publications
Below is a list of my publications. Some are available in PDF. You will need either FoxIt Reader or Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.
2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1982 | 1981 | 1980 | 1979 | 1978
2023 (back to top)
- Nouri, F., Azizi, H., Stern, R.J., and Asahara, Y., 2023. The Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone (W. Iran) was a Jurassic Passive Continental Margin: Evidence from Igneous Rocks of the Songhor area. Lithos 440-441, 107023 (PDF)
- Stern, R. J., 2023. The Orosirian (1800-2050 Ma) Plate Tectonic Episode: Key for Reconstructing the Proterozoic Tectonic Record. Geoscience Frontiers 14, 101553 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Gerya, T., 2023. Co-Evolution of Life and Plate Tectonics: The Biogeodynamic Perspective on the Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic Transitions. Duarte, J. (ed.) "Dynamics of plate tectonics and mantle convection", Elsevier, 295-319. (PDF)
- Azizi, H., Stern, R.J., Kandemir, R., and Karsli, O., 2023. A Jurassic Volcanic Passive Margin in Iran and Turkey. Terra Nova 35, 141-152. (PDF)
- Li, C., Li, Z., Zeng, M., and Stern, R.J., 2023. Early Eocene A-type (ferroan) rhyolites in southwestern Tibet: Implications for the India-Eurasia collision and plateau uplift. International Geology Review 65, 2047-2066. (PDF)
- Sepidbar, F., Homam, S.M., Khedr, M.Z., Stern, R.J., and Karsli, O., 2023. Primary minerals and mantle peridotites in Late Cretaceous ophiolites of Iran: A review. International Geology Review. DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2023.2166603 (PDF)
2022 (back to top)
- Wang, N., Stern, R. J., Urquhart, M.L., and Seals, K.M. 2022. Google Earth Geoscience Video Library (GEGVL): Organizing Geoscience Videos in a Google Earth Environment to Support Place-Based Geoscience Education. Education in Geosciences 12, 250. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/12/6/250 (PDF)
- Tian, H., Fan, M., Valencia, V.A., Chamberlain, K., Stern, R.J., and Waite, L., 2022. Mississippian southern Laurentia tuffs came from a northern Gondwana arc. Geology 50, 266-271 (PDF)
- Li, S.-M., Wang, Q., Zhu, D.-C., Cawood, P.A., Stern, R.J., and Zhao, Z., 2022. Formation of continental crust by diapiric melting of recycled crustal materials in the mantle wedge. Geophysical Research Letters 49 (15) e2021GL097515 (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Li, Q. L., Stern, R.J., Griffin, W.L., and O'Reilly, S.Y., 2022. Zircon xenocrysts in Late Cretaceous magmatic rocks in the Kermanshah Ophiolite: Link to Iran continental crust supports the subduction initiation model. International Geology Review 64, 3248-3259. (PDF)
- Khedr, M., Takazawa, E., Huzenberger, C., Tamura, A.., Arai, S., Stern, R.J., Morishita, T., and El-Awady, A., 2022. Geochemistry of arc-related serpentinized peridotites (Egypt): insights into Neoproterozoic mantle heterogeneity and evolution. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 226, 105078, ISSN 1367-9120, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105078 (PDF)
- Khedr, M., Takazawa, E., Arai, S., Stern, R.J., Morishita, T., and El-Awady, A. 2022. Styles of Fe-Ti-V ore deposits in layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions (Egypt): Evidence for fractional crystallization of V-rich ferropicritic melts. J. Afr. Geology 194, 104620 (PDF)
- Chorsi,T. S., Braunmiller, J.,K Deng, F., Mueller, N., Kerstetter, S., Stern, R.J. and Dixon, T. H., 2022. The May 15, 2020 M 6.5 Monte Cristo Range, Nevada, earthquake: Eyes in the sky, Boots on the ground, and a Chance for students to learn, International Geology Review, 64:19, 2683-2702, DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2021.2000507 (PDF)
- Whattam, S., and Stern, R. J., 2022. Significance of a highly refractory source during subduction initiation to form the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc. Science Bulletin 67, 119-121. (PDF)
- Nouri, F., Stern, R.J. and Azizi, H., 2022. A review of garnet deposits in western and southern Iran, International Geology Review 64, 17-44. (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Li, Q., Griffin, W., Stern, R.J., Santos, J., Ducea, M., Ottley, C., Karslı, O., Sepidbar, F., and O'Reilly, S., 2022. Temporal changes in subduction- to collision-related magmatism in the Neotethyan orogen: the SE Iran example. Earth-Science Reviews 226, 103930. (PDF)
- Hu, H., Stern, R.J., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., and Garcia-Casco, A., 2022. Review of geochronologic and geochemical data of the northern branch of the Caribbean volcanic arc and implications for the evolution of oceanic arcs. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23, e2021GC010148. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010148 (on-line, open access)
- Kong, F., Gao, S.S., Liu, K.H., Fang, Y., Zhu, H., Stern, R.J., and Li. J., 2022. Metastable olivine within oceanic lithosphere in the uppermost lower mantle. Geology 50, https://doi.org/10.1130/G49879.1
- Wang, N., Clowdus, Z., Sealander, A., and Stern, R., 2022. Geonews: timely geoscience educational YouTube videos about recent geologic events, Geosci. Commun., 5, 125-142, https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-125-2022. (on-line only)
- Filina, I., Austin, J., Doré, T., Johnson, E., Lundin, E., Minguez, D., Norton, I. Snedden, J., and Stern, R., 2022. Opening of the Gulf of Mexico: what we know, what questions remain, and how we might answer them. Tectonophysics 822, 229150 (PDF)
2021 (back to top)
- Moghadam, H.S., Li, Q.. L., Griffin, W. L., Stern, R. J., Santos, J.F.., Lucci, F., Beyarslan, M., O’Reilly, S.Y., Tilhac, R., and Ghorbani, G., 2021. Prolonged Magmatism and Growth of the Iran-Anatolia Cadomian Continental Arc Segment in Northern Gondwana. Lithos 384-385 105940 (PDF)
- Li, H.-Y., Zhao, R.-P., Li, J., Tamura, Y., Spencer, C., Stern, R.J., Ryan, J.G., and Xu, Y.-G., 2021. Molybdenum isotopes unmask slab dehydration and melting beneath the Mariana arc. Nat Commun 12, 6015. (PDF)
- Moghadem, H. S., and Stern, R.J., 2021. Subduction Initiation Causes Broad Upper Plate Hyperextension: The Late Cretaceous Iran Example. Lithos 106296. (PDF)
- Baes, M., Stern, R. J., Whattam S., Gerya, T. V., Sobolev, S. V., 2021. Plume-Induced Subduction Initiation: Revisiting Models and Observations . Frontiers in Earth Science 9, https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2021.766604 (PDF)
- Nouri, F., Azizi, H., Asahara, Y., and Stern, R.J., 2021. A new perspective on Cenozoic calc-alkaline and shoshonitic volcanic rocks, eastern Saveh (central Iran). International Geology Revew 63, 476-503. (PDF)
- Baes, M., Sobolev, S., Gerya, T., Stern, R.J., and Brune, S. 2021. Plate Motion and Induced Subduction Initiation. Gondwana Research 98, 277-288. (PDF)
- Knaack, D.R., Sullivan, K., Brown, D.J., Langa, M., Mathieu, J., Bouchard, M.L., Haring, M., Petrus, J., Stern, R.J., Hein, J.R., Sader, J., Layton-Matthews, D., McDonald, A., and Leybourne, M.. I., 2021. Geochemical and mineralogical composition of ferromanganese precipitates from the southern Mariana arc: Evaluation, formation, and implications. Chemical Geology 568, 120132. (PDF)
- Miller, N. R., and Stern, R. J., 2021. Evolution of the Arabian Nubian Shield and Snowball Earth, in Hamimi, Z., Fowler, A.-R., Liegeois, J.-P., Collins, A., Abdelsalam, M., Abd EI-Wahed, M. (Eds.) The Geology of the Arabian-Nubian Shield, Regional Geology Reviews book series (RGR), Springer Nature Switzerland, 785p. https://10.1007/978-3-030-72995-0 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., 2021. Oceanic Trenches. Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd Ed. Elsevier, v.3, 845-854. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Miller, N.R., 2021. Neoproterozoic Glaciations - Snowball Earth hypothesis. Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd Ed. Elsevier. Vol. 5, 546-556. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Gerya, T., 2021. Subduction Initiation. Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd Ed. Elsevier, v.3, 994-1000. (PDF)
- Sen, G., and Stern, R.J., 2021. Subduction Zone magmas. Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd Ed. Elsevier, v. 2, 33-51. (PDF)
- Sleeper, J.D., Martinez, F., Fryer, P., Stern, R.J., Kelley, K.A., and Ohara, Y., 2021. Diffuse spreading, a newly recognized mode of crustal accretion in the southern Mariana Trough backarc basin.Geosphere 2021; doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02360.1 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Ohara, Y., Ren, M., Leybourne, M., and Bowers, B., 2021. Glimpses of Oceanic Lithosphere of the Challenger Deep Forearc Segment in the Southernmost Marianas: The 143E Transect, 5800 – 4200 m. The Island Arc. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Gerya, T., 2021. Earth Evolution, Emergence, and Uniformitarianism. GSA Today 31(1), 32-33. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Moghadam, H.S., Pirouz, M., and Mooney, W., 2021. The Geodynamic Evolution of Iran. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science 49, 9-36. (PDF)
- Willis, S., Stern, R.J., Ryan, J., and Bebeau, C., 2021. Exploring Best Practices in Geoscience Education: Adapting a Video/Animation on Continental Rifting for Upper Division Students to a Lower Division Audience. Geosciences 11, 140. https://doi.org//10.3390geosciences11030140 (PDF)
- Nouri, F. , Stern, R.J., and Azizi, H., 2021. The Jurassic tourmaline-garnet-beryl semigemstone province in the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, western Iran. International Geology Review. DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2020.1838335 (PDF)
2020 (back to top)
- Zhu, H., Li, X., Yang, J., Stern, R. J., and Lumley, D. E., 2020. Poloidal- and toroidal-mode mantle flows underneath the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087530. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087530 (PDF)
- Dai, J.-G., Wang, C.S., Stern, R. J., Yang, K., and Sheen, J. 2020. Forearc magmatic evolution during subduction initiation: Insights from an Early Cretaceous Tibetan ophiolite and comparison with the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc. GSA Bulletin doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B35644.1 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Ali, K., Asimow, P., Azer, M., Leybourne, M.I., Mubarak, H.S., Ren, M., Romer, R.L., and Whitehouse, M., 2020. The Atud Gabbro-Diorite Complex: Glimpse of the Cryogenian MASH Zone beneath the Eastern Desert of Egypt. J. Geol. Soc. London 177, 965-980. (PDF)
- Whattam, S.A., 11 others, and Stern, R.J. 2020. Chemical composition and thermobarometry of IODP Expedition 352 Bonin forearc basalt and boninite minerals: Implications for forearc and ophiolite formation. American Mineralogist 105, 1490-1507. (PDF)
- Azizi, H., and Stern, R.J., 2020. Reply to Comment on “Jurassic igneous rocks of the central Sanandaj–Sirjan zone (Iran) mark a propagating continental rift, not a magmatic arc (Azizi and Stern, Terra Nova, 31(5), 415-423, 2019)”. Terra Nova 31, 473-475. (PDF)
- Azizi, H., Nouri, F., Stern, R.J., Azizi, M., Lucci, F., Asahara, Y., Zarinkoub, M.H. and Chung, S.L., 2020. New evidence for Jurassic continental rifting in the northern Sanandaj Sirjan Zone, western Iran: the Ghalaylan seamount, southwest Ghorveh. International Geology Review 62, 1635-1657. (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Li, Q., Stern, R.J., Chiaradia, Karsli, M.O. and Rahimzadeh, B., 2020. The Paleogene ophiolite conundrum of the Iran-Iraq border. Journal of Geological Society, London 177, 955-964. (PDF)
