PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Pandey, A., Leech, M.L., Milton, A., Singh, P., and Verma, P.K., accepted pending minor revision, Evidence of former majoritic garnet in Himalayan eclogites points to 200 km deep subduction of Indian continental crust, Geology.

Leech, M.L., 2008, Does the Karakoram fault interrupt mid-crustal channel flow in the western Himalaya?, Earth and Planetary Sciences, 276, 314-322.

Leech, M.L., Singh, S., and Jain, A.K., 2008, Continuous metamorphic zircon growth and interpretation of U-Pb SHRIMP dating: An example from the western Himalaya: In, Metamorphic conditions along convergent plate junctions: Mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, and tectonics (W.G. Ernst and D. Rumble III, eds.), Geological Society of America International Book Series, 10, 433-448.

Beane, R.J. and Leech, M.L., 2007, The Maksyutov Complex: The first UHP terrane 40 years later, in Cloos, M., Carlson, W.D., Gilbert, M.C., Liou, J.G., and Sorensen, S.S., eds., Convergent Margin Terranes and Associated Regions: A Tribute to W.G. Ernst: Geological Society of America Special Paper 419, p.153-169, doi: 10.1130/2006.2419(08).

Leech, M.L., Singh, S., Jain, A.K., 2007, Continuous metamorphic zircon growth and interpretation of U-Pb SHRIMP dating: An example from the western Himalaya, International Geology Review, 49, 313-328.

Leech, M.L., Singh, S., Jain, A.K., and Klemperer, S.L., and Manickavasagam, R.M., 2006, Reply to comment by P.J. O'Brien on: "The onset of India-Asia continental collision: Early, steep subduction required by the timing of UHP metamorphism in the western Himalaya", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 245, 817-820.

Leech, M.L., Webb, L.E., and Yang, T., 2006, Diachronous histories for the Dabie-Sulu orogen from high-temperature geochronology, Geological Society of America Special Paper 403, 1-22.

Webb, L.E., Leech, M.L., and Yang, T., 2006, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar thermochronology of the Sulu terrane: Late Triassic exhumation of high and ultrahigh-pressure rocks and other implications for Mesozoic tectonics in East Asia. Geological Society of America Special Paper 403, 77-92.

Leech, M.L., Singh, S., Jain, A.K., and Klemperer, S.L., and Manickavasagam, R.M., 2005, The onset of India-Asia continental collision: Early, steep subduction required by the timing of UHP metamorphism in the western Himalaya, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 234, 83-97.

Leech, M.L. and Willingshofer, E., 2004, Thermal modeling of an ultrahigh-pressure complex in the south Urals, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 226, 85-99.

Leech, M.L., Howell, D.G., and Egger, A.E., 2004, A guided inquiry approach to learning the geology of the U.S., Journal of Geoscience Education, 52, 368-373.

Yang, T., Xu, Z., and Leech, M.L., 2004, Mass balance during retrogression of eclogite-facies minerals in the Rongcheng eclogite, eastern Sulu UHPM terrane, China, American Mineralogist, 89, 1525-1532.

Bostick, B., Jones, R.E., Chen, C., Ernst, W.G., Leech, M.L., and Beane, R.J., 2003, Low-temperature microdiamond aggregates in the Maksyutov metamorphic complex, south Ural Mountains, Russia, American Mineralogist, 88, 1709-1717.

Leech, M.L., 2001, Arrested orogenic development: eclogitization, delamination, and tectonic collapse, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 185, p. 149-159.

Leech, M.L. and Ernst, W. G., 2000, Petrotectonic evolution of the high- to ultrahigh-pressure Maksyutov Complex, Karayanova area, south Ural Mountains: Structural and oxygen isotope constraints, Lithos, 52, p. 235-252.

Leech, M.L. and Stockli, D.F., 2000, The late exhumation history of the ultrahigh-pressure Maksyutov Complex, south Ural Mountains, from new apatite fission track data, Tectonics, 19, p. 153-167.

Leech, M.L., 1999, Petrotectonic evolution of the Maksyutov Complex, south Ural Mountains, Russia, Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 117 p.

Ernst, W.G., Mosenfelder, J.L., Leech, M.L., and Liu, J., 1998. H₂O recycling during continental collision: phase-equilibrium and kinetic constraints. In When Continents Collide, eds., B.R. Hacker and J.G. Liou, Kluwer Academic, Netherlands, 275-295. (not available as a pdf)

Leech, M.L. and Ernst, W.G., 1998. Graphite pseudomorphs after diamond? A carbon isotope and spectroscopic study of graphite cuboids from the Maksyutov Complex, south Ural Mountains, Russia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 62, p. 2143-2154.

Beane R.J., Liou J.G., Coleman R.G., and Leech M.L., 1995. Mineral assemblages and P-T path for high- to ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in the Maksyutov Complex, Ural Mountains, Russia. Island Arc, 4, p. 254-266. (not available as a pdf)

Lennykh V.I., Valizer P.M., Beane R.J., Leech M.L., and Ernst W.G, 1995. Petrotectonic evolution of the Maksyutov Complex, south Urals, Russia: Implications for ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism. International Geology Review, 37, p. 584-600. (not available as a pdf)