Publications

In Press

(* Indicates mentored student or post-doc)

Weiss, B. P., Mansbach, E. N., Maurel, C., Sprain, C. J., Swanson-Hysell, N. L.,  and Williams, W. (in press for 2024) What we can learn about Mars from the magnetism of returned samples, PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.2404259121.

Published Peer-Reviewed Publications

(* Indicates mentored student or post-doc)

Zhang, Y.,* Anderson, N.*, Mohr, M., Schmitz, M., Macdonald, F., Nelson, L.L., Thurston, O.G., Guenthner, W.R., Karlstrom, K.E., and Swanson-Hysell, N.L.  (2024)  Paleomagnetic records from pulsed magmatism in the southwestern Laurentia large igneous province and Cardenas Basalt support rapid late Mesoproterozoic plate motion​, JGR: Solid Earth, doi:10.1029/2024JB029036

|link to journal page (open access) | code and data on Github |


Hodgin, E.B.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Turner, A.C., Stolper, D.A., Ibarra, D.E., Schmitz, M.D., Zhang, Y.*, Fairchild, L.M.*, and Fuentes, A.J.* (2024) One billion years of stability in the North American Midcontinent following two-stage Grenvillian structural inversion, Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2024TC008415.

|link to journal page (open access) | data on Github |


Henschel, W.G.*, Hodgin, E.B.*, and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2024) The Northbrae rhyolite of Berkeley constrains motion of the proto-Hayward Fault, International Geology Review, doi:10.1080/00206814.2024.2355620.

|link to journal page | open access version | code and data on Github | code and data on Zenodo |


Chiang, J., Maffre, P.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L. and Macdonald, F.M. (2024) The Role of Southeast Asian Island topography on Indo-Pacific climate and silicate weathering , Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. doi:10.1029/2023PA004672

|link to journal page (open access) | code on Zenodo|


Zhang, Y.*, Hodgin, E.B.*, Alemu, T.*, Pierce, J.*, Feuntes, A.*, and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2024), Tracking Rodinia into the Neoproterozoic: new paleomagnetic constraints from the Jacobsville Formation, Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2023TC007866.

| link to journal page (open access) | code, data, and manuscript on Github |


Mohr, M., Schmitz, M., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Karlstrom, F., Macdonald, F.M., Holland, M., Zhang, Y.*, and Anderson, N.* (2024), High-precision U-Pb geochronology links magmatism in the SW Laurentia large igneous province and Midcontinent Rift, Geology. doi:10.1130/G51786.1

| link to journal page (open access) |


Gerasimov, S.*, Hodgin, E.B.*, Crowley, J.L., and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2024) Chronostratigraphy of Miocene strata in the Berkeley Hills (California Coast Range, USA) and the arrival of the San Andreas transform boundary, Geosphere, doi:10.1130/GES02650.1

| link to journal page (open access) | code and data on Github |


Slotznick, S.P.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Zhang, Y.*, Clayton, K.E., Wellman, C.H., Tosca, N.J., and Strother, P.K. (2024) Reconstructing the paleoenvironment of an oxygenated Mesoproterozoic shoreline and its record of life, GSA Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B36634.

| link to journal page | code and data on Github |


Macdonald, F.M. and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2023), The Franklin large igneous province and initiation of Snowball Earth, Elements, doi:10.2138/gselements.19.5.296.

|link to journal page|geochronology data analysis and visualization code on Github|energy balance model code on Github|


Pu, J.P., Macdonald, F.M., Smith, E.F., Ramezani, J., and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2023) Tonian basins record rifting of Kalahari from Rodinia and no evidence of a Kaigas glaciation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118472.

|link to journal page|


Sapienza, F.*, Gallo, L. C., Zhang, Y.*, Vaes, B., Domeier, M., and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2023), Quantitative analysis of paleomagnetic sampling strategies, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi:10.1029/2023JB027211.

|link to journal page (open access)| JupyterBook documentation | code on Github | executable code in Binder |


Alemu, T.*, Hodgin, E.B.*, and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2023), Grooving in the Midcontinent: a tectonic origin for the mysterious striations of L’Anse Bay, Michigan, Geosphere, doi:10.1130/GES02603.1

| link to journal page (open access)


