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George A. Brook is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions across several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Anthropology, Archeology, and Paleontology.

Brook's work covers a variety of topics related to geology and paleoclimatology, geological formations and processes, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, as well as studies on Pacific and Southeast Asian regions, karst systems and hydrogeology, and maritime and coastal archaeology.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Brook include:

  • Relationships between climate change, human environmental impact, and megafaunal extinction inferred from a 4000-year multi-proxy record from a stalagmite from northwestern Madagascar (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Holocene evolution of halite caves in the Cordillera de la Sal (Central Atacama, Chile) in different climate conditions (2020, Geomorphology)
  • Additional multi-proxy stalagmite evidence from northeast Namibia supports recent models of wetter conditions during the 4.2 ka Event in the Southern Hemisphere (2021, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology)
  • Nueva información referida a la transición Pleistoceno-Holoceno y al Holoceno temprano en el extremo sur del Macizo del Deseado (Patagonia, Argentina) (2020, Revista del Museo de La Plata)
  • Episodic deposition of stalagmites in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo suggests Equatorial Humid Periods during insolation maxima (2022, Quaternary Science Reviews)

George A. Brook frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • L. Bruce Railsback
  • Fuyuan Liang
  • Hai Cheng
  • Laura A. Dupont
  • R. Lawrence Edwards

The most common venues for Brook's publications are:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Magallania
  • Geomorphology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Revista del Museo de La Plata

Best Publications

  • A world model of soil carbon dioxide

    George A. Brook;Michael E. Folkoff;Elgene O. Box

  • Environmental controls on the petrology of a late Holocene speleothem from Botswana with annual layers of aragonite and calcite

    L. Bruce Railsback;George A. Brook;Jian Chen;Robert Kalin

  • Stalagmite evidence from Belize indicating significant droughts at the time of Preclassic Abandonment, the Maya Hiatus, and the Classic Maya collapse

    James W. Webster;George A. Brook;L. Bruce Railsback;Hai Cheng

  • Terrestrial fossil-pollen evidence of climate change during the last 26 thousand years in Southern Africa

    L. Scott;F. H. Neumann;F. H. Neumann;G. A. Brook;C. B. Bousman;C. B. Bousman

  • A high-resolution proxy record of rainfall and ENSO since AD 1550 from layering in stalagmites from Anjohibe Cave, Madagascar:

    George A. Brook;Margaret A. Rafter;L. Bruce Railsback;Shaw-Wen Sheen

  • Late Pleistocene wetting and drying in the NW Kalahari: an integrated study from the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana

    David S.G Thomas;George Brook;Paul Shaw;Mark Bateman

  • Archaeology, palaeoenvironment, and chronology of the Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter, northwest Kalahari Desert, Botswana

    L.H. Robbins;M.L. Murphy;G.A. Brook;A.H. Ivester

  • A 35 ka pollen and isotope record of environmental change along the southern margin of the Kalahari from a stalagmite and animal dung deposits in Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa.

    G.A. Brook;L. Scott;L.B. Railsback;E.A. Goddard

  • The timing, two-pulsed nature, and variable climatic expression of the 4.2 ka event: A review and new high-resolution stalagmite data from Namibia

    L. Bruce Railsback;Fuyuan Liang;G.A. Brook;Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa

  • Desert paleoenvironmental data from cave speleothems with examples from the Chihuahuan, Somali-Chalbi, and Kalahari deserts

    George A. Brook;David A. Burney;James B. Cowart

  • Late Pleistocene braided rivers of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA.

    David S Leigh;Pradeep Srivastava;George A Brook

  • The origin of labyrinth and tower karst and the climatic conditions necessary for their development

    G. A. Brook;D. C. Ford

  • Fossil hyrax dung and evidence of Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation types in the Namib Desert

    Louis Scott;Eugene Marais;George A. Brook

  • The Ancient Maya Drought Cult: Late Classic Cave Use in Belize

    Holley Moyes;Jaime J. Awe;George A. Brook;James W. Webster

  • Optically stimulated luminescence age controls on late Pleistocene and Holocene coastal lithosomes, North Carolina, USA

    David Mallinson;Kevin Burdette;Shannon Mahan;George Brook

  • A Holocene pollen record for the Kalahari Desert of Botswana from a U-series dated speleothem

    David A. Burney;George A. Brook;James B. Cowart

  • Recent archaeological research at Toteng, Botswana: early domesticated livestock in the Kalahari

    Lawrence H. Robbins;Alec C. Campbell;Michael L. Murphy;George A. Brook

  • A petrographic and geochemical record of climate change over the last 4600years from a northern Namibia stalagmite, with evidence of abruptly wetter climate at the beginning of southern Africa's Iron Age

    Hillary R. Sletten;L. Bruce Railsback;Fuyuan Liang;George A. Brook

  • Paleoenvironment and Archaeology of Drotsky’s Cave: Western Kalahari Desert, Botswana

    L. H. Robbins;M. L. Murphy;N. J. Stevens;G. A. Brook

  • Depositional environment and OSL chronology of the Homeb silt deposits, Kuiseb River, Namibia

    Pradeep Srivastava;George A. Brook;Eugene Marais;P. Morthekai

  • The antiquity of the bow and arrow in the Kalahari desert: bone points from White Paintings rock shelter, Botswana

    Lawrence H. Robbins;Alec C. Campbell;George A. Brook;Michael L. Murphy

  • An extended and higher-resolution record of climate and land use from stalagmite MC01 from Macal Chasm, Belize, revealing connections between major dry events, overall climate variability, and Maya sociopolitical changes

    Pete D. Akers;George A. Brook;L. Bruce Railsback;Fuyuan Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
R. Lawrence Edwards
R. Lawrence Edwards University of Minnesota
Louis Scott
Louis Scott University of the Free State
Pradeep Srivastava
Pradeep Srivastava Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Derek C. Ford
Derek C. Ford McMaster University
David A. Burney
David A. Burney National Tropical Botanical Garden
Milan J. Pavich
Milan J. Pavich United States Geological Survey
David S.G. Thomas
David S.G. Thomas University of Oxford
David J. Mallinson
David J. Mallinson East Carolina University
Paul A. Shaw
Paul A. Shaw University of the West Indies

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