Faculty Publications 2006

Beane, R.J. and M.L. Leech, in press: The Maksyutov Complex: The first UHP terrane 40 years later. Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap. "Convergent margin terranes and associated regions" (M. Cloos, B. Carlson, C. Gilbert, J.G. Liou, S. Sorenson, eds.).

Leech, M.L., S. Singh, and A.K. Jain, in press: Interpreting U-Pb SHRIMP dating of zircon: an example from the western Himalaya. Int. Geol. Rev.

Leech, M.L., S. Singh, A.K. Jain, S.L. Klemperer, and R.M. Manickavasagam, 2006: Reply to comment by P.J. O'Brien on: "The onset of India-Asia continental collision: Early, steep subduction required by the timing of UHP metamorphism in the western Himalaya", Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 245, 817-820.

Leech, M.L., L.E. Webb, and T. Yang, 2006: Diachronous histories for the Dabie-Sulu orogen from high-temperature geochronology: In, Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: Deep continental subduction (B.R. Hacker, W.C. McClelland, and J.G. Liou, eds.), Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap. 403, 1-22.

Shafer, J. C., W. J. Steenburgh, J. A. W. Cox, and J. P. Monteverdi, 2006: Terrain influences on synoptic storm structure and mesoscale precipitation distribution during IPEX IOP3. Mon. Wea. Rev. 134, 478-497.

Sullivan, R., 2006, A walk along the old bay margins in downtown San Francisco: Retracing the events of the 1906 earthquake and fire, in Prentice, C.S., Scotchmoor, J. G., Moores, E.M., and Kirkland, J.P., eds., 1906 San Francisco, California Earthquake Centennial Field Guides; Geological Society of America Guide 7, p. 1-23.

Umscheid, M.E., J. P. Monteverdi, and J.M. Davies, 2006: Photographs and analysis of an unusually large and long-lived firewhirl. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 1, no. 2, 1-13. (Abstract, PDF)

Webb, L.E., M.L. Leech, and T. Yang, 2006: ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar thermochronology of the Sulu terrane: Late Triassic exhumation of high and ultrahigh-pressure rocks and other implications for Mesozoic tectonics in East Asia: In, Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: Deep continental subduction (B.R. Hacker, W.C. McClelland, and J.G. Liou, eds.), Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap. 403, 77-92.

2. Refereed Abstracts and Technical Memoranda, Field Trip Publications, Books and Invited Journal and Conference Publications

Cornell, M. and Leech, M.L., 2006: X-ray diffraction analysis of possible graphite pseudomorphs after diamond from the south Ural Mountains, Russia, Eos Trans., Am. Geophys. Union, 87, V31A-0573

Leech, M.L. and Sas, R., 2006: New U-Pb SHRIMP dating for the Leo Pargil gneiss dome, western Himalaya, Eos Trans., Am. Geophys. Union, 87, T31B-0453.

Polito, C. and Leech, M.L., 2006: Petrology and new U-Pb SHRIMP dating for eclogites of the Lofoten Islands, Flakstadøy and Vestvågøy, northern Norway, Eos Trans., Am. Geophys. Union, 87, V31A-0571.

Sullivan, R., 2006, Retracing the events of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire along the bay margins in downtown San Francisco: Northern California Geological Society Field Guide, p. 1-21.

Leech, M.L. and Klemperer, S.L., 2006: HIMPROBE: An earth science project across the roof of the world, Himalayan Science Workshop, Dehra Dun, India. p. 45.

Leech, M.L., Thiede, R.C., Singh, S., and Jain, A.K., 2006: Contrasting development of gneiss domes in the Indian Himalaya. J. Asian Earth Sci. 26, p. 149.

Monteverdi, J.P., R. Edwards, G. Stumpf and D. Gudgel, 2006: An analysis of the 7 July 2004 Rockwell Pass, CA tornado: highest elevation tornado tocumented in the US. 23rd Conf. Sev. Local Storms, Preprints, St. Louis, MO.

Monteverdi, J.P., K. Saussy, A. Cross, C. Meherin, C. Medjber and S. Lau, 2006: An analysis of the 22 May 2004 Furnas County, Nebraska tornadic supercell. 23rd Conf. Sev. Local Storms, Preprints, St. Louis, MO.

Sullivan, R., 2006, Building settlement in the artificial fill of old Mission Creek marshland San Francisco Bay. 100^th Anniversary Conference: Commemorating the 1906 San Francisco Earthquak