Maffre, P.*, Chiang, J., and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2023) The effect of the Pliocene temperature pattern on silicate weathering and Pliocene–Pleistocene cooling, Climate of the Past, doi:10.5194/cp-19-1461-2023

| link to journal page (open access) |


Gallo, L. C., Domeier, M., Sapienza, F.*, Swanson-Hysell, N. L., Vaes, B., Zhang, Y.*, Arnould, M., Eyster, A., Gürer, D., Király, Á., Robert, B., Rolf., T., Shephard, G., and van der Boon, A. (2023) Embracing uncertainty to resolve polar wander: a case study of Cenozoic North America, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2023GL103436

| link to journal page (open access) | code and data on Github |


Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Rivers, T. and van der Lee, S. (2023) The late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic Grenvillian Orogeny and the assembly of Rodinia: Turning point in the tectonic evolution of Laurentia in Whitmeyer, S., Kellett, D., Tikoff, B. and Williams, M. eds., GSA Memoir Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent, doi:10.1130/2022.1220(14)

| link to journal page | open access version | code and data on Github | code and data on Zenodo |


Macdonald, F.M., Yonkee, A., Flowers, B., and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2023) Neoproterozoic of Laurentia in Whitmeyer, S., Kellett, D., Tikoff, B. and Williams, M. eds., GSA Memoir Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent, doi:10.1130/2022.1220(19)

| link to journal page | code and data on Github | code and data on Zenodo |


Carrero, S., Slotznick, S.P.*, Fakra, S., Sitar, M.C., Bone, S.E.,  Mauk, J., Manning, A.H., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Williams, K.H., Banfield, J.F., and Gilbert, B. (2023), Mineralogical, magnetic and geochemical data constrain the pathways and extent of weathering of mineralized sedimentary rocks, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2022.11.005

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Pierce, J.*, Zhang, Y.*, Hodgin, E.B.*, and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2022), Quantifying inclination shallowing and representing flattening uncertainty in sedimentary paleomagnetic poles, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2022GC010682.

| link to journal page (open access) | code and data on Github | code and data on Zenodo |


Rose, I.*, Zhang, Y.*, and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2022), Bayesian paleomagnetic Euler pole inversion for paleogeographic reconstruction and analysis, JGR: Solid Earth, doi:10.1029/2021JB023890. 

| link to journal page (open access) | code and data on Github |


Zhang, Y.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Avery, M.S.*, and Fu. R.R. (2022), High geomagnetic field intensity recorded by anorthosite xenoliths requires a strongly powered late Mesoproterozoic geodynamo, PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.2202875119.

| link to journal page (open access) | code and data on Github | code and data on Zenodo | data in MagIC database |


Hodgin, E.B.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., DeGraff, J.M., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Schmitz, M.D., Turner, A.C., Zhang, Y.*, and Stolper, D.A. (2022), Final inversion of the Midcontinent Rift during the Rigolet Phase of the Grenvillian orogeny, Geology, doi:10.1130/G49439.1.

| link to journal page (open access) |


Maffre, P.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., and Goddéris, Y. (2021) Limited carbon cycle response to increased sulfide weathering due to oxygen feedback, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2021GL094589.

| link to journal page | open access version | code on Github | code on Zenodo |


Zhang, Y.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Schmitz, M.D., Miller Jr., J.D. and Avery, M.S.* (2021), Synchronous emplacement of the anorthosite xenolith-bearing Beaver River diabase and one of the largest lava flows on Earth, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2021GC009909.

| link to journal page (open access) | code, data and manuscript on Github |


Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2021), The Precambrian Paleogeography of Laurentia, in: Pesonen, L.J., Salminen, J., Evans, D.A.D., Elming, S.-Å., Veikkolainen, T. (eds.) Ancient Supercontinents and the Paleogeography of the Earth, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-818533-9.00009-6.

| open access version | code, data and manuscript on Github | publisher page |


Evans, D.A.D, Pesonen, L.J., Eglington, B.M., Elming, S.-Å., Gong, Z., Li, Z.-X., McCausland, P.J., Meert, J.G., Mertanen, S., Pisarevsky, S.A., Pivarunas, A.F., Salminen, J.M., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Torsvik, T.H., Trindade, R.I.F., Veikkolainen, T., and Zhang, S. (2021), An expanding list of reliable paleomagnetic poles for Precambrian tectonic reconstructions, in: Pesonen, L.J., Salminen, J., Evans, D.A.D., Elming, S.-Å., Veikkolainen, T. (eds.) Ancient Supercontinents and the Paleogeography of the Earth. | publisher page |


