William Compston

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According to Wikipedia, William Compston FAA, FRS is an Australian geophysicist. He is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. Compston developed the sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe , for isotopic analyses of geological samples. SHRIMP enabled the world's oldest rock to be identified in Western Australia.

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U‐Pb geochronology of zircons from lunar breccia 73217 using a sensitive high mass‐resolution ion microprobe (1984) (1313)
Remnants of ≥3800 Ma crust in the Chinese part of the Sino-Korean craton (1992) (1179)
Zircon U-Pb ages for the Early Cambrian time-scale (1992) (1026)
Multiple zircon growth and recrystallization during polyphase Late Carboniferous to Triassic metamorphism in granulites of the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps): an ion microprobe (SHRIMP) study (1996) (699)
Two Carboniferous Ages: A Comparison of Shrimp Zircon Dating with Conventional Zircon Ages and 40Ar/39Ar Analysis (1995) (609)
The statistical assessment of Rb‐Sr isochrons (1966) (500)
Mixture modeling of multi-component data sets with application to ion-probe zircon ages (1994) (495)
Ion microprobe identification of 4,100–4,200 Myr-old terrestrial zircons (1983) (421)
Jack Hills, evidence of more very old detrital zircons in Western Australia (1986) (390)
The Earth's oldest known crust: A geochronological and geochemical study of 3900-4200 Ma old detrital zircons from Mt. Narryer and Jack Hills, Western Australia (1992) (376)
Ion microprobe U–Pb ages for Neoproterozoic basaltic magmatism in south-central Australia and implications for the breakup of Rodinia (1998) (375)
Zircon ion microprobe studies bearing on the age and evolution of the Witwatersrand triad (1991) (372)
87Sr/86Sr composition of seawater during the Phanerozoic (1974) (330)
Deformational Mass Transport and Invasive Processes in Soil Evolution (1992) (324)
A search for ancient detrital zircons in Zimbabwean sediments (1988) (316)
Four zircon ages from one rock: the history of a 3930 Ma-old granulite from Mount Sones, Enderby Land, Antarctica (1986) (271)
3.96 Ga gneisses from the Slave province, Northwest Territories, Canada (1989) (262)
The stratigraphy of the 3.5-3.2 Ga Barberton Greenstone Belt revisited: A single zircon ion microprobe study (1990) (253)
Age and tectonic setting of Late Archean greenstone-gneiss terrain in Henan Province, China, as revealed by single-grain zircon dating (1988) (248)
Unsupported radiogenic Pb in zircon: a cause of anomalously high Pb-Pb, U-Pb and Th-Pb ages (1984) (245)
The age of the Vindhyan System of Peninsular India (1969) (235)
87Sr/86Sr in Precambrian carbonates as an index of crustal evolution (1976) (222)
The age of the Fortescue Group, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia, from ion microprobe zircon U-Pb results (1991) (212)
Zircon xenocrysts from the Kambalda volcanics: age constraints and direct evidence for older continental crust below the Kambalda-Norseman greenstones (1986) (209)
The Precambrian geochronology of Australia (1968) (188)
SHRIMP zircon ages constraining the depositional chronology of the Hamersley Group, Western Australia (2004) (185)
Multiple zircon growth within early Archaean tonalitic gneiss from the Ancient Gneiss Complex, Swaziland (1988) (168)
Lead isotopic analysis using a double spike (1969) (167)
The age of the Kambalda greenstones resolved by ion-microprobe: implications for Archaean dating methods (1988) (166)
The age and Pb loss behaviour of zircons from the Isua supracrustal belt as determined by ion microprobe (1986) (163)
87Sr86Sr in Late Proterozoic carbonates: evidence for a “mantle” event at ∼900 Ma ago (1983) (153)
Zircon Ion Microprobe Dating of High-Grade Rocks in Sri Lanka (1987) (145)
Isotope evidence for the involvement of recycled sediments in diamond formation (1991) (144)
Crystal orientation effects during ion microprobe U–Pb analysis of baddeleyite (2000) (139)
Age constraints on the geological evolution of the Narryer Gneiss Complex, Western Australia (1990) (137)
Excess 26Mg in the Allende Meteorite (1974) (136)
Geochemical comparison of the mesozoic basaltic rocks of Antarctica, South Africa, South America and Tasmania (1968) (132)
