Curriculum Vitae
Brent David Turrin

 

Personal
Born: 18 November 1955, Walnut Creek, California
Married, four children

Education

Career experience

Membership in professional societies.

Honors, awards, recognition, elected membership

Committees/scientific review panels

Lectureships, Symposia, Invited Conferences

06/84--Invited by University of California, Berkeley, Geology Department to present class lecture and field trip on the Quaternary deposits in Saline and Eureka Valley, California

04/85--Co-convener GSA Penrose Conference on "Geomorphic and Stratigraphic indicators of Quaternary-Neogene Climatic change in Arid and Semiarid Environment", Lake Havasu, Arizona

11/85--field trip co-leader--Quaternary Geology of the eastern Mojave Desert, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada

01/86--Invited lecture and field trip co-leader by NASA (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) to present geochronology of subalkaline-alkaline basaltic rocks in the southwestern USA

06/87--Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Meeting, Hilo, Hawaii. Chair, session on volcanism and xenoliths

06/89--Invited by the Institute of Human Origins, Berkeley Geochronology Center to present techniques of 40Ar/39Ar dating on young (Pleistocene) basaltic volcanic rocks

12/89--Invited by the USGS Committee for the Advancement of Science in the Yucca Mountain Project (CASY) to present a paper in Menlo Park, CA and in Denver, CO (04/90) "Geochronology of the Lathrop Wells Volcanic Center, Nevada"

10/90--Invited speaker GSA Penrose Conference on "Surface Exposure Dating Techniques", Mammoth, California

03/91--Invited participant Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board on the assessment of the volcanic hazard studies at the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

09/91--Invited lecture University of California, Berkeley, "40Ar/39Ar dating of Quaternary basaltic rocks from the Lathrop Wells volcanic center, Nevada"

12/91--Invited lecture Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "40Ar/39Ar dating of Quaternary basaltic rocks from the Lathrop Wells volcanic center, Nevada and the Cima volcanic field, California: Implications to geomorphic age assignments of cinder cones"

04/92--Invited lecture University of California, Berkeley, "40Ar/39Ar dating of Franciscan Terranes: Age of uplift of Franciscan terranes in the San Francisco Bay Area"

09/92--Invited participant Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board on the assessment of the volcanic hazard studies at the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

12/92--Invited lecture USGS Branch of Igneous and Geothermal Processes "Recent Advances in 40Ar/39Ar dating of Quaternary Rocks using a Resistance Furnace"

11/93--Invited lecture University of California, Davis "40Ar/39Ar dating and paleomagnetic studies of Quaternary basaltic rocks"

03/94--Invited participant in Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) sponsored workshop on "Quaternary geochronology as applied to seismic hazard assessments"

06/94--Invited participant International Union of Geology and Stratigraphy (IUGS) subcommission on geochronology conference on "Absolute Age Dating Standards" G.S. Odin, Chairman and A.J. Hurford, Sectetary.

02/95--Invited participant Volcanic Hazard Analyses Elicitation; DOE/Geomatrix Inc.

01/96--Invited lecture University of California, Berkeley "Development and Application of 40Ar/39Ar Laser-Fusion Dating and 40Ar/39Ar Step-Heating Dating of Quaternary Basaltic Volcanic Rocks: A Comparision of Conventional K-Ar Dating and 40Ar/39Ar Methods".

01/96--Invited lecture Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Univ. "The State of 40Ar/39Ar of Late Pliestocene Volcanic Rocks".

01/96--Invited lecture Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Univ. "Science and Journalism: Yucca Mountain a case study".

01/97--Invited lecture Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Univ. "Science and Journalism: Yucca Mountain a case study".

08/98--Invited participant, Ocean Drill Program, Leg-173 post cruise meeting"40Ar/39Ar Thermo-chronology of the Ocean-Continent Transition".

11/98--Invited participant, Lake Vostok Workshop. "Lake Vostok: A Curiosity or a Focus for Interdisciplinary Study?".

01/99--Invited lecture Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Univ. "Science and Journalism: Yucca Mountain a case study".

06/99--International Workshop for a Climatic, Biotic, and Tectonic, Pole-to-Pole Coring Transect of Triassic-Jurassic Pangea

11/04--Invited lecture Hydrogeology of Newark Basin – A Regional Workshop Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center. "Introduction to T/3He dating of groundwater:  Sampling and measurement methods (No dates No Rates)".

01/07--Invited participant Transformation of Oceanic Plateaus into Continents (TROPICS) NSF Earth Scope workshop.

 

 



Bibliography (papers)

1.)     Turrin, B.D., 1982, Potassium-argon dates and stratigraphy of Pliocene volcanic domes near Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County:  California Geology, v. 35, p. 220-222.

2.)     Dohrenwend, J.C., McFadden, L.D., Turrin, B.D., and Wells, S.G., 1984, K-Ar dating of the Cima volcanic field, eastern Mojave Desert, California: Late Cenozoic history and landscape evolution: Geology, v. 12, p. 163-167.

3.)     Dohrenwend, J.C., McFadden, L.D., Wells, S.G., McKittrick, M.A., and Turrin, B.D., 1984, Quaternary geology of the eastern Mojave Desert, California; road log day one: Geological Society of America 1984 Annual Meeting Guidebook, Reno, Nevada, field trip 14, p. 1-24.

