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Thomas Lapen

Thomas Lapen

Thomas Lapen

Curriculum Vitae pdf

Chair, EAS Department
Professor of Geology, Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology, Petrology

Ph.D., 2005, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.S., 1998, Western Washington University
B.S., 1995, Central Washington University

Office: 315-A SR1
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: (713) 743-6122
tjlapen@uh.edu

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Research

Lapen’s research uses petrologic analyses, measurements of radiogenic and stable isotopic compositions, and measured trace element concentrations to understand Earth and planetary processes. He oversees a laser ablation multiple-collector inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-MC-ICP-MS) facility, which was jointly funded by NASA, NSF, and UH. The instrumentation includes a 193 nm wavelength Photon Machines Excite laser ablation instrument and a Nu Instruments NuPlasma II MC-ICP-MS.

Current research projects include:

  • Nature and timing of magmatism on Mars
  • Chronology of early solar system materials
  • Impact processes on Earth and planetary bodies
  • Sediment provenance studies
  • Geochemical and petrologic studies of authigenic silica
  • Uranium-thorium-lead chronology of organic-rich shale deposition and diagenesis

Publications

  • Mallis, J.D., Zemlicka, G., Antonijevic, S.K., Lapen, T.J., Costin, G., Campbell, T., 2024, U-Pb geochronology and petrography of Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian volcanics in basement crustal terranes beneath the deep-water Gulf of Mexico: Geosphere, v. 20, no. X, p. 1– 19, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02687.1
  • Szumila, I., Trail, D., Erickson, T., Simon, J.I., Wielicki, M.W., Lapen, T.J., Nakajima, M., Fries, M., Bell, E.A., 2023, Microstructural changes and Pb mobility during the zircon to reidite transformation: implications for planetary impact chronology. American Mineralogist. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8604
  • Zheng, Y., Hu, H., Spera, F.J., Scruggs, M., Thompson, G., Jin, Y., Lapen, T.J., McNutt, S.R., Mandli, K., Peng, Z., Yuen, D.A., 2023, Episodic magma hammers for the 15 January 2022 cataclysmic eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL102763
  • Smith, T.M., Saylor, J.E., Lapen, T.J., Leary, R.J., Sundell, K.E., 2023, Large detrital zircon data set investigation and provenance mapping: Local versus regional and continental sediment sources before, during, and after Ancestral Rocky Mountain deformation. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36285.1
  • Smith, T.M., Saylor, J.E., Lapen, T.J., Hatfield, K., Sundell, K.E., 2023, Identifying sources of non-unique detrital age distributions through integrated provenance analysis: An example from the Paleozoic Central Colorado Trough. Geosphere. V. 19, No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02541.1
  • Andrade, C.N., Lapen, T.J., Chafetz, H.S., 2022, Silicon isotopic compositions of dissolved silicic acid in pre- and post-diatom oceans. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.11.021
  • Beard, S.P., Swindle, T.D., Lapen, T.J., Kring, D.A., 2022, Ar-Ar and U-Pb ages of Chelyabinsk and a re-evaluation of its impact chronology. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 57, 2276-2288. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13927
  • Wu, T-J., Wu, J., Alexandrov, I., Lapen, T.J., Lee, H-Y., Ivin, V., 2022, Continental growth during migrating arc magmatism and terrane accretion at Sikhote-Alin (Russian Far East) and adjacent northeast Asia. Lithos, V. 432-433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106891
  • Li, Y., Robinson, A.C., Zucali, M., Gadoev, M., Oimuhammadzoda, I., Lapen, T.J., Carrapa, B., 2022, Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution in the Kurgovat-Vanch Complex, NW Pamir. Tectonics, 41. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC007180
