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Paul W. Layer is affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant emphasis on Geophysics. Additional fields of study include Computer Science, spanning across subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geology, Atmospheric Science, and Molecular Biology.

Their research covers a broad range of topics including geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological studies and exploration, and geological and tectonic studies in Latin America.

Paul W. Layer has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. Recent notable papers include:

  • The control of preexisting faults on the distribution, morphology, and volume of monogenetic volcanism in the Michoacán-Guanajuato Volcanic Field (2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin)
  • Eruptive chronology of monogenetic volcanoes northwestern of Morelia - Insights into volcano-tectonic interactions in the central-eastern Michoacán-Guanajuato Volcanic Field, México (2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences)
  • Long distance plutonic relationships demonstrate 33 million years of strain partitioning along the Denali fault (2021, Terra Nova)
  • Early Miocene arc volcanism in the Mexico City Basin: Inception of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research)
  • The Santa Fe Intrusion and Other Magmatic Bodies Under the Chichón Volcano Area (Mexico): Inferences from Aeromagnetic and New Petrologic-Geochronologic Data (2020, Surveys in Geophysics)

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Jeffrey A. Benowitz
  • José Luis Macías
  • Susan M. Karl
  • Richard M. Friedman
  • Martha Gabriela Gómez-Vasconcelos

The scientist has published multiple articles in various academic venues. Some of the more frequent publication venues are:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Terra Nova

Best Publications

  • Recent investigations of the 0–5 Ma geomagnetic field recorded by lava flows

    C. L. Johnson;C. G. Constable;L. Tauxe;R. Barendregt

  • Argon-40/argon-39 age of the El'gygytgyn impact event, Chukotka, Russia

    Paul W. Layer

  • High-pressure metamorphism in the Aegean, eastern Mediterranean: Underplating and exhumation from the Late Cretaceous until the Miocene to Recent above the retreating Hellenic subduction zone

    Uwe Ring;Paul W. Layer

  • Plutonic-Related Gold Deposits of Interior Alaska

    Dan McCoy;Rainer J. Newberry;Paul Layer;Jack J. DiMarchi

  • The derivation of 40Ar/39Ar age spectra of single grains of hornblende and biotite by laser step-heating

    Paul W. Layer;Chris M. Hall;Derek York

  • Tectonic setting of the plutonic belts of Yakutia, northeast Russia, based on 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and trace element geochemistry

    Paul W. Layer;Rainer Newberry;Kazuya Fujita;Leonid Parfenov

  • Post-collisional transition from calc-alkaline to alkaline magmatism during transcurrent deformation in the southernmost Dom Feliciano Belt (Braziliano-Pan-African, Uruguay)

    Pedro Oyhantçabal;Siegfried Siegesmund;Klaus Wemmer;Robert Frei

  • Geochronological constraints on the evolution of the southern Dom Feliciano Belt (Uruguay)

    Pedro Oyhantçabal;Siegfried Siegesmund;Klaus Wemmer;Sergey Presnyakov

  • Miocene high-pressure metamorphism in the Cyclades and Crete, Aegean Sea, Greece: Evidence for large-magnitude displacement on the Cretan detachment

    Uwe Ring;Paul W. Layer;Thomas Reischmann

  • The Giant Muruntau Gold Deposit: Geologic, Geochronologic, and Fluid Inclusion Constraints on Ore Genesis

    Andrew R Wilde;P Layer;T P Mernagh;J Foster

  • Crust Formation and Plate Motion in the Early Archean

    A. Kröner;P. W. Layer

  • Mesozoic sedimentary-basin development on the allochthonous Wrangellia composite terrane, Wrangell Mountains basin, Alaska: A long-term record of terrane migration and arc construction

    Jeffrey M. Trop;Kenneth D. Ridgway;Jeffrey D. Manuszak;Paul Layer

  • Eocene volcanism above a depleted mantle slab window in southern Alaska

    Ronald B. Cole;Steve W. Nelson;Paul W. Layer;Peter J. Oswald

  • Spatial variations in focused exhumation along a continental-scale strike-slip fault: The Denali fault of the eastern Alaska Range

    Jeff A. Benowitz;Paul W. Layer;Phil Armstrong;Stephanie E. Perry

  • Early and Middle Proterozoic evolution of Yukon, Canada

    Derek J. Thorkelson;J. Grant Abbott;James K. Mortensen;Robert A. Creaser

  • A multidisciplinary study of the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Mussentuchit Wash, Utah: a determination of the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the Eolambia caroljonesa dinosaur quarry

    James R. Garrison;Donald Brinkman;Douglas J. Nichols;Paul Layer

  • Mafic Late Miocene–Quaternary volcanic rocks in the Kamchatka back arc region: implications for subduction geometry and slab history at the Pacific–Aleutian junction

    Anna O. Volynets;Tatiana G. Churikova;Gerhard Wörner;Boris N. Gordeychik

  • Persistent long-term (c. 24 Ma) exhumation in the Eastern Alaska Range constrained by stacked thermochronology

    Jeff A. Benowitz;Paul W. Layer;Sam Vanlaningham

  • Reconstruction of the volcanic history of the Tacámbaro-Puruarán area (Michoacán, México) reveals high frequency of Holocene monogenetic eruptions

    Marie-Noëlle Guilbaud;Claus Siebe;Paul Layer;Sergio Salinas

  • Shear-zone patterns and eclogite-facies metamorphism in the Mozambique belt of northern Malawi, east-central Africa: implications for the assembly of Gondwana

    Uwe Ring;Alfred Kröner;Robert Buchwaldt;Robert Buchwaldt;Theofilos Toulkeridis

  • Mesozoic thermal history and timing of structural events for the Yukon-Tanana Upland, east-central Alaska: 40Ar/39Ar data from metamorphic and plutonic rocks

    Cynthia Dusel-Bacon;Marvin A. Lanphere;Warren D. Sharp;Paul W. Layer

Frequent Co-Authors

José Luis Macías
José Luis Macías National Autonomous University of Mexico
Peter J. Haeussler
Peter J. Haeussler United States Geological Survey
Alfred Kröner
Alfred Kröner Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Paul B. O'Sullivan
Paul B. O'Sullivan Syracuse University
Siegfried Siegesmund
Siegfried Siegesmund University of Göttingen
Klaus Wemmer
Klaus Wemmer University of Göttingen
Michael McWilliams
Michael McWilliams Stanford University
Dwight C. Bradley
Dwight C. Bradley United States Geological Survey
Richard M. Friedman
Richard M. Friedman University of British Columbia
Kenneth D. Ridgway
Kenneth D. Ridgway Purdue University West Lafayette

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