uplift of the southern Tibetan Plateau.  Tectonics, 14, 658-676.

55    W.S.F. Kidd, A. Plesch, and F.W. Vollmer, 1995.  Lithofacies and Structure of the Taconic Flysch, Melange, and Allochthon, in the New York Capital District.  pp. 57-80 in Garver, J.I. and Smith, J.A. (eds), Field Trip Guide for the 67th Annual Meeting of the New York State Geological Association, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.

56    T.M. Kusky and W.S.F. Kidd, 1996.  Tectonic implications of early Silurian thrust imbrication of the northern Exploits subzone, central Newfoundland.  J. Geodynamics, 22, 229-265.

57    M.A. Edwards, W.S.F. Kidd, J. Li, Y. Yue, and M. Clark, and 1996.  Multi-stage development of the Southern Tibet Detachment System near Khula Kangri. New data from Gonto-la.  Tectonophysics, 260, 1-19.

58    K D. Nelson, Zhao Wenjin, L.D. Brown, J. Kuo, Che Jinkai, Liu Xianwen, S.L. Klemperer, Y. Makovsky, R. Meissner, J. Mechie, R. Kind, F. Wenzel, J. Ni, J. Nabelek, Chen Leshou, Tan Handong, Wei, Wenbo, A.L. Jones, J. Booker, M. Unsworth, W.S.F. Kidd, M. Hauck, D. Alsdorf, A. Ross, M. Cogan, Wu Changde, E. Sandvol, M. Edwards, 1996.  Partially molten middle crust beneath Southern Tibet: synthesis of Project INDEPTH results. Science, 274, 1684-1688.

59    M.A. Murphy, A. Yin, T.M. Harrison, S.B. Durr, Z. Chen, F.J. Ryerson, W.S.F. Kidd, X. Wang, and X. Zhou, 1997.  Did the Indo-Asian collision alone create the Tibetan Plateau? Geology, 25, 719-722.

60    C. Wu, K.D. Nelson, G. Wortman, S.D. Samson, Y. Yue, J. Li, W.S.F. Kidd, and M.A. Edwards, 1998. Yadong cross structure and South Tibetan Detachment in the east-central Himalaya (89-90E). Tectonics, 17, 28-45

61    M.J. Cogan, K.D. Nelson, W.S.F. Kidd, and C. Wu, 1998. Shallow structure of the Yadong-Gulu rift, southern Tibet, from refraction analysis of Project INDEPTH common midpoint data. Tectonics, 17, 46-61.

62    Schneider, D.A., Edwards, M.A., Kidd, W.S.F., Zeitler, P.K., and Coath, C.D., 1999. Early Miocene anatexis identified in the western syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 167, 121-129.

63    Edwards, M., W. Kidd, A. Pecher, C. Burchfiel, L. Royden, 1999. Southern Tibet Detachment system (STDS) at Khula Kangri, eastern Himalaya: a large-area, shallow detachment stretching into Bhutan? J. Geol., 107, 623-631.

64    Schneider, D.A., Edwards, M.A., Kidd, W.S.F., Khan, M.A., Seeber, L., and Zeitler, P.K., 1999, Tectonics of Nanga Parbat, western Himalaya: synkinematic plutonism within doubly-vergent shear zones of a crustal-scale pop-up structure. Geology, 27, p.999-1002.

65    Edwards, M.A., Kidd, W.S.F., Khan, M.A., and Schneider, D.A., 2000. Tectonics of the southwest margin of the Nanga Parbat massif. pp 77-100 in Khan, M.A., Treloar, P.J., Searle, M.P., and Jan, M.Q., (eds.) Tectonics of the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis and the western Himalaya. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Pub. 170.

66    Zeitler, P.K., A.S. Meltzer, P.O. Koons, D. Craw, B. Hallet, C.P. Chamberlain, W.S.F. Kidd, S. Park, L. Seeber, M. Bishop, J. Shroder, 2001. Erosion, Himalayan Geodynamics and the Geomorphology of Metamorphism. GSA Today, 11, 4-9.

67    Schneider, D.A., P.K. Zeitler, W.S.F. Kidd, and M.A. Edwards, 2001. Geochronologic constraints on the tectonic evolution and exhumation of Nanga Parbat, western Himalaya syntaxis, revisited. J. Geol., 109, 563-583.

68    Zeitler, P.K., P.O Koons, M.P. Bishop, C.P.Chamberlain, D. Craw., M.A. Edwards, S. Hamidullah, M.Q. Jan, M.A. Khan, M.A.K. Khattak, W.S.F. Kidd, R.L. Mackie, A.S. Meltzer, S.K. Park, A. Pêcher, M.A. Poage, G. Sarker, D.A. Schneider, L. Seeber, and J.F. Shroder, 2001. Crustal reworking at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan: Metamorphic consequences of thermal-mechanical coupling facilitiated by erosion. Tectonics, 20, 712-728.

69    Hayman, N.W., and W.S.F. Kidd, 2002. Reactivation of pre-thrusting, syn-convergence normal faults as ramps within the Ordovician Champlain-Taconic thrust system. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 114, 476-489.