  • Suarez, S.E., Lapen, T.J., Righter, M., Beard, B.L., Irving, A.J., 2022, Isotopic and trace element data of Tissint indicate a homogeneous strewn field, mobilization of Sr, REE, and Pb during shock metamorphism, and limits on the incorporation of martian surficial materials in impact melt glass. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 327, 137-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.04.020
  • Davis, E.M., Rudolph, K.W., Saylor, J.E., Lapen, T.J., Wellner, J.S., 2022, Effects of contemporaneous orogenesis on sedimentation in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Basin, northern Utah and southwestern Wyoming. Basin Research, V. 34, 366-392. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12623
  • Zimmermann, U., Dieset, J., Watson, L., Lapen, T, 2021, Sedimentological Constraints and Provenance of Eocene and Miocene Successions from Barbados. AAPG Memoir 123, 109-138. https://doi.org/10.1306/13692244M1233846
  • Righter, K., Schönbächler, M., Pando, K., Rowland, R., Righter, M., Lapen, T.J., 2020, Ag isotopic and chalcophile element evolution of the terrestrial and martian mantles during accretion: New constraints from Bi and Ag metal-silicate partitioning. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116590
  • Udry, A., Howarth, G.H., Herd, C.D.K., Day, J.M.D., Lapen, T.J., Filiberto, J., 2020, What martian meteorites reveal about the interior and surface of Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006523
  • Fonseca, M., Hathon L., Lapen, T.J., 2020, A Real-Time Method to Identify Brittle Zones in Carbonate-Rich Mudrocks using Bulk and Trace Element Geochemistry: A Study in the Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and Niobrara Formations. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, 2396-2415. https://doi.org/10.15530/urtec-2020-1051
  • Chen, X.Y., Chafetz, H.S., Lapen, T.J., 2020, Silicon isotope variations in hydrothermal systems at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.06.004
  • Smith, T.M., Sundell, K.E., Johnston, S.N., Andrade, C.N.G., Andrea, R.A., Dickinson, J.N., Liu, Y.A., Murphy, M.A., Lapen, T.J., Saylor, J.E., 2020, Drainage reorganization and Laramide tectonics in north‐central New Mexico and downstream effects in the Gulf of Mexico. Basin Research, https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12373
  • Dygert, N., Draper, D.S., Rapp, J.F., Lapen, T.J., Fagan, A.L., Neal, C.R., 2020, Experimental determinations of trace element partitioning between plagioclase, pigeonite, olivine, and lunar basaltic melts and an fO2 dependent model for plagioclase-melt Eu partitioning. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.037
  • Andrade, C.N., Chafetz, H.S., Lapen, T.J., 2020, Paragenesis of silicified mid-Paleozoic and mid-Cenozoic corals based on petrography and silicon isotopic analyses. Chemical Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119483
  • Clark, J.V., Sutter, B., McAdam, A.C., Rampe, E.B., Archer, P.D., Ming, D.W., Navarro-Gonzalez, R., Mahaffy, P., Lapen, T.J., 2020, High‐Temperature HCl Evolutions From Mixtures of Perchlorates and Chlorides With Water‐Bearing Phases: Implications for the SAM Instrument in Gale Crater, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006173
  • Li, Y-P., Robinson, A.C., Lapen, T.J., Righter, M., Stevens, M.K., 2020, Muztaghata Dome Miocene Eclogite Facies Metamorphism: A Record of Lower Crustal Evolution of the NE Pamir. Tectonics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005917
  • Imrecke, D., Robinson, A., Owen, L., Chen, J., Schoenbohm, L., Hedrick, K., Lapen, T.J., Li, W., Yuan, Z., 2019, Mesozoic evolution of the eastern Pamir. Lithosphere, https://doi.org/10.1130/L1017.1
  • Combs, L.M., Udry, A., Howarth, G.H., Righter, M., Lapen, T.J., Gross, J., Ross, D.K., Rahib, R.R., Day, J.M.D., 2019, Petrology of the enriched poikilitic shergottite Northwest Africa 10169: Insight into the martian interior. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.07.001
