Michael McWilliams
Published as of December, 2006 In press & submitted papers
2006 Avigad, D., R.J. Stern, M. Beyth, N. Miller, M. McWilliams, Neoproterozoic glaciation and crustal evolution of the Arabian-Nubian Shield in north Ethiopia (Tigre): Detrital zircon U-Pb SHRIMP age constraints, Precambrian Research doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2006.12.004 .
2006 Lee, J. W. McClelland, Y. Wang, A. Blythe and M. McWilliams, Oligocene-Miocene middle crustal flow in southern Tibet: Geochronologic studies in Majba Dome, in M.P. Searle and R.D. Law (editors), Geological Society of London Special Publication 268, Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation of Lower-Mid Crust in Continental Collision Zones, 445—469. PDF
2006 DeGrave, J., M.M. Buslov, F. Zhimulev, P. Vermeesch, M. McWilliams, J. Metcalf, Early Ordovician age of deformation in the Kokchetav subduction-collision zone: new structural and 40Ar/39Ar data, Russian Geology and Geophysics 47, 441—450. PDF
2006 Kolodner, K., D. Avigad, M. McWilliams, J.L. Wooden, T. Weissbrod, S. Feinstein, Provenance of north Gondwana Cambrian- Ordovician sandstone: U-Pb SHRIMP dating of detrital zircons from Israel and Jordan: U-Pb SHRIMP dating of detrital zircons, Geological Magazine 143, 367–391. PDF
2006 Thiede, R.C., J.R. Arrowsmith, B. Bookhagen, M. McWilliams, E.R. Sobel, M.R. Strecker, Dome formation and extension in the Tethyan Himalaya, Leo Pargil, northwest India, Geological Society of America Bulletin 118, 635—650. PDF
2006 Xu, Z., L. Zeng, F. Liu, J. Yang, Z. Zhang, M. McWilliams, J. G. Liou, Polyphase structural deformation and exhumation of the Sulu high-pressure—ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane, Geological Society of America Special Paper 403 "Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism: Deep Continental Subduction", edited by B. Hacker, W. McClelland and J.G. Liou, 93—113.
2006 Ron, H., N.R. Nowaczyk, U. Frank, S. Marco and M. McWilliams, Rock magnetism of Lake Lisan and Holocene Dead Sea sediments: Implication for the fidelity of geomagnetic record carried by CRM and DRM magnetization, (Geological Society of America Memoir "New Frontiers in Dead Sea Environmental Research", edited by A. Agnon and M. Stein). PDF
2006 Colgan, J.P., T.A. Dumitru, M. McWilliams and E.L. Miller, Cenozoic structural and volcanic evolution of the northern Pine Forest range, Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin 118, 126—139. PDF
2006 Vermeesch, P., D.D. Miller, T. Dumitru, S.A. Graham, M. McWilliams, Multi-method detrital thermochronology of the Great Valley Group near New Idria, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin 118, 210—218. PDF
2005 Avigad, D., A. Sandler, K. Kolodner, R.J. Stern, M. McWilliams, N. Miller, M. Beyth, Mass-production of Cambro–Ordovician quartz-rich sandstone as a consequence of chemical weathering of Pan-African terranes: Environmental implications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 240, 818—826. PDF
2005 Booth, A.L., Y. Kolodny, C.P. Chamberlain, M. McWilliams, A. Schmitt and J.L. Wooden, Oxygen isotopic composition and U-Pb discordance in zircon, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69, 4895–4905. PDF
2005 Briggs, R., B.F. Houghton, M. McWilliams and C.J. Wilson, Ar-Ar ages in the Tauranga-Kaimai area, New Zealand: dating the transition from Coromandel to Taupo volcanic zones, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 48, 459—469. PDF
