publications

peer-reviewed journals

2011

Bosak, T., Lahr, D. J. G., Pruss, S. B., Macdonald, F. A., Dalton, L., Matys, E., 2011, Agglutinated tests in post-       

                Sturtian cap carbonates of Namibia and Mongolia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 308, 29-40.

Cohen, P. A., Schopf, J. W., Butterfield, N. J., Kudryavtsev, A., and Macdonald, F. A., 2011, Phosphate


biomineralization in mid-Neoproterozoic protists, Geology, 39, 539-542.

Tosca, N. J., Macdonald, F. A., Strauss, J. V., Johnston, D. T., and Knoll, A. H., 2011, Sedimentary talc in

Neoproterozoic carbonate successions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 306, 11-22.

Macdonald, F.A., Smith, E.F., Strauss, J.V., Cox, G.M., Halverson, G.P., and Roots, C.F., 2011,

Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic correlations in the western Ogilvie Mountains, Yukon, in 

McFarlane, K.E., Weston, L.H., and Blackburn, L.R. (eds), Yukon Exploration and Geology 2010

Whitehorse, YT, Yukon Geological Survey, p. 161-182.

Hoffman, P. F., Macdonald, F. A. & Halverson, G.P., 2011, Chemical sediments associated with

Neoproterozoic glaciation: Iron formation, cap carbonates, barite, and phosphorite. In: Arnaud,

E., Halverson, G. P., and Shields-Zhou, G. (eds), The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations

Geological Society, London, Geological Society of London Memoirs, 36, p. 67-80.

Macdonald, F. A. & Jones, D. S., 2011, The Dzabkhan Basin, Mongolia. In: Arnaud, E., Halverson, G. P.,

and Shields-Zhou, G. (eds), The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Geological Society, 

London, Geological Society of London Memoirs, 36, p. 331-337.

Macdonald, F. A. & Jones, D.S., 2011, The Khubsugul Group, Mongolia. In: Arnaud, E., Halverson, G. P.,

and Shields-Zhou, G. (eds), The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Geological Society, 

London, Geological Society of London Memoirs, 36, p. 339-345.

Macdonald, F. A., 2011, The Katakturuk Dolomite, Arctic Alaska. In: Arnaud, E., Halverson, G. P., and

Shields-Zhou, G. (eds), The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Geological Society, 

London, Geological Society of London Memoirs, 36, p. 379-387.

Macdonald, F. A., 2011, The Tatonduk inlier, Alaska-Yukon border. In: Arnaud, E., Halverson, G. P., and

Shields-Zhou, G. (eds), The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Geological Society, 

London, Geological Society of London Memoirs, 36, p. 389-396.

Bosak, T., Macdonald, F.A., Lahr, D. J. G., Matys, E., in press, Putative Cryogenian ciliates from Mongolia,

Geology.

Bosak, T., Lahr, D. J. G., Pruss, S. B., Macdonald, F. A., Gooday, A.J., Dalton, L., Matys, E., in press, Possible

early foraminiferans in post-Sturtian cap carbonates, Geology.

 

2010

Hoffman, P.F., and Macdonald, F.A., 2010, Sheet-crack cements in Marinoan (635 Ma) cap

dolostones as regional benchmarks of vanishing ice-sheets, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 300, 

p. 374-384.

Macdonald, F.A., Strauss, J.V., Rose, C.V., Dudás, F.O., and Schrag, D.P., 2010, Stratigraphy of the Port

Nolloth Group of Namibia and South Africa and implications for the age of Neoproterozoic iron

formations, American Journal of Science, 310, p. 862-888.

Pruss, S.B., Bosak, T., Macdonald, F.A., McLane, M., and Hoffman, P.F., 2010, Microbial facies in a Sturtian

cap carbonate, the Rasthof Formation, Otavi Group, northern Namibia, Precambrian Research, 181, p.

187-198.

Macdonald, F.A., and Roots, C.F., 2010, Upper Fifteenmile Group in the Ogilvie Mountains and

correlations of early Neoproterozoic strata in the northern Cordillera, in McFarlane, K.E., Weston, L.H.,

and Blackburn, L.R., eds., Yukon Exploration and Geology 2009: Whitehorse, YT, Yukon Geological 

Survey, p. 237-252.

