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Grzegorz Racki

Grzegorz Racki

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
5082
World Ranking
6877
National Ranking
9

Overview

Grzegorz Racki is affiliated with the University of Silesia in Poland and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research contributions encompass a range of subfields, including Paleontology, Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography.

The scientist's research topics commonly address areas such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological Formations and Processes Exploration, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Astro and Planetary Science, and Planetary Science and Exploration.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Grzegorz Racki include Agnieszka Pisarzowska, Barbara Kremer, Christian Koeberl, Adam T. Halamski, and Katarzyna Narkiewicz.

Major venues for their research publications are:

  • Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae/Rocznik Polskiego Towarzystwa Geologicznego
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Notable recent papers authored by Grzegorz Racki include:

  • A volcanic scenario for the Frasnian-Famennian major biotic crisis and other Late Devonian global changes: More answers than questions? (2020, Global and Planetary Change)
  • Impact catastrophism versus mass extinctions in retrospective, perspective and prospective: Toward a Phanerozoic impact event stratigraphy (2024, Earth-Science Reviews)

Other publications from the broader dataset related to the same research domains include works by co-authors in peer-reviewed journals addressing geochemical and paleontological aspects of Devonian events.

Best Publications

  • Extent and duration of marine anoxia during the Frasnian–Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction in Poland, Germany, Austria and France

    David Bond;Paul B. Wignall;Grzegorz Racki

  • Water column anoxia, enhanced productivity and concomitant changes in δ13C and δ34S across the Frasnian–Famennian boundary (Kowala — Holy Cross Mountains/Poland)

    Michael M Joachimski;Christian Ostertag-Henning;Richard D Pancost;Harald Strauss

  • The Frasnian/Famennian boundary interval in the South Polish-Moravian shelf basins: integrated event-stratigraphical approach

    Grzegorz Racki;Maria Racka;Hanna Matyja;Xavier Devleeschouwer

  • Radiolarian palaeoecology and radiolarites: is the present the key to the past?

    Grzegorz Racki;Fabrice Cordey

  • Evolution of the bank to reef complex in the Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains

    G. Racki

  • Silica-secreting biota and mass extinctions: survival patterns and processes

    Grzegorz Racki

  • Frasnian-Famennian biotic crisis: undervalued tectonic control?

    Grzegorz Racki

  • The astronomical rhythm of Late-Devonian climate change (Kowala section, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)

    David De Vleeschouwer;Michał Rakociński;Grzegorz Racki;David P.G. Bond

  • Mercury enrichments and the Frasnian-Famennian biotic crisis: A volcanic trigger proved?

    Grzegorz Racki;Michał Rakociński;Leszek Marynowski;Paul B. Wignall

  • A volcanic scenario for the Frasnian–Famennian major biotic crisis and other Late Devonian global changes: More answers than questions?

    Grzegorz Racki

  • The Late Devonian Frasnian–Famennian Event in South China — Patterns and causes of extinctions, sea level changes, and isotope variations

    Xueping Ma;Yiming Gong;Daizhao Chen;Grzegorz Racki

  • Givetian palynostratigraphy and palynofacies: new data from the Bodzentyn Syncline (Holy Cross Mountains, central Poland)

    E. Turnau;G. Racki

  • High-precision U–Pb age and duration of the latest Devonian (Famennian) Hangenberg event, and its implications

    Paul M. Myrow;Jahandar Ramezani;Anne E. Hanson;Samuel A. Bowring

  • Deep‐water anoxia over the Frasnian–Famennian boundary (La Serre, France): a tectonically induced oceanic anoxic event?

    N. Tribovillard;O. Averbuch;X. Devleeschouwer;G. Racki

  • Large sulphur isotopic perturbations and oceanic changes during the Frasnian–Famennian transition of the Late Devonian

    Daizhao Chen;Jianguo Wang;Grzegorz Racki;Hua Li

  • Chapter 2Toward understanding Late Devonian global events: few answers, many questions

    Grzegorz Racki

  • Conodont-based event stratigraphy of the Early-Middle Frasnian transition on the South Polish carbonate shelf

    A Pisarzowska;M. Sobstel;G. Racki

  • The Frasnian-Famennian events in a deep-shelf succession, Subpolar Urals: biotic, depositional, and geochemical records

    A B Yudina;G. Racki;N.M. Savage;M. Racka

  • The Frasnian–Famennian biotic crisis: How many (if any) bolide impacts?

    G. Racki

  • Faunal Dynamics Across the Silurian—Devonian Positive Isotope Excursions (δ13C, δ18O) in Podolia, Ukraine: Comparative Analysis of the Ireviken and Klonk Events

    Grzegorz Racki;Andrzej Baliński;Ryszard Wrona;Krzysztof Małkowski

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Koeberl
Christian Koeberl University of Vienna
Paul B. Wignall
Paul B. Wignall University of Leeds
David P.G. Bond
David P.G. Bond University of Hull
Michael M. Joachimski
Michael M. Joachimski University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Leszek Marynowski
Leszek Marynowski University of Silesia
Zdzislaw Belka
Zdzislaw Belka Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Dominique Weis
Dominique Weis University of British Columbia
David Selby
David Selby Durham University
Harald Strauss
Harald Strauss University of Münster
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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