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1 The Lead 206/207 Dating Method 1 U Pb Zircon Ages, Chemical Geology, Volume 211 (2004) Pages Lead Isotope Planetary Profiling, Chemical Geology, Volume 233 (2006) Pages U Pb Step-Leaching Ages, Chemical Geology, Volume 236 (2007) Pages Pb Pb Dating Of Chondrules, Chemical Geology, 2009, Volume 259, Pages Pb-Pb Isotope Systematics, Chemical Geology, Volume 66 (1987) Pages Pb-Pb Isotope Systematics, Chemical Geology, Volume 66 (1987) Pages Pb-Pb Isotope Systematics, Chemical Geology, Volume 66 (1987) Pages Pb-Pb Isotope Systematics, Chemical Geology, Volume 66 (1987) Pages Pb Isotopic Systematics Of Volcanic Rocks, Chemical Geology, Volume 93 (1991) Pages Bayan Obo Deposit, Chinese Journal Of Geochemistry, Volume 16, Number 1, 1997, Pages Pb isotopic and REE geochemistry, Contributions Mineral Petrology (1984) 85, Pages Pre-Hercynian mantle lead transfer, Contributions Mineral Petrology (1985) 90, Pages Sr, Nd And Pb Isotope Evidence, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Volume 114, 1993, Pages U/Pb Whole-Rock And Mineral Dating, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 94 (1989) Pages U-Pb Ages Of Uraniferous Opals, Earth and Planetarv Science Letters, Volume 46 (1980) Pages Lead Isotopic Study Of Young Volcanic Rocks, Earth and Planetarv Science Letters, Volume 46 (1980) Pages Evolution Of Reunion Hotspot Mantle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 134 (1995) Pages Pb Isotope Constraints, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 142 (1996) Pages Iceland Pb-Isotopic Array, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 165 (1999) Pages The Age Of The Lithospheric Mantle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 183 (2000) Pages Pb Isotopic Variability in Melt Inclusions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 240, (2005) Pages The South Pacific Superplume Activity, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 244 (2006) Page Sr Nd Pb Isotopic Compositions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 244 (2006) Page Page 1

2 24 Trace Element-Pb Isotope Enrichments, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 245 (2006) Pages Comparison of Th, Sr, Nd and Pb isotopes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 245 (2006) Pages U Pb Dating Of Fossil Enamel, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 267 (2008) Pages Microanalysis Of Individual Fluid Inclusions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 296 (2010) Pages The Solar System Primordial Lead, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 300 (2010) Pages The Tethyan Realm Lamproites, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 301 (2011) Pages South Atlantic Mid-Ocean-Ridge, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 306 (2011) Pages U Th Pb Isotope Data, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume (2012) Pages Uranium, Thorium, And Lead Systematics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 7, (1969) Pages Th, Pb, and Sr Isotope Variations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 104 (1991) Pages ar/39ar And U-Th-Pb Dating, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1983, Volume 62, Pages Lead And Strontium Isotopes In Cretaceous Kimberlites, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 34 (1977) Pages Lead And Strontium Isotopes In Cretaceous Kimberlites, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 34 (1977) Pages Lead And Strontium Isotopes In Cretaceous Kimberlites, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 34 (1977) Pages Lead And Strontium Isotopes In Cretaceous Kimberlites, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 34 (1977) Pages Diamonds And Mantle-Derived Xenoliths, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 42, (1979) Pages Rb-Sr And U-Th-Pb Isotopic Study, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 42 (1979) Pages Sr Nd Pb Isotopic Systematics Of Mafic Igneous Rocks, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 42 (1979) Pages Speculations About The Age Of The Earth, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 47, (1980) Pages Speculations About The Age Of The Earth, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 47, (1980) Pages Page 2