2005 Hacker, B., P. Luffi, V. Lutkov, V. Minaev, L. Ratschbacher, M. Ducea, M. McWilliams, J. Metcalf, Near-ultrahigh pressure processing of continental crust: Miocene crustal xenoliths from the Pamir, Journal of Petrology 46, 1661—1687. PDF
2005 Thiede, R.C., J.R. Arrowsmith, B. Bookhagen, M. McWilliams, E.R. Sobel, M.R. Strecker,From tectonically to erosionally controlled development of the Himalayan orogen, Geology G21483AR. PDF
2004 Ratschbacher, L., C. Dingeldey, C. Miller, B.R. Hacker, Michael O. McWilliams, Formation, subduction, and exhumation of Penninic oceanic crust in the Eastern Alps: time constraints from 40Ar/39 Ar geochronology, Tectonophysics 394, 155-170. PDF
2004 Schwab, M, L. Ratschbacher, W. Siebel, M. McWilliams, V. Minaev, V. Lutkov, F. Chen, K. Stanek, B. Nelson, W. Frisch, J.L. Wooden, Joseph, Assembly of the Pamirs: Age and origin of magmatic belts from the southern Tien Shan to the southern Pamirs and their relation to Tibet, Tectonics 23, 2003TC001583. PDF
2004 Maksaev, V., F. Munizaga, M. McWilliams, M. Fanning, R. Mathur, J. Ruiz and M. Zentilli, New chronology for El Teniente, Chilean Andes, from U-Pb, 40Ar/39Ar, Re-Os and fission-track dating: Implications for the evolution of a supergiant porphyry Cu-Mo deposit, Chapter 2 in: R.H. Sillitoe, J. Perello and C.E. Vidal (editors), Society of Economic Geologists Special Publication 11, "Andean Metallogeny: New Discoveries, Concepts and Updates", p. 15-54 . PDF
2003 Avigad, D., K. Kolodner, M. McWilliams, H. Persing and T. Weissbrod, Origin of northern Gondwana Cambrian sandstone revealed by detrital zircon SHRIMP dating, Geology 31, 227-230. PDF
2003 DeGraaff-Surpless, K., J.B. Mahoney, J.L. Wooden and M. McWilliams, Lithofacies control in detrital zircon provenance studies: Insights from the Cretaceous Methow basin, Geological Society of America Bulletin 115, 899-915. PDF
2003 Ducea, M.N., B. Hacker, V. Lutkov, V. Minaev, L. Ratschbacher, P. Luffi, G. Gehrels, M. McWilliams, J. Vervoort, J. Metcalf, Building the Pamirs: The view from the underside, Geology 31, 849—853. PDF
2003 Grimmer, J.C., L. Ratschbacher, L. Franz, I. Gaitzsch,M. Tichomirowa, M. McWilliams and B.R. Hacker, When did the ultrahigh-pressure rocks reach the surface? A 207Pb/206 Pb zircon, 40Ar/39Ar white mica Si-in-phengite single grain study of Dabie Shan synorogenic foreland sediments, Chemical Geology 197, 87—110. PDF
2003 Maksaev, V., F. Munizaga, M. McWilliams, R. Mathur, J. Ruiz, M. Fanning, M. Zentilli, New timeframe for El Teniente Cu-Mo giant porphyry deposit: U-Pb, 40Ar/39Ar, Re-Os and fission-track dating, Short Papers - IV South American Symposium on Isotope Geology, 736—739. PDF
2003 Ratschbacher, L., B.R. Hacker, A. Calvert, L.E. Webb, J.C. Grimmer, M. McWilliams, T.R. Ireland, S. Dong, J. Hu, Tectonics of the Qinling (central China): Tectonostratigraphy, geochronology and deformation history, Tectonophysics 366, 1—53. PDF
2003 Segev, A., E. Sass, H. Ron, B. Lang, Y. Kolodny and M. McWilliams, Stratigraphic, geochronologic and paleomagnetic constraints on late Cretaceous volcanism in northern Israel Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 51, 297—309. PDF
2003 Stockli, D.F., T.A. Dumitru, M. McWilliams and K.A. Farley, Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the White Mountains, California and Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin 115, 788—816. PDF
2001 McWilliams, M., Correlation of the Pringle Falls event, in:W.G. Ernst, ed., Frontiers in Geochemistry: Global Inorganic Geochemistry, Konrad Krauskopf Volume 1, Geological Society of America International Book Series 5, 311 —315.
