38. Thomson, S.N., Gehrels, G.E., Ruiz, J. & Buchwaldt, R. (2012). Routine low-damage U-Pb dating of apatite using laser ablation-multicollector-ICPMS. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13, Q0AA21, doi:10.1029/2011GC003928

37. Willner, A.P., Massonne, H.-J., Ring, U., Sudo, M. & Thomson, S.N. (2011). P–T evolution and timing of a late Palaeozoic fore-arc system and its heterogeneous Mesozoic overprint in north-central Chile (latitudes 31–32°S). Geological Magazine, doi:10.1017/S0016756811000641, in press

36. McAtamney, J., Klepeis, K., Mehrtens, C., Thomson, S.N., Betka, P., Rojas, L. and Snyder, S. (2011). Along-strike variability of back arc basin collapse and the initiation of sedimentation in the Magallanes foreland basin, southernmost Andes (53 - 54.5°S). Tectonics, 30, TC5001, doi:10.1029/2010TC002826.

35. Willner, A.P., Gerdes, A., Massonne, H.-J., Schmidt, A., Sudo, M., Thomson, S.N. & Vujovich, G. (2011). The geodynamics of accretion of a microplate ("Chilenia") in Devonian times deduced by the pressure-temperature-time evolution within part of a collisional belt (Guarguaráz Complex, W. Argentina). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 162, p. 303-327, doi: 10.1007/s00410-010-0598-8.

34. Ring, U., Glodny, J., Will, T.M. & Thomson, S.N. (2011). Normal faulting on Sifnos Island and the South Cycladic Detachment System, Aegean Sea, Greece. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 168, p. 751-768. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492010-064.

33. Cox, S.E., Thomson, S.N., Reiners, P.W., Hemming, S.R. & Van de Flierdt, T. (2010). Extremely low long-term erosion rates around the Gamburtsev Mountains in interior East Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L22307, doi:10.1029/2010GL045106.

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32. Thomson, S.N., Brandon, M.T., Reiners, P.W., Tomkin, J.H., Vásquez, C. & Wilson, N.J. (2010). Glaciation as a destructive and constructive control on mountain building. Nature, 467, p. 313-317, doi: 10.1038/nature09365.

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31. Klepeis, K.A., Betka, P.M., Clarke, G., Fanning, C.M., Hervé, F., Rojas, L., Mpodozis, C., & Thomson, S.N. (2010). Ophiolite obduction and continental underthrusting during Cretaceous closure of the Rocas Verdes basin, Cordillera Darwin, Patagonian Andes. Tectonics, 29, TC3014, doi:10.1029/2009TC002610.

30. Hervé, F., Fanning, C.M., Pankhurst, R.J., Mpodozis, C., Klepeis, K.A., Calderón, M. & Thomson, S.N. (2010). Detrital zircon SHRIMP U-Pb age study of the Cordillera Darwin Metamorphic Complex: sedimentary sources and implications for the evolution of the Pacific margin of Gondwana. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 167, p. 555-568, doi: 10.1144/0016-76492009-124.

29. Thomson, S.N., Brandon, M.T., Reiners, P.W., Zattin, M., Isaacson, P.J. & Balestrieri, M.L. (2010). Thermochronologic evidence for orogen-parallel variability in wedge kinematics during extending convergent orogenesis of the northern Apennines, Italy, Geological Society of America, Bulletin, 122, p. 1160-1179, doi: 10.1130/B26573.1

28. Guenthner, W.R., Barbeau, D.L., Reiners, P.W. & Thomson, S.N. (2010). Slab-window migration and terrane accretion preserved by low-temperature thermochronology of a magmatic arc, northern Antarctic Peninsula. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11, Q03001, doi:10.1029/2009GC002765.

27. Ring, U., Glodny, J., Will., T. & Thomson, S.N. (2010). The retreating Hellenic subduction system: High-pressure metamorphism, exhumation, normal faulting and large-scale extension. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 38, p. 45-76.

26. Brichau, S., Thomson, S.N. & Ring, U. (2010). Thermochronometric constraints on the Serifos detachment evolution, Aegean Sea, Greece. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 99, p. 379-393 (doi: 10.1007/s00531-008-0386-0).

25. Seward, D., Vanderhaeghe, O., Siebenaller, L., Thomson, S. N., Hibsch, C., Zingg, A., Holzner, P., Ring, U. & Duchéne, S. (2009). Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Naxos Island through a multi-faceted approach of fission-track analysis. In: Ring, U. & Wernicke, B. (eds). Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheology and Heat Budget. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 321, p. 179-196.

24. Ring, U., Thomson, S.N. & Rosenbaum, G. (2009). Timing of the Amorgos detachment system and implications for detachment faulting in the southern Aegean Sea, Greece. In: Ring, U. & Wernicke, B. (eds). Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheology and Heat Budget. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 321, p. 169-178.

23. Thomson, S.N., Brichau, S., Ring, U., Glodny, J. & Will, T. (2009). Timing and nature of formation of the Ios metamorphic core complex, southern Cyclades, Greece. In: Ring, U. & Wernicke, B. (eds). Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheology and Heat Budget. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 321, p. 139-167.

22. Reiners, P.W., Thomson, S.N., McPhillips, D., Donelick, R.A. & Roering, J.J. (2007). Wildfire thermochronology and the fate and transport of apatite in soil, colluvium, and fluvial environments. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface 112, F04001, doi:10.1029/2007JF000759.

21. Ring, U., Glodny, J., Will, T. & Thomson, S.N. (2007). An Oligocene extrusion wedge of blueschist-facies nappes on Evia, Aegean Sea, Greece: implications for the early exhumation of high-pressure rocks, Journal of the Geological Society, London, 151, p. 637-652.

