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Dr. Carl C. Swisher III

 Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
Department Vice Chair
Office: 345 Wright-Rieman Laboratories
Busch Campus
tel: (732) 445-5363
email: cswish@rci.rutgers.edu

Education

  • B.A. in Geology, University of Montana, Missoula
  • M.S.in Geology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  • Ph.D. Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley

Courses

  • Introductory Geology, Physical: 01:460:101
    website: Course Website
  • Geochronology 

Research Interests

  • 40Ar/39Ar mass spectrometry
  • Quaternary Studies
  • Geologic Timescales
  • Calibration of vertebrate and hominin evolution

Publications

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    Ach, J.A., Bateson, J.T., Turrin, B.D., Keith, W. J., Noble, D.C., Swisher III, C.C., 1991.  Geologic map of the High Rock Lake Quadrangle, Washoe and Humboldt counties, Nevada. U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map, MF- 2157.

    Alvarado, G.E., Carr, M.J., Turrin, Brent D., Swisher III, C.C., Schmincke, H.-U., and Hudnut, K.W. 2006. Recent volcanic history of Irazú volcano, Costa Rica: Alternation and mixing of two magma batches, and pervasive mixing, in Rose, W.I., Bluth, G.J.S., Carr, M.J., Ewert,  J., Patino, L.C., and Vallance, J. (Editors), Volcanic hazards in Central America: Geological Society of America Special Paper 412, p. 259–276, doi: 10.1130/2006.2412(14). PDF

    Antón, S.C. and Swisher III, C.C., 2000.  Evolution and variation of cranial capacity in Asian Homo erectus.  in Festschrift in honor of the career of Dr. Teuku Jacob. Yogyakarta,  Indonesia. edited by E. Indriati, Univ. Gadja Mada Press, p. 1-9.

    Antón, S.A. and Swisher III, C.C., 2004. Early Dispersal of Homo from Africa. Annual Reviews  in Anthropology, vol. 33, p. 271-96.  PDF

    Antón, S.C., Spoor, F., Fellmann, C.D., and Swisher III, C.C. 2006. Defining Homo erectus, in Henke, Rithe and Tattersall (editors) Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Volume III, Chapter 11. Springer-Verlag Press. PDF

    Aubry, M.-P., Berggren, W.A., Van Couvering,  J.A., Ali, J., Brinkhuis, H., Cramber, B., Kent, D.V., Swisher III, C.C., Dupuis, C., Gingerich, P., Heilmann-Clausen, C., King, C., Ward, D.J., Knox, R. W.O’b., Ouda, K., Stott, L.D., Thiry, M., 2003.  Chronostratigraphy Terminology at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369, p. 551-566. PDF

    Aubry, M.-P., Swisher III, C.C., Kent, D.V., and W.A. Berggren, W.A., 2003.  Paleocene Eocene boundary in the North Sea. Geology, vol. 31. p. 468-469. PDF

    Baadsgaard, H., Lerbekmo, J.F., Wijbrans, J.R., Swisher III, C.C., Fanning, M., 1993. Multi-method radioisotopic age for a bentonite near the top of the Baculites reesidei Zone of southwestern Saskatchewan (Campanian-Maastrichtian stage boundary?). Can. Jour. Earth Sci. vol.30, p.769-775.

    Barrett, P.J., Adams, C.J., McIntosh, W.C., Swisher III, C.C., and Wilson, G.S., 1993. Geochronological evidence supporting Antarctic deglaciation three million years ago. Nature  vol. 359, p. 816-818. PDF

    Berggren, W.A., Kent, D.V., Obradovich, J.D., and Swisher III, C.C., 1992. Toward a revised Paleogene Geochronology, In Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution, Edited by D.E. Prothero and W.A. Berggren, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. pp. 29-45. PDF

    Berggren, W.A., Kent, D.V., Swisher III, C.C. and Aubry, M.-P., 1995. A Revised Cenozoic geochronology and chronostratigraphy, In Geochronology, Time Scales and Global Stratigraphic Correlation,  Edited by W.A Berggren,  Kent, D.V., Aubry, M.-P and Hardenbol, J. Soc. Econ. Paleont. Mineral. Spec Publ. No. 54, p. 129-212. PDF

