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Palaeomagnetism and Rock Magnetism Publications

2011

• Dawber, C.F., Tripati, A.K., Gale, A.S., Mac Niocaill, C., & Hesselbo, S.P. 2011.  Glacioeustasy during the middle Eocene? Insights form the Stratigraphy of the Hampshire Basin, UK.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 300, 84-100.  doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.12.012

• Fontana, G.A., Mac Niocaill, C., Brown, R.J., Sparkes, R.S.J., Field, M. & Gernon, T. 2011.  Palaeomagnetic emplacement temperature determinations of pyroclastic and volcaniclastic deposits in Southern African Kimberlite pipes.  Bulletin of Volcanology, doi:10.1007/s00445-011-0493-9
• Papanikolaou, M., Triantaphyllou, M., Platzman, E., Gibbard, P., Mac Niocaill, C., & Head, M. 2011.  A well-established Early-Middle Pleisticene marine sequence on SE Zakynthos island, Western Greece: magneto-bio stratigraphic constraints and palaeoclimatic implications.  Journal of Quaternary Science, (In Press)
  
• Randall, K., Lamb, S.H., & Mac Niocaill, C. 2011.  Paleomagnetic evidence for Late Cenozoic regional and large-scale clockwise rotation of the southern end of the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.05.06
  
  

   

2010

• Iosifidi, A., Mac Niocaill, C., Khramov, A., Dekkers, M, & Popov, V. 2010. Palaeogeographical implications of differential inclination shallowing in Permo-Carboniferous sediments of the Donets Basin, Ukraine. Tectonophysics, 490, 229-240. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2010.05.017

• Paterson, G.A., Roberts, A.P., Mac Niocaill, C., Muxworthy, A.R., Gurioli, L., Viramonte, J.G., Navarro, C., & Weider, S. 2010.  Palaeomagnetic determination of emplacement temperatures of pyroclastic deposits: an underutilised tool.  Bulletin of Volcanology, 79, 309-330. doi:10.1007/s00445-00900324-4
  

• Paterson, G.A., Muxworthy, A.R., Roberts, A.P., & Mac Niocaill, C. 2010.  Assessment of the usefulness of Lithic Clasts from Pyroclastic deposits for Paleointensity determination.  Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2009/JB006475

2009

• Gernon, T.M., Fontana, G., Field, M., Sparks, R.S.J., Brown, R.J., & Mac Niocaill, C. 2009.  Pyroclastic flow deposits from a Kimberlite eruption: The Orapa South Crater, Botswana. Lithos, 112S, 566-578, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.014.016

• Jay, A.E., Mac Niocaill, C., Widdowson, M., Self, S., & Turner, W. 2009.  New palaeomagnetic data from the Mahabaleshwar Plateau, Deccan Flood Basalt Province, India: implications for the volcanostratigraphic architecture of continental flood basalt provinces.  Journal of the Geological Society, London., 166, 13-24. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492007-150

2008

• Rotman, R., Naylor, L., McDonnell, R., & Mac Niocaill, C.  2008.  Sediment transport on the Freiston Shore Managed Realignment Site: an investigation using environmental magnetism Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.12.006

• Knudsen, M.F., Henderson, G.M., Frank, M., Mac Niocaill, C., & Kubik, P.  2008.  In-phase anomalies in Beryllium-10 production and palaeomagnetic field behaviour during the Iceland Basin geomagnetic excursion Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.051 [PDF]

2007

• Knudsen, M.F., Henderson, G.M., Mac Niocaill, C., & West, A.J.  2007.  Seven Thousand Year duration for a geomagnetic excursion constrained by 230Thxs. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L22302. doi:10.1029/2007GL031090. [PDF]

• Porreca, M., Mattei, M., Mac Niocaill, C., Giordano, G., McCleland, E., & Funicello, R.  2007.  Paleomagnetic evidence for low-temperature emplacement of the phreatomagmatic Peperino Albano ignimbrite (Colli Albano volcano, Central Italy). Bulletin of Volcanology, doi:10.1007/s00445-007-0176-8.