4.)     Dohrenwend, J.C., McFadden, L.D., Wells, S.G., Turrin, B.D., Mahrer, K.D., and McKittrick, M.A., 1984, Quaternary geology of the eastern Mojave Desert, California; road log day two: Geological Society of America 1984 Annual Meeting Guidebook, Reno, Nevada, field trip 14, p. 25-43.

5.)     Dohrenwend, J.C., Wells, S.G., Turrin, B.D., and McFadden, L.D., 1984, Rates and trends of Late Cenozoic landscape degradation in the area of the Cima volcanic field, eastern Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America 1984 Annual Meeting Guidebook, Reno, Nevada, field trip 14, p.101-115.

6.)     McFadden, L.D., Wells, S.G., Dohrenwend, J.C., and Turrin, B.D., 1984, Cumulic soils formed in eolian parent materials on flows of the Cima volcanic field, Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America 1984 Annual Meeting Guidebook, Reno, Nevada, field trip 14, p. 134-149.

7.)     Wells, S.G., Dohrenwend, J.C., McFadden, L.D., Turrin, B.D., and Mahrer, K.D., 1984, Types and rates of Late Cenozoic geomorphic processes on lava flows of the Cima volcanic field, Mojave Desert: Geological Society of America 1984 Annual Meeting Guidebook, Reno, Nevada, field trip 14, p. 116-133.

8)      Turrin, B.D., Dohrenwend, J.C., Wells, S.G., and McFadden, L.D., 1984, Geochronology and eruptive history of the Cima volcanic field, eastern Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America 1984 Annual Meeting Guidebook, Reno, Nevada, field trip 14, p. 88-100.

9.)     Turrin, B.D., 1984, Potassium-argon age dates and thermal history of the Tower Peak quadrangle, central Sierra Nevada, California, from disparities in K-Ar mineral ages: M.S. thesis, Stanford University, 36 p.

10.)    Turrin, B.D., 1984, Potassium-argon age dates and thermal history of the Tower Peak quadrangle, central Sierra Nevada, California, from disparities in K-Ar mineral ages: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-151, 12 p.

11.)    Montanari, A., Drake, R.E., Bice, D.M., Alvarez, W.,Curtis, G.H., Turrin, B.D., and DePaolo, D.J., 1985, Radiometric dating of the Eocene-Oligocene boundry at Gubbio, Italy: in Terminal Eocene events, eds. Pomerol, C., Premoli-Silva, I., International Geological Correlation Program, Project No. 174, Elsever Scientific Publication Company, Amsterdam, v. 9, p. 41-47.

12.)    Montanari, A., Drake, R.E., Bice, D.M., Alvarez, W., Curtis, G.H., Turrin, B.D., and DePaolo, D. J., 1985, Radiometric time scale for the Upper Eocene and Oligocene based on K-Ar and Rb/Sr dating of volcanic biotites from the pelagic sequence of Gubbio, Italy: Geology, v. 13, p. 596-599.

13.)    Turrin, B.D., Dohrenwend, J.C., Drake, R.E., and Curtis, G.H., 1985, Potassium-argon ages from the Cima volcanic field, eastern Mojave Desert, California: Isochron West, v. 44, p. 9-16.

14.)    Wells, S.G., Dohrenwend, J.C., McFadden, L.D., Turrin, B.D., and Mahrer, K.D., 1985, Late Cenozoic landscape evolution on lava flow surfaces of the Cima volcanic field, Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96, p. 1518-1529.

15.)    Dohrenwend, J.C., Wells, S.G., and Turrin, B.D., 1986, Degradation of Quaternary cinder cones in the Cima volcanic field, Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 97, p. 421-427.

16.)    Dorn, R.I., Bamforth, D.B., Cahill, T.A., Dohrenwend, J.C., Donahue, D.J., Jull, A.J.T., Long, A., Macko, M.E., Turrin, B.D., Well, E.B., and Whitley, D.S., 1986, Cation-ratio and accelerator-radiocarbon dating of rock varnish on archaeological artifacts and landforms in the Mojave Desert, eastern California: Science, p. 730-733.

17.)    Dohrenwend, J.C., Wells, S.G., McFadden, L.D., and Turrin, B.D., 1987, Pediment dome evolution in the eastern Mojave Desert, California, in Gardner, V., ed., International Geomorphology 1986, Part II London, Wiley-Interscience, p. 1047-1062.

18.)    Dorn, R.I., Turrin, B.D., Tanner, D., and Dohrenwend, J.C., 1987, Cation-ratio dating for the Cima volcanic field and vicinity, Mojave Desert: Physical Geography, v.8, p. 72-81.

19.)    Renne, P.R., and Turrin, B.D., 1987, Constraints on timing of deformation in the Benton Range, southeastern California and implications to Nevadan orogenesis: Geology, v. 15, p.1031-1034.

20.)    Dohrenwend, J.C., Abrahams, A.D., and Turrin, B.D., 1987, Drainage network development on basaltic lava flows, Cima volcanic field, southeast California, and Lunar Crater volcanic field, south-central Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 99, p. 405-413.

21.)    Dorn, R.I., and Turrin, B.D., Jull, A.J.T., Linick, T.W., and Donahue, D.I., 1987, Radiocarbon and cation-ratio varnish on Tioga and Tahoe morainal boulders of Pine Creek, eastern Sierra Nevada in California, and paleoclimatic implications: Quaternary Research, v. 28, p. 38-49.

22.)    Bergquist, J.R., Smith, J.G., and Turrin, B.D., 1987, Geologic map of the Blue Lakes Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County, Nevada: 1:24000 scale, U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies MF-1936.

