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Department of Earth Sciences

St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

 


Books edited

Journal issues edited

Refereed Papers

Invited scientific publications

Other Refereed Publications

Monograph/Geologic Memoir

Textbook

Published Maps

Field Guidebooks

Public Education


 

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Books edited:

 

Keppie, J.D., Murphy, J.B., Ortega-Gutierrez, F. and Ernst, G. 2008.   Middle America terranes, potential correlatives and orogenic processes.   CRC, Routledge, LEA Publishing, 397p. 

 

Murphy, J.B. Keppie, J.D. and Hynes, A.J., 2009.  Ancient orogens and modern analogues.  Geological Society of London Special Publication 327,  481p.

 

 

Journal issues edited:

 

McCausland, P., Murphy, J.B., and MacNiocaill, C., 2006 (editors). Endings and Beginnings: Paleogeography, life and climate of the terminal Neoproterozoic through Cambrian time. Precambrian Research, v. 147, p. 187-420.

 

Murphy, J.B., and  Keppie, J.D., 2003 (editors). Collisional orogenesis in the geological record and modern analogues: Preface. Tectonphysics, 355, p. 1-5.

 

Eguiluz, L., Murphy, J.B.,  and Zulauf, G., 2002 (editors).  Cadomian orogens, peri-Gondwanan correlatives and Laurentia-Baltica connections. Tectonophysics, v. 352, 256p.

 

 

Refereed papers:   

 

Abad, I., Murphy, J.B., Nieto, F., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., 2010. Diagenesis to metamorphism transition in an epi-sutural basin: The Late Paleozoic St. Mary’s Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47, in press.

 

Braid, J.A., Murphy, J.B., and Quesada, C., 2010. Structural analysis of an accretionary prism in a continental collisional setting, the Late Paleozoic Pulo do Lobo Zone,  Southern Iberia. Gondwana Research, 17, 422-439.

 

Webster, T.L., Murphy, J.B., and Quinn, D. 2010. Remote predictive mapping of a potential vent complex in the southern Antigonish Highlands using LiDAR, magnetics and field mapping.  Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. accepted September 2009, in press.

 

Keppie, J.D., Nance, R.D., Murphy, J.B., Dostal, J., and Braid, J.A., 2010. The High pressure Iberian – Czech Belt in the Variscan Orogen: extrusion into the Upper Gondwanan Plate. Gondwana Research 17, 306-316.

 

Ortega-Obregon, C., Murphy, J.B. and Keppie, J.D., 2010. Ordovician rift-related sequences in the western Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico: constraints on paleogeographic reconstructions. Lithos, 114, 155-167.

 

Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D., Nance, R.D. and Dostal, J., 2010. Comparative evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic oceans: a North American perspective. Gondwana Research, 17, 482-499.

 

Nance, R.D., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Keppie, J.D., Linnemann, U., Murphy, J.B., Quesada, C., Strachan, R.A. and Woodcock, N., 2010. Evolution of the Rheic Ocean.  Gondwana Research, 17, 194-222.

 

Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., and Keppie, J.D., 2009.  Supercontinent reconstruction from recognition of leading continental edges. Geology, 37, 595-598.

 

Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D. and Hynes, A.J., 2009. Ancient orogens and modern analogues. Geological Society of London Special Publication 327, p. 1-8.

 

Keppie, J.D., Nance, R.D., Murphy, J.B., Miller, B.V., Dostal, J., and Ortega-Rivera, A., 2009. Comment on paper by Vega-Granillo et al., 2007, Pressure-temperature-time evolution of high pressure rocks of the Acatlán Complex (southern Mexico): implications for the evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic oceans. GSA Bulletin, v. 121, 1456-1459.

 

Dostal, J., Keppie, J.D., Murphy, J.B., and Massey, N.W.D., 2009. Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation of western Canada and Alaska: a plume-generated oceanic plateau formed along a mid-ocean ridge nucleated on a Late Paleozoic active margin. Indian Journal of Geosciences, in press.

 

Ortega-Obregon, C., Keppie, J.D., Murphy, J.B., Lee, J.K.W. and Ortega-Rivera, A., 2009. Geology and geochronology of Paleozoic rocks in western Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico: evidence for contiguity across an extruded high-pressure belt and constraints on Paleozoic reconstructions. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, 1678-1694.

 

Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., and Cawood, P.A., 2009. Contrasting modes of supercontinent formation and the conundrum of Pangea. Gondwana Research, v. 15,  p. 408–420.

 

Murphy, J.B., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Nance, R.D., Fernández-Suárez, J., Keppie, J.D., Quesada, C., Dostal, J., and Braid, J.A., 2009. Rheic ocean mafic complexes: overview and synthesis, in  Ancient Orogens and Modern Analogues  edited by  J.B. Murphy, J.D. Keppie and A.J. Hynes,  Geological Society of London Special Publication 327, 343-369.

 

Nance, R.D., Keppie, J.D.,  Miller, B.V., Murphy, J.B.,  and Dostal, J.,  2009.  SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Palaeozoic palaeogeography of Mexico: Constraints from detrital zircon age data, in  Ancient Orogens and Modern Analogues  edited by  J.B. Murphy, J.D. Keppie and A.J. Hynes,  Geological Society of London, Special Publication 327, 239-269.

 

López-Guijarro, R., Armendáriz, M., Quesada, C., Fernández-Suárez, J., Murphy, J.B., Pin, Ch., and Bellido, F., 2008. Ediacaran-Palaeozoic tectonic evolution of the Ossa Morena and Central Iberian zones (SW Iberia) as revealed by Sm-Nd isotope systematics.  Tectonophysics,  461, 202-214.

 

Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Fernández-Suárez, J., Weil, A.B., Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., Corfú, F., and Johnston, S.T., 2008. Self-subduction of the Pangean global plate. Nature (Geoscience) 1, 549-553, doi:10.1038/ngeo250.

 

Murphy, J.B., and Nance, R.D.,  2008. The Pangea Conundrum. Geology, v. 36, 703-706.

 

Murphy, J.B., McCausland, P.J.A., O’Brien, S. J., Pisarevsky, S. and Hamilton, M.A., 2008. Age, geochemistry and Sm-Nd isotopic signature of the 0.76 Ga Burin Group: compositional equivalent of Avalonian basement? Precambrian Research, 165, 37-48.

 

Murphy, J.B., and Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., 2008. The origin of the Variscan NW Iberian allochthonous complexes in NW Iberia: Sm/Nd isotopic constraints.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 45, 651-668.

