2019

Caracciolo, L., Andò, S., Vermeesch, P., Garzanti, E., McCabe, R., Barbarano, M., ...Pearce, T. (2019). A multidisciplinary approach for the quantitative provenance analysis of siltstone: Mesozoic Mandawa Basin, southeastern Tanzania. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, doi:10.1144/sp484-2018-136
Garzanti, E., Vermeesch, P., Vezzoli, G., Andò, S., Botti, E., Limonta, M., ...De Grave, J. (2019). Congo River sand and the equatorial quartz factory. Earth-Science Reviews, 102918. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102918
Vermeesch, P. (2019). Exploratory analysis of provenance data using R and the provenance package. Minerals, 9 (3), doi:10.3390/min9030193
Ghosh, R., Vermeesch, P., Gain, D., Mondal, R. (2019). Genetic relationship among komatiites and associated basalts in the Badampahar greenstone belt (3.25–3.10 Ga), Singhbhum Craton, Eastern India. Precambrian Research, 327 196-211. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2019.03.013
Yu, J., Zheng, D., Pang, J., Wang, Y., Fox, M., Vermeesch, P., ...Wang, Y. (2019). Miocene range growth along the Altyn Tagh fault: Insights from apatite fission‐track and (U‐Th)/He thermochronometry in the western Danghenan Shan, China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi:10.1029/2019jb017570
Van Ranst, G., Pedrosa-Soares, A.C., Novo, T., Vermeesch, P., De Grave, J. (2019). New insights from low-temperature thermochronology into the tectonic and geomorphologic evolution of the south-eastern Brazilian highlands and passive margin. Geoscience Frontiers, doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2019.05.011
Vermeesch, P., Tian, Y. (2019). Reply to the Comment on the Reply to the Comment on Vermeesch and Tian (2014). Earth-Science Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102879

2018

Smye, A.J., Marsh, J.H., Vermeesch, P., Garber, J.M., Stockli, D.F. (2018). Applications and limitations of U-Pb thermochronology to middle and lower crustal thermal histories. Chemical Geology, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.07.003
Backeberg, N.R., Iacoviello, F., Rittner, M., Mitchell, T.M., Jones, A.P., Day, R., ...Striolo, A. (2018). Author Correction: Quantifying the anisotropy and tortuosity of permeable pathways in clay-rich mudstones using models based on X-ray tomography. Scientific reports, 8 (1), 4313. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-22646-6
Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Schimmelpfennig, I., Benedetti, L. (2018). Determining erosion rates in allchar (Macedonia) to revive the lorandite neutrino experiment. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 474 (2213), doi:10.1098/rspa.2017.0470
Vermeesch, P. (2018). Dissimilarity measures in detrital geochronology. Earth-Science Reviews, 178 310-321. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.027
Garzanti, E., Dinis, P., Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., Hahn, A., Huvi, J., ...Rittner, M. (2018). Dynamic uplift, recycling, and climate control on the petrology of passive-margin sand (Angola). Sedimentary Geology, doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.12.009
Sun, X., Li, C., Kuiper, K.F., Wang, J., Tian, Y., Vermeesch, P., ...Wijbrans, J.R. (2018). Geochronology of detrital muscovite and zircon constrains the sediment provenance changes in the Yangtze River during the late Cenozoic. Basin Research, doi:10.1111/bre.12268
Fenn, K., Stevens, T., Bird, A., Limonta, M., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., ...Zhang, H. (2018). Insights into the provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau from joint zircon U-Pb and garnet geochemical analysis of last glacial loess. QUATERNARY RESEARCH, 89 (3), 645-659. doi:10.1017/qua.2017.86
Vermeesch, P. (2018). IsoplotR: A free and open toolbox for geochronology. Geoscience Frontiers, doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2018.04.001
Yan, Z., Tian, Y., Li, R., Vermeesch, P., Sun, X., Li, Y., ...Huang, H. (2018). Late Triassic tectonic inversion in the upper Yangtze Block: Insights from detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology from south‐western Sichuan Basin. Basin Research, doi:10.1111/bre.12310
Li, Q., Gleadow, A., Seiler, C., Kohn, B., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Hurford, A. (2018). Observations on three-dimensional measurement of confined fission track lengths in apatite using digital imagery. American Mineralogist, 103 (3), 430-440. doi:10.2138/am-2018-6156
Vermeesch, P., Tian, Y. (2018). Reply to Comment on "Thermal history modelling: HeFTy vs. QTQt" by K. Gallagher and RA Ketcham. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, 176 395-396. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.015
Vermeesch, P. (2018). Statistical models for point-counting data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 501 112-118. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.08.019
Vermeesch, P. (2018). Statistics for Fission-Track Thermochronology. In Fission-Track Thermochronology and its Application to Geology. Springer.
Garzanti, E., Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Simmons, M. (2018). The zircon story of the Nile: Time‐structure maps of source rocks and discontinuous propagation of detrital signals. Basin Research, 30 (6), 1098-1117. doi:10.1111/bre.12293

