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  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ed Landing is affiliated with Columbia University in the City of New York in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant body of work in Paleontology and related subfields.

The scientist has contributed notably to several areas within Earth sciences, including:

  • Paleontology
  • Geophysics
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Mechanics of Materials

Landing's work covers key topics such as:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Geological Studies and Exploration

Significant recent publications include:

  • Greater Avalonia-latest Ediacaran-Ordovician "peribaltic" terrane bounded by continental margin prisms ("Ganderia," Harlech Dome, Meguma): Review, tectonic implications, and paleogeography (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Precise early Cambrian U-Pb zircon dates bracket the oldest trilobites and archaeocyaths in Moroccan West Gondwana (2020, Geological Magazine)
  • (Re)proposal of three Cambrian Subsystems and their Geochronology (2020, Episodes)
  • Testing the salinity of Cambrian to Silurian epicratonic seas (2024, Journal of the Geological Society)
  • Trans-Avalonian green-black boundary (early Middle Cambrian): transform fault-driven epeirogeny and onset of 26 m.y. of shallow-marine, black mudstone in Avalonia (Rhode Island-Belgium) and Baltica (2022, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences)

Landing regularly publishes in several scientific journals, most frequently in:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Geological Magazine
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences

The scientist has collaborated extensively with various researchers, including:

  • Gerd Geyer
  • Stephen R. Westrop
  • Mark D. Schmitz
  • Samuel S. Bowser
  • James W. Hagadorn

Ed Landing was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • A candidate stratotype for the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary, Fortune Head, Burin Peninsula, southeastern Newfoundland

    Guy M. Narbonne;Paul M. Myrow;Ed Landing;Michael M. Anderson

  • Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota

    Judy P. Pu;Judy P. Pu;Samuel A. Bowring;Jahandar Ramezani;Paul Myrow

  • Precambrian-Cambrian boundary global stratotype ratified and a new perspective of Cambrian time

    Ed Landing

  • Geochronological constraints on terminal Neoproterozoic events and the rise of Metazoan

    S. Bowring;P. Myrow;E. Landing;J. Ramezani

  • Duration of the Early Cambrian: U-Pb ages of volcanic ashes from Avalon and Gondwana

    Ed Landing;Samuel A Bowring;Kathleen L Davidek;Stephen R Westrop

  • Avalon: Insular continent by the latest Precambrian

    Ed Landing

  • Giant cladoxylopsid trees resolve the enigma of the Earth’s earliest forest stumps at Gilboa

    William E. Stein;Frank Mannolini;Linda VanAller Hernick;Ed Landing

  • Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation: Context, correlation, and chronostratigraphy—Overcoming deficiencies of the first appearance datum (FAD) concept

    Ed Landing;Gerd Geyer;Gerd Geyer;Martin D. Brasier;Samuel A. Bowring

  • Lower Cambrian of Eastern Massachusetts: Stratigraphy and Small Shelly Fossils

    Ed Landing

  • The Placentian Series: Appearance of the Oldest Skeletalized Faunas in Southeastern Newfoundland

    Ed Landing;Paul Michael Myrow;Alison P. Benus;Guy M. Narbonne

  • A unified Lower - Middle Cambrian chronostratigraphy for West Gondwana

    Gerd Geyer;Ed Landing

  • New uppermost Cambrian U-Pb date from Avalonian Wales and age of the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary

    K. Davidek;E. Landing;S. A. Bowring;S. R. Westrop

  • Oldest shelly fossils from the Taconic Allochthon and late Early Cambrian sea-levels in eastern Laurentia

    Ed Landing;Kenneth E. Bartowski

  • Earth's oldest liverworts—Metzgeriothallus sharonae sp. nov. from the Middle Devonian (Givetian) of eastern New York, USA

    Linda VanAller Hernick;Ed Landing;Kenneth E. Bartowski

  • New constraint on the division of Cambrian time

    Clark E. Isachsen;Samuel A. Bowring;Ed Landing;Scott D. Samson

  • Terminal Cambrian and lowest Ordovician succession of Mexican West Gondwana: biotas and sequence stratigraphy of the Tiñu Formation

    Ed Landing;Stephen R. Westrop;John D. Keppie

  • A microfauna associated with Early Cambrian trilobites of the Callavia Zone, norther Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia

    Ed Landing;Godfrey S. Nowlan;Terence P. Fletcher

  • Proterozoic phytoplankton and timing of Chlorophyte algae origins

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  • Mid-Devonian archaeopteris roots signal revolutionary change in earliest fossil forests

    William E. Stein;Christopher M. Berry;Jennifer L. Morris;Linda VanAller Hernick

  • Upper Precambrian through Lower Cambrian of Cape Breton Island; faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision

    Ed Landing

  • Global standard names for the Lowermost Cambrian Series and Stage

    Ed Landing;Shanchi (彭善池) Peng;Loren E. Babcock;Gerd Geyer

  • Skeleton of lapworthellids and the suprageneric classification of tommotiids (Early and Middle Cambrian phosphatic problematica)

    Ed Landing

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerd Geyer
Gerd Geyer University of Würzburg
Guy M. Narbonne
Guy M. Narbonne Queen's University
Paul M. Myrow
Paul M. Myrow Colorado College
Duncan McIlroy
Duncan McIlroy Memorial University of Newfoundland
Carlton E. Brett
Carlton E. Brett University of Cincinnati
Marc Laflamme
Marc Laflamme University of Toronto
Richard A. Fortey
Richard A. Fortey Natural History Museum
Brian R. Pratt
Brian R. Pratt University of Saskatchewan
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester

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