Selected Peer Reviewed Publications

Cosca, M.A., Caby, R., and Bussy, F., 2005, Geochemistry and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology of pseudotachylyte associated with UHP whiteschists from the Dora Maira massif, Italy: Tectonophysics, 402 (1-4 Spec. Iss.), pp. 93-110. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2004.12.033.

Kirschner, D.L., Cosca, M.A., Hunziker, J.C., and Masson, H., 1996, Staircase ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar spectra of fine-grained white mica: timing and duration of deformation and empirical constraints on argon diffusion: Geology, 24 (8), pp. 747-750. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0747:SAASOF>2.3.CO;2 .

Kirschner, D.L., Cosca, M.A., and Masson, H., 2003, Timing of deformation in the Helvetic Alps: evidence from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and Rb/Sr geochronology of white micas: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 145 (4), pp. 460-480. doi:10.1007/s00410-003-0461-2.

Schärer, U., Cosca, M., Hunziker, J., and Steck, A., 1996, Termination of major ductile strike-slip shear and differential cooling along the Insubric line (Central Alps): U/Pb, Rb/Sr and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of cross-cutting pegmatites: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 142 (3-4), pp. 331-352. doi:10.1016/0012-821X(96)00104-5.

Zechmeister, M.S., Ferre, E., Cosca, M.A., Geissman, J.W., 2007, Slow and fast deformation in the Dora Maira Massif, Italian Alps: Pseudotachylytes and inferences on exhumation history: Journal of Structural Geology, 29 (7), pp. 1114-1130. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2007.03.009.

Cosca, M.A., Stunitz, H., Bourgeix, A-L., and Lee, J.P., 2011, ⁴⁰Ar* loss in experimentally deformed muscovite and biotite with implications for ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology of naturally deformed rocks: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75 (24), pp. 7759-7778. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.10.012

Giorgis, D., Cosca, M.A., and Li, S., 2000, Distribution and significance of extraneous argon in UHP eclogite (Sulu terrane, China): insights from in-situ ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar UV-laser ablation analysis: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 181 (4), pp. 605-615. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00221-1.

Kramar, N., Cosca, M.A., and Hunziker, J.C., 2001, Heterogenous 40Ar* distributions in naturally deformed muscovite: in situ UV-laser ablation evidence for microstructurally controlled intragrain diffusion: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 192 (3), pp. 377-388. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00456-3.

Mulch, A. and Cosca, M.A., 2004, Crystallization or cooling ages? In situ UV-laser ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology of muscovite in mylonitic rocks: Jour. Geol. Soc. London., 161 (4), pp. 573-582. doi:10.1144/0016-764903-110.

Mulch, A., Cosca, M.A., Fiebig, J., and Andresen, A., 2005, Time scales of deformation and exhumation in extensional detachment systems determined by high-spatial resolution in situ UV-laser ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233 (3-4), pp. 375-390. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.042.

Albion, J., Ovtcharova, M., Bussy, F., Cosca, M., Schaltegger, U., Bussien, D., and Lewin, E., 2011, Lifetime of an ocean island volcano feeder zone: constraints from U-Pb dating on coexisting zircon and baddeleyite, and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age determinations, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48 (2), pp. 567-592. doi: 10.1139/E10-032

Feeley, T.C., and Cosca, M.A., 2003, Time vs. composition trends of magmatism at Sunlight volcano, Absaroka Volcanic Province, Wyoming: Geological Society of America Bulletin, 115 (6), pp. 714-728. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2003)115<0714:TVCTOM>2.0.CO;2.

Jourdan, F., Marzoli, A., Bertrand, H., Cosca, M., and Fontignie, D., 2003, The Northernmost CAMP: ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age, petrology and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry of the Kerforne dike, Brittany, France. In: Hames, W.C., et al. (eds.), The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province: Fragments of Pangea: AGU Geophysical Monograph 136, pp. 209-226. doi: 10.1029/GM136.

Solé, J., Cosca, M., Sharp, Z., and Enrique, P, 2002, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology and stable isotope geochemistry of late-Hercynian intrusions from north-eastern Iberia with implications for argon loss in K-feldspar: International Journal of Earth Sciences, 91 (5), pp. 865-881. doi:10.1007/s00531-001-0251-x.