  • Schmieder, M., Shaulis, B,J., Lapen, T.J., Buchner, E., Kring, D.A., 2019, In situ U–Pb analysis of shocked zircon from the Charlevoix impact structure, Québec, Canada. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13315
  • Hogancamp, J.V., Lapen, T.J., Chafetz, H.S., Elsenousy, A., 2019, The effect of solution chemistries and freezing temperatures on the morphology of cryogenic opal-A (COA): implications for past climates on Mars. Chemical Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.04.017
  • Sundell, K., Saylor, J.E., Lapen, T.J., Horton, B., 2019, Implications of variable late Cenozoic surface uplift across the Peruvian central Andes. Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41257-3
  • Righter, K., Pando, K., Ross, D.K., Righter, M., Lapen, T.J., 2019, Effect of Silicon on activity coefficients of Bi, Cd, Sn, and Ag in liquid Fe-Si, and Implications for differentiation and core formation. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13285
  • Lobpries T.A., Lapen T.J., 2019, Remote sensing evidence for a possible 10 kilometer in diameter impact structure in north-central Niger. J. African Earth Sci. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2018.09.020
  • Odoh, S., Saylor, J.E., Higuera, C., Copeland, C., Lapen, T.J., 2019, Discriminating mechanisms for coarse clastic progradation in the Colombian foreland basin using detrital zircon double dating. Andean Tectonics, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-816009-1.00008-3
  • Li J., Zheng Y., Thompson L., Lapen T.J., Fang X., 2018, Deep earthquakes in subducting slabs hosted in highly anisotropic rock fabric. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0188-3
  • Sundell, K.E., Saylor, J.E., Lapen, T.J., Styron, R.H., Villarreal, D., Usnayo, P., Cardenas, J., 2018, Peruvian Altiplano stratigraphy highlights along-strike variability in foreland basin evolution of the Cenozoic central Andes, Tectonics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017TC004775
  • Bartschi, N.C., Saylor, J.E., Lapen, T.J., Blum, M.D., Pettit, B., and Andrea, R.A, 2018, Tectonic controls on Late Cretaceous sediment provenance and stratigraphic architecture in the Book Cliffs, Utah, Geological Society of America Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B31927.1
  • Reagan, M., Heywood, L., Goff, K., Michibayashi, K., Foster, T.C., Jicha, B., Lapen, T.J., McClelland, W.C., Ohara, Y., Righter, M., Scott, S., Sims, K.W.W., 2018, Geodynamic implications of crustal lithologies from the southeast Mariana fore-arc. Geosphere, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01536.1
  • Righter, K., Pando, K., Marin, N., Ross, D. K., Righter, M., Danielson, L., Lapen, T. J. and Lee, C-T., 2018, Volatile element signatures in the mantles of Earth, Moon, and Mars: Core formation fingerprints from Bi, Cd, In, and Sn. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13005
  • Schmieder, M., Shaulis, B.J., Lapen, T.J., Kring, D.A., 2017, U-Th-Pb systematics in zircon and apatite from the Chixulub impact crater, Yucatan, Mexico. Geological Magazine, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756817000255
  • Shaulis, B.J, Righter, M., Lapen, T.J., Jolliff, B.L., Irving, A.J., 2017, 3.1 Ga crystallization age for magnesian and ferroan gabbro lithologies in the Northwest Africa 773 clan of lunar meteorites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.06.031
  • Sarafian, A.R., Hauri, E.H., McCubbin, F.M., Lapen, T.J., Berger, E., Nielsen, S.G., Marschall, H.R., Gaetani, G.A., Righter, K., Sarafian, E., 2017, Early accretion of water and volatile elements to the inner solar system: Evidence from angrites. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0209
  • Udry, A., Howarth, G.H., Lapen, T.J., Righter, M., 2017, Petrogenesis of the NWA 7320 enriched martian gabbroic shergottite: Insight into the martian crust, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.01.032
  • Kent, J.J., Brandon, A.D., Joy, K.H., Peslier, A.H., Lapen, T.J., Irving, A.J., Coleff, D.M., 2017, Mineralogy and petrogenesis of lunar magnesian granulitic meteorite Northwest Africa 5744. Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.12898
