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Mesoproterozoic of Texas

Mosher, S., 1998, Tectonic evolution of the southern Laurentian Grenville orogenic belt, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, no. 11, p. 1357-1375. Abstract; Full Text if subscription: GSW or GSA Journal

Mosher, S., and Levine, J., 2005, Collisional Model for a Grenville-aged orogenic belt: Llano Uplift, central Texas, in Symposium on Proterozoic Growth and Evolution of Southern Laurentia, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 14. Abstract

Mosher, S., 1993, Western extensions of Grenville age rocks; Texas:  in Reed, J. C., Jr., Bickford, M.E., Houston, R. S., Link, P.K. Rankin, D.W., Sims, P.K., and Van Schmus, W.R., eds., Precambrian: Conterminous U.S. : Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. C-2, p. 365-378.

Dalziel, I. W., Mosher, S., and Gahagan, L. M., 2000, Laurentia-Kalahari collision and the assembly of Rodinia, Journal of Geology, v. 108, 9. 499-513. Abstract; Full text with subscription
 

Llano Uplift

Deformation

Carter, K. E., 1989, Grenville orogenic affinities in the Red Mountain area, Llano Uplift, Texas, Canandian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 26, p. 1124-1135. Abstract
  Mosher, S., Hoh, A. M., Zumbro, J.A., Reese, J. F., 2004, Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Llano Uplift, central Texas: A record of Grenville orogenesis along the southern Laurentian margin, in Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J., and Bartholomew, M. J., eds., Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America, Geological Society of America Memoir 197, p. 783-798. Abstract

Nelis, M. K., Mosher, S., and Carlson, W.D., 1989, Grenville-aged orogeny in the Llano Uplift of Central Texas: Deformation and metamorphism of the Rough Ridge formation, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 876-883. Abstract; Full text with subscription: GSW or GSA Journal

Reese, J. S., and Mosher, S., 2004, Kinematic constraints on Rodinia reconstructions from the core of the Texas Grenville Orogen, Journal of Geology, v. 112, p. 185-205. Abstract; Full text with subscription

Metamorphism

Bebout, G. E., and Carlson, W.D., 1986, Fluid evolution and transport during metamorphism: evidence from the Llano Uplift, Texas, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 92, p. 518-529. Abstract

Carlson, W.D., 1998, Petrologic constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Llano Uplift, Proceedings of the International Conferences on Basement Tectonics, 12 3-27. Abstract

Carlson, W.D., Anderson, S.D., Mosher, S., Davidow, J.S., Crawford, W. D., and Lane, E. D., in press, High-pressure metamorphism in the Texas Grenville orogen: Mesoproterozoic subduction of the southern Laurentian continental margin.

Carlson, W.D., and Reese, J.F., 1994, Nearly pure iron staurolite in the southeastern Llano Uplift, Texas and its petrologic significance, American Mineralogist, v. 79, p. 154-160. Abstract

Carlson, W.D., and Nelis, M.K., 1986, An occurrence of staurolite in the Llano uplift, central Texas: American Mineralogist, v. 71, p. 682-685. Abstract

Carlson, W., and Schwarze, E., 1997, Petrological significance of prograde homogenization of growth zoning in garnet; an example from the Llano Uplift, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 15, p. 631-644. Abstract

Rougvie, J.R., Carlson, W.D., Copeland, P., Connelly, J.N., 1999, Late thermal evolution of Proterozoic rocks in the northeastern Llano Uplift, central Texas, Precambrian Research, v. 94, p. 49-72. Abstract; Full text with subscription

Wilkerson, A., Carlson, W. D., and Smith, D. 1988. High-pressure metamorphism during the Llano orogeny inferred from Proterozoic eclogitic remnants. Geology 16:391-394. Abstract; Full text with subscription: GSW or GSA Journal

 

Plutonism

Reed, R.M., Roback, R.C., and Helper, M.A., 1995, Nature and age of ductile deformation associated with the "anorogenic" Town Mountain Granite, Llano Uplift, Central Texas, 12th International Conference on Basement Tectonics '95, Norman OK, International Basement Tectonics Association.

Smith, D.S., Barnes, C., Shannon, W., Roback, R., James, E., 1997, Petrogenesis of Mid-Proterozoic granite magmas: examples from central and west Texas, Precambrian Research, v. 85, p. 53-79. Abstract; Full text with subscription

Age Relations

Helper, M.A., Gose, W.A., Roback, R.C., 1996, Virtual geomagnetic pole positions from 1.1 Ga intrusive rocks in the Llano Uplift, central Texas, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, p. 18. Abstract

Reese, J. S., Mosher, S., Connelly, J., and Roback, R., 2000, Mesoproterozoic chronostratigraphy of the southeastern Llano Uplift, central Texas, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 112, n. 2, p. 278-291. Abstract; Full text with subscription: GSW or GSA Journal

Roback, R.C., Hunt, B.B., Helper, M.A., 1999, Mesoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the western Llano uplift, central Texas: The story of an outcrop, Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 34, p. 275-287. Abstract; Full text with subscription

Walker, N. W. 1992. Middle Proterozoic geologic evolution of the Llano Uplift, Texas: Evidence from U-Pb zircon geochronometry. Geological Society of America Bulletin 104:494-504. Abstract; Full text with subscription: GSW or GSA Journal

Roback, R., C., 1996b, Mesoproterozoic polymetamorphism and magmatism in the Llano Uplift, central Texas: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, p. A377. Abstract