    Bernor, R.L., Solounias, N., Swisher III, C.C. and van Couvering, J.A., 1996. The correlation of three classical “Pikermian” Mammal Faunas, Maragheh, Samos, and Pikermi, with the European MN Unit System. in R. Bernor, V. Fahlbusch, S. Rietschel, and H.-W. Mittmann (eds).  The Evolution of  Western Eurasian Mammal Faunas. Columbia University Press Books, New York, p. 137-156. PDF

    Bestland, E.A., Retallack, G.J., Swisher III, C.C., 1997. Stepwise climate change recorded in Eocene-Oligocene paleosol sequences from Central Oregon:  Jour. Geology 105, p. 153-172. PDF

    Blumenschine, R., Peters, C., Masao, F., Clarke, R., Deino, A., Hay, R., Swisher III, C.C., Stanistreet, I., Ashley, G., McHenry, L., Sikes, N., Van Der Merwe, N., Tactikos, J., Cushing, A., Deocampo, D., Njau, J. and Ebert, J., 2003. Late Pliocene Homo and hominid land use from western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Science vol. 299, p. 1217- 1221. PDF

    Carr, M. J., I. Saginor, G. E. Alvarado, L. L. Bolge, F. N. Lindsay, K. Milidakis, B. D. Turrin, M. D. Feigenson, and C. C. Swisher, III (2007), Element fluxes from the volcanic front of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 8, Q06001, doi:10.1029/2006GC001396. PDF

    Charrier, R., Wyss, A.R., Norell, M.A., Flynn, J.J., Novacek, M.J., McKenna, M.C., Swisher III, C.C., Frassinetti, D., and Salinas, P., 1990. Hallazgo de mamiferos fosiles del Terciario inferior en el sector de Termas del Flaco, Cordillera Principal, Chile central: Implicaciones paleontologicas, estratigraficas y tectonicas.  II Simposio Sobre el Terciario de Chile: Procesos y productos de depositacion en el ambito andino. Ciudad Universitaria, Dec. 1990, p. 73-84.

    Charrier, R., Wyss, A. R., Flynn, J. J., Swisher III, C.C., Spichiger, S., Zapatta, F., 1994. Nuevos antecedentes estratigraficos y para las formaciones Coya-Machali y Abanico, entre 33° 50' y 35° Cordilleras principal Chilena. in, 7th congreso geologico Chileno; actas. Edited by E. Campos, Actas Congreso Geologico Chileno, vol. 7 (2), p. 1316-1319.

    Charrier, R., Wyss, A.R., Flynn, J.J., Swisher III, C.C., Norell, M.A., Zapatta, F., McKenna, M.C., and Novacek, M.J., 1996. New Evidence for Late Mesozoic-Early Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean Andes in the Upper Tinguiririca Valley (35°S), Central Chile. S. Amer. Jour. Earth Sci. vol. 9 (5-6), 393-422. PDF

    Charrier, R., Flynn, J.J., Wyss, A. R. Wyss, Zapatta, F., and Swisher III, C.C., 1997.  Antecentes bio y chronoestratgráficos de la formación Coya-Machali -Abanico, entre Los Ríos Maipo y Teno (33° 55’ y 35° 10’ L.S.), Cordillera Principal, Chile Central: VIII Congresso Geológico Chileno, ACTAS, 1: 465-469.

    Clement, B. M., Swisher III, C.C., and Rhodda, P., 1997.  New magneto-stratigraphic and 40Ar/39Ar dating results from the Suva Marl, Fiji:  Calibration of the Early Pliocene Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale: Earth Planet. Sci. Letters  vol. 151, p. 107-115. PDF

    Coles, S., Prothero, D.R., Quinn, J.P., and Swisher III, C.C., 1997.  Magnetic stratigraphy of the middle Miocene Bopesta Formation, Southern Sierra Nevada, California: Soc. Econ. Paleont. Mineral. Pacific Section, Spec. Publ., p. 1-14.  PDF

    Dashzeveg, D., Novacek, M.J., Norell, M.A., Clark, J.M., Chiappe, L.M., Davidson, A., McKenna, M.C., Dingus, L., Swisher III, C.C., Altangerel, P., 1995. Unusual preservation in a new vertebrate assemblage from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature  vol. 374, p. 446-449. PDF

    Dashzeveg, D., Dingus, L., Loope, D.B., Swisher III, C.C., Togtokh, D., Sweeney, M.R., 2005. New Stratigraphic Subdivision, Depositional Environment, and Age Estimate for the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Southern Ulan Nur Basin, Mongolia. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Novitates No. 3498, p. 1-31. PDF

