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Overview

Grant M. Cox is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Geophysics, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Geology, and Artificial Intelligence. The main focus areas of their work cover Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

The scientist has contributed to academic publications primarily in the following venues:

  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Geology
  • Nature Communications
  • Gondwana Research
  • AAPG Bulletin

Recent papers by Grant M. Cox and collaborators include:

  • Paleomagnetic constraints on the duration of the Australia-Laurentia connection in the core of the Nuna supercontinent, 2020, Geology
  • Cambro-Ordovician magmatism in the Delamerian orogeny: Implications for tectonic development of the southern Gondwanan margin, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Gulf of Nuna: Astrochronologic correlation of a Mesoproterozoic oceanic euxinic event, 2020, Geology
  • A very unconventional hydrocarbon play: The Mesoproterozoic Velkerri Formation of northern Australia, 2022, AAPG Bulletin
  • Using Mesoproterozoic sedimentary geochemistry to reconstruct basin tectonic geography and link organic carbon productivity to nutrient flux from a Northern Australian large igneous Province, 2020, Basin Research

Frequent co-authors in their research endeavors include:

  • Morgan Blades
  • Alan S. Collins
  • Ross N. Mitchell
  • Juraj Farkaš
  • Uwe Kirscher

Best Publications

  • Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

    Paul F. Hoffman;Paul F. Hoffman;Dorian S. Abbot;Yosef Ashkenazy;Douglas I. Benn

  • Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

    Grant M. Cox;Grant M. Cox;Galen P. Halverson;Galen P. Halverson;Ross K. Stevenson;Michelle Vokaty

  • Neoproterozoic iron formation: An evaluation of its temporal, environmental and tectonic significance

    Grant M. Cox;Galen P. Halverson;William G. Minarik;Daniel P. Le Heron

  • Claypool continued: Extending the isotopic record of sedimentary sulfate

    Peter W. Crockford;Peter W. Crockford;Peter W. Crockford;Marcus Kunzmann;Andrey Bekker;Justin Hayles;Justin Hayles

  • Ediacaran terrane accretion within the Arabian-Nubian Shield

    Grant M. Cox;Christopher J. Lewis;Alan S. Collins;Galen P. Halverson

  • Basin redox and primary productivity within the Mesoproterozoic Roper Seaway

    Grant M. Cox;Grant M. Cox;Grant M. Cox;Amber Jarrett;Dianne Edwards;Peter W. Crockford

  • The U-Pb age, geochemistry and tectonic significance of granitoids in the Soursat Complex, Northwest Iran

    Mahboobeh Jamshidi Badr;Alan S. Collins;Fariborz Masoudi

  • Paleomagnetic constraints on the duration of the Australia-Laurentia connection in the core of the Nuna supercontinent

    Uwe Kirscher;Uwe Kirscher;Ross N. Mitchell;Ross N. Mitchell;Yebo Liu;Adam R. Nordsvan;Adam R. Nordsvan

  • Linking the rise of atmospheric oxygen to growth in the continental phosphorus inventory

    Grant M. Cox;Timothy W. Lyons;Ross N. Mitchell;Derrick Hasterok

  • Cryogenian of Yukon

    Francis A. Macdonald;Mark D. Schmitz;Justin V. Strauss;Galen P. Halverson

  • A model for Cryogenian iron formation

    Grant M. Cox;Galen P. Halverson;André Poirier;Daniel Le Heron

  • Cryogenian glaciations on the southern tropical paleomargin of Laurentia (NE Svalbard and East Greenland), and a primary origin for the upper Russøya (Islay) carbon isotope excursion

    Paul F. Hoffman;Paul F. Hoffman;Galen P. Halverson;Galen P. Halverson;Eugene W. Domack;Adam C. Maloof

  • South Australian U-Pb zircon (CA-ID-TIMS) age supports globally synchronous Sturtian deglaciation

    Grant M. Cox;Vincent Isakson;Paul F. Hoffman;Thomas M. Gernon

  • Early Neoproterozoic Basin Formation in Yukon, Canada: Implications for the make-up and break-up of Rodinia

    Francis Alexander Macdonald;Galen P. Halverson;Justin Vincent Strauss;Emily F. Smith

  • Spatial and temporal variation in detrital zircon age provenance of the hydrocarbon-bearing upper Roper Group, Beetaloo Sub-basin, Northern Territory, Australia

    Bo Yang;Todd M. Smith;Alan S. Collins;Tim J. Munson

  • Kikiktat Volcanics of Arctic Alaska—Melting of Harzburgitic Mantle Associated with the Franklin Large Igneous Province

    Grant M. Cox;Justin V. Strauss;Galen P. Halverson;Mark D. Schmitz

  • Synthesis of the 780–740 Ma Chuar, Uinta Mountain, and Pahrump (ChUMP) groups, western USA: Implications for Laurentia-wide cratonic marine basins

    Carol Dehler;George Gehrels;Susannah Porter;Matt Heizler

  • Cambro-Ordovician magmatism in the Delamerian orogeny: implications for tectonic development of the southern Gondwanan margin

    John Foden;Marlina Elburg;Simon Turner;Chris Clark

  • Early to late Ediacaran conglomeratic wedges from a complete foreland basin cycle in the southwest São Francisco Craton, Bambuí Group, Brazil

    Gabriel J. Uhlein;Gabriel J. Uhlein;Alexandre Uhlein;Ross Stevenson;Galen P. Halverson

  • Sea ice−free conditions during the Sturtian glaciation (early Cryogenian), South Australia

    D. P. Le Heron;G. Cox;A. Trundley;A. Collins

  • Gulf of Nuna: Astrochronologic correlation of a Mesoproterozoic oceanic euxinic event

    Ross N. Mitchell;Ross N. Mitchell;Uwe Kirscher;Uwe Kirscher;Marcus Kunzmann;Yebo Liu

  • Two Cryogenian glacial successions compared: Aspects of the Sturt and Elatina sediment records of South Australia

    Daniel Paul Le Heron;Grant Cox;Anita Trundley;Alan S. Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Galen P. Halverson
Galen P. Halverson McGill University
Alan S. Collins
Alan S. Collins University of Adelaide
Ross N. Mitchell
Ross N. Mitchell Chinese Academy of Sciences
Francis A. Macdonald
Francis A. Macdonald University of California, Santa Barbara
Zheng-Xiang Li
Zheng-Xiang Li Curtin University
Justin V. Strauss
Justin V. Strauss Dartmouth College
John Foden
John Foden University of Adelaide
Paul F. Hoffman
Paul F. Hoffman University of Edinburgh
Stijn Glorie
Stijn Glorie University of Adelaide
Boswell A. Wing
Boswell A. Wing University of Colorado Boulder

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