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Michael A. Cosca is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 31 publications in this field. Within this domain, they specialize in subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their main topics of work encompass earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, and Geological formations and processes.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael A. Cosca include Christian Teyssier, Donna L. Whitney, Jonathan R. Delph, S. L. Beck, and Gilles Brocard.

Publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geosphere
  • Geology
  • GSA Today
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael A. Cosca include:

  • "Breaking plates: Creation of the East Anatolian fault, the Anatolian plate, and a tectonic escape system," 2023, Geology
  • "Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ecemiş fault zone and adjacent basins, central Anatolia, Turkey, during the transition from Arabia-Eurasia collision to escape tectonics," 2020, Geosphere
  • "Age and mantle sources of Quaternary basalts associated with 'leaky' transform faults of the migrating Anatolia-Arabia-Africa triple junction," 2020, Geosphere
  • "Fast Pliocene integration of the Central Anatolian Plateau drainage: Evidence, processes, and driving forces," 2021, Geosphere
  • "Deep Lithospheric Controls on Surface Deformation and Seismicity around the East Anatolian Fault Zone and A3 Triple Junction," 2024, GSA Today

Best Publications

  • Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: Multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites

    Julia de Sigoyer;Valérie Chavagnac;Janne Blichert-Toft;Igor M. Villa

  • The thermal history of the Eastern Ghats Belt (India) as revealed by U–Pb and 40Ar/39Ar dating of metamorphic and magmatic minerals: implications for the SWEAT correlation

    Klaus Mezger;Michael A Cosca

  • Miocene to Holocene exhumation of metamorphic crustal wedges in the NW Himalaya: Evidence for tectonic extrusion coupled to fluvial erosion

    Jean-Claude Vannay;Bernhard Grasemann;Meinert Rahn;Meinert Rahn;Wolfgang Frank

  • Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: Multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites

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  • Staircase 40/Ar39Ar spectra of fine-grained white mica: Timing and duration of deformation and empirical constraints on argon diffusion

    David L. Kirschner;Michael A. Cosca;Henri Masson;Johannes C. Hunziker

  • Geochronology and Nd isotopic data of Grenville-age rocks in the Colombian Andes: new constraints for Late Proterozoic-Early Paleozoic paleocontinental reconstructions of the Americas

    Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace;Joaquin Ruiz;George Gehrels;Michael Cosca

  • Synorogenic extension: Quantitative constraints on the age and displacement of the Zanskar shear zone (northwest Himalaya)

    P. J. Dézes;J.-C. Vannay;A. Steck;F. Bussy;F. Bussy

  • Variscan Sm-Nd and Ar-Ar ages of eclogite facies rocks from the Erzgebirge, Bohemian Massif

    E. Schmädicke;K. Mezger;M. A. Cosca;M. Okrusch

  • Cooling and inferred uplift/erosion history of the Grenville Orogen, Ontario: Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology

    Michael A. Cosca;John F. Sutter;Eric J. Essene

  • Exhumation history of eastern Ladakh revealed by 40Ar/39Ar and fission-track ages: the Indus River–Tso Morari transect, NW Himalaya

    M. Schlup;Andrew Carter;M. Cosca;A. Steck

  • Pyrometamorphic rocks associated with naturally burned coal beds, Powder River basin, Wyoming

    Michael A. Cosca;Eric J. Essene;John W. Geissman;William B. Simmons

  • Strain partitioning and preservation of 40Ar/39Ar ages during Variscan exhumation of a subducted crust (Malpica–Tui complex, NW Spain)

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  • Emergence and evolution of Santa Maria Island (Azores)—The conundrum of uplifted islands revisited

    Ricardo Dos Santos Ramalho;Ricardo Dos Santos Ramalho;George Helffrich;José Madeira;Michael Cosca

  • Reconstructing paleoelevation in eroded orogens

    Andreas Mulch;Christian Teyssier;Michael A. Cosca;Olivier Vanderhaeghe

  • In-situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of a micaceous mylonite : an example of defect-enhanced argon loss

    A. Mulch;M. A. Cosca;M. R. Handy

  • Recrystallization or cooling ages: in situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of muscovite in mylonitic rocks

    Andreas Mulch;Michael A. Cosca

  • What is the tectono-metamorphic evolution of continental break-up: The example of the Tasna Ocean–Continent Transition

    Gianreto Manatschal;Anna Engström;Laurent Desmurs;Urs Schaltegger

  • Contrasting metamorphic and geochronologic evolution along the Himalayan belt.

    Stéphane Guillot;Michael Cosca;Pascal Allemand;Patrick Le Fort

  • Heterogeneous 40Ar* distributions in naturally deformed muscovite: in situ UV-laser ablation evidence for microstructurally controlled intragrain diffusion

    Nicolas Kramar;Michael A. Cosca;Johannes C. Hunziker

  • Time scales of deformation and exhumation in extensional detachment systems determined by high-spatial resolution in situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar dating

    A. Mulch;M.A. Cosca;A. Andresen;J. Fiebig

  • Prograde mica 40Ar/39Ar growth ages recorded in high pressure rocks (Syros, Cyclades, Greece)

    B. Putlitz;M.A. Cosca;J.C. Schumacher

  • Complete chemical analyses of metamorphic hornblendes: implications for normalizations, calculated H 2 O activities, and thermobarometry

    Michael A. Cosca;Eric J. Essene;Johns R. Bowman

  • Miocene burial and exhumation of the India-Asia collision zone in southern Tibet: Response to slab dynamics and erosion

    Barbara Carrapa;D.A. Orme;Peter G. DeCelles;Paul Kapp

  • Late Precambrian metamorphism and cooling in the Arabian–Nubian Shield: Petrology and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of metamorphic rocks of the Elat area (southern Israel)

    M.A Cosca;A Shimron;R Caby

  • The Baltica-Laurentia connection: Sveconorwegian (Grenvillian) metamorphism, cooling, and unroofing in the Bamble Sector, Norway

    Michael A. Cosca;Klaus Mezger;Eric J. Essene

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Essene
Eric J. Essene University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Klaus Mezger
Klaus Mezger University of Bern
Andreas Mulch
Andreas Mulch Goethe University Frankfurt
Renaud Caby
Renaud Caby University of Montpellier
Chris M. Hall
Chris M. Hall University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Zachary D. Sharp
Zachary D. Sharp University of New Mexico
Ben A. van der Pluijm
Ben A. van der Pluijm University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christian Teyssier
Christian Teyssier University of Minnesota
Luca Ferrari
Luca Ferrari National Autonomous University of Mexico
Alex N. Halliday
Alex N. Halliday Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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