Early archaean zircon ages from orthogneisses and anorthosites at Mount Narryer, Western Australia (1988) (132)
The timing of MARID metasomatism in the Kaapvaal mantle: An ion probe study of zircons from MARID xenoliths (1998) (130)
Numerical ages of volcanic rocks and the earliest fauna1 zone within the Late Precambrian of east Poland (1995) (128)
A reconnaissance ion-probe study of hafnium isotopes in zircons (1991) (126)
The development of the Central European continental crust since the Early Archaean based on conventional and ion-microprobe dating of up to 3.84 b.y. old detrital zircons (1989) (126)
Growth of early Archaean crust in the Ancient Gneiss Complex of Swaziland as revealed by single zircon dating (1989) (122)
Sm–Nd age of Kambalda and Kanowna greenstones and heterogeneity in the Archaean mantle (1981) (121)
Strontium isotopic equilibration: A solution to a paradox (1977) (110)
Uranium‐lead ages for lunar zircons: Evidence for a prolonged period of granophyre formation from 4.32 to 3.88 Ga (1996) (110)
Further SHRIMP geochronology on the early Cambrian of South China (2008) (110)
Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Taconian and Acadian Foreland Sedimentary Rocks in New England (2001) (106)
Geological Age by Instrumental Analysis: The 29th Hallimond Lecture (1999) (105)
The age of the Cuddapah and Kurnool systems, southern India (1973) (105)
The Pan-African continental margin in northeastern Africa: evidence from a geochronological study of granulites at Sabaloka, Sudan (1987) (105)
SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Narryer Gneiss Complex, Western Australia (1991) (102)
Impact Ejecta Horizon Within Late Precambrian Shales, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia (1986) (102)
Ion probe U-Th-Pb zircon dating of polymetamorphic orthogneisses from northern Labrador, Canada (1989) (101)
The carbon isotopic compositions of certain marine invertebrates and coals from the Australian Permian (1960) (99)
Age and biostratigraphy of Early Cambrian tuffs from SE Australia and southern China (2002) (99)
Stable isotope and sea-level data from New Guinea supports Antarctic ice-surge theory of ice ages (1980) (96)
Observations and controls on the occurrence of inherited zircon in Concord-type granitoids, New Hampshire (1987) (94)
Identifying granite sources by SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology: an application to the Lachlan foldbelt (1999) (93)
A radiometric estimate of the duration of sedimentation in the Adelaide geosyncline, south Australia (1966) (93)
Thorium and uranium concentrations, and the isotopic composition of strontium in the differentiated Tasmanian dolentes (1965) (91)
The rubidium-strontium age of the Bishopville aubrite and its component enstatite and feldspar (1965) (88)
Constraints on the age of the Warrawoona Group, eastern Pilbara Block, Western Australia (1993) (88)
The geochronology of the Connemara granites and its bearing on the antiquity of the Dalradian Series (1966) (87)
UPb zircon geochronology of late Archaean metamorphic rocks in the Taihangshan—Wutaishan area, North China (1985) (83)
SHRIMP ion microprobe zircon U-Pb Age and Sm-Nd isotopic characteristics of the NE Jiangxi ophiolite and its tectonic implications (1994) (82)
Timing and exhumation of eclogite facies shear zones, Musgrave Block, central Australia (1997) (82)
Dating the Late Precambrian volcanicity of England and Wales (2002) (79)
Zircon and Monazite U–Pb Systems and the Histories of I-Type Magmas, Berridale Batholith, Australia (1983) (78)
Rubidium‐strontium dating of shales by the total‐rock method (1962) (76)
Sr-isotope evolution of granitoid source rocks. (1979) (73)
Development of SHRIMP (2008) (73)
Age and origin of granitic rocks in the kalgoorlie-norseman region of Western Australia: Implications for the origin of archaean crust (1989) (72)
Geochemistry of late Cenozoic lavas from eastern Indonesia: Role of subducted sediments in petrogenesis (1977) (71)
The chemistry and age of Apollo 11 lunar material (1970) (71)
Rubidium‐strontium age determinations on micas from a geologically controlled, composite batholith (1975) (71)
A comparison of K-Ar and Rb-Sr ages of rapidly cooled igneous rocks: two points in the Palaeozoic time scale re-evaluated (1982) (71)