2017

Dinis, P., Garzanti, E., Vermeesch, P., Huvi, J. (2017). Climatic zonation and weathering control on sediment composition (Angola). Chemical Geology, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.07.030
Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Petrou, E., Omma, J., Mattinson, C., Garzanti, E. (2017). High Throughput Petrochronology and Sedimentary Provenance Analysis by Automated Phase Mapping and LAICPMS. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi:10.1002/2017GC007109
Tian, Y., Vermeesch, P., Danisik, M., Condon, D.J., Chen, W., Kohn, B., ...Rittner, M. (2017). LGC-1: A zircon reference material for in-situ (U-Th)/He dating. CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 454 80-92. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.02.026
Backeberg, N.R., Iacoviello, F., Rittner, M., Mitchell, T.M., Jones, A.P., Day, R., ...Striolo, A. (2017). Quantifying the anisotropy and tortuosity of permeable pathways in clay-rich mudstones using models based on X-ray tomography.. Scientific reports, 7 (1), 14838. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14810-1
Garzanti, E., Dinis, P., Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., Hahn, A., Huvi, J., ...Rittner, M. (2017). Sedimentary processes controlling ultralong cells of littoral transport: Placer formation and termination of the Orange sand highway in southern Angola. Sedimentology, doi:10.1111/sed.12387
Vermeesch, P. (2017). Statistics for LA-ICP-MS based fission track dating. CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 456 19-27. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.03.002
Veloso, E., Cembrano, J., Arancibia, G., Heuser, G., Neira, S., Siña, A., ...Selby, D. (2017). Tectono-metallogenetic evolution of the Fe–Cu deposit of Dominga, northern Chile. Mineralium Deposita, 1-26. doi:10.1007/s00126-016-0682-8
Garzanti, E., Vermeesch, P., Al-Ramadan, K.A., Ando, S., Limonta, M., Rittner, M., Vezzoli, G. (2017). Tracing Transcontinental Sand Transport: from Anatolia–zagros To the Rub' Al Khali Sand Sea. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 87 (11), 1196-1213. doi:10.2110/jsr.2017.65

