METAMORPHIC PETROLOGY
   
USC Department of Earth Sciences

Jean Morrison's Publications

Published refereed papers

McLelland, J., Morrison, J., Selleck, B., Cunningham, B., Olson, C. and Schmidt, K. (2001) Hydrothermal alteration of late- to post-tectonic Lyon Mountain Granitic Gneiss, Adirondack Highlands, New York: Origin of quartz-sillimanite segregations, quartz-albite lithologies, and associated Kiruna-type low-Ti Fe-oxide deposits. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 19, 1-19.

Woods, A.D., Bottjer, D.J., Mutti, M. and Morrison, J. (1999) Lower Triassic large sea floor carbonate cements: their origin and a mechanism for the prolonged biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology, v. 27, p. 645-648.

O'Connor, Y.L. and Morrison, J. (1999) Oxygen isotope constraints on the petrogenesis of the Sybille intrusion of the Proterozoic Laramie Anorthosite Complex. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 136, p. 81-91.

Morrison, J. and Anderson, J.L. (1998) Footwall refrigeration along a detachment fault: implications for thermal evolution of core complexes. Science, v. 279, p. 63-66.

Lamb, W. and Morrison, J. (1997) Retrograde fluids in the Archean Shawmere Anorthosite: Kapuskasing Structural Zone, Ontario, Canada. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 129, p. 105-119.

Keane, S.D. and Morrison J. (1997) Distinguishing magmatic from subsolidus epidote: laser probe oxygen isotope compositions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 126, p. 265-274.

Barth, A.P., Wooden, J.L., Tosdal, R.M. and Morrison, J. (1995) Crustal contamination in the petrogenesis of a calc-alkalic rock series: Josephine Mountain Intrusion, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, no. 2, p. 201-212.

Barth, A.P., Wooden, J.L., Tosdal, R.M., Morrison, J., Dawson, D.L. and Hernley, B.M. (1995) Origin of gneisses in the aureole of the San Gabriel anorthosite complex and implications for the Proterozoic crustal evolution of southern California. Tectonics, v. 14, p. 736-752.

Morrison, J. (1994) Downward circulation of meteoric water into the lower-plate of the Whipple Mountains metamorphic core complex, California. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 12, no. 6, p. 827-840.

Morrison, J. and Hoisch, T. D.(1994) Upward flow of magmatic fluids from the Old Woman granodiorite, Old Woman Mountains, southeastern California. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 99, no. B5, p. 9469-9476.

Ekstrom, H.V., Morrison, J. and Anderson, J.L. (1994) Petrogenetic modeling and stable isotopic evaluation of anorthosite and jotunitic to syenitic magma series in the San Gabriel anorthosite complex. Precambrian Research, v. 70, p. 1-24.

Rothstein, D., Karlstrom, K., Hoisch, T.D. and Morrison, J. (1994) Synkinematic contact metasomatism: implications for the timing of pluton emplacement and regional deformation in the Scanlon shear zone, SE California. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 12, no. 6, p. 709-722.

Bender, E.E., Morrison, J., Anderson, J.L. and Wooden, J.L. (1993) Early Proterozoic ties between two suspect terranes and the Mojave crustal block of the southwestern United States. Journal of Geology, v. 101, p. 715-728.

Morrison, J. and Barth, A. P. (1993) Empirical tests of carbon isotope thermometry in granulites from southern California. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 11, p. 789-800.

Ekstrom, H. and Morrison, J. (1992) Chemical variations accompanying detachment faulting in the Whipple Mountains, California, USA. In: Water-Rock Interaction, Kharaka, Y.F. and Maest, A. S., eds., Balkema, Rotterdam, v. 2, p. 1495-1498.

Mayo, D., Morrison, J. and Anderson, J. L. (1992) Chemical and oxygen isotopic variations in upper-plate rocks of the Whipple Mountains detachment system, California, USA. In: Water-Rock Interaction, Kharaka, Y.F. and Maest, A.S., eds., Balkema, Rotterdam, v. 2, p. 1527-1532.

Young, E. D. and Morrison, J. (1992) Relations among net-transfer reaction progress, 18O-13C depletion, and fluid infiltration in a clinohumite-bearing marble. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 111, p. 391-408.

Anderson, J. L. and Morrison, J. (1992) The role of anorogenic granites in the Proterozoic crustal development of North America. In: Proterozoic Crustal Evolution, Condie, K. C., ed., Elsevier, p. 263-299.

Morrison, J. (1991) Compositional constraints on the incorporation of Cl into amphiboles. American Mineralogist, v. 76, p. 1920-1930.

Morrison, J. and Valley, J. W. (1991) Retrograde fluids in granulites: stable isotopic evidence of fluid migration. Journal of Geology, v. 99, p. 559-570.

Whitney, P. R., Bohlen, S. R., Carl, J. D., deLorraine, W., Isachsen, Y. W., McLelland, J., Olmsted, J. F. and Valley, J. W., with contributions from Cartwright, I., Morrison, J., Ollila, P. and Selleck, B. (1989) The Adirondack Mountains - A Section of Deep Proterozoic Crust. Field Trip Guidebook T164, 28th International Geological Congress, 63 p.

Morrison, J. and Valley, J. W. (1988) Post-metamorphic fluid infiltration into granulites from the Adirondack Mountains, USA. In: Ashwal, L.D., ed., Workshop on The Deep Continental Crust of South India, p. 115-117. LPI Tech Rpt. 88-06. Lunar Planetary Institute, Houston.

Morrison, J. and Valley, J. W. (1988) Contamination of the Marcy Anorthosite Massif, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y.: Petrologic and isotopic evidence. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 98, p. 97-108.

Morrison, J. and Valley, J. W. (1988) Post-granulite facies fluid infiltration in the Adirondack Mountains. Geology, v. 16, p. 513-516.

Vry, J., Brown, P.E., Valley, J.W., and Morrison, J. (1988) Constraints on granulite genesis from carbon isotope compositions of cordierite and graphite. Nature, v. 332, p. 66-68.

Morrison, J. and Ellwood, B. B. (1986) Paleomagnetism of Silurian and Ordovician sediments from the Valley and Ridge Province, Northwest Georgia. Geophysical Research Letters, v. 13, p. 189-192.