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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Ian McDougall was affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research spanned multiple fields, including Social Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.

Their work covered several subfields such as Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, and Archeology. Key research topics included Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies.

Among recent publications, McDougall contributed to the following paper:

  • 40 Ar/ 39 Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil ages, 2023, Journal of the Geological Society

Frequent collaborators included David Phillips, Erin Matchan, Andrew Gleadow, Frank H. Brown, and Thure E. Cerling.

Ian McDougall published primarily in the Journal of the Geological Society.

In 1997, McDougall was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia

    Ian McDougall;Francis H. Brown;John G. Fleagle

  • Diffusion of 40Ar in biotite: Temperature, pressure and compositional effects

    T.Mark Harrison;Ian Duncan;Ian McDougall

  • New four-million-year-old hominid species from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya

    Meave G. Leakey;Craig S. Feibel;Ian McDougall;Alan Walker

  • Geochronology and thermochronology by the [40]Ar/[39]Ar method

    Ian McDougall;T. Mark Harrison

  • New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages.

    Meave G. Leakey;Fred Spoor;Frank H. Brown;Patrick N. Gathogo

  • Stratigraphic context of fossil hominids from the Omo group deposits: northern Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia.

    Craig S. Feibel;Francis H. Brown;Ian McDougall

  • Potassium-Argon Ages from Lavas of the Hawaiian Islands

    Ian McDOUGALL

  • U-Th-He dating of apatite: A potential thermochronometer

    P.K. Zeitler;A.L. Herczeg;I. McDougall;M. Honda

  • 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating of white micas from an Alpine high-pressure metamorphic belt on Naxos (Greece): the resetting of the argon isotopic system

    Jan R. Wijbrans;Ian McDougall

  • Implications of New Early Homo Fossils From Ileret, East of Lake Turkana, Kenya

    Fed Spoor;Meave Leakey;P Gathogo;F H Brown

  • Possible solar noble-gas component in Hawaiian basalts

    Masahiko Honda;Ian McDougall;Desmond B. Patterson;Anthony Doulgeris

  • Excess40Ar in metamorphic rocks from Broken Hill, New South Wales: implications for40Ar/39Ar age spectra and the thermal history of the region

    T. Mark Harrison;Ian McDougall

  • Characterization and calibration of 40Ar/39Ar dating standards

    Terry L. Spell;Terry L. Spell;Ian McDougall

  • Cainozoic igneous activity in eastern australia

    P. Wellman;Ian McDougall

  • Investigations of an intrusive contact, northwest Nelson, New Zealand—I. Thermal, chronological and isotopic constraints

    T.Mark Harrison;Ian McDougall

  • New specimens and confirmation of an early age for Australopithecus anamensis

    Meave G. Leakey;Craig S. Feibel;Ian McDougall;Carol Ward

  • Linear volcanism in French Polynesia

    R.A. Duncan;Ian McDougall

  • The geochronology and evolution of the young volcanic island of Réunion, Indian Ocean

    Ian McDougall

  • Potassium‐argon ages on the Cainozoic volcanic rocks of New South Wales

    Peter Wellman;Ian McDougall

  • Total fusion 40Ar/39Ar ages using Hifar reactor

    Ian McDougall;Z. Roksandic

  • Book Review: Potassium-argon dating. G. BRENT DALRYMPLE and MARVIN A. LANPHERE, Freeman, San Francisco, 1969, 258 pp. $7.50

    Ian McDougall

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiko Honda
Masahiko Honda Australian National University
Francis H. Brown
Francis H. Brown University of Utah
William Compston
William Compston Australian National University
T. Mark Harrison
T. Mark Harrison University of California, Los Angeles
Ian S. Williams
Ian S. Williams Australian National University
Peter K. Zeitler
Peter K. Zeitler Lehigh University
Robert A. Duncan
Robert A. Duncan Oregon State University
Suzanne L. Baldwin
Suzanne L. Baldwin Syracuse University
Meave G. Leakey
Meave G. Leakey Stony Brook University
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly Macquarie University

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