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Michael J. Kunk

United States Geological Survey(US)

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Planetary Science and Exploration

Most-Cited Works

→ Early Neogene history of the Central American arc from Bocas del Toro, western Panama(2003)116 cited
→ Volcanoes of the passive margin: The youngest magmatic event in eastern North America(2014)82 cited
→ Differential unroofing within the central metasedimentary Belt of the Grenville Orogen: constraints from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology(1992)74 cited
→ Exhumation of eclogitized continental basement during Variscan lithospheric delamination and gravitational collapse, Sudety Mountains, Poland(1993)72 cited
→ Contrasting P‐T‐t paths: Thermochronologic evidence for a Late Paleozoic final assembly of the Avalon Composite Terrane in the New England Appalachians(1992)64 cited
→ SHRIMP U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar Age Constraints for Relating Plutonism and Mineralization in the Boulder Batholith Region, Montana(2002)62 cited

→ The Manson Impact Structure: 40 Ar/ 39 Ar Age and Its Distal Impact Ejecta in the Pierre Shale in Southeastern South Dakota(1993)60 cited

→ Stratigraphy and structural development of the southwest Isla Tiburón marine basin: Implications for latest Miocene tectonic opening and flooding of the northern Gulf of California(2015)44 cited

→ Slip history of the La Cruz fault: Development of a late Miocene transform in response to increased rift obliquity in the northern Gulf of California(2016)43 cited

→ Composition of biotite phenocrysts in Ordovician tephras casts doubt on the proposed trans-Atlantic correlation of the Millbrig K-bentonite (United States) and the Kinnekulle K-bentonite (Sweden)(1995)40 cited