2002 DeGraaff-Surpless, K, S.A. Graham, J.L. Wooden and M. McWilliams, Detrital zircon provenance analysis of the Great Valley Group, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin 114, 1564—1580. PDF
2001 Blisniuk, P.M., B.R. Hacker, J. Glodny, L. Ratschbacher, S. Bi, Z. Wu, M. McWilliams, A. Calvert, Normal faulting in central Tibet since at least 13.5 Myr, Nature 412, 628—632. PDF
2001 Gustafson, L.B., W. Orquera, M. McWilliams, M. Castro, O. Olivarez, G. Rojas, J. Maluenda and M. Mendez, Multiple centers of mineralization in the Indio Muerto District, El Salvador, Chile, Economic Geology 96, 325—350. PDF
2001 McWilliams, M., Global correlation of the 223 ka Pringle Falls event, International Geology Review 43, 191—195. PDF
2000 Hacker, B.R., E. Gnos, L. Ratschbacher, M. Grove, M. McWilliams, S.V. Sobolev, J. Wan and Z.H. Wu, Hot and dry deep crustal xenoliths from Tibet, Science 287, 2463—2466. PDF
2000 Hacker, B.R., L. Ratschbacher, L.E. Webb, M. McWilliams, T. Ireland, A. Calvert, S. Dong, H.-R. Wenk, and D. Chateigner, Exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure rocks in the Dabie-Hong'an area: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic tectonic unroofing, Journal of Geophysical Research 105, 13339—13364. PDF
2000 Hermanns, R.L., M.H. Trauth, S. Niedermann, M. McWilliams and M.R. Strecker, Tephrochronologic constraints on temporal distribution of large landslides in northwest Argentina, Journal of Geology 108, 35—52. PDF
2000 Ratschbacher, L., B.R. Hacker, L.E. Webb, M. McWilliams, T.R. Ireland, S. Dong, A. Calvert, D. Chateigner, and H.-R. Wenk, Exhumation of the ultrahigh-pressure continental crust in east-central China: Cretaceous and Cenozoic unroofing and the Tan-Lu Fault, Journal of Geophysical Research 105, 13303—13338. PDF
2000 McWilliams, M., The 223 ka Pringle Falls event, Terra Nova 10, 74—78.
1999 Little, T.A., N. Mortimer and M. McWilliams, An episodic Cretaceous cooling model for the Otago—Marlborough Schist, New Zealand, based on 40Ar/39Ar white mica ages, New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 42, 305—325. PDF
1999 Marco, S., H. Ron, M. McWilliams and M. Stein, The lock-in of remanence in upper Pleistocene sediments of Lake Lisan (palaeo Dead Sea), in: Tarling, D.H. and P. Turner (eds.) Palaeomagnetism and Diagenesis in Sediments, Geological Society of London Special Publication 151, 47—52. PDF
1999 O'Connor, J., Stoffers, P., van den Bogaard, P. and McWilliams, M., First seamount evidence for significantly slower African plate motion since 19 to 30 Ma, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 171, 575—589. PDF
1999 Webb, L.E., B.R. Hacker, L. Ratschbacher, M. McWilliams and S. Dong, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic constraints on deformation and cooling history of high and ultrahigh pressure rocks in the Qinling-Dabie orogen, Tectonics 18, 621—638. PDF
1998 Gansecki, C. A., G. A. Mahood and M. McWilliams, New ages for the climactic eruptions at Yellowstone: Single-crystal 40Ar/39Ar dating identifies contamination, Geology 26, 343—346. PDF
1998 Layer, P.W., M. Martinez-Lopez, A. Kröner, D. York and M. McWilliams, Thermochronometry and palaeomagnetism of the Archean Nelshoogte pluton, South Africa, Geophysical Journal International 135, 129—145. PDF
1998 Marco, S., H. Ron, M. McWilliams and M. Stein, A High-Resolution Paleomagnetic Record of Geomagnetic Secular Variation from Late Pleistocene Lake Lisan, Israel, Earth & Planetary Science Letters 161, 145—160. PDF
1998 McWilliams, M., Geomagnetism, 1998 Yearbook of Science and Technology, pp. 166-168. McGraw-Hill, New York.
1998 Richard, S.M., M. McWilliams and P. Gans, 40Ar/39Ar ages from the Harquahala and Little Harquahala Mountains, west-central Arizona, Arizona Geological Survey Open File Report 98-25. PDF
1997 Marsh, T. M., M. T. Einaudi and M. McWilliams, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Cu-Au and Au-Ag mineralization in the Poterillos District, Atacama Region, Chile, Economic Geology 92, 784-806.
