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Richard M. Friedman is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions in Computer Science. Within these fields, they have concentrated on subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Geology.

Their work encompasses a range of topics related to geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Additional interests include paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, and broader geological studies and exploration.

Richard M. Friedman has published several papers in various prominent venues. Some of the recent publications include:

  • Dating the Bushveld Complex: Timing of Crystallization, Duration of Magmatism, and Cooling of the World's Largest Layered Intrusion and Related Rocks (2020, Journal of Petrology)
  • New evidence for a long Rhaetian from a Panthalassan succession (Wrangell Mountains, Alaska) and regional differences in carbon cycle perturbations at the Triassic-Jurassic transition (2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • Latest Triassic-Early Jurassic Stikine-Yukon-Tanana terrane collision and the onset of accretion in the Canadian Cordillera: Insights from Hazelton Group detrital zircon provenance and arc-back-arc configuration (2022, Geosphere)
  • Cretaceous to Oligocene magmatic and tectonic evolution of the western Alaska Range: Insights from U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology (2020, Geosphere)
  • Timing of Magmatism and Skarn Formation at the Limon, Guajes, and Media Luna Gold ± Copper Skarn Deposits at Morelos, Guerrero State, Mexico (2022, Economic Geology)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard M. Friedman include Corey J. Wall, Susan M. Karl, Paul W. Layer, James K. Mortensen, and James S. Scoates. These collaborations indicate ongoing partnerships in their research projects.

Their publications have appeared in various venues, with multiple contributions in Geosphere, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Journal of Petrology, Economic Geology, and Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • High-precision isotopic characterization of USGS reference materials by TIMS and MC-ICP-MS

    Dominique Weis;Bruno Kieffer;Claude Maerschalk;Jane Barling

  • U-Th-Pb geochronology of the Coast Mountains batholith in north-coastal British Columbia: Constraints on age and tectonic evolution

    G. Gehrels;M. Rusmore;G. Woodsworth;M. Crawford

  • PRECISE AGE OF THE PLATINIFEROUS MERENSKY REEF, BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA, BY THE U-Pb ZIRCON CHEMICAL ABRASION ID-TIMS TECHNIQUE

    James S. Scoates;Richard M. Friedman

  • Cenozoic to Recent plate configurations in the Pacific Basin: Ridge subduction and slab window magmatism in western North America

    J.K. Madsen;D.J. Thorkelson;R.M. Friedman;D.D. Marshall

  • Geologic history of Siletzia, a large igneous province in the Oregon and Washington Coast Range: Correlation to the geomagnetic polarity time scale and implications for a long-lived Yellowstone hotspot

    Ray Wells;David Bukry;Richard Friedman;Douglas Pyle

  • Timing the end-Triassic mass extinction: First on land, then in the sea?

    József Pálfy;James K. Mortensen;Elizabeth S. Carter;Paul L. Smith

  • U-Pb (zircon) and geochemical constraints on the age, origin, and evolution of Paleozoic arc magmas in the Oyu Tolgoi porphyry Cu-Au district, southern Mongolia

    Alan J. Wainwright;Richard M. Tosdal;Joseph L. Wooden;Frank K. Mazdab

  • Magmatic relationships and ages between adakites, magnesian andesites and Nb-enriched basalt-andesites from Hispaniola: Record of a major change in the Caribbean island arc magma sources

    J. Escuder Viruete;F. Contreras;G. Stein;P. Urien

  • Evidence for rapid weathering response to climatic warming during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event.

    Theodore R. Them;Theodore R. Them;Benjamin C. Gill;David Selby;Darren R. Gröcke

  • The Stillwater Complex: Integrating Zircon Geochronological and Geochemical Constraints on the Age, Emplacement History and Crystallization of a Large, Open-System Layered Intrusion

    Corey J. Wall;Corey J. Wall;James S. Scoates;Dominique Weis;Richard M. Friedman

  • Evidence for protracted High Arctic large igneous province magmatism in the central Sverdrup Basin from stratigraphy, geochronology, and paleodepths of saucer-shaped sills

    Carol A. Evenchick;William J. Davis;Jean H. Bédard;Nathan Hayward

  • The Coast Belt Thrust System: Evidence of Late Cretaceous shortening in southwest British Columbia

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  • Magmatic relationships and ages of Caribbean Island arc tholeiites, boninites and related felsic rocks, Dominican Republic

    J. Escuder Viruete;A. Díaz de Neira;P.P. Hernáiz Huerta;J. Monthel

  • Age and Paleotectonic Setting of Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits in the Guerrero Terrane of Central Mexico: Constraints from U-Pb Age and Pb Isotope Studies

    James K. Mortensen;Brian V. Hall;Thomas Bissig;Richard M. Friedman

  • Archean zircons in Cretaceous strata of the western Canadian Cordillera: The “Baja B.C.” hypothesis fails a “crucial test”

    J. Brian Mahoney;Peter S. Mustard;James W. Haggart;Richard M. Friedman

  • Reduced granitic magmas in an arc setting: The Catface porphyry Cu–Mo deposit of the Paleogene Cascade Arc

    C.M. Smith;D. Canil;S.M. Rowins;R. Friedman

  • Magmatism in the southeastern Anatolian orogenic belt: transition from arc to post-collisional setting in an evolving orogen

    Ilkay Kuscu;Ilkay Kuscu;Gonca Gencalioglu Kuscu;Gonca Gencalioglu Kuscu;Richard M. Tosdal;Thomas D. Ulrich

  • Coherent French Range blueschist: Subduction to exhumation in <2.5 m.y.?

    M.G. Mihalynuk;P. Erdmer;E.D. Ghent;F. Cordey

  • In situ location and U-Pb dating of small zircon grains in igneous rocks using laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–quadrupole mass spectrometry

    Patrick J. Sack;Ron F. Berry;Sebastien Meffre;Trevor J. Falloon

  • Crustal evolution along a seismic section across the Grenville Province (western Quebec)

    J. Martignole;A.J. Calvert;R. Friedman;P. Reynolds

  • Caribbean island-arc rifting and back-arc basin development in the Late Cretaceous: Geochemical, isotopic and geochronological evidence from Central Hispaniola

    J. Escuder Viruete;M. Joubert;P. Urien;R. Friedman

  • Dating the Bushveld Complex: Timing of Crystallization, Duration of Magmatism, and Cooling of the World's Largest Layered Intrusion and Related Rocks

    James S. Scoates;Corey J. Wall;Corey J. Wall;Richard M. Friedman;Dominique Weis

Frequent Co-Authors

James S. Scoates
James S. Scoates University of British Columbia
James K. Mortensen
James K. Mortensen University of British Columbia
Dominique Weis
Dominique Weis University of British Columbia
Richard M. Tosdal
Richard M. Tosdal University of British Columbia
Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Carlos O. Limarino
Carlos O. Limarino University of Buenos Aires
Andrés Pérez-Estaún
Andrés Pérez-Estaún Spanish National Research Council
Peter J. Haeussler
Peter J. Haeussler United States Geological Survey
József Pálfy
József Pálfy Eötvös Loránd University
Dwight C. Bradley
Dwight C. Bradley United States Geological Survey

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