Igor M. Villa

Research interests

Publications

• IUPAC-IUGS recommendation on the half life of 87Rb

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.05.025

• Provenance versus weathering control on the composition of tropical river mud (southern Africa)

  Chemical Geology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.12.016

• Bias in detrital zircon geochronology and thermochronometry

  Chemical Geology · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.09.016

• Weathering geochemistry and Sr‐Nd fingerprints of equatorial upper Nile and Congo muds

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20060

• Tracing Nile sediment sources by Sr and Nd isotope signatures (Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan)

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.03.042

• The rift-to-drift transition in the North Atlantic: A stuttering start of the MORB machine?

  Geology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1130/g23613a.1

• Age and isotopic constraints on magmatism along the Karakoram-Kohistan Suture Zone, NW Pakistan: evidence for subduction and continued convergence after India-Asia collision

  Swiss Journal of Geosciences · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00015-007-1203-7

• Holocene ITCZ and Indian monsoon dynamics recorded in stalagmites from Oman and Yemen (Socotra)

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.04.012

• Pinpointing the Source of a Lunar Meteorite: Implications for the Evolution of the Moon

  Science · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1099397

• The South Ladakh ophiolites (NW Himalaya, India): an intra-oceanic tholeiitic arc origin with implication for the closure of the Neo-Tethys

  Chemical Geology · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2003.10.007

• Age of the Corsica–Sardinia rotation and Liguro–Provençal Basin spreading: new paleomagnetic and Ar/Ar evidence

  Tectonophysics · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0040-1951(02)00031-8

• Call for an improved set of decay constants for geochronological use

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(00)00512-3

• Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: Multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites

  Geology · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<487:dticsa>2.0.co;2

• Isotopic closure

  Terra Nova · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3121.1998.00156.x

• A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea

  Nature · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1038/30954

• Plio-Pleistocene geological evolution of the geothermal area of Tuscany and Latium

  Use Siena air (University of Siena) · 1994

• Eocene age of eclogite metamorphism in Pakistan Himalaya: implications for India‐Eurasia collision

  Terra Nova · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3121.1993.tb00221.x

• Very high rates of cooling and uplift in the Alpine belt of the Betic Cordilleras, southern Spain

  Geology · 1992 · https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1992)020<0079:vhroca>2.3.co;2

• Time calibration of a PT-path from the Western Tauern Window, Eastern Alps: the problem of closure temperatures

  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology · 1989 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00387196

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