1996 Gansecki, C. A., G. A. Mahood and M. McWilliams, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of rhyolites erupted following collapse of the Yellowstone caldera, Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field: Implications for crustal contamination, Earth & Planetary Science Letters 142, 91—108. PDF
1996 Layer, P.W., A. Kröner and M. McWilliams, An Archean geomagnetic reversal in the Kaap Valley Pluton, South Africa, Science 273, 943-946. PDF
1996 Tanaka, H., T. Tachibana, G.M. Turner, B.F. Houghton, M. Kono, and M. McWilliams, Paleomagnetism and chronology of the central Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, Geophysical Journal International 124, 919—934.
1995 Gur, D., G. Steinitz, Y. Kolodny, A. Starinsky and M. McWilliams, 40Ar/39Ar dating of combustion metamorphism in the “Mottled Zone” of Israel, Chemical Geology 122, 171—184.
1995 Hacker, B. R., M. M. Donato, C. G. Barnes, M. McWilliams and W. G. Ernst, Timescales of orogeny: Jurassic construction of the Klamath Mountains, Tectonics 14, 677—703. PDF
1995 Hannula, K. A. and M. McWilliams, Reconsideration of the age of blueschist-facies metamorphism on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska based on phengite 40Ar/39Ar results, Journal of Metamorphic Geology 13, 125—139.
1995 Houghton, B.F., C.J.N. Wilson, M. McWilliams, M.A. Lanphere, S.D. Weaver, R.M. Briggs, M.S. Pringle, Chronology and dynamics of a large silicic magma system: Central Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, Geology 23, 13—16. PDF
1995 Little, T. A., M. McWilliams and R. J. Holcombe, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of epidote blueschists from the north D'Aguilar block, Queensland, Australia: Timing and kinematics of subduction complex unroofing, Geological Society of America Bulletin 107, 520—535. PDF
1995 McWilliams, M., Magnetometers, in: Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York.
1995 O'Connor, J.M., P. Stoffers and M. McWilliams, Hotspot volcanism along the Easter Chain, Earth & Planetary Science Letters 136, 197—212. PDF
1995 O'Connor, J.M., P. Stoffers, M. McWilliams, S.R. Hart, A.W. Hoffman, Time-space mapping of Easter Chain volcanism and the question of plume fixity, Terra Nostra 3-95, 114—115.
1995 O'Connor, J.M., P. Stoffers and M. McWilliams, Plume channeling versus Plume-Hotspot-Vulkanismus entlang der Easter Vulkan-Kette, in: J.H. Wempe (ed.) Statusseminar 1995 Marine Geowissenschaften, Forschungzentrum Jülich, 243 p.
1995 Wilson, C.J.N., B.F. Houghton, P.J.J. Kamp and M. McWilliams, An exceptionally widespread ignimbrite in New Zealand: implications for pyroclastic flow emplacement, Nature 378, 605—607. PDF
1995 Wilson, C. J. N., B. F. Houghton, M. McWilliams, M. A. Lanphere, S. D. Weaver and R. M. Briggs, Volcanic and structural evolution of Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: a review, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 68, 1—28.
1994 Eide, E.A., M. McWilliams and J. Liou, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and exhumation of high pressure to ultra high pressure metamorphic rocks in east-central China, Geology 22, 601—604. PDF
1994 Herrero-Bervera, E., A. Sarna-Wojicki, M. McWilliams, J. Liddicoat, R. Negrini and C. E. Helsley, Age and correlation of a paleomagnetic episode in the western U.S.: The Jamaica, Blake or a new polarity episode?, J. Geophys. Res. 99, 24,091—24,104. PDF
1994 McWilliams, M. Paleomagnetism of the Atlantic, Tethys and Iapetus Oceans (Book Review), Science 265, 126. PDF
1994 Nevle, R. J., M.E. Brandriss, D.K. Bird, J.R. O'Neil and M. McWilliams, Tertiary plutons monitor climate in East Greenland, Geology 22, 775—778. PDF
1994 Richard, S. M., C. H. Smith, D. L. Kimbrough, P. G. Fitzgerald, B. P. Luyendyk and M. McWilliams, Cooling history of the northern Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, west Antarctica, Tectonics 13, 837—857. PDF
1993 Baksi, A. K., K. A. Hoffman and M. McWilliams, Testing the accuracy of the geomagnetic polarity timescale at 2-5 Ma using 40Ar/39Ar ages from whole-rock basalts, Earth & Planetary Science Letters 118, 135—144.
