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Michael McWilliams

Michael McWilliams

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Earth Science

D-Index
68
Citations
15423
World Ranking
1156
National Ranking
528

Overview

Michael McWilliams is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States.

There is no available data on recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, main fields or subfields of study, main topics of work, or awards won, which limits detailed insight into their research focus and academic contributions.

Best Publications

  • Tectonics of the Qinling (Central China): tectonostratigraphy, geochronology, and deformation history

    Lothar Ratschbacher;Bradley R. Hacker;Andrew Calvert;Laura E. Webb

  • Exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure continental crust in east central China: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic tectonic unroofing

    Bradley R. Hacker;Lothar Ratschbacher;Laura Webb;Michael O. McWilliams

  • Volcanic and structural evolution of Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: a review

    C.J.N. Wilson;B.F. Houghton;M.O. McWilliams;M.A. Lanphere

  • Normal faulting in central Tibet since at least 13.5 Myr ago

    Peter M. Blisniuk;Bradley R. Hacker;Johannes Glodny;Lothar Ratschbacher

  • Exhumation of the ultrahigh‐pressure continental crust in east central China: Cretaceous and Cenozoic unroofing and the Tan‐Lu fault

    Lothar Ratschbacher;Bradley R. Hacker;Laura E. Webb;Michael McWilliams

  • Coeval 40Ar/39Ar Ages of 65.0 Million Years Ago from Chicxulub Crater Melt Rock and Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Tektites.

    Carl C. Swisher;José M. Grajales-Nishimura;Alessandro Montanari;Stanley V. Margolis

  • Assembly of the Pamirs: Age and origin of magmatic belts from the southern Tien Shan to the southern Pamirs and their relation to Tibet

    Martina Schwab;Martina Schwab;Lothar Ratschbacher;Wolfgang Siebel;Michael McWilliams

  • Chronology and dynamics of a large silicic magmatic system: Central Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

    B. F. Houghton;C. J. N. Wilson;M. O. McWilliams;M. A. Lanphere

  • Hot and dry deep crustal xenoliths from tibet

    Bradley R. Hacker;Edwin Gnos;Lothar Ratschbacher;Marty Grove

  • Detrital zircon provenance analysis of the Great Valley Group, California: Evolution of an arc-forearc system

    Kathleen DeGraaff-Surpless;Stephan A. Graham;Joseph L. Wooden;Michael O. McWilliams

  • 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and exhumation of high-pressure to ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in east-central China

    Elizabeth A. Eide;Michael O. McWilliams;Juhn G. Liou

  • Mass-production of Cambro-Ordovician quartz-rich sandstone as a consequence of chemical weathering of Pan-African terranes: Environmental implications

    D. Avigad;A. Sandler;K. Kolodner;R. J. Stern

  • Thermochronologic constraints on deformation and cooling history of high- and ultrahigh-pressure rocks in the Qinling-Dabie orogen, eastern China

    Laura E. Webb;Bradley R. Hacker;Lothar Ratschbacher;Michael O. McWilliams

  • Origin of northern Gondwana Cambrian sandstone revealed by detrital zircon SHRIMP dating

    D. Avigad;K. Kolodner;M. McWilliams;H. Persing

  • 40Ar/39Ar Dating of the Brunhes-Matuyama Geomagnetic Field Reversal.

    A. K. Baksi;V. Hsu;M. O. McWilliams;E. Farrar

  • Polyphase subduction and exhumation of the Sulu high-pressure–ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane

    Zhiqin Xu;Lingsen Zeng;Fulai Liu;Jingsui Yang

  • Near-Ultrahigh Pressure Processing of Continental Crust: Miocene Crustal Xenoliths from the Pamir

    Bradley Hacker;Peter Luffi;Valery Lutkov;Vladislav Minaev

  • Intensity of the Earth's magnetic field: Evidence for a Mesozoic dipole low

    Michel Prévot;Mohammed El-Messaoud Derder;Michael McWilliams;John Thompson

  • Provenance of north Gondwana Cambrian-Ordovician sandstone: U-Pb SHRIMP dating of detrital zircons from Israel and Jordan

    K. Kolodner;D. Avigad;Michael McWilliams;J. Wooden

  • Building the Pamirs: The view from the underside

    Mihai N. Ducea;Valery Lutkov;Vladislav T. Minaev;Bradley Hacker

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley R. Hacker
Bradley R. Hacker University of California, Santa Barbara
Lothar Ratschbacher
Lothar Ratschbacher TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Joseph L. Wooden
Joseph L. Wooden Stanford University
Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alfred Kröner
Alfred Kröner Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Dov Avigad
Dov Avigad Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Pieter Vermeesch
Pieter Vermeesch University College London
Allan Cox
Allan Cox Stanford University
W. G. Ernst
W. G. Ernst Stanford University
Bruce F. Houghton
Bruce F. Houghton University of Hawaii at Manoa

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