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Edited Volumes
Hacker, B.R., McClelland, W.C., and Liou, J.G., 2006, Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism: Deep Continental Subduction: Geological Society of America Special Paper 403, 206 pp.
Stowell, H.H., and McClelland, W.C., 2000, Tectonic evolution of the Coast Mountains orogen, southeastern Alaska and coastal British Columbia: Geological Society of America Special Paper 343.
Refereed Articles
Gilotti, J.A. and McClelland, W.C., 2011, Geochemical and geochronological evidence that the North-East Greenland Ultrahigh-Pressure terrane is Laurentian crust: Journal of Geology, v. 119, p. 439-456.
Mulcahy, S.R., Roeske, S.M., McClelland, W.C., Jourdan, F., Iriondo, A., Renne, P.R., Vervoort, J.D., and Vujovich, G.I., 2011, Structural evolution of a composite middle- to lower-crustal section: the Sierra de Pie de Palo, northwest Argentina: Tectonics, v. 30, TC1005, doi:10.1029/2009TC002656.
Nesheim, T.O., Gilotti, J.A., McClelland, W.C., Lang, H.M., Foster Jr, C.T., and Vervoort, J.D., 2010, Microstructural analysis of Belt Supergroup metapelites in the Clarkia area of northern Idaho: Implications of 1.0-1.1 Ga garnet: Northwest Geology, v. 39, p. 31-40.
Zirakparvar, N.A., Vervoort, J.D., McClelland, W.C., and Lewis, R.S., 2010, Insights into the metamorphic evolution of the Belt-Purcell Basin; evidence from Lu-Hf garnet geochronology: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 47, p. 161-179.
Gaschnig, R.M., Vervoort, J.D., Lewis, R.S., and McClelland, W.C., 2010, Migrating magmatism in the northern US Cordillera: In-situ U-Pb geochronology of the Idaho batholith: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 159, p. 863-883.
Naipauer, M. Vujovich, G.I., Cingolani, C.A., and McClelland, W.C., 2010, Detrital zircon analysis from the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian sedimentary cover (Cuyania terrane), Sierra de Pie de Palo: Evidence of a rift and passive margin system: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 29, p. 306-326.
McClelland, W.C., Gilotti, J.A., Wooden, J.L. and Mazdab, F.K. 2009. Trace element geochemistry of ultrahigh-pressure zircons during exhumation, North-East Greenland Caledonides. European Journal of Mineralogy, v. 21, p. 1135-1148.
Sartini-Rideout, C., Gilotti, J.A., and McClelland W.C., 2009. Reaction progress and timing of retrogression of eclogite-facies rocks, Danmarkshavn, North-East Greenland Caledonides. European Journal of Mineralogy, v. 21, p. 1149-1172.
Macdonald, F.A., McClelland, W.C., Schrag, D.P., and Macdonald, W.P., 2009, Neoproterozoic glaciation on a carbonate platform margin in Arctic Alaska and the origin of the North Slope subterrane: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, p. 448-473.
Oldow, J.S., Elias, E.A., Ferranti, L, McClelland, W.C., and McIntosh, W.C., 2009, Late Miocene to Pliocene synextensional deposition in fault-bound basins within the upper plate of the western Silver Peak – Lone Mountain extensional complex, west-central Nevada, in Oldow, J.S., and Cashman, P.H, eds, Late Cenozoic evolution of the western Great Basin: Geological Society of America Special Paper 447, 275-312.
Gilotti, J.A. and McClelland, W.C., 2008. Geometry, kinematics and timing of extensional faulting in the Greenland Caledonides – a synthesis. In: Higgins, A.K., Gilotti, J.A., and Smith, M.P. (eds), The Greenland Caledonides - Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia. Geological Society of America Memoir 202, 251-271.
Giorgis, S., McClelland, W., Fayon, A., Singer, B.S., and Tikoff, B., 2008, Timing of deformation and exhumation in the western Idaho shear zone, McCall, Idaho: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 70, p. 1119-1133.