    Deino, A.L., Renne, P.R., Swisher III, C.C., 1998. 40Ar/39Ar Dating in Paleoanthropology and Archaeology: Evol. Anthro. , vol. , p. 63-75. PDF

    Dingus, L., Clarke, J., Scott, G., Swisher III, C.C., Chiappe, L.M., and Coria, R.A.,  1999.  Stratigraphy and Magnetostratigraphic / Faunal constraints for the age of Sauropod embryo-bearing rocks in the Neuquén Group (Late Cretaceous, Neuquén Province, Agrentina. Am. Museum Noitates vol. 3290, p. 1-11.  PDF

    Fleagle, J.G., Bown, T.M., Swisher III, C.C. and Buckley, G., 1995. Age of the Pinturas and Santa Cruz Formations. VI Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia, Acta, Trelew, 1995, p.129-135.  PDF

    Flynn, J.J., Wyss, A.R., Charrier, R. and Swisher III, C.C.,  1995. An Early Miocene anthropoid skull from the Chilean Andes.  Nature vol. 373, p. 603-607. PDF

    Flynn, J.J., and Swisher III, C.C., 1995. Cenozoic South American Land Mammal Ages: Correlation to global geochronologies, In Geochronology, Time Scales and Global Stratigraphic Correlation, Edited by W.A Berggren, Kent, D.V., Aubry, M.-P and Hardenbol, J. Soc. Econ. Paleont. Mineral Spec Publ.  No. 54, p. 317-334. PDF

    Flynn, J.J., Guerrero, J., Swisher III, C.C., 1997.  Geochronology of the Honda Group, Columbia. in Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neoptropics, The Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Columbia, edited by R.F. Kay, Madden, R.H., Cifelli, R.L., and Flynn, J.J., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., p. 44-60. PDF

    Flynn, J.J. Kowallis, B.J., Nunez, C., Carranza-Castaneda, O., Miller, W. Swisher III,  C.C. and Lindsay, E., 2005. Geochronology of hemphillian-Blancan Aged Strata, Guanajuato, Mexico, and Implications for timing of the Great American Biotic Interchange.  Journal of Geology, vol. 113, p. 287-307. PDF

    Gabunia, L., Jöris, O., Justus, A., Lordkipanidze, D., Muschelisvili, A., Nioradze, M., Swisher III, C.C. and Vekua, A. 1999. Neue hominindenfunde des Altipaläolithischen  fundplatzes Dmanisi (Georgienm Kaukasus) im kontext aktueller grabungsergebnisse. Archäologisches Korrespondenz-blatt  29, 451-488.

    Gabunia, L., Vekua, A., Ferring, R., Justus, A., Lordkipanidze, D., Swisher III, C.C., Tvalchrelidze, M., Antón, S.C., Bosinski, G., de Lumley, M.-A., Majsuradze, G., Mouskhelishvili, A., and Nioradze, M., 2000.  Earliest Pleistocene hominid cranial remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia, taxonomy, geologic setting and age.  Science vol. 288, p. 1019-1025. PDF

    Gabunia, L., Anton, S.A., Lordkipanidze, D., Vekua, A., Justus, A., and Swisher III, C.C., 2001.  Dmanisi and Dispersal.  Evol. Anthro., vol. 10, 158-170. PDF

    Hanneman, D.L., Wideman, C.J., Swisher III, C.C., 1991. 40Ar/39Ar and 40K-40Ar Ages for the Cenozoic Basin-fill rocks, southwestern Montana. Iso. West.

    Kappelman, J., Simons, E.L. and Swisher III, C.C., 1992.  Paleomagnetic reversal stratigraphy and 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Fayum deposits, northern Egypt. Jour. Geology  vol. 100, p. 647-668. PDF

    Kappelman, J., Swisher III, C.C., Fleagle, J.G., Yirga, S., Bown, T., Feseha, M. 1996.  Age of Australopithecus from Fejej, Ethiopia.  Jour. Hum. Evol. vol. 30, p. 139-146. PDF

    Kappelman, J., Duncan, A., Feseha, M., Lunkka, J.-P., Ekart, D., McDowell, F., Ryan, T.M., and Swisher III, C.C., 2003. Chronology, in Geology and Paleontology of the Sinap Formation, Turkey, edited by Fortelius, M., Kappelman, J., Sen, S., and Bernor, R. L., Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 41-66. PDF

    Kowallis, B. J., Swisher III, C.C., Caranza-Castaneda, Miller, W.E. and Tingey, D.E., 1997, Radiometric ages from fossil-bearing Pliocene sediments in Central Mexico. Revista, p. 1-5.

