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Earth Science

D-Index
34
Citations
3647
World Ranking
8098
National Ranking
2696

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - GSA Distinguished Service Award, The Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • Episodic zircon ages, Hf isotopic composition, and the preservation rate of continental crust

    Kent C. Condie;M.E. Bickford;Richard C. Aster;Elena Belousova

  • Mesoproterozoic-trans-Laurentian magmatism: A synthesis of continent-wide age distributions, new SIMS U–Pb ages, zircon saturation temperatures, and Hf and Nd isotopic compositions

    M.E. Bickford;W.R. Van Schmus;K.E. Karlstrom;P.A. Mueller

  • Age of volcanic rocks and syndepositional iron formations, Marquette Range Supergroup: implications for the tectonic setting of Paleoproterozoic iron formations of the Lake Superior region

    D.A. Schneider;M.E. Bickford;W.F. Cannon;K.J. Schulz

  • Proterozoic collisional tectonism in the Trans-Hudson orogen, Saskatchewan

    M. E. Bickford;K. D. Collerson;J. F. Lewry;W. R. Van Schmus

  • SHRIMP Ages of Zircon in the Uppermost Tuff in Chattisgarh Basin in Central India Require ∼500‐Ma Adjustment in Indian Proterozoic Stratigraphy

    Sarbani Patranabis‐Deb;M. E. Bickford;Barbara Hill;Asru K. Chaudhuri

  • LATE- TO POST-TECTONIC SETTING OF SOME MAJOR PROTEROZOIC ANORTHOSITE – MANGERITE – CHARNOCKITE – GRANITE (AMCG) SUITES

    James M. McLelland;Bruce W. Selleck;Michael A. Hamilton;Marion E. Bickford

  • U–Pb geochronology in the Trans-Hudson Orogen, northern Saskatchewan, Canada

    W. R. Van Schmus;M. E. Bickford;J. F. Lewry;R. Macdonald

  • Depositional History of the Chhattisgarh Basin, Central India: Constraints from New SHRIMP Zircon Ages

    M. E. Bickford;Abhijit Basu;Sarbani Patranabis-Deb;Pratap C. Dhang

  • Timing of anatexis in metapelites from the Adirondack lowlands and southern highlands: A manifestation of the Shawinigan orogeny and subsequent anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite magmatism

    Matthew J. Heumann;M.E. Bickford;Barbara M. Hill;James M. McLelland

  • SHRIMP study of zircons from Early Archean rocks in the Minnesota River Valley: Implications for the tectonic history of the Superior Province

    M.E. Bickford;J.L. Wooden;R.L. Bauer

  • Inferring tectonic provenance of siliciclastic rocks from their chemical compositions: A dissent

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  • New U-Pb SHRIMP Zircon Ages of the Dhamda Tuff in the Mesoproterozoic Chhattisgarh Basin, Peninsular India: Stratigraphic Implications and Significance of a 1-Ga Thermal-Magmatic Event

    Marion E. Bickford;Abhijit Basu;Arunangshu Mukherjee;Jack Hietpas

  • Paleoproterozoic rocks of central Colorado: Accreted arcs or extended older crust?

    Barbara M. Hill;M.E. Bickford

  • Tectonic Evolution of the Adirondack Mountains and Grenville Orogen Inliers within the USA

    James M. McLelland;Bruce W. Selleck;Marion E. Bickford

  • Chapter 11 Proterozoic Chronology and Evolution of the Midcontinent Region, North America

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  • Does the arc accretion model adequately explain the Paleoproterozoic evolution of southern Laurentia?: An expanded interpretation

    M.E. Bickford;Barbara M. Hill

  • Crustal evolution of southern Laurentia during the Paleoproterozoic: Insights from zircon Hf isotopic studies of ca. 1.75 Ga rocks in central Colorado

    M.E. Bickford;P.A. Mueller;George D. Kamenov;Barbara M. Hill

  • Origin of the Archean Sask craton and its extent within the Trans-Hudson orogen: evidence from Pb and Nd isotopic compositions of basement rocks and post-orogenic intrusions

    M.E. Bickford;T.D. Mock;W.E. Steinhart;K.D. Collerson

  • U-Pb zircon ages from the Bindal Batholith, and the tectonic history of the Helgeland Nappe Complex, Scandinavian Caledonides

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  • An alternate perspective on the opening and closing of the intracratonic Purana basins in peninsular India

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