  • Righter K., Nickodem K., Pando K., Danielson L., Boujibar A., Righter M., Lapen T. J., 2017, Distribution of Sb, As, Ge, and In between metal and silicate during accretion and core formation in the Earth. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.10.045
  • Lapen, T.J, Righter, M., Andreasen, R., Irving, A.J., Satkoski, A.M., Beard, B.L., Nishiizumi, K., Jull, A.J.T., Caffee, M.W., 2017, 2 Billion years of magmatism recorded from a single Mars ejection site. Science Advances, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600922
  • Chen, X., Lapen T.J., Chafetz H.S., 2017, Accurate and precise silicon isotope analysis of sulfur and iron-rich samples by MC-ICP-MS. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, https://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12158
  • McLeod C, Brandon AD, Fernandes, VA, Peslier AH, Shafer J, Lapen TJ, Butcher A, Irving A, 2016, Constraints on Formation and Evolution of the Lunar Crust from Feldspathic Granulitic Breccias NWA 3163 and 4881. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.04.032
  • Chen, X., Chafetz, H.S., Andreasen, R., Lapen T.J., 2016, Silicon isotope compositions of euhedral authigenic quartz crystals: Implications for abiotic fractionation at surface temperatures. Chemical Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.01.008
  • Fernandez A, Lapen TJ, Andreasen R, Swart PK, White CD, Rosenheim BE, 2015, Ventilation time scales of the North Atlantic subtropical cell revealed by coral radiocarbon from the Cape Verde Islands, Paleoceanography, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015PA002790
  • Armytage RMG, Brandon AD, Andreasen R, Lapen TJ, 2015, Evolution of Mojavian mantle lithosphere influenced by Farallon plate subduction: evidence from Hf and Nd isotopes in peridotite xenoliths from Dish Hill, CA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.03.038
  • Skora S, Mahlen NJ, Johnson CM, Baumgartner L, Lapen TJ, Beard BL, Szilvagyi ET, 2015, Evidence for protracted prograde metamorphism followed by rapid exhumation of the Zermatt-Saas Fee Ophiolite. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12148
  • Armytage, R. M. G., Brandon, A. D., Peslier, A. H., Lapen, T. J., 2014. Osmium isotope evidence for Early to Middle Proterozoic lithosphere stabilization and concomitant production of juvenile crust in Dish hill, CA peridotite xenoliths. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.04.017
  • Joy, K.H., Nemchin, A., Grange, M., Lapen, T.J., Peslier, A.H., Ross, D.K., Zolensky, M.E., Kring, D.A., 2014, Petrography, geochronology and source terrain characteristics of lunar meteorites Dhofar 925, 961 and Sayh al Uhaymir 449, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.08.013
  • Wittmann A., Korotev R.L., Jolliff B.L., Lapen T.J., Irving A.J., 2014, The petrogenesis of impact basin melt rocks in lunar meteorite Shişr 161. American Mineralogist, 99. 1626-1647, https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2014.4837
  • McClelland W.C., Lapen T.J., 2013, Linking time to the pressure-temperature path for ultrahigh-pressure rocks. Elements, https://doi.org/10.2113/gselements.9.4.273
  • Tomlinson D.W., Copeland P., Murphy M.A., Lapen T.J., 2013, Oligocene shortening in the Little Burro Mountains of southwest New Mexico. Rocky Mountain Geology, https://doi.org/10.2113/gsrocky.48.2.169
  • Beard B.L., Ludois J.M., Lapen T.J., Johnson C.M., 2013, Pre-4.0 billion year weathering on Mars constrained by Rb-Sr geochronology on meteorite ALH 84001. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.10.021
  • Sanchez VI, Murphy MA, Robinson AC, Lapen TJ, Heizler MT, 2013, Tectonic evolution of the India-Asia suture zone since Middle Eocene time, Lopukangri area, south-central Tibet. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.09.004
  • Ahmad I, Khan S, Lapen TJ, Burke K, 2013, Isotopic ages for alkaline igneous rocks, including a 26 Ma ignimbrite, from the Peshawar Plain of northern Pakistan and their tectonic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.10.025