    Kowalis, B. J., Swisher III, C.C., Caranza-Castaneda, Miller, W.E. and Tingey, D.E., 1998. Preliminary radiometric dating of selected late Tertiary vertebrate faunas from Mexico: Avances en Investigación, Paleontología de Vertebrados Publicación Especial 1, p. 103-108.

    Kowallis, B.J., Swisher III, C.C., Carranza-Castaneda, Miller, W.E., and Tingey, D.G., 1999, Fission-track and single-crystal 40Ar/39Ar dates from volcanic ash layers in fossil-bearing Pliocene sediments in Central Mexico:  Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas  vol. 15(2), p. 157-160. PDF

    Loope, D. B., Dingus, L., Swisher III, C.C., Minjin, C., 1998, Life and death in a Late Cretaceous dune field, Nemegt Basin, Mongolia. Geology vol. 26, p. 27-30. PDF

    MacFadden, B.J., Swisher III, C.C., Opdyke, N.D., and Woodburne, M.O., 1990. Paleomagnetism, geochronology, and possible tectonic rotation of the middle Miocene Barstow Formation, Mojave Desert, southern California.  Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. vol. 102, p. 478-493. PDF

    MacFadden, B.J., Anaya, F., and Swisher III, C.C., 1995. Neogene paleomagnetism and oroclinal bending of the central Andes of Bolivia.  Jour. Geophys. Research, vol. 100, p. 8153-8176.  PDF

    Madden, R.H., Guerrero, J., Kay, R.F., Flynn, J.J., Swisher III, C.C., and Walton, A.H. The Laventan Stage and Age. in Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neoptropics, The Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Columbia, edited by R.F. Kay, Madden, R.H., Cifelli, R.L., and Flynn, J.J., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., p. 499-520. PDF

    Marchant, D.R.,  Lux, D.R., Swisher III, C.C. and Denton, G.H., 1989. Early Pliocene volcanic ash rests on a polar desert pavement. in 1989 review. Washington, DC, National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, 1989 Antarctic Jour. United States vol. 24, no. 5 p. 58-60.

    Marchant, D.R., Lux, D.R., Swisher III, C.C., Denton, G.H., 1990. Early Pliocene volcanic ash rests on a polar desert pavement in the Dry Valleys.  Antarctic Jour. of the U.S., vol. 25, p. 58-60. PDF

    Marchant, D.R., Denton, G.H., Sugden, D.E., and Swisher III, C.C., 1993. Miocene glacial stratigraphy and landscape evolution of the Western Asgard Range, Antarctica.  Geograpfiska Annaler vol. 75A, p. 303-330. PDF

    Marchant, D.R., Denton, G.H. and Swisher III, C.C., 1993. Miocene - Pliocene - Pleistocene glacial history of the Arena Valley, Quatermain Mountains, Antarctica. Geograpfiska Annaler  vol. 75A, p. 269-302.

    Marchant,  D.R., Swisher III, C.C., Lux, D.L., West, D.P., Denton, G.H., 1993. Pliocene paleoclimate and East Antarctic Ice-Sheet history from surficial ash deposits.  Science  vol. 260, p. 667-670.  PDF

    Marchant, D.R., Denton, G. H., Swisher III, C.C., Potter Jr., N., 1995. Late Cenozoic Antarctic paleoclimate reconstructed from volcanic ashes in the Dry Valleys region of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Bull. Geol. Soc. America  vol. 108 (2), p. 181-194. PDF

    Marshall, L.G., Swisher III, C.C., Lavenu, A., Hoffstetter, R., Curtis, G.H., 1992. Geochronology of the mammal-bearing late Cenozoic of the northern Altiplano, Bolivia, S. Amer. Jour. Geology  vol. 5, p. 1-19.

    Mason, M.A. and Swisher III, C.C., 1989.  New evidence for the age of the South Mountain Local Fauna, Ventura County, California.  Los Angeles County Mus. Nat. Hist. Contrib. Sci., vol. 410, p. 1-9.

