Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) / Geotop: U-Pb geochronologist
davies.joshua@uqam.ca
Publications
My name and the names of my students/postdocs are in bold.
other websites with my publications are - Google Scholar, Research Gate
Published
U Schaltegger, M Ovtcharova, SP Gaynor, B Schoene, J-F Wotzlaw, JHFL Davies, F Farina, ND Greber, D Szymanowski and C Chelle-Michou. (2021). Long-term repeatability and interlaboratory reproducibility of high-precision ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronology. Journal of Analytic Atomic Spectroscopy. DOI: 10.1039/d1ja00116g
JHFL Davies, A. Marzoli, H. Bertrand, N. Youbi, M. Ernesto, N. Greber, M. Ackerson, AS. Bouvier, L. Baumgartner, T. Pettke, F. Farina, H.V. Ahrenstedt,
U. Schaltegger. (2021). Zircon petrochronology in large igneous provinces reveals upper crustal contamination processes: new U-Pb ages, Hf and O isotopes and trace elements from the Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 10.1007/s00410-020-01765-2
M. Domeier, E. Font, N. Youbi, JHFL Davies, S. Nemkin, R. Van der Voo, M. Perrot, M. Benabbou, M. Ahmed, Boumehdi T. Torsvik. (2021). On the Early Permian shape of Pangea from paleomagnetism at its core. Gondwana Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.11.005
S. Lindström, S. Callegaro, JHFL. Davies, C. Tegner, B. van de Schootbrugge, G. Pedersen, N. Youbi, H. Sanei, A. Marzoli. (2021). Tracing volcanic emissions from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province in the sedimentary record. Earth Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103444
J Reimink, JHFL Davies, A Ielpi. (2021) Global zircon analysis records the Neoarchean rise of continents. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116654
N. Greber. JHFL Davies. S. Gaynor, F. Jourdan, H. Bertrand, U. Schaltegger. (2020). New high precision U-Pb ages and Hf isotope data from the Karoo large igneous province; implications for pulsed magmatism and early Toarcian environmental perturbations. Results in Geochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ringeo.2020.100005
A Boscaini, A Marzoli, JHFL Davies, M Chiaradia, H Bertrand Alberto Zanetti Dario Vinos Angelo De Min Fred Jourdan. (2020) Permian post-collisional basic magmatism from Corsica to the Southeastern Alps. Lithos. 376-377http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105733
D. Popov, R. Spikings, S. Scaillet, G. O'Sullivan, D. Chew, E. Badenszki, .S Daly, T. Razakamanana, JHFL Davies. (2020). Diffusion and fluid interactionin Itrongay pegmatite (Madagascar): evidence from in situ 40Ar/39Ar dating of gem-quality alkali feldspar and U-Pb dating of protogenetic apatite inclusions. Chemical Geology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119841
E. Heerwagen, JHFL Davies, S. Schmidt. A. Ulianov, R Martini, R. (2020). New insights into the paleoposition of the Antimonio depositional system (Sonora, Mexico) from geochronology combined with nonparametric and multivariate analysis. Journal of South American Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102913
JR Reimink, JHFL Davies, AM Bauer, T. Chacko (2020) A comparison between zircons from the Acasta Gneiss Complex and the Jack Hills region. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 531, 115975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115975
JHFL Davies, A Hildenbrand G. Austermann, (2020). Baddeleyite microtextures and U-Pb discordance: insights from the Spread Eagle Intrusive Complex and Cape St. Mary’s sills, Newfoundland, Canada. Geochronology. 2 (2), 187-208 http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-187-2020 J. Pohlner, AK Schmitt, KR Chamberlain,
B. Rocha, JHFL. Davies, V Janasi, U Schaltegger, N Nardy, N Greber, A Carolina F Luchetti, L Polo, (2020). Rapid eruption of silicic magmas from the Paraná magmatic province (Brazil) did not trigger the Valanginian event. Geology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G47766.1
A Da Silva, M Sinnesael, P Claeys, JHFL Davies, N de Winter, L. Percival, U, Schaltegger, D de Vleeschouwer, (2020). Anchoring the Late Devonian Mass extinction in absolute time by integrating climatic controls and radio-isotopic dating. Nature: Scientific Reports. 10 (1), 1-12 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69097-6
P Widmann, JHFL Davies, U Schaltegger (2019). Attempts to calibrate chemical abrasion: Effects on zircon crystal structure, chemical composition and U-Pb age. Chemical Geology. 511, 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.02.026
A. Marzoli, H. Bertrand, N. Youbi, S. Callegaro, R. Merle, L. Reisberg, M. Chiaradia, S. Brownlee, F. Jourdan, A. Zanetti, JHFL. Davies, T. Cuppone, A. Mahmoudi, F. Medina, P. Renne, G. Bellieni, S. Crivellari, H. Hachimi, M. Bensalah, C. Meyzen, C. Tegner. (2019). The Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) in Morocco. Journal of Petrology. 60(5): 945–996.