 

Murphy, J.B., Dostal, J., and Keppie, J.D., 2008. Neoproterozoic-Early Devonian Magmatism in the Antigonish Highlands, Avalon terrane, Nova Scotia: tracking the evolution of the mantle and crustal sources during the evolution of the Rheic Ocean.   Tectonophysics, v. 461 181–201. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.02.003  

 

Murphy, J.B., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Fernández-Suárez, J. and Braid, J.A.,  2008.  Probing crustal and mantle lithosphere origin through Ordovician volcanic rocks along the northern (Iberian) passive margin of Gondwana. Tectonophysics, 461, 166–180. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.03.013

 

Keppie, J.D., Dostal, J., Murphy, J.B.,  and Nance, R.D., 2008.  The western end of the Paleozoic Variscan orogen in southern Mexico: from rifted Rheic margin to active Pacific margin. Tectonophysics,  461, 277–290. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.01.012 

 

Keppie, J.D., Dostal, J., Miller, B.V., Ramos-Arias, M.A., Morales-Gamez, M., Nance, R.D., Murphy, J.B., Ortega-Rivera, A., Lee, J.W.K., Housh, T., and Cooper, P., 2008.

Ordovician-earliest Silurian rift tholeiites in the Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico: evidence of rifting on the southern margin of the Rheic Ocean  Tectonophysics,  461,   130–156. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.01.010  

 

Murphy J.B. and Collins, A.J., 2008. 40Ar–39Ar white mica ages reveal Neoproterozoic/Paleozoic provenance and an Alleghanian overprint in coeval Upper Ordovician–Lower Devonian rocks of Meguma and Avalonia  Tectonophysics, 461, 265–276.  

 

Grodzicki, K.R., Nance, R. D. Keppie, J. D., Dostal, J., and Murphy, J.B., 2008. Structural, geochemical and geochronological analysis of metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the Coatlaco area, Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico.  Tectonophysics,  clear461, 311-323. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.01.016 

 

Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Murphy J.B., Fernández-Suárez, J., Hamilton, M., 2008, Rifting along the northern Gondwana margin and the evolution of the Rheic Ocean: A Devonian age for the El Castillo volcanic rocks (Salamanca, Central Iberian Zone). Tectonophysics, 461, 157–165. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.01.013

 

Nance, R.D., Murphy, J.B., Strachan, R.A., Keppie, J.D., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Fernández-Suárez, J., Quesada, C., Linnemann, U., D’Lemos, R.S. and Pisarevsky, S.A. 2008. Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic paleogeography of the peri-Gondwanan terranes: Amazonian versus West African connections, in The Boundaries of the West African Craton, edited by Ennih, N and J-P. Liégeois. Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 297, p. 245-383.

 

Pisarevsky, S.A., Murphy, J.B., Cawood, P.A., and Collins, A.S. 2008. Late Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian palaeogeography: models and problems. In: Pankhurst, R.J., Trouw, R.A.J., Brito Neves, B.B. & de Wit, M.J. (eds) West Gondwana: Pre-Cenozoic Correlations Across the South Atlantic Region. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 294, p. 9-31. 

 

Murphy, J.B., Pisarevsky, S.A., 2008. Palaeogeography (subchapter of  ”The Precambrian”). In: McCann, T. (ed.) The Geology of Central Europe. Volume 1: Precambrian and Palaeozoic. Geological Society, London, 26-31.

 

Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Fernández-Suárez, J., Gutiérrez Marco, J.C., Corfu, F., Murphy, J.B, and  Suárez, M., 2007. U-Pb depositional age for the upper Barrios Formation (Armorican Quartzite facies) in the Cantabrian Zone of Iberia: Implications for stratigraphic correlation and paleogeography,  in U. Linnemann, R.D. Nance, G. Zulauf and P. Kraft (eds.), The Geology of Peri-Gondwana: The Avalonian-Cadomian Belt, Adjoining Cratons and the Rheic Ocean: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 423,  p. 287-296.

 

Middleton, M., Keppie, J.D., Murphy, J.B., Miller, B.V., and Nance, R.D., 2007. Ortega-Gutiérrez, A., and Lee, J.W.K. 2006. P-T-t constraints on exumation following subduction in the Rheic Ocean: eclogitic Asis Lithodeme, Piaxtla Suite, Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico, in U. Linnemann, R.D. Nance, G. Zulauf and P. Kraft (eds.), The Geology of Peri-Gondwana: The Avalonian-Cadomian Belt, Adjoining Cratons and the Rheic Ocean: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 423, p. 489-509.

 

Murphy, J.B., 2007. Arc magmatism  II:  Geochemical and isotopic constraints on petrogenesis. Geoscience Canada, v. 34, p. 1-29.

 

Murphy, J.B.,  2007. Geological evolution of  Mid-to-Late Paleozoic rocks in the Antigonish Highlands, Avalon terrane of northern mainland Nova Scotia, Canadian Appalachians:  a record of terrane accretion along the northern margin of the Rheic ocean the Appalachian-Caledonide orogen. In U. Linnemann, R.D. Nance, G. Zulauf and P. Kraft (eds.), The Geology of Peri-Gondwana: The Avalonian-Cadomian Belt, Adjoining Cratons and the Rheic Ocean: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 423, p. 413-435.

 

Murphy, J.B. and Dostal, J., 2007, Continental mafic magmatism of different ages in the same terrane: constraints on the evolution of an enriched mantle source.  Geology, v. 35, p. 335-338.

 

Nance, R.D., Miller, B.V., Keppie, J.D., Murphy, J.B., and Dostal, J., 2007. Vestige of the Rheic and paleo-pacific oceans in North America. the Acatlan Complex of southern Mexico. in U. Linnemann, R.D. Nance, G. Zulauf and P. Kraft (eds.), The Geology of Peri-Gondwana: The Avalonian-Cadomian Belt, Adjoining Cratons and the Rheic Ocean: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 423, p. 437-452.

 

Strachan, R.A., Collins A.S., Buchan, C., Nance, R.D., Murphy, J.B., and D'Lemos, R.S., 2007. Provenance and age of metamorphism of basement gneisses within Avalonia, southern Britain: evidence from U-Pb zircon geochronology. Journal of the Geological Society, London, v. 164, p. 57-60.

 

Braid, J.F., and Murphy, J.B. 2006. Acadian deformation in the Shallow Crust: an example from the Siluro-Devonian Arisaig Group, Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 43, p. 71-81.

 

Dostal, J., Keppie, J.D., Hamilton, M.A., Aarab, E.M., Lefort, J.P., and Murphy, J.B., 2006. Crustal xenoliths in Triassic lamprophyre dikes in western Morocco: tectonic implications for the Rheic Ocean suture. Geological Magazine, in press. 

 

Dostal, J., Keppie, J.D., Jutras, P., Miller, B.V., and Murphy, J.B., 2006. Pene-contemporaneous high-grade metamorphism, granitic magmatism and core complex development in the Liscomb Complex, Nova Scotia, Canada: evidence of the granulite-granite connection. Lithos, v. 86, 77-90.

 

Keppie, J.D. Nance, R.D., Fernández-Suárez, J., Storey, C.D., Jeffries, T.E., and Murphy, J.B. 2006. Detrital zircon data from the eastern Mixteca terrane, southern Mexico: evidence for an Ordovician-Mississippian continental rise and a Permo-Triassic clastic wedge adjacent to Oaxaquia. International Geology Review., v. 48, p. 97-111.

 

McCausland, P.J.A., Murphy, J.B., MacNiocaill, C., 2006. Endings and Beginnings: Paleogeography of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Transition.  Precambrian Research, v. 147, p. 187-192.