Park, Y.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Xian, H., Zhang, S., Condon, D., Fu, H. and Macdonald, F.M. (2021) A consistently high latitude South China from 820 to 780 Ma: Implications for exclusion from Rodinia and the feasibility of large-scale true polar wander, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi:10.1029/2020JB021541.

| link to journal page | open access versioncode and data archive on Zenodo | code, data and manuscript on Github |


Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Avery, M.S.*, Zhang, Y.*, Hodgin, E.B.*, Sherwood, R.J.*, Apen, F.E., Boerboom, T.J., Keller, C.B., and Cottle, J.M. (2021), The paleogeography of Laurentia in its early years: new constraints from the Paleoproterozoic East Central Minnesota batholith, Tectonics, doi:10.1130/G47873.1.

| link to journal page | open access version | code and data archive on Zenodo | code, data and manuscript on Github | data in MagIC database |


Park, Y.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Macdonald, F.M., and Lisiecki, L. (2021), Evaluating the relationship between the area and latitude of large igneous provinces and Earth’s long-term climate state, in Large Igneous Provinces: A Driver of Global Environmental and Biotic Changes, Geophysical Monograph 255. doi:10.1002/9781119507444.ch7

| link to publication  | open access PDF | code and data archive on Zenodo | code, data and manuscript on Github |


Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Hoaglund, S.A., Crowley, J.L., Schmitz, M.D., Zhang, Y.*, and Miller Jr., J.D. (2021), Rapid emplacement of massive Duluth Complex intrusions within the Midcontinent Rift, Geology, doi:10.1130/G47873.1.

| link to journal page | open access version | supplemental materials | code and data archive on Zenodo | code, data and manuscript on Github | data in MagIC database |


Park, Y.*, Maffre, P.*, Goddéris, Y., Macdonald, F.M., Anttila, E. and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2020), Emergence of the Southeast Asian Islands as a driver for Neogene cooling, PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.2011033117.

| link to journal page | open access versioncode and data archive on Zenodo | code and data on Github |


Slotznick, S.P.*, Sperling, E.A., Tosca, N.J., Miller, A.J., Clayton, K., van Helmond, N.A.G.M., Slomps, C.P., and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2020), Unraveling the mineralogical complexity of sediment iron speciation using sequential extractions, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2019GC008666.

| link to journal page | open access archive |


Park, Y.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., MacLennan, S.*, Maloof, A., Schoene, B., Tremblay, M.*, Antilla, E.*, Gebreslassie, M., Tesema, T., Alene, M. and Haileab, B. (2020), The onset of the Sturtian Snowball Earth: Neoproterozoic chemostratigraphy time-calibrated by the Tambien Group of Ethiopia, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B35178.1.

| link to journal page | open access version | code and data on Github |


Hodgskiss, M.S.W.*, Dagnaud, O.M.J., Frost, J.L., Halverson, G.P., Schmitz, M.D., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Sperling, E.A. (2019), New insights on the Orosirian carbon cycle, early cyanobacteria, and the assembly of Laurentia from the Paleoproterozoic Belcher Group, EPSL, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.023.

| link to journal page | open access version | code and data on Github |


Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Fairchild, L.M.*, and Slotznick, S.* (2019), Primary and secondary red bed magnetization constrained by fluvial intraclasts, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi:10.1029/2018JB017067.

| link to journal page | open access version | data in MagIC database | code, data and manuscript on Github |


Macdonald, F.M., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Park, Y.*, Lisiecki, L., and Jagoutz, O. (2019), Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth’s climate state, Science, doi:10.1126/science.aav5300.

| link to journal page | open access version | code and data on Github |


Crockford, P.W., Kunzmann M., Bekker A., Hayles J., Bao, H., Halverson G.P., Peng, Y., Bui T.H., Cox, G.M., Gibson T.M., Wörndle S., Rainbird, R., Lepland, A., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Master S., Sreenivas, B., Kuznetsov, A., Krupenik, W., and Wing B.A. (2019), Claypool continued: extending the isotopic record of sedimentary sulfate, Chemical Geology, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.02.030.