23.)    Dorn, R.I., Turrin, B.D., Tanner, D., and Dohrenwend, J.C., 1987, Cation-ratio dating of Quaternary materials in east-central Mojave Desert, California: Physical Geography, v. 8, p. 72-81.

24.)    Turrin, B.D., Bergquist, J.R., Turner, R.L., Plouff, D., Ponader, C.W., and Scott, D.F., 1987, Mineral Resources of the High Rock Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Washoe County, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1707-D, 14 p.

25.)    Bergquist, J.R., Plouff, D., Turrin, B.D., Smith, J.G., Turner, R. L., and Willett, S. L., 1987, Mineral resources of the Blue Lakes Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1726-D, 18 p.

26.)    Turrin, B.D., Griscom, A., Turner, R.L., Lawson, W.A., Buehler, A., and Graham, D.E., 1988, Mineral Resources on the Alvord Desert and East Alvord Wilderness Study Areas, Harney County, Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1739-B, 16 p.

27.)    Crowe, B., Harrington, C., McFadden, L., Perry, F., Wells, S., Turrin, B., and Champion, D.C., 1988, Preliminary geologic map of the Lathrop Wells Volcanic Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory publication, LA-UR-88-4155, 7 p.

28.)    Crowe, B.M., Turrin, B.D., Champion, D.C., Wells, S.G., McFadden, L.D., and Perry, F., 1988, Volcanic hazard studies for the Yucca Mountain Project: Proceedings of the International High-Level Nuclear Waste Management Conference, Las Vegas, NV, American Society of Civil Engineers and American Nuclear Society, v. 89, p. 485-491.

29.)    Geissman, J.W, Harlan, S.S., Brown, L., Turrin, B.D., and McFadden, L.D., 1989, Brunhes Chron geomagnetic excursion records during the latest Pleistocene, Albuquerque volcanos, New Mexico, USA, in F.J. Lowes, D.W. Collinson, J.H. Parry, S.K. Runcon, D.C. Tozer, and A. Soward, eds., Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, NATO Advanced Studies Institute Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences v. 261, p. 123-136.

30.)    Turrin, B.D., Conrad, J.E., Plouff, D., King, H., Swisher, C.C., Mayerle, R.T., Raines, R.L., 1989, Mineral resources of the Hawk Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Harney County, Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1740-F, 16 p.

31.)    McKee, E. H., Conrad, J. E., and Turrin, B. D., 1989, Dinosaurs from northern Alaska are of latest Cretaceous age: Eos, (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 70, no. 4, p. 74.

32.)    Crowe, B.M., Harrington, C.D., Perry, F.V., Wells, S.G., McFadden, L.D., Renault, C.E., Turrin, B.D., and Champion, D.E., 1989, Polycyclic volcanism: a common eruption mechanism of small volume basaltic continental magmatism: IAVCEI abstracts., New Mexico Bur. of Mines, Bull, 131, p.

33.)    Chao, E.C.T., Mitsunobu Tatsumoto, Erickson, R.L., Minkin, J.A., Back, J.M., Buden, R.V., Okita, P.M., Hou Zonglin, Meng Qingrun, Ren Yingchen, Sun Weijun, McKee, E.H., Turrin, B.D., Wang Junwen, Li Xibin, and Edwards, C.A., 1990, Origin and ages of mineralization of Bayan Obo, the world's largest rare-earth ore deposit, Inner Mongolia, China: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-538, 11 p.

34.)    Conrad, J.E., McKee E.H., and Turrin, B.D., 1990, K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar ages of tuff beds at Ocean Point on the Colville River, Alaska, in J.H. Dover and J.P. Galloway, eds., Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey 1989: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1946, p. 77-82.

35.)    Segall, P., McKee, E.H., Martel, S.J., and Turrin, B.D., 1990, Late Cretaceous age of fractures in the Sierra Nevada batholith, California: Geology, v. 18, no. 12, p. 1248-1251.

36.)    Hausback, B.P., Deino, A.L., Turrin, B.D., and McKee, E.H., 1990, New 40Ar/39Ar ages for the Spearhead and Civet Cat Members of the Stonewall Flat Tuff, Nye Co., Nevada: Isochron/West, no. 55, p. 3-7.

37.)    Wilshire, H.G., McGuire, A.V., Noller, J.S., and Turrin, B.D., 1991, Petrology of lower-crustal and upper-mantle xenoliths from the Cima volcanic field, California: Journal of Petrology, v. 32, p.169-200.

38.)    Conrad, J.E., McKee, E.H., and Turrin, B.D., 1990, Age of tephra beds at the Ocean Point dinosaur locality, North Slope, Alaska, based on K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar analyses: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1990-C, 12p.

39.)    Geissman, J.W., Brown, L., Turrin, B.D., McFadden, L.D., and Harlan, S.S., 1990, Brunhes Chron excursion/polarity episode records during the late Pleistocene, Albuquerque Volcanos, New Mexico, USA: Geophysical Journal International, v. 102, no. 1, p. 73-88.

40.)    Turrin, B.D., and Champion, D.E., 1991, 40Ar/39Ar laser fusion and K-Ar ages from the Quaternary basaltic volcanic centers at Crater Flat, Nevada and Cima, California: implications for the age of the youngest volcanic activity in the Yucca Mountain area: Proceedings of the International High-Level Nuclear Waste Management Conference, Las Vegas, NV, (American Society of Civil Engineers and American Nuclear Society), v.1, p. 68-75.