U–Th–Pb ages of single zircons in Archaean supracrustals from Nain Province, Labrador, Canada (1989) (70)
The Age and Origin of the Cooma Granite and its Associated Metamorphic Zones, New South Wales (1965) (69)
Radioactive ages from the precambrian rocks in australia (1959) (69)
A SHRIMP ion microprobe study of inherited and magmatic zircons from four Scottish Caledonian granites (1992) (66)
Pre‐ to syn‐tectonic emplacement of early Palaeozoic granites in southeastern South Australia (1977) (65)
Zircon U-Pb Chronometry of the Pressure and Temperature History of Granulites in the Musgrave Ranges, Central Australia (1991) (65)
SHRIMP II dating of zircons and monazites: reassessing the timing of high‐grade metamorphism and fluid flow in the Reynolds Range, northern Arunta Block, Australia (1996) (64)
Isotopic age determinations on precambrian rocks of the carpentaria region, Northern territory, Australia (1965) (62)
Complex history of a zircon aggregate from lunar breccia 73235 (2007) (61)
Anomalous ‘Common Strontium’ in Granite (1959) (60)
Ion microprobe ages of zircons from early Archaean granite pebbles and greywacke, Barberton greenstone belt, Southern Africa (1988) (60)
Charge-mode electrometer measurements of S-isotopic compositions on SHRIMP-SI (2014) (58)
Strontium Isotope Composition and Potassium–Rubidium Ratios in some Rocks from Réunion and Rodriguez, Indian Ocean (1965) (57)
Single-grain and conventional zircon dating of remobilized basement gneisses in the central Damara belt in Namibia (1991) (57)
Provenance ages for the Witwatersrand Supergroup and the Ventersdorp contact reef; constraints from ion microprobe U-Pb ages of detrital zircons; reply (1989) (55)
Rb‐Sr ages of chondrules and carbonaceous chondrites (1965) (50)
In situ microanalysis for 34S/32S ratios using the ion microprobe SHRIMP (1987) (48)
Archaean zircons in a retrograded, Caledonian eclogite of the Gotthard Massif (central Alps, Switzerland) (1988) (47)
On the carbon-13 abundance of limestones and coals (1955) (47)
U-Th-Pb systematics of individual perovskite grains from the Allende and Murchison carbonaceous chondrites (1990) (45)
Interpretation of SHRIMP and isotope dilution zircon ages for the Palaeozoic time-scale: II. Silurian to Devonian (2000) (45)
Leakage of Radiogenic Argon and Strontium from Minerals in Proterozoic Dolerites from British Guiana (1963) (44)
Titanium isotopic anomalies in hibonites from the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite (1985) (41)
Evidence of a new isotopic anomaly from titanium isotopic ratios in meteoric materials (1979) (40)
Zircon age evidence for the Late Precambrian Acraman ejecta blanket (1987) (39)
Sr-isotopic evidence for an old mantle source region for French Polynesian volcanism (1976) (39)
Rb-Sr isotopic studies of the plutonic rocks of the Oslo region (1969) (39)
Mantle buffering of the early oceans (1982) (38)
A rubidium-strontium chronology of the metamorphism and prehistory of central Australian granulites (1978) (38)
Sulfur isotope variability in sediment-hosted massive sulfide deposits as determined using the ion microprobe SHRIMP; I, An example from the Rammelsberg orebody; reply (1988) (38)
Archaean tonalitic gneiss of Finnish Lapland revisited: zircon ion-microprobe ages (1990) (37)
The statistical analysis and interpretation of imperfectly-fitted Rb-Sr isochrons from polymetamorphic terrains (1981) (36)
Isotopic Age Determinations on Upper Devonian Rocks from Victoria, Australia: A Revised Estimate for the Age of the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary (1966) (36)
UPb single-zircon age for the Tinissaq gneiss of southern West Greenland: A controversy resolved (1989) (36)
The application of acid leaching to the Rb-Sr dating of a Middle Ordovician shale (1968) (36)
The Laidlaw Volcanics: a Late Silurian point on the geological time scale (1982) (36)
Rubidium and strontium determinations by X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and isotope dilution below the part per million level (1969) (36)
Radiometric ages of some precambrian rocks from the Northwest division of Western Australia (1965) (35)
Evidence for an Early Archean component in the Middle to Late Archean gneisses of the Wind River Range, west-central Wyoming: conventional and ion microprobe U-Pb data (1989) (35)