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Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Ramenzani, J., Fairchild, L.M.* and Rose, I.* (2019), Failed rifting and fast drifting: Midcontinent Rift development, Laurentia’s rapid motion and the driver of Grenvillian orogenesis, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B31944.1.

| link to journal page | open access version | data in MagIC database | code, data and manuscript on Github |


Lepaulard, C. Gattacceca, J., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Quesnel, Y., Osinski, G. and Demory, F. (2019), A Paleozoic age for the Tunnunik impact structure, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, doi:10.1111/maps.13239

| link to journal page | open access version | code and data on Github |


Keller, C.B. Husson, J.M., Mitchell, R.N., Bottke, W.F., Gernon, T.M., Boehnke, P., Bell, E.A. Swanson-Hysell, N.L., and Peters, S.E. (2019), Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity, PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.1804350116

| link to journal page | open access archive |


Slotznick, S.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., and Sperling, E. (2018), An oxygenated Mesoproterozoic lake revealed through magnetic mineralogy, PNAS,  doi:10.1073/pnas.1813493115.

| link to journal page | open access archive |


MacLennan, S.*, Park, Y.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Maloof, A., Schoene, B., Gebreslassie, M., Antilla, E.*, Tesema, T., Alene, M. and Haileab, B. (2018), The arc of the Snowball: U-Pb dates constrain the Islay anomaly and the initiation of the Sturtian glaciation, Geology, doi:10.1130/G40171.1.

| link to journal page | open access archive |


Sprain, C.J.*. Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Fairchild, L.M.*, and Gaastra, K.*, (2018), A field like today’s? The strength of the geomagnetic field 1.1 billion years ago, Geophysical Journal International, 213, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggy074.

| free access to article at Oxford University Press | link to journal page | paleointensity data in MagIC database | code and data on Github |


Swanson-Hysell, N.L. and Macdonald, F.A. (2017), Tropical weathering of the Taconic orogeny as a driver for Ordovician cooling, Geology, doi:10.1130/G38985.1 | link to journal page | open access archive | code and data on Github | Tropical weathering of the Taconic orogeny as a driver for Ordovician cooling: Reply (2018), Geology, doi:10.1130/G40038Y.1 | link to journal page


Fairchild, L.M.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Ramenzani, J., Sprain, C.J.*, and Bowring, S.A. (2017), The end of Midcontinent Rift magmatism and the paleogeography of Laurentia, Lithosphere, doi:10.1130/L580.1.

| link to journal page | paleomagnetic data in MagIC database | geochronology data in the Geochron database | code, data and manuscript on Github |


Bezaeva, N.S., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Tikoo, S.M.*, Badyukov, D.D., Kars, M., Egli, R., Chareev, D.A., Fairchild, L.M.*, Khakhalova, E., Strauss, B.E. and Lindquist, A.K. (2016), The effects of 10 to >160 GPa shock on the magnetic properties of basalt and diabase, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 17, 4753-4771, doi:10.1002/2016GC006583.

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Kilian, T.M.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Macdonald, F.A., Bold, U. and Crowley, J. (2016), Paleomagnetism of the Teel basalts from the Zavkhan Terrane: Implications for Paleozoic paleogeography of Mongolia and the growth of continental crust, Lithosphere, 8, 699-715, doi:10.1130/L552.1.

| link to journal page | paleomagnetic data in MagIC database | code and data on Github |


Fairchild, L.M.*, Swanson-Hysell, N.L., and Tikoo, S.M.* (2016), A matter of minutes: Breccia dike paleomagnetism provides evidence for rapid crater modication, Geology, 44, 723-726, doi:10.1130/G37927.1

| link to journal page | Github repository with manuscript, data and code  | PDF of paper | Supplemental paleomagnetic data analysis Jupyter notebook | Supplemental breccia dike cooling model Jupyter notebook  | paleomagnetic data in MagIC database | code, data and manuscript on Github |


Tauxe, L., Shaar, R., Jonestrask, L., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Jarboe, N., Minnett, R., Koppers, A.A.P., Constable, C.G., Gaastra, K.*, and Fairchild, L.* (2016), PmagPy: Software package for paleomagnetic data analysis and a bridge to the Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) Database, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 17, 24502463, doi:10.1002/2016GC006307.