41.)    Turrin, B.D., Champion, D.E., and Fleck, R.J., 1991, 40Ar/39Ar laser-fusion ages from the Lathrop Wells volcanic center: implications for volcanic hazards in the Yucca Mountain Radioactive Repository Site, southwestern Nevada: Science, v. 253, p. 654-657.

42.)    Ach, J.A., Bateson, J.T., Turrin, B.D., Keith, W.J., Noble, D.C., and Swisher, C.C., 1991, Geologic map of the High Rock Lake Quadrangle, Washoe and Humboldt Counties, Nevada: 1:24,000 scale, U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Filed Studies, MF-2157.

43.)    Turrin, B.D., Champion, D.E., and Fleck, R.J., 1992, Reply to comment on "40Ar/39Ar laser-fusion ages from the Lathrop Wells volcanic center: implications for volcanic hazards in the Yucca Mountain radioactive repository site, southwestern Nevada": Science, v. 257, p. 555-558.

44.)    McKee, E.H., Conrad, J.E., Turrin, B.D., and Theodore, T.G., 1993, 40Ar/39Ar studies of fluid inclusions in vein quartz from Battle Mountain, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2039, p. 155-165.

45.)    Turrin, B.D., Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., and Hearn, B.C., 1994, 40Ar/39Ar ages from the rhyolite of Alder Creek, California: age of the Cobb Mountain normal-polarity subchron revisted: Geology, v. 22, p. 251-254.

46.)    Lanphere, M.A., Dalrymple, G.B., and Turrin, B.D., eds , 1994, Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1107, 384 p.

47.)    Evarts, R.C., Gray, L.B., Turrin, B.D., Smith, J.G., and Tosdal, R.M., 1994, Isotopic and fission-track ages of volcanic and plutonic rocks and hydrothermal alteration in the Spirit Lake Quadrangle: Isochron/West, n.6 p. 25-47..

48.)    Fleck, R.J., Turrin, B.D., Sawyer, D.A., Warren, R.G., Champion, D.E., Hudson, M.R., and Minor, S.A., 1993, Age and character of basaltic rocks of the Yucca Mountain area, southern Nevada: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, no. B4, p. 8205-8227.

49.)    Herrero-Bervera, E., Helsley, C.E., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Lajoie, K.R., Meyer, C.E., Negrini, R.M., McWilliams, M.O., Liddicoat, J.C., Turrin, B.D., Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., 1994, Age and correlation of a paleomagnetic episode in the Western U.S. by 40Ar/39Ar dating and tephrochronology: The Jamaica, Blake, or a new polarity episode?: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, p. 24091-24104.

50.)    Renne, P.R., Deino, A.L., Walter, R.C., Turrin, B.D., Becker, T.A., Swisher, C.C., III Curtis, G.H., and Sharp, W.D., 1994, Intercalibration of Astronomical and Radioisotopic Time Scales:Geology, v. 22, p. 783-786.

51.)    Basu, A.R., Poreda, R.J., Renne, P.R., Teichmann, F., Vasiliev, Y.R., Sobolev, N.V., and Turrin, B.D., 1995, High 3He plume origin and temporal-spatial evolution of the Siberian Flood Basalts: Sicience v.269, p.822-825.

52.)    Lucchitta, I., Curtis, G., Davis, M.E., Davis, S. W., and Turrin, B., 1995, Quaternary Geology of the Granite Park Area, Grand Canyon: Aggradation-downcutting cycles, calibration of soils stages, and response of fluvial system to volcanic activity: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-xxx,

53.)    Turrin, B.D., 1996, Development and Application of 40Ar/39Ar Laser-Fusion Dating and 40Ar/39Ar Step-Heating Dating of Quaternary Basaltic Volcanic Rocks: A Comparision of Conventioanl K-Ar Dating and 40Ar/39Ar Methods: PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 152 p.

54.)    Sharp, W.D., Turrin, B.D., Renne, P.R., and Lanphere, M.A., 1996, 40Ar/39Ar and K-Ar daing of core from the Hilo drill site, Hawaiian Scientific Drilling Project: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, no. B5, p.11607-11616.

55.)    John, D.A., Turrin, B.D., and Miller, R.J., 1997, New K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar ages of plutonism, hydrothermal alteration, and mineralization in the central Wasatch Mountains, Utah, in John, D.A., and Ballantyne, G.H., eds., Geology and ore deposits of the Oquirrh and central Wasatch Mountains, Utah: Society of Economic Geologists Field Guidebook Series no. 29, p. 47-57.

56.)    Turrin, B.D., Champion, D.E., Fleck, R.J., Curtis, G.H., Drake, R.E., 1998, K-Ar and Paleomagnetic Directions from the Lathrop Wells Volcanic Center, Southwestern Nevada: An Evaluation of Polycyclic Volcanism: USGS Open-File Report 98-44.

57.)    Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998, Drilling Reveals Transition from Continental Breakup to Early Magmatic Crust: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 79, no. 14, p. 173-

58.)    Turrin, B.D., Christiansen, R.L., Clynne, M.A., Champion, D.E., Gerstel, W.J., Muffler L.J., Trimble, D.A., 1998, The Age of Lassen Peak, California, a Young Heterogeneous Dacite Dome, and Implication for the Ages of Late Pleistocene Glaciations in the SouthernCasade Range: Geological Society of America, Bulletin, v.110, no. 7, p.931-945.