2016

Vermeesch, P., Resentini, A., Garzanti, E. (2016). An R package for statistical provenance analysis. SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 336 14-25. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.01.009
Horstwood, M.S.A., Košler, J., Gehrels, G., Jackson, S.E., McLean, N.M., Paton, C., ...Vermeesch, P. (2016). Community-Derived Standards for LA-ICP-MS U-(Th-)Pb Geochronology – Uncertainty Propagation, Age Interpretation and Data Reporting. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 40 (3), 311-332. doi:10.1111/j.1751-908X.2016.00379.x
Nie, J., Stevens, T., Rittner, M., Stockli, D., Garzanti, E., Limonta, M., ...Saylor, J. (2016). Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-derived Yellow River sediment (6, 8511, 2015). NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 7 doi:10.1038/ncomms10831
He, T., Zhou, Y., VERMEESCH, P., Rittner, M., Miao, L., Zhu, M., ...Shields, G. (2016). Measuring the ‘Great Unconformity’ on the North China Craton using new detrital zircon age data. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448 doi:10.1144/SP448.14
Vermeesch, P. (2016). Multi-sample comparison of detrital age distributions (vol 341, pg 140, 2013). CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 425 145. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.02.005
Shen, X., Tian, Y., Li, D., Qin, S., Vermeesch, P., Schwanethal, J. (2016). Oligocene-Early Miocene river incision near the first bend of the Yangze River: Insights from apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology. Tectonophysics, 687 223-231. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.08.006
Dinis, P.A., Huvi, J., Cascalho, J., Garzanti, E., Vermeesch, P., Callapez, P. (2016). Sand-spits systems from Benguela region (SW Angola). An analysis of sediment sources and dispersal from textural and compositional data. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 117 171-182. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.01.020
Garzanti, E., Al-Juboury, A.I., Zoleikhaei, Y., Vermeesch, P., Jotheri, J., Akkoca, D.B., ...Limonta, M. (2016). The Euphrates-Tigris-Karun river system: Provenance, recycling and dispersal of quartz-poor foreland-basin sediments in arid climate. Earth-Science Reviews, 162 107-128. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.09.009
Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Bird, A., Stevens, T., Garzanti, E., ...Xu, Z. (2016). The provenance of Taklamakan desert sand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 437 127-137. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.12.036

2015

Evans, N.J., McInnes, B.I.A., McDonald, B., Danisik, M., Becker, T., Vermeesch, P., ...Patterson, D.B. (2015). An in situ technique for (U-Th-Sm)/He and U-Pb double dating. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY, 30 (7), 1636-1645. doi:10.1039/c5ja00085h
Vermeesch, P., Balco, G., Blard, P.H., Dunai, T.J., Kober, F., Niedermann, S., ...Wieler, R. (2015). Interlaboratory comparison of cosmogenic <sup>21</sup>Ne in quartz. Quaternary Geochronology, 26 (1), 20-28. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2012.11.009
Vermeesch, P., Balco, G., Blard, P.H., Dunai, T.J., Kober, F., Niedermann, S., ...Wieler, R. (2015). Interlaboratory comparison of cosmogenic 21Ne in quartz. QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY, 26 20-28. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2012.11.009
Nie, J., Stevens, T., Rittner, M., Stockli, D., Garzanti, E., Limonta, M., ...Saylor, J. (2015). Loess plateau storage of northeastern Tibetan plateau-derived yellow river sediment. Nature Communications, 6 doi:10.1038/ncomms9511
Vermeesch, P., Garzanti, E. (2015). Making geological sense of 'Big Data' in sedimentary provenance. CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 409 20-27. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.05.004
Garzanti, E., Resentini, A., Ando, S., Vezzoli, G., Pereira, A., Vermeesch, P. (2015). Physical controls on sand composition and relative durability of detrital minerals during ultra-long distance littoral and aeolian transport (Namibia and southern Angola). SEDIMENTOLOGY, 62 (4), 971-996. doi:10.1111/sed.12169
Garzanti, E., Resentini, A., Andò, S., Vezzoli, G., Pereira, A., Vermeesch, P. (2015). Physical controls on sand composition and relative durability of detrital minerals during ultra-long distance littoral and aeolian transport (Namibia and southern Angola). Sedimentology, 62 (4), 971-996. doi:10.1111/sed.12169
Bird, A., Stevens, T., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Andò, S., ...Zeng, L. (2015). Quaternary dust source variation across the Chinese Loess Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 435 254-264. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.06.024
Vermeesch, P. (2015). Revised error propagation of Ar-40/Ar-39 data, including covariances. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 171 325-337. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.09.008