| link to journal page | Github repository with example Jupyter notebooks  | PmagPy information and downloads | PmagPy documentation Cookbook | Main PmagPy Github repository | Jupyter notebooks on Github |


Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Kilian, T.M.*, and Hanson, R.H. (2015), A new grand mean paleomagnetic pole for the Umkondo Large Igneous Province with implications for paleogeography and the geomagnetic field, Geophysical Journal International, 203, 2237-2247, doi:10.1093/gji/ggv402.

| open access archive | link to journal page | Github repository with publication, data and code  | paleomagnetic data in the MagIC database | code, data and manuscript on Github |


Weiss, B.P., Maloof, A.C., Tailby, N., Ramezani, J., Fu, R.R. Fu, Veronica Hanus, V., Trail, D., Watson, B., Harrison, T.M., Bowring, S.A., Kirschvink, J.L., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Coe, R.S. (2015), Pervasive Remagnetization of Detrital Zircon Host Rocks in the Jack Hills, Western Australia and Implications for Records of the Early Geodynamo, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 430, 115-128, 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.07.067. Reply to Comment on ”Pervasive remagnetization of detrital zircon host rocks in the Jack Hills, Western Australia and implications for records of the early geodynamo (2016), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 409-412, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.001.

| PDF of preprint | link to journal page |


Tikoo, S.M.*, Gattacceca J., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Weiss, B.P., Suavet, C., and Cournede, C. (2015), Preservation and detectability of shock-induced magnetization, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 120, 1461-1475, doi:10.1002/2015JE004840.

| open access archive | link to journal page |


Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Maloof, A.C., Condon, D.J., Jenkin, G.R.T., Alene, M., Tremblay, M.M.*, Tesema, T., Rooney, A.D. and Haileab, B. (2015), Stratigraphy and geochronology of the Tambien Group, Ethiopia: Evidence for globally synchronous carbon isotope change in the Neoproterozoic, Geology, 43, 323-326, doi:10.1130/G36347.1.

| open access archive | link to journal page | non-technical summary | Github repository with Tonian carbon isotope composite | code and data on Github |


Feinberg, J.M., Solheid, P.A., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Jackson, M., and Bowles, J.A. (2015), Full vector low-temperature magnetic measurements of geologic materials, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 16, 301-314, doi:10.1002/2014GC005591.

| open access archive | link to journal page | Github repository with publication, data and code |


Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Vaughan, A.A.*, Mustain, M.R.*, and Asp, K.E.* (2014), Confirmation of progressive plate motion during the Midcontinent Rift’s early magmatic stage, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 15, 2039-2047, doi:10.1002/2013GC005180.

| open access archive | link to journal page | IPython notebook with data analysis | Github repository with publication, data and code | data in the MagIC database |


Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Burgess, S.D., Maloof, A.C., and Bowring, S.A. (2014), Magmatic activity and plate motion during the latent stage of Midcontinent Rift development, Geology, 42, 475-478, doi:10.1130/G35271.1.

| open access archive | link to journal page | Github repository with data and analysis | geochronology data in the Geochron database |


Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Maloof, A.C., Kirschvink, J.L., Halverson, G.P., and Hurtgen, M.T. (2012), Constraints on Neoproterozoic paleogeography and Paleozoic orogenesis from paleomagnetic records of the Bitter Springs Formation, Amadeus Basin, central Australia, American Journal of Science, 312, 817-884, doi:10.2475/08.2012.01.

| open access archive | link to journal page | word cloud of text


Jackson, M. and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2012), Rock Magnetism of Remagnetized Carbonate Rocks: Another Look, In: Elmore, R. D., Muxworthy, A. R., Aldana, M. M. and Mena, M., eds., Remagnetization and Chemical Alteration of Sedimentary Rocks, Geological Society of London Special Publication, 371, doi:10.1144/SP371.3.

| open access archive | data in the MagIC database | link to journal page | The compilation of hysteresis data from carbonate rocks developed for this paper is available here.