• Barke, R., Lamb, S.H., & Mac Niocaill, C.  2007.  Late Cenozoic bending of the Bolivian Andes: New palaeomagnetic and kinematic constraints. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2006JB004372. [PDF]

2006

• Knudsen, M.F., Mac Niocaill, C., & Henderson, G.M.  2006.  High-resolution data of the Iceland Basin geomagnetic excursion from ODP sites 1063 and 983: existence of intense flux patches during the excursion? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 251, 18-32 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.08.016. [PDF]

• McCausland, P.J.A., Murphy, J.B., & Mac Niocaill, C.  2006.  Preface - Endings and Beginnings: Paleogeography of the Neoproterozoic - Cambrian Transition. Precambrian Research, 147, 187-192. [PDF]

2005

• Kilner, B., Mac Niocaill, C., & Brasier, M.D.  2005.  Low-latitude Glaciation in the Neoproterozoic of Oman. Geology, 33, 413-416, doi: 10.1130/G21227. [PDF]

2004

• Randall, D.E., & Mac Niocaill, C.  2004.  Cambrian Palaeomagnetic Data Confirm a Natal Embayment location for the Ellsworth-Whitmore Mountains, Antarctica, in Gondwana Reconstructions. Geophysical Journal International, 157, 105-116. [PDF]

• Hall, L., Lamb, S.H., & Mac Niocaill, C.  2004.  Cenozoic Distributed Deformation, South Island, New Zealand. Tectonics, 23, TC2002, doi: 10.1029/2002TC001421 [PDF]

2003

• Mac Niocaill, C., Torsvik, T.H., & van der Pluijm, B.A. 2003.  Preface - Paleomagnetism applied to Tectonics. Tectonophysics, 362, vii-x. [PDF]

• Mac Niocaill, C., Torsvik, T.H., & van der Pluijm, B.A. (eds) 2003. Paleomagnetism applied to Tectonics. Tectonophysics, 362, 366pp.

2002

• Mac Niocaill, C., van der Pluijm, B.A., Van der Voo, R., & McNamara, A.K. 2002.  West African proximity of the Avalon Terrane in the Latest Precambrian: Reply to comment by Murphy et al..  Geological Society of America Bulletin, 114, 1051-1052. [PDF]

• Harper, D.A.T., & Mac Niocaill, C. 2002  Early Ordovician rhynchonelliformean brachipod diversity: comparing some platforms, margins and intra-oceanic sites around the Iapetus Ocean.  In: Crame, J.A., & Owen, A.W. (eds), Palaeobiology and Biodiversity change: the Ordovician and Mesozoic-Cenozoic Radiations Geological Society of London Special Publication, 194, 25-34.

2001

• McNamara, A.K., Mac Niocaill, C., van der Pluijm, B.A., & Van der Voo, R. 2001  West African proximity of Avalon in the Latest Precambrian.  Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113, 1161-1170.  [PDF]

• Jones, D.L., Duncan, R.A., Briden, J.C., Randall, D., & Mac Niocaill, C. 2001  The age of the Batoka basalts, northern Zimbabwe, and the duration of Karoo Large Igneous Province Magmatism. G-Cubed (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems), 2, Paper No. 2000GC000110. [PDF]

2000

• Mac Niocaill, C. 2000. A new Silurian palaeolatitude for eastern Avalonia and evidence for crustal rotations in the Avalonian margin of southwestern Ireland. Geophysical Journal International, 141, 661-671.   [PDF]

• Mac Niocaill, C. 2000.  Escape Tectonics.  In: Hancock, P.L., & Skinner, B.J. (eds), The Oxford Companion to the Earth, Oxford University Press. 319-320.

• Mac Niocaill, C. 2000.  Exotic Terranes.  In: Hancock, P.L., & Skinner, B.J. (eds), The Oxford Companion to the Earth, Oxford University Press. 330-331.

• McKerrow, W.S., Mac Niocaill, C., & Dewey, J.F. 2000.  The Caledonian Orogeny redefined. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 157, 1149-1154.  [PDF]

• McKerrow, W.S., Mac Niocaill, C., Alberg, P., Clayton, G., Cleal, C., & Eagar, M.  2000.  The Late Palaeozoic Relations Between Gondwana and Laurussia.In: Franke, W., Haak, V., Oncken, O., & Tanner, D. (eds), Orogenic Processes: Quantification and Modelling in the Variscan Belt of Central Europe, Geological Society of London Special Publication, 179, 9-20.

1999

• Mac Niocaill, C. & Ryan, P.D. (eds) 1999.  Continental Tectonics, Geological Society of London Special Publication, 164,  350pp.