 

Murphy, J.B., 2006. Arc magmatism  I: Relationship between tectonic evolution and petrogenesis. Geoscience Canada, v.

143, p. 145-167.

 

Murphy, J. B., 2006. Fault-controlled emplacement of arc-related magmas along the Neoproterozoic northern Gondwanan margin: an example from the Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia. Precambrian Research, v. 147, p. 305-319.

 

Murphy, J.B., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Nance, R.D., Fernández-Suárez, J., Keppie, J.D., Quesada, C., Strachan, R.A., and Dostal, J., 2006. Origin of the Rheic Ocean: rifting along a Neoproterozoic suture?  Geology, v. 34, p. 325-328.

 

Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D., Nance, R.D., Miller, B.V., Middleton, M., Fernández-Suarez, J, Jeffries, T.E., and Storey, C.D., 2006. Geochemistry and U-Pb protolith ages of eclogitic rocks of the Asis Lithodeme, Piaxtla Suite, Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico: tectonothermal evolution along the southern flank of the Rheic Ocean. Journal of the Geological Society, London, v. 163, 683-695.

 

Nance, R.D., Miller, B.V., Keppie, J.D., Murphy, J.B., and Dostal, J., 2006.  The Acatlan Complex, southern Mexico: record spanning the assembly and breakup of Pangea. Geology, v. 34, p. 867-860.

 

Nance, R.D., Miller, B.V., Keppie, J.D., Murphy, J.B., Dostal, J., 2006. Comment on “U-Pb geochronology of the Acatlán Complex and implications for the Paleozoic paleogeography and tectonic evolution of southern Mexico” by O. Talavera-Mendoza, J. Ruíz, G.E. Gehrels, D.M. Meza-Figueroa, R. Vega-Granillo and M.F. Campa-Uranga [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 235 (2005) 682– 699], submitted to Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 245, 471-475.

 

Webster, T.L., Murphy, J.B. and Gosse, J.C. 2006. Mapping subtle structures with LIDAR: phreomagmatic rootless cones in the North Mountain Basalt, Nova Scotia.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 43, p. 157-176.

 

Webster, T.L., Murphy, J.B., Gosse, J.C., and Spooner, I. 2006. The application of LiDAR-derived DEM analysis to geological mapping: An example from the Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada . Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, v. 32, p. 173-193. 

 

Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Fernández-Suárez , J., Ortega-Rivera, M.A., Keppie, J.D., Lee,  J.W.K., and Murphy, J.B., 2005 . A cryptic Early Paleozoic event in the Narcea Antiform: 40Ar/39Ar amphibole date in the Puente de Selce granitoid. Geogaceta 38, 207-210.

 

Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D., Braid, J.  and Nance, R.D., 2005. Geochemistry of the Tremadocian Tiñu Formation (southern Mexico): provenance in the underlying ~1 Ga Oaxacan Complex on the southern margin of the Rheic Ocean. International Geology Review, v. 47, p. 887-900.

 

Murphy, J.B., and Keppie, J.D., 2005. The Acadian orogeny in the northern Appalachians, International Geology Review, v. 47, p. 663-687.

 

Murphy, J.B., and Nance, R.D., 2005.  Do Supercontinents Turn Inside-in or Inside-out?  International Geology Review, v. 47, p. 591-619.

 

Page, K.D. and Murphy, J.B., 2005. Hg concentrations in the bedrock of Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia: A reconnaissance study. Atlantic Geology, v. 41, 31-40.

 

Wessel, Z.R., Nance, R.D., Keppie, J.D., and Murphy, J.B., 2005. Structural analysis of the Creignish Hills Mylonite Zone, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia: Neoproterozoic core complex development along the northern Gondwanan margin? Journal of Geodynamics, v. 39, 241-246.

 

Murphy, J. B., Pisarevsky, S. A., Nance, R. D. and Keppie, J. D., 2004.   Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic configuration of peri-Gondwanan terranes: implications for Laurentia-Gondwanan  connections. International Journal of Earth Sciences.  v. 93, p. 659-682.

 

Murphy, J.B., Fernández-Suárez, J.,  Keppie, J.D., Jeffries, T.E., 2004,   Contiguous rather than discrete Paleozoic histories for the Avalon and Meguma terranes based on detrital zircon data. Geology, v. 32, 585-588. 

 

Murphy, J.B., Fernández-Suárez, J., and Jeffries, T.E.,  2004. Lithogeochemical, Sm-Nd and U-Pb isotopic data from the Silurian-Early Devonian Arisaig Group clastic rocks, Avalon terrane, Nova Scotia:  a record of terrane accretion in the Appalachian-Caledonide orogen.  Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, p. 1183-1201. 

 

Nance, R. D., Murphy, J. B.,  and Keppie, J. D., 2004.  Nick Rast and the recognition of Avalonian Arc: an historical retrospective. Journal of Geodynamics, 37, 437-455.

 

Hamilton, M.A. and Murphy, J.B., 2004. Tectonic significance of a Llanvirn age for the Dunn Point volcanic rocks, Avalon terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada: implications for the evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic oceans.  Tectonophysics, 379, 199-209.

 

Dostal, J., Mueller, W.U., and Murphy, J.B., 2004. Autochthonous basin formation on exhumed ocean floor: magmatic processes controlling Stormy basin evolution, Wabigoon Subprovince, Canada.  Journal of Geology,  112, 435-454.

 

Murphy, J.B., Fernández-Suárez, J.,  Jeffries,T.E. and Strachan, R.A., 2004. LA-ICP-MS U-Pb detrital zircon data from Cambrian clastic rocks in Avalonia: erosion of a Neoproterozoic arc along the northern Gondwanan margin. J. Geol. Soc. London,  161 p. 243-254. 

 

Murphy, J.B., Dostal, J., Nance, R.D., and Keppie, J.D., 2004. Grenville-aged juvenile crust development in the peri-Rodinian ocean. In: Tollo, R.P., Corriveau, L., McLelland, J., and Bartholomew, M. J., eds., Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America: Geological Society of America Memoir no. 197. 135-144.

 

Murphy, J. B and Nance, R. D., 2003. Do supercontinents introvert or extrovert?: Sm-Nd isotopic evidence.  Geology, 31, p. 873–876.

 

Murphy, J.B., and  Keppie, J.D., 2003. Collisional orogenesis in the geological record and modern analogues: Preface. Tectonphysics, 355, p. 1-5.

Murphy, J.B., Hynes, A.J., Johnston, S.T., and Keppie, J.D. 2003. Reconstructing the ancestral Yellowstone plume from accreted seamounts and its relationship to flat-slab subduction. Tectonophysics, 365, p. 185-194.

 

Keppie, J.D., Nance, R.D., Murphy, J.B., and Dostal J. 2003. Tethyan, Mediterranean, and Pacific analogues for the Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic birth and development of peri-Gondwanan terranes and their transfer to Laurentia and Laurussia. Tectonophysics, 365, 195-219.