Winer, G.S., Feeley, T.C., and Cosca, M.A., 2004, Basaltic volcanism in the Bering Sea: geochronology and volcanic evolution of St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 134 (4), pp. 277-301. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.02.003.

Cosca, M.A., Giorgis, D., Rumble, D., Liou, J.G., 2005, Limiting effects of UHP metamorphism on length-scales of oxygen, hydrogen, and argon isotope exchange: an example from the Qinglongshan UHP eclogites: International Geology Review, 47 (7), pp. 716-749. doi:10.2747/0020-6814.47.7.716.

Giorgis, D., Cosca, M.A., Rumble, D., 2003, Pre-metamorphic δ¹⁸O signatures in morphologically complex zircons from the Qinglongshan UHP meta-granite (Sulu terrain, China): Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology, 83 (2),pp.133-144. View online abstract.

Kramar, N., Cosca, M.A., Buffat, P.A., and Baumgartner, L.P., 2003, Stacking fault-enhanced argon diffusion in naturally deformed muscovite. In Vance, D., Muller, W., and Villa, I., eds., Geochronology: Linking the Isotopic Record with Petrology and Textures: Geological Society of London, Special Publication 220, pp. 249-260. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.220.01.15.

Bendezú, R., Fontbonté, L., and Cosca, M., 2003, Relative age of Cordilleran base metal lode and replacement deposits, and high sulfidation Au-(Ag) epithermal mineralization in the Colquijirca district, central Peru: Mineralium Deposita, 38 (6), pp. 683-694. doi:10.1007/s00126-003-0358-z.

Beuchat, S., Schaltegger, U., Moritz, R., Chiaradia, M., and Cosca, M., in press, Resolving Miocene Magmatic and Mineralizing Events in the Zn-Pb-Ag-Cu Morococha district (Peru) by High-Precision Geochronology: Economic Geology.

Camprubí, A., Ferrari, L., Cosca, M.A., Cardellach, E., and Canals, A., 2003, Ages of epithermal deposits in Mexico: regional significance and links with the evolution of Tertiary volcanism: Economic Geology, 98 (5), pp. 1029-1037. doi:10.2113/98.5.1029.

Haeberlin, Y., Moritz, R., Fontboté, L., and Cosca, M., 2004, Carboniferous orogenic gold deposits at Pataz, Eastern Andean Cordillera, Peru: Geological and structural framework, paragenesis, alteration, and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology: Economic Geology, 99 (1), pp. 73-112. doi:10.2113/99.1.73.

Larson, P.B., Phillips, A., John, D., Cosca, M., Pritchard, C., Andersen, A., and Manion, J., 2009, A preliminary study of older hot spring alteration in Sevenmile Hole, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 188 (1-3), pp. 225-236. doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.07.017

Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., and Chamberlain, C.P., 2007, Stable isotope paleoaltimetry of Eocene core complexes in the North American Cordillera: Tectonics, 26 (4), TC4001. doi:10.1029/2006TC001995.

Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., Vanderhaeghe, O., and Vennemann, T., 2004, Reconstructing paleoelevation in eroded orogens: Geology, 32 (6), pp. 525-528. doi:10.1130/G20394.1.

Ramalho, R.S., Helffrich, G., Cosca, M., Vance, D., Hoffmann, D., and Schmidt, D.N., 2010, Episodic swell growth inferred from variable uplift of the Cape Verde hotspot islands: Nature Geoscience, 3 (11), pp. 774-777. doi:10.1038/ngeo982

Ramalho, R.S., Helffrich, G., Cosca, M., Vance, D., Hoffmann, D., and Schmidt, D.N., 2010, Vertical movements of ocean island volcanoes: Insights from a stationary plate environment: Marine Geology, 275 (1-4), pp. 84-95. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.04.009

Cosca, M.A., Sutter, J.F., and Essene, E.J., 1991, Cooling and inferred uplift/erosion history of the Grenville Orogen, Ontario: constraints from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar thermochronology: Tectonics, 10 (1), pp. 959-977. View online AGU abstract.

Cosca, M.A., Mezger, K., and Essene, E.J., 1998, The Baltica-Laurentia connection: Sveconorwegian (Grenvillian) metamorphism, cooling, and unroofing in the Bamble Sector, Norway: The Journal of Geology, 106 (5), pp. 539-552. doi:10.1086/516040.

