What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Sedimentary rock
- Carbon dioxide
- Paleontology
His primary areas of investigation include Calcite, Stalagmite, Mineralogy, Speleothem and Cave.
His Calcite study combines topics in areas such as Aquifer and Precipitation.
His research integrates issues of Lamination, Trace element, Atmospheric sciences and Paleoclimatology in his study of Stalagmite.
Ian J. Fairchild works mostly in the field of Mineralogy, limiting it down to topics relating to Supersaturation and, in certain cases, Microcrystalline, Tufa and Calcareous.
His studies deal with areas such as Deposition, Isotopes of carbon, Karst, Paleontology and Soil water as well as Speleothem.
His Cave research includes themes of Hydrology, δ18O and Physical geography.
His most cited work include:
- Modification and preservation of environmental signals in speleothems (560 citations)
- Controls on trace element Sr-Mg compositions of carbonate cave waters: implications for speleothem climatic records (391 citations)
- Trace elements in speleothems as recorders of environmental change (315 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His scientific interests lie mostly in Speleothem, Paleontology, Geochemistry, Stalagmite and Cave.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Deposition, Trace element, Atmospheric sciences, Biogeochemical cycle and Oceanography in addition to Speleothem.
His Stalagmite study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Paleoclimatology, δ18O, Precipitation and Mineralogy, Calcite.
His Calcite research incorporates themes from Sediment and Diagenesis.
Ian J. Fairchild has included themes like Hydrology, Vegetation and Aerosol in his Cave study.
His Glacial period research includes elements of Glacier and Earth science.
He most often published in these fields:
- Speleothem (24.55%)
- Paleontology (23.66%)
- Geochemistry (23.66%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2012-2021)?
- Speleothem (24.55%)
- Cave (19.20%)
- Hydrology (15.63%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Ian J. Fairchild mainly focuses on Speleothem, Cave, Hydrology, Paleontology and Geochemistry.
His Speleothem study incorporates themes from Trace element, Biogeochemical cycle, Mineralogy, Calcite and Stalagmite.
His biological study deals with issues like Younger Dryas, which deal with fields such as Climatology.
His Cave research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Bedrock, Atmospheric sciences and Aerosol.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Vegetation and Soil retrogression and degradation.
His study looks at the relationship between Geochemistry and fields such as Meteoric water, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems.
Between 2012 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal (286 citations)
- Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology (196 citations)
- The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations (120 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Sedimentary rock
- Carbon dioxide
- Paleontology
Ian J. Fairchild focuses on Speleothem, Paleontology, Hydrology, Cave and Anthropocene.
Ian J. Fairchild combines subjects such as Geochemistry, Trace element and Stalagmite with his study of Speleothem.
His research in Stalagmite focuses on subjects like Biogeochemical cycle, which are connected to Stalactite, Biogeochemistry, Aquifer, Groundwater and Calcite.
As part of one scientific family, Ian J. Fairchild deals mainly with the area of Cave, narrowing it down to issues related to the Bedrock, and often Atmospheric temperature, Thermal conduction, Global warming and Thermal.
The concepts of his Anthropocene study are interwoven with issues in Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point, Series and Holocene.
His Karst research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Vadose zone and Precipitation.
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