Publications
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McDonald, B.†, Partin, C.A. (2024). Paleoproterozoic Rocks of the Belcher Islands, Nunavut: A Review of Their Remarkable Geology and Relevance to Inuit-led Conservation Efforts. Geoscience Canada, 51 (1): 7–42. doi: 10.12789/geocanj.2024.51.207
MacMillan, E.J.†, Knox, B., DeWolfe, Y.M., Partin, C.A. (2024). Facies analysis for the Neoarchean Itchen and Sherpa formations of the Winter Lake greenstone belt, Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1139/cjes-2023-0054
Beaudin, D.†, Partin, C.A., Ansdell, K., Yang, P. (2024). Comparative lithology and alteration mineral chemistry of host rocks at the Seabee Gold Operation, northern Saskatchewan, Canada: Implications for a connected orogenic gold-mineralizing system. Ore Geology Reviews, 166: 105950. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2024.105950
Partin, C.A. (2023). A tectonic context for fluctuations in late Paleoproterozoic oxygen content. In Whitmeyer, S.J., Williams, M.L., Kellett, D.A., Tikoff, B. (Eds.), Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent, Geological Society of America, v. 220. doi: 10.1130/2022.1220(07)
Partin, C.A., Sylvester, P.J. (2023). Paleoproterozoic A-Type Postcollisional Granitic Magmatism Associated with the Arrowsmith Orogeny during the Global Tectonomagmatic Lull. The Journal of Geology, 131 (1): 1-23. doi: 10.1086/727647
McDonald, B.S.†, Partin, C.A., Sageman, B., Holmden, C. (2022). Uranium isotope reconstruction of ocean deoxygenation during OAE 2 hampered by uncertainties in fractionation factors and local U-cycling. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 331: 143-164. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.05.010
DeWolfe, Y.M., Knox, B., Lilley, S., MacMillan, E.J.†, Partin, C.A. (2022). Volcanology, geochemistry and geodynamic setting of the Neoarchean Sunrise volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Beaulieu River volcanic belt, Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada. Precambrian Research, 372: 106608. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106608
Farrell, U.C., SGP Collaborative Team (103 authors including Partin, C.A. ) (2021). The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project. Geobiology, 19 (6): 545-556. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12462
Partin, C.A., DeWolfe, Y.M., Magee, T.† (2021). Origin of sediment-hosted Pb-Zn mineralization in the Paleoproterozoic Mârmorilik and Qaarsukassak formations, Karrat Group, West Greenland. Ore Geology Reviews, 134: 104164. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104164
Spencer, C.J., Partin, C.A., Kirkland, C.L., Raub, T.D., Liebmann, J., Stern, R.A. (2019). Paleoproterozoic increase in zircon δ¹⁸O driven by rapid emergence of continental crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 257: 16-25. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.04.016
von Gunten, K., Warchola, T., Donner, M.W., Cossio, M., Hao, W., Boothman, C., Lloyd, J., Siddique, T., Partin, C.A., Flynn, S.L., Rosaasen, A., Konhauser, K.O., Alessi, D.S. (2018). Biogeochemistry of U, Ni, and As in two meromictic pit lakes at the Cluff Lake uranium mine, northern Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55 (5): 463-474. doi: 10.1139/cjes-2017-0149
Hoffman, P.F., Abbot, D.S., Ashkenazy, Y., Benn, D.I., Brocks, J.J., Cohen, P.A., Cox, G.M., Creveling, J.R., Donnadieu, Y., Erwin, D.H., Fairchild, I.J., Ferreira, D., Goodman, J.C., Halverson, G.P., Jansen, M.F., Le Hir, G., Love, G.D., Macdonald, F.A., Maloof, A.C., Partin, C.A., Ramstein, G., Rose, B.E.J., Rose, C.V., Sadler, P.M., Tziperman, E., Voigt, A., Warren, S.G. (2017). Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology. Science Advances, 3 (11): e1600983. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1600983
Konhauser, K.O., Planavsky, N.J., Hardisty, D.S., Robbins, L.J., Warchola, T.J., Haugaard, R., Lalonde, S.V., Partin, C.A., Oonk, P.B.H., Tsikos, H., Lyons, T.W., Bekker, A., Johnson, C.M. (2017). Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history. Earth-Science Reviews, 172: 140-177. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.06.012