• Ryan, P.D., & Mac Niocaill, C. 1999.  Continental Tectonics: an introduction. In: Mac Niocaill, C. & Ryan, P.D. (eds), Continental Tectonics, Geological Society of London Special Publication, 164, 1-5.

• Marcano, M.C., Van der Voo, R., & Mac Niocaill, C. 1999. True Polar Wander during the Permo-Triassic. Journal of Geodynamics, 28, 75-95. [PDF]

• Donoghue, S.L. Palmer, A.S., McClelland, E., Hobson, K., Stewart, R.B., Neall, V.E., Lecointre, J., & Price, R. 1999. The Taurewa Eruptive Episode: evidence for climactic eruptions at Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand. Bulletin of Volcanology, 61, 223-240.

• Butler, R.W.H., McClelland, E., & Jones, R.E. 1999. Calibrating the duration and timing of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean: linked tectonoclimatic signals in thrust-top basins of Sicily. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 156, 827-835.

• Erwin, P. (1999) Wendlebury, the Resistivity Survey at Alchester (SP 570 203). South Midlands Archaeology (CAB South Midlands Group) 29.

• Erwin, P. (1999) Middleman Stoney/ Upper Heyford, Archaeomagnetic dating at Aves Ditch (SP 5185 2465). South Midlands Archaeology (CAB South Midlands Group) 29.

• Erwin, P. (1999) Erdwerk und Römerlager in Oxfordshire. Archaölogie in Deutschland, 2, 56-60.

• Muxworthy, A. R. 1999. Low-temperature susceptibility and hysteresis of magnetite.  Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 169, 51-58. Muxworthy, A.R. & Williams, W. 1999. Micromagnetic models of pseudo-single domain grains of magnetite near the Verwey transition. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 29203-29217.

• Muxworthy, A. R. & Williams, W. 1999. Micromagnetic calculation of hysteresis as a function of temperature in pseudo-single domain magnetite. Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 1065-1068.

1998

• Mac Niocaill, C., Smethurst, M.A., & Ryan, P.D. 1998.  Oroclinal bending in the Caledonides of western Ireland: a mid-Paleozoic feature controlled by a pre-existing structural grain.  Tectonophysics, 299, 31-47.  [PDF]

• Van Staal, C. R., Dewey, J. F., Mac Niocaill, C, & McKerrow, W. S. 1998. The tectonic evolution of the Northern Appalachians and British Caledonides: history of a complex, west and southwest Pacific-type segment of Iapetus. In: Blundell, D.J. & Scott (eds) Lyell: The past is the key to the present, Geological Society of London Special Publication, 143, 199-242.

• Weil, A.B., Van der Voo, R., Mac Niocaill, C., & Meert, J.G. 1998. The Proterozoic supercontinent Rodinia: paleomagnetically derived reconstructions for 1100-800 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 154, 13-24.  [PDF]
  

• Curtis, M.L., Leat, P.T., Riley, T.R., Storey, B.C., Millar, I.L., & Randall, D.E. 1999. Middle Cambrian rift-related volcanism in the Ellsworth Mountains: Implications for palaeo-Pacific margin tectonics, Tectonophysics, 304 (4), 275-299.

• Peacock, D.C.P., M.W. Anderson, A. Morris & Randall, D.E. 1998. Implication of the fractal nature of faults for models of block rotation, Tectonophysics,299 (1-3), 1-13.

• Randall, D.E. 1998. A new Jurassic-Recent Apparent polar wander path for South America and a review of central Andean tectonic models, Tectonophysics,299 (1-3), 49-74.

• Taylor, G.K., Grocott, J., Pope, A. and Randall, D.E. 1998. Mesozoic fault systems, deformation and fault block rotation in the Andean forearc 25-27°S: A crustal scale strike-slip duplex in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile, Tectonophysics, 299 (1-3), 93-109.

1997

• Mac Niocaill, C., van der Pluijm, B.A. & Van der Voo, R. 1997 Ordovician paleogeography and the evolution of the Iapetus Ocean. Geology,25, 159-162.

• Li, J., Fang, X., Van der Voo, R., Zhu, J., Mac Niocaill, C., Cao, J.X., Zhong, W., Chen, H., Wang, J., Wang, J. & Zhang, Y. 1997. Reconnaissance Late Cenozoic magnetostratigraphy (11-0Ma) of the Wangjiashan section in the Longzhong Basin, western China: Evidence for rapid Mid-Miocene uplift of the Tibetan Plateau. Geologie en Mijnbouw, 76, 121-134.

