Recent publications

Miller, M.B. and D.S. Cowan, 2017, Roadside Geology of Washington, 2^nd edition. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 378 p.

Casale, G., Bennett, R.A., D.S. Cowan, and Surovic, M, 2017, Syn-convergence extension and mid-crustal exhumation in the internal Dinarides, in Law, R.D, and others, eds., Linkages and Feedbacks in Orogenic Systems: Geological Society of America Memoir 213, p. 115-127.

Evans, B.W., and Cowan, D.S., 2013, A melt origin for spinifex-textured metaperidotite in the Cerro del Almirez massif, southern Spain. American Journal of Science, v. 312, p. 967-993.

Nemser, E.S., Cowan, D.S., 2009, Downdip segmentation of strike-slip fault zones in the brittle crust. Geology, v. 37, p. 419-422.

Bennett, R.A.and others and Cowan, D.S., 2008, Eocene to present subduction of southern Adria mantle lithosphere beneath the Dinarides. Geology, v. 36, p. 3-6.

Reiners, P.W. and others and Cowan, D.S., 2005, (U-Th)/(He-Pb) double dating of detrital zircons. American Journal of Science, v. 305, p. 259-311.

Cowan, D.S., 2003, Revisiting the Baranof-Leech River hypothesis for early Tertiary coastwise transport of the Chugach-Prince William terrane: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 213, p. 463-475.

Cowan, D.S., Cladouhos, T.T., and Morgan, J.K., 2003, Structural geology and kinematic history of rocks formed along low-angle normal faults, Death Valley, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 1230-1248.

Hayman, N.W., Knott, J.R., Cowan, D.S., and Sarna-Wojcicki, 2003, Quaternary low-angle slip on detachment faults in Death Valley, California. Geology, v. 31, p. 343-346

Cowan, D.S., and Pini, G.A., 2001, Disrupted and chaotic rock units. in Vai, G.B., and Martini, I. P., eds., Anatomy of An Orogen—The Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins: Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 165-176.

Cowan, D.S., 1999, Do faults preserve a record of seismic slip? A field geologist’s opinion: Journal of Structural Geology Twentieth Anniversary Issue, v. 21, p. 995-1001

Cowan, D.S., Brandon, M.T., and Garver, J.G., 1997, Geologic tests of hypotheses for large coastwise displacements—a critique illustrated by the Baja British Columbia controversy. American Journal of Science,v. 297, p. 117-173.

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