1993 Hacker, B.R., W.G. Ernst and M. McWilliams, Genesis and evolution of a Permian—Jurassic magmatic arc/accretionary wedge, and re-evaluation of the terrane concept in the Central Klamath Mountains, Tectonics 12, 387—409. PDF
1992 Baksi, A., V. Hsu, M. McWilliams and E. Farrar, 40Ar/39Ar age of the Brunhes-Matuyama geomagnetic polarity transition, Science 256, 356—357. PDF
1992 Jones, D.L., P.L. McFadden, A. Kröner and M. McWilliams, Paleomagnetic results from the late Precambrian Chela Group of southwest Angola, Precambrian Research 59, 1—13.
1992 Little, T.A., R.J. Holcombe, G.M. Gibson, R. Offler, P.B. Gans and M. McWilliams, Blueschists in the New England orogen of southeast Queensland, Australia: Late Paleozoic subduction and crustal extension along the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwanaland, Geology 20, 231—234. PDF
1992 Pringle, M.S., M. McWilliams, B.F. Houghton, M.A. Lanphere and C.J.N. Wilson, 40Ar/39Ar dating of Quaternary feldspar: Examples from the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, Geology 20, 531—534. PDF
1992 Sharps, R., Y. Li., M. McWilliams and Y-A. Li, Paleomagnetic investigation of Upper Permian sediments in the south Junggar Basin, China, Journal of Geophysical Research 97, 1753—1765.
1992 Swisher, C.C., J. Grajales-Nishimura, A. Montonari, S. V. Margolis, P. Claeys, W. Alvarez, P. Renne, E. Cedillo-Pardo, F. Maurasse, G. H. Curtis, J. Smit and M. McWilliams, Coeval 40Ar/39Ar ages of 65.0 million years ago from Chicxulub crater melt rock and Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary tektites, Science 257, 954—958. Comment Article in Science PDF
1992 Tamaki, K., K. Suyehiro, J. Allan and M. McWilliams (editors), Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, Volumes 127 & 128, College Station, Texas, Ocean Drilling Program.
1991 Li, Yianping, Yongan Li, R. Sharps, M. McWilliams, and Z. Gao, Sinian Paleomagnetic results from the Tarim block, western China, Precambrian Research 49, 61—71.
1991 Li, Y., R. Sharps, M. McWilliams, Y-A Li, Q. Li and W. Zhang, Late Paleozoic paleomagnetic results from the Junggar block, northwestern China: A test for structural coherence, Journal of Geophysical Research 96, 16,047—16,060.
1991 Li, Yongan, Y. Li, Q. Li, H. Zhang, R. Sharps, M. McWilliams, Paleomagnetic study of Permian dykes in Junggar Massif, Geophysical and Geochemical Exploration 15, 182—187.
1990 Li, Yianping, M. McWilliams, R. Sharps, Yongan Li and Z. Gao, A Devonian paleomagnetic pole from red beds of the Tarim Block, China, Journal of Geophysical Research 95, 19,185—19,198.
1990 Pinto, M. and M. McWilliams, Drilling-induced isothermal remanent magnetization, Geophysics 55, 111—115. PDF
1990 Prévot, M., M. Derder, M. McWilliams and J. Thompson, Intensity of the Earth's magnetic field: evidence for a Mesozoic dipole low, Earth & Planetary Science Letters 97, 129—139.