• Li, J., Fang, X., Van der Voo, R., Zhu, J.J., Mac Niocaill, C., Ono, Y, Pan, B.T., Zhong, W., Wang, J.L., Sasaki, T., Zhang, Y.T., Cao, J.X., Kang, S.C. & Wang, J.M. Magnetostratigraphic dating of river terraces: rapid and intermittent inclision by the Yellow River of the Northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau during the Quaternary. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, B5, 10,121-10,132.

• Kirker, A. & McClelland, E. 1997. Deflection of Magnetic remanence during progressive cleavage development in the Pembrokeshire Old Red Sandstone. Geophysical Journal International,130, 240-250.

• Cederquist, D.P., Mac Niocaill, C. & Van der Voo, R. 1997. Application of Bingham statistics to paleomagnetic data: towards a better definition of APWP trends? Earth & Planetary Science Letters,146, 95-104. [PDF]

• Fang, X., Li, J., Van der Voo, R., Mac Niocaill, C., Dai, X.R., Kemp, R.A., Derbyshire, E., Cao, J.X., Wang, J.M. & Wang, G. 1997. A record of the Blake Event during the last interglacial paleosol in the western loess plateau of China. Earth & Planetary Science Letters,146, 71-80. [PDF]

1996

• Harper, D.A.T., Mac Niocaill, C., & Williams, S.H. 1996. The paleogeography of Early-Ordovician Iapetus terranes: an integration of faunal and paleomagnetic constraints. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,121, 297-312.

• Williams, S.H., Harper, D.A.T., Neuman, R.B., Boyce, W.D. & Mac Niocaill, C. 1996. Lower Palaeozoic fossils from Newfoundland and their importance in understanding the history of the Iapetus Ocean. In: Hibbard, J.P., van Staal, C.R., & Cawood, P.A., eds., Current Perspectives in the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen, Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 41, 115-126.

• Bardot, L., Thomas, R. & McClelland, E., 1996. Emplacement temperatues of pyroclastic deposits on Santorini from palaeomagnetic measurements: Constraints on eruption mechanisms. In: A. Morris and D.H.Tarling (eds) Palaeomagnetism and Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region, Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 105, 345-357.

• Butler, R.W.H., Pedley, H.M., Manascalo, R, Grasso, M., McClelland, E. & Finegan, B., 1996 The significance of Messinian occurences of Globorotalia margaritae and Globorotalia puncticulata in Sicily. Terra Nova,8, 59-64.

• Kirker, A. & McClelland, E., 1996. Application of net tectonic rotations and inclination analysis to a high-resolution palaeomagnetic study in the Betic Cordillera. In: A. Morris and D.H.Tarling (eds) Palaeomagnetism and Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region, Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 105, 19-32.

• McClelland, E. 1996. Theory of CRM acquired by grain growth, and its implications for TRM discrimination and palaeointensity determination in igneous rocks. Geophysical Journal International,126, 271-280.

• McClelland, E. & Briden, J.C. 1996. An improved methodology for Thellier-type palaeointensity determination in igneous rocks, and its usefulness for verifying primary thermoremanence. Journal of Geophysical Research,101, 21995-22013.

• McClelland, E., Finegan, B., & Butler, R.W.H. 1996. A Magnetostratigraphic study of the onset of the Mediterranean Messinian salinity crisis: Caltanissetta basin, Sicily. In: A. Morris and D.H.Tarling (eds) Palaeomagnetism and Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region, Geological Society, London, Special Publication,105, 205-217.

• McClelland, E., Muxworthy, A.R., & Thomas, R.M. 1996. Magnetic properties of the stable fraction of remanence in large multidomain (MD) magnetite grains: single-domain or MD? Geophysical Research Letters, 23, 2831-2834.

• Randall, D.E., Taylor, G.K., & Grocott, J. 1996. Major crustal rotations in the Andean margin: Paleomagnetic results from the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile, Journal of Geophysical Research,101(B7), 15,783-15,798.

1995

• Smethurst, M.A., Gåare, E., Mac Niocaill, C., Walker, P.W. & deCaritat, P. 1995. The distribution of radioactive fallout on Nord-Trøndelag from detailed airborne and ground gamma ray spectrometer surveying. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse Bulletin, 427, 75-78.

