James R. Metcalf

PostDoc

Thermochronology

Department of Earth Sciences
204 Heroy Geology Laboratory
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1070 USA

Office: 116 Heroy Geology Laboratory

Phone: 315.443.4980
Lab: 315.443.4917
Department: 315.443.2672
Fax: 315.443.3363

Email: jrmetcal@syr.edu

Alternative Personal Web Page

Current Research Interests

The use of thermochronology and geochronology to constrain continental deformation
Methodological development of (U-Th)/He thermochronology

Current Research Projects

Along-strike variation of the uplift and exhumation history of the Pyrenean orogen
Miocene exhumation of the Deep Creek Range, western Utah
Cenozoic uplift and deformation of the eastern Dabie Shan [mountains] and southern Tan-Lu fault, China

Education

Ph.D. (Geology) Stanford University, 2006

B.S. (Geology) Beloit College, 1998

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Syracuse University, 2006-present
Research Assistant, Stanford Noble Gas Geochronology Laboratory. 2000-2006
Lecturer, San Francisco State University, 2003-2004

Selected Publications

Mattinson, C.G., Colgan, J.P., Metcalf, J., Miller, E.L., and Wooden, J.L, in press New constraints on the timing of metamorphism and magmatism in the Funeral Mountains metamorphic core complex, Death Valley, California: GSA Bulletin.

Hacker, B.R., Luffi, P., Lutkov, V., Minaev, V.T., Ratschbacher, L.R., Plank, T., Ducea, M.N., Patino-Douce, A.E., McWilliams, M.O., and Metcalf, J., 2005. Near-Ultrahigh Pressure Processing of Continental Crust: Miocene Crustal Xenoliths from the Pamir. Journal of Petrology, v. 46, no. 8, p. 1661-1687.

De Grave, J., Buslov, M., Zhimulev, F., Vermeesch, P., McWilliams, M., and Metcalf, J., in press, Constrains on the timing of exhumation of the diamond-bearing Kokchetav UHP massif (northern Kazakhstan): new 40Ar/39Ar ages, Russian Geology and Geophysics

Ducea, M. N., Lutkov, V., Minaev, V. T., Hacker, B. R., Ratschbacher, L., Luffi, P., Schwab, M., Gehrels, G. E., McWilliams, M. O., Vervoort, J., and Metcalf, J., 2003, Building the Pamirs: The view from the underside: Geology, v. 31, no. 10, p. 849-852.

Conference Abstracts

Metcalf, J.R., and McWilliams, M., 2005, Apatite (U-Th)/He constraints on the Cenozoic thermal history of the Dabie Shan, eastern China: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, p. 388.

Scherer, H.H., and Metcalf, J.R., 2005, Learning to teach in the field: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, p. 279.

DeGrave, J., Van Den Haute, P., Buslov, M., Vermeesch, P., Dehandschutter, B., Metcalf, J., McWilliams, M., and Vysotsky, E., 2005, Paleozoic assembly, Mesozoic reactivation, and Late Cenozoic deformation of the basement of the Siberian Altai mountains: A multi-method thermochronometric study: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, p. 345.

Vermeesch, P., Miller, D., Dumitru, T., Surpless, K., Graham, S., Metcalf, J., and McWilliams, M., 2003, Multi-method detrital thermochronology of the Great Valley Group, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, p. 466.

Mattinson, C.G., Colgan, J., Metcalf, J., Jones, R., Lerch, D., McWilliams, M., Miller, E., Whitehill, C., and Wooden, F., 2003, Metamorphism, partial melting, and deformation in the funeral mountains metamorphic core complex, Death Valley, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, p. 640.

Hacker, B.R., Luffi, P., Lutkov, V., Minaev, V., Ratschbacher, L., Patino-Douce, A., Ducea, M.N., McWilliams, M., and Metcalf, J., 2003, Near-ultrahigh pressure processing of subducted continental crust; Miocene crustal xenoliths from the Pamirs: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, p. 558.

Metcalf, J.R., A. Booth, J. Colgan, J. Hourigan, K. Krylov, C. Mattinson, M. McWilliams, E. Miller, H. Scherer, and J. Wooden, 2002, New Constraints on the Deformational and Metamorphic History of the Funeral Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Death Valley, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, p. 332.

Metcalf, J.R.., and C. Davidson, 1997, Quantitative fabric analysis of the Quottoon pluton: Implications in the late deformation history of the Coast shear zone: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, p. 277.