Bradley, D.C., McClelland, W.C., Wooden, D., Till, A., Roeske, S., Miller, M.L., Karl, S.M., and Abbott, G., 2007, Detrital zircon geochronology of some Neoproterozoic to Triassic rocks in interior Alaska, in Ridgway, K.D., Trop, J. M., J.M.G., and O'Neill, J. M., eds., Tectonic growth of a collisional continental margin: Crustal evolution of southern Alaska: Geological Society of America Special Paper 431, p. 155-190.
Gilotti, J.A., and McClelland, W.C., 2007, Characteristics of and a tectonic model for ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in the overriding plate of the Caledonian orogen: International Geology Review, v. 49, p. 777-797.
McClelland, W.C., and Oldow, J.S., 2007, Late Cretaceous truncation of the western Idaho shear zone in the central North American Cordillera: Geology, p. 723-726.
Lewis, R.S., Vervoort, J.D., Burmester, R.F., McClelland, W.C., and Chang, Z., 2007, Geochronological constraints on Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic(?) high-grade metasedimentary rocks of north-central Idaho, U.S.A., in Link, P., eds., Proterozoic Geology of Western North America and Siberia: Society of Economic Paleontologist and Mineralogists Special Publication 86, p. 37-53.
Mulcahy, S.R., Roeske, S.M., McClelland, W.C., Nomade, S., and Renne, P.R., 2007, Cambrian initiation of the Las Pirquitas thrust of the western Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the proto-Andean margin of South America: Geology, v. 35, p. 443-446.
Sartini-Rideout, C., Gilotti, J.A., and McClelland, W.C., 2006, Geology and timing of dextral strike-slip shear zones in Danmarkshavn, North-East Greenland Caledonides: Geological Magazine, v. 143, p. 431-446.
McClelland, W.C., Power, S.E., Gilotti, J.A., Mazdab, F.K., and Wopenka, B., 2006, U-Pb SHRIMP geochronology and trace-element geochemistry of coesite-bearing zircons, North-East Greenland Caledonides, in Hacker, B., McClelland, W.C., and Liou, J.G., eds., Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism: Deep Continental Subduction: Geological Society of America Special Paper 403, p. 23-43.
Lee, J., McClelland, W., Wang, Y., Blythe, A., and McWilliams, M., 2006, Oligocene-Miocene middle crustal flow in southern Tibet: geochronology of Mabja Dome, in Law, R.D., Searle, M.P, and Godin, L., eds., Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion, and Exhumation in Continental Collision Zones: Journal Geological Society of London Special Publication, v. 268, p. 445-469.
Chang, Z., Vervoort, J.D., McClelland, W.C., and Knaack, C., 2006, U-Pb dating of zircon by LA-ICP-MS: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 7, Q05009, doi:10.1029/2005GC001100.
Gilotti, J.A., and McClelland, W.C., 2005, Leucogranites and the time of extension in the East Greenland Caledonides: Journal of Geology, v. 113, p. 399-417.
Nemitz, M.B., and McClelland, W.C., 2005, The effects of thrust faulting and associated structural preparation on the distribution of gold in Carlin-type deposits of northeastern Nevada, in Rhoden, H.N., Steininger, R.C., and Vikre, P.G., eds, Geological Society of Nevada Symposium 2005: Window to the World, Reno, Nevada, May 2005, p. 283-294.
Giorgis, S., Tikoff, B., and McClelland, W., 2005, Missing Idaho arc: transpressional modification of the 87Sr/86Sr transition on the western edge of the Idaho batholith: Geology, v. 33, p. 469-472.
McClelland, W.C., and Oldow, J.S., 2004, Displacement transfer between thick- and thin-skinned décollement systems in the central North American Cordillera, in Grocott, J., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Taylor, G., and Tikoff, B., eds., Vertical Coupling and Decoupling in the Lithosphere: Journal Geological Society of London Special Publication, v. 227, p. 177-195.
Goldfarb, R.J., Ayuso, R., Miller, M.L., Ebert, S.W., Marsh, E.E., Petsel, S.A., Miller, L.D., Bradley, D., Johnson, C., and McClelland, W., 2004, The Late Cretaceous Donlin Creek gold deposit, southwestern Alaska: controls on epizonal ore formation: Economic Geology, v. 99, p. 643-671.
