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Polybius: decipherer of Hannibal’s alpine route and ancient stratigrapher by Mahaney, W. C.

“…After interviewing surviving soldiers of Hannibal’s alpine invasion of Italia and sketching out the Punic Army route, Polybius, a Greek general serving as…”
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Weathering rinds as mirror images of palaeosols; examples from the Western Alps with correlation to Antarctica and Mars by Mahaney, W. C, Keiser, Leslie, Krinsley, D. H, Pentlavalli, P, Allen, C. C. R, Somelar, P, Schwartz, Stephane, Dohm, James M, Dirszowsky, R, West, Allen, Julig, P, Costa, P

“…Weathering rinds have been used for decades as relative age indicators to differentiate glacial deposits in long Quaternary sequences, but only recently has it…”
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Mineralogy and chemistry of Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene paleosols on Mount Kenya: Weathering indices of relative age and paleoenvironmental reconstruction by Mahaney, W.C., Hamilton, T.S., Barendregt, R.W., Hancock, R.G.V., Costa, P.

“…Iron and Al extracts as weathering indices in paleosols have been used in many localities to determine relative age, transformation of total chemical element…”
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Stratigraphy of the Gorges moraine system, Mount Kenya; palaeosol and palaeoclimate record by Mahaney, W. C, Barendregt, René W, Hamilton, T. S, Hancock, R. G. V, Tessler, Dez, Costa, Pedro J. M

“…Moraines marking an Early Pleistocene glaciation on Mt. Kenya are known from several valleys along the eastern and southeastern flanks of the mountain. The…”
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Clast rind analysis using multi‐high resolution instrumentation by Mahaney, W. C., Krinsley, D. H., Razink, Josh, Fischer, Robert, Langworthy, Kurt

“…Summary Clast weathering rinds, formed over varying lengths of time (102–106 years) in terrestrial environments, are measured to provide relative ages for…”
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Evidence from the northwestern Venezuelan Andes for extraterrestrial impact: The black mat enigma by Mahaney, W.C., Kalm, V., Krinsley, D.H., Tricart, P., Schwartz, S., Dohm, J., Kim, K.J., Kapran, B., Milner, M.W., Beukens, R., Boccia, S., Hancock, R.G.V., Hart, K.M., Kelleher, B.

“…A carbon-rich black layer encrusted on a sandy pebbly bed of outwash in the northern Venezuelan Andes, previously considered the result of an alpine grass…”
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A soil chronosequence in Late Glacial and Neoglacial moraines, Humboldt Glacier, northwestern Venezuelan Andes by Mahaney, W.C., Kalm, V., Kapran, B., Milner, M.W., Hancock, R.G.V.

“…Late Glacial and Neoglacial (Little Ice Age) deposits on the Humboldt Massif were analyzed for relative-age dating parameters, including geomorphic and…”
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Clay mineralogical evidence of a bioclimatically-affected soil, Rouge River basin, South-Central Ontario, Canada by Mahaney, W.C.

“…Holocene soils in drainage basins of South-Central Ontario, Canada, are generally Fluvisols (Entisols) in floodplains transitioning to Brunisols (Inceptisols),…”
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Paleoclimate of Antarctica reconstructed from clast weathering rind analysis by Mahaney, W.C., Schwartz, Stephane

“…Previous analysis of extractable Fe/Al in paleosols near New Mountain, Antarctica, suggests a pre-Middle Miocene, possibly Late Oligocene–Early Miocene age for…”
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Did the Black-Mat Impact/Airburst Reach the Antarctic? Evidence from New Mountain Near the Taylor Glacier in the Dry Valley Mountains by Mahaney, W. C., Krinsley, David H., Milner, Michael W., Fischer, Robert, Langworthy, Kurt

“…Detailed microscopic investigations of horizons in a surface paleosol, part of a pedostratigraphic stack of tills at New Mountain, Antarctica, dated to the…”
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Weathering rinds: Unlikely host clasts for evidence of an impact-induced event by Mahaney, W.C., Keiser, Leslie