Macdonald, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., Roots, C.F., Jones, D.S., Maloof, A.C., Strauss, J.V., Cohen,

P.A., Johnston, D.T., and Schrag, D.P., 2010, Calibrating the Cryogenian, Science, 327, p. 1241-1243.

Macdonald, F.A., Cohen, P.A., Dudás, F.O., and Schrag, D.P., 2010, Early Neoproterozoic scale

microfossils in the Lower Tindir Group of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, Geology, 38, p. 143-146.



2009

Macdonald, F. A. & Jones, D. S., and Schrag, D. P., 2009, Stratigraphic and tectonic implications of a

new glacial diamictite-cap carbonate couplet in southwestern Mongolia, Geology 37, 123-126pdf

Macdonald, F. A., Schrag, D. P., McClelland, W.C. & Macdonald, W. P., 2009, Neoproterozoic glaciation 
                  
                on a carbonate platform margin in Arctic Alaska and the origin of the North Slope

                subterrane, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121, 448-473. pdf

Macdonald, F. A., 2009, Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of Arctic Alaska and Mongolia, Ph.D. Thesis,

Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 179 pp.



2005

Macdonald, F.A., Mitchell, K. & Stewart, A.J., 2005, Amelia Creek: A Proterozoic impact structure in the           

            Davenport Ranges, Northern Territory, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, 631-640. pdf

 

Macdonald, F.A., Wingate, M.T.D. & Mitchell, K., 2005, Geology and age of the Glikson impact structure,    

          Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, 641-651. pdf
 

Milton, D.L., Macdonald, F.A., 2005, Goat Paddock, Western Australia: An impact crater near the simple-      

          complex transition, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, 691-698. pdf 

Shoemaker, C.S., Macdonald, F.A., 2005, The Shoemaker legacy to the Australian impact record,

            Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
52, 477-479. pdf
 
Shoemaker, E.M., Macdonald, F.A., Shoemaker, C.S.S., 2005, Geology of five small Australian 

            impact craters, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, 529-544. pdf
 

2003

Macdonald, F.A., Bunting, J.A., Cina, S.E., 2003, Yarrabubba – a deeply eroded major impact 

           structure in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 213, 235-247.pdf
 

2000

Weiss, B.P., Kirschvink, J.L., Baudenbacher, F.J.,Vali, H., Peters, N.T., Macdonald, F.A., and     

        
    2000, A low temperature transfer of ALH84001 from Mars to Earth,Wikswo, J.P., Science
290, 791-795. pdf
 
news
Science, Editor’s Choice: Cowabunga! Yarrabubba, ed. Stella Hurtley, 2003, Science, 301, 1445. pdf
 
abstracts
Macdonald, F.A., Schrag, D.P., 2007. Chemo- and litho-stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Katakturuk Dolomite, northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska, and implications for the origin of the Arctic Alaska-Chukotka Plate, AGU, fall meeting, San Francisco, CA. pdf
 
Macdonald, F.A., Hoffman, P.F. & Schrag, D.P. 2006. A thick Ediacaran carbonate succession in Arctic Alaska, 2006 International PaleontologicalCongress,Beijing, abstract #T2-16, 285-286. pdf
 
Macdonald, F.A., Mitchell, K., Cina, S.E., 2004, Evidence for a lightning-strike origin of the Edeowie Glass, 35th LPSC # 1406. pdf
 
Macdonald, F.A., Mitchell, K., 2004, New possible, probable, and proven impact sites in Australia, 17th Australian Geological Conference, Hobart, Tasmania.  pdf
 
Macdonald, F.A., Mitchell, K., 2004, Structural and shock assymetries at the Amelia Creek impact structure, 17th Australian Geological Conference, Hobart, Tasmania. pdf

Macdonald, F.A., Bunting, J.A., Cina, S.E., 2003, Yarrabubba, Western Australia: A large deeply eroded, ancient impact structure in the Yilgarn Craton, 34th LPSC, #1116. pdf

Macdonald, F.A., Mitchell, K., 2003, Amelia Creek, Northern Territory, Australia: A 20 X 12 km oblique impact structure with no central uplift, LPI Contribution No 1155, 47. pdf