20. Ring, U., Will, T., Glodny, J., Kumerics, C., Gessner, K., Thomson, S.N., Güngör, T., Monié, P., Okrusch, M. & Drüppel, K. (2007). Early exhumation of high-pressure rocks in extrusion wedges: Cycladic blueschist unit in the eastern Aegean, Greece and Turkey, Tectonics, 26, TC2001, doi: 10.1029/2005TC001872.

19. Thomson, S.N. & Ring U. (2006). Thermochronologic evaluation of post-collision extension in the Anatolide Orogen, western Turkey. Tectonics, 25, TC3005, doi: 10.1029/2005TC001833.

18. Adriasola, A., Thomson, S.N., Brix, M.R. & Stöckhert, B. (2006). Postmagmatic Cooling and Late Cenozoic Denudation of the North Patagonian Batholith in the Los Lagos Region of Chile, 41°-42°15’S. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 95, p. 504-528, (doi: 10.1007/s00531-005-0027-9).

17. Willner, A.P., Thomson, S.N., Kröner, A., Wartho, J.A., Wijbrans, J. & Hervé, F. (2005). Time markers for the evolution and exhumation history of an Upper Paleozoic paired metamorphic belt in central Chile (34°-35°30’S). Journal of Petrology, 46, p. 1835-1858.

16. Willner, A.P., Hervé, F., Thomson, S.N. & Massonne, H.-J. (2003). Converging PT-paths of different HP-LT metamorphic units within a Mesozoic accretionary belt (Diego de Almagro Island, Southern Chile, 51°30'S): Evidence for juxtaposition during late shortening of an active continental margin. Mineralogy and Petrology, 81, p. 43-84.

15. Ring, U., Thomson, S.N. & Bröcker, M. (2003). Fast extension but little exhumation: the Vari detachment in the Cyclades, Greece. Geological Magazine, 140, p. 245-252.

14. Thomson, S.N. & Hervé, F. (2002). New time constraints for metamorphism at the ancestral Pacific Gondwana margin of southern Chile (42°S-52°S). Revista Geológica de Chile, 29, p. 255-271.

13. Thomson, S.N. (2002). Late Cenozoic geomorphic and tectonic evolution of the Patagonian Andes between latitudes 42°S and 46°S: an appraisal based on fission-track results from the transpressional intra-arc Liquiñe-Ofqui fault zone. Geological Society of America, Bulletin, 114, p. 1159-1173.

12. Brix, M.R., Stöckhert, B., Seidel, E., Theye, T., Thomson, S.N. & Küster, M. (2002). Thermobarometric data from a fossil partial annealing zone in high-pressure - low temperature rocks of eastern and central Crete, Greece. Tectonophysics, 349, p. 309-326.

11. Thomson, S.N., Hervé, F. & Stöckhert, B. (2001). The Mesozoic-Cenozoic denudation history of the southern Chilean Andes and its correlation to different subduction processes. Tectonics, 20 (No. 5), p. 693-711.

10. Maresch, W.V., Stöckhert, B., Baumann, A., Kaiser, C., Kluge, R., Krückhans-Lueder, G., Brix, M.R. & Thomson, S.N. (2000). Crustal history and plate tectonic development in the southern Caribbean. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geologie, Sonderheft SH1, p.283-290. click to download pdf

9. Thomson, S.N. & Zeh, A. (2000). Fission-track thermochronology of the Ruhla Crystalline Complex : new constraints on the post-Variscan thermal evolution of the NW Bohemian Massif. Tectonophysics, 324, p. 17-35.

8. Thomson, S.N., Stöckhert, B. & Brix, M.R. (1999). Miocene high-pressure metamorphic rocks of Crete, Greece: rapid exhumation by buoyant escape. In: Ring, U., Lister, G., Willet, S. & Brandon, M. (eds). Exhumation Processes: Normal Faulting, Ductile Flow, and Erosion, Special Publication of the Geological Society of London, 154, p. 87-107.

7. Mazzoli, S. / Thomson, S.N. (1998). Assessing the nature of tectonic contacts using fission-track thermochronology : an example from the Calabrian Arc, southern Italy (Thomson 1998) - Discussion and Reply. Terra Nova, 10, p. 343-346.

6. Thomson, S.N. (1998). Assessing the nature of tectonic contacts using fission-track thermochronology : an example from the Calabrian Arc, southern Italy. Terra Nova, 10, p. 32-36.

5. Thomson, S.N., Stöckhert, B. & Brix, M.R. (1998). Thermochronology of the high-pressure metamorphic rocks of Crete, Greece: Implications for the speed of tectonic processes. Geology, 26, p. 259-262.

4. Thomson, S.N., Stöckhert, B., Rauche, H. & Brix, M.R. (1998). Apatite fission-track thermochronology of the uppermost tectonic unit of Crete, Implications for the post-Eocene tectonic evolution of the Hellenic Subduction System. In: Advances in Fission-Track Geochronology, Van den haute, P. & De Corte, F. (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, p. 187-205. click to download pdf

3. Thomson, S.N. (1994). Fission track analysis of the crystalline basement rocks of the Calabrian Arc, southern Italy: evidence of Oligo-Miocene late-orogenic extension and erosion. Tectonophysics, 238, p. 331-352.

2. Thomson, S.N. (1994). Fission-track analysis and provenance studies in Calabrian Arc sedimentary rocks, southern Italy. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 151, p. 463-471.

1. Thomson, S.N. (1992). Thermotectonics of the Calabrian Arc, southern Italy: constraints from fission track analysis. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of London. 271pp.