 

Page, K.D., and Murphy, J.B., 2003. The Geological sources of Hg contamination in Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada: A GIS approach. Environmental Geology, v. 43, p. 882-891.

 

Murphy, J.B., 2003. Late Paleozoic formation and development of the St. Marys Basin, mainland Nova Scotia, Canada: a prolonged record of intra-continental strike-slip deformation during the assembly of Pangaea. In : Intraplate strike-slip Deformation belts. Storti, F., Holdsworth, R.E., and Salvini, F., (eds), Geological Society of London Special Publication 210, p. 185-196.

 

Thomas, D., Nance, R.D., and Murphy, J.B. 2002. Deformation of the Macumber Formation, Antigonish Basin, Nova Scotia: implications for the Ainslie detachment. Atlantic Geology, v. 38, p. 135-144.

 

Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D., and Nance, R.D., 2002. West African proximity of the Avalon terrane in the latest Precambrian by McNamara, A.K., MacNiocaill, C., van der Pluijm, B.A., and Van der Voo, R.: Discussion and Reply.  Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 1049-1052.

 

Murphy, J.B., and Nance, R.D., 2002. Nd-Sm isotopic systematics as tectonic tracers: an example from West Avalonia, Canadian Appalachians.  Earth Science Reviews, v. 59, p. 77-100.

 

Murphy, J.B., 2002, Geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic metasedimentary Gamble Brook Formation, Avalon terrane, Nova Scotia: evidence for a rifted arc environment along the west Gondwanan margin of Rodinia.  Journal of Geology, v. 110, p. 407-420.

 

Murphy, J.B., Eguiluz, L., and Zulauf, G., 2002. Cadomian orogens, peri-Gondwanan correlatives and Laurentia-Baltica connections. Tectonophysics, v. 352, p. 1-9.

 

Nance, R.D., Murphy, J.B., and Keppie, J.D., 2002. Cordilleran model for the evolution of Avalonia. Tectonophysics, v. 352, p. 11-31.

 

Keppie, D.F., Keppie, J.D., and Murphy, J.B., 2002. Saddle-reef auriferous veins in a conical fold termination (Oldham Anticline, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada): reconciliation of structural and age data. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 39,  p. 53-63.

 

Murphy, J.B., 2001 Geochemistry and tectonic significance of the middle to late Devonian McAras Brook and the Visean Martin Road Formation, Merigomish sub-basin, Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geology, v. 37, p. 161-173.

 

Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D., Stacey, J.S., and Trainor, R.  2001. The Neoproterozoic history of the Hollow Fault Zone, Avalon terrane, mainland Nova Scotia. Journal of Structural Geology, v. 23, p. 1067-1078.

 

Murphy, J. B., Pisarevsky, S. A., Nance, R. D. and Keppie, J. D. 2001. Animated History of Avalonia in Neoproterozoic-Early Palaeozoic. In: Jessell, M. J. 2001. General Contributions: 2001. Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 3, 45 - 58.

 

Murphy, J.B., Strachan, R.A., Nance, R.D., Parker, K.D., and Fowler, M. B., 2000, Proto-Avalonia: A 1.2 to 1.0 Ga tectonothermal event and constraints for the evolution of Rodinia. Geology, v. 28, p. 1071-1074.

 

Jennex, L.C., Murphy, J.B., and Anderson, A.J.. 2000. Post-orogenic exhumation of an auriferous terrane: the paleoplacer potential of the early Carboniferous St. Marys Basin; Canadian Appalachians. Mineralium Deposita, v. 35, p. 776-790.

 

Murphy, J.B., and Hamilton, M.A., 2000. U-Pb detrital zircon age constraints on evolution of the Late Paleozoic St. Marys Basin, central mainland Nova Scotia.  Journal of Geology, v. 108, p. 53-72.

 

Murphy, J.B. 2000. Tectonic influence on sedimentation along the southern flank of the Late Paleozoic Magdalen Basin in the Canadian Appalachians: geochemical and isotopic constraints on the Horton Group in the St. Mary’s Basin , Nova Scotia.   Bulletin, Geological Society of America, v. 112, p. 997-1011.

 

Dalziel, I.W.D., Lawver, L.A, and Murphy, J.B., 2000. Plumes, orogenesis, and supercontinental fragmentation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 178, p. 1-11.

 

Murphy, J.B., van Staal, C.R., and Keppie, J.D., 1999. Is the mid to late Paleozoic Acadian Orogeny a plume-modified Laramide-style orogeny?  Geology, v. 27, p. 653-656.

 

Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., and Keppie, J.D.  1999. Fault reactivation within Avalonia: Plate margin to continental interior deformation. Tectonophysics, v. 305, p. 183-204.

 

Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D., Dostal., J., and Nance, R.D., 1999.  Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic evolution of Avalonia and Cenozoic analogues.  In: Laurentia-Gondwana connections before Pangea, Ramos, V., and Keppie, J.D. (eds), Geological Society of America Special Paper, 336, p. 253-266.

 

Stevens, J.E., Murphy, J.B., and Chandler, F.W. 1999. Geochemistry of the Namurian Lismore Formation, northern mainland Nova Scotia: sedimentation and tectonic activity along the southern flank of the Maritimes Basin.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 36,  1655-1669.

 

Murphy, J.B., Oppliger, G., Brimhall, G.H., Jr., and Hynes, A.J., 1998. Plume-modified orogeny: an example from the southwestern United States.  Geology, v. 26, p. 731-734.

 

Murphy, J.B. and Keppie, J.D., 1998. Late Devonian palinspastic reconstruction of the Avalon-Meguma terrane boundary: implications for terrane accretion and basin development in the Appalachian orogen.  Tectonophysics, v. 284, p. 221-231.

 

Murphy, J.B. and Rice, R.J., 1998.  Stratigraphy and depositional environment of Horton Group rocks in the St. Mary’s Basin, central mainland Nova Scotia.  Atlantic Geology, v. 34, p. 1-26.

 

Murphy, J.B., Anderson, A.J., and Archibald, D.A., 1998.  Alkali feldspar granite and associated pegmatites in an arc-wrench environment: the petrology of the Late Proterozoic Georgeville Pluton, Antigonish Highlands, Avalon Composite Terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 35, p. 110-120.

 

Webster, T., Murphy, J.B., and Barr, S.M., 1998.  Anatomy of a terrane boundary: an integrated structural, GIS, and remote sensing study of the Avalon-Meguma terrane boundary, mainland Nova Scotia, Canada.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 35, 787-801.

 

Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D., Davis, D., and Krogh, T.E., 1997.  Regional significance of new    Neoproterozoic igneous units in Avalonian rocks of northern mainland Nova Scotia,        Canada.  Geological Magazine, v. 134, 113-120.

 

Murphy, J.B., Hynes, A.J., and Cousens, B.L., 1997.  Tectonic influence on Late Proterozoic   Avalonian magmatism: an example from the Greendale Complex, Antigonish Highlands,    Nova Scotia. In: Magmatism in the Appalachians, Sinha, A.K., et al (ed.,) Geological      Society of America Memoir, 191, 255-274.

