Recent Publications

  • Stowell, H.H., Taylor, D.L., Tinkham, D.K., Goldberg, S.A., Ouderkirk, K.A., 2001. Contact metamorphic P-T-t Paths from Sm-Nd Garnet Ages, Phase Equilibria Modeling, and Thermobarometry: Garnet Ledge, Southeastern Alaska. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, p. 645-660.
  • Tinkham, D.K., Zuluaga, C.A., Stowell, H.H., 2001, Metapelite phase equilibria modeling in MnNCKFMASH: The effect of variable Al2O3 and MgO/(MgO+FeO) on mineral stability. Geological Materials Research, 3, 1, p. 1-42.
  • Stowell, H.H., Tinkham, D.K., 2003. Integration of Phase Equilibria Modeling and Garnet Sm-Nd Chronology for Construction of P-T-t Paths: Examples from the Cordilleran Coast Plutonic Complex, USA. in Vance, D. Muller, W., & Villa, I., eds. Geochronology: linking the isotopic record with petrology and textures. Geological Society Special Publication 220, p. 119-145.
  • Miller, R.B., Matzel, J.P., Paterson, S.R., Stowell, H.H., 2003. Cretaceous to Paleocene Cascades Arc: Structure, Metamorphism, and Timescales of Magmatism, Burial, and Exhumation of a Crustal Section.in Swanson, T. W., ed., Western Cordillera and Adjacent Areas, Geological Society of America Field Guide 4, p. 107-135.
  • Stowell, H.H. Stein, E., 2005. The significance of plagioclase-dominant coronas on garnet, Wenatchee block, North Cascades, Washington, U.S.A. Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 367-385.
  • Zuluaga, C.A., Stowell, H.H., Tinkham, D.K., 2005. The effect of zoned garnet on metapelite pseudosection topology and calculatedmetamorphic P-T paths. American Mineralogist, 90, p. 1619-1628.
  • Stowell, H.H., Bulman, G.R., Zuluaga, C.A., Tinkham, D.K, Miller, R.B., 2007.Mid-Crustal Late Cretaceous Metamorphism in the Nason Terrane, Cascades Crystalline Core, Washington, USA: Implications for Tectonic Models, in Hatcher, R.D., Jr., Carlson, M.P., McBride, J.H., & Martínez Catalán, J.R., eds., 4€“D Framework of Continental Crust, Geological Society of America Memoir 200, p. 211-231.
  • Zuluaga, C.A., Stowell, H.H., 2008. Multidisciplinary approach to study migmatites: origin and tectonic history of the Nason Ridge Migmatitic Gneiss, Wenatchee Block, Cascades Crystalline Core, WA, USA, Earth Sciences Research Journal, 12, p. 235-265.
  • Stowell, H.H., Tulloch, A., Zuluaga, C.A., Koenig, A., 2010, Timing and duration of garnet granulite metamorphism in magmatic arc crust, Fiordland, New Zealand: Chemical Geology, v. 273, p. 91-110.
  • Stowell, H.H., Bulman, G.R., Tinkham, D.K, Zuluaga, C.A., 2011. Garnet growth during crustal thickening in the Cascades Crystalline Core, Washington, U.S.A. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 29, p. 627-647.
  • Stowell, H.H., Zuluaga, Boyle, A., C.A., Bulman, G.R., 2011. Garnet sector and oscillatory zoning linked with changes in crystal morphology during rapid growth, North Cascades, Washington. American Mineralogist, 96, p. 1354-1362.
  • Zuluaga, C.A., Stowell, H.H., 2012. Late Cretaceous – Paleogene tectonic evolution of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta: implications for Caribbean geodynamic evolution. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 34, p. 1-9.
  • Gatewood, M.P., Stowell, H.H., 2012. Linking zircon U–Pb and garnet Sm–Nd ages to date loading and metamorphism in the lower crust of a Cretaceous magmatic arc, Swakane Gneiss, WA, USA. Lithos, 146-147, p. 128-141.
  • Stowell, H.H., Odom Parker, K., Gatewood, M.P., Tulloch, A., Koenig, A., 2014. Temporal links between pluton emplacement, garnet granulite metamorphism, partial melting, and extensional collapse in the lower crust of a Cretaceous magmatic arc, Fiordland New Zealand, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 32, p. 151-175.
  • Klepeis, K.A., Schwartz, J., Stowell, H., Tulloch, A., 2016. Gneiss domes, vertical and horizontal mass transfer, and the initiation of extension in the hot lower crustal root of a continental arc, Fiordland, New Zealand. Lithosphere, doi:10.1130/L490.1.