59.)    Delius, H., Hunze, R., Pechnig, R., Bartetzko, A., Wholenberg, J., and Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998, Shorebased interpretation of downhole measrements at Sites 1065, 1068, and 1069: in Whitmarsh, et al., Proceedings, Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report 173: College Station, TX, p. 49-61.

60.)    Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998, Introduction: in Whitmarsh, et al., Proceedings, Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report 173: College Station, TX, p. 7-23

60a.)------ Explanatory Notes: in Whitmarsh, et al., Proceedings, Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report 173: College Station, TX, p. 25-47

60b.)------ Site 1065: In Whitmarsh, et al., Proceedings, Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report 173: College Station, TX, p. 65-104

60c.)------ Site 1066: In Whitmarsh, et al., Proceedings, Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report 173: College Station, TX, p. 105-106

60e.)------ Site 1067: In Whitmarsh, et al., Proceedings, Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report 173: College Station, TX, p. 107-217

60f.)------ Site 1068: In Whitmarsh, et al., Proceedings, Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report 173: College Station, TX, p. 163-218

60g.)------ Site 1069: In Whitmarsh, et al., Proceedings, Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report 173: College Station, TX, p. 219-264

60h.)------ Site 1070: In Whitmarsh, et al., Proceedings, Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report 173: College Station, TX, p. 265-296

61.)    Gutman, J.T., Turrin, B.D., and Dohrenwend, J.C., (2000) Basalt Rock from the Pinacate Volcanic Field Yield notably young 40Ar/39Ar ages, EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union, 81, 33.

62.)    Lucchitta, I., Curtis, G., Davis, M.E., Davis, S. W., and Turrin, B., (2000) Cyclic Aggradation and Downcutting, Fluvial Response to Volcanic Activity, and Calibration of Soil-Carbonate Stages in the Western Grand Canyon, Arizona: Quaternary Research, v. 53, p.23-33.

63.)    Manatschal, G., Froitzheim, Rubenach, M., Turrin, B.D., (2001), The role of detachment faulting in the formation of an ocean-continent transition: insights from the Iberia Abyssal Plain. In "Non-volcanic rifting of continental margins: evidence from land and sea", Wilson, R. C. L., Whitmarsh, R. B., Taylor, B. and Froitzheim, N. (eds). Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ.,187, 405-428.

64.)    Kent, D.V., Hemming, S.R., and Turrin, B.D., (2002), Laschamp Excursion at Mono Lake?:  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 197, p. 151-164.

65.)    Lucchitta, I., Curtis, G., Davis, M.E., Davis, S. W., Hanks, T. C., Finkel, R. C., and Turrin, B., (2003), Rates of Downcutting of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon Region, in young, R. A., and Spanner, E. E., eds., Colorado River Origin and Evolution:  Grand Canyon Assoc.,  p. 155-158.

66.)    Davidson, J., Hassanzadeh, J., Berzins, R., Stockli, D.F., Bashukooh, B., Turrin, B., and Pandamouz, A., (2004) The geology of Damavand volcano, Alborz Mountains, northern Iran:  Geol Soc Am Bull v. 116, p. 16-29.

67.)    Alvarado, G.E., Carr, M.J., Turrin, Brent D., Swisher, 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., Volcanic hazards in Central America: Geological Society of America Special Paper 412, p. 259–276.

68.)    Vogel, S.W., Tulaczyk, S., Carter, S., Krukoski, J., Renne, P., Turrin, B, and Grunow, A., (2006), Geologic Constrains on the Existence, Distribution of West-Antarctica subglacial volcanism:  Geophysical Research Letters, v. 33, L23501, doi:10.1029/2006GL027344

69.)    Jagoutz, O., Muntener, O., Manatschal, G., Rubatto, D., Peron-Pinvidic, G., Turrin, B.D., Villa, I.M., (2007), The rift-to-drift transition in the North Atlantic:  A stuttering start of the MORB machine?:  Geolog, v.35, p1087-1090, doi:  10.1130/G23612A.1

70.)    Turrin, B.D., Muffler, P.L.J., Clynne, M.A., and Champion, D.E., (2007), Robust 24±6ka 40Ar/39Ar age of a low-potassium tholeiitic basalt in the Lassen region of NE California:  Quarternary Research, v. 68, p. 96-110, doi:  10.1016/j.yqres.2007.02.004

71.)    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, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q06001, doi:  10.1029/2006GC001396.

72.)    Turrin, B.D., Gutman, J.T., and Swisher III, C.C., (in press) A 13 ±3ka age determination of a tholeiite, Pinacate volcanic field, Mexico, and improved methods for 40Ar/39Ar dating of young basaltic rocks:  Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.  

Bibliography (abstracts)

1.)     Dohrenwend, J.C., Turrin, B.D., Wells, S.G., and McFadden, L.D., 1983, Pediment evolution in the Cima volcanic field, eastern Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, no. 5, p. 422.

2.)     McFadden, L.D., Wells, S.G., Dohrenwend, J.C., and Turrin, B.D., 1983, A chronosequence of cumulic soils formed in eolian parent materials on flows of the late Cenozoic Cima volcanic field, Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, no. 5, p. 422.

3.)     Turrin, B.D., Dohrenwend, J.C., McFadden, L.D., and Wells, S.G., 1983, K-Ar ages of late Cenozoic basaltic volcanism in the Cima volcanic field, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, no. 5, p. 422.