 

Keppie, J.D., Dostal, J., Murphy, J.B., and Cousens, B.L., 1997.   Paleozoic within-plate volcanic rocks in Nova Scotia, (Canada) reinterpreted: Isotopic constraints on paleocontinental reconstructions:  Geological Magazine, v. 134, 425-447.

 

Oppliger, G., Murphy, J.B. and Brimhall, G. 1997. Is the ancestral Yellowstone hotspot            responsible for the Tertiary “Carlin” mineralization in the Great Basin of Nevada?    Geology, v. 25, 627-630.

 

Strachan, R.A., Nance, R.D., Dallmeyer, R.D., D'Lemos, R.S., Murphy, J.B., and Watt, G. 1997.  Reply to T.C. Pharoah, Comment on  “Late Precambrian tectonothermal evolution of the Malverns Complex.  Journal of the Geological Society, v. 154, p. 579-580.

 

Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D., Dostal, J., Waldron, J.W.F., and Cude, M-P.  1996.  Geochemical and isotopic constraints on the accretion of the Avalonia in the Appalachian-Caledonide orogen: evidence from Early Silurian clastic sequences in Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada.   Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences,  v. 33, p. 379-388.

 

Murphy, J.B.,  Keppie, J.D., Dostal, J., and Cousens, B.L., 1996. Repeated lower crustal melting beneath the Antigonish Highlands, Avalon Composite Terrane, Nova Scotia: Nd isotopic evidence and tectonic implications.  In: Nance, R.D., and Thompson, M.D., eds, Avalonian and related peri-Gondwanan terranes of the circum North Atlantic. Geological Society of America Special Paper,  304, p. 109-120

 

Waldron, J.W.F., Murphy, J.B., Melchin, M., and Davis, G., 1996.  Silurian tectonics of western Avalonia: strain corrected subsidence history of the Arisaig Group, Nova Scotia.  Journal of Geology, v. 104, p. 677-694

 

Gibbons, W., Doig., R., Gordon, T., Murphy, J.B., Reynolds, P. and White J.C., 1996.  Mylonite to megabreccia: tracking fault events within a transcurrent terrane boundary in Nova Scotia, Canada.  Geology, v. 24, p. 411-414.

 

Nance, R.D., and Murphy, J.B., 1996.  Basement isotopic signatures and Neoproterozoic paleogeography of Avalonian-Cadomian and related terranes in the circum North Atlantic.  In: Nance, R.D., and Thompson, M.D., eds, Avalonian and related peri-Gondwanan terranes of the circum North Atlantic Geological Society of America Special Paper, 304, p. 333-346.

 

Rabu, D., Guerrot, C., Tegyey, M., Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D., 1996.  St. Pierre-Micquelon: a new piece in the Avalonian puzzle. In: Nance, R.D., and Thompson, M.D., Avalonian and related peri-Gondwanan terranes of the North Atlantic. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 304, p. 66-94.

 

Doig, R., Murphy, J.B., Pe-Piper, G., and Piper, D.J.W.  1996. U-Pb geochronology of Late   Paleozoic plutons, Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada: evidence for Late   Devonian emplacement adjacent to the Meguma-Avalon terrane boundary.  Geological   Journal, v. 31, p. 179-188.

 

Keppie, J.D., Dostal, J., Murphy, J.B., and Nance, R.D.,  1996.  Terrane transfer between eastern Laurentia and western Gondwana in the Early Paleozoic: constraints on global reconstructions. In: Nance, R.D., and Thompson, M.D., eds, Avalonian and related peri-Gondwanan terranes of the circum North Atlantic Geological Society of America Special Paper 304,  p. 369-380.

 

Dostal, J., Keppie, J.D., Cousens, B.L., and Murphy, J.B. 1996.  550-580 Ma magmatism in   Cape Breton Island, (Nova Scotia, Canada): the product of NW-dipping subduction during the final stage of assembly of Gondwana.  Precambrian Research, 76, 96-113.

 

Strachan, R.A., Nance, R.D., Dallmeyer, R.D., D'Lemos, R.S., Murphy, J.B., and Watt, G. 1996.  Late Precambrian tectonothermal evolution of the Malverns Complex.  Journal of the Geological Society, v. 153, p. 589-600.

 

Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., Keppie, J.D., Dostal, J., and Cousens, B.L., 1995.  The Odyssey of West Avalonia:  isotopic signatures as constraints for the Late Proterozoic-Early Silurian paleogeography.  In: Hibbard, J., Van Staal, C., and Cawood, P., New perspectives in the Caledonian-Appalachian orogen. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 41,  227-238.

 

Murphy, J.B., Rice, R.J., Stokes, T.R., and Keppie, D.F., 1995.  The St. Mary's Basin, central mainland Nova Scotia: Late Paleozoic basin formation and deformation along the Avalon-Meguma Terrane boundary,  Canadian Appalachians.  In: Hibbard, J., Van Staal, C., and Cawood, P., New perspectives in the Caledonian-Appalachian orogen. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 41, p. 409-420.

 

Gibbons, W., and Murphy, J.B., 1995.  Mylonitic mafic granulite in fault megabreccia in Clarke Head, Nova Scotia: a sample of Avalonian lower crust?  Geological Magazine, 132, 81-90.

 

Miller, B., Nance, R. D. and Murphy, J. B. 1995.  Kinematics of the Rockland Brook Fault,   Nova Scotia:  Implications for the interaction of the Meguma and Avalon terranes.  Journal of Geodynamics, 19, 253-270.

 

Murphy, J.B. and Keppie, J.D. 1995. Arisaig Belt: In: The Geology of the Appalachian/Caledonide Orogen in Canada and Greenland, Harold Williams co-ord, DNAG, Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada no. 6 (also Geological Society of America, v. F-1), 360-365.

 

Keppie, J.D., Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D. and Dostal, J., 1995.  The Avalon Zone in Nova Scotia: In: The Geology of the Appalachian/Caledonide Orogen in Canada, Harold Williams, co-ord.,  Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada no. 6, (also the Geological Society of America, v. F-1), 238-249.

 

Nance, R.D., and Murphy, J.B., 1994.  Orogenic style and the configuration of supercontinents.  In: Pangea: Global Environments and Resources, B. Beauchamp, A.F. Embry and D. Glass (editors), Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 17, p. 49-65.

 

Rencz, A.N., Harris, J., Watson, G.P., and Murphy, J.B., 1994.  Data integration for mineral exploration in the Antigonish and Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia: Application of GIS and RS.  Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing,  v. 20, p. 257-267.

 

Nance, R.D., and Murphy, J.B., 1994.  Contrasting basement isotopic signatures and the          palinspastic restoration of peripheral orogens: Example from the Neoproterozoic   Avalonian-Cadomian belt.  Geology, v. 22, p. 617-620.

 

Doig, R., Murphy, J. B., and Nance, R. D., 1993.  Tectonic significance of the Late Proterozoic Economy River Gneiss,  Cobequid Highlands, Avalon composite terrane, Nova Scotia.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 30, p. 474-479.

