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Earth Science

D-Index
39
Citations
7160
World Ranking
6046
National Ranking
2178

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Best Publications

  • Age of the earliest known hominids in Java, Indonesia

    CC Swisher;GH Curtis;T Jacob;AG Getty

  • Potassium-argon dates and the Cenozoic mammalian chronology of North America

    J. F. Evernden;D. E. Savage;G. H. Curtis;G. T. James

  • The Potassium-Argon Dating of Late Cenozoic Rocks in East Africa and Italy [and Comments and Reply]

    J. F. Evernden;G. H. Curtis;William Bishop;C. Loring Brace

  • Coeval 40Ar/39Ar Ages of 65.0 Million Years Ago from Chicxulub Crater Melt Rock and Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Tektites.

    Carl C. Swisher;José M. Grajales-Nishimura;Alessandro Montanari;Stanley V. Margolis

  • Latest Homo erectus of Java: Potential Contemporaneity with Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia

    C. C. Swisher;W. J. Rink;S. C. Antón;H. P. Schwarcz

  • Intercalibration of astronomical and radioisotopic time

    Paul R. Renne;Alan L. Deino;Robert C. Walter;Brent D. Turrin

  • Calibration of the great american interchange.

    Larry G. Marshall;Robert F. Butler;Robert E. Drake;Garniss H. Curtis

  • Fossil hominids from the Laetolil Beds

    M. D. Leakey;R. L. Hay;G. H. Curtis;R. E. Drake

  • The Potassium-Argon dating of Late Cenozoic rocks in East Africa and Italy

    Unknown

  • Laser-fusion 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    R. C. Walter;P. C. Manega;R. L. Hay;R. E. Drake

  • South american geochronology: radiometric time scale for middle to late tertiary mammal-bearing horizons in patagonia.

    Larry G. Marshall;Rosendo Pascual;Garniss H. Curtis;Robert E. Drake

  • Age of early Acheulian industries from the Peninj Group, Tanzania

    Glynn Ll. Isaacs;Garniss H. Curtis

  • New chronology for the Early Miocene mammalian faunas of Kisingiri, Western Kenya

    R. E. Drake;J. A. Van Couvering;M. H. Pickford;G. H. Curtis

  • Age of KBS Tuff in Koobi Fora Formation, East Rudolf, Kenya

    G. H. Curtis;Drake;T. Cerling;Hampel

  • Neogene Palaeontology and Geochronology of the Baringo Basin, Kenya

    A. Hill;R. Drake;L. Tauxe;M. Monaghan

  • Implications of the northwestwardly younger age of the volcanic rocks of west-central California

    Kenneth F. Fox;Robert J. Fleck;Garniss H. Curtis;Charles E. Meyer

  • The terminal Miocene event

    John A. Van Couvering;William A. Berggren;Robert E. Drake;Emiliano Aguirre

  • Argon diffusion in glauconite, microcline, sanidine, leucite and phlogopite

    Jack Foord Evernden;Garniss Hearfield Curtis;R. W. Kistler;J. D. Obradovich

  • Plio-Pleistocene environments at Gadeb prehistoric site, Ethiopia

    M. A. J. Williams;F. M. Williams;F. Gasse;G. H. Curtis

  • Earliest Homo

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert F. Butler
Robert F. Butler University of Portland
Thure E. Cerling
Thure E. Cerling University of Utah
Alessandro Montanari
Alessandro Montanari Mines ParisTech
Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez University of California, Berkeley
Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
William A. Berggren
William A. Berggren Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Martin Pickford
Martin Pickford Sorbonne University
Richard L. Hay
Richard L. Hay University of Arizona
Charles W. Naeser
Charles W. Naeser United States Geological Survey
Francis H. Brown
Francis H. Brown University of Utah

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