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David K. Loydell is affiliated with the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Mechanics of Materials, and Geophysics.

Loydell's research topics cover a range of geological and geochemical areas, with notable emphasis on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis. Additional areas include Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Radioactive element chemistry and processing, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

Recent publications by Loydell include the following papers:

  • Persistent global marine euxinia in the early Silurian, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change, 2021, Science Advances
  • Uranium Isotope Fractionation in Non-sulfidic Anoxic Settings and the Global Uranium Isotope Mass Balance, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project, 2021, Geobiology
  • Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras, 2024, Nature Geoscience

Frequent coauthors in their work include Devon B. Cole, Richard Stockey, Erik A. Sperling, Simon W. Poulton, and Noah J. Planavsky.

Loydell publishes regularly in a variety of scientific venues, with multiple contributions to Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Journal of the Geological Society, Bulletin of Geosciences, and Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. They have also published in Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • Lower Silurian `hot shales' in North Africa and Arabia: regional distribution and depositional model

    S Lüning;J Craig;D.K Loydell;P Štorch

  • Early Silurian sea-level changes

    David K. Loydell

  • Revised correlation of Silurian Provincial Series of North America with global and regional chronostratigraphic units and delta 13C(carb) chemostratigraphy

    Bradley D. Cramer;Carlton E. Brett;Michael J. Melchin;Peep Männik

  • Graptolites in British stratigraphy

    J. A. Zalasiewicz;L. Taylor;A. W. A. Rushton;D. K. Loydell

  • Integrated biostratigraphy of the lower Silurian of the Aizpute-41 core, Latvia

    David Loydell;P. Mannik;V. Nestor

  • Anatomy of a world-class source rock: Distribution and depositional model of Silurian organic-rich shales in Jordan and implications for hydrocarbon potential

    S. Lüning;Y. M. Shahin;D. Loydell;H. T. Al-Rabi

  • Early Silurian positive δ13C excursions and their relationship to glaciations, sea‐level changes and extinction events

    David K. Loydell

  • Graptolite biozone correlation charts

    David Loydell

  • Integrated biostratigraphy of the Lower Silurian of the Ohesaare Core, Saaremaa, Estonia

    D. K. Loydell;D. Kaljo;P. Mannik

  • Testing the limits of Paleozoic chronostratigraphic correlation via high-resolution (<500 k.y.) integrated conodont, graptolite, and carbon isotope (δ13Ccarb) biochemostratigraphy across the Llandovery–Wenlock (Silurian) boundary: Is a unified Phanerozoic time scale achievable?

    Bradley D. Cramer;David K. Loydell;Christian Samtleben;Axel Munnecke

  • Palaeoecology of the Graptoloidea

    R. A. Cooper;S. Rigby;David Loydell;Denis E. B. Bates

  • Discovery of Llandovery (Silurian) graptolites and probable Devonian corals in the Southalpine Metamorphic Basement of the Eastern Alps (Agordo, NE Italy)

    Iginio Dieni;Danilo Giordano;David K. Loydell;Francesco P. Sassi

  • Persistent global marine euxinia in the early Silurian.

    Richard G. Stockey;Devon B. Cole;Noah J. Planavsky;David K. Loydell

  • Generalized graptolite zonal sequence defining Silurian time intervals for global paleogeographic studies

    Tatyana N. Koren;Alfred C. Lenz;David K. Loydell;Michael J. Melchin

  • Integrated biostratigraphy of the lower Silurian of the Kolka-54 core, Latvia

    David Loydell;V. Nestor;P. Mannik

  • Re-evaluation of the petroleum potential of the Kufra Basin (SE Libya, ne Chad): does the source rock barrier fall?

    Sebastian Lüning;Jonathan Craig;Bill Fitches;Juma Mayouf

  • A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change.

    Erik A. Sperling;Michael J. Melchin;Tiffani Fraser;Richard G. Stockey

  • Reconstruction of the original organic richness in weathered Silurian shale outcrops (Murzuq and Kufra basins, southern Libya)

    Sebastian Lüning;Sadat Kolonic;David K. Loydell;Jonathan Craig

  • The middle Rhuddanian (lower Silurian) ‘hot’ shale of North Africa and Arabia: an atypical hydrocarbon source rock

    David K. Loydell;Anthony Butcher;Jiří Frýda

  • PROTASPID LARVAE AND PHYLOGENETICS OF ENCRINURID TRILOBITES

    Gregory D. Edgecombe;Stephen E. Speyer;Brian D. E. Chatterton

  • Uranium Isotope Fractionation in Non-sulfidic Anoxic Settings and the Global Uranium Isotope Mass Balance

    Devon B. Cole;Noah J. Planavsky;Martha Longley;Philipp Böning

  • The biostratigraphy and formational relationships of the upper aeronian and lower telychian (llandovery, silurian) formations of western mid‐wales

    David K. Loydell

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik A. Sperling
Erik A. Sperling Stanford University
Jonathan Craig
Jonathan Craig Eni (Italy)
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University
Michael J. Melchin
Michael J. Melchin St. Francis Xavier University
Justin V. Strauss
Justin V. Strauss Dartmouth College
David Selby
David Selby Durham University
Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
Benjamin C. Gill
Benjamin C. Gill Virginia Tech
Axel Munnecke
Axel Munnecke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Philip A.E. Pogge von Strandmann
Philip A.E. Pogge von Strandmann Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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