- Zhou. X., Li, Z.-H., Gerya, T. V., and Stern, R.J., 2020. Lateral propagation induced subduction initiation at passive continental margins controlled by pre-existing lithospheric weakness. Science Advances 6(10) eaaz1048. (PDF)
- Adam, M.M.A., Lv, X., Abdel Rahman, A.A., and Stern, R.J., 2020. In-situ sulfur isotope and trace element compositions of pyrite from the Haweit gold deposit, NE Sudan: Implications for the origin and source of the sulfur. Ore Geology Reviews 120 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., 2020. The Mesoproterozoic Single Lid Tectonic Episode: Prelude to Plate Tectonics. GSA Today 30(12), 4-10 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J. and Ali, K. 2020. Crustal evolution of the Egyptian Precambrian rocks. In: Hamimi, Z. El-Barkooky, A., Martínez Frías, J., Fritz, H. and Abd El-Rahman, Y., The Geology of Egypt, Regional Geology Reviews, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 131-151. (PDF)
- Whattam, S.A., Montes, C., and Stern, R.J., 2020. Early Central American forearc follows the subduction initiaton rule. Gondwana Research 79, 283-300. (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Griffin, W.L., Stern, R.J., Ishizuka, O., Henry, H. Lucci, F., O’Reilly, S.Y., and Ghorbani, G., 2020. Repeated Magmatic Buildup and Deep “Hot Zones” in Continental Evolution: the Cadomian Crust of Iran. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 531, 115989. (PDF)
- Khedr, M. Z., El-Awady, A., Araii,. S., Hauzenberger, C., Tamura, A., Stern, R.J., and Morishita, T. 2020. Petrogenesis of the ~740 Ma Korab Kansi mafic-ultramafic intrusion, South Eastern Desert of Egypt: Evidence of Ti-rich ferropicritic magmatism. Gondwana Research 82, 48-72. (PDF)
- Li, S., Wang, Q., Zhu, D.C., Cawood, P.A., Stern, R.J., Weinberg, R., Zhao, Z., and Mo, X.-X., 2020. Reconciling orogenic drivers for the evolution of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethys during Middle-Late Jurassic. Tectonics 39, e2019TC00595 (PDF)
- Zhou, X., Li, Zhong-Hai, Gerya, T. V., and Stern, R.J., 2020 Lateral propagation–induced subduction initiation at passive continental margins controlled by preexisting lithospheric weakness. Sci. Adv.6, eaaz1048 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Ryan, J.F., Wang, N., Richezza, V., and Willis, S., 2020. Geoscience Videos and Animations, How to Make Them with your Students, and How to Use Them in The Classroom. GSA Today, v. 30, https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG451GW.1. (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Li, Q.L., Li, X. H., Stern, R.J., Levresse, G., Santos, J.., Martinez, M. L., Ducea, M.N., G. Ghorbani and Hassannezhad, 2020. Neotethyan subduction ignited the Iran arc and back-arc differently. J. Geophys. Res. (Solid Earth) 125 (5) (PDF)
- Zhu, H., Stern, R.J., and Yang, J., 2020. Seismic evidence for subduction-induced mantle flows underneath Middle America. Nature Communications 11:2075 (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Stern, R.J., Griffin, W.L., Khedr, M.Z., Kirchenbaur, M., Ottley, C.J., Whattam, S., Kimura, J.-I., Ghorbani, G., Gain, S., O’Reilly, S.Y., and Tamura, A, 2020. Subduction initiation and back-arc opening of Neo-Tethys: Evidence from the Late Cretaceous Torbat-e-Heydarieh ophiolite of NE Iran. GSA Bull. 132, 1083-1105.(PDF)
- Waite, L., Fan, F., Collins, D., Gehrels, G., and Stern, R.J.., 2020. Detrital zircon provenance evidence for an early Permian longitudinal river flowing into the Midland Basin of west Texas. International Geology Review 62,1224-1244.(PDF)
- Hu, H., and Stern, R. J., 2020. Early Cretaceous Subduction Initiation in Southern Tibet Caused the Northward Flight of India. Geoscience Frontiers 11, 1123-1131. (PDF)
2019 (back to top)
- Sepidbar, F., Moghadam, H.S., Le, Z., Li, J.-W., Ma, J., Stern, R.J., and Lin, C., 2019. Across-arc geochemical variations in the Paleogene magmatic belt of Iran. Lithos 344-345, 280-296. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., 2019. Commentary on JGR-Sold Earth paper "Deep seismic structure across the southernmost Mariana Trench: Implications for arc rifting and plate hydration" by Wan et al." . J. Geophysical Res. (Solid Earth) 124, 5734-5737 (PDF)
- Azizi, H., Stern, R.J., Topuz, G., Asahara, Y., and Moghadam, H.S., 2019. Late Paleocene adakitic granitoid from NW Iran and comparison with adakites in the NE Turkey: Adakitic melt generation in normal continental crust. Lithos 346-347, 105151. (PDF)
- Azizi, H., and Stern, R. J., 2019. Jurassic igneous rocks of the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone of Iran mark a propagating rift, not a magmatic arc. Terra Nova 31, 415-423. (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Corfu, F., Stern, R.J., and Lotifibakhsh, 2019. The Eastern Khoy Metamorphic Complex of NW Iran: a Jurassic ophiolite or continuation of the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone? J. Geol. Soc. London 176, 517-529.(PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Dumitru, T., 2019. Eocene Initiation of the Cascadia subduction zone: A second example of Plume-Induced Subduction Initiation? Geosphere 15, 659-681.(PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Tamura, Y., Shukuno, H., and Miyazaki, T., 2019. The Zealandia Volcanic Complex: Further Evidence of a Lower Crustal “Hot Zone” beneath the Mariana Intra-oceanic Arc, Western Pacific. The Island Arc 28, e1230 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Johnson, P.R. 2019. Constraining the opening of the Red Sea: evidence from the Neoproterozoic margins and Cenozoic magmatism for a Volcanic Rifted Margin. In Rasul, N. M. A. and Stewart, I. C. F. (eds.), Geological Setting of the Red Sea, Springer, 53-80. (PDF)
- Lieu, W. and Stern, R.J., 2019. The robustness of Sr/Y and La/Yb as proxies for crustal thickness in modern arcs. Geosphere https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01667.1 (PDF)
- Azizi, H., Haddad, S., Stern, R.J., and Asahara, Y., 2019. Age, Geochemistry and Emplacement of the ~40 Ma Baneh granite-appinite complex in a transpressional tectonic regime, Zagros suture zone, northwest Iran. International Geology Review 61, 195-223. (PDF)
- Azizi, H., and Stern, R. J., in press. Jurassic igneous rocks of the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone of Iran mark a propagating rift, not a magmatic arc. Terra Nova. (PDF)
- Azizi, H., Nouri, F., Stern, R.J., Azizi, M., Lucci, F., Asahara, Y., Zarinkoub, M.H. and Chung, S.L., in press. New evidence for Jurassic continental rifting in the northern Sanandaj Sirjan Zone, western Iran: the Ghalaylan seamount, southwest Ghorveh. International Geology Review. (PDF)
- Nouri, F. , Stern, R.J., and Azizi, H., in press. The Jurassic tourmaline-garnet-beryl semigemstone province in the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, western Iran. International Geology Review. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Dumitru, T., in press. Eocene Initiation of the Cascadia subduction zone: A second example of Plume-Induced Subduction Initiation? Geosphere https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02050.1 (PDF)
2018 (back to top)
- Stern, R.J., 2018. The Evolution of Plate Tectonics. Philosophical Transactions A, 376, 20170406 DOI 10.1098/rsta.2017.0406 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Gerya, T., 2018. Subduction Initiation in nature and models: A review. Tectonophysics 746, 173-198. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., 2018. Neoproterozoic Formation and Evolution of Eastern Desert Continental Crust - the importance of the Infrastructure-Superstructure transition. J. African Earth Sciences 148, 15-27 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Gerya, T., and Tackley, P., 2018. Planetoid Tectonics: Perspectives from Silicate Planets, Dwarf Planets, Large Moons, and Large Asteroids. Geoscience Frontiers 9, 103-119.(PDF)
- Kimura, J.-I., Sakuyama, T., Miyazaki, T., Stefanov, V.B., Fukao, and Stern, R. J., 2018. Plume-stagnant slab-lithosphere interactions: Origin of late Cenozoic intra-plate basalts on the East Eurasian margin. Lithos 300-301, 227-249.(PDF)
- Bebout, G.E., Scholl, D.W., Stern, R.J., Wallace, L.M., and Agard, P., 2018. Twenty Years of Subduction Zone Science; Subduction Top to Bottom 2 (ST2B-2). GSA Today 28, doi: 10.1130/GSATG354A.1 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Li, S., and Keller, G.R., 2018. Continental Crust of China: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed. Earth Science Reviews 179, 72-94 (PDF)
- Stern R.J., and Miller N.R. 2018 Did the transition to plate tectonics cause Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth? Terra Nova 30, 87-94. (PDF)
- Azizi, H., Lucci, F., Stern, R.J., and Hasannejad, S., 2018. The Late Jurassic Panjeh submarine volcano in the northern Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, northwest Iran: Mantle Plume or Active Margin? Lithos 308-309, 364-380. (PDF)
- Nouri, F., Azizi, H., Stern, R.J., Asahara, Y., Khodaparast, S., Madanipour, S., and Yanamoto, K., in press. U-Pb dating, geochemistry and evolution of the Late Eocene Saveh magmatic complex, central Iran: Partial melts of sub-continental lithospheric mantle and magmatic differentiation. Lithos 314-315, 274-292. (PDF)
- Li, S., Wang, Q., Zhu, D.-C., Stern, R.J., Pearce, J.A., Sui, Q.-L., and Shao, Z., 2018. One or two Early Cretaceous arc systems in the Lhasa Terrane, southern Tibet. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 123, 3391-3413. (PDF)
- Zhou, X., Li, Z.-H., Gerya, T.V., Stern, R.J., Xu, Z., and Zhang, J., 2018. Subduction initiation dynamics along a transform fault control trench curvature and ophiolite ages. Geology 46, 607-610. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Johnson, P.R. in press. Constraining the opening of the Red Sea: evidence from the Neoproterozoic margins and Cenozoic magmatism for a Volcanic Rifted Margin. In Rasul, N. M. A. and Stewart, I. C. F., Geological Setting of the Red Sea, Springer.
- Azizi, H., Haddad, S., Stern, R.J., Asahara, Y., and Tsuboi, M., in press. Age, Geochemistry and Emplacement of the ~40 Ma Baneh granite-appinite complex in a transpressional tectonic regime, Zagros suture zone, northwest Iran. International Geology Review (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Gerya, T., in press. Subduction Initiation in nature and models: A review. Tectonophysics Stern, R.J. in press. The Evolution of Plate Tectonics. Philosophical Transactions A. DOI 10.1098/rsta.2017.0406 (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Griffin, W.L., Kirchenbaur, M., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Khedr, M.Z.,Kimura, J.-I., Stern, R.J., Ghorbani, G., Murphy, R., O’Reilly, S., Arai, S.,and Maghdour-Mashour, R., in press. Roll-back, Extension and Mantle Upwelling Triggered Eocene Potassic Magmatism in NW Iran. J. Petrology.
- Martinez, F., Stern, R.J., Kelley, K.A., Ohara, Y., Sleeper, J.D., Ribeiro, J.M., and Brounce, M. 2018. Diffuse extension of the southern Mariana margin: implications for subduction zone infancy and plate tectonics. J. Geophys Res. (Solid Earth) 123, 892-916. (PDF)
2017 (back to top)
- Stern, R.J., Leybourne, M. I., and Tsujimori, T., 2017. Forum Reply: Kimberlites and the start of plate tectonics. Geology 45, e406. doi:10.1130/G38725Y.1 (PDF)
- Stern, R. J., T. V. Gerya, and P. J. Tackley, 2017. Tackling unanswered questions on what shapes Earth, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO065791. Published on 02 February 2017.