1990 Stihler, S., D. B. Stone and M. McWilliams, Pilot study of the paleomagnetism of lake sediments as indicators of paleoseismicity and seismic recurrence intervals, U. S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Final Technical Report 14-08-0001-G1514.
1990 Tarduno, J. A., M. McWilliams and N. Sleep, Fast instantaneous oceanic plate velocities recorded by the Cretaceous Laytonville Limestone: Paleomagnetic analysis and kinematic implications, Journal of Geophysical Research 95, 15,503—15,527.
1990 Vigliotti, L., W. Alvarez and M. McWilliams, No relative rotation detected between Corsica and Sardinia, Earth & Planetary Science Letters 89, 313—318.
1989 Derder, M., J. Thompson, M. Prévot and M. McWilliams, Geomagnetic field intensity in the early Jurassic: Investigation of the Newark Supergroup (Eastern North America), Physics of the Earth & Planetary Interiors 58, 126—136.
1989 Layer, P. W., A. Kröner, M. McWilliams and D. York, Elements of the Archean thermal history and apparent polar wander of the eastern Kaapvaal craton, Swaziland from single grain dating and paleomagnetism, Earth & Planetary Science Letters 93, 23—34.
1989 Li, Y., Y. Li, Z. Zhang, Q. Li, Z. Gao, R. Sharps, M. McWilliams, Apparent polar wander for the Tarim craton, Acta Geologica Sinica 63, 193—202.
1989 Li, Y., Y.A. Li, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhai, Q. Li, Z. Gao, R. Sharps and M. McWilliams, Apparent polar wander path for the Tarim Massif in China, Acta Geologica Sinica 63, 193—202.
1989 Li, Y-A., Y. Li, G. Zhenjia, Q. Li, Y. Zhai, Z. Zhang, R. Sharps, M.McWilliams and A. Cox, Sinian paleomagnetic results from the Aksu-Keping region, Xinjiang, China, Xinjiang Geology 7, 78—88.
1989 Li, Y., M. McWilliams, C. Tan, Y.A. Li and Z. Zhang, Stability of remanent magnetism of pyrrotite and its geological significance, Geophysical and Geochemical Prospecting 13, 123—126.
1989 Li, Y., R.Sharps, M. McWilliams, A. Nur, Y-A. Li, Q. Li and W. Zhang, Paleomagnetic study of the Late Paleozoic dikes in northwestern Junggar block, Northwestern China, Earth & Planetary Science Letters 94, 123—130.
1989 Li, Y., R. Sharps, Y-A. Li, Q. Li, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhai, G. Zhenjia, M. McWilliams and A. Cox, Lower Permian paleomagnetism of the Tarim Craton and reconstruction of the Chinese blocks during the Permian, Xinjiang Geology 7 (2), 22—33.
1989 Li, Y-A., Y. Li, Q. Li, H. Zhang, R. Sharps and M. McWilliams, Paleomagnetic study of Permian dykes in the Junggar Massif, Geophysical and Geochemical Exploration 15, 182—187.
1989 Prévot, M. and M. McWilliams, Paleomagnetic correlation of Early Jurassic volcanic units of the Newark Supergroup, Geology 17, 1007—1010.
1989 Sharps, R., M. McWilliams, Y. Li, A. Cox, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhai, Z. Gao, Y. Li and Q. Li, Lower Permian Paleomagnetism of the Tarim Block, Northwestern China, Earth & Planetary Science Letters 92, 275—291.
1989 Shaver, S.A. and M. McWilliams, Cenozoic extension and rotations recorded in late Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks of the northern San Antonio Mountains, Nevada: A structural and paleomagnetic study of the Hall (Nevada Moly) Molybdenum Deposit, reply to comment by J.W. Proffett, Geological Society of America Bulletin 101, 440—441.
1989 Stone, D.B. and M. McWilliams, Paleomagnetic evidence for relative terrane motion in western North America in: Evolution of the Pacific Ocean Margins, Z. Ben-Avraham (editor), Oxford Monographs on Geology & Geophysics No. 8, Oxford University Press, 53—72.
1989 Swenson, P. and M. McWilliams, Paleomagnetic results from the Upper Cretaceous Maudlow and Livingston Formations, southwest Montana, Geophysical Research Letters 16, 669—672.
