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Dwight C. Bradley is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant contribution in subfields including Geophysics, Geology, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work covers a broad spectrum of topics that include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Bradley has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • The Assabet barcode: Mesoproterozoic detrital zircons in Neoproterozoic strata from Mauritania, West Africa, 2022, American Journal of Science
  • Onset of long-lived silicic and alkaline magmatism in eastern North America preceded Central Atlantic Magmatic Province emplacement, 2022, Geology
  • Cretaceous to Oligocene magmatic and tectonic evolution of the western Alaska Range: Insights from U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, 2020, Geosphere
  • The Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe - some new age constraints and implications for greenstone belt evolution, 2024, International Geology Review
  • Anatectic Origin of Mississippian Spodumene-Bearing Pegmatites in Western Maine During Orogenic Plateau Collapse, 2025, Economic Geology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Myles Felch
  • Sean Kinney
  • Justin V. Strauss
  • Christopher S. Holm-Denoma
  • J. Dykstra Eusden

Bradley has published extensively in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Geology, International Geology Review, American Journal of Science, and Geosphere. The largest number of their publications appear in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Development of Pull-Apart Basins

    Paul Mann;Mark R. Hempton;Dwight C. Bradley;Kevin Burke

  • Sediment-Hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits in Earth History

    David. L. Leach;David. L. Leach;Dwight C. Bradley;David Huston;Sergei A. Pisarevsky

  • Critical Mineral Resources of the United States--Economic and Environmental Geology and Prospects for Future Supply

    K. J. Schulz;John H. DeYoung;Robert R. Seal;Dwight Culver Bradley

  • Mississippi Valley-type lead–zinc deposits through geological time: implications from recent age-dating research

    David L. Leach;Dwight Bradley;Michael T. Lewchuk;David T. Symons

  • Passive margins through earth history

    Dwight C. Bradley

  • Secular trends in the geologic record and the supercontinent cycle

    Dwight C. Bradley

  • Flexural extension of the upper continental crust in collisional foredeeps

    D. C. Bradley;W.S.F. Kidd

  • New U–Pb zircon ages and the duration and division of Devonian time

    R.D Tucker;D.C Bradley;C.A Ver Straeten;A.G Harris

  • Paleozoic orogens in New England, USA

    Peter Robinson;Robert D. Tucker;Dwight Bradley;Henry N. Berry

  • Life and death of the Resurrection plate: Evidence for its existence and subduction in the northeastern Pacific in Paleocene–Eocene time

    Peter J. Haeussler;Dwight C. Bradley;Ray E. Wells;Marti L. Miller

  • Tectonic controls of Mississippi Valley-type lead–zinc mineralization in orogenic forelands

    Dwight C. Bradley;David L. Leach

  • Geologic signature of early Tertiary ridge subduction in Alaska

    Dwight C. Bradley;Timothy M. Kusky;Peter J. Haeussler;Richard J. Goldfarb

  • Subsidence in Late Paleozoic basins in the northern Appalachians

    Dwight C. Bradley

  • The Late Cretaceous Donlin Creek Gold Deposit, Southwestern Alaska: Controls on Epizonal Ore Formation

    Richard J. Goldfarb;Robert A. Ayuso;Marti L. Miller;Shane W. Ebert

  • Tectonics of the Acadian Orogeny in New England and Adjacent Canada

    Dwight C. Bradley

  • Link between ridge subduction and gold mineralization in southern Alaska

    Peter J. Haeussler;Dwight C. Bradley;Richard Goldfarb;Lawrence W. Snee

  • Migration of the Acadian orogen and Foreland Basin across the Northern Appalachians of Maine and adjacent areas

    Dwight Culver Bradley;Robert D. Tucker;Daniel R. Lux;Anita G. Harris

  • Kinematic analysis of mélange fabrics: examples and applications from the McHugh Complex, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

    Timothy M Kusky;Dwight C Bradley

  • Lithium Brines: A Global Perspective

    Lee Ann Munk;Scott A. Hynek;Dwight C. Bradley;David Boutt

  • Controls on accretion of flysch and mélange belts at convergent margins: Evidence from the Chugach Bay thrust and Iceworm mélange, Chugach accretionary wedge, Alaska

    Timothy M. Kusky;Dwight C. Bradley;Peter J. Haeussler;Susan M. Karl

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Haeussler
Peter J. Haeussler United States Geological Survey
Paul B. O'Sullivan
Paul B. O'Sullivan Syracuse University
Timothy M. Kusky
Timothy M. Kusky China University of Geosciences
David L. Leach
David L. Leach Colorado School of Mines
Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Richard J. Goldfarb
Richard J. Goldfarb China University of Geosciences
Robert D. Tucker
Robert D. Tucker Washington University in St. Louis
William C. McClelland
William C. McClelland University of Iowa
Richard M. Friedman
Richard M. Friedman University of British Columbia
Ray E. Wells
Ray E. Wells United States Geological Survey

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