- Stern, R.J., Lieu, W., Manley, A., Ward, A., Fechter, T., Farrar, E., McComber, S., and Windler, J., 2017. A New Animation of Subduction Zone Processes Developed for the Undergraduate and Community College Audience. Geosphere 13, 628-643. (PDF)
- Johnson, P.R., Zoheir, B.A., Ghebreab, W., Stern, R.J, Barrie, C.T., and Hamer, R.D., 2017. Gold-Bearing Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide and Orogenic-Gold Deposits in the Nubian Shield. South African Journal of Geology 120, 63-76. (PDF)
- Bayati, M., Esmaeili, D., Li, X.-H., Stern, R.J., Sepidbar, F., 2017. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Kolah Ghazi granitoids of Iran: Insights into the Jurassic Sanandaj-Sirjan magmatic arc. Chemie der Erde 77, 281-302. (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Li, X.H., Santos, J.F., Stern, R.J., Griffin, W.L., Ghorbani, G., and Sarebani, N., 2017. Neoproterozoic Magmatic Flare-up along the N. Margin of Gondwana: The Taknar Complex, NE Iran. Earth and Planetary Sciences 474, 83-96. (PDF)
- Ribeiro, J.M., Stern, R.J., Woodhead, J., Martinez, F., Chen, M., and Ohara, Y. 2017. An Indian mantle outflow underneath the southern Mariana convergent plate margin? Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett. 478, 258-271. (PDF)
- Volesky, J., Leybourne, M., Peter, J., Leyton-Matthews, D., Rice, S., Johnson, P., and Stern, R.J., 2017. Metavolcanic host rocks, mineralization and gossans of the Shaib al Tair and Rabathan volcanogenic, massive sulfide deposits of the Wadi Bidah Mineral District, Saudi Arabia. International Geology Review 59, 1975-2002. (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Griffin, W. L., Li, X.-H., Stern, R.J., Karsli, O., Santos, J. F., Pearson, N. J., and O’Reilly, S. Y., 2017. Crustal Evolution of NW Iran: Cadomian Arcs, Archean Fragments and the Cenozoic Magmatic Flare-up. Journal of Petrology 58, 2143-2190. (PDF)
- Jarrar, G., Stern, R.J., Theye, T., Yaseen, N., Pease, V., Ibrahim, K., Miller, N., Passchier, C., and Whitehouse, M., 2017. Neoproterozoic Rosetta Gabbro from northernmost Arabian-Nubian Shield, south Jordan: Geochemistry and Petrogenesis. Lithos 284-285, 545-559. (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Li, X.H., Stern, R.J., Thomsen, T.B., Meinhold, G., Griffin, W.L., 2017. Early Paleozoic tectonic reconstruction of Iran: Tales from detrital zircon geochronology. Lithos 268-271, 87-101 (PDF)
- Johnson, P.R., Zoheir, B.A., Ghebreab, W., Stern, R.J, Barrie, C.T., and Hamer, R.D., in press. Gold-Bearing Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide and Orogenic-Gold Deposits in the Nubian Shield. Economic Geology
- Moghadam, H.S., Li, X.H., Santos, J.F., Stern, R.J., Griffin, W.L., Ghorbani, G., and Sarebani, N., in press. Neoproterozoic Magmatic Flare-up along the N. Margin of Gondwana: The Taknar Complex, NE Iran. Earth and Planetary Sciences.
- Volesky, J., Leybourne, M., Peter, J., Leyton-Matthews, D., Rice, S., Johnson, P., and Stern, R.J., in press. Metavolcanic host rocks, mineralization and gossans of the Shaib al Tair and Rabathan volcanogenic, massive sulfide deposits of the Wadi Bidah Mineral District, Saudi Arabia. International Geology Review. (PDF)
- Ali, K. A., Stern, R.J., Wilde, S. A., Al-Shanti, A.M., Andersen, A., Whitehouse, M. J., and Johnson, P.R., submitted. Old zircons in Juvenile magmas of the Arabian-Nubian Shield: Zircon Hf-O isotopic evidence from the Midyan Terrane, Northern Arabian Shield. Lithos.
- Moghadam, H.S., Griffin, W. L., Li, X.-H., Stern, R.J., Karsli, O., Santos, J. F., Pearson, N. J., O’Reilly, S. Y., Crustal Evolution of NW Iran: Cadomian Arcs, Archean Fragments and the Cenozoic Magmatic Flare-up.
- Bayati, M., Esmaeili, D., Li, X.-H., Stern, R.J., Sepidbar, F., submitted. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Kolah Ghazi granitoids of Iran: Insights into the Jurassic Sanandaj-Sirjan magmatic arc. Chemie der Erde. (PDF)
2016 (back to top)
- Stern, R.J., Leybourne, M. I., and Tsujimori, T., 2016. Kimberlites and the Start of Plate Tectonics. Geology 44, 799-802. (PDF)
- Whattam, S., and Stern, R.J., 2016. Arc magmatic evolution and the construction of continental crust at the Central American Volcanic Arc system. International Geology Review 58, 653-686. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Ali, K., Ren, M., Jarrar, G. H., Romer, R.L., Leybourne, M., and Whitehouse, M. J., 2016. Cadomian (~560 Ma) Crust Buried beneath the Northern Arabian Peninsula: Mineral, Chemical, Geochronological, and Isotopic constraints from NE Jordan xenoliths. Earth and Planet. Sci. 436, 31-42. (PDF)
- Ali, K.A., Zoheir, B.A., Stern, R.J., Andresen, A., Whitehouse, M.J., and Bishara, W.W., in press. Lu-Hf and O isotopic compositions on single zircons from the North Eastern Desert of Egypt, Arabian-Nubian Shield: implications for crustal evolution. Gondwana Research 32, 181-192. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Scholl, D., and Fryer, G. 2016. Convergent Plate Margin Hazards. Plate Tectonics and Natural Hazards. In Eds. Duarte, J. and Schellart, W., Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards, Geophysical Monograph 219, AGU 77-98.
- Stern, R.J., 2016. Is Plate Tectonics needed to Evolve Technological Species on Exoplanets? Geoscience Frontiers 7, 573-580. (PDF)
- Ikeda, Y., Nagao, K., Ishii, T., Matsumoto, D., Stern, R.J., Kagami, H., Arima, M., and Bloomer, S. H., 2016. Contributions of slab fluid and sediment melt components to magmatism in the Mariana Arc-Trough system: Evidence from geochemical compositions and Sr, Nd, and noble gas isotope systematics. The Island Arc 25, 253-273. (PDF)
- Iturralde-Vinent, M., García- Casco., A., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Proenza, J., Murphy, B., and Stern, R.J., 2016. The Geology of Cuba: A Brief Overview and Synthesis. GSA Today v. 26, no. 10, 4-10. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Leybourne, M. I., and Tsujimori, T., 2016. Kimberlites and the Start of Plate Tectonics. Geology 44, 799-802. (PDF)
- Okumura,T., Watanabe, H., Chen, C., Ohnishi, Y., Yamanaka, T., Sakai, S. Bloomer, S.H., Pujana, I., Stern, R.J., Ishii, T., Takai, K., Ohara, Y. 2016. The world’s deepest brucite-carbonate chimneys at a serpentinite-hosted system, the Shinkai Seep Field, Southern Mariana Forearc. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 17 doi:10.1002/2016GC006449(PDF)
- Brounce, M.N., Kelley, K., Stern, R. J., Martinez, F., and Cottrell, E., 2016. The Fina Nagu Volcanic Complex: Unusual submarine arc volcanism in the rapidly deforming southern Mariana margin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems DOI: 10.1002/2016GC006457 (PDF)
- Boskabadi, A., Pitcairn, I. K. Broman, C., Boyce, A., Teagle, D.A.H., Cooper, M. J., Azer, M. K., Mohamed, F. H., Stern, R.J., 2016. Carbonate alteration of ophiolitic rocks in the Arabian Nubian Shield of Egypt: Sources and compositions of the carbonating fluid and implications for the formation of Au deposits. International Geology Review (PDF)
- Moghadam, H. S., Li, X.-H., Stern, R.J., and Bakhshizad, F., submitted. Zircon U-Pb ages and Hf-O isotopic composition of migmatite from the Zanjan-Takab complex, NW Iran: Constraints on partial melting of meta-sedimentary rocks. Lithos. (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., Li, X.-H., Stern, R.J., Santos, J.F., Ghorbani, G., Pourmohsen, M., in press. Age and nature of 520-560 Ma calc-alkaline granitoids of Biarjmand, NE Iran: Insights into Cadomian arc magmatism in northern Gondwana. International Geology Review. (PDF)
2015 (back to top)
- Whattam, S., and Stern, R.J., 2015. Late Cretaceous Plume-induced Subduction Initiation along the southern and eastern margins of the Caribbean: The first documented example with implications for the onset of plate tectonics. Gondwana Research 27, 38-63 (PDF)
- Shafaii Moghadam, H., Khademi, M. Hu, Z., Stern, R.J., Santos, J.F., Wu, Y., 2015. Cadomian (Ediacaran–Cambrian) arc magmatism in the ChahJam–Biarjmand metamorphic complex (Iran): Magmatism along the northern active margin of Gondwana. Gondwana Research 27, 439-452. (PDF)
- Shafaii Moghadam, H., Khedr, M.Z., Arai, S., Stern, R.J., Ghorbani, G., and Tamura, A. 2015. Arc-related harzburgite-dunite-chromitite complexes in the mantle section of the Sabzevar ophiolite, Iran: a model for formation of podiform chromitites. Special issue on ophiolites and chromitites, Gondwana Research 27, 575-593. (PDF)
- Shafaii Moghadam, H., Li, Xian-Hua, Liang, Xiao-Xiao Ling, Stern, R.J., Santos, J.F., Meinhold, G., Ghorbani, G., and Shahabi, S. 2015. Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of Late Carboniferous A-type granites and gabbronorites in NW Iran: Geochronological and geochemical constraints. Lithos 212-215, 266-279. (PDF)
- J.M.Ribeiro, R.J.Stern, K. A. Kelley, A. M. Shaw, F. Martinez, Y. Ohara. 2015. Composition of the slab-derived fluids released beneath forearcs. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 418, 136–148. (PDF)
- Shafaii Moghadam, H., Li, X.-H., Ling, X. – X. Chiaradia, M., Stern, R.J., Khedr, M. Z., Ghorbani, G., Arai, S., and Molani, M., 2015. Devonian to Permian evolution of the Paleotethys Ocean: New evidence from U-Pb zircon dating and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of the arrehanjir-Mashhad “ophiolites”, NE Iran. Gondwana Research 28, 781-799. (PDF)
- Moghadam, H. S., Li, X.-H., Ling, X.-X., Santos, J.F. Stern, R.J, Li, Q.-L., Ghorbani, G., 2015. Eocene Kashmar granitoids (NE Iran): Petrogenetic constraints from U-Pb zircon geochronology and isotope geochemistry. Lithos 216-217, 118-135. (PDF)
- Shafaii Moghadam, H., and Stern R.J., 2015. Ophiolites of Iran: Keys to understanding the tectonic evolution of SW Asia: II) Mesozoic ophiolites. J Asian Earth Sciences 100, 31-59. (PDF)
- Gerya, T., Stern, R. J., Baes, M., Sobolev, S., and Whattam, S., 2015. Plume-induced subduction initiation triggered Plate Tectonics on Earth. Nature 527, 221-225. (PDF)
2014 (back to top)
- Hein, J.R., de Ronde, C.E.J., Koski, R.A., Ditchburn, R.G., Mizell, K., Tamura, Y., Stern, R.J., Conrad, T.A., Ishizuka, O., Leybourne, M.I., 2014. Layered Hydrothermal Barite-Sulfide Mounds, East Diamante Caldera, Mariana Volcanic Arc. Economic Geology 109, 2179-2206. (PDF)
- Kimura, J.-I., Gill, J.B., Kunikiyo, T., Osaka, I., Shimoshiori, Y., Katakuse, M., Kakabuchi, S., Nagao, T., Furuyama, K., Kamei, A., Kawabata, H., Nakajima, J., van Keken, P.E., and Stern, R.J., 2014. Diverse magmatic effects of subducting a hot slab in SW Japan: results from forward modeling. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 15, doi:10.1002/2013GC005132 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Ren, M., Ali, K. Förster, H.-J., Al Safarjalani, A.,Nasir, S., Whitehouse, M. J., and Leybourne, M. I., 2014. Early Carboniferous (~ 357 Ma) crust beneath northern Arabia: Tales from Tell Thannoun (southern Syria). Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett. 393, 83-93. (PDF)