  • Shaulis B.J., Lapen T.J., Casey J.F., Reid D.R., 2012, Timing and rates of flysch sedimentation in the Stanley Group, Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma and Arkansas, U.S.A.: Constraints from U-Pb zircon ages of subaqueous ash-flow tuffs. Journal of Sedimentary Research – Current Ripples. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2012.68
  • van Acken D., Brandon A.D., Lapen T.J., 2012, Highly siderophile element and osmium isotope evidence for post-core formation magmatic and impact processes on the aubrite parent body. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2012.01425.x
  • Peslier A.H., Woodland A.B., Bell D.R., Lazarov M., Lapen T.J., 2012, Metasomatic control of water contents in the Kaapvaal cratonic mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.08.028
  • Robinson AC, Ducea M, Lapen TJ, 2012, Detrital Zircon and Isotopic Constraints on the Crustal Architecture and Tectonic Evolution of the Northeastern Pamir. Tectonics. Tectonics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2011TC003013
  • Zhu Y, Bhattacharya JP, Li W, Lapen TJ, Jicha BR, Singer BS, 2012, Milankovitch-Scale Sequence Stratigraphy and Stepped Forced Regressions of the Turonian Ferron Notom Deltaic Complex, South-Central Utah, U.S.A Journal of Sedimentary Research http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2012.63
  • Copeland P., Murphy M.A., Dupre W.R., Lapen T.J., 2011, Oligocene deformation in southern New Mexico and its implications for Farallon plate geodynamics. Geosphere, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES00672.1
  • Hui, H., Peslier, A.H., Lapen, T.J., Shafer, J.T., Brandon, A.D., Irving, A.J., 2011, Petrogenesis of basaltic shergottite Northwest Africa 5298: Closed system crystallization of an oxidized mafic melt. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01231.x
  • Zhang R, Murphy MA, Lapen TJ, Sanchez V, Heizler M, 2011, Late Eocene crustal thickening followed by Early-Late Oligocene Extension along the India-Asia suture zone: Evidence for cyclicity in the Tibet-Himalayan orogen. Geosphere https://doi.org/10.1130/GES00643.1
  • Shaulis, B., Lapen, T.J., Toms, A., 2010, Signal linearity of an extended range pulse counting detector: Applications to accurate and precise U‐Pb dating of zircon by laser ablation quadrupole ICP‐MS, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GC003198
  • Shafer, J.T., Brandon, A.D., Lapen, T.J., Righter, M., Peslier, A.H., Beard, B.L., 2010, Trace element systematics and 147Sm-143Nd and 176Lu-176Hf ages of Larkman Nunatak 06319: Closed-system fractional crystallization of an enriched shergottite magma, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.09.009
  • Peslier A.H., Hnatyshin D., Herd, C.D.K., Walton E.L., Brandon A.D., Lapen T.J., Shafer J.T., 2010, Crystallization, melt inclusion, and redox history of a new Martian meteorite: olivine phyric shergottite LAR 06319. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.05.002
  • Lapen T.J., Righter M., Brandon A.D., Debaille V., Beard B.L., Shafer J.T., and Peslier A.H., 2010, A younger age for ALH 84001 and its geochemical link to shergottite sources in Mars. Science, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1185395
  • Skora, S, Lapen, TJ, Baumgartner, LP, Johnson, CM, Hellenbrand, E, and Mahlen, NJ., 2009, The duration of prograde garnet crystallization in the UHP eclogites at Lago di Cignana, Italy. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.024
  • Brandon, AD, Lapen, TJ, Debaille, V, Beard, BL, Rankenburg, K, and Neal, C., 2009, Re-evaluating 142Nd/144Nd in Lunar Mare basalts with implications for the early evolution and bulk Sm/Nd of the Moon. Cosmochim. Acta https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2009.07.015
  • Lapen, T.J., Medaris, L.G.Jr., Beard, B.L., Johnson, C.M., 2009, The Sandvik peridotite, Gurskøy, Norway: Three billion years of mantle evolution in the Baltica lithosphere. Lithos, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2008.08.007
