PUBLICATIONS

Published Papers

Kusky, T.M., Ganley, R., Lytwyn, J. and Polat, A., 2004, The Resurrection Peninsula ophiolite, melange, and accreted flysch belts of southern Alaska as an analog for trench-forearc systems in Precambrian Orogens, in Precambrian Ophiolites and Related Rocks (T.M. Kusky, ed.), Elsevier, pp. 627-674.

Lytwyn, J.N., Rutherford, E., Burke, K. and Xia, C., 2001. The geochemistry of volcanic, plutonic and turbiditic rocks from Sumba, Indonesia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, vol. 19(4), p. 481-500.

Rutherford, E., Burke, K. and Lytwyn, J.N., 2001. Tectonic history of Sumba Island, Indonesia, since the Late Cretaceous and its rapid escape into the forearc in the Miocene. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, vol. 19(4), p. 453-479.

Lytwyn, J.N., Lockhart, S., Casey, J.F. and Kusky, T., 2000. Geochemistry of near-trench intrusives associated with ridge subduction, Seldovia Quadrangle, southern Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 105, p. 27,957-27,978.

Lytwyn, J.N., Casey, J.F., Gilbert, S. and Kusky, T., 1997. Arc-like MORB formed seaward of a trench-forearc system just prior to ridge subduction: an example from subaccreted ophiolites in southern Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 102, p. 10,225-10,243.

Lytwyn, J.N. and Casey, J.F., 1995. The geochemistry of postkinematic mafic dike swarms and subophiolitic metabasites, Pozanti-Karsanti ophiolite, Turkey: evidence for ridge subduction. Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 107, p. 830-850.

Lytwyn, J.N. and Casey, J.F., 1993. The geochemistry and petrogenesis of volcanics and sheeted dikes from the Hatay (Kizildag) ophiolite, southern Turkey: Possible formation with the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus, along forearc spreading centers. Tectonophysics, vol. 223, p. 237-272.

Burke, K. and Lytwyn, J.N., 1993. Origin of the rift under the Amazon Basin as a result of continental collision during Pan-African time. International Geology Review, vol. 35, p. 881-897.

Montgomery, C.W. and Lytwyn, J.N., 1984. Rb-Sr systematics and ages of principal Precambrian lithologies in the South Snowy Block, Beartooth Mountains. Journal of Geology, vol.92, p 103-112.

 

 

Published Abstracts

Burke, K. and Lytwyn, J.N., 1996. How and when the island of Sumba, a fragment of the Banda volcanic arc of Indonesia, became isolated in the forearc and what has happened to the island since then. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 28, p. A-371.

Lytwyn, J.N. and Burke, K., 1995. Short hectic life, sudden death and burial of the Deccan Trap Source Mantle Plume (DTSMP). American Geophysical Union Abstracts and Program, vol. 76, p. F571.

Lytwyn, J.N. and Casey, J.F., 1991. The geochemistry of mafic to intermediate volcanics and dikes from the Pozanti-Karsanti and Hatay ophiolites, southern Turkey: Evidence for Late Cretaceous ridge subduction within the Neo-Tethyan ocean(s). American Geophysical Union Abstracts and Program, vol. 72, p. 244.

Lytwyn, J.N., Casey, J.F. and Savci, G., 1988. Geochemical and petrological investigations of the metamorphic sole and late diabase dike swarms in the Pozanti-Karsanti ophiolite, Turkey. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, vol. 20, p A166.

Gray, B.A., Montgomery, C.W. and Lytwyn, J.N., 1982. Multiple parent magmas indicated for Late Archean granitic rocks from the Southwestern Beartooth Mountains. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, vol. 14, p. 501.

Montgomery, C.W. and Lytwyn, J.N., 1981. Ages of Precambrian plutonic rocks and migmatites in the Southwest Beartooth Mountains. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, vol. 13, p. 513.

 

Papers in Preparation.

Lytwyn, J.N., Burke, K., and Culver, S.J., 2005?, Geochemical evidence mainly from Sierra Leone bearing on the nature and the location of the suture zone bounding the West African Craton.

 

Special Issues

Gwalani, L.G. and Lytwyn, J.N. (Editors), 2000. Special Issue on Alkaline and Carbonatitic Magmatism and Associated Mineralization - Part 1. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, vol. 18(2), p. 123-251.

Gwalani, L.G. and Lytwyn, J.N., (Editors), 2001. Special Issue on Alkaline and Carbonatitic Magmatism and Associated Mineralization - Part 2. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, vol. 19(3), p. 259-412.

 

Graduate Research

Lytwyn, J.N., 1993. Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Forearc Volcanics and Intrusives Possibly Associated with Ridge Subduction: Examples from the Pozanti-Karsanti and Hatay Ophiolites, Southern Turkey, and Chugach-Prince William Terranes, Southern Alaska. Ph.D. Dissertation, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX, 318p.

Lytwyn, J.N., 1982. Geochemistry and Ages of Precambrian Plutonic Rocks from the Southwest Beartooth Mountains, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming and Montana. M.S. Thesis, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL., 111p.