- Shafaii Moghadam, H., and Stern R.J., 2014. Ophiolites of Iran: Keys to understanding the tectonic evolution of SW Asia: I) Paleozoic ophiolites. J Asian Earth Sciences 91, 19-38. (PDF)
- Embley, R.W., Y. Tamura, S.G. Merle, T. Sato, O. Ishizuka, W.W. Chadwick Jr., D.A. Wiens, P. Shore, and R.J. Stern. 2014. Eruption of South Sarigan Seamount, Northern Mariana Islands: Insights into hazards from submarine volcanic eruptions. Oceanography 27(2):24–31. (PDF)
- Andresen, A., Abu El-Enen, M.M., Stern, R.J., Wilde, S.,A. and, Ali, K.A., 2014. The Wadi Zaghra metaconglomerates of Sinai, Egypt: New constraints on the Late Cryogenian-Ediacaran tectonic evolution of the northernmost Arabian-Nubian Shield. International Geology Review 56, 1020-1038. (PDF)
- Shafaii Moghadam, H., Zaki Khedr, M., Chiaradia, M., Stern, R., Bakhshizad, F., Arai, S., Ottley, C., and Tamura, A. 2014. Supra-subduction zone magmatism of the Neyriz ophiolite, Iran: constraints from geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes. International Geology Review 56, 1395-1412. (PDF)
- Shafaii Moghadam, H.,Corfu,F., Chiaradia, M., Stern, R.J., Ghorbani, G., and Rossetti, F., 2014. Sabzevar Ophiolite, NE Iran: progress from embryonic oceanic lithosphere into magmatic arc constrained by new isotopic and geochemical data. Lithos 210-211, 224-241. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Minghua Ren, Katherine A. Kelley, Yasuhiko Ohara, Fernando Martinez, Sherman H. Bloomer,. 2014. Basaltic volcaniclastics from the Challenger Deep forearc segment, Mariana convergent margin: Implications for tectonics and magmatism of the southernmost Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc. The Island Arc 23, 368-382. (PDF)
- Tamura, Y., Ishizuka, O., Stern, R. J., Nunokawa, A., Shukuno, H., Kawabata, H., Hirahara, Y., Chang, Q., Miyazaki, T., Kimura, J.-I., Embley, R.W., Nichols, A., Tatsumi, Y., 2014. Mission Immiscible: Distinct subduction components generate two primary magmas of Pagan Volcano, Mariana arc. J. Petrology 55, 63-101. (PDF)
2013 (back to top)
- Shafaii Moghadem, H., Corfu, F. and Stern, R.J., 2013. U-Pb zircon ages of Late Cretaceous Nain-Dehshir ophiolites, Central Iran. J. Geol. Soc. London 170, 175-184. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Tamura, Y., Masuda, H., Fryer, P., Martinez, F., Ishizuka, O., and Bloomer, S.H., 2013. How does the Mariana Arc end in the south? The Island Arc 22, 133-148. (PDF)
- Shafaii Moghadam, H., Stern, R.J., Chiaradia, M., Rahgoshay, M., 2013. Geochemistry and tectonic evolution of the Late Cretaceous Gogher-Baft ophiolite, central Iran. Lithos 168-169, 33-47. (PDF)
- Fritz, H., Abdelsalam. M., Ali, K., Bingen, B., Collins, A.S., Fowler, A.R., Ghebreab, W., Hauzenberger, C.A., Johnson, P., Kusky, T., Macey, P., Muhongo, S., Stern, R.J., and Viola, G., 2013. Orogen styles in the East African Orogens: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution. J. African Earth Sci. 86, 65-106. (PDF)
- Azer, M.K., Samuel, M.D., Ali, K.A., Gahlan, H.A., Stern, R.J., Ren, M., Moussa, H.E., 2013. Neoproterozoic ophiolitic peridotites along the Allaqi-Heiani Suture, South Eastern Desert, Egypt. Mineralogy and Petrology 107, 829-848 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Tamura, Y., Ishizuka, O., Shukano, Bloomer, S.H., Embley, R.W., Leybourne, M., Kawabata, H., Nunokawa, A., Nichols, A., Kohut, E., and Pujana, I. in press. Volcanoes of the Diamante Cross-Chain: Evidence for a mid-crustal Felsic Magma Body beneath the southern Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc. Go ́mez-Tuena, A., Straub, S. M. & Zellmer, G. F. (eds) Orogenic Andesites and Crustal Growth. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 385, 235-255 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Tsujimori, T., Harlow, G., and Groat, L. A., 2013. Plate Tectonic Gemstones. Geology 41, 723-726. (PDF)
- Ribeiro, J.M., Stern, R.J., Martinez, F., Ishizuka, O., Merle, S.G., Kelley, K., Anthony, E. Y., Ren, M., Ohara, Y., Reagan, M., Girard, G., and Bloomer, S.H., 2013. Geodynamic evolution of a forearc rift in the southernmost Mariana Arc. The Island Arc 22, 453-476. (PDF)
- Johnson, P.R., Halverson, G.P., Kusky, T.M., Stern, R.J., and Pease, V., 2013. Volcano-sedimentary basins in the Arabian-Nubian Shield: markers of repeated exhumation and denudation in a Neoproterozoic accretionary orogeny. Geosciences (Open Access) 3(3), 389-445 (PDF)
- Ribeiro, J., Stern, R. J., Kelley, K., Martinez, F., Ishizuka, O., and Manton, W. I., 2013. Nature and distribution of slab-derived fluids and mantle sources beneath the SE Mariana Forearc Rift. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 14, doi: 10.1002/ggge.20244 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Mukherjee, S. K., Miller, N. R., Ali, K., and Johnson, P. R.. 2013. Banded Iron Formation from the Arabian-Nubian Shield – Implications for Understanding Neoproterozoic Climate Change. Precambrian Research 239, 79-94. (PDF)
- Ali, K.A., Wilde, S.A., Stern, R.J., Moghazi, A.-K., M., Mahbubul Ameen, S.M.M. 2013. Hf isotopic composition of single zircons from Neoproterozoic arc volcanics and post-collision granites, Eastern Desert of Egypt: implications for crustal growth and recycling in the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Precambrian Research 239, 42-55. (PDF)
- Boskabadi, A., Pitcairn, I.K., Stern, R.J., Azer, M.K., Broman, C., Mohamed, F.H., 2013. Fluid evolution and alteration geochemistry of the Tarr carbonate-albitite Intrusive Complex, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Precambrian Research 239, 24-41. (PDF)
- Reagan, M.K., McClelland, W.C., Girard, G., Goff, K.R. , Peate, D.W., Ohara, Y., and Stern, R. J., 2013. The geology of the southern Mariana fore-arc crust: implications for the scale of Eocene volcanism in the western Pacific. Earth and Planetary Research Letters 380, 41-51 (210) (PDF)
2012 (back to top)
- Ali, K., Andresen, A., Manton, W.I., Stern, R.J., Omar, S.A., and Maurice, A.E., 2012. U-Pb zircon and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic evidence for a juvenile origin of the ~634 Ma El-Shalul Granite, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt. Geol. Magazine doi: 10.1017/S0016756811000975. (PDF)
- Ali, K.A., Moghazi, A.-K. M., Maurice, A.E., Omar, S.A., Wang, Q., Wilde, S.A., Moussa, E. M., Manton, W. I., and Stern, R. J., 2012. U-Pb SHRIMP dating, Geochemistry, and Sm-Nd isotopic composition of the ~620 Ma Humr Akarim and Humrat Mukbid A-Type granites, Eastern Desert, Egypt. International Journal of Earth Science 101, 1705-1722 DOI 10.1007/s00531-012-0759-2. (PDF)
- Azer, M.K., Samuel, M.D., Ali, K.A., Gahlan, H.A., Stern, R.J., Ren, M., Moussa, H.E., in press. Neoproterozoic ophiolitic peridotites along the Allaqi-Heiani Suture, South Eastern Desert, Egypt. Mineralogy and Petrology.
- Nasir, S., and Stern, R.J. , 2012. Lithospheric Petrology of the Eastern Arabian Plate: Constraints from Al-Ashkhara (Oman) xenoliths. Lithos 132-133, 98-112. (PDF)
- Ohara, Y., Reagan, M.K., Fujikura, K., Watanabe, H., Michibayashi, K., Ishii, T., Stern, R.J., Pujana, I. Martinez, F., Giraud, G., Ribeiro, J., Brounce, M., Komori, N., Kino, M. 2012. A serpentinite-hosted ecosystem in the Southern Mariana Forearc. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. (PDF) www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1112005109
- Olariu, C., Bhattacharya, J. P. , Leybourne, M.I.,, Boss, S.K., and Stern, R.J. 2012. Interplay between river discharge and topography of the basin floor in a hyperpycnal lacustrine delta. Sedimentology 59, 704-728. (PDF)
- Shafaii Moghadam, H., Stern, R. J., Kimura, J.-I., Hirahara, Y., Senda, R., and Miyazaki, T. 2012. Hf-Nd Isotopic Constraints on the Origins of Zagros Ophiolites. The Island Arc 21, 202-214. (PDF)
- Stern, R,J, Ali, K.A., Abdelsalam, M. G., Wilde, S.A., and Zhou, Q., 2012. U-Pb Zircon geochronology of the eastern part of the Southern Ethiopian Shield. Precambrian Research 206-297, 159-167. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Reagan, M., Ishizuka, O., Ohara, Y. and Whattam, S., 2012. To Understand Subduction Initiation, Study Forearc Crust; To Understand Forearc Crust, Study Ophiolites. Lithosphere 4, 469�483. (PDF)
- Woodhead, J., Stern, R.J., Pearce, J., Hergt, J.,and Vervoort, J., 2012. Hf-Nd isotope variation in Mariana Trough basalts: the importance of 'ambient mantle' in the interpretation of subduction zone magmas. Geology 40, 539-542. (PDF)
- Moghazi, A.-K. M., Ali, K.A., Wilde, S.,A., Zhou Q., Andersen, T., Andresen A., Mahrous, A. E.-E., and Stern, R.J., 2012. Geochemistry, geochronology, and Sr-Nd isotopes of the Late Neoproterozoic Wadi Kid volcano- sedimentary rocks, Southern Sinai, Egypt: Implications for tectonic setting and crustal evolution. Lithos 154, 147-165. (PDF)
2011 (back to top)
- Johnson, P.R., Andresen, A., Collins, A.S., Fowler, A.R., H. Fritz, W. Ghebreab, T. Kusky, and Stern, R.J. 2011. Late Cryogenian-Ediacaran history of the Arabian-Nubian Shield: A review of depositional, plutonic, structural, and tectonic events in the closing stages of the northern East African Orogen. J. African Earth Sci. 61, 167-232. (PDF)
- Miller, N.R., Avigad, D., Stern, R.J., and M. Beyth, 2011. The Tambien Group, Northern Ethiopia (Tigre), in E. Arnaud et al. (eds.) The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Geological Society of London Memoir 36, 263-276. (PDF)
- Moghadem, H.S, and Stern, R.J., 2011. Geodynamic evolution of late Cretaceous Zagros ophiolites: Formation of Oceanic Lithosphere above a Nascent Subduction Zone. Geological Magazine 148, 762-801. (PDF)
- Moghadam, H.S., and Stern, R.J., 2011. Late Cretaceous Fore-arc ophiolites of Iran (pictorial article). The Island Arc 20, 1-4. (PDF)
- Raye, U., Anthony, E. Y., Stern, R.J., Kimura, J.I., Ren, M., Qing, C, Tani, K. (2011). Composition of the mantle lithosphere beneath southern Laurentia: Evidence from basanite-hosted peridotite xenoliths, Knippa, Texas. Geosphere 7, 1-14. DOI: 10.1130/GES00616.1, Data Repository item. (PDF)
- Satsukawa, T. Michibayashi, K., Anthony, E.Y., Stern R, J., Gao. S.S., Liu, K.H., 2011. Seismic anisotropy of the uppermost mantle beneath the Rio Grande rift: Evidence from Kilbourne Hole peridotite xenoliths, New Mexico. Earth Planet, Sci Lett. 311, 172-181. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Anthony, E.Y., Ren, M., Norton, I., Kimura, J.I., Miyazaki, T., Hanyu, T., Chang, Q., and Hirahara, Y., 2011. Southern Louisiana Salt Dome Xenoliths: First Glimpse of Jurassic (~160 Ma) Gulf of Mexico Crust. Geology 39, 315-318. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Johnson, P.R., Ali, K.A., and Mukherjee, S.K., 2011. Evidence for Early and Mid-Cryogenian glaciation in the Northern Arabian-Nubian Shield (Egypt and western Arabia), in E. Arnaud et al. (eds.) The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Geological Society of London Memoir 36, 277-284. (PDF)
- Tamura, Y., Ishizuka, O., Shukuno, H., Kawabata, H., Stern, R.J., Embley, R.W., Tatsumi, Y., and Nunokawa, A., 2011. Two Primary Basalt Magmatypes from Northwest Rota-1 Volcano, Mariana Arc. J. Petrology 52, 1143-1183. (PDF)
