Thinking on my next paper.
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2025
*Kaempfer, J.M., Guenthner, W.R., Pearson, D.M., Orme, D.A., Crawford, B., and Brennan, D.T., 2025, Regional thermal history trends from the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt using multiple low-t thermochronometers, Tectonics, v. 44, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024TC008557
Huff, D.E., Holley, E.A., and Guenthner, W.R., 2025, Igneous geochronology and thermochronology of the northern Battle Mountain district, Nevada: Implications for gold mineralization, Economic Geology, v. 120, p. 137-169, https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.5114
2024
Zhang, Y., Anderson, N.S., Mohr, M.T., Nelson, L.T., Macdonald, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Thurston, O.G., Guenthner, W.R., Karlstrom, K.E., and Swanson-Hysell, N.L., 2024, Paleomagnetism of the southwestern Laurentia large igneous province and Cardenas Basalt: pulsed magmatism during rapid late Mesoproterozic plate motion, JGR: Solid Earth, v. 129, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB029036
*Dendy, S.N., Guenthner, W.R., Grimley, D.A., and Conroy, J.L., 2024, Quantifying Pleistocene loess provenance in midcontinental North America using a mixing model: implications for glacial lobe evolution along the southern Laurentide Ice Sheet, Geosphere, v. 20, p. 1655-1669, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02770.1
*Thurston, O.G., Guenthner, W.R., Karlstrom, K.E., Heizler, M.T., Ricketts, J.W., and McDannell, K.T., 2024, Deep-time thermal history of the Great Unconformity in the Grand Canyon, USA: Combined zircon (U-Th)/He and K-feldspar 40Ar/39Ar thermochronometers, GSA Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B37358.1
Bastias-Silva, J., Chew, D., Poblete, F., Castillo, P., Guenthner, W., Grunow, A., Dalziel, I.W.D., Dias, A.N.C., Ramirez de Arellano, C., and Fernandez, R., 2024, Uplift and denudation history of the Ellsworth Mountains: insights from low-temperature thermochronology, Solid Earth, v. 15, p. 555-566, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-555-2024
Armstrong, E.M., Ault, A.K., Kaempfer, J.M., and Guenthner, W.R., 2024, Connecting visual metamictization to radiation damage to expand applications of zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometry, Chemical Geology, v. 648, 121949, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.121949
2023
Ronemus, C.B., Orme, D.A., Guenthner, W.R., Cox, S.E., and Kussmaul, C., 2023, Orogens of Big Sky Country: Reconstructing the deep-time tectonothermal history of the Beartooth Mountains, Montana and Wyoming, USA, Tectonics, v. 42, e2022TC007541, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007541
2022
McDannell, K.T., Keller, C.B., Guenthner, W.R., Zeitler, P.K., and Shuster, D.L., 2022, REPLY to Flowers et. al.: Existing thermochronologic data constrain Snowball glacial erosion below the Great Unconformity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 119 (38), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209946119
McDannell, K.T., Keller, C.B., Guenthner, W.R., Zeitler, P.K., and Shuster, D.L., 2022, Thermochronologic constraints on the origin of the Great Unconformity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 119 (5), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118682119
Karlstrom, K.E., Guenthner, W.R., Thurston, O.G., Heizler, M.T., Ricketts, J.W., and Timmons, J.M., 2022, Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology reveals pre-Great Unconformity paleotopography in the Grand Canyon region, USA: COMMENT, Geology, v. 50 (3), p. 543, https://doi.org/10.1130/G49843C.1
*Thurston, O.G, Guenthner, W.R., Karlstrom, K.E., Ricketts, J.W., Heizler, M.T., and Timmons, J.M., 2021, Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology of Grand Canyon resolves 1250 Ma unroofing at the Great Unconformity and <20 Ma canyon carving, Geology, v. 50 (2), p. 222-226, https://doi.org/10.1130/G48699.1
2021
*Dendy, S.N., Guenthner, W.R., Grimley, D.A., Conroy, J.L., and Counts, R.C., 2021, Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of Pleistocene loess and contributing glacial sources, Midcontinental USA, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 273, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107201
*Kaempfer, J.M., Guenthner, W.R., and Pearson, D.M., 2021, Proterozoic to Phanerozoic tectonism in southwestern Montana basement ranges constrained by low temperature thermochronometric data, Tectonics, v. 40 (11), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC006744
Thigpen, J.R., Brown, S.J., Helfrich, A.L., Hoar, R., McGlue, M.M., Woolery, E.W., Guenthner, W.R., Swallom, M.L., Dixon, S., and Gallen, S., 2021, Collapse of the northern paleo-Teton Range along the Yellowstone hotspot track, Lithosphere, https://doi.org/10.2113/2021/1052819
Moser, A.C., Ault, A.K., Stearns, M.A., Evans, J.P., and Guenthner, W.R., 2021, Zircon (U-Th)/He radiation damage-He diffusivity patterns record late Oligocene-early Miocene detachment faulting in crystalline basement, Mecca Hills, CA, USA, Tectonics, v. 40 (9), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC006809