The Palmer Granite—A Study of a Granite within a Regional Metamorphic Environment (1967) (35)
Correlations between metamorphic events and Rb-Sr ages in metasediments and eclogite from Western Tasmania (1977) (34)
Interpretations of SHRIMP and isotope dilution zircon ages for the geological time-scale: 1. The early Ordovician and late Cambrian (2000) (33)
The age and initial Sr87/Sr86 of the Heemskirk granite, western Tasmania (1965) (32)
A Rb-Sr study of the lower silurian stage circle Shale, Canberra, Australia (1970) (32)
Rubidium-strontium geochronology of precambrian rocks from the Yenshan Region, North China (1983) (32)
Rb-Sr ages of clasts from within Boulder 1, Station 2, Apollo 17 (1975) (32)
Sm‐Nd and Rb‐Sr dating of Archaean gneisses, eastern Yilgarn Block, Western Australia (1983) (31)
DESIGN OF A LARGE, HIGH RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE † (1977) (30)
Archaean evolution of the Wongan Hills Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia (1990) (29)
Sr isotope patterns within the Southeast Australasian strewn-field (1969) (29)
On the feasibility of NBS 70a K-feldspar as a Rb-Sr age reference sample (1969) (28)
The table hill volcanics of the officer Basin—Precambrian or Palaeozoic? (1974) (27)
The age of (a tiny part of) the Australian continent (1985) (27)
A reassessment of the age of the Hamilton Group, New York and Pennsylvania, and the role of inherited radiogenic Sr87 (1967) (26)
Theoretical and technical aspects of Rb-Sr geochronology (1962) (26)
Apollo 14 mineral ages and the thermal history of the Fra Mauro formation. (1972) (25)
The design and performance of a mass spectrometer using beam transport theory (1973) (24)
SHRIMP: Origins, impact and continuing evolution (1996) (24)
Magnesium isotopic compositions of olivine, spinel, and hibonite from the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite (1986) (24)
The discordance of mineral ages in granitic rocks resulting from the redistribution of rubidium and strontium (1966) (24)
Large heterogeneous 26Mg excesses in a hibonite from the Murchison meteorite (1987) (24)
Effect of Pb loss on the ages of reference zircons QGNG and SL13, and of volcanic zircons from the Early Devonian Merrions and Turondale Formations, New South Wales (2001) (23)
The radiometric age of the Mount Keith Granodiorite, a maximum age estimate for an Archaen greenstone sequence in the Yilgarn block, Western Australia (1976) (23)
Strontium isotopes in Cenozoic volcanic rocks from southeastern Papua New Guinea (1982) (23)
A method for isotopic ratio measurement by voltage peak switching, and its application with digital output (1968) (22)
Contrasting zircon U‐Pb and model Sm‐Nd ages for the Archaean Logue Brook Granite (1986) (22)
Radiometric evidence for the age of emplacement and cooling of the Murrumbidgee Batholith (1976) (22)
SIMS U–Pb zircon ages for the Upper Devonian Snobs Creek and Cerberean Volcanics from Victoria, with age uncertainty based on UO2/UO v. UO/U precision (2004) (22)
Evolution of the Archaean Aulian Gneiss Complex, Middle Dnieper gneiss-greenstone terrain, Ukrainian Shield: SHRIMP UPb zircon evidence (1996) (21)
Rb‐Sr dating within the Houghton Inlier, south Australia (1971) (21)
Age of Emplacement of Granites (1960) (21)
Possible two-stage 87Sr evolution in the Stockdale Rhyolite (1982) (20)
The age of the Fra Mauro Formation: A radiometric older limit (1971) (19)
Growth of Archaean crust within the western gneiss terrain, Yilgarn Block, Western Australia (1983) (18)
Revision of lunar Rb--Sr ages. (1973) (17)
Consortium breccia 73255 - Petrology, major- and trace-element chemistry, and Rb-Sr systematics of aphanitic lithologies (1978) (17)
The RbSr age of the Mashonaland dolerites of Rhodesia and its significance for palaeomagnetic correlation in Southern Africa (1975) (17)
Isotopic age of the Tollu Volcanics, W.A. (1967) (16)
Isotopic age limits for the provenance and deposition of the Kurrawang Beds, Coolgardie goldfield, Western Australia (1973) (15)
Applications of the SHRIMP I ion microprobe to the understanding of processes and timing of diamond formation (1995) (14)
The early archaean crustal history of West Greenland as recorded by detrital zircons (1988) (14)