- Whattam, S.A., and Stern, R.J., 2011. The 'subduction initiation rule': A key for linking ophiolites, intra-oceanic forearcs and subduction initiation. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 162, 1031-1045. (PDF)
2010 (back to top)
- Stern, R.J., and Scholl, D. 2010. Yin and Yang of Continental Crust Creation and Destruction by Plate Tectonics. International Geology Review 52, 1-31. (PDF)
- Griffin, W.R., Foland, K. A., Stern, R.J., Leybourne, M.I., 2010. Geochronology of Bimodal Alkaline Volcanism in the Balcones Igneous Province, Texas: Implications for Cretaceous Intraplate Magmatism in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Magmatic Zone. Journal of Geology 118, 1-21. (PDF)
- Azer, M.K., Stern, R.J., and Kimura, J.I. 2010. Origin of a Late Neoproterozoic (605�13 Ma) intrusive carbonate-albitite complex in Southern Sinai, Egypt. International Journal of Earth Sciences 99:245-267. (PDF)
- Liegeois, J.-P., and Stern, R.J., 2010. Sr-Nd isotopes and geochemistry of granite- gneiss complexes from the Meatiq and Hafafit domes, Eastern Desert, Egypt: No evidence for pre-Neoproterozoic crust. J. African Earth Sciences 57, 31-40. (PDF)
- Reagan, M.K., Ishizuka, O., Stern, R.J., Kelley, K.A., Ohara, Y., Blichert-Toft J., Bloomer, S.H., Cash, J., Fryer, P., Hanan, B.B., Hickey-Vargas, R., Ishii, T., Kimura, J.I., Peate, D.W., Rowe, M.C., and Woods, M. 2010. Fore-arc basalts and subduction initiation in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana system. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 11, Q03X12, doi:10.1029/2009GC002871 (PDF)
- Ishizuka, O., Yuasa, M., Tamura, Y., Shukuno, H., Stern, R.J., Naka, J, Joshima, M., and Taylor, R.N., 2010. Migrating shoshonitic magmatism tracks Izu-Bonin- Mariana intra-oceanic arc rift propagation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 294, 111-122. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J. 2010. The Anatomy and Ontogeny of Modern Intra-Oceanic Arc Systems. Kusky, T. M., Zhai, M.-G. & Xiao, W. (eds) The Evolving Continents: Understanding Processes of Continental Growth. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 338, 7-34. (PDF)
- Ali, K.A., Stern, R.J., Manton, W.I., Johnson, P.R. and Mukherjee, S.K., 2010. Neoproterozoic diamictite in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and Northern Saudi Arabia: Evidence of ~ 750 Ma glaciation in the Arabian-Nubian Shield. International Journal of Earth Sciences 90, 705-726. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Johnson, P., 2010. Continental Lithosphere of the Arabian Plate: A Geologic, Petrologic, and Geophysical Synthesis. Earth Science Reviews 101, 29-67. (PDF)
- Moghadem, H.S., Stern, R.J., and Rahgoshay, M., 2010. The Dehshir ophiolite (central Iran): Geochemical constraints on the origin and evolution of the Inner Zagros Ophiolite Belt. Geol. Soc. America Bull. 122, 1516-1547. (PDF)
- Ali, K.A., Azer, M.K., Gahlan, H.A., Wilde, S.A., Samuel, M.D., and Stern, R.J., 2010. Age constraints on the formation and emplacement of Neoproterozoic ophiolites along the Allaqi-Heiani Suture, South Eastern Desert of Egypt. Gondwana Research 18, 583-595. (PDF)
- Dickinson, W.R., Gehrels, G.E., and Stern, R.J., 2010. Late Triassic Texas uplift preceding Jurassic opening of the Gulf of Mexico: Evidence from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons. Geosphere. v. 6; no. 5; p. 641-662; doi: 10.1130/GES00532.1 (PDF)
- Kimura, J.-I., Kent, A.J.R., Rowe, M.C., Katskuse, M., Nakano, F., B. R. Hacker, P. E. van Keken, H. Kawabata, and R. J. Stern, 2010. Origin of cross-chain geochemical variation in Quaternary lavas from the northern Izu arc: Using a quantitative mass balance approach to identify mantle sources and mantle wedge processes. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 11, Q10011, doi:10.1029/2010GC003050 (PDF)
- Satsukawa, T., Michibayashi, K., Raye, U., Anthony, E.Y., Pulliam, J. and Stern, R.J., 2010. Uppermost mantle anisotropy beneath the southern Laurentian margin: Evidence from Knippa peridotite xenoliths, Texas. Geophysical Research Letters 37, L20312, doi:10.1029/2010GL044538 (PDF)
- Ali, K. A., Stern, R.J., Manton, W.I., Kimura, J.-I., Whitehouse, M., Mukherjee, S. K., Johnson, P., R., and Griffin, W.R. 2010. Geochemical, U-Pb zircon and Nd isotopic investigations of the Ghawjah Metavolcanics of Northwestern Saudi Arabia: The ~750 Ma Crust-Forming Event correlated across the Red Sea. Lithos 120, 379-392. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Dickinson, W.R., 2010. The Gulf of Mexico is a Jurassic back-arc Basin. Geosphere v. 6; no. 6; p. 739–754; doi: 10.1130/GES00585.1 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Ali, K. A., Liegeois, J.-P., Johnson, P., Wiescek, F., Kattan, F., 2010. Distribution and Significance of pre-Neoproterozoic Zircons in Juvenile Neoproterozoic Igneous Rocks of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. American Journal of Science 310, 791-811. (PDF)
2009 (back to top)
- Mickus, K., Stern, R.J., Keller, G.R., Anthony, E.Y., 2009. Potential field evidence for a volcanic rifted margin along the Texas Gulf Coast. Geology v. 37, no. 5, pg 387-390.(PDF)
- Miller, N., Stern, R.J., Avigad, D., Beyth, M., and Schilman, B. 2009. Cryogenian carbonate-slate sequences of the Tambien Group, Northern Ethiopia (I) -pre-"Sturtian" chemostratigraphy and regional correlations. Precambrian Research 170, 129-156. (PDF)
- Ali, K.A., Stern, R.J., Manton, W.I., Kimura, J.-I., and Khamis, H.A. 2009. Geochemistry, Nd isotopes, and U-Pb SHRIMP zircon dating of Neoproterozoic volcanic rocks from the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: New Insights into the ~ 750 Ma Crust-Forming Event. Precambrian Research 171, 1-22 (PDF)
- Michibayashi, K., Ohara, Y., Stern, R.J., Fryer, P., Kimura, J.-I., Tasaka, M., Harigane, Y., Ishii, T., 2009. Peridotites derived from a ductile shear zone within backarc lithospheric mantle, southern Mariana Trench: results of a Shinkai 6500 dive. Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems 10, doi:10.1029/2008GC002197 (PDF)
- Kimura, J., B. R. Hacker, P. E. van Keken, H. Kawabata, T. Yoshida, and R. J. Stern. 2009. Arc Basalt Simulator version 2, a simulation for slab dehydration and fluid-fluxed mantle melting for arc basalts: Modeling scheme and application, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q09004, doi:10.1029/2008GC002217 (PDF)
2008 (back to top)
- Stern, R.J., 2008. Neoproterozoic crustal growth: The solid Earth system during a critical episode of Earth history. Gondwana Research Volume 14, Issues 1-2, Pages 33-50.(PDF)
- Jarrar, G.H., Manton, W.I., Stern, R.J., and Zachmann, D. 2008. Late Neoproterozoic A-type granites in the northernmost Arabian-Nubian Shield formed by fractionation of basaltic melts. Chemie der Erde - Geochemistry Volume 68, Issue 3, Pages 295-312. (PDF)
- Moussa, E. M. M., Stern, R.J., Manton, W.I., and Ali, K.A. 2008. SHRIMP zircon dating and Sm/Nd isotopic investigations of Neoproterozoic granitoids, Eastern Desert, Egypt. Precambrian Research 160, 341-356. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Tamura, Y., Embley, R.W., Ishizuku, O., Merle, S., Basu, N.K., Kawabata, H., and Bloomer, S.H., 2008. Evolution of West Rota Volcano, an extinct submarine volcano in the Southern Mariana Arc: Evidence from sea floor morphology, remotely operated vehicle observations and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology. The Island Arc 17, 70-89. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J. and Klemperer, S. L. , 2008. U.S. Passive Margins: Are we missing an Important Opportunity? Eos 89, 7, 64-65. (PDF)
- Gao, S. S., Kelly H. Liu, K.H., Stern, R.J., Keller, G.R., Hogan, J. P., Pulliam, J., and Anthony, E. Y., 2008. Characteristics of mantle fabrics beneath the southern-central United States: Constraints from shear-wave splitting measurements. Geosphere 4, 411-417 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., D. Avigad, N. Miller, M. Beyth, 2008. From Volcanic Winter to Snowball Earth: An alternative explanation for Neoproterozoic Biosphere Stress. Y. Dilek, H. Furnes, K. Muehlenbachs eds. Links Between Geological Processes, Microbial Activities & Evolution of Life. Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, vol. 4. Springer, 313-337. (PDF)
- Miller, N.R., Johnson, P.R., Stern, R.J.,2008. Marine versus non-marine environments for the Jibalah group, NW Arabian shield: A sedimentologic and geochemical survey and report of possible metazoa in the Dhaiqa formation. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering Theme Issue: Arabian Plate Basement Rocks and Mineral Deposits, 33, 1C, 55-77. (PDF)
- Hein, J.R., Schulz, M.S., Dunham, R., Stern, R.J., and Bloomer, S.H. 2008. Diffuse-flow distal hydrothermal mineralization along the active Mariana and southern Izu-Bonin arc system, West Pacific. J Geophys. Res. (Solid Earth) 113, B08S14, doi:10.1029/2007JB005432. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., 2008. Neoproterozoic Crustal Growth: The Solid Earth System During A Critical Time of Earth History. Gondwana Research 14, 33-50. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Johnson, P. R. Do variations in Arabian plate lithospheric structure control deformation in the Arabian-Eurasian convergence zone? Donald D Harrington Symposium on the Geology of the Aegean IOP Publishing. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 2 (2008) 012005 doi:10.1088/1755-1307/2/1/012005 (extended abstract). (PDF)
- J.-I. Kimura and R.J. Stern, 2008. Neogene Volcanism of the Japan Island Arc: The K-h Relationship Revisited. In Circum-Pacific Tectonics, Geologic Evolution, and Ore Deposits Symposium-Proceedings Volume, Arizona Geological Society Digest, 187-202 (PDF)
2007 (back to top)
- Oharo, Y., Tokuyama, H., and Stern, R.J., 2007. Thematic Section: Geology and geophysics of the Philippine Sea and adjacent areas in the Pacific Ocean. Island Arc vol. 16, no. 3, 319-321.(PDF)
- Azer, M., and Stern, R.J., 2007. Neoproterozoic serpentinites in the Eastern Desert, Egypt: Fragments of fore-arc mantle. Journal of Geology 115, 457-472. (PDF)
- Avigad, D., Stern, R.J., Beyth, M., Miller, N., and McWilliams, M. O., 2007. Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Cryogenian diamictites and Lower Paleozoic sandstone in Ethiopia (Tigrai): age constraints on Neoproterozoic glaciation and crustal evolution of the southern Arabian-Nubian Shield. Precambrian Research. 154, 88-106. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., 2007. When Did Plate Tectonics Begin? Theoretical and Empirical Considerations. Chinese Bulletin of Science. vol. 52, no. 5, 578-591 (PDF)
2006 (back to top)
- Condie, K.C., Kröner, A., and Stern, R.J., 2006. When Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Earth? Theoretical and Empirical Constraints. GSA Today , 16, 1, 23-24 (PDF)