Colleps, C.L., McKenzie, N.R., Guenthner, W.R., Sharma, M., Gibson, T.M., and Stockli, D.F., 2021, Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometric constraints on the northern extent of the Deccan Large Igenous Province, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 571, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117087
Ricketts, J.W., Roiz, J., Karlstrom, K.E., Heizler, M.T., Guenthner, W.R., and Timmons, J.M., 2021, Tectonic origin of the Great Unconformities of the Rocky Mountain region: the power of combined zircon (U-Th)/He and K-feldspar 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, Geology, v. 49, p. 1187-1192, https://doi.org/10.1130/G49141.1
Guenthner, W.R., 2021, Implementation of a new radiation damage annealing model for zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v. 22, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008757
2020
Huff, D.E., Holley, E., Guenthner, W.R., and Kaempfer, J.M., 2020, Fe-oxides in jasperoids from two gold districts in Nevada: characterization, geochemistry, and (U-Th)/He dating, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 286, p. 72-102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.07.014
2019
Huber, C., Guenthner, W.R., and Karani, H., 2019, A new correction for He loss applied to (U-Th)/He dating of grains with complex shapes and polymineralic aggregates, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v. 20, p. 5744-5764, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008475
Conroy, J.L., Karamperidou, C., Grimley, D.A., and Guenthner, W.R., 2019, Surface winds across eastern and midcontinental North America during the Last Glacial Maximum: A new data-model assessment, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 220, p. 14-29, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.07.003
2018
Ault, A.K., Guenthner, W.R., Moser, A.C., Miller, G.H., and Refsnider, K.A., 2018, Zircon grain selection reveals (de)coupled metamictization, radiation damage, and He diffusivity, Chemical Geology, v. 490, p. 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.04.023
*DeLucia, M.S., Guenthner, W.R., Marshak, S., Thomson, S.N., and Ault, A.K., 2018, Thermochronology links denudation of the Great Unconformity surface to the supercontinent cycle and snowball Earth, Geology, v. 46, p. 167-170, https://doi.org/10.1130/G39525.1
2017
Nash, T.A., Conroy, J.L., Grimley, D.A., Guenthner, W.R., and Curry, B., 2017, Episodic deposition of Illinois Valley Peoria Silt in association with Lake Michigan Lobe fluctuations during the Last Glacial Maximum, Quaternary Research, https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.66
Guenthner, W.R., Reiners, P.W., Drake, H., and Tillberg, M., 2017, Zircon, titanite, and apatite (U-Th)/He ages and age-eU correlations from the Fennoscandian Shield, southern Sweden, Tectonics, v. 36, p. 1254-1274, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017TC004525
2016
Orme, D.A., Guenthner, W.R., Laskowski, A.K., and Reiners, P.W., 2016, Long-term tectonothermal history of Laramide basement from zircon-He age-eU correlations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 453, p. 119-130, https://doi.org/10/1016/j.epsl.2016.07.046
Guenthner, W.R., Reiners, P.W., and Chowdhury, U., 2016, Isotope dilution analyses of Ca and Zr concentrations of apatite and zircon for (U-Th)/He chronometry, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GC006311
2015
Guenthner, W.R., Reiners, P.W., DeCelles, P.G., and Kendall, J., 2015, Sevier-belt exhumation in central Utah constrained from complex zircon (U-Th)/He datasets: Radiation damage and He inheritance effects on partially reset detrital zircons: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 127, p. 323-348, https://doi.org/10.1130/B31032.1
2014
Guenthner, W.R., Reiners, P.W., and Tian, Y., 2014, Interpreting date-eU correlations in zircon (U-Th)/He datasets: A case study from the Longmen Shan, China: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 403, p. 328-339, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.06.050
2013
Guenthner, W.R., Reiners, P.W., Ketcham, R.A., Nasdala, L., and Giester, G., 2013, Helium diffusion in natural zircon: Radiation damage, anisotropy, and the interpretation of zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology: American Journal of Science, v. 313, p. 145-198, https://doi.org/10.2475/03.2013.01
Ketcham, R.A., Guenthner, W.R., and Reiners, P.W., 2013, Geometric analysis of radiation damage connectivity in zircon, and its implications for helium diffusion: American Mineralogist, v. 98, p. 350-360, https://doi.org/10.21318/am.2013.4249
2010
Guenthner, W.R., Barbeau, D.L., Reiners, P.W., and Thomson, S.N., 2010, Slab window migration and terrane accretion preserved by low-temperature thermochronology of a magmatic arc, northern Antarctic Peninsula: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v.11, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GC002765