McClelland, W.C., and Gilotti, J.A., 2003, Late stage extensional exhumation of high-pressure granulites in the Greenland Caledonides: Geology, v. 31, p. 259-262.
Bradley, D.C, Dumoulin, J., Layer, P., Sunderlin, D., Roeske, S., McClelland, B., Harris, A.G., Abbott, G., Bundtzen, T.K, and Kusky, T., 2003, Late Paleozoic orogeny in Alaska's Farewell Terrane: Tectonophysics, v. 372, p. 23-40.
Sisson, V.B., Poole, A.R., Harris, N.R., Burner, S.C., Pavlis, T.L., Copeland, P., Donelick, R.A., and McClelland, W.C., Geochemical and geochronoloigc constraints for genesis of a tonalite-trondhjemite suite and associated mafic intrusive rocks in the eastern Chugach Mountains, Alaska: a record of ridge-transform subduction, in Sisson, V.B., Roeske, S.M., and Pavlis, T.L., eds., Geology of a transpressional orogen developed during ridge-trench interaction along the North Pacific margin: Geological Society of America Special Paper 371, p. 293-326.
Oldow, J.S., Payne, J.D., Prestia, V.I., McClelland, W.C., Ferranti, L., 2003, Stratigraphic and Structural evolution of the Silver Peak extensional complex, western Great Basin, U.S.A., in Gassaway Brown, H., ed., Regional geology and gold deposits of the Silver Peak area: Mineralization hosted by metamorphic core complexes: Geological Society of Nevada Special Publication 38, p. 51-73.
Miller, M.L., Bradley, D.C., Bundtzen, T.K, and McClelland, W.C., 2002, Late Cretaceous through Cenozoic strike-slip tectonics of southwestern Alaska: Journal of Geology, v. 110, p. 247-270.
Toro, J.T., Gans, P.B., McClelland, W.C., and Dimitru, T., 2002, Deformation and exhumation of the Mt. Igikpak region, central Brooks Range, Alaska, in Miller, E.L., Grantz, A., and Klemperer, S., eds., Tectonic Evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea-Arctic Margin and adjacent landmasses: Geological Society of America Special Paper 360, p. 111-132.
McClelland, W.C., Tikoff, B., and Manduca, C.A., 2000, The role of intra-arc shear zones in terrane accretion: examples from the North American Cordillera: Tectonophysics, v. 326, p. 37-55.
McClelland, W.C., and J.M. Mattinson, 2000, Cretaceous-Tertiary evolution of the western Coast Mountains, central southeastern Alaska, in Stowell, H.H. and McClelland, W.C., eds., Tectonic evolution of the Coast Mountains orogen, southeastern Alaska and coastal British Columbia: Geological Society of America Special Paper 343, p. 159-182.
Lee, J., Hacker, B.R., Dinklage, W.S., Wang Y., Gans, P., Calvert, A., Wan J., Chen W., Blythe, A.E., and McClelland, W.C., 2000, Evolution of the Kangmar Dome, southern Tibet; structural, petrologic, and thermochronologic constraints: Tectonics, v. 19, p. 872-895.
Davis, J.S., Roeske, S.M., McClelland, W.C., and Kay, S.M., 2000, Mafic and ultramafic crustal fragments of the SW Precordillera terrane and their bearing on tectonic models of the Early Paleozoic in western Argentina: Geology, v. 28. p. 171-174.
Brown, E.H., Talbot, J.L., McClelland, W.C., Feltman, J.A., Lapen, T.J., Bennett, J.D., Hettinga, M.A., Davis, M, and Calvert, A.T., 2000, Architecture and evolution of the Coast Plutonic Complex, Harrison Lake area, British Columbia: Tectonics, v. 19, p. 493-511.
Brown, E.H., and McClelland, W.C., 2000, Pluton emplacement by sheeting and vertical ballooning in part of the Southeast Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 112, p. 708-719.