 

Murphy, J.B. and MacDonald, D.A., 1993.  Geochemistry  of  Late  Proterozoic arc-related volcaniclastic turbidite sequences, Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia,  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v 30, 2273-2282.

 

St. Jean, J.A.R., Nance, R.D., and Murphy, J.B., 1993.  Tectonic significance of Late Paleozoic deformation, Cape George Peninsula, Nova Scotia.  Atlantic Geology, v. 29, p. 27-42.

 

Reed, B.C., Nance, R.D., Calder, J.H., and Murphy, J.B., 1993.  The Athol syncline: tectonic evolution of a Westphalian B-C depocenter in the Maritimes Basin, Nova Scotia.  Atlantic Geology, v. 29,  p. 179-186.

 

Rabu, D., Guerrot, C., Doig R., Tegyey, M., Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D., 1993.  Premieres donees geochronologiques sur Saint Pierre et Miquelon. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, t, 317, Serie II, p. 639-646.

 

Murphy, J.B., Pe-Piper G., Keppie J.D. and Piper D.J.W., 1992. Correlation of Neoproterozoic III sequences in the Avalon Composite Terrane of mainland Nova Scotia: tectonic implications.  Atlantic Geology, v. 28, p. 147-153.

 

Pe-Piper, G. and Murphy, J. B., 1992. Late Proterozoic high-titanium basalts in the Avalon Zone of Nova Scotia.  Canadian Mineralogist, v. 30, p. 1167-1176.

 

Murphy, J. B. and Nance, R. D., 1991.  A supercontinent model for the contrasting character of Late Proterozoic Orogenic belts. Geology v. 19, p. 469-472.

 

Doig, R., Murphy, J. B. and Nance, R. D., 1991.  U-Pb  geochronology of Late Proterozoic rocks of the eastern Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 26, p. 504-511.

 

Landing, E., and Murphy, J.B., 1991.  Uppermost Precambrian(?)-Lower Cambrian of Mainland Nova Scotia: Faunas, depositional environments and stratigraphic revision.  Journal of Paleontology, v. 65, p. 382-396.

 

Nance, R. D., Murphy, J. B., Strachan, R. A., D'Lemos, R.D. and Taylor, G. K., 1991.  Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Avalonian - Cadomian belt and the breakup of a late Precambrian Supercontinent: An interpretive review. In: R. J. Stern and A. Kroner (ed.), Tectonic regimes and crustal evolution in the Late Proterozoic.  Precambrian Research, v. 53, p. 41-78.

 

Keppie, J. D., Dallmeyer, R. D. and Murphy, J.B. 1991.  Reply to discussion of Jamieson, R. A., Barr, S. M. and Raeside, R. P. on "Tectonic implications of 40Ar/39Ar hornblende gas from Late Proterozoic in Cambrian plutons in the Avalon Composite Terrane in Nova Scotia, Canada.  Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 103, p. 1376-1383.

 

Keppie, J. D., Nance, R. D., Murphy, J. B. and Dostal, J. 1991.  Northern Appalachians: The  Avalon and Meguma terranes.  In: The Western African Orogens and Circum Atlantic correlatives.  R. D. Dallmeyer and J. P. Lecorche (ed.), Springer Verlag, p. 315-333.

 

Murphy, J. B., Keppie, J. D. and Nance R. D., 1990:  The Avalon zone of Nova Scotia.  In:  Avalonian and Cadomian rocks of the North Atlantic, R. A. Strachan, and G. K. Taylor, (ed.), Blackie and Sons, Glasgow, U.K., A 195-213.

 

Nance, R. D. Currie, K. L. and Murphy, J. B. 1990.  The Avalon Zone of New Brunswick.  In:  Avalonian and Cadomian rocks of the North Atlantic, R. A. Strachan and G.K. Taylor, (ed.), Blackie and Sons, Glasgow, U.K., p. 214-236.

 

Dallmeyer, R. D., Doig, R., Nance, R. D. and Murphy, J. B., 1990. 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb mineral ages from the Brookville Geneiss and Green Head Group:  Implications for terrane analysis and evolution of Avalonian "basement" in Southern New Brunswick.  Atlantic Geology, v. 26, p. 247-257.

 

Nance, R. D. and Murphy J. B., 1990.  Implications of a supercontinent model for the Avalon composite terrane to the Late Proterozoic evolution of the North Armorican Massif.  Proceedings of the Ussher Society, v. 7, p. 228-231.

 

Murphy, J. B., Keppie, J. D., Dostal, J. and Hynes, A. J. 1990.  Late Precambrian Georgeville group:  A volcanic arc rift succession in the Avalon Terrane of Nova Scotia.  Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 51, p. 383-393.

 

Nance, R. D. and Murphy, J. B. 1990.  Kinematic history of the Bass River complex.  Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia:  Cadomian Basement - cover Relationships in the Avalon Terrane of the Canadian Appalachians. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 51, 395-406.

 

Murphy, J. B., and Hynes, A. J., 1990.  Tectonic control on the origin and orientation of igneous layering:  an example from the Greendale Complex., Nova Scotia.  Geology, v.18, p. 403-406.

 

Dostal, J., Keppie, J. D. and Murphy, J. B., 1990.  Geochemistry of Late Proterozoic rocks from south-eastern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 27, p. 619-631.

 

Doig. R. Nance, R. D. Murphy J. B., and Cassedy, P. 1990.   Evidence for the sinistral accretion of the Avalon Terrane.  Journal of the Geological Society, v. 147, p. 927-932.

 

Keppie, J. D., Dallmeyer, R. D. and Murphy, J. B. 1990.  Tectonic implications of 40Ar/39Ar hornblende ages from Late Proterozoic- Cambrian plutons in the Avalon Composite Terrane in Nova Scotia, Canada.  Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 516-528.

 

Murphy, J. B. 1989.  Tectonic characteristics and metamorphism of mineralized shear zones, In:  Mineralization and Shear Zones, J. T. Busrnall (Ed.) Geological Association of Canada, Short Course Notes, Volume 6, p. 20-49.

 

Murphy, J. B. and Nance R. D. 1989.  A model for the evolution of the Avalonian-Cadomian belt. Geology, v. 17, p. 735-738.

 

Pe-Piper, G. and Murphy, J. B. 1989.  Petrology of The Late Proterozoic Folly River Formation, Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia:  a continental rift within a volcanic arc setting. Atlantic Geology, v. 25, p. 37-50.

 

Pe-Piper, G. Murphy, J. B. and Turner, D. S. 1989. Petrology and geochemistry of some Carboniferous plutons of the Eastern Cobequid Highlands and their relationship to tectonic setting.  Atlantic Geology, 25, 37-49.

 

Keppie, J. B. and  Murphy, J. B. 1988.  Anatomy of a telescoped pull-apart basin: The stratigraphy and structure of Cambrian-lower Ordovician rocks of the Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia Maritime Sediments and Atlantic Geology, v. 24, p. 123-138.