  • Gatewood, M.P., Dragovic, B. Stowell, H.H., Baxter, E.F., Hirsch, D.M., Bloom, R.A., 2015. Evaluating chemical equilibrium in metamorphic rocks using major element and Sm-Nd isotopic age zoning in garnet, Townsend Dam, Vermont, USA, Chemical Geology, 401, 151-168.
  • Schwartz, J.J., Stowell, H.H., Klepeis, K., Zamora, C., Tulloch, A., Kylander-Clark, A., Hacker, B., Coble, M., 2016, Thermochronology of extensional orogenic collapse in the deep crust, Fiordland, New Zealand, Geosphere.
  • McKay, M.P., Bollen, E.M., Gray, K.D., Stowell, H.H., Schwartz, J.J., 2017, Prolonged metamorphism during long-lived terrane accretion: Sm-Nd garnet and U-Pb zircon geochronology and pressure-temperature paths from the Salmon River suture zone, west-central Idaho, USA, Lithosphere, doi:10.1130/L642.1
  • ​Schwartz, J.J., Klepeis, K., Sadorski, J.F., Stowell, H.H., Tulloch, A., Coble, M., 2017. The tempo of continental arc construction in the Mesozoic Median Batholith, Fiordland, New Zealand. Lithosphere. doi:10.1130/L610.1.
  • Stowell, H.H., Schwartz, J.J., Klepeis, K., Hout, C., Tulloch, A., Koenig, A., 2017. Sm-Nd garnet ages for granulite and eclogite in the Breaksea Orthogneiss and widespread granulite facies metamorphism of the lower crust, Fiordland magmatic arc, New Zealand. Lithosphere. doi.org/10.1130/L662.1
  • Cecil, M. R., Rusmore, M.E., Gehrels, G.E., Woodsworth, G.J., Stowell, H. H.,Yokelson, I.N., Chisom, C., Trautman, M., and Homan, E., 2018. Along-strike variation in the magmatic tempo of the Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia, and implications for processes controlling episodicity in arcs, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 19. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007874
  • Stowell, H.H., Rusmore, M., Woodsworth, G., 2019. Processes Controlling the Growth and Evolution of Continental Batholiths, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada, GSA Today, v. 29, p. 20-22.
  • Klepeis, K., Webb, L., Blatchford, H., Schwartz, J., Jongens, R., Turnbull, R., Stowell, H. H., 2019. Deep Slab Collision during Miocene Subduction Causes Uplift along Crustal-Scale Reverse Faults in Fiordland, New Zealand, GSA Today, v. 29, https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG399A.1.
  • Stowell, H.H., Schwartz, J.J., Ingram, S.B., III, Madden, J., Jernigan, C., Steltenpohl, M., Mueller, P.. 2019. Linking metamorphism, magma generation, and synorogenic sedimentation to crustal thickening during Southern Appalachian mountain building, USA, Lithosphere, https://doi.org/10.1130/L1053.1
  • Stowell, H.H., Bollen, E., McKay, M.P., Thigpen, J.R., Dickson, H.F, Madden, J.R., Fiechtner, C., and Ionescu, A., 2021, Tectonism and metamorphism along a southern Appalachian transect across the Blue Ridge and Piedmont, USA, in Florsheim, J., Koeberl, C., McKay, M.P., and Riggs, N., eds., 2021 GSA Section Meeting Guides: Geological Society of America Field Guide 61, p. 1–38, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.0061(07).
  • Cecil, M. R., Gehrels, G.E., Rusmore, M.E., Woodsworth, G.J., Stowell, H.H., Yokelson, I.N., Homan, E., Kitajima, K., Valley, J., 2021. Mantle control on magmatic flare-ups in the southern Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia, Geosphere, https://doi.org/10.1130 /GES02361.1.
  • Bollen, E.M., Stowell, H.H., Rusmore, M.E., Woodsworth, G.J., Cecil, R., Gehrels, G.E., 2021. The tempo of metamorphism and magmatism, Coast Mountains batholith, Canada. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 40, p. 601-630.
  • Stowell, H.H., Schwartz, J.J., Bollen, E., Tulloch, A., Ramezani, J., Klepeis, K., 2022. Timescales and rates of intrusive and metamorphic processes determined from zircon and garnet in migmatitic granulite, Fiordland, New Zealand, American Mineralogist, v. 107, p. 1116-1132, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-7967
  • Bollen, E.M., Stowell, H.H., Aronoff, R., Stotter, S.V., Daniel, C.G., McFarlane, C.R.M., Vervoort, J.D., 2022. Reconciling garnet Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd, and monazite U-Pb ages for a prolonged metamorphic event, northern New Mexico, Journal of Petrology, 63, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egac031.