Davis, J.S., Roeske, S.M., McClelland, W.C., and Snee, L.W., 1999, Closing the ocean between the Precordillera terrane and Chilenia: Early Devonian ophiolite emplacement and deformation in the SW Precordillera, in Ramos, V. and Keppie, J.D., eds., Laurentia-Gondwana Connections before Pangea: Geological Society of America Special Paper 336, p. 115-138.
McClelland, W.C., and Mattinson, J.M., 1996, Resolving high precision ages from Tertiary plutons with complex zircon systematics: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 60, p. 3955-3965.
Mattinson, J.M., Graubard, C.M., Parkinson, D.L., and McClelland, W.C., 1995, U-Pb reverse discordance in zircons: The role of fine-scale oscillatory zoning and sub-micron transport of Pb, in Basu, A. and S. Hart, eds., Earth processes: Reading the isotopic code: American Geophysical Union Monograph 95, p. 355-370.
Patrick, B.P. and McClelland, W.C., 1995, Late Proterozoic granitic magmatism on Seward Peninsula and a Barentian origin for Northern Alaska: Geology, v. 23, p. 81-84.
McClelland, W.C., Gehrels, G.E., and Saleeby, J.B., 1992, Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous basinal strata along the Cordilleran margin: implications for the accretionary history of the Alexander terrane: Tectonics, v. 11, p. 823-835.
McClelland, W.C., Gehrels, G.E., Samson, S.D., and Patchett, P.J., 1992, Structural and geochronologic relations along the western flank of the Coast Mountains batholith: Stikine River to Cape Fanshaw, central southeastern Alaska: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 14, p 475-489.
McClelland, W.C., Gehrels, G.E., Samson, S.D., and Patchett, P.J., 1992, Protolith relations of the Gravina belt and Yukon-Tanana terrane in central southeastern Alaska: Journal of Geology, v. 100, p. 107-123.
McClelland, W.C., Anovitz, L.M., and Gehrels, G.E., 1991, Thermobarometric constraints on the structural evolution of the western Coast Mountains batholith: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 26, p. 912-928.
McClelland, W.C., and Gehrels, G.E., 1990, Geology of the Duncan Canal shear zone and its bearing on the accretionary history of the Alexander terrane, southeastern Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 1378-1392.
Gehrels, G.E., McClelland, W.C., Samson, S.D., and Patchett, P.J., 1992, Geologic and tectonic relations along the western flank of the Coast Mountains batholith between Cape Fanshaw and Taku Inlet, southeastern Alaska: Tectonics, v. 11, p. 567-585.
Gehrels, G.E., McClelland, W.C., Samson, S.D., and Patchett, P.J., 1991, U-Pb geochronology of two pre-Tertiary plutons in the Coast Mountains batholith near Ketchikan, southeastern Alaska: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 28, p. 894-898.
Gehrels, G.E., McClelland, W.C., Samson, S.D., and Patchett, P.J., 1991, U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircons from a continental margin assemblage in the northern Coast Mountains, southeastern Alaska: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 28, p. 1285-1300.
Gehrels, G.E., McClelland, W.C., Samson, S.D., and Patchett, P.J., 1991, U-Pb geochronology of Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary plutons in the northern Coast Mountains batholith: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 28, p. 899-911.
Samson, S.D., Patchett, P.J., McClelland, W.C., and Gehrels, G.E., 1991, Nd and Sr isotopic constraints on the petrogenesis of the west side of the northern Coast Mountains batholith, Alaskan and Canadian Cordillera: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 28, p. 939-946.
Samson, S.D., Patchett, P.J., McClelland, W.C., and Gehrels, G.E., 1991, Nd isotopic characterization of metamorphic rocks in the Coast Mountains, Alaskan and Canadian Cordillera: Ancient crust bounded by juvenile terranes: Tectonics, v. 10, p. 770-780.
Gehrels, G.E., McClelland, W.C., Samson, S.D., Patchett, P.J., and Jackson, J.L., 1990, Ancient continental margin assemblage in the northern Coast Mountains, southeast Alaska and northwest Canada: Geology, v. 18, p. 208-211.