4.)     Wells, S.G., Dohrenwend, J.C., McFadden, L.D., and Turrin, B.D., 1983, Types and rates of degradation of volcanic landforms in desert climates: examples from the Cima volcanic field, Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, no. 5, p. 422.

5.)     Dohrenwend, J.C., Turrin, B.D., and Wells, S.G., 1984, Cinder cone degradation in the Cima volcanic field, Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 16, no. 6, p. 491.

6.)     Turrin, B.D., and Dohrenwend, J.C., 1984, K-Ar ages of basaltic volcanism in the Lunar Crater volcanic field, northern Nye County, Nevada: implications for Quaternary tectonism in the central Great Basin: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 16, no. 6, p. 679.

7.)     Montanari, A., Drake, R.E., Alvarez, W., Bice, D.M., Turrin, B.D., and Curtis, G H., 1984, K-Ar dating of five stratigraphic levels in the Upper Eocene-Lower Miocene pelagic sequence at Gubbio, Italy: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 16, no. 6, p. 599.

8.)     Dohrenwend, J.C., McFadden, L.D., Wells, S.G., and Turrin, B.D., 1985, Pediment dome evolution in the eastern Mojave Desert, California: First International Conference on Geomorphology, Proceedings, Manchester, U.K., p. 145.

9.)     Dohrenwend, J.C., Turrin, B.D., and Diggles, M.F., 1985, Topographic distribution of dated basaltic lava flows in the Reveille Range, Nye County, Nevada: implications for late Cenozoic erosion of upland areas in the Great Basin: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 17, no. 6, p. 352.

10.)    Turrin, B.D., Renne, P.R., and Dohrenwend, J.C., 1985, Temporal trends in the chemical evolution of megacryst-bearing, subalkaline-alkaline basaltic lavas from the Lunar Crater volcanic field, Nye County, Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 17, no. 6, p. 414.

11.)    Wells, S.G., Dohrenwend, J.C., McFadden, L.D., and Turrin, B.D., 1985, Late Cenozoic geomorphic processes on volcanic landforms in the Cima volcanic field, Mojave Desert, California: First International Conference on Geomorphology Proceedings, Manchester, U.K. p. 639.

12.)    Turrin, B.D., and Gillespie, A., 1986, K/Ar ages of basaltic volcanism of the Big Pine volcanic field, California: implications for glacial stratigraphy and neotectonics of the Sierra Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 18, no. 6, p. 777.

13.)    Dorn, R.I., Turrin, B.D., and Berger, C.R., 1987, A million years of alkalinity fluctuations recorded in rock varnishes from western Great Basin U.S.A.: Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, p. 159.

14.)    Renne, P.R., and Turrin, B.D., 1987, Timing of deformation in the Benton Range, southeastern California and implications to Nevadan orogenesis: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 19, no. 6, p. 442.

15.)    Turrin, B.D., and Renne, P.R., 1987, Multiple basaltic eruption cycles from single vents, Cima volcanic field, California: evidence for polygenetic basaltic volcanism: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 19, no. 6, p. 458.

16.)    Wells, S.G., McFadden, L.D., Turrin, B.D., Harden, J.W., and Dorn, R.I., 1987, Absolute and relative ages of Quaternary alluvial-fan deposits, Mojave Desert, California: implications for regional correlations and causal mechanisms of sedimentation: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 68, no. 44, p. 1288.

17.)    Dorn, R.I. and Turrin, B.D., 1988, Use of rock varnish dating late-Quaternary volcanic; examples from eastern California and Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 20, no. 3, p. 156-157.

18.)    Turrin, B.D., McKee E.H., and Theodore, T.G., 1987, 40Ar/39Ar studies of fluid inclusions in vein quartz from Battle Mountain, Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 20, no. 3, p. 238.

19.)    Wells, S.G., McFadden, L., Renault, C., Turrin, B.D., and Crowe, B.M., 1988, A geomorphic assessment of Quaternary volcanism in the Yucca Mountain area, Nevada Test Site, southern Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 20, p. 242.

20.)    Turrin, B. D., McKee, E. H., Theodore, T. G., and Conrad, J. E., 1988, 40Ar/39Ar studies of fluid inclusions in vein quartz from Battle Mountain, Nevada: in USGS Research on Mineral Resources-1989, Program and Abstracts, Fifth Annual V.E. McKelvey Forum on Mineral and Energy Resources, Katharine S. Schindler, ed.: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1035, p. 75.

21.)    Drake, R.E., Deino, A.L., Curtis, G.H., Swisher, C.S., Turrin, B.D., McCrory, M., and Becker, T., 1988, Applications of 40Ar/39Ar dating of single crystals by laser fusion: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 69, no. 44, p. 1502.

22.)    Chao, E. C. T., Minkin, J. A., Back, J. M., Conrad, J. E., Erickson, R. L., Drew, L. J., Okita, P. M., McKee, E. H., Turrin, B. D., Tatsumoto, M., Wang Junwen, Edwards, C. A., and Buden, R. V., 1989, The epigenetic, hydrothermal-metasomatic origin of the Bayan Obo Fe-Nb-REE ore deposit of Inner Mongolia, China: 28th International Geological Congress, Abstracts, Washington, D.C., v. 1, p. I-262.