• Mac Niocaill, C., Smethurst, M.A. & Ryan, P.D. 1995. Palaeomagnetism of the ophiolite complexes of Meldal, Sør-Trøndelag. Norwegian Geological Survey Report, 95.115, 27pp.

• McClelland, E., & Shcherbakov, V.P. 1995. Metastability of domain state in MD Magnetite: consequences for remanence acquisition. Journal of Geophysical Research,100, 3841-3858.

1994

• Mac Niocaill, C. & Smethurst, M.A. 1994. Palaeozoic palaeogeography of Laurentia and its margins: a reassessment of palaeomagnetic data. Geophysical Journal International,116, 715-725.

• Smethurst, M.A., Mac Niocaill, C. & Ryan, P.D. 1994. Oroclinal bending in the Caledonides of western Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 151, 315-329.

• Mubroto, B., Briden, J.C., McClelland, E., & Hall, R. 1994. Palaeomagnetism of the Balantak ophiolite, Sulawesi. Earth & Planetary Science Letters,125, 193 - 209.

• Stoker, M.S., Leslie, A.B., Scott, W.D., Briden, J.C., Hine, N.M., Harland, R., Wilkinson, I.P., Evans, D., & Ardus, D.A. 1994. A record of late Cenozoic stratigraphy, sedimentation and climatic change from the Hebrides Slope, NE Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 151, 235-249.

1993

• Allerton, S., Lonergan, L., Platt, J.P., Platzman, E.S., & McClelland, E. 1993. Paleomagnetic Rotations in the Eastern Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 119, 225-241.

• Shcherbakov, V.P., McClelland, E., & Shcherbakova, V.V. 1993. A Model of Multidomain Thermoremanent Magnetization Incorporating Temperature-Variable Domain-Structure. Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 6201-6216.

• Briden, J.C., McClelland, E.A., & Rex, D.C. 1993. Proving the age of a palaeomagnetic pole: the case of the Ntonya Ring Structure, Malawi. Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 1743-1749.

• McClelland, E., & Goss, C. 1993. Self-reversal of chemical remanent magnetization on the transformation of maghemite to hematite. Geophysical Journal International,112, 517-532.

• O'Connor, P.J., Gallagher, V., Madden, J.S., Van den Boom, G., McLaughlin, J.P., McAulay, I.R., Barton, K.J., Duffy, J.T., Muller, R., Grimley, S., Marsh, D., Mackin, G. & Mac Niocaill, C. 1993. Assessment of the geological factors influencing the occurrence of radon hazard areas in a karstic region, Geological Survey of Ireland Report Series, 93/2, 204pp.

1992

• Mac Niocaill, C., Smethurst, M.A. & Walker, P.W. 1992. Radiometric studies in the Meråker region: environmental implications of anomalous levels of 137Cs. Norwegian Geological Survey Report, 92.327, 19pp.

1990

• McClelland, E., Pesonen, L., Enkin, R., Shcherbakov, V., & Kropacek, V. 1990. A new era in East-West Collaboration in Paleomagnetism Databases and Experimental-Techniques – Preface. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 63, R9.

1989

• McClelland, E.A., & Druitt, T.H. 1989. Palaeomagnetic estimates of emplacement temperatures of pyroclastic deposits on Santorini, Greece. Bulletin of Vulcanology,51, 16-27.

• McClelland, E.A. & McCaig, A.M. 1989. Palaeomagnetic estimates of rotations in compressional regimes and potential discrimination between thin- skinned and deep crustal deformation. In Palaeomagnetic rotations and Continental Deformation. NATO ASI Series C, 254, 365-379.

1987

• McClelland, E. 1987. Paleomagnetic Results from the Lower Devonian Llandstadwell Formation, Dyfed, Wales – Discussion. Tectonophysics, 143, 335-336.

• McClelland, E. 1987. Self-Reversal of Chemical Remanent Magnetization - a Paleomagnetic Example. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 90, 615-625.

• McClelland, E. & Sugiura, N. 1987. A Kinematic Model of TRM Acquisition in Multidomain Magnetite. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 46, 9-23.

1986

• McClelland, E., Courtillot, V., & Tapponnier, P. 1986. Magnetotectonics – Introduction, Tectonics, 5., 709-711.

• McClelland, E. 1986. Paleomagnetic Emplacement Temperature Estimates for Pyroclastic Deposits, Santorini, Greece. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society,85, 256.