William S. F. Kidd

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Publications

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. PDF file

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. PDF file

K.D. Solon, 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. PDF file

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. PDF file

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. PDF file

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. PDF file

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. PDF file

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. PDF file

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. PDF file

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, pages7-1 to 7-24 in McLelland, J.M., amd 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. PDF file (1.5Mb)

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. PDF file

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. PDF file

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, revisited. J. Geol., 109, 563-583. PDF file

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, 2001. Erosion, Himalayan Geodynamics and the Geomorphology of Metamorphism. GSA Today, 11, 4-9. PDF file

M.A. Edwards, W.S.F. Kidd, M.A. Khan, and D.A. Schneider, 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.

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

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. PDF file

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

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. PDF file

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. PDF file

M. A. Edwards, W. S. F. Kidd, L. Seeber, A. Pêcher, P. Le Fort, M. Riaz, and M. Asif Khan,1996. An Upwardly-Mobile Indentor? The Nanga Parbat Haramosh Massif viewed as a Crustal-Scale Pop-up Structure. EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 77, F692.

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

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

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. PDF file

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. PDF file

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. PDF file

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. PDF file

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

D.C. Bradley and W.S.F. Kidd, 1991. Flexural extension in collisional foredeeps. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 103, 1416-1438. PDF file

Field trip guides
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. NYSGA/NEIGC 2002 meeting. PDF file
Lithofacies and structure of the Taconic Flysch, Melange, and Allochthon in the New York Capital District. NYSGA 1995 meeting. PDF file
Thrusts, melanges, folded thrusts, and duplexes in the Taconic Foreland. NYSGA 1985 meeting. PDF file
Detailed stratigraphic and structural features of the Giddings Brook slice of the Taconic Allochthon in the Granville area. NYSGA/NEIGC 1979 meeting. PDF file