    McHenry, L.J., Mollel, G.F., and Swisher III, C.C.. Compositional and textural correlations between Olduvai GorgeBed I tephra and volcanic sources in the NgorongoroVolcanic Highlands, Tanzania. Quaternary International Vol. PDF

    Mertz, D.F., Swisher III, C.C., Franzen, J.L. Neuffer, F.O., and Lutz, H., 2000, Numerical sating of the Eckfeld maar fossil site, Eifel, Germany:  a calibration mark for the Eocene time scale. Naturwissenschaften vol. 87, p.270-274. PDF

    Obradovich, J.O., Dockery, D.D., and Swisher III, C.C., 1993. 40Ar/39Ar ages of bentonites in the upper part of the Yazoo Formation (upper Eocene), West-Central Mississippi.  Mississippi Geology  vol. 14, p. 1-9. PDF

    Othberg, K.L., Bonnichsen, B., Swisher III, C.C., Godchaux, M., 1995. Geochronology and geochemistry of Pleistocene basalts of the Snake River plain and Smith Prairie, Idaho. Isochron/West. vol. 62, p. 16-29.

    Prothero, D.R. and Swisher III, C.C., 1992. Magnetostratigraphy and geochronology of the terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene transition in North America.  In Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution, Edited by D.E. Prothero and W.A. Berggren, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, p. 46-73. PDF

    Renne, P.R., Deino, A.L., Walter, R.C., Turrin, B.D., Swisher III, C.C., Becker, T.A., Curtis, G.H., Sharp, W.D., and Jaouni, A.-R., 1994. Intercalibration of astronomical and radioisotopic time.  Geology vol. 22, p. 783-786. PDF

    Renne, P.R., Swisher III, C.C., Deino, A.L., Karner, D.B., Owens, T.L., and DePaolo, D.J., 1998, Intercalibration of standards, absolute ages and uncertainties in 40Ar/39Ar dating. Chem. Geology  vol. 145, p. 117-152. PDF

    Richmond, B.G., Fleagle, J.G., Kappelman, and Swisher III, C.C. 1998. First Hominoid from the Miocene of Ethiopia and the evolution of the Catarrhine elbow.  Am. Jour. Phys. Anthro. vol. 105, p. 257-277. PDF

    Rogers, R., Swisher III, C.C., and Horner, J. R., 1993. 40Ar/39Ar age and correlation of the nonmarine Two Medicine Formation (Upper Cretaceous), northeastern Montana, U.S.A. Can. Jour. Earth Sci. vol. 30, p. 1066-1075.

    Rogers, R., Swisher III, C.C., Soreno, P.C., Forster, C.A., and Mometta, A.M.  1993. The Ischigualasto tetrapod assemblage) Late Triassic, Argentina and 40Ar/39Ar age calibration of dinosaur origins.  Science  vol. 260, p. 794-797. PDF

    Schneider, J.-L.,; Fisher, R.V., Johnson, S.Y.; Swisher III, C.C., Mason, M.A. Obradovich, J.D., Cotton, M. -L., Filewicz, M.V., Vork, D.R., Pawlewicz, M.J., Valin, Z., Schneider, J.-L., Fisher, R. V., 1995.  Obispo Formation, California; remobilized pyroclastic material. In Santa Maria Basin, California; Petroleum source potential and thermal maturity of the Lospe Formation (lower Miocene) near Point Sal, onshore Santa Maria Basin, California; Obispo Formation, California, remobilized pyroclastic materials. Edited by R.G Stanley, U.S. Geol. Survey Bull.  B1995-M,N,O, p. O1-O21.

    Sempere, T., Butler, R.F., Richards, D.R., Marshall, L.G., Sharp, W., Swisher III, C.C., 1997. Stratigraphy and chronology of Upper Cretaceous-lower Paleogene strata in Bolivia and Northwest Argentina. Geol. Soc. America Bull. vol. 109(6), p. 709-727. PDF

    Stanley, R.G., Johnson, S.Y., Swisher III, C.C., Mason, M.A., Obradovich, J.D., Cotton, M.L., Filewicz, M.V., and Vork, D.R., 1996. Age of the Lospe Formation (Early Miocene) and origin of the Santa Maria Basin, California. U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 1995, M1-M37.