23.)    Deino, A.L., Hausback, B.P., Turrin, B.T., and McKee, E.H., 1989, New 40Ar/39Ar ages for the Spearhead and Civet Cat Members of the Stonewall Flat Tuff, Nye Co., Nevada: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 70, no. 43, p. 1409.

24.)    Renne, P.R., Becker, T.A., Swapp, S.M., Turrin, B.D., and Onstott, T.C., 1989, 40Ar/39Ar laser-probe applied to sediment provenance and hinterland tectonics: an example from the Montgomery Creek Formation, California: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 70, no. 15, p. 488.

25.)    Turrin, B.D., and Champion, D.E., 1990, 40Ar/39Ar and paleomagnetic analyses of alkaline basaltic volcanic rocks of the southwestern United States: powerful tools for correlating and subdividing volcanic units: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 71, p. 1296-1297.

26.)    Conrad, J.E., McKee E.H., and Turrin, B.D., 1991, Laser-microprobe single-grain 40Ar/39Ar age-spectrum analyses of riebeckite from Bayan Obo, China: implications for dating disturbed minerals: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, no. 2, p. 15.

27.)    Fleck, R.J., Lanphere, M.A., Turrin, B.D., and Sawyer, D.A., 1991, Chronology of late Miocene to Quaternary volcanism and tectonism in the southwest Nevada volcanic field: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, no. 2, p. 25.

28.)    Hagstrum. J.T., and Turrin, B.D., 1991, Island flood basalt volcanism, a seismically-induced response to large antipodal bolide impacts?: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union) v. 72, no. 44, p.516.

29.)    Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., Turrin, B.D., Gray, L.B., Conrad, J.E., 1994, Incomplete extraction of radiogenic argon from high-silica andesites: implication for K-Ar Dating: in the Abstracts Eighth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, Lanphere, M.A., Dalrymple, G.B., and Turrin, B.D., eds.: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1107, p. 84.

30.)    Becker, T.A., Sharp, W.D., Renne, P.R., Turrin, B.D., and Wakabayashi, J., 1994, 40Ar/39Ar dating of young low-K tholeitites: Examples from NE California: in the Abstracts Eighth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, Lanphere, M.A., Dalrymple, G.B., and Turrin, B.D., eds.: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1107, p. 24.

31.)    Renne, P.R., Deino, A.L., Walter, R.C., Turrin, B.D., Becker, T.A., Sharp, W.D., and Curtis, G.H., 1994, Orbital Tuning of 40Ar/39Ar Standards: The Case of Fish Canyon Sanidine: in Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, Lanphere, M.A., Dalrymple, G.B., and Turrin, B.D., eds.: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1107, p. 265.

32.)    Turrin, B.D., Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., Fleck, R.J., Champion, D.E., Becker, T.A., Curtis, G.H., Deino, A.L., Renne, P.R., Sharp, W.D., and Swisher, C.C. III, 1994, Proposal for a Quaternary 40Ar/39Ar Dating Standard: in Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, Lanphere, M.A., Dalrymple, G.B., and
Turrin, B.D., eds.: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1107, p. 332.

33.)    Lucchitta, I., Caffee, M., Finkel, R. C., Curtis, G., Davis, M., Davis, S., Turrin, B.D., 1994, Quaternary alluvial chronology in the eastern Grand Canyon-Lake Powell region, Arizona and Utah: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 7, p. A-258.

34.)    Finkel, R. C., Caffee, M. W., Curtis, G., Davis, M., Davis, S., Turrin, B.D., Lucchitta, I., 1994, Geochronology of downcutting in the Colorado River system: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 7, p. A-258.

35.)    Davis, S., Davis, M., Caffee, M., Finkel, R., Curtis, G., Hanks, T., Turrin, B., and Lucchitta, I., 1994, Relations between soils and geomorphic age in the Grand Canyon, Arizona: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 7, p. A-xx

36.)    Turrin, B.D., Sharp, W.D., Renne, P.R., and Becker, T. A., 1994, Preliminary 40Ar/39Ar ages of the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project core: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 75, p. 708.

37.)    Herrero-Bervera, E., Helsley, C.E., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Lajoie, K.R., Meyer, C.E., Turrin, B.D., Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., McWilliams, M.O., Negrini, R.M., Liddicoat, J.C.,1994, Age and correlation of a paleomagnetic excursion in the Western U.S. by 40Ar/39Ar dating and tephrochronology: The Jamaica, Blake, or a new polarity episode?: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 75, p. 190.

38.)    Sharp, W.D., Holt, J.W., Renne, P.R., Turrin, B.D. and Kirschvink, J.L., 1995, Correlation of a 226 ± 7 ka paleomagnetic excursion in lavas from Mauna Kea, Hawaii with the Pringle Falls Excursion. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 76(46): F176

39.)    Turrin, B.D., 1999, 40Ar/39Ar ages from the Ocean-Continental transition zone, Iberia Abyssal Plain, ODP Leg 173; Chronologic and thermochronologic constraints on the kinematics of lithospheric extension and continental breakup: in Non-volcanic rifting of continental margins: A comparison of evidence from land and sea, Geological Society of London, p. 50.

40.)    Young, A. Turrin, B.D., Davidson, J., Hassanzadeh, j., 1999, 40Ar/39Ar chronology of Damavand volocano, Iran: Implication for tectonic setting and magma evolution in a post-orogenic magma system: EOS (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 80, p. 1133.