2014

Vermeesch, P. (2014). Corrigendum to "Multi-sample comparison of detrital age distributions" [Chem. Geol. 191/1-3 (2002) 209-224]. CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 363 356. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.12.009
Vermeesch, P. (2014). Multi-sample comparison of detrital age distributions (vol 341, pg 140, 2013). CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 380 191. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.07.008
Garzanti, E., Vermeesch, P., Padoan, M., Resentini, A., Vezzoli, G., Andò, S. (2014). Provenance of passive-margin sand (Southern Africa). JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, 122 (1), 17-42. doi:10.1086/674803
Vermeesch, P., Tian, Y. (2014). Thermal history modelling: HeFTy vs. QTQt. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, 139 279-290. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.09.010
Garzanti, E., Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., Lustrino, M., Padoan, M., Vezzoli, G. (2014). Ultra-long distance littoral transport of Orange sand and provenance of the Skeleton Coast Erg (Namibia). MARINE GEOLOGY, 357 25-36. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2014.07.005

2013

Stevens, T., Carter, A., Watson, T.P., Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., Bird, A.F., ...Sevastjanova, I. (2013). Genetic linkage between the Yellow River, the Mu Us desert and the Chinese Loess Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 78 355-368. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.032
Stevens, T., Watson, T.P., Bird, A.F., Carter, A., Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., ...Sevastjanova, I. (2013). Genetic linkage between the Yellow River, the Mu Us desert and the Chinese Loess Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.032
Vermeesch, P. (2013). Multi-sample comparison of detrital age distributions. CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 341 140-146. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.01.010
Garzanti, E., Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., Vezzoli, G., Valagussa, M., Allen, K., ...Al-Juboury, A.I.A. (2013). Provenance and recycling of Arabian desert sand. Earth-Science Reviews,

2012

Vermeesch, P., Leprince, S. (2012). A 45-year time series of dune mobility indicating constant windiness over the central Sahara. \grl, 39 14401. doi:10.1029/2012GL052592
Vermeesch, P., Sherlock, S.C., Roberts, N.M.W., Carter, A. (2012). A simple method for in-situ U-Th-He dating. 79 140-147.
Vermeesch, P. (2012). On the visualisation of detrital age distributions. Chemical Geology, 312–313 190 - 194. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.04.021
Garzanti, E., Andò, S., Vezzoli, G., Lustrino, M., Boni, M., Vermeesch, P. (2012). Petrology of the Namib Sand Sea: Long-distance transport and compositional variability in the wind-displaced Orange Delta. Earth-Science Reviews, 112 173-189.

2011

Vermeesch, P. (2011). Solitary wave behavior in sand dunes observed from space. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 38 doi:10.1029/2011GL049610
Vermeesch, P. (2011). Statistical significance does not equal geological significance: Reply to comments on "lies, damned lies, and statistics (in Geology)". Eos, 92 (8), 66-. doi:10.1029/2011EO080013

2010

Vermeesch, P. (2010). African sands. NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 3 (12), 876. doi:10.1038/ngeo1021
Vermeesch, P. (2010). HelioPlot, and the treatment of overdispersed (U-Th-Sm)/He data. Chemical Geology, 271 (3-4), 108-111.
Vermeesch, P., Fenton, C.R., Kober, F., Wiggs, G.F.S., Bristow, C.S., Xu, S. (2010). Sand residence times of one million years in the Namib Sand Sea from cosmogenic nuclides. NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 3 (12), 862-865. doi:10.1038/NGEO985

2009

Vermeesch, P., Avigad, D., McWilliams, M.O. (2009). 500 m.y. of thermal history elucidated by multi-method detrital thermochronology of North Gondwana Cambrian sandstone (Eilat area, Israel). Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121 (7/8), 1204-12161.
Vermeesch, P., Baur, H., Heber, V.S., Kober, F., Oberholzer, P., Schaefer, J.M., ...Wieler, R. (2009). Altitudinal scaling of cosmogenic He-3 and Ne-21 in artificial quartz targets.
Vermeesch, P., Baur, H., Heber, V.S., Kober, F., Oberholzer, P., Schaefer, J.M., ...Wieler, R. (2009). Cosmogenic ³He and ²¹Ne measured in quartz targets after one year of exposure in the Swiss Alps. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284 (3-4), 417-425. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.007
Vermeesch, P. (2009). Lies, damned lies, and statistics (in Geology). Eos, 90 (47), 443-.
Vermeesch, P. (2009). RadialPlotter: A Java application for fission track, luminescence and other radial plots. Radiation Measurements, 44 409-410.