 

Murphy, J. B. 1988.  Late Precambrian to upper Devonian magmatism in the Antigonish Highlands Nova Scotia:  Multistage melting of a hydrated mantle, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 23, p. 473-485.

 

Murphy, J. B. 1987, The stratigraphy and depositional environment of upper Ordovician to lower Devonian rocks in the Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia, Maritime Sediments and Atlantic Geology, v. 23, p. 63-75.

 

Murphy, J. B., 1987.  Petrology of Upper Ordovician-Lower Silurian rocks of the Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. v. 24, p. 752-759.

 

Murphy, J. B., and J. D. Keppie, 1987.  The stratigraphy of the late Precambrian Georgeville Group, Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia.  Maritime Sediments and Atlantic Geology, v. 23, p. 49-61.

 

Murphy, J. B. and Keppie, J. D., 1987.  Late Precambrian Antigonish Terrane (a periarc basin) unconformably overlain by Paleozoic overstep rocks typical of the Avalon Composite Terrane, near Antigonish, Nova Scotia.  Geological Society of America, Centennial Field Guide-northeastern section; p. 421-426.

 

Murphy, J. B., and Hynes, A. J., 1986.  Contrasting mobility of Ti, P, Zr, Nb, and Y in two suites of metabasaltic rocks in the Canadian Appalachians.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 23, p. 1147-1153.

 

Murphy, J. B., Cameron, K., Dostal, J., Keppie, J. D., and Hynes, A. J., 1985. Cambrian volcanism in Nova Scotia, Canada.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 22, p.599-606.

 

 

Invited scientific publications:

 

Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Murphy, J.B., Fernandez-Suarez, J., 2008. Year of the Planet Earth: What we know and what we don’t know about our planet. Cuadernos de Yuste, in press.

 

Murphy, J.B., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Nance, R.D., Fernández-Suárez, J., Keppie, J.D., Quesada, C., Strachan, R.A., and Dostal, J.,  2008.  Tectonic plates come apart at the seams: American Scientist,  v. 96, p. 129-137.  also Rotura de placas tectonica, Americano Científico, Investigacion y Cienca , p. 1-10.

 

Dostal, J., Murphy, J. B., and Nance, R.D., History of the Earth, 2007. In: Earth System: History and Natural Variability, Edited by : Vaclav Cilek and Rachel H. Smith, ,in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS, UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK,), in press.

 

Murphy, J.B., Dostal, J. and Nance, R.D., 2007. Mass and Energy: Interaction of the Earth’s Systems.  In: Earth System: History and Natural Variability, Edited by :  Vaclav Cilek and Rachel H. Smith, ,in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS, UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK,), in press.

 

Dostal, J., Murphy, J. B., and Nance, R.D., 2007. The Geosphere. In Earth System: History and Natural Variability, Edited by : Vaclav Cilek and Rachel H. Smith,  Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net]

 

Murphy J. B., Dostal, J, and Nance, R.D., 2007. Metamorphic Rocks.  In: , Earth System: History and Natural Variability, Edited by :  Vaclav Cilek and Rachel H. Smith, ,in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS, UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK,), in press.

 

Murphy, J. B., Dostal, J. and Nance, R.D., 2007. Earth Systems: Structure, Dynamics and Materials. In: Earth System: History and Natural Variability,  Vaclav Cilek and Rachel H. Smith, ,in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS, UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK,), in press.

 

Murphy, J.B., and Nance, R.D., 2004.  How do Supercontinents Form? American Scientist, v. 92, p. 324-333.

 

Dostal, J. and Murphy, J. B. History of the Earth, 2002. In: Earth System: History and Natural Variability, Edited by : Vaclav Cilek and Rachel H. Smith, ,in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK, [http://www.eolss.net]

 

Murphy, J. B. and Dostal, J .2002. Mass and Energy: Interaction of the Earth’s Systems.  In: Earth System: History and Natural Variability, Edited by : Vaclav Cilek and Rachel H. Smith, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net]

 

Dostal, J. and Murphy, J. B. 2002. The Geosphere. In Earth System: History and Natural Variability, Edited by : Vaclav Cilek and Rachel H. Smith,  Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net]

 

Murphy J. B. and Dostal, 2002. Metamorphic Rocks.  In: , Earth System: History and Natural Variability, Edited by : Vaclav Cilek and Rachel H. Smith, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net]

 

Murphy, J. B., Dostal, J. and Nance, R.D., 2002. Earth Systems: Structure, Dynamics and Materials. In: Earth System: History and Natural Variability, Edited by : Vaclav Cilek and Rachel H. Smith, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net]

 

Murphy, J.B., Oppliger, G., Brimhall, G.H., Jr., and Hynes, A.J., 1999.  Mantle plumes and mountains.  American Scientist, v. 87, p. 146-153.

 

Murphy, J.B., and Nance, R.D., 1992. Supercontinents and the origin of mountain belts.            Scientific American, v. 266, no. 4 (April), p. 84-91.

 

Also in translation:

 

Gebirgsgürtel und Superkontinent-Zyklus. Spektrum der Wissenschaft, v. 92, p. 52-60, 1992.

 

Montagnes et supercontinents. Pour La Science, no. 176, p. 84-91, 1992

 

Sangaku ken saikuru o kurikaesu chotairiku. Saiensu, v. 28, no. 6, 1992.

 

Montañas y il ciclo del supercontinente. Investigacion y Ciencia, v. 154, p. 36-43, 1992.

 

Gora a superkontynental tsikl. V Mire Nauki, no. 6, 1992.

 

A hegyképzdési övek és a szuperkontinens-ciklus. Tudomány, v. 108, p. 20-27, 1992.

 

La nascita dei supercontinenti. Le Scienze, v. 434, p. 96-103, 1992.

 

Other refereed publications:

 

Murphy, J.B., Rice, R.J., Stokes, T.R., and Keppie, D.F., 1995.  Geology of the central St.    Mary's Basin.  In Current Research, 1995-D, Geological Survey of Canada, p. 11-18.

 

Murphy, J.B., Stokes, T.R., Meagher, C., and Mosher, S.J., 1994. Geology of the eastern St. Mary's Basin, Nova Scotia.   In Current Research, Part A, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 94-1A,  p. 95-102.

 

Doig, R., Murphy, J.B., Nance, R.D., and Stokes, T.R. 1991. A review of the geochronology of the Cobequid Highlands.  In Current Research, Part D, Geological Survey of Canada,      Paper   91-1D, p. 71-78.

 

Murphy, J. B., Nance, R. D. and Doig, R. 1990.  Late Proterozoic rocks of the eastern Cobequid Highlands:  an oblique section across an Avalonian magmatic arc.  In:  Paleozoic orogens in Central Europe - Geology and Geophysics, edited by W. Franke and K. Weber, I.G.C.P. project 233, p. 215-218.

 

Murphy, J. B. and Nance R. D., 1990.  The late Proteroroic as a record of supercontinent assembly and breakup.  In: NUNA, 90, Late Proterozoic glaciation  and eustasy as illustrated by the Windemere Supergroup, edited by J. D. Aitken and G. M. Ross, p. 25-29.