- Hargrove, U.S. III, Stern, R.J. Griffin, W.R. Johnson, P. and Abdelsalam, M.G. 2006, From Island Arc to Craton: Timescales of Crustal Formation along the Neoproterozoic Bi'r Umq Suture zone, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Geological Survey Technical Report SGS-TR-2006-6, 69p. (PDF)
- Tatsumi, Y., and Stern, R.J., 2006. Manufacturing Continental Crust in the Subduction Factory: Was Continent Born in the Ocean? Oceanography 17, 104-112 (PDF)
- Pearce, J.A., and Stern, R.J., 2006. The Origin of Back-arc Basin Magmas: Trace Element and Isotopic Perspectives. In Christie D.M., Fisher, C.R., Lee, S.-M., and Givens, S. (eds.) Back-Arc Spreading Systems: Geological, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Interactions. AGU monograph 166, Washington DC, p. 63-86. (PDF)
- Hargrove III, U.S., Stern, R.J., Kimura, J.-I., Manton, W.I., and Johnson, P.R. 2006. How juvenile is the Arabian-Nubian Shield? Evidence from Nd isotopes and pre-Neoproterozoic inherited zircon. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 252, 308-326. (PDF)
- Hoffman, P.F., and Stern, R.J., 2006. Evidence from Ophiolites, Blüschists, and Ultra-High Pressure Metamorphic Terranes that the Modern Episode of Subduction Tectonics Began in Neoproterozoic Time: Comment and Reply. Geology doi:10.1130/G22300.1 (PDF)
- Ishizuka, O., Kimura, J.-I., Li, Y.B., Stern, R.J., Reagan, M., Taylor, R.N., Ohara, Y., Bloomer, S.H., Ishii, T. Hargrove III, U.S., Haraguchi, S., 2006. Early stages in the Evolution of Izu-Bonin Arc volcanism: new age, chemical, and isotopic constraints. EPSL 250, 385-401 (PDF)
- Pujana, I., Stern, R.J., and Ledbetter, C. 2006. Geology, Resources and Environment of Latin America: Incorporating Earth Systems Science Education in an Undergraduate Science Service Course. J. Geoscience Education 54, 3, 357-363.(PDF)
- Kohut, E.J., Stern, R.J., Kent, A.J.R., Nielsen, R.L., Bloomer, S.H., and Leybourne, M. 2006. Evidence for Decompression Melting in the Southern Mariana Arc From High-Mg Lavas and Melt Inclusions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 152, 201-221 (PDF)
- Embley, R.W., Chadwick, Jr., W.W., Baker, E.T., Butterfield, D.A., Resing, J.A., de Ronde, C.E.J., Tunniclife, V., Lupton, J.E., Juniper, K.S., Rubin, K.H., Stern, R.J., Lebon, G.T., Nakamura, K.-I. , Merle, S.G., Hein, J.R., Wiens, D.P., and Tamura, Y. 2006. Eruptive Activity at a Submarine Arc Volcano. Nature 441, 494-497. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Kohut, E.J., Bloomer, S.H., Leybourne, M., Fouch, M., and Vervoort, J. 2006. Subduction factory processes beneath the Guguan Cross-chain, Mariana Arc: no role for sediments, are serpentinites important? Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 151, 202-221. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Avigad, D., Miller, N.R., and Beyth, M. 2006. Geological Society of Africa Presidential Review #10: Evidence for the Snowball Earth Hypothesis in the Arabian-Nubian Shield and the East African Orogen. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 44:1-20 (PDF)
2005 (back to top)
- Avigad, D., Sandler, A., Kolodner, K., Stern, R.J., McWilliams, M., Miller, N., and Beyth, M. 2005. Mass-production of Cambro-Ordovician quartz-rich sandstone as a conseqünce of chemical weathering of Pan-African terranes: Environmental Implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 240, 818-826. (PDF)
- Wade, J., Plank, T., Stern, R.J., Tollstrup, D., Gill, J., O'Leary, J., Moore, R.B., Trusdell, F., Fisher, T.P., and Hilton, D.R. 2005. The May 2003 eruption of Anatahan volcano, Mariana Islands: Geochemical Evolution of a Silicic Island Arc Volcano. J. Volcanology and Geothermal Research 146, 1-3, 139-170. (PDF)
- Pearce, J.A., Stern, R.J., Bloomer, S.H., and Fryer, P. 2005. Geochemical Mapping of the Mariana Arc-Basin System: Implications for the Nature and Distribution of Subduction Components. Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems, v. 6, No. 7, Q07006, doi:10.1029/2004GC000895 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J. 2005. Evidence from Ophiolites, Blueschists, and Ultra-High Pressure Metamorphic Terranes that the Modern Episode of Subduction Tectonics Began in Neoproterozoic Time. Geology 33,7, 557-560. (PDF)
- Kimura, J.-I., Stern, R.J., and Yoshida, T. 2005. Re-initiation of Subduction and Magmatic Responses in SW Japan during Neogene Time. Bull. Geol. Soc. America 117, 969-986. (PDF)
2004 (back to top)
- Kröner, A. and Stern, R.J. 2004. AFRICA | Pan-African Orogeny. Encyclopedia of Geology, 1, 1-12. (PDF)
- Khan, S. D., Stern, R. J., Manton, M. I., Copeland, P., Khan, M. A. Kimura, J. I. 2004. Age, geochemical and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic constraints for mantle source characteristics and petrogenesis of Teru Volcanic Formation, Northern Kohistan terrane, Pakistan. In : Flower, M., Mocanu, V., Chi, C, T., Editors, "Tethyan Plate Collisions and their Mantle Responses" Tectonophysics 393, 263-280. (PDF)
- Thurmond, A. K. , Stern, R. J. , Abdelsalam, M. G., Nielsen, K. C. , Abdeen, M. M. , Hinz, E., 2004. The Nubian Swell. J. African Earth Sciences, 39, 401-407. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Johnson, P.J., Kröner, A., and Yibas, B.,2004. 'Neoproterozoic Ophiolites of the Arabian-Nubian Shield', in T. Kusky (ed.) Precambrian Ophiolites, Elsevier. p.95-128 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J. 2004. Subduction Initiation: Spontaneous and Induced. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 226, 275-292 (PDF)
- Gvirtzman, Z., and Stern, R.J., 2004. Bathymetry of Mariana Trench-Arc System and Formation of the Challenger Deep as a Conseqünce of Weak Plate Coupling. Tectonics, TC2011, doi:10.1029/2003TC001581, 2004 (PDF)
- Katz, O., Beyth, M., Miller, N., Stern, R., Avigad, D., Basu, A., and Anbar, A., 2004. A Late Neoproterozoic (~630Ma) Boninitic Suite from southern Israel: Implications for the Consolidation of Gondwanaland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 218, 475-490. (PDF)
2003 (back to top)
- Gill, J., Klemperer, S., Stern, R., Tamura, Y., and Wiens, D. 2003. 'Subduction-Factory' Meeting Studies Izu-Bonin-Mariana Margin. Eos, v. 84, No. 1, p. 3 (PDF)
- Kusky, T.M., Abdelsalam, M., Stern, R.J., and Tucker, R.D., 2003. Evolution of the East African and related orogens, and the assembly of Gondwana. Precambrian Research v. 123, p.81-85(PDF)
- Johnson, P.J., Abdelsalam, M.G., and Stern, R.J., 2003. The Bir Umq-Nakasib Suture Zone in the Arabian-Nubian Shield: A key to understanding crustal growth in the East African Orogen. Gondwana Research, 6:523-530. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Fouch, M.J., and Klemperer, S., 2003. "An Overview of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Subduction Factory" in J. Eiler and M. Hirschmann (eds.) Inside the Subduction Factory, Geophysical Monograph 138, American Geophysical Union, 175-222. (PDF)
- Ito, E., Stern, R.J., and Douthitt, C., 2003. 'Insights into Operation of the "Subduction Factory" from the Oxygen Isotopic Valüs of Southern Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc' The Island Arc v. 12, 383-397. (PDF)
- Abdelsalam, M.G., Abdeen, M.M., Dowaidar, H.M., Stern,R.J., and Abdelghaffar, A.A., 2003. Structural evolution of the Neoproterozoic Western Allaqi-Heiani suture, southeastern Egypt. Precambrian Research v. 124, p. 87-104. (PDF)
- Jarrar, G., Stern, R.J., Saffarini, G., and Al-Zubi, H., 2003. Late- and post-orogenic Neoproterozoic intrusions of Jordan: Implications for crustal growth in the northernmost segment of the East African Orogen. Precambrian Research v. 123, p. 295-320 (PDF)
- Volesky, J.C., Stern, R.J., and Johnson, P.R. 2003. Geological control of massive sulfide mineralization in the Neoproterozoic Wadi Bidah shear zone, southwestern Saudi Arabia, inferences from orbital remote sensing and field studies. Precambrian Research v. 123, p. 235-248. (PDF)
- Abdelsalam, M.G., Abdel-Rahman, E.M., El-Faki, E.M., El-Hur, B., El-Bashier, F.M., Stern,R.J., and Thurmond, A.K., 2003. "Neoproterozoic Deformation in the Northeastern part of the Saharan Metacraton" Precambrian Research v. 123, p. 203-222 (PDF)
- Bailo, E., Schandelmeier, H., Franz, G., Sun, C.-H., Stern, R.J., 2003. Plutonic and Metamorphic Rocks from the Keraf Suture (NE Sudan): A Glimpse of the Tectonic Evolution of the NE margin of W. Gondwana during Neoproterozoic Time. Precambrian Research v. 123, 67-80. (PDF)
- Miller, N.R., Alene, M., Sacchi, R., Stern, R., Conti, A., Kröner, A., Zuppi, G., 2003. "Significance of the Tambien Group (Tigrai, N. Ethiopia) for Snowball Earth Events in the Arabian-Nubian Shield". Precambrian Research v. 121, p. 263-283. (PDF)
2002 (back to top)
- Johnson, P.R., Abdelsalam, M.G., and Stern, R.J., 2002. The Bir Umq-Nakasib shear zone: Geology and structure of a Neoproterozoic suture in the northern East African Orogen, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. Saudi Geological Survey Technical Report SGS-TR-2002-1, 33p.
- Abdeen, M.M., Thurmond, A.K., Abdelsalam, M.G., and Stern, R.J., 2002. Use of Terra Satellite ASTER Band-ratio images for geologic mapping in arid regions: The Neoproterozoic Allaqi Suture, Egypt. Egypt. J. Remote Sensing & Space Sci., 5, 19-40.
- Stern, R.J., 2002. "Subduction Zones" Reviews of Geophysics, 40, 10.1029/2001RG000108 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., Beyth, M., Bodechtel, J., and Wetzel, H.-U., 2002. The Potential of the International Space Station for Imaging the Earth: Lessons from MOMS-2P Aboard Mir. Geology v. 30, no. 9, p. 851-854. (PDF)
- Kimura J.-I., Manton W.I., Sun C. -H., Iizumi, Yoshida T., and Stern R. J. "Chemical diversity of the üno Basalts, central Japan: Identification of mantle and crust contributions to arc basalts: J. Petrol. 43, 1923-1946 (PDF)
- Abdelsalam, M.G., Liégeois, J.P., and Stern, R.J., 2002. "The Saharan Metacraton" J. African Earth Sciences 34, 119-136. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., 2002. "Crustal Evolution in the East African Orogen: A Neodymium Isotopic Perspective", J. African Earth Sciences 34, 109-117. (PDF)
- Ohara, Y., Stern, R.J., Ishii, T., Yurimoto, H., and Yamazaki, T. "Peridotites from the Mariana Trough: First look at the Mantle beneath an active Backarc Basin" Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 143, 1-18. (PDF)
2001 (back to top)
- Ramadan, T.M., Abdelsalam, M.G., and Stern, R.J. "Mapping gold-bearing massive sulfide deposits in the Neoproterozoic Allaqi suture, SE Egypt with Landsat TM and SIR-C/X-SAR images" Journal of Photogrammetic Engineering and Remote Sensing, 67, 491-497, 2001. (PDF)
- Danishwar, S. Stern, R. J., and Khan, M.A. Field Relations and Structural Constraints on the Teru Volcanics, northern Kohistan terrane, Pakistani Himalayas. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 19, 683-695. (PDF)
- Ramadan, T.M., Abdelsalam, M.G., and Stern, R.J. "Mapping gold-bearing massive sulfide deposits in the Neoproterozoic Allaqi suture, SE Egypt with Landsat TM and SIR-C/X-SAR images" Journal of Photogrammetic Engineering and Remote Sensing, 67, 491-497.
