Michael P Gorton

Biographic Data

ID5006149
NAMEMichael P Gorton
GIVEN NAMESMichael P
FAMILY NAMEGorton
SIGNATUREGORTON M P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Geochemical data treatment and interpretive uncertainty

    Open AccessKostalena Michelaki, David Barham et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2026

  • Stonehenge revisited

    Open AccessRonald G V Hancock, Michael P Gorton et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2025Cited by: 1References: 34

    It is tempting in material sourcing analyses to treat chemical data primarily as numbers to be sorted, while disregarding their interlinked geochemistries. Consideration of geochemistry, however, often leads to the drawing of more nuanced and reliable conclusions. In this paper we re‐examine data published in 2020, related to the sourcing of stone #58 at Stonehenge, paying attention to geochemistry. We question the potential single‐source interpr…

  • Quaternary tephra from the Valles caldera in the volcanic field of the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico identified in western Canada

    Open AccessJohn A Westgate, Giday Woldegabriel et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2019

    A fine-grained, up to 3-m-thick tephra bed in southwestern Saskatchewan, herein named Duncairn tephra (Dt), is derived from an early Pleistocene eruption in the Jemez Mountains volcanic field of New Mexico, requiring a trajectory of northward tephra dispersal of ~1500 km. An unusually low CaO content in its glass shards denies a source in the closer Yellowstone and Heise volcanic fields, whereas a Pleistocene tephra bed (LSMt) in the La Sal Mount…

  • A Compilation of New and Published Major and Trace Element Data for Nist SRM 610 and Nist SRM 612 Glass Reference Materials

    Open AccessNicholas J G Pearce, William T Perkins et al.ARTICLEGeostandards Newsletter1997

    Microanalytical trace element techniques (such as ion probe or laser ablation ICP‐MS) are hampered by a lack of well characterized, homogeneous standards. Two silicate glass reference materials produced by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NIST SRM 610 and NIST SRM 612, have been shown to be homogeneous and are spiked with up to sixty one trace elements at nominal concentrations of 500 μg g‐1 and 50 μg g‐1 respectively. These…

  • Compositional variation and provenance of Late Cenozoic distal tephra beds, Fairbanks area, Alaska

    Open AccessShari J Preece, John A Westgate et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International1992

  • Old Crow Tephra

    Open AccessJohn A Westgate, Thomas D Hamilton et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research1983

    Old Crow tephra is the first extensive Pleistocene tephra unit to be documented in the northwestern part of North America. It has a calc-alkaline dacitic composition with abundant pyroxene, plagioclase, and Fe–Ti oxides, and minor hornblende, biotite, apatite, and zircon. Thin, clear, bubble-wall fragments are the dominant type of glass shard. This tephra can be recognized by its glass and phenocryst compositions, as determined by X-ray fluoresce…