Butler, R.F., Gehrels, G.E., McClelland, W.C., May, S.R., and Klepacki, D., 1990, Discordant paleomagnetic poles from the Canadian Coast Plutonic Complex: regional tilt rather than large-scale displacement?-Reply: Geology, v. 18, p. 801-802.
Butler, R.F., Dickinson, W.R., Gehrels, G.E., McClelland, W.C., May, S.R., and Klepacki, D., 1990, Discordant paleomagnetic poles from the Canadian Coast Plutonic Complex: regional tilt rather than large-scale displacement?-Reply: Geology, v. 18, p. 1165-1166.
Butler, R.F., Gehrels, G.E., McClelland, W.C., May, S.R., and Klepacki, D., 1989, Discordant paleomagnetic poles from the Canadian Coast Plutonic Complex: regional tilt rather than large-scale displacement?: Geology, v. 17, p. 691-694.
Samson, S.D., McClelland, W.C., Patchett, P.J., Gehrels, G.E., and Anderson, R.G., 1989, Nd isotopes and Phanerozoic crustal genesis in the Canadian Cordillera: Nature, v. 337, p. 705-709.
Gardner, M.C., Bergman, S.C., MacKevett, E.M., Plafker, G., Cambell, R.C., Dodds, C.J., Cushing, G.W., McClelland, W.C., and Mueller, P.A., 1988, Pennsylvanian pluton stitching of Wrangellia and the Alexander terrane, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska: Geology, v. 16, p. 967-971.
Millholland, M.A., Graubard, C.M., Mattinson, J.M., and McClelland, W.C., 1987, U-Pb age of zircons from the Talkeetna Formation, Johnson River area, Alaska: Isochron/West, v. 50, p. 9-11.
McClelland, W.C., 1982, Structural geology of the central Sacramento Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, in Frost, E.G., and Martin, D.L., eds., Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Colorado River region, California, Arizona, and Nevada: San Diego, Cordilleran Publishers, p. 401-406.
Recent Conference and Workshop Abstracts
McClelland, W.C., and Gilotti, J.A., 2008, The timing of exhumation and basin development in the North-East Greenland Caledonides: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 550, Houston, Texas, October 5-9.
Gilotti, J.A., and McClelland, W.C., 2008, Exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure rocks from the overriding plate of a continent collision – an example from the Greenland Caledonides: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 550, Houston, Texas, October 5-9.
McClelland, W.C., 2007, Timing and tectonic setting of volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits in the Ambler District, Alaska, USA: Arizona Geological Society and Society of Economic Geologists Ores and Orogenesis Symposium, Tucson, AZ, September 23-27.
McClelland, W.C., Additional U-Pb geochronologic evidence for opening of the Amerasian basin with a non-rotational model: Fifth International Conference on Arctic Margins, Norges Geologiske Undersøgelse Report 2007.055, p. 36, Tromsø Norway, September 3-5.
Bradley, D., Miller, M., Dumoulin, J., McClelland, W., Friedman, R., and O’Sullivan, P., 2007, Links between Alaska’s Kilbuck, Farewell, and Arctic Alaska terranes and the Siberian and Laurention cratons: Fifth International Conference on Arctic Margins, Norges Geologiske Undersøgelse Report 2007.055, p. 52, Tromsø Norway, September 3-5.
Kingsley, T.R., McClelland, W.C., and Willard, R., 2007, Kinematic analysis and age constraints of the Kensington gold deposit: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 39, p. 14, May 3-5, Bellingham, Washington.
McClelland, W.C., Gilotti, J.A., and Stemmerik, L., 2007, Correlation of basement deformation and basin development in the Carboniferous, North-East Greenland: Norsk Geologisk Forening (Geological Society of Norway) Abstracts and Proceedings, v. 7, p. 59, January 8-10, Stavanger, Norway.
Gilotti, J.A., and McClelland, W.C., 2007, Tectonic implications of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in the over-riding plate of the Caledonian orogen: Norsk Geologisk Forening (Geological Society of Norway) Abstracts and Proceedings, v. 7, p. 30-31, January 8-10, Stavanger, Norway.