Coal Creek Domain

Roback, R. C., 1996a, Characterization and tectonic evolution of a Mesoproterozoic island arc in the southern Grenville Orogen, Llano uplift, central Texas, Tectonophysics, v. 265, p. 29-52. Abstract; Full text with subscription

Garrison Jr., J.R., 1978, Plagioclase compositions from metabasalts, southeastern Llano Uplift: Plagioclase unmixing during amphibolite-grade metamorphism, American Mineralogist, v. 63, p. 143-149. Abstract

Garrison, J. R., Jr., 1981a, Coal Creek Serpentinite, Llano Uplift: a fragment of a Precambrian ophiolite, Geology, v. 9, p. 225-230. Abstract; Full text with subscription

Garrison, J. R., Jr., 1981b, Metabasalts and metagabbros from the Llano Uplift, Texas: Petrologic and geochemical characterization with emphasis on tectonic setting, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 78, p. 459-475. Abstract

Garrison, J. R., Jr., 1985, Petrology, geochemistry, and origin of the Big Branch and Red Mountain Gneisses, southeastern Llano Uplift, central Texas, American Mineralogist, v. 70, p. 1151-1163. Abstract

Guidebooks

Mosher, S., 1995, Guide to the Precambrian Geology of the Eastern Llano Uplift: editor and major contributing author; 12th International Conference on Basement Tectonics '95, Norman OK, International Basement Tectonics Association, 55p.

Mosher, S., 1996, Guide to the Precambrian Geology of the Eastern Llano Uplift: editor and major contributing author, South-Central Geological Society of America Meeting, Austin, TX, March, 1996, 78p.

West Texas Uplifts

Bristol, D. A. and Mosher, S., 1989, Structural evolution of mid-Proterozoic basement in the northwest Van Horn Mountains, Trans-Pecos, Texas, Journal of Geology, v. 97, p. 25-43. Abstract

Grimes, S. W., and Mosher, S., 2003, Structure of the Carrizo Mountain Group, southeastern Carrizo Mountains, west Texas: a transpressional zone of the Grenville orogeny, Tectonics, v. 22, 1003, DOI:10,1029/2001TC001316. (20 pages) Abstract; Full text with subscription

Grimes, S.,W. and Copeland, P., 2004, Thermochronology of the Grenville Orogeny in west Texas, Precambrian Research, v. 131, p. 23-54. Abstract; Full text with subscription

Reynolds, D.J., 1985, Deformation along the late Precambrian Steeruwitz
thrust near Allamoore, Hudspeth County, Texas, <i>in</i> Dickerson, P.W., and
Muelhberger, W.R., eds., Structure and tectonics of Trans-Pecos Texas: West
Texas Geological Society Publications 85-111, p. 107-115.

Soegaard, K., and Callahan, D.M., 1994, Late Middle Proterozoic Hazel Formation near Van Horn, Trans-Pecos Texas: evidence for transpressive deformation in Grenvillian basement: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 106, p. 413-423. Abstract; Full text with subscription: GSW or GSA Journal

Theses & Dissertations

Carter, K.E., 1985, Deformation and metamorphism of the Red Mountain area Llano County, Texas. [Unpublished thesis] University of Texas at Austin, 63p. Abstract

Gillis, G. M. 1989. Polyphase deformation of the Middle Proterozoic Coal Creek Serpentinite, Llano Uplift, Texas. [unpublished M.A. thesis] University of Texas at Austin. Abstract

Grimes, S.W., 1999, The Grenville Orogeny in West Texas; structure, kinematics, metamorphism and depositional environment of the Carrizo Mountain Group, [Unpublished doctoral thesis], The University of Texas at Austin,372 pp. Abstract

Hoh, A.M., 2000, Deformational History of the Valley Spring Domain in the Northeastern Llano Uplift, Devils Waterhole, Inks Lake State Park, Burnet County, Texas. [Unpublished thesis] University of Texas at Austin, 140p. Abstract

Hunt, B. B., 2000, Mesoproterozoic structural evolution and lithologic investigation of the western Llano Uplift, Mason County, central Texas, [unpublished M.A. thesis], The University of Texas at Austin, 138p. Abstract

Levine, J., 2005, Structural analysis and detrital zircon provenance in the western Llano Uplift: Implications for a southern collider, [Unpublished thesis]. The University of Texas at Austin. Abstract

Nelis, M.K., 1984, Deformation and metamorphism of the Rough Ridge formation, Llano County, Texas. [Unpublished thesis] University of Texas at Austin, 101p. Abstract

Reed, R. M. 1999. Emplacement and deformation of late syn-orogenic to post-orogenic Mesoproterozoic granites in the Llano Uplift, central Texas. [unpublished Ph.D. dissertation] University of Texas at Austin. Abstract

Reese, J. F. 1995. Structural evolution and geochronology of the southeastern Llano Uplift, central Texas. [unpublished Ph.D. dissertation] University of Texas at Austin. Abstract

Whitefield, C. 1997. A Sm-Nd isotopic study of the Coal creek domain and Sandy Creek shear zone. [unpublished M. A. thesis] The University of Texas at Austin. Abstract

Zumbro, J. A. 1999. A structural, petrologic, and geochemical investigation of the Valley Spring Gneiss of the southeastern Llano Uplift, central Texas. [unpublished M. A. thesis]. The University of Texas at Austin. Abstract