Cosca, M.A., Shimron, A., and Caby, R., 1999, Late Precambrian metamorphism and cooling in the Arabian-Nubian Shield: petrology and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology of metamorphic rocks of the Elat area (southern Israel): Precambrian Research, 98 (1-2), pp. 107-127. doi:10.1016/S0301-9268(99)00044-3.

Jaboyedoff, M., and Cosca, M.A., 1999, Dating incipient metamorphism using ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronolgy and XRD modeling: a case study from the Swiss Alps: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 135 (2-3), pp. 93-113. doi:10.1007/s004100050500.

Keane, S.D., DeWolf, C.P., Essene, E.J., Halliday, A.N., Hall, C.M., and Cosca, M.A., 2007, Isotopic Constraints on the Thermal History of the Wind River Range, Wyoming: Implications for Archean Metamorphism: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43 (10), pp. 1511-1532. doi:10.1139/E06-090.

Putlitz, B., Cosca, M.A., and Schumacher, J., 2005, Prograde mica ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar growth ages recorded in high pressure rocks (Syros, Cyclades, Greece): Chemical Geology, 214 (1-2), pp. 79-98. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.08.056.

Bröcker, M., Klemd, R., Cosca, M., Brock, W., Larionov, A.N., Rodionov, N., 2009, The timing of eclogite facies metamorphism and migmatization in the Orlica-Śnieżnik complex, Bohemian Massif: Constraints from a multimethod geochronological study: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27 (5), pp. 385-403. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00823.x

Cole, J.C., Trexler, J.H., Cashman, P.H., Miller, I., Shroba, R.R, Cosca M.A., and Workman, J.B., 2010, Beyond Colorado's Front Range: A new look at Laramide basin subsidence, sedimentation, and deformation in north-central Colorado: In: Morgan, L.A., and Quane, S.l., eds., Through the Generations: Geologic and Anthropogenic Field Excursions in the Rocky Mountains fro Modern to Ancient: Geological Society of America Field Guide 18, pp. 55-76.

Cosca, M.A., Arculus, R.J., Pearce, J.A., and Mitchell, J.G., 1998, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and K-Ar geochronological age constraints for the inception and early evolution of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc system: The Island Arc, 7 (3), pp. 579-595. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1998.00211.x.

Manatschal, G., Engström, A., Desmurs, L., Schaltegger, U., Cosca, M., Müntener, O., and Bernoulli, D., 2006, What is the tectono-metamorphic evolution of continental break-up: the example of the Tasna ocean-continent transistion: Journal of Structural Geology, 28 (10), pp. 1849-1869. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2006.07.014.

Mezger, K., and Cosca, M.A., 1999, The thermal history of the Eastern Ghats (India) as revealed by U-Pb and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of metamorphic and magmatic minerals: implications for the SWEAT correlation: Precambrian Research, 94 (3-4), pp. 251-271. doi:10.1016/S0301-9268(98)00118-1.

Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., and Vennemann, T.W., 2006, Thermomechanical analysis of strain localization in a ductile detachment zone: Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, 111 (12), B12405. doi:10.1029/2005JB004032.

Rodríguez Aller, J., Cosca, M.A., Gil Ibarguchi, J.I., and Dallmeyer, R.D., 2003, Strain partitioning and preservation of ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages for the eclogite-facies stage during Variscan exhumation of a subducted crust (Malpica-Tui allochthon, NW Spain): Lithos, 70 (3-4), pp. 111-139. doi:10.1016/S0024-4937(03)00095-1.

Schlup, M., Steck, A., Carter, A., Cosca, M., Epard, J-L., and Hunziker, J., 2010, Exhumation history of the NW Indian Himalaya revealed by fission track and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 40 (1), pp. 334-350. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.06.008

van der Lelij, R., Spikings, R.A., Kerr, A., Kounov, A., Cosca, M., Chew, D., and Villagomez, D., 2010, Thermochronology and tectonics of the Leeward Antilles: Evolution of the southern Caribbean Plate boundary zone: Tectonics, 29, TC6003. doi:10.1029/2009TC002654

Vannay, J-C., Grasemann, B., Rahn, M., Frank, W., Carter, A., Baudraz, V., and Cosca, M., 2004, Miocene to Holocene exhumation of metamorphic crustal wedges in the NW Himalaya: evidence for tectonic extrusion coupled to fluvial erosion: Tectonics, 23 (1), TC1014. doi:10.1029/2002TC001429.