    Stanley, R.G. Johnson, S.Y., Swisher III, Carl C., Mason, M. A., Obradovich, J.D., Cotton, M.-L., Filewicz, M.V., Vork, D.R., Pawlewicz, M.J., Valin, Z.C., Schneider, J.-L., Fisher, R.V., 1996.  Age of the Lospe Formation (early Miocene) and origin of the Santa Maria Basin, California Petroleum source potential and thermal maturity of the Lospe Formation (lower Miocene) near Point Sal, onshore Santa Maria Basin, California; Formation, California, remobilized pyroclastic materials. U.S. Geol. Survey, Bull. 1995, p. 1-95.

    Stanley, R.G., Pawlewicz, M.J., Vork, D.R., Johnson, S.Y., Valin, Z.C.; Johnson, S.Y., Swisher III, C.C., Mason, M.A., Obradovich, J.D., Cotton, M.-L., Filewicz, M.V., Vork, D.R., Pawlewicz, M.J.; Valin, Z.C., Schneider, J.-L., Fisher, R.V.  Petroleum source potential and maturity of the Lospe Formation (lower Miocene) near Point Sal, onshore Santa Maria Basin, California. In Age of the Lospe (early Miocene) and origin of the Santa Maria Basin, California; Petroleum source potential thermal maturity of the Lospe Formation (lower Miocene) near Point Sal, onshore Santa Maria Basin, California; Obispo Formation, California, remobilized pyroclastic materials. Edited by R.G. Stanley, U.S. Geological Survey Bull. 1995-M,N,O,  p. N1-N19.

    Storey, M., Duncan, R.A., and Swisher III, C.C. Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and the Opening of the Northeast Atlantic.  Science, vol. 316 (5824), p. 511-622. PDF

    Sugden, D.E., Marchant, D.R., Potter Jr., N., Souchez, R.A., Denton, G.H., Swisher III, C.C., Tison, J.-L., 1995.  Preservation of Miocene glacier ice in East Antarctica.  Nature  vol. 376, p. 412- 414. PDF

    Swinehart, J. B., Diffendal Jr., R.F., Swisher III, C.C., 1995. Geologic map of Morrill County, Nebraska. U. S. Geol. Survey, Misc. Invest. Series, I- 2496.

    Swisher III, C.C. and Prothero, D.R., 1990. Single crystal 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Eocene-Oligocene transition in North America. Science  vol. 249, p. 760-762. PDF

    Swisher III, C.C., Grajales-Nishimura, J.M., Montanari, A., Cedillo-Pardo, E., Margolis, S.V., Claeys, P., Alvarez, W., Smit, J., Renne, P., Maurrasse, F. J-M. R., and Curtis, G. H., 1992. Chicxulub crater melt-rock and K-T boundary tektites from Mexico and Haiti yield coeval 40Ar/39Ar ages of 65 Ma. Science  vol. 257, p. 954-958. PDF

    Swisher III, C.C., Dingus, L. and Butler. R. F., 1993. 40A/39Ar calibration of the Puercan Land Mammal Age and the age of the North American nonmarine K-T boundary. Can. Jour. Earth Sci. vol. 30, p. 1981-1996. PDF

    Swisher III, C.C., G.H. Curtis, T. Jacob, A.G. Getty, A. Suprijo, and Widiasmoro, 1994. Age of the earliest known hominids in Java, Indonesia. Science vol. 263, p. 1118-1121. PDF

    Swisher III, C.C., 1994. Dating hominid sites in Indonesia. Science vol. 266, p.1727. PDF

    Swisher III, C.C., 1996. 40Ar/39Ar dating of key European and West Asian Late Miocene age vertebrate localities and their contribution to Mammal Neogene (MN) Correlations. in The Evolution of Western Eurasian Mammal Faunas, edited by R. Bernor, Fahlbusch, V., Rietschel, S. and Mittmann, H.-W., Columbia University Press Books, New York, p. 64-77. PDF

    Swisher III, C.C., Rink, W.J., Antón, S.C., Schwarcz, H.P., Curtis, G.H., Suprijo, A., and  Widiasmoro, 1996. Latest Homo erectus of Java: potential contemporaneity with H. sapiens in Southeast Asia. Science vol. 274, p. 1870-1874. PDF

    Swisher III, C.C., Rink, W.J., Schwarcz, H.P., and Antón, S.C.  1997.  Dating the Ngandong Hominids.  Science  276, p. 1575-1576. PDF

