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Overview

Brad Pillans is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and conducts research primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Molecular Biology, Paleontology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research spans a variety of main topics, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Iron oxide chemistry and applications
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geological formations and processes

Brad Pillans has contributed to multiple recent papers, illustrating a focus on geoscience and quaternary studies. Some key publications include:

  • "Hematite (α-Fe2O3) quantification in sedimentary magnetism: limitations of existing proxies and ways forward" (2020), published in Geoscience Letters
  • "Formal ratification of subseries for the Pleistocene Series of the Quaternary System" (2020), published in Episodes
  • "TephraNZ: a major- and trace-element reference dataset for glass-shard analyses from prominent Quaternary rhyolitic tephras in New Zealand and implications for correlation" (2021), published in Geochronology
  • "Magnetic Domain State and Anisotropy in Hematite (α-Fe2O3) From First-Order Reversal Curve Diagrams" (2021), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "An integrative geochronological framework for the Pleistocene So'a basin (Flores, Indonesia), and its implications for faunal turnover and hominin arrival" (2022), published in Quaternary Science Reviews

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Andrew P. Roberts
  • Alexandra Abrajevitch
  • Xiang Zhao
  • David Heslop
  • Rie S. Hori

Brad Pillans' publications appear in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geoscience Letters, Episodes, Geochronology, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth.

Best Publications

  • Reconciliaion of late Quaternary sea levels derived from coral terraces at Huon Peninsula with deep sea oxygen isotope records

    John Chappell;Akio Omura;Tezer Esat;Malcolm McCulloch

  • Rapid Fluctuations in Sea Level Recorded at Huon Peninsula During the Penultimate Deglaciation

    Tezer M. Esat;Malcolm T. McCulloch;John Chappell;Bradley Pillans

  • A review of the Milankovitch climatic beat: template for Plio-Pleistocene sea-level changes and sequence stratigraphy

    Brad Pillans;John Chappell;Tim R. Naish

  • The last glacial maximum in central and southern North Island, New Zealand: a paleoenvironmental reconstruction using the Kawakawa Tephra Formation as a chronostratigraphic marker

    Brad Pillans;Matt McGlone;Alan Palmer;Dallas Mildenhall

  • Upper Quaternary marine terrace chronology and deformation, South Taranaki, New Zealand

    Brad Pillans

  • Coral record of equatorial sea-surface temperatures during the penultimate deglaciation at Huon peninsula

    Malcolm T. McCulloch;Alexander W. Tudhope;Tezer M. Esat;Graham E. Mortimer

  • The Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition: Characterization and Proposed Guide for the Defining Boundary

    Martin J. Head;Brad Pillans;Sarah A. Farquhar

  • An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia

    Gavin J. Prideaux;John A. Long;John A. Long;Linda K. Ayliffe;Linda K. Ayliffe;John C. Hellstrom

  • High resolution windows into early Holocene climate: SrCa coral records from the Huon Peninsula

    Malcolm McCulloch;Graham Mortimer;Tezer Esat;Li Xianhua;Li Xianhua

  • The effects of secular disequilibrium on (U-Th)/He systematics and dating of Quaternary volcanic zircon and apatite

    K A Farley;B P Kohn;Bradley Pillans

  • Dating loess up to 800 ka by thermoluminescence

    Glenn W. Berger;Brad J. Pillans;Alan S. Palmer

  • Astronomical calibration of a southern hemisphere Plio-Pleistocene reference section, Wanganui Basin, New Zealand

    Tim R Naish;Steven T Abbott;V Alloway;Alan G Beu

  • Defining the Quaternary

    Bradley Pillans;Tim Naish

  • Radiocarbon evidence for the timing and rate of island development, beach-rock formation and phosphatization at Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, Australia

    Allan Chivas;John Chappell;Henry Polach;Brad Pillans

  • The Quaternary Period

    Bradley Pillans;Phillip Gibbard

  • Soil development at snail's pace: evidence from a 6 Ma soil chronosequence on basalt in north Queensland, Australia

    Brad Pillans

  • Zircon fission track age for middle Pleistocene Rangitawa Tephra, New Zealand: stratigraphic and paleoclimatic significance

    B.P. Kohn;B. Pillans;M.S. McGlone

  • New Zealand Quaternary stratigraphy: An overview

    Brad Pillans

  • Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants

    A. G. Beu;B. V. Alloway;B. J. Pillans;T. R. Naish

  • Revision of the marine chronology in the Wanganui Basin, New Zealand, based on the isothermal plateau fission-track dating of tephra horizons

    Brent V. Alloway;Brad J. Pillans;Amanjit S. Sandhu;John A. Westgate

  • Direct marine-terrestrial correlations, Wanganui Basin, New Zealand: The last 1 million years

    Brad Pillans

Frequent Co-Authors

Brent Alloway
Brent Alloway University of Auckland
Tim R Naish
Tim R Naish Victoria University of Wellington
Matt S. McGlone
Matt S. McGlone Landcare Research
Barry P. Kohn
Barry P. Kohn University of Melbourne
John Chappell
John Chappell Australian National University
John A. Westgate
John A. Westgate University of Toronto
Lionel Carter
Lionel Carter Victoria University of Wellington
Alan S. Palmer
Alan S. Palmer Massey University
Andrew P. Roberts
Andrew P. Roberts Australian National University
Peter J.J. Kamp
Peter J.J. Kamp University of Waikato

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