Hoffman, P.F., Halverson, G.P. , Domack, E.W., Maloof, A.C., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., and Cox, G.M. (2012), Cryogenian glaciations on the southern tropical paleomargin of Laurentia (NE Svalbard and East Greenland), and a primary origin for the upper Russøya (Islay) carbon isotope excursion, Precambrian Research, 206, 137-158, doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2012.02.018.

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Rose, C.V., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Husson, J.L., Poppick, L.N., Cottle, J.M., Schoene, B. and Maloof, A.C. (2012), Constraints on the origin and relative timing of the Trezona δ13C anomaly below the end-Cryogenian glaciation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 319-320, 241-250, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.027.

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Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Feinberg, J.M., Berquó, T.S., and Maloof, A.C. (2011),A self-reversed remanence held by martite in basalt flows from the 1.1-billion-yearold Keweenawan rift, Canada, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 305, 171-184, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.02.053.

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Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Rose, C.V., Calmet, C.C., Halverson, G.P., Hurtgen, M.T. and Maloof, A.C. (2010), Cryogenian Glaciation and the Onset of Carbon-Isotope Decoupling, Science, 328, 608-611, doi:10.1126/science.1184508.

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Weiss, B.P., Pedersen, S. Garrick-Bethell, I., Stewart, S.T. Louzada, K.L., Maloof, A.C., and Swanson-Hysell, N.L. (2010), Paleomagnetism of impact spherules from Lonar crater, India as a test for impact-generated fields, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 298, 66-76, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.07.028.

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Maloof, A.C., Stewart, S.T., Weiss, B.P., Soule S.A., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Louzada, K.L., Garrick-Bethell, I., and Poussart, P.M. (2010), Geology of Lonar Crater, India. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 122, 109-126, doi:10.1130/B26474.1.

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Kopp, R.E., Schumann, D., Raub, T.D., Powars, D.S., Godfrey, L.V., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Maloof, A.C., and Vali, H. and Weiss, B.P. (2009), An Appalachian Amazon?: Magnetofossil evidence for the development of a tropical river-like system in the midAtlantic U.S. during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Paleooceanography, 24, doi:10.1029/2009PA001783.

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Barbeau Jr., D.L., Gombosi, D.J., Zahid, K., Bizimis, M., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Valencia, K.E. and Gehrels, G.E. (2009), U/Pb zircon constraints on the age and provenance of the Rocas Verdes basin-fill, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 10, doi:10.1029/2009GC002749.

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Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Maloof, A.C., Evans, D.A.D. and Weiss, B.P. (2009), No asymmetry in geomagnetic reversals recorded by 1.1-billion-year-old Keweenawan basalts, Nature Geoscience, 2, 713-717, doi:10.1038/ngeo622.

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Barbeau Jr., D.L., Olivero, E.B., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Zahid, K., Murray, K.E. and Gehrels, G.E. (2009), Detrital-zircon geochronology of the eastern Magallanes foreland basin: Implications for Eocene kinematics of the northern Scotia Arc and Drake Passage, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284, 489-503, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.014.

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Louzada, K.L., Weiss, B.P., Maloof A.C., Stewart, S.T., Swanson-Hysell, N.L. and Soule, S.A. (2008), Paleomagnetism of Lonar impact crater, India, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 275, 308-319, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.025.

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Swanson-Hysell, N.L. and Barbeau, D.L., (2007), The diachroneity of alluvial-fan lithostratigraphy? A test case from southeastern Ebro basin magnetostratigraphy, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 262, 343-362, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.003. Reply to Garcés et al. comment on ‘The diachroneity of alluvial-fan lithostratigraphy? A test case from southeastern Ebro Basin magnetostratigraphy’  (2008), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 275, 187-192, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.018

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Other Publications

Swanson-Hysell, N.L. On the connections between hysteresis loops, Sir Alfred Ewing and pigs drawn whilst blindfolded. Institute for Rock Magnetism Quarterly (Winter 2012-2013), Vol. 22, No. 4.

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Swanson-Hysell, N.L. Stratigraphic records of paleogeography and global change from two late Proterozoic basins, PhD Dissertation, Princeton University (2011), 311 pages.

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Data Analysis Software

Contributor to the open source PmagPy software project and the associated documentation (https://pmagpy.github.io/PmagPy-docs). Developed the ipmag.py module for the project that enables open and reproducible paleomagnetic data analysis and plotting within the Jupyter notebook environment.