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Appalachian geology and tectonics
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.
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.
-- Newfoundland
PhD
dissertation - The evolution of the Baie Verte
Lineament, Burlington Peninsula, Newfoundland. Unpublished
dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1974; 386pp
+xx, 7 folded maps.
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.
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.
D2 K.D. Nelson and W.S.F. Kidd, 1979. A lower
Paleozoic trench-fill sequence, New World Island,
Newfoundland: Discussion. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 90,
985-986.
D3 K.D. Nelson and W.S.F. Kidd, 1979. The age of
the Roberts Arm Group, north-central Newfoundland:
Discussion. Can. J. Earth Sci., 16, 2068-2070.
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.
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]
D7 T. Kusky and W.S.F. Kidd, 1985. Middle
Ordovician conodonts from the Buchans Group, Central Newfoundland,
and their significance for regional stratigraphy of the Central
Volcanic belt: discussion. Can. J. Earth Sci., 22,
484-485.
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.
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.
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.
89 Schoonmaker, A., Kidd, W.S.F., DeLong, S.E.,
and Bender, J.F., 2014. Lawrence Head Volcanics and Dunnage
Mélange, Newfoundland Appalachians: origin by Ordovician
ridge subduction or in back arc rift? Geoscience Can., 41,
xxx-xxx.
--
Maine
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.
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]
--
New York-Vermont
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]
D6
W. Bosworth, D.B. Rowley, and W.S.F. Kidd,1982. A
structure section in eastern New York showing variation in style of
deformation across the Taconic Allochthon: Discussion.
Northeastern Geol., 4, 111-116.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[coloured geological outcrop
map Highgate VT-St. Armand Station PQ]
-- Field Guides and maps
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.
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] [Lee Road-Granville area manuscript outcrop
map] [South Granville
manuscript geological map]
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
85 Schoonmaker,
A., and Kidd, W.S.F., 2009. Evidence against the allochthonous
nature of the Stanbridge Nappe at Highgate Gorge, northwestern
Vermont. pp 3-18 in Guidebook
for Field Trips in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and
adjacent regions, D.S. Westerman and A.S. Lathrop (eds.), New
England Intercollegiate Geological Conference 101st Annual
Meeting, Lyndon State College, 25-27 September 2009.
Norwich University, Northfield, VT.
[coloured geological outcrop
map Highgate VT-St. Armand Station PQ]
87
Schoonmaker, A., and Kidd, W.S.F., 2013. Tectonic significance of
Cambro-Ordovician and Siluro-Devonian stratigraphy and magmatism in
the Chesuncook Lake and Ripogenus Gorge area, north-central Maine.
Field trip A-x, pages xx-yy in Hanson, L.S. (editor), Guidebook
for fieldtrips in Central Maine, New England Intercollegiate
Geological Conference 105th Annual meeting, Millinocket Lake, Maine,
xx-xx October 2013. Salem State University, Salem, MA. [coloured geological map, cross-sections,
and stratigraphic column; Ripogenus Dam area]
Ophiolites
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hot Spots and Flood basalts/Oceanic Plateaux
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
Wilson cycle - ocean opening and closing; Paleozoic and
PreCambrian plate tectonics
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.
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.
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.
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]
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]
Continental Collision Tectonics
-- Appalachians
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.
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]
-- Anatolia
(Turkish-Iranian
Plateau)
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.
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.
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.
-- Tibet-Himalaya
(India-Asia collision)
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.
46 T.M. Harrison, P. Copeland, W.S.F. Kidd, and A.
Yin, 1992. Raising Tibet. Science, 255,
1663-1670.
--
Royal Society-Academia Sinica Geotraverse 1985-6
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.
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.
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.
--
Lhasa block / Gangdese arc
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.
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.
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.
--
Indepth project
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.
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.
63 M. Edwards, 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.
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.
78 K.D. Solon, A.G. Jones, K.D. Nelson, M.J.
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vicinity of the Banggong-Nujiang suture in central Tibet from
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62 Schneider, D.A., Edwards, M.A., Kidd, W.S.F.,
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identified in the western syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 167, 121-129.
64 Schneider, D.A., Edwards, M.A., Kidd, W.S.F.,
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65 Edwards, M.A., Kidd, W.S.F., Khan, M.A., and
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66 P.K.
Zeitler, 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,
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67 D.A. Schneider, 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,
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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,
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L. Seeber, and J.F. Shroder, 2001. Crustal reworking at Nanga
Parbat, Pakistan: Metamorphic consequences of thermal-mechanical
coupling facilitiated by erosion. Tectonics,
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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.
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 B. Zhu, 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.
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74 A.L. Booth, P.K. Zeitler, W.S.F. Kidd, J.
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U-Pb Zircon constraints on the tectonic evolution of southeastern
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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
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84 Booth, A.L., C.P. Chamberlain, W.S.F. Kidd, and
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eastern Himalayan syntaxis from geochronologic and petrologic
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88 Zeitler, P.K., Meltzer, A.S., Brown, L., Kidd,
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Archean Tectonics
6 K.C. Burke, J.F. Dewey, and W.S.F. Kidd,
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11 K.C. Burke and W.S.F. Kidd, 1978. Were
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25 K. Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, and T. Kusky,
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world's oldest preserved rift? J. Geodynamics, 2,
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26 K. Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, and T. Kusky,
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related to a continental collision between the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe
cratons at 2.64 Ga ago? Tectonophysics,
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32 K. Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, and T. Kusky,
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South Africa. Tectonics,
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36 K.A. Eriksson, W.S.F. Kidd, and B. Krapez,
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early Archean Terrains: examples from Africa and western
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45 T.M. Kusky and W.S.F. Kidd, 1992.
Remnants of an Archean oceanic plateau, Belingwe Greenstone belt,
Zimbabwe. Geology, 20, 43-46.
D8 T.M. Kusky, P.A. Winsky, and W.S.F. Kidd,
1994. Ensialic origin for the Ngezi Group, Belingwe greenstone belt,
Zimbabwe: Comment. Geology, 22, 766-767.
D10 Kusky, T. M., Kidd, W. S. F., 1999. Continental
extensional setting for the Archean Belingwe greenstone belt;
discussion, Geology, 27, p. 861-862.
Foredeep flexural extension
44 D.C. Bradley and W.S.F. Kidd,
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collisional foredeeps. Geol.
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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.
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.
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,
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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
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D2 K.D. Nelson and W.S.F. Kidd, 1979. A lower
Paleozoic trench-fill sequence, New World Island,
Newfoundland: Discussion. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 90,
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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
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32 K. Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, and T. Kusky,
1986. Archean foreland basin tectonics in the Witwatersrand,
South Africa. Tectonics,
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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75 Zhu B., Delano J. W., and Kidd W. S. F., 2005.
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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
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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.
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.
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Oceanic Transform Fault geology
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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.
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.
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Extensional low-angle ductile-brittle detachment faults
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,
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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83 Marsellos, A.E., and W.S.F. Kidd, 2008.
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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.