- Sun, C.-H., and Stern, R.J. "Genesis of Mariana Shoshonites: Contribution of the 'Subduction Component'" Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth 106, 589-608. (PDF)
2000 (back to top)
- Ikeda, Y., Stern, R.J., Kagami, H., and Sun, C.-H. "Pb, Nd, and Sr isotopic constraints on the origin of Miocene basaltic rocks from northeast Hokkaido: Implications for opening of the Kurile back-arc basin' The Island Arc, 9, 161-172. (PDF)
- Abdelsalam, M.G., Robinson, C., El-Baz, F., and Stern, R.J. "Application of orbital imaging radar in geology studies in arid regions: the Saharan testimony" Journal of Photogrammetic Engineering and Remote Sensing, 66, 717-726. (PDF)
- Abdelsalam, M.G., Stern, R.J., and Berhane, W.G. "Mapping Gossans in Arid Regions with Landsat TM and SIR-C Images: The Beddahao Alteration Zone in Northern Eritrea" Journal of African Earth Sciences, 30, 903-916. (PDF)
- Newman, S., Stolper, E., and Stern, R. "H2O and CO2 in magmas from the Mariana arc and back-arc systems" GeoChemistry, GeoPhysics, GeoSystems, 1, paper number 1999GC000027; http://gcubed.magnet.fsu.edu/ (PDF)
1998 (back to top)
- Lee, J., and Stern, R. J. "Glass inclusions in Mariana Arc Phenocrysts: A new perspective on magmatic evolution in a typical intra-oceanic arc." J. Geology, 106, 19-33, 1998. (PDF)
- Collins, A.S., Khan, M.Asif, Stern, R.J., and Windley, B.F.,"Discussion on geochemical and isotopic constrains onsubduction polarity, magma sources and palaeogeography of the Kohistan Arc, northern Pakistan." J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 155, 893-895 (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Smoot, N.C. "A bathymetric overview of the Mariana forearc" The Island Arc 7, 525-540. (PDF)
- Ikeda, Y., Nagao, K., Stern, R.J., Yuasa, M., and Newman, S. "Noble gases in pillow basalt glasses from the northern Mariana Trough back-arc basin" The Island Arc 7, 471-478. (PDF)
- Meen, J.K., Stern, R.J., and Bloomer, S.H., "Evidence for magma mixing in the Mariana arc system" The Island Arc 7, 443-459. (PDF)
- Sun, C.-H., Stern, R.J., Yoshida, T., and Kimura, J.-I. "Fukutoku-oka-no-ba Volcano: A new perspective on the Alkalic Volcano Province in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc" The Island Arc 7, 432-442. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J. "A Subduction Primer for Instructors of Introductory Geology Courses and Authors of Introductory Geology Textbooks." J. Geoscience Education, 46, 221-228. (PDF)
- Gribble, R. F., Stern, R. J., Newman, S., Bloomer, S. H., and O'Hearn, T. "Chemical and isotopic composition of lavas from the Northern Mariana Trough: Implications for magmagenesis in Back-arc Basins." J. Petrology, 39, 122-154. (PDF)
- Abdelsalam, M. G., Stern, R. J., Copeland, P., El Faki, E. M., El Hur, B., and Ibrahim, F. M. "The Neoproterozoic Keraf Suture in NE Sudan: Sinistral transpression along the eastern margin of West Gondwana." J. Geology, 106, 133-147. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J. and Abdelsalam, M.G. "Formation of Juvenile Continental Crust in the Arabian-Nubian shield: Evidence from Granitic rocks of the Nakasib Suture, NE Sudan. Geologische Rundschau 87: 150-160. (PDF)
- Lee, J., and Stern, R. J. "Glass inclusions in Mariana Arc Phenocrysts: A new perspective on magmatic evolution in a typical intra-oceanic arc." J. Geology, 106, 19-33. (PDF)
1997 (back to top)
- Denison, R. E., Stern, R. J., and Sun, C.-H. "Basement Rocks in the Ames area." Oklahoma Geol. Survey Circular 100, 334-338.
- Khan, M. A., Stern, R. J., Gribble, R. F., and Windey, B.F. "Geochemical and isotopic constraints on subduction polarity, magma source, and paleogeography of the Kohistan intra-oceanic arc, northern Pakistan Himalaya." J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 154, 935-946.
- Hansen, E. C., Stern, R. J., Devaraju, T. C., Mahabaleswar, B., and Kenny, P. R. "Rubidium-Strontium whole-rock ages of foliated and incipient charnockites from southern Karnataka." J. Geol. Soc. India, 50, 267-275.
- Stern, R. J., and Arima, M. "The Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc System: International efforts to understand convergent margins." EOS, v. 78, 85-86, 1997.
- Abdelsalam, M. G., and Stern, R. J. "Sutures and Shear Zones in the Arabian-Nubian Shield", J. African Earth Sciences, v. 23, p.289-310, 1997.
- Beyth, M., Stern, R. J., and Matthews, A. "Significance of high-grade metasediments from the Neoproterozoic basement of Eritrea." Precambrian Research, v. 86, p. 45-58. (PDF)
1996 (back to top)
- Stern, R.J., Bloomer, S.H., Fernando, M., Yamazaki, T., Harrison, T.M. 1996. The composition of back-arc basin lower crust and upper mantle in the Mariana Trough: A first report. Island Arc 5, 354-372. (PDF)
- Stern, R.J., and Abdelsalam, M.G. "The Origin of the Great Bend of the Nile from SIR-C/X-SAR imagery." Science, v. 274, p. 1696-1698, 1996. (PDF)
- Abdelsalam, M. G., and Stern, R.J. "Mapping Precambrian structures in the Sahara Desert with SIR-C/X-SAR radar: The Neoproterozoic Keraf system NE Sudan." J. Geophys. Research , V. 101, E10, p. 23063-23070, 1996. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J., Bloomer, S. H., Martinez, F., Yamazaki, T., and Harrison, T. M. "The composition of back-arc basin lower crust and upper mantle in the Mariana Trough: A first report, The Island Arc, 5, 354-372, 1996.
- Gribble, R.F., Stern, R.J., Bloomer, S.H., Stüben, D., O'Hearn, T., and Newman, S. "MORB mantle and subduction components interact to generate basalts in the Southern Mariana Trough Back-Arc Basin", Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 2153-2166, 1996. (PDF)
- Abdelsalam, M.G., and Stern, R.J. "Sutures and shear zones in the Arabian-Nubian Shield" J. African Earth Sciences, V. 23, No. 3, p. 289-310, 1996. (PDF)
1995 (back to top)
- Lee, J., Stern, R.J., and Bloomer, S.H. "Forty million years of magmatic evolution in the Mariana Arc: The tephra glass record, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 17,671-17,687, 1995. (PDF)
- Abdelsalam, M.G., Stern, R.J., Schandelmeier, H., Sultan, M. "Deformational history of the Neoproterozoic Keraf Zone in NE Sudan, Revealed by Shuttle Imaging Radar. J. Geology, 103, 475-491, 1995.
- Arculus, R.J., Gill, J.B., Cambray, H., Chen, W., and Stern, R.J. "Geochemical evolution of Arc Systems in the Western Pacific: the Ash and Turbidite Record recovered by drilling," in B. Taylor and J. Natland (eds.) Active Margins and Marginal Basins of the Western Pacific, Geophysical Monograph 88, American Geophysical Union, p. 45-65, 1995.
- Bloomer, S. H., Taylor, B., MacLeod, C. J., Stern, R. J., Fryer, P., Hawkins, J. W., and Johnson, L. "Early arc volcanism and the Ophiolite Problem: A Perspective from Drilling in the Western Pacific," in B. Taylor and J. Natland (eds.) Active Margins and Marginal Basins of the Western Pacific, Geophysical Monograph 88, American Geophysical Union, p. 1-30, 1995.
1994 (back to top)
- Schandelmeier, H., Wipfler, E., Küster, D., Sultan, M., Becker, R., Stern, R. J., and Abdelsalam, M. G., "Atmur-Delgo suture: A Neoproteroic oceanic basin extending into the interior of northeast Africa." Geology, 22, 563-566, 1994.
- Wickham, S. M., Janardhan, A. S., and Stern, R. J. "Regional carbonate alteration of the crust by mantle-derived magmatic fluids, Tamil Nadu, South India." Journal of Geology, 102, 379-398, 1994. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J., Kröner, A., Bender, R., Reischmann, T., and Dawoud, A. S. "Precambrian basement around Wadi Halfa, Sudan: A new perspective on the evolution of the East Saharan Craton." Geologische Rundshau, 83, 564-577, 1994. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J. "Neoproterozoic (900-550 Ma) Arc Assembly and continental collision in the East African Orogen." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 22, 319-351, 1994. (PDF)
- Beyth, M., Stern, R. J., Altherr, R., and Kröner, A. "The Late Precambrian Timna Igneous Complex, southern Israel: Evidence for comagmatic-type Sanukitoid monzodiorite and alkali granite magma." Lithos, 31, 103-124, 1994.
1993 (back to top)
- McGuire, A. V., and Stern, R. J. "Granulite xenoliths from western Saudi Arabia: The lower crust of the Late Precambrian Arabian-Nubian Shield." Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 114, 395-408, 1993. (PDF)
- Sultan, M., Becker, R., Arvidson, R.E., Shore, P., Stern, R. J., El Alfy. Z., and Attia, R. I. "New constraints on Red Sea Rifting from correlations of Arabian and Nubian Neoproterozoic Outcrops." Tectonics, 12, 1303-1319, 1993. (PDF)
- Abdelsalam, M. G., and Stern, R. J. "Structural styles of the Late Proterozoic Nakasib Suture, Sudan." J. Geol. Soc. London, 150, 1065-1074, 1993. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J., Jackson, M. C., Fryer, P., and Ito, E. "O, Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopic composition of the Kasuga Cross Chain in the Mariana Arc: A new perspective on the K-h relationships." Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 119, 459-476, 1993.
- Stern, R. J., and Kröner, A. "Geochronologic and isotopic constraints on Late Precambrian crustal evolution in NE Sudan." J. Geol., 101, 555-574, 1993.
- McGuire, A. V., and Stern, R. J. "Granulite xenoliths from western Saudi Arabia: The lower crust of the Late Precambrian Arabian-Nubian Shield." Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 114, 395-408, 1993. (PDF)
- Sultan, M., Stern, R. J., Arvidson, R. E., Shore, P., and Becker, R. "Reply to comment by W. Bosworth on `Nature of the Red Sea crust: A controversy revisited'." Geology, 21, 575-576, 1993.
- Abdelsalam, M. G., and Stern, R. J. "Tectonic evolution of the Nakasib suture, Red Sea Hills, Sudan: Evidence for a Wilson cycle." J. Geol. Soc. London, 150, 393-404, 1993. (PDF)
1992 (back to top)
- Stern, R. J., Bloomer, S. H. "Subduction zone infancy: Examples from the Eocene Izu-Bonin-Mariana and Jurassic California Arcs." Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 104, 1621-1636, 1992. (PDF)
- Sultan, M., Becker, R., Arvidson, R. E., Shore, P., Stern, R. J., El Alfy, Z., and Guinness, E. A. "Nature of the Red Sea Crust: A controversy revisited." Geology, 20, 593-596, 1992.
- Stern, R. J., Sultan, M., and Abdelsalam, M. G. "Discussion of the paper `Pacific Margins of Laurentia and East Antarctica' by Ian Dalziel." Geology, 20, 190-191, 1992.
- Chen, C.-H., Presnall, D. C., and Stern, R. J. "Petrogenesis of ultramafic xenoliths from the 1801 Kaupulehu flow, Hualalai Volcano, Hawaii." Journ. of Petrol., 33, 163-202, 1992.
1991 (back to top)
- Kröner, A., Linnebacher, P., Stern, R. J., Reischmann, T., Manton, W., and Hussein, I. M. "Evolution of Pan-African island arc assemblages in the southern Red Sea Hills, Sudan, and in southwestern Arabia as exemplified by geochemistry and geochronology." Precambrian Res., 53, 99-118, 1991. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J., and Dawoud, A. S. "Late Precambrian (740 Ma) charnockite, enderbite, and granite from Jebel Moya, Sudan: A link between the Mozambiqü Belt and the Arabian-Nubian Shield." J. Geol., 99, 648-659, 1991. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J., Kröner, A., and Rashwan, A. A. "A late Precambrian (~ 710 Ma) high volcanicity rift in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt." Geologische Rundschau, 80, 155-170, 1991. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J., Morris, J., Bloomer, S. H., and Hawkins, Jr., J. W. "The source of metasomatic fluids and the generation of arc melts: Trace element and radiogenic isotope evidence from Eocene boninites, Mariana forearc." Geochim. Cosmochim, Acta, 55, 1467-1481, 1991.