1989 Tarduno, J. A., W.V. Sliter, T. J. Bralower, M. McWilliams, I. Premoli-Silva and J. G. Ogg, M-Sequence reversals recorded in DSDP sediment cores from the western Mid-Pacific Mountains and Magellan Rise, Geological Society of America Bulletin 101, 1306—1316.
1989 Zhang Z., Y-A. Li, Q. Li, Y. Zhai, Y. Li, M. McWilliams, A. Cox and R. Sharps, Jurassic and Cretaceous paleomagnetism of the Tarim block, Seismology and Geology 11, no.3, 9—16.
1988 Layer, P., M. McWilliams, A. Kröner and A. Burghele, Paleomagnetism and 40Ar/39Ar age of the Usushwana Complex, southern Africa, Journal of Geophysical Research 93, 449—457. PDF
1988 Layer, P.W., A. Kröner, M.McWilliams and N. Clauer, Magnetic overprinting of the Archean Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa, Journal of Geophysical Research 93, 2191—2200.
1988 Li, Y., M. McWilliams and C. Tan, Paleomagnetic study of the Quanji Group (Sinian), of the Qaidam Terrane, Xinjiang Geology 6, 35—40.
1988 Li, Y., M. McWilliams, A. Cox, R. Sharps,Y. Li, Z. Gao, Z. Zhang and Y. Zhai, An Upper Permian paleomagnetic pole from dykes of the Tarim Craton, China, Geology 16, 275—278.
1988 Li, Y., Z. Zhang, M. McWilliams, Y. Zhai, R. Sharps, Y. Li, Q. Li and A. Cox, Mesozoic paleomagnetic results from the Tarim Craton, China, Geophysical Research Letters 15, 217—220.
1988 Li, Y., Y.A. Li, M. McWilliams, R. Sharps, Y. Zhai, Z. Zhang, Q. Li, A. Cox and Z. Gao, Devonian paleomagnetism of the Tarim block and its Geological significance, Journal of the Changchun Geology Institute 18, 447—460.
1988 McWilliams, M., Paleomagnetism, in: Encyclopedia of the Geological Sciences (second edition), McGraw-Hill, New York, 455—457.
1988 McWilliams, M. and M.J. Pinto, Paleomagnetic results from granitic basement rocks in the Cajon Pass scientific borehole, Geophysical Research Letters 15, 1069—1072.
1988 Zhai, Y., Z. Zhang, Y. Li, Q. Li, Y. Li, M. McWilliams, A. Cox and R. Sharps, A paleomagnetic study of Upper Carboniferous rocks from the Tarim Craton, Geoscience 2, 43—56.
1987 Hillhouse, J.W. and M. McWilliams, Application of paleomagnetism to accretionary tectonics and structural geology, Reviews of Geophysics 25, 951—959.
1987 Li, Y., Y. Li, M. McWilliams, Z. Gao, Q. Li, A.Cox, R. Sharps, Z. Zhang and Y. Zhai, Age determination of the Bachu dykes by paleomagnetism, Xinjiang Geology 5, 58—63.
1987 Li, Y., M. McWilliams and C. Tan, Paleomagnetic results from Ordovician tuffs of the Qilian Terrane, Seismology and Geology 9, 24—25.
1987 Shaver, S.A. and M. McWilliams, Cenozoic extension and rotations recorded in late Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks of the northern San Antonio Mountains, Nevada: A structural and paleomagnetic study of the Hall (Nevada Moly) Molybdenum Deposit, Geological Society of America Bulletin 99, 341—353.
1986 Hagstrum, J., M. McWilliams, D. Howell and C. Grommé, Mesozoic paleomagnetism and northward translation of the Baja California Peninsula, reply to comment by Pischke, Gastil and Marshall, Geological Society of America Bulletin 97, 1280.
1986 Holcomb, R., D. Champion and M. McWilliams, Dating recent Hawaiian lava flows using paleomagnetic secular variation, Geological Society of America Bulletin 97, 829—839.
1986 Hyodo, H., D. Dunlop and M. McWilliams, Timing and extent of Grenvillian magnetic overprinting near Temagami, Ontario, Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 31, 119—126.
