Leon T. Silver

Research.com Recognitions

• 1981 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1979 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1974 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1964 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• Fellow of the Geological Society of America
• Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Best Publications

• The effects of long alpha-stopping distances on (U‐Th)/He ages

  K.A. Farley;R.A. Wolf;L.T. Silver

  1720
  Citations

• Rare earth element distributions among minerals in a granodiorite and their petrogenetic implications

  L. Peter Gromet;Leon T. Silver

  705
  Citations

• Helium diffusion and low-temperature thermochronometry of apatite

  R.A. Wolf;K.A. Farley;L.T. Silver

  668
  Citations

• REE Variations Across the Peninsular Ranges Batholith: Implications for Batholithic Petrogenesis and Crustal Growth in Magmatic Arcs

  L. Peter Gromet;Leon T. Silver

  441
  Citations

• Geological implications of impacts of large asteroids and comets on the earth

  Leon T. Silver;Peter H. Schultz

  415
  Citations

• Petrology of eucrites, howardites and mesosiderites☆

  Michael B. Duke;Leon T. Silver

  389
  Citations

• Uranium-Lead Isotopic Variations in Zircons: A Case Study

  Leon T. Silver;Sarah Deutsch

  369
  Citations

• The Peninsular Ranges Batholith: An insight into the evolution of the Cordilleran batholiths of southwestern North America

  L. T. Silver;B. W. Chappell

  352
  Citations

• Transcontinental Proterozoic provinces

  J. Lawford Anderson;E. Erik Bender;Raymond R. Anderson;Paul W. Bauer

  240
  Citations

• Uranium and Lead Isotopic Stability in a Metamict Zircon under Experimental Hydrothermal Conditions.

  R. T. Pidgeon;James R. O'Neil;Leon T. Silver

  225
  Citations

• The metamictization of zircon: Radiation dose-dependent structural characteristics

  James A. Woodhead;George R. Rossman;Leon T. Silver

  189
  Citations

• A crustal-upper-mantle model for the Colorado Plateau based on observations of crystalline rock fragments in the Moses Rock Dike

  Thomas R. McGetchin;Leon T. Silver

  173
  Citations

• S-type granites and their probable absence in southwestern North America

  A.J.R. White;J. D. Clemens;J. R. Holloway;L. T. Silver

  160
  Citations

• Late Triassic paleogeography of the southern Cordillera: The problem of a source for voluminous volcanic detritus in the Chinle Formation of the Colorado Plateau region

  John H. Stewart;Thomas H. Anderson;Gordon B. Haxel;Leon T. Silver

  136
  Citations

• Compositional relations in minerals from kimberlite and related rocks in the Moses Rock dike, San Juan County, Utah

  Thomas R. McGetchin;Leon T. Silver

  130
  Citations

• Emplacement and deformation history of the western margin of the Idaho batholith near McCall, Idaho: Influence of a major terrane boundary

  Cathryn A. Manduca;Mel A. Kuntz;Leon T. Silver

  127
  Citations

• Oxygen isotope studies of minerals in stony meteorites

  Hugh P. Taylor;Michael B. Duke;Leon T. Silver;Samuel Epstein

  125
  Citations

• Geology and ore deposits of the Dragoon quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona

  John Roberts Cooper;Leon T. Silver

  116
  Citations

• Lead-isotope inhomogeneity in Precambrian igneous K-feldspars

  Kenneth R. Ludwig;Leon T. Silver

  114
  Citations

• Tertiary metamorphic core complexes in Sonora, northwestern Mexico

  Jonathan A. Nourse;Thomas H. Anderson;Leon T. Silver

  113
  Citations