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Overview

Derek York was affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada during their academic career.

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Derek York is deceased.

Best Publications

  • Least squares fitting of a straight line with correlated errors

    Derek York

  • Late PlioceneHomoand Oldowan Tools from the Hadar Formation (Kada Hadar Member), Ethiopia

    William Kimbel;R. C. Walter;Donald Johanson;Kaye Reed

  • Geothermometry from 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating experiments

    Glenn W Berger;Derek York

  • 40Ar/39Ar dating of terrestrial minerals with a continuous laser

    Derek York;Chris M. Hall;Yotaro Yanase;John A. Hanes

  • The derivation of 40Ar/39Ar age spectra of single grains of hornblende and biotite by laser step-heating

    Paul W. Layer;Chris M. Hall;Derek York

  • CHAPTER 8 – THE PHANEROZOIC TIME-SCALE

    Derek York;Ronald M. Farquhar

  • The best isochron

    Derek York

  • Single grain argon laser probe dating of phengites from the blueschist to greenschist transition on Sifnos (Cyclades, Greece)

    Jan R. Wijbrans;Manfred Schliestedt;Derek York

  • Dates and rates in ancient lakes: 40Ar–39Ar evidence for an Early Cretaceous age for the Jehol Group, northeast China

    Patrick E. Smith;Norman M. Evensen;Derek York;Mee-Mann Chang

  • The age of the Popigai impact event and its relation to events at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary

    Richard Bottomley;Richard Grieve;Derek York;Victor Masaitis

  • Single crystal 40Ar‐39Ar dating of a Late Quaternary paroxysm on Kos, Greece: Concordance of terrestrial and marine ages

    P. E. Smith;D. York;Y. Chen;N. M. Evensen

  • Geochronology, stratigraphy and geochemistry of Cindery Tuff in Pliocene hominid-bearing sediments of the Middle Awash, Ethiopia.

    C. M. Hall;R. C. Walter;J. A. Westgate;D. York

  • 40 Ar- 39 Ar ages of scandinavian impact structures: I Mien and Siljan

    R. J. Bottomley;D. York;R. A. F. Grieve

  • Additional 40Ar-39Ar dating of the basement and the alkaline volcanism of Gorringe Bank (Atlantic Ocean)

    Gilbert Féraud;Derek York;Catherine Mével;Guy Cornen

  • 40Ar39Ar step-heating and laser fusion dating of a quaternary pumice from Neschers, Massif Central, France: The defeat of xenocrystic contamination

    Ph. Lo Bello;G. Féraud;C.M. Hall;D. York

  • Calibration of Grenvillian palaeopoles by 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating

    G. W. Berger;Derek York;D. J. Dunlop

  • THE AGES OF CARBONATITE COMPLEXES IN EASTERN CANADA

    J. Gittins;R. M. Macintyre;D. York

  • Constraints on the motions of South American and African Shields during the Proterozoic: I. 40Ar/39Ar and paleomagnetic correlations between Venezuela and Liberia

    T. C. Onstott;R. B. Hargraves;Derek York;Chris Hall

  • First successful 40Ar-39Ar dating of glauconies: Argon recoil in single grains of cryptocrystalline material

    P. E. Smith;N. M. Evensen;D. York

  • K–Ar and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar Age of the Laschamp geomagnetic polarity reversal

    Chris M. Hall;Derek York

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Richard A. F. Grieve
Richard A. F. Grieve University of Western Ontario
Michael McWilliams
Michael McWilliams Stanford University
David J. Dunlop
David J. Dunlop University of Toronto
Alfred Kröner
Alfred Kröner Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Margarita López-Martínez
Margarita López-Martínez Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada
Henry P. Schwarcz
Henry P. Schwarcz McMaster University
Billy P. Glass
Billy P. Glass University of Delaware
Paul van den Bogaard
Paul van den Bogaard GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Steven D. Scott
Steven D. Scott University of Toronto

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