70    Hayman, N.W., and W.S.F. Kidd, 2002. The Champlain Thrust System in the Whitehall-Shoreham area: influence of pre- and post-thrust normal faults on the present thrust geometry and lithofacies distribution. Field trip A7, pages 7-1 to 7-24 in McLelland, J.M., and Karabinos, P., (editors) Guidebook for Fieldtrips in New York and Vermont. New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference 94th Annual meeting, and New York State Geological Association 74th Annual meeting, Lake George, NY, September 27th-29th, 2002. Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs.

70a  Fletcher, B.A., and W.S.F. Kidd, 2002. Metagabbros of the southeastern Adirondacks: evidence for separate syn-kinematic, and post-kinematic suites. Field trip C3, pages 3-1 to 3-9 in McLelland, J.M., and Karabinos, P., (editors) Guidebook for Fieldtrips in New York and Vermont. New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference 94th Annual meeting, and New York State Geological Association 74th Annual meeting, Lake George, NY, September 27th-29th, 2002. Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs.

71    Wiesmayr G., Edwards, M. A., Meyer, M., Kidd., W. S. F., Häusler, H., Leber, D., and Wangda, D., 2002. Progressive fault rotation of the STDS in NW-Bhutan; evidence for steady fault-accommodated strain in the High Himalaya.  in: de Bresser et al. (eds) Deformation, rheology and tectonics: current status and future perspectives. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 200, 371-386.

72    Landing, E., G. Pe-Piper, W.S.F. Kidd, and K. Azmy, 2003. Tectonic setting of outer trench slope volcanism: pillow basalt and limestone in the Taconian orogen of eastern New York. Can. J. Earth Sci., 40, 1773-1787.

73    Zhu, B., Kidd, W.S.F., Rowley, D., and Currie, B., 2004. Chemical compositions and tectonic significance of chrome-rich spinels in the Tianba flysch, southern Tibet. J. Geol., 112, 417-434.

74    Booth, A.L., P.K. Zeitler, W.S.F. Kidd, J. Wooden, Y. Liu, B. Idleman, M. Hren, and C.P. Chamberlain, 2004. U-Pb Zircon constraints on the tectonic evolution of southeastern Tibet, Namche Barwa area. Amer. J. Sci., 304, 889-929.

75    Zhu B., Delano J. W., and Kidd W. S. F., 2005. Magmatic compositions and source terranes estimated from melt inclusions in detrital Cr-rich spinels: an example from mid-Cretaceous sandstones in the eastern Tethys Himalaya. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 233, 295-309.

76    Zhu, B., W.S.F. Kidd, D.B. Rowley, B.S. Currie, N. Shafique, 2005. Age of initiation of the India-Asia collision in the east-central Himalaya. J. Geol., 113, 265–285. [also later reply to discussion]

77    Lim, C., Kidd, W.S.F., and Howe, S., 2005. Late shortening and extensional structures and veins in the western margin of the Taconic Orogen (NY-VT). J. Geol., 113, 419-438.

78    Solon, K.D., A.G. Jones, K.D. Nelson, M.J. Unsworth, W.S.F. Kidd, W. Wei , H. Tan, S. Jin, M. Deng, J.R. Booker, S. Li, and P. Bedrosian, 2005. Structure of the crust in the vicinity of the Banggong-Nujiang suture in central Tibet from INDEPTH magnetotelluric data. J. Geophys. Res., 110, B10102, p.1-20, doi:10.1029/2003JB002405.

79    Craw, D., P. O. Koons, P. K. Zeitler, and W.S.F. Kidd, 2005. Fluid evolution and thermal structure in the rapidly exhuming gneiss complex of Namche Barwa–Gyala Peri, eastern Himalayan syntaxis. J. Metamorphic Geol., 23, 829–845.

80    Schoonmaker, A., W.S.F. Kidd, and D. Bradley, 2005. Foreland/Forearc collisional granitoid and mafic magmatism caused by lower-plate lithospheric slab-breakoff: the Acadian of Maine, and other orogens. Geology, 33, 961–964.

81    Schoonmaker, A., and Kidd, W.S.F., 2006. Evidence for a ridge subduction event in the Ordovician rocks of north-central Maine. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 118, 897–912; Data Repository item 2006144.

82    Schoonmaker, A., and Kidd, W.S.F., 2007. A reappraisal of the Stanbridge Nappe and adjacent shelf strata, southern Quebec and northwestern Vermont. Can. J. Earth Sci., 44, 155-169.

83    Marsellos, A.E., and W.S.F. Kidd, 2008. Extension and exhumation of the Hellenic forearc Ridge in Kythera. J. Geol., 116, 640–651; 2 online data repository items  [geological map]  [FT data].

84    Booth, A.L., C.P. Chamberlain, W.S.F. Kidd, and P.K. Zeitler, 2009. Constraints on the metamorphic evolution of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis from geochronologic and petrologic studies of Namche Barwa. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 121, 385–407; doi: 10.1130/B26041.1; Data Repository item 2008211.

85    Marsellos, A. E., W. S. F. Kidd, and J. I. Garver, 2010. Extension and exhumation of the HP/LT rocks in the Hellenic forearc ridge. Amer. J. Sci., 310, 1-36. [journal link]

86    Schoonmaker, A., W.S.F. Kidd, D.N. Reusch, M.J. Dorais, T. Gregg, and C. Spencer, 2011. Stratigraphic context, geochemical, and isotopic properties of magmatism in the Siluro-Devonian inliers of northern Maine: Implications for the Acadian Orogeny. Amer. J. Sci., 311, 528-572. [journal link]

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