Recent publications - Doctor Alan Collins
Collins, A.S. and Murphy, J.B., (submitted), '40Ar-39Ar white mica ages reveal Neoproterozoic/Paleozoic provenance and an Alleghanian overprint in coeval Upper Ordovician-Lower Devonian rocks of Meguma and Avalonia': American Journal of Science.
2008
Kelsey, D.E., Wade, B.P., COLLINS, A.S., Hand, M., Sealing, C.R. and Netting, A. 2008. A Neoproterozoic basin precursor to UHT metamorphism in the Prydz Bay belt in east Antarctica. Precambrian Research, 161, 355-388
Li, Z.X., Bogdanova, S.V., COLLINS, A.S., Davidson, A., De Waele, B., Ernst, R.E., Fitzsimons, I.C.W., Fuck, R.A., Gladkochub, D.P., Jacobs, J., Karlstrom, K.E., Lu, S., Natapov, L.M., Pease, V., Pisarevsky, S.A., Thrane, K., Vernikovsky, V. 2008, Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: a synthesis, Precambrian Research, 160, 179-210
Pisarevsky, S.A., Murphy, J.B., Cawood, P.A and COLLINS, A.S. 2008. Late Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian palaeogeography: models and problems. In: Brito Neves, B.B., Trouw, R.A.J., de Wit, M.J. and Pankhurst, R.J. (eds). Western Gondwana: Pre-Cenozoic Geology Bordering the South Atlantic.
Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 294, 9-31.
2007
Collins, A.S.; Clark, C.; Sajeev, K.; Santosh, M.; Kelsey, D.E. and Hand, M. 2007. Passage Through India: The Mozambique Ocean Suture, High Pressure Granulites and the Palghat-Cauvery Shear Zone System. Terra Nova. 19: 144-147.
Collins, A.S.; Santosh, M.; Braun, I. and Clark, C. 2007. Age and Sedimentary Provenance of the Southern Granulites, South India: U-Th-Pb SHRIMP Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. Precambrian Research. 155: 125 -138.
Strachan, R.A.; Collins, A.S.; Buchan, C.; Nance, R.D.; Murphy, J.B. and D'Lemos, R.S. 2007. Terrane analysis along a Neoproterozoic active margin of Gondwana: insights from U-Pb zircon geochronology. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 164: 57-60.
2006
Clark, C.; Schmidt Mumm, A., and Collins, A.S. 2006. A coupled micro and macro structural approach to the analysis of fluid induced brecciation, Curnamona Province, South Australia. Journal of Structural Geology. 28: 745-761.
Collins, A.S. 2006. Madagascar and the Amalgamation of Central Madagascar. Gondwana Research (GR Focus), 9: 3-16.
Danelian, T.; Robertson, A.H.F.; Collins , A.S. and Poisson, A. 2006. Biochronology of Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous radiolarites from the Lycian Mélange (SW Turkey) and implications for the evolution of the Northern Neotethyan ocean. in Robertson, AHF and Mountrakis D (eds) Tectonic Development of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 260: 229-236.
Kehelpannala, K.V.W. and Collins, A.S. 2006 The Role of Sri Lanka and Associated Continental Blocks in the Assembly and Break-up of Rodinia and Gondwana: Introduction. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 28: 1-2.
Kelsey, D.E.; Clark C. and Collins A.S. 2006. Comment on "First report of garnet-corundum from southern India: Implications for prograde high pressure (eclogite-facies?) metamorphism Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 249: 529-534.
Parthasarathy, G.; Collins, A.S. and Chetty, T.R.K. 2006. Natural graphite from Neoproterozoic psammitic gneiss, Inanalo Mountain, southern Madagascar. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 68: 176-180.
Santosh, M.; Tagawa, M.; Yokoyama, K. and Collins, A.S. 2006. U-Pb Electron probe geochronology of the Nagercoil Granulites, Southern India: Implications for Gondwana Amalgamation. Journal of Asian Earth Science. 28: 68-80.
Santosh, M.; Collins, A.S.; Tamashiro, I. Koshimoto, S.; Tsutsumi Y. and Yokoyama K. 2006. The timing of ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in Southern India: U-Th-Pb electron microprobe ages from zircon and monazite in sapphirine-bearing granulites. Gondwana Research. 10: 128-155.
2005
Collins , A.S. and Pisarevsky S.A. 2005. Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: The evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens. Earth Science Reviews. 71: 229-270.
Gutiérrez-Alonso, G.; Fernández-Suárez , J.; Collins, A.S.; Abad , I. and Nieto, F. 2005. An Amazonian Mesoproterozoic basement in the core of the Ibero-Armorican Arc: 39Ar/ 40Ar detrital mica ages tell their tale. Geology. 33: 637-640.
Ring, U.; Collins, A.S. and Kassem, O.K. 2005. U-Pb SHRIMP data on the crystallization age of the Gran Paradiso augen gneiss, Italian Western Alps: further evidence for Permian magmatic activity in the Alps during break-up of Pangea. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. vol. 98: 363-370.