3 44 Speculations About The Age Of The Earth, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 47 (1980) Pages Correlated Nd, Sr And Pb Isotope Variations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 59 (1982) Pages Sr, Nd And Pb Isotopes In Minor Elements, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 76 (1985) Pages U/Pb Whole-Rock and Mineral Dating, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 94 (1989) Pages Sr, Nd, and Pb Isotopes, Earth and Planetary Sctence Letters, 113 (1992) Pages Cenozoic-Cretaceous Magmatism, Earth and Planetary. Science Letters, 94 (1989) Pages None, ftp://rock.geosociety.org/pub/reposit/2006/ xls 51 None, ftp://rock.geosociety.org/pub/reposit/2008/ xls 52 Contribution Of Slab Melting, Geochemistry And Geophysics Geosystems, 2006, Volume 7, Number 8, Pages Sr Nd Pb O Isotopic Constraints, Geochemistry And Geophysics Geosystems, 2006, Volume 7, Number 8, Pages Pb Isotopic Compositions Of Rocks, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71 (2007) Pages U, Th And Pb Isotope Compositions, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72 (2008) Pages Pb/Pb Geochronology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73 (2009) Pages Model Lead And Radiometric Ages, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1970, Volume 34, Pages 1039 to Model Lead And Radiometric Ages, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1970, Volume 34, Pages 1039 to Model Lead And Radiometric Ages, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1970, Volume 34, Pages 1039 to Model Lead And Radiometric Ages, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1970, Volume 34, Pages 1039 to Isotopic Lead Investigations, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1976, Volume 40, Pages New Aspects Of Dating Eclogites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1992, Volume 56, Pages Pb Pb Dating Constraints, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2007, Volume 71, 64 Pb Pb Dating Constraints, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2007, Volume 71, Page 3

4 65 Pb Pb Dating Constraints, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2007, Volume 71, 66 Pb Pb Dating Constraints, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2007, Volume 71, 67 Pb Pb Dating Constraints, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2007, Volume 71, 68 U Th Pb Dating Of Secondary Minerals, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2008, Volume 72, Pages U-Th-Pb Systematics, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1981, Volume 45, Pages 635 to Dating Scheelite Stages, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1997, Volume 61, Number 23, Pages Ages Of Basaltic Achondrites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1997, Volume 61, Number 8, Pages Ages Of Basaltic Achondrites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1997, Volume 61, Number 8, Pages Using The U-Pb System, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1998, Volume 62, Number 16, Pages The Influence of High U-Th, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1998, Volume 62, Number 21/22, Pages The Influence of High U-Th, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1998, Volume 62, Number 21/22, Pages Pb-Pb and Sm-Nd Isotope Results, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1999, Volume 63, Number 3/4, Pages Pin Procking The Elephant, Geological Society Of London, Special Publications, 2004, Volume 229, Pages The Genesis Of Pb Zn Deposits, Gondwana Research 11 (2007) Page High Precision U-Pb Geochronology, Gondwana Research 11 (2007) Page Geochronological Problems, Gondwana Research 14 (2008) Page Precise Lead Isotope Ratios, Gondwana Research 14 (2008) Page Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 2003, Volume 4, Page 1089,, 83 None, 84 None, 85 Timing of sedimentation, metamorphism, and plutonism, 86 The Sierra Nevada Lithosphere, Geosphere, October 2008, Volume 4, Number 5, Pages , Page 4

5 87 Cenozoic Volcanism, Geosphere, April 2012, Volume 8, Number 2, Pages , geochem.xls 89 Tertiary Mull Volcano, Western Scotland, Journal of Petrology, 1999, Volume 40, Number 6, Pages Palaeogene Continental to Oceanic, Journal Of Petrology, 2000, Volume 41, Number 7, Pages , 91 East African Rift System, Journal Petrology, May 1, 2004, Volume 45, Number 5, Pages , 92 The Somuncura Large Igneous Province, Journal Of Petrology, September 21, 2006, 93 Using LA-ICPMS Mapping, Journal Of Petrology, February 9, 2007, Pages 1-18, 94 Mantle Composition, Journal Of Petrology, 2007, Volume 48, Number 4, Pages , 95 Development of a Continental Volcanic Field, Journal of Petrology, October 3, 2007, 96 Rocks in the Western Carpathian Arc, Journal Petrology, December 1, 2007, Volume 48, Number 12, Pages , 97 Geochemistry of the Volcan de l Androy Basalt, Journal Of Petrology April 19, 2008, 98 Sr Nd Pb Hf Isotope Evolution, Journal Of Petrology, 2010, Volume 51, Number 5, Pages Two Primary Basalt Magma Types, Journal Petrology, June 1, 2011, Volume 52, Number 6, Pages , Geochemical Composition of K-rich Lavas, Journal Of Petrology, (2011) 52 (6): , Pb Isotope Database, Page 5