“…Interhemispheric evidence of a cosmic impact 12.9ka is known now from North to South America, Europe and Eurasia, all data supporting a cosmic event derived…”
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Comments on M. Kuhle and S. Kuhle (2012): 'Hannibal Gone Astray? A Critical Comment on W. C. Mahaney etal., "The Traversette (Italia) Rockfall: Geomorphological Indicator of the Hannibalic Invasion Route" (Archaeometry, 52, 1 [2010] 156-72)' by Mahaney, W C

“…The title of Kuhle and Kuhle's (2012) (hereafter K&K 2012) paper in Archaeometry appears to be mostly a tirade against the Traversette Route of Hannibal's…”
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Justification for reassessing elemental analysis data of ceramics, sediments and lithics using rare earth element concentrations and ratios by Hancock, R. G. V., Michelaki, K., Mahaney, W. C., Aufreiter, S.

“…The mensuration of multi‐elemental concentrations from assorted archaeological materials has always required great care and attention to detail to ensure…”
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Aeolian microtextures in silica spheres induced in a wind tunnel experiment: Comparison with aeolian quartz by Costa, P.J.M., Andrade, C., Mahaney, W.C., Marques da Silva, F., Freire, P., Freitas, M.C., Janardo, C., Oliveira, M.A., Silva, T., Lopes, V.

“…Microtextures in quartz attributed to aeolian transport, principally bulbous edges and abrasion fatigue have seldom been tested in the laboratory under…”
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Reconnaissance of the Hannibalic Route in the Upper Po Valley, Italy: Correlation with Biostratigraphic Historical Archaeological Evidence in the Upper Guil Valley, France by Mahaney, W. C., Somelar, P., West, A., Dirszowsky, R. W., Allen, C. C. R., Remmel, T. K., Tricart, P.

“…Controversy over the alpine route taken by the Hannibalic Army from the Rhône Basin into Italia in 218 bc (2168 cal bp) has raged amongst classicists for over…”
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Comparative microbial analysis and clay mineralogy of soils eaten by chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Tanzania by Ketch, L.A, Malloch, D, Mahaney, W.C, Huffman, M.A

“…The abundance of culturable microorganisms in Tanzanian termite mound soils similar to those eaten by chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) was…”
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A Microbial Link to Weathering of Postglacial Rocks and Sediments, Mount Viso Area, Western Alps, Demonstrated through Analysis of a Soil/Paleosol Bio/Chronosequence by Mahaney, W. C., Somelar, Peeter, Dirszowsky, Randy W., Kelleher, Brian, Pentlavalli, Prasanna, McLaughlin, Shane, Kulakova, Anna N., Jordan, Sean, Pulleyblank, Coren, West, Allen, Allen, Christopher C. R.

“…Understanding the mechanism associated with rates of weathering and evolution of rocks→sediment→soil→paleosol in alpine environments raises questions related…”
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Quartz microtextures and microstructures owing to deformation of glaciolacustrine sediments in the northern Venezuelan Andes by Mahaney, W. C., Dirszowsky, R. W., Milner, M. W., Menzies, J., Stewart, A., Kalm, V., Bezada, M.

“…Glaciolacustrine sediments, ranging in age from Early to Late Mérida (Wisconsinan) in sections in the northern Venezuelan Andes near Pedregal, were studied to…”
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Geological and hydrological histories of the Argyre province, Mars by Dohm, J.M., Hare, T.M., Robbins, S.J., Williams, J.-P., Soare, R.J., El-Maarry, M.R., Conway, S.J., Buczkowski, D.L., Kargel, J.S., Banks, M.E., Fairén, A.G., Schulze-Makuch, D., Komatsu, G., Miyamoto, H., Anderson, R.C., Davila, A.F., Mahaney, W.C., Fink, W., Cleaves, H.J., Yan, J., Hynek, B., Maruyama, S.

“…•Geologic investigation of the Argyre province was performed using Viking and post-Viking data.•Evidence points to an ~Mediterranean-size lake forming as a…”
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Weathering rinds on clasts: Examples from Earth and Mars as short and long term recorders of paleoenvironment by Mahaney, W.C., Fairén, Alberto G., Dohm, James M., Krinsley, D.H.

“…Weathering rinds on clasts of different lithologic species are an underappreciated inventory of paleoenvironmental information and, as recorders of long term…”
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