 

Keppie, J. D., Murphy, J. B., Nance R. D., and Dostal, J. 1989.  Terranes of Nova Scotia:      characteristics and accretionary history.  In:   Tectonostratigraphic expression of terrane      accretion in the Circum-Atlantic Paleozoic Orogens, Athens, Georgia, p. 51-57.

 

Nance, R. D., and Murphy, J. B., 1989.  Break-up of a late Precambrian supercontinent and the evolution of the Avalonian-Cadomian belt.  In:  Tectonostratigraphic expression of terrane accretion in the Circum-Atlantic Paleozoic orogens, Athens, Georgia, p. 75-78.

 

Murphy, J. B., Pe-Piper, G., and Nance, R.D. 1989.  Late Precambrian rocks of the Eastern Cobequid Highlands. In Current Research, Part A, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 89-1A, p. 15-21.

 

Miller, B., Nance, R. D. and Murphy, J. B. 1989:  A preliminary kinematic analysis of the Rockland Brook Fault, Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia.  In Current Research, Part A, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 89-1A.

 

Murphy, J. B., Pe-Piper, G., Nance, R.D. and Turner, D.  1988.  A preliminary report on the geology of the eastern Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia.  In:  Current Research, Part B, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 88-1B, p. 99-107.

 

Nance, R. D.. and Murphy, J. B. 1988.  Preliminary kinematic analysis of basement-cover relationships in the Bass River Complex, Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia.  In:  Current Research, part B, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 88-1B, p. 227-234.

 

Murphy, J. B., 1986.  Geology of the western Antigonish Highlands, in Nova Scotia.  In:  Current Research, Part A, Geological Survey of Canada, paper 86-1A, p. 445-453.

 

Murphy, J. B., 1985.  Geology of the southwestern Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia.  In:  Current Research, Part B, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 85-1B, p. 519-530.

 

Murphy, J.B., 1984.  Geology of the southern Antigonish Highlands,  Nova Scotia.  In:  Current Research,  Part A, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 84-1A, p. 587-587.

 

Monograph/Geological Memoir:

 

Murphy, J. B., Pe-Piper, G. Piper, D.J.W., Nance, R.D., and Doig, R., 2001.  Geology of  the eastern Cobequid Highlands, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 556, 61p.

 

Murphy, J.B. Keppie, J.D. and Hynes, A. J. 1991. Geology of the Antigonish Highlands, Geological Survey of Canada Paper 89-10, 114p.

 

Textbook:

 

Murphy, J.B., and Nance, R.D., 1999.  Earth Science Today, ITP-Brooks Cole-Wadsworth, 648p.

 

Published Maps:

 

Murphy, J.B. and Rice, R.J. 2005. Geological Map of the St. Marys Basin.  Nova Scotia Dept.            of Natural Resources, Maps 1 to 4, Scale 1: 50,000.

 

Murphy, J. B., Pe-Piper, G., Nance, R. D. Turner, D.S., and Piper, D.J.W., 2000. Geological map of the eastern Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia,  Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3703,  Scale 1:50,000.

 

Lynch, G., Giles, P.S., Deblonde, D., Barr, S.M.,  Piper, D.J.W., St.Peter, C.,  Hétu, R., Johnson, S., Pe-Piper, G., St.Jean, R., Boehner, R.C., Murphy, J.B., and Chandler, F. 1998. Magdalen Basin NATMAP geological database, Geological Survey of Canada, CD-ROM, GSC Open File D3564.

 

Murphy, J.B., Keppie, J.D. and Hynes, A.J., 1991.  Geology of the Antigonish Highlands, Geological Survey of Canada Map 1749A, scale 1:50,000.

 

Murphy, J. B., Pe-Piper, G., Nance, R. D. and Turner, D. 1989. Geological map of the eastern Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia, Open File, Scale 1:50,000.

 

Murphy, J.B., 1985.  Geological map of central and southern Antigonish Highlands.  Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1181, Scale, 1:50,000.

 

Murphy, J. B., Keppie, J. D. and Hynes, A.J. 1982.  Geological map of the northern Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy Map, 82-5, Scale 1:50,000.

 

Field Guidebooks:

 

Barr, S.M. Johnson, S., Murphy, J.B., Pe-Piper, G., Piper, D.J.W., and White, C.E. 2005. Accretion of peri-Gondwanan terranes, northern mainland Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick. GACMAC Field Trip Guidebook FT-B1, 88p. 

 

Murphy, J.B., and Melchin, M.J., 2001. Devono-Carboniferous Geology of the Antigonish area.  Atlantic Universities Geological Conference, Field Trip 2, St. Francis Xavier University.

 

Murphy, J.B., and Rice, R.J. 1995.  Geology of the St. Mary's Basin, Nova Scotia.  NATMAP Field Trip Guidebook, Day One, 18p.

 

Van Staal, C., Tremblay, A., Keppie, J.D., and Murphy, J.B., 1994. Appalachian geotraverse,   IGCP 319/376 Preconference Field Trip. 

 

Keppie, J.D., and Murphy, J.B.  1994  Cape Breton Island.  IGCP 319/376 Conference Field Trip.

 

Murphy, J.B., Barr, S.M., Currie, K.L., Keppie, J.D., and Nance, R.D., 1992.  The Avalon Terrane in Maritime Canada. GACMAC Fieldtrip guidebook, Field Trip C12, 164p. 

 

Donohoe, H.V., Jr., Pe-Piper, G., Piper, D.J.W., Murphy, J.B., and Nance, R.D., 1992.  The Cobequid Highlands.  GACMAC Fieldtrip guidebook, Field Trip C5, 42p. 

 

Keppie, J. D., Currie, K. L., Murphy, J.B., Pickerill, R., Fyffe, L., and St. Julien, P., 1985.  The Appalachian Geotraverse. GACMAC Field Trip Guide Book no. 1.

 

Keppie, J. D. and Murphy, J. B. 1980.  The geology of the northern Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia.  In the northern Appalachian Geotraverse, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, p. 116-131.

 

Public Education:

 

CBC Geologic Journey Film Series, Episode 5: The Atlantic Coast

Interview with David Suzuki: Meet the Scientists

 

"Planet Earth" articles published bi-weekly in the Cape Breton Post, 1993-1997

Total of 84 articles to January 1997

Examples of titles

Effects of human, natural processes must be distinguished.

Greenhouse gases make Earth habitable

Greenhouse Effect: a matter of balance

There were times when all continents experienced ice ages.

Linking greenhouse gases to global warming

Relationship of Earth-Sun cycles and greenouse gas cntent.

Do volcanic eruptions control our lives?

Global warmth-from the sun to the world.

Ancient meteor shower changed the face of the Earth

Earth only planet in the system with free water at surface.

Earth's atmosphere shield of protection

 

Murphy, J. B. and Donohoe, H.V., Jr. 1992.  Careers in Geology. Atlantic Provinces Council on the sciences pamphlet.

Pe-Piper, G., and Murphy, J. B. 1989.  Field trips in Nova Scotia. Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences pamphlet.


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