6 102 Uranium-Lead Zircon Ages, Uranium-Lead Zircon Ages, None, None, None, None, U-Ph And Ph-Pb Dating Of Kimberlites, Isotope Geoscience, 1 (1983) Pages Continental Lithospheric Contribution to Alkaline, Journal Of Petrology, 1997, Volume 38, Number 1, Pages Geochemical And Nd, Pb, And Sr Isotope Data, Journal Of Petrology, 1998, Volume 39. Number 11-12, Pages Petrogenesis of the Flood Basalts, Journal Of Petrology, 1998, Volume 39, Number 4, Pages Tracing the Indian Ocean Mantle, Journal Of Petrology, 1998, Volume 39, Number 7, Pages Post-Collisional Potassic and Ultrapotassic, Journal Of Petrology, 1999, Volume 40, Number 9, Pages Garnet Granulite Xenoliths, Journal Of Petrology, 2001, Volume 42, Number 4, Pages Nature of the Source Regions, Journal Of Petrology, 2004, Volume 45, Number 3, Pages Evidence for a Widespread Tethyan, Journal Of Petrology, 2005, Volume 46, Number 4, Pages Generation of Palaeocene Adakitic Andesites, Journal Of Petrology, 2007, Volume 48, Number 4, Pages Continental Intraplatevolcanism, Journal of Petrology, 2011, Volume 52, Number 2, Pages Chronology And Geochemistry Of Lavas, Journal Of Petrology, April 11, 2012, Pages Uranium-Thorium-Lead Dating, Mereoritics And PIanetary Science, 2000, Volume 35, Pages Disturbance Of Isotope Systematics, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 46, Nr 1, (2011) 122 Ion microprobe U-Th-Pb dating, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2004, Volume 39, Number 12, Pages Pb-Isotopic Dates From Estacado, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2007, Volume 42, Numbers 7/8, Pages Damaran-Lufilian Fold Belt of Central Africa, Mineralium Deposita (1999) 34, Pages Damaran-Lufilian Fold Belt of Central Africa, Mineralium Deposita (1999) 34, Pages Page 6

7 126 Sr, Nd and Pb Isotopic Compositions, Mineralogy and Petrology (1993) 47, Pages Lead Isotope Ratios In Arc Magams, Nature, Volume 368, 1994, Page Isotopic Characteristics Of The Jinding Zn Pb Deposit, Ore Geology Reviews 31 (2007) Pages Ion Microprobe Pb Pb Dating, Precambrian Research, Volume 113 (2002) Pages Pb and Nd Isotope Systematics, Precambrian Research, Volume 114 (2002) Pages Iron Formations In The Black Hills, Precambrian Research, Volume 162 (2008) Pages Carbonate Pb-Pb ages of the Wittenoom Formation, Precambrian Research, 1995, Volume 72, Pages Whole-Rock Pb/Pb Isotopic Ages, Precambrian Research, Volume 78 (1996) Pages Whole-Rock Pb/Pb Isotopic Ages, Precambrian Research, Volume 78 (1996) Pages New U-Pb Zircon Chronology, Precambrian Research, 1988, Volume 38, Pages U Pb And Pb Pb Isotopic Studies, Precambrian Research, 1999, Volume 95, Pages pb 206pb And 40ar 39ar Ages, Precambrian Research, 2002, Volume 117, Pages Pb Isotopic Variability In Melt Inclusions, Science, Volume 282, 1998, Page None, None, None, None, The Hawaiian Mantle Plume, Nature, 2005, Volume 434, Pages , The Earth's Upper Mantle, Nature, 2007, Volume 447, Pages , The Hawaiian Mantle Plume, Nature, 2011, Volume 476, Pages , The Hawaiian Mantle Plume, Nature, 2011, Volume 476, Pages , Pacific Hotspots, Nature Geoscience, 2011, Volume 4, Pages , Pacific Hotspots, Nature Geoscience, 2011, Volume 4, Pages , Pacific Hotspots, Nature Geoscience, 2011, Volume 4, Pages , Page 7

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