1986 Tarduno, J.A., M. McWilliams, W.V.Sliter, H.E. Cook, M.C. Blake Jr. and I. Premoli-Silva, Southern Hemisphere origin of the Laytonville Limestone of California, Science 231, 1425—1428. PDF
1985 Courtillot, V., H.Feinberg, J.P. Ragaru, R. Kerguelen, M. McWilliams and A. Cox, Franciscan complex limestone deposited at 24°N, Geology 13, 107—110.
1985 Hagstrum, J., M. McWilliams, D. Howell and C. Grommé, Mesozoic paleomagnetism and northward translation of the Baja California Peninsula, Geological Society of America Bulletin 96, 1077—1090.
1985 McWilliams, M. and Y. Li, Oroclinal bending of the southern Sierra Nevada batholith, Science 230, 172—175. Cover Picture in Science PDF
1985 Montonari, A., W. Alvarez, D. Bice, G. Curtis, R. Drake, W. Lowrie and M. McWilliams, K/Ar dating of volcanic micas in pelagic limestones bracketing the Eocene/Oligocene boundary in the Gubbio sequence, Italy, Discussiones Palaeontologicae 31, 53—57.
1985 Tarduno, J.A., M. McWilliams, W.V.Sliter and M.C. Blake, Jr., Franciscan complex Calera limestones - Accreted remnants of Farallon Plate oceanic plateaus, Nature 317, 345—347. PDF
1984 McWilliams, M., Confidence limits on net tectonic rotation, Geophysical Research Letters 11, 825—827. PDF
1983 McWilliams, M., Paleomagnetism and the motion of large and small plates, Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics 21, 644—651.
1982 Kanter, L., and M. McWilliams, Paleomagnetism and tectonic rotation of the southern Sierra Nevada, Journal of Geophysical Research 87, 3819—3830.
1982 McWilliams, M., and D.G. Howell, Exotic terranes of western California, Nature 297, 215—217.
1982 McWilliams, M., R. Holcomb and D. Champion, Geomagnetic secular variation from 14 C -dated lava flows on Hawaii and the question of the Pacific non-dipole low, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A306, 211—222.
1982 McWilliams, M., Paleomagnetism, in: Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (5th Edition), McGraw-Hill, New York, 776—779.
1981 McWilliams, M., Precambrian paleomagnetism and evolution of Gondwanaland, in: Precambrian Plate Tectonics, ed. A. Kröner, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 649—688.
1981 McWilliams, M., and A. Kröner, Paleomagnetism and evolution of the Pan African Damara belt, southern Africa, Journal of Geophysical Research 86, 5147—5162.
1980 Gordon, R., M. McWilliams and A. Cox, Pre-Tertiary velocities of the continents: a lower bound from paleomagnetic data, reply to comment by Jones and Gartner, Journal of Geophysical Research 85, 4433.
1980 Kröner, A., M. McWilliams, J. Germs, A.B. Reid and K.L. Schalk, Paleomagnetism of late Precambrian to early Paleozoic mixtite bearing formations of Namibia: The Nama Group and Blaubeker Formations, American Journal of Science 280, 942—968.
1980 McWilliams, M., and M.W. McElhinny, Late Precambrian paleomagnetism of Australia: The Adelaide geosyncline, Journal of Geology 88, 1—26.
1979 Gordon, R., M. McWilliams and A. Cox, Pre-Tertiary velocities of the continents: A lower bound from paleomagnetic data, Journal of Geophysical Research 84, 5480—5486.
1978 McWilliams, M., and D.J. Dunlop, Grenville paleomagnetism and tectonics, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 15, 687—695.
1977 Buchan, K.L., G.W. Berger, D. York and D.J. Dunlop and M. McWilliams, Thermal overprinting of natural remanent magnetization and K/Ar ages in metamorphic rocks, Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity 29, 401—410.
1977 McElhinny, M.W., and M. McWilliams, Precambrian geodynamics—A paleomagnetic view, Tectonophysics 40, 137—159.
1975 McWilliams, M., and D.J. Dunlop, Precambrian paleomagnetism: Magnetizations reset by the Grenville orogeny, Science 190, 269—272. PDF