41.)    Turrin, B.D., and Hemming, S.R., 2000, 40Ar/39Ar ages from the Newark Basin and the Iberia Continental margin, thermochronologic constraints on the kinematics of lithospheric extension and continental breakup: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, (in press)

42.)    Clynne, M A, Turrin, B D, Champion, D E, and Muffler, L P, (2003) 31±17 ka 40Ar/39Ar Plateau Age on the Very Low-Potassium Hat Creek Basalt Fits Stratigraphic and Geochronologic Constraints of Contiguous Units: Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46).

43.)    Saginor, I, Carr, M. J., Swisher, C., Turrin, B., (2005,) 40Ar/39Ar Dating in Western Nicaraguan volcanics: New Constraints for the Volcanic Gap, Poster, Eos Trans. AGU 86(xx), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  xxxx-xxxx.

44.)    Turrin, Brent, Turrin, Courtny, Swisher, Carl III, and Hemming, Sidney, (2005), Blaise Pascal on the 40Ar/39Ar Laser Single Crystal Dating of Contaminated Volcanic Ashes:  Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (Salt Lake City October 16–19, 2005.)). Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7, p.37.

45.)    Gutman, J.T., Turrin, B.D., (2006), The Age of Crater Elegante, A Maar in the Pinacate Volcanic Field, Sonora, Mexico: Geological Society of America Meeting Rocky Mountain Section-58th Annual Annual Meeting (Salt Lake City May 2006) Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 6, p.32.

46.)    Saginor, I, Carr, M. J., Swisher, C., Turrin, B., Gazel, E., (2006), New 40Ar/39Ar Dates Reveal Episodic Volcanism in Western Nicaragua:  Eos Trans. AGU 87(xx), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  xxxx-xxxx.

47.)    Swisher, C.,III, Turrin, B.D., Kuiper, K., and (2006) Bring:  Bringing the Paleogene in sync with the ATS. European Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting, Vienna.  Geophysical Research Abstracts, Volume 8, 09400.

48.)    Machlus, M., Crowley, J., Bowring, S.A., Hemming S.R., Rasbury, T., Swisher, C.,III, and Turrin, B.D., (2006), A Possible Standard for Both U/Pb and 40Ar/39Ar Dating:  The Carboniferous Fire Clay Tonstein:  Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, October 2006). Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, p.116

49.)    Swisher, C.,III, Kuiper, K., and Turrin, B.D., (2006) Toward a Revised Calibration of the Paleogene Timescale:  Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, October 20,06). Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, p.53.

50.)    Cave, S R., Greeley, R., Champion, D E., Turrin, B.D., (2007), 40Ar/39Ar Ages for the Sentinel-Arlington Volcanic Field, Southwestern Arizona:  Eos Trans. AGU 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V23B-1439

51.)    Volcanism in Western Nicaragua, Poster, Workshop to Integrate Subduction Factory and Seismogenic Zone Studies in Central America, Heredia, Costa Rica.

52.)    Saginor, I, Carr, M. J., Swisher, C, Turrin, B., Gazel, E., (2007), Episodic Volcanism and Geochemistry in Western Nicaragua:  Eos Trans. AGU 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T41C-0708

53.)    Turrin, B.D, Swisher III, C.C. , (2007), Advances in Hardware and Data Reduction Protocol in 40Ar/39Ar Dating; On Single and Multi-Collector Mass Spectrometer Systems:  Eos Trans. AGU 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V23B-1439

54.)    Shankar, N., Swisher III, C.C , Turrin, B., and Herzog, G.F., (2008) 40Ar/39Ar CO2 Laser Incremental Heating Release Spectra fro the Pasamonte Eucrite and Martian Meteorites ALHA77005, Shergotty, and Y000749:  Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf., #1924.

Administrative and Technical Reports

1.)     Turrin, B., Kwok, R., Siegert, M., and Bell, R., 1998, Site survey group conclusions: in Lake Vostok Workshop, Bell, R.E., and Karl, D.M., Lake Vostok Workshop National Science Foundation Final Report, November 7 & 8, 1998, p. 35-36.

2.)     Turrin, B., 1998, Helium isptopic measurements of Lake Vostok: in Lake Vostok Workshop, Bell, R.E., and Karl, D.M., Lake Vostok Workshop National Science Foundation Final Report, November 7 & 8, 1998, p. 41.

3.)     Schlosser, P., Turrin, B.D., Bsnisch, G., Stute, M., and Klas, M., (2004), Tritium/He measurements for the USGS: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Noble Gas Laboratory, Administrative Report, Palisades, N.Y. 10964, Reports 04-1.01.0 thru 04-1.17.0.

18.)    .Schlosser, P., Turrin, B.D., Bsnisch, G., Stute, M., and Klas, M., (2005), Tritium/He measurements for the USGS: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Noble Gas Laboratory, Administrative Report, Palisades, N.Y. 10964, Reports 05-1.01.0 thru 05-1.25.0.

43.)    Schlosser, P., Turrin, B.D., Bsnisch, G., Stute, M., and Klas, M., (2006), Tritium/He measurements for the USGS: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Noble Gas Laboratory, Administrative Report, Palisades, N.Y. 10964, Reports 06-1.01.0 thru 06-1.10.0.

53.)    Schlosser, P., Turrin, B.D., Bsnisch, G., Stute, M., and Klas, M., (2007), Tritium/He measurements for the USGS: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Noble Gas Laboratory, Administrative Report, Palisades, N.Y. 10964, Reports 07-1.01.0 thru 07-1.12.0.