  • Lapen T.J., Cuthbert, S., Dobrzhinetskaya, L., 2008, International Eclogite Field Symposium and Workshop of the Task Force IV, International Lithosphere Program; Episodes, v. 31, 1-3.
  • Skora, S., Baumgartner, L.P., Mahlen, N.J., Lapen, T.J., Bussy, F., 2008, Estimation of a maximum Lu diffusion rate in a natural eclogite garnet. Swiss J. Geosciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00015-008-1268-y
  • Chafetz, H.S., Wu, Z., Lapen, T.J., Milliken, K.L., 2008, Geochemistry of preserved Permian aragonitic cements in the tepees of the Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas and New Mexico, U.S.A.; Journal Sedimentary Research, https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2008.025
  • Mahlen, N.J., Beard, B.L., Johnson, C.M., Lapen, T.J., 2008, An investigation of dissolution methods for Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd isotope studies in zircon and garnet bearing whole rock samples. Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GC001605
  • Copeland, P., Watson, E.B., Urizar, S.C., Patterson, D., Lapen, T.J., 2007, Alpha thermochronology of carbonates I: Experimental data, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2007.07.004
  • Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Hacker, B.R., Johnson, C.M., Beard, B.L., Mahlen, N.J., Lapen, T.J., 2007, Coupled Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd geochronology constrains prograde and exhumation histories of high- and ultrahigh-pressure eclogites from western Norway. Chem. Geol https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.03.006
  • Lapen, T.J., Johnson, C.M., Baumgartner, L.P., Dal Piaz, G.V., Skora, S., Beard, B.L., 2007, Coupling of oceanic and continental crust during Eocene eclogite facies metamorphism: Evidence from the Monte Rosa nappe, Western Alps, Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-006-0144-x
  • Lapen, TJ, Medaris, LG Jr, Johnson, CM, and Beard, BL, 2005, Archean to Middle Proterozoic evolution of Baltica subcontinental lithosphere: evidence from combined Sm- Nd and Lu-Hf isotpe analyses of the Sandvik ultramafic body, Norway. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-005-0021-z
  • Brown, E.H., Lapen, T.J., Leckie, M.R., Silva, P.I., Verga, D., Singer, B.S., 2005, Revised ages of blueschist metamorphism and the youngest pre-thrusting rocks in the San Juan Islands, Washington. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1139/E05-033
  • Jicha, B.R., Singer, B., Brophy, J.G., Fournelle, J.H., Johnson, C.M., Beard, B.L., Lapen, T.J., and Mahlen, N.J., 2004, Variable impact of the subducted slab on Aleutian island arc magma sources: evidence from Sr, Nd, Pb, and Hf isotopes and trace element abundances. Jour. Petrol. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egh036
  • Lapen, T.J., Mahlen, N.J., Johnson, C.M., Beard, B.L., 2004, High precision Lu and Hf isotope analyses of both spiked and unspiked samples: A new approach, Geochem Geophys Geosyst, https://doi.org/10.1029/2003GC000582
  • Lapen, T.J., Johnson, C.M., Baumgartner, L.P., Mahlen, N.J., Beard, B.L., Amato, J.M., 2003, Burial rates during prograde metamorphism of an ultra-high pressure terrane: an example from Lago di Cignana, Western Alps, Italy, Earth Planet Sci Lett, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00455-2
  • Brown, E.H., Talbot, J.L., McClelland, W.C., Feltman, J.A., Lapen, T.J., Bennett, J.D., Hettinga, M.A., Troost, M.L., Alvarez, K.M., Calvert, A.T., 2000, Interplay of plutonism and regional deformation in an obliquely convergent arc, southern Coast Belt, British Columbia: Tectonics, https://doi.org/10.1029/1999TC001168
  • Dragovich, J.D., Logan, R.L., Schasse, H.W., Walsh, T.J., Lingley, W.S. Jr., Norman, D.K., Gerstel, W.J., Lapen, T.J, Schuster, J.E., and Meyers, K.D., 2002, Geologic map of Washington. Northwest quadrant: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Geologic Map GM-50, 72 p., 3 pl., scale 1:250,000. [PDF]
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