2008

Vermeesch, P., Drake, N. (2008). Remotely sensed dune celerity and sand flux measurements of the world's fastest barchans (Bodélé, Chad). Geophysical Research Letters, 35 doi:10.1029/2008GL035921
Vermeesch, P. (2008). Reply to Comment by Agrawal and Verma on "Tectonic classification of basalts with classification trees". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71 3391-3392.
Vermeesch, P. (2008). Three new ways to calculate average (U-Th)/He ages. Chemical Geology, (249), 339-347.

2007

Vermeesch, P. (2007). CosmoCalc: An Excel add-in for cosmogenic nuclide calculations. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 71 (15), A1064.
Vermeesch, P. (2007). CosmoCalc: An Excel add-in for cosmogenic nuclide calculations. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 8 doi:10.1029/2006GC001530
Vermeesch, P. (2007). Quantitative geomorphology of the White Mountains (California) using detrital apatite fission track thermochronology. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 112 F03004-. doi:10.1029/2006JF000671
Vermeesch, P., Seward, D., Latkoczy, C., Wipf, M., Günther, D., Baur, H. (2007). α-Emitting mineral inclusions in apatite, their effect on (U-Th)/He ages, and how to reduce it. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71 (7), 1737-1746. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.09.020

2006

Vermeesch, P. (2006). Comment on "Detrital zircons as tracers of sedimentary provenance: Limiting conditions from statistics and numerical simulation" by T. Andersen, Chemical Geology, vol. 216, pp. 249-270. CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 226 (1-2), 73. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2005.10.012
Vermeesch, P., Miller, D.D., Graham, S.A., De Grave, J., McWilliams, M.O. (2006). Multimethod detrital thermochronology of the Great Valley Group near New Idria, California. Geological Society of Americal Bulletin, 118 (1-2), 210-218. doi:10.1130/B25797.1
Vermeesch, P. (2006). Tectonic discrimination diagrams revisited. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 7 doi:10.1029/2005GC001092
Vermeesch, P. (2006). Tectonic discrimination of basalts with classification trees. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70 (7), 1839-1848. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2005.12.016
De Grave, J., Buslov, M.M., Zhimulev, F.I., Vermeesch, P., McWilliams, M.O., Metcalf, J. (2006). The Early Ordovician age of deformations in the Kokchetav subduction-collision zone: New structural and 40Ar/39Ar data. RUSSIAN GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, 47 (4), 441-450.

2005

Vermeesch, P. (2005). Statistical uncertainty associated with histograms in the earth sciences. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 110

2004

Vermeesch, P. (2004). How many grains are needed for a provenance study?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 224 (3-4), 441-541. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.037
Vermeesch, P., Poort, J., Duchkov, A.D., Klerkx, J., de Batist, M. (2004). Lake Issyk-Kul (Tien Shan): Unusually low heat flow in an active intermontane basin. Russian Geology and Geophysics, 45 (5), 616-625.
Coles, D., Vichabian, Y., Fleming, R., DesAutels, C., Briggs, V., Vermeesch, P., ...Hooper, H. (2004). Spatial decision analysis of geothermal resource sites in the Qualibou Caldera, Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles. GEOTHERMICS, 33 (3), 277-308. doi:10.1016/j.geothermics.2003.07.012

2003

Vermeesch, P. (2003). A second look at the geologic map of China: The "sloss approach". International Geology Review, 45 119-132.

2002

De Batist, M., Imbo, Y., Vermeesch, P., Klerkx, J., Giralt, S., Delvaux, D., ...Abdrakhmatov, K.E. (2002). Bathymetry and sedimentary environments of Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyz Republic (Central Asia): a large, high-altitude, tectonic lake.