    Swisher III, C.C., Wang, Y., Wang, X., Xu, X., Wang, Y. 1999. A Cretaceous Age for the Feathered Dinosaurs of China. Nature vol. 400, p. 58-61. PDF

    Swisher III, C.C., Wang, X., Zhou, Z., Wang, Y., Jin, F., Zhang, J., Xu, X., Zhang, F., and Wang, Y., 2002. Further support for a Cretaceous age for the Feathered Dinosaurs of Liaoning, China: New 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Yixian and Tuchengzi formations. Chinese Science Bulletin vol. 47:2, p. 135-137.  PDF

    Tedford, R.H.; Swinehart, J.B.; Swisher III, C.C., Prothero, D.R., King, S.A., Tierney, T.E., Emry, R.J., 1996.  The Whitneyan-Arikareean transition in the High Plains. in Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene transition in North America, edited by D.R. Prothero. Cambridge University Press, p. 312-334. PDF

    Tedford, R.H., Albright, L.B., Barnosky, A.D., Ferrusqulia-Villafranca, I., Hunt, R.M., Storer, J.E., Swisher III, C.C., Vorrhees, M.R., Webb, S.D., Whistler, D.P., 2004. Mammalian Biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian Interval (L. Oligocene through E. Pliocene Epochs) in M.O. Woodburne (editor) Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Mammals of North America. Columbia University Press, New York, p. 169-231. PDF

    Tejedor, M.F., Tauber, A.A., Rosenberger, A.L., Palacios, M.E., and Swisher III, C.C. 2006.  New Primate Genus from the Miocene of Argentina. Proceedings of the National Academy Science, vol. 103, pp. 5437-5441.  PDF

    Wing, S.L., Hickey, L.J., and Swisher  III, C.C., 1993. Implications of an exceptional fossil flora for Late Cretaceoous vegetation. Nature vol. 363, p. 342-344. PDF

    Woodburne, M.O., Tedford, R.H., and Swisher III, C.C., 1990. Litho-stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and geochronology of the Barstow Formation, Mojave Desert, southern California.  Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. vol. 102. p. 459-477. PDF

    Woodburne, M.O. and Swisher III, C.C., 1995.  Land mammal high resolution geochronology, intercontinental overland dispersals, sea level, climate and vicariance, In Geochronology, Time Scales and Global Stratigraphic Correlation. Edited by Berggren, W.A. Kent, D.V., Aubry, M.-P and Hardenbol, J. Soc. Econ. Paleont. Mineral Spec Publ. No. 54, p. 335-364. PDF

    Woodburne, M.O., Bernor, R.L., and Swisher III, C.C., 1996.  An appraisal of the stratigraphic and phylogentic bases for the “Hipparion” Datum in the Old World. in The Evolution of Western Eurasian Mammal Faunas, edited by R. Bernor, Fahlbusch, V., Rietschel, S. and Mittmann, H.-W., Columbia University Press Books, New York, p. 124-136.  PDF

    Woodburne, M.O., Bernor, R.L., Theobald, G, Swisher III, C.C., and Tobien, H., 1996.  Advances in the geology and stratigraphy at Howenegg, Southwestern Germany. in     edited by R. Bernor, V. Fahlbusch, S. Rietschel, and H.-W. Mittmann (eds).  The Evolution of Western Eurasian Mammal Faunas. Columbia University Press Books, New York, p.106-123. PDF

    Wyss, A.R., Norell, M.A., Flynn, J.J., Novacek, M.J., Charrier, R., McKenna, M.C., Swisher III, C.C., Frassinetti, D., Salinas, P., and Jin, M., 1990.  A new early Tertiary mammal fauna from central Chile: implications for Andean stratigraphy and tectonics. Jour. Vert. Paleo. vol. 10(4), p. 518-522.

    Wyss, A.R., Flynn, J.J., Norell, M.A., Swisher III, C.C., Charrier, R., Novacek, M.J., and McKenna, M.C., 1993. South America's earliest rodent and recognition of a new interval of mammalian evolution.  Nature  vol. 365, p. 434-437. PDF

    Wyss, A.R., Flynn, J.J., Norell, M.A., Swisher III, C.C., Novacek, M.J., McKenna, M.C, and Charrier, R., 1994. Paleogene mammals from the Andes of Central Chile: a preliminary taxonomic, biostratigraphic, and geochronologic assessment.  Amer. Mus. Novitates, no. 3098, p. 1-31. PDF