Shiels, C.†, Partin, C.A., Stern, R.A. (2017). An integrated U-Pb, Hf, and O isotopic provenance analysis of the Paleoproterozoic Murmac Bay Group, northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Precambrian Research, 302: 18-32. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2017.09.015
McDonald, B.S.†, Partin, C.A. (2016). Is the Lomagundi Event present on the Rae craton? A case study from the Murmac Bay Group. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 53 (5): 457-465. doi: 10.1139/cjes-2015-0186
Chi Fru, E., Rodríguez, N.P., Partin, C.A., Lalonde, S.V., Andersson, P., Weiss, D.J., El Albani, A., Rodushkin, I., Konhauser, K.O. (2016). Cu isotopes in marine black shales record the Great Oxidation Event. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (18): 4941-4946. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1523544113
Guarnieri, P., Partin, C.A., Rosa, D. (2016). Palaeovalleys at the basal unconformity of the Palaeoproterozoic Karrat Group, West Greenland. GEUS Bulletin, 35: 63–66. doi: 10.34194/geusb.v35.4940
Partin, C.A., Sadler, P.M. (2016). Slow net sediment accumulation sets snowball Earth apart from all younger glacial episodes. Geology, 44 (12): 1019-1022. doi: 10.1130/G38350.1
Shiels, C.†, Partin, C.A., Eglington, B.M. (2016). Provenance approaches in polydeformed metasedimentary successions: Determining nearest neighboring cratons during the deposition of the Paleoproterozoic Murmac Bay Group. Lithosphere, 8 (5): 519-532. doi: 10.1130/L537.1
Robbins, L.J., Lalonde, S.V., Planavsky, N.J., Partin, C.A., Reinhard, C.T., Kendall, B., Scott, C., Hardisty, D.S., Gill, B.C., Alessi, D.S., Dupont, C.L., Saito, M.A., Crowe, S.A., Poulton, S.W., Bekker, A., Lyons, T.W., Konhauser, K.O. (2016). Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution. Earth-Science Reviews, 163: 323-348. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.10.013
Partin, C.A., Sylvester, P.J. (2016). Variations in zircon Hf isotopes support earliest Proterozoic Wilson cycle tectonics on the Canadian Shield. Precambrian Research, 280: 279-289. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2016.05.008
Kendrick, K.J., Partin, C.A., Graham, R.C. (2016). Granitic Boulder Erosion Caused by Chaparral Wildfire: Implications for Cosmogenic Radionuclide Dating of Bedrock Surfaces. The Journal of Geology, 124 (4): 529-539. doi: 10.1086/686273
Partin, C.A., Bekker, A., Planavsky, N.J., Lyons, T.W. (2015). Euxinic conditions recorded in the ca. 1.93Ga Bravo Lake Formation, Nunavut (Canada): Implications for oceanic redox evolution. Chemical Geology, 417: 148-162. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.09.004
Partin, C.A., Bekker, A., Sylvester, P.J., Wodicka, N., Stern, R.A., Chacko, T., Heaman, L.M. (2014). Filling in the juvenile magmatic gap: Evidence for uninterrupted Paleoproterozoic plate tectonics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 388: 123-133. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.041
Partin, C.A., Bekker, A., Corrigan, D., Modeland, S., Francis, D., Davis, D.W. (2014). Sedimentological and geochemical basin analysis of the Paleoproterozoic Penrhyn and Piling groups of Arctic Canada. Precambrian Research, 251: 80-101. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2014.06.010
Reinhard, C.T., Planavsky, N.J., Robbins, L.J., Partin, C.A., Gill, B.C., Lalonde, S.V., Bekker, A., Konhauser, K.O., Lyons, T.W. (2013). Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110 (14): 5357-5362. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1208622110
Partin, C.A., Lalonde, S.V., Planavsky, N.J., Bekker, A., Rouxel, O.J., Lyons, T.W., Konhauser, K.O. (2013). Uranium in iron formations and the rise of atmospheric oxygen. Chemical Geology, 362: 82-90. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.09.005
Partin, C.A., Bekker, A., Planavsky, N.J., Scott, C.T., Gill, B.C., Li, C., Podkovyrov, V., Maslov, A., Konhauser, K.O., Lalonde, S.V., Love, G.D., Poulton, S.W., Lyons, T.W. (2013). Large-scale fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels from the record of U in shales. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 369-370: 284-293. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.031