Chemistry, Geochronology, and Petrogenesis of Lunar Sample 15555 (1972) (14)
A Rb-Sr isotopic study of weathering in the Mertondale granite, Western Australia (1973) (13)
The strontium isotopic geochemistry of granulitic and eclogitic inclusions from the basic pipes at Delegate, Eastern Australia (1969) (13)
RbSr study of impact glass and country rocks from the Henbury meteorite crater field (1969) (13)
Geological note: Age of Archaean volcanism and sulphide mineralization in the whim creek belt, west Pilbara (1994) (11)
ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF MICROGRAM QUANTITIES OF LEAD IODIDE USING AN ELECTRON- BOMBARDMENT SOURCE MASS SPECTROMETER. (1970) (11)
Darwinian zircons as provenance tracers of dust-size exotic components in laterites: mass balance and SHRIMP ion microprobe results (1993) (11)
The geological microprobe: The first 25 years of dating zircons (2006) (11)
The development of the Central European continental crust since the Early Archean (1988) (11)
METAMORPHIC CHRONOLOGY BY THE RUBIDIUM‐STRONTIUM METHOD (1961) (11)
Terrestrial, meteoritic, and lunar titanium isotopic ratios revaluated: evidence for correlated variations (1982) (10)
A reappraisal of the Rb-Sr systematics of early Archaean gneisses from Hebron, Labrador (1982) (10)
K/ Rb ratios of eclogites (1966) (9)
THE PLACE OF ISOTOPIC AGE DETERMINATIONS IN STRATIGRAPHY (1979) (9)
Growth of early archaean crust in the ancient Gneiss complex of Swaziland and adjacent Barberton Greenstone Belt, Southern Africa (1988) (9)
New SHRIMP zircon ages from tuffs within the British Palaeozoic stratotypes (2012) (9)
Strontium isotope geochemistry of Apollo 15 basalts. (1972) (8)
RADIOACTIVE AGES FROM THE PRE‐CAMBRIAN ROCKS OF AUSTRALIA (1961) (7)
Uranium Micro-isotopic Analysis of Weathered Rock by a Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP II) (1998) (6)
RB-SR Model Ages & Chemical Composition of Nine Apollo 16 Soils (1973) (5)
The correlation of kimberlite activity with mantle metasomatism (1995) (4)
Age and Chemistry of Zircon from Late-Stage Lunar Differentiates (1984) (4)
Comment and Reply on Age and tectonic setting of Late Archean greenstone-gneiss terrain in Henan Province, China, as revealed by single-grain zircon dating (1988) (4)
Titanium Isotope Ratios in Terrestrial and Allende Materials (1977) (4)
Combined use of single zircon ages and Sm-Nd isotopes in the analysis of early archaean crustal growth processes: The Ancient Gneiss Complex of Swaziland, Southern Africa (1988) (3)
The Interpretation of Scattered Rb-Sr Isotopic Data for Early Archean Gneisses from Labrador and Greenland (1979) (3)
Dating Archean zircon by ion microprobe: New light on an old problem (1985) (3)
Role of zircon in tracing crustal growth and recycling (1988) (3)
Rb-Sr age of the Civet Cat clast, 72255, 41. [radioactive age determination for lunar rocks] (1974) (2)
Magnesium Isotopic Systematics of Murchison Refractory Inclusions (1986) (2)
"Chemistry and Rb- Sr ages for Apollo 12 lunar material" (1971) (1)
The problem of lunar initial Pb. (1989) (1)
The statistical analysis and interpretation of imperfectly-fitted Rb-Sr isochrons from polymetamorphic terrains (reply to a comment by H. Austrheim) (1983) (1)
Zircon tracing of emplacement, inheritance and metamorphism in the Kambalda greenstones, W. Australia (1988) (0)
The development of the Central European continental crust since the Early Archaean based on conventional and ion-microprobe dating of detrital zircons upt to 3.84 b.y. old (1988) (0)
Ion microprobe analysis of zircons in recognition of the early history of the earth (Early archean on the USSR terrytory) (1988) (0)
An experimental high sensitivity multiple collector for SHRIMP II (2000) (0)
Comment and reply on ‘The Cooma Granodiorite, Australia: An example of crustal anatexis?’: COMMENT (1979) (0)
Time-points within the Vendian, and the time-duration of the Ediacara fauna (1995) (0)
Ion microprobe determination of sulfur isotopic variation in pyrite from a sample of Rammelsberg ore (1985) (0)
Rb--Sr GEOCHRONOLOGY: AN APPLICATION OF TWO ERROR REGRESSION ANALYSIS. (1970) (0)
Comment on Endemic Isotopic Anomalies in Titanium (1981) (0)
Sputtering-induced fractionation in sulfur isotopic ratios of common sulfides and barite (1985) (0)

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