- Abdelsalam, M. G., and Stern,, R. J. "Discussion of ophiolites in Northeast and East Africa: Implications for Proterozoic crustal growth." J. Geol. Soc. London, 148, 600-606, 1991. (PDF)
1990 (back to top)
- Stern, R. J., Lin, P.-N., Morris, J., Jackson, M. C., Fryer, P., Bloomer, S. H., and Ito, E. "Enriched back-arc basin basalts from the northern Mariana Trough: Implications for the evolution of back-arc basins." Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 100, 210-225, 1990.(PDF)
- Stern, R. J., Nielsen, K. C., Best, E., Sultan, M., Arvidson, R. E., and Kröner, A. "Orientation of late Precambrian sutures in the Arabian Nubian shield." Geology, 18, 1103-1106, 1990.
- Lin, P.-N., Stern, R. J., Morris, J., and Bloomer, S. H. "Nd- and Sr-isotopic composition of lavas from the northern Mariana and southern Volcano Arcs: Implications for the origin of island arc melts." Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 105, 381-392, 1990. (PDF)
- Bloomer, S. H., and Stern, R. J. "Tectonic Origins." Nature, 346, p. 518, 1990.
- Stern, R. J., Lin, P.-N., Morris, J., Jackson, M. C., Fryer, P., Bloomer, S. H., and Ito, E. "Enriched back-arc basin basalts from the northern Mariana Trough: Implications for the evolution of back-arc basins." Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 100, 210-225, 1990.
- Sultan, M., Duncan I. J., Arvidson, R. E., Stern, R. J., and El Kaliouby, R. "Reply-extension of the Najd Shear System from Saudi Arabia to the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt based on integrated field and Landsat observations." Tectonics, 9, 539-543, 1990.
- Stern, R. J., and Gwinn, C. J. "Origin of late Precambrian intrusive carbonates, Eastern Desert of Egypt and Sudan: C, O and Sr isotopic Evidence." Precamb. Res., 46, 149-272, 1990. (PDF)
1989 (back to top)
- Stern, R. J., and Gottfried, D. "Discussion of the paper 'Late Pan-African magmatism and crustal development in northeastern Egypt'." Geological J., 24, 371-374, 1989.
- Stern, R. J., Kröner, A., Manton, W. I., Reischmann, T., Mansour, M. M., and Hussein, I.M. "Geochronology of the late Precambrian Hamisana shear zone, Red Sea Hills, Sudan and Egypt." J. Geol. Soc. London, 145, 1017-1029, 1989. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J., Bloomer, S. H., Lin, P.-N., and Smoot, N. C. "Submarine arc volcanism in the southern Mariana Arc as an ophiolite analogü." Tectonophysics, 168, 151-170, 1989.
- Bloomer, S. H., Stern, R. J., and Smoot, N. C. "Physical Volcanology of the Submarine Mariana and Volcano Arcs." Bull. Volcanology, 51, 210-224, 1989. (PDF)
- Lin, P.-N., Stern, R. J., and Bloomer, S. H. "Shoshonitic Volcanism in the Northern Mariana Arc: 2. Large-Ion Lithophile and Rare Earth Element Abundances - Evidence for the Source of Incompatible Element Enrichments in Intra-Oceanic Arcs." J. Geophys. Res., 94, 4497-4514, 1989. (PDF)
- Bloomer, S. H., Stern, R. J., Fisk, E., and Geschwind, C. H. "Shoshonitic volcanism in the northern Mariana Arc: 1. Petrographic and major and trace element characteristics." J. Geophys. Res., 94, 4469-4496, 1989. (PDF)
1988 (back to top)
- Sultan, M., Arvidson, R. E., Duncan, I., Stern, R. J., and El Kaliouby, M. "Extension of the Najd Shear System from Saudi Arabia to the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt based on Integrated Field and Landsat Observations." Tectonics, 7, 1291-1306, 1988. (PDF)
- Willis, K. M., Stern, R. J., and Claür, N. "Age and Geochemistry of Late Precambrian Sediments of the Hammamat Series from the Northeastern Desert of Egypt." Precambrian Res., 42, 173-187, 1988. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J., and Manton, W. I. "Reply to the discussion of A. Shimron: Age of Feiran basement rocks. Sinai: Implications for late Precambrian crustal evolution in northern Afro-Arabia." J. Geol. Soc. Lond., 145, 1034-1035. 1988.
- Greiling, R. O., El Ramly, M. F., El Akhal, H., and Stern, R. J. "Tectonic evolution of the northwestern Red Sea margin as related to basement structure." Tectonophysics, p. 179-191, 1988.
- Stern, R. J., Sellers, G., and Gottfried, D. "Bimodal dike swarms in the Northeastern Desert of Egypt: Significance for the origin of late Precambrian `A-Type' granites in northern Afro-Arabia," in Greiling, R., and El Gaby, S. (eds.), The Pan-African belt of NE Africa and Adjacent Areas: Tectonic Evolution and Economic Aspects, 147-179, 1988.
- Stern, R. J., Bloomer, S. H., Lin, P.-N., Ito, E., and Morris, J. "Shoshonitic magmas in nascent arcs: New evidence from submarine volcanoes in the northern Marianas." Geology, 16, p. 426-430, 1988.
1987 (back to top)
- Kröner, A., Stern, R. J., Dawoud, A. S., Compston, W., and Reischmann, T. "The Pan-African continental margin in NE Africa: evidence from a geochronological study of granulites at Sabaloka, Sudan." Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 85, 91-104, 1987. (PDF)
- Dixon, T. H., Stern, R. J., and Hussein, I. M. "Controls of Red Sea rift geometry by Precambrian structures." Tectonics, 6, 551-571, 1987.
- Stern, R. J., and Manton, W. I. "Age of Feiran basement rocks, Sinai: Implications for late Precambrian crustal evolution in northern Afro-Arabia." J. Geol. Soc. Lond., 144, p. 569-575, 1987. (PDF)
- Kröner, A., Greiling, R., Reischmann, T., Hussein, I. M., Stern, R. J., Durr, S., Kruger, J., and Zimmer, M. "Pan-African crustal evolution in the Nubian segment of Northeast Africa," in: A. Kröner (ed.) Proterozoic Lithospheric Evolution, Am. Geophys. U. Geodynamics Series, 17, p. 235-257, 1987.
- Stern, R. J., and Voegeli, D. A. "Geochemistry, geochronology, and petrogenesis of a late Precambrian (~590 Ma) composite dike from the North Eastern Desert of Egypt." Geo. Rundschau., 76, p. 325-341, 1987. (PDF)
1986 (back to top)
- Stern, R. J., and Gottfried, D. "Petrogenesis of a Late Precambrian (575-600 Ma) bimodal suite in the North Eastern Desert of Egypt." Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 92, p. 492-501, 1986.
- Ito, E., and Stern, R. J. "Oxygen- and strontium-isotopic investigations of subduction zone volcanism: The case of the Volcano Arc and the Mariana Island Arc." Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 76, p. 312-320, 1986. (PDF)
1985 (back to top)
- Stern, R. J. "The Najd Fault System, Saudi Arabia and Egypt: A Late Precambrian rift-related transform system." Tectonics, 4, p. 497-511, 1985.
- Nielsen, K. C., and Stern, R. J. "Post-Carboniferous tectonics in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma: Evidence from side-looking radar imagery." Geology, 13, p. 409, 1985.
- Stern, R. J., Gottfried, D., and Hedge, C. E. "Comment on `Evolution of the Kid Group, southeast Sinai Peninsula: Thrusts, melanges, and implications for accretionary tectonics during the late Proterozoic of the Arabian-Nubian Shield'." Geology, 13, p. 155, 1985.
- Castillo, P., Batiza, R., and Stern, R. J. "Petrology and geochemistry of Nauru Basin igneous complex: Large volume, off-ridge eruptions of MORB-like basalt during the Cretaceous." Int. Repts. DSDP, 89, p.555-576, 1985.
- Stern, R. J., and Hedge, C. E. "Geochronologic constraints on late Precambrian crustal evolution in the Eastern Desert of Egypt." Am. J. Sci., 285, p. 97-127, 1985. (PDF)
1984 (back to top)
- Stern, R. J., and Bibee, L. D. "Esmeralda Bank: Geochemistry of an active submarine volcano in the Mariana Island Arc." Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 86, p. 159, 1984. (PDF)
- Stern, R. J., Smoot, N. C., and Rubin, M. "Unzipping of the Volcano Arc, Japan." Tectonophysics, 102, p. 153-174, 1984.
- Stern, R. J., Gottfried, D., and Hedge, C. E. "Late Precambrian rifting and crustal evolution in the Northeastern Desert of Egypt." Geology, 12, p. 168-171, 1984.
1983 (back to top)
- McKee, E. H., Duffield, W. A., and Stern, R. J. "Early Pliocene-Late Miocene basaltic rocks and their implications for crustal structure, northeast California and south-central Oregon." Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 94, p. 292, 1983.
- Dixon, T. H., and Stern, R. J. "Petrology and geochemistry of submarine volcanoes in the Southern Mariana Arc." Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 94, p. 1159, 1983.
- Stern, R. J., and Ito, E. "Trace element and isotopic constraints on the source of magmas in the active Volcano and Mariana Island Arcs, Western Pacific." J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. IAVCEI Special Volume, 18, p. 461, 1983.
1982 (back to top)
- Stern, R. J., Dixon, T. H., and Engel, A. E. J. "Reply to the discussion of Duyverman and Harris: Late Precambrian evolution of Afro-Arabian crust from ocean-arc to craton." Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 93, p. 176, 1982.
- Stern, R. J. "Strontium isotopes from circum-Pacific intro-oceanic island arcs and marginal basins: Regional variations and implications for magmagenesis." Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 93, p. 477, 1982.
1981 (back to top)
- Ito, E., and Stern, R. J. "Oxygen - and strontium - isotopic investigations on the origin of volcanism in the Izu-Volcano-Mariana Island Arc." Carnegie Inst. Wash. Ybk., 80, p. 449, 1981.
- Stern, R. J. "A common mantle source for Western Pacific island arc `Hot Spot' magmas - Implications for layering in the upper mantle." Carnegie Inst. Wash. Ybk., 80, p. 455, 1981.
- Stern, R. J. "Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of Late Precambrian and ensimatic volcanic rocks, Central Eastern Desert of Egypt." Precambrian Res., 16, p. 197, 1981. (PDF)
1980 (back to top)
- Engel, A. E. J., Dixon, T. H., and Stern, R. J. "Late Precambrian evolution of Afro-Arabian crust from ocean-arc to craton." Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 91, p. 699, 1980.
- Chow, T. J., Stern, R. J., and Dixon, T. H. "Absolute and relative abundances of K, Rb, Sr, and Ba in circum-Pacific island-arc magmas, with special reference to the Marianas." Chemical Geology, 38, p. 111, 1980.
- Stern, R. J., and Ito, E. "Incompatible element and 87Sr/86Sr compositions of Mt. St. Helens ash." Carnegie Inst. Wash. Ybk., 79, p. 486, 1980.
- Stern, R. J., and Bibee, L. D. "Esmeralda Bank: Geochemistry of an active submarine volcano in the Mariana Island Arc and its implications for magmagenesis in island arcs." Carnegie Inst. Wash. Ybk., 79, p. 486, 1980.
1979 (back to top)
- Stern, R. J. "Late Precambrian crustal environments as reconstructed from relict igneous minerals, Central Eastern Desert of Egypt." Annals Geol. Surv., Egypt, 9, p. 9, 1979.
- Stern, R. J. "On the origin of andesite in the Northern Mariana Island Arc: Implications from Agrigan." Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 68, p. 207, 1979.
1978 (back to top)
- Stern, R. J. "Agrigan: An introduction to the geology of an active volcano in the Northern Mariana Island Arc." Bull. Volc., 41, p.1, 1978.