Recent Publications
Kent C. Condie, Professor of Geochemistry

Condie, K. C., 2000.  Episodic continental growth models: afterthoughts and extensions.  Tectonophysics, v. 322: 153-162. Abstract.

Condie, K. C., Des Marais, D. J. and Abbott, D., 2000.  Geologic evidence for a mantle superplume event at 1.9 Ga.  Geochem. Geophys. Geosystems, v. 1. Paper no. 2000GC000095. Abstract.

Condie, K. C., 2001.  Continental growth during formation of Rodinia at 1.35-0.9 Ga.  Gondwana Research, v. 4:  5-16.

Condie, K. C., Des Marais, D. J. and Abbott, D., 2001.  Precambrian superplumes and supercontinents: a record in black shales, carbon isotopes, and paleoclimates?  Precambrian Research, v. 106 (3-4):  239-260. Abstract.

Condie, K. C., 2001.  Rodinia and continental growth.  Gondwana Research, v. 4: 154-155.

Geraldes, M. C., Van Schmus, W. R., Condie, K. C., Bell, S., Teixeira W., and Babinski, M., 2001.  Proterozoic geologic evolution of the SW part of the Amazonian craton in Mato Grosso state, Brazil.  Precambrian Research, v. 111: 91-128. Abstract.

Tomlinson, K. Y. and Condie, K. C., 2001.  Archean mantle plumes:  Evidence from greenstone belt geochemistry.  Geol. Society America, Special Paper 352: 341-357.

Condie, K. C., 2002. Breakup of a Paleoproterozoic Supercontinent. Gondwana Research, v. 5: 41-43.

Condie, K. C., 2002.  Continental Growth During a 1.9-Ga Superplume Event.  Jour. Geodynamics, v. 34: 249-264. Abstract.

Condie, K. C., 2002. The supercontinent cycle: are there two patterns of cyclicity?  Jour. African Earth Sciences, v. 35 (2): 179-183. Abstract.

Condie, K. C., Frey, B. A. and Kerrich, R., 2002.  The 1.75-Ga Iron King Volcanics in west-central Arizona: a remnant of an accreted oceanic plateau derived from a mantle plume with a deep depleted component.  Lithos, v. 64: 49-62. Abstract.

Condie, K. C., 2003.  Incompatible element ratios in oceanic basalts and komatiites: tracking deep mantle sources and continental growth rates with time.  Geochem. Geophys. Geosystems, v. 4 (1), 2002GC000333. Abstract.

Condie, K. C., 2004.  Supercontinents and superplume events: distinguishing signals in the geologic record. Physics Earth & Planetary Interiors, v. 146: 319-332. Abstract. Most Cited Paper 2004-2007 Award.

Condie, K.C., Cox, J., O'Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L., Kerrich, R., 2004. Distribution of high field strength and rare earth elements in mantle and lower crustal xenoliths from the Southwestern United States: The role of grain-boundary phases. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 68 (19): 3919-3942, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2004.03.025. Abstract.

Condie, K.C. 2005. High field strength element ratios in Archean basalts - a window to evolving sources of mantle plumes? Lithos, v.79(3-4): 491-504. Abstract.

Condie, K.C. 2005. TTGs and adakites: are they both slab melts? Lithos, v.80(1-4): 33-44. Abstract. Most Cited Paper 2003-2007 Award.

Condie, K.C., Beyer, E., Belousova, E., Griffin, W.L., O'Reilly, S.Y., 2005. U–Pb isotopic ages and Hf isotopic composition of single zircons: The search for juvenile Precambrian continental crust. Precambrian Research v. 139(1-2): 42–100 Abstract.

Groves, D. I., Vielreicher, R. M., Goldfarb, R. J.,and Condie, K. C., 2005. Controls on the heterogeneous distribution of mineral deposits through time. Geological Society of London, Spec. Publication 248, p. 71-101. Abstract.

Condie, K. C and Benn, K., 2006. Archean geodynamics: similar to or different from modern geodynamics? American Geophysical Union, Monograph 164, p. 47-59. Info.

Condie, K. C., 2007. The distribution of Paleoarchean crust. In: M. J. Van Kranendonk, R. H. Smithies and V. C. Bennett, editors, Earth's Oldest Rocks, Elsevier Publishers, Amsterdam, Chapter 1.2, p. 9-18. Description.

Condie, K. C., 2007. Accretionary orogens in space and time. Geological Society of America Memoir 200, p. 145-158, DOI: 10.1130/2007.1200(09). Abstract.