Ring, U. and Collins, A.S. 2005. U-Pb SIMS dating of syn-kinematic granites: Timing of core-complex formation in the northern Anatolide belt of western Turkey. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 162: 289-298.
Santosh, M.; Collins, A.S.; Morimoto, T. and Yokoyama, K. 2005. Depositional constraints and age of metamorphism in southern India: U—Pb chemical (EMPA) and isotopic (SIMS) ages from the Trivandrum Block. Geological Magazine, 142: 255- 268.
Santosh, M.; Tanaka, K.; Yokoyama, K. and Collins, A.S. 2005. Late Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Felsic Magmatism Along Transcrustal Shear Zones in Southern India: U-Pb Electron Microprobe Ages and Implications for the Amalgamation of the Gondwana Supercontinent. Gondwana Research, 8: 31-42.
2004
Collins , A.S. and Buchan, C. 2004. Provenance and Age Constraints of the South Stack Group, Anglesey, UK: U-Pb SIMS Detrital Zircon Data. Journal of the Geological Society, London – Special, 161: 743-746.
Collins , A.S. ; Reddy, S.M.; Buchan, C. and Mruma, A. 2004. Temporal Constraints on Palaeoproterozoic Eclogite Formation and Exhumation (Usagaran Orogen, Tanzania). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 224: 177-194.
Cox, R.; Coleman, D.S.; Chokel, C.B.; DeOreo, S.B.; Wooden, J.L.; Collins A.S.; De Waele, B. and Kröner, A. 2004. Proterozoic tectonostratigraphy and paleogeography of central Madagascar derived from detrital zircon U-Pb age populations. Journal of Geology, 112: 379-400.
Gessner, K.; Collins, A.S.; Ring, U and Güngör T. 2004. Structural and thermal history of poly-orogenic basement: SHRIMP geochronology of granitoid rocks in the southern Menderes Massif, Western Turkey. Journal of Geological Society, London. 161: 3-101.
Reddy, S.M.; Collins, A.S.; Buchan A.C. and Mruma, A.H. 2004. Heterogeneous excess argon and Neoproterozoic heating in the Usagaran Orogen, Tanzania, revealed by single grain 40Ar/ 39Ar thermochronology. Journal of African Earth Sciences 39: 165-176.
Robertson A.; Ustaömer T.; Pickett, E.; Collins, A.S.; Andrew, T., and Dixon J. 2004. Testing Hypotheses of Triassic Orogenesis in W Turkey: Support for an Evolving Open-Tethys Model. Journal of Geological Society, London, 161: 511.
2003
Collins , A.S. 2003. Structure and Age of the Northern Leeuwin Complex, Western Australia: Constraints from Field Mapping and U-Pb Isotopic Analysis. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 50: 585-599.
Collins , A.S.; Fitzsimons, I.C.W.; Hulscher, B. and Razakamanana, T. 2003. Structure of the eastern margin of the East African Orogen in central Madagascar. Precambrian Research. 123: 111-133.
Collins , A.S. ; Kröner, A.; Fitzsimons, I.C.W. and Razakamanana, T. 2003. Detrital Footprint of the Mozambique Ocean: U/Pb SHRIMP and Pb Evaporation Zircon Geochronology of Metasedimentary Gneisses in Eastern Madagascar. Tectonophysics. 375: 77-99.
Collins , A.S. ; Johnson, S.; Fitzsimons, I.C.W.; Powell, C.McA.; Hulscher, B.; Abello, J. and Razakamanana, T. 2003, Neoproterozoic deformation in central Madagascar: a structural section through part of the East African Orogen. In: Proterozoic East Gondwana: Supercontinent Assembly and Breakup' (eds. Yoshida, M.; Windley, B.F. and Dasgupta S.). Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 206: 363-379.
Collins, A.S. and Robertson, A.H.F. 2003. Kinematic evidence for Late Mesozoic-Miocene emplacement of the Lycian Allochthon over the Western Anatolide Belt, SW Turkey. Geological Journal, 38: 295-310.
Reddy, S.M.; Collins, A.S. and Mruma, A. 2003 Complex High-Strain Deformation in the Usagaran Orogen, Tanzania: Structural Setting of Palaeoproterozoic Eclogites. Tectonophysics. 375: 101-123.
Santosh, M. and Collins, A.S. 2003. Gemstone mineralization in the Palghat-Cauvery shear zone system (Karur-Kangayam Belt), southern India. Gondwana Research, 6: 911-918.
2002
Collins, A.S. and Windley B.F. 2002. The Tectonic Evolution of Central and Northern Madagascar and its place in the Final Assembly of Gondwana. The Journal of Geology, 110: 325-340.
Robertson, A.H.F. and Collins, A.S. 2002. Shyok Suture Zone, N Pakistan: late Mesozoic-Tertiary evolution of a critical suture separating the oceanic Kohistan Arc from the Asian continental margin. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 20: 309-351.