M. Lantink, JHFL Davies, P. Mason, U. Schaltegger, F. Hilgen (2019). Climate control on banded iron formations linked to orbital eccentricity. Nature Geoscience. 12 (5), 369-374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0332-8
Davies J.H.F.L., Sheldrake, T., Reimink, J., Wotzlaw, J-F., Moeck, C., Finlay, A. (2018). Investigating Complex Isochron Data Using Mixture Models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 19. 10.1029/2018GC007548
Percival L, Davies J.H.F.L., Schaltegger U, De Vleeschouwer D, Da Silva D-C, Föllmi K. (2018) Precisely dating the Frasnian– Famennian boundary: implications for the cause of the Late Devonian mass extinction. Nature: Scientific Reports. 10.1038/s41598-018-27847-7
Davies J.H.F.L., Ovtcharova M, Greber N, Bouvier A-S, Baumgartner L, Ulianov A, Schaltegger U. (2018). Zircon petrochronology reveals the timescale and mechanism of anatectic magma formation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 495 213-223. Farina F, Dini A,
Davies J.H.F.L., Stern R, Heaman L, Moser D, Walton E, Vennemann T. (2018). Evaluating baddeleyite oxygen isotope analysis by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). Chemical Geology 479, 113-122.
Marzoli, A., Callegaro, S., Dal Corso, J., Davies, J.H.F.L., Youbi, N., Bertrand, H., Reisberg, L., Chiaradia, M., Merle, R., Jourdan, F. The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province: A review. (2018) The Late Triassic World - Earth in a Time of Transition – Springer book chapter Edited by Larry Tanner
Callegaro, S., Marzoli, A., Bertrand, H., Blichert-Toft, J., Reisberg, L., Cavazzini, G., Jourdan, F., Davies, J.F.H.L., Parisio, L., Bouchet, R., Schaltegger, U., (2017). Geochemistry and geochronology of the Freetown Layered Complex (Sierra Leone): The largest of the CAMP intrusions. Journal of Petrology 58, 1811-1840.
Davies J.H.F.L., Marzoli, A., Bertrand, H., Youbi, N., Ernesto, M., Schaltegger, U. (2017) End Triassic mass extinction started by intrusive CAMP activity. Nature Communications 8, 15596 doi: 10.1038/ncomms15596
Schaltegger, U., Davies, J.H.F.L. (2017). Petrochronology of zircon and baddeleyite in igneous rocks: Reconstructing magmatic processes at high temporal resolution. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 83, 297–328
Marzoli, A., Davies, J.H.F.L, Youbi, N., Merle, R., Dal Corso, J., Dunkley, D.J., Fioretti, A.M., Bellieni, G., Medina, F., Wotzlaw, J-F.,McHone, G., Font, E., Bensalah, M.K. (2017). Proterozoic to Mesozoic evolution of North-West Africa and Peri-Gondwana microplates: Detrital zircon ages from Morocco and Canada. Lithos 278-281, 229-239.
Reimink, J.R., Davies, J.H.F.L., . Chacko, T., Pearson, D.G. Stern, R.A. Heaman, L.M. Sarkar, C. Schaltegger, U. Creaser. R.A. (2016). No evidence for Hadean continental crust within Earth's oldest evolved rock unit. Nature Geoscience 9, 777-780, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2786
D’Abzac F.-X., Davies, J.H.F.L., Wotzlaw, J.-F., Schaltegger, U. (2016). Precise and accurate Hf isotope analysis of small grains of zircon and baddeleyite by conventional Multi Collector – Inductively Coupled Plasma – Mass Spectrometry. Chemical Geology 433, 12-23.
Reimink, J.R., Davies, J.H.F.L., Waldron, J., Rojas, X., (2016). Dealing with discordance: a novel approach for analyzing U-Pb detrital zircon datasets. Journal of the Geological Society, doi: 0.1144/jgs2015-114
Davies, J.H.F.L., Stern, R.J., Heaman, L.M., Rojas, X., Walton, E.L. (2015). Resolving isotopic disturbance in zircon: a case study from the low δ18O Scourie dykes, NW Scotland. American Mineralogist 100, 1952-1966
Davies, J.H.F.L., Wotzlaw, J-F., Wolfe, A.P., Heaman, L.M. (2014). Assessing the age of the Late Cretaceous Danek Bonebed with U-Pb geochronology. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 51, 982-986.
Hughes, H.S.R., McDonald, I., Goodenough, K.M., Ciborowski, T.J.R., Kerr, A.C., Davies, J.H.F.L., Selby, D., (2014. Enriched lithospheric mantle keel below the Scottish margin of the North Altantic Craton: evidence from the Paleoproterozoic Scourie dyke swarm and mantle xenoliths. Precambrian Research 250, 97-126.
Davies, J.H.F.L., Heaman, L.M. (2014). New U-Pb baddeleyite and zircon ages for the Scourie dyke swarm: A long-lived large igneous province with implications for the Paleoproterozoic evolution of NW Scotland. Precambrian Research 249, 180-198