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Earth Science

D-Index
44
Citations
7286
World Ranking
4717
National Ranking
1799

Best Publications

  • Authigenic Carbonate and the History of the Global Carbon Cycle

    Daniel P. Schrag;John A. Higgins;Francis Alexander Macdonald;David T Johnston

  • The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change

    Adam C. Maloof;Susannah M. Porter;John L. Moore;Frank Ö Dudás

  • Beyond methane: Towards a theory for the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

    John A. Higgins;Daniel P. Schrag

  • Mineralogy, early marine diagenesis, and the chemistry of shallow-water carbonate sediments

    J.A. Higgins;C.L. Blättler;E.A. Lundstrom;D.P. Santiago-Ramos

  • Are basal Ediacaran (635 Ma) post-glacial “cap dolostones” diachronous?

    Paul F. Hoffman;Galen P. Halverson;Eugene W. Domack;Jonathan M. Husson

  • Constraining magnesium cycling in marine sediments using magnesium isotopes

    J.A. Higgins;D.P. Schrag

  • Quantifying early marine diagenesis in shallow-water carbonate sediments

    Anne Sofie C. Ahm;Christian J. Bjerrum;Clara L. Blättler;Peter K. Swart

  • The stratigraphic relationship between the Shuram carbon isotope excursion, the oxygenation of Neoproterozoic oceans, and the first appearance of the Ediacara biota and bilaterian trace fossils in northwestern Canada

    Francis Alexander Macdonald;Justin Vincent Strauss;Erik A. Sperling;Galen P. Halverson

  • The effects of diagenesis and dolomitization on Ca and Mg isotopes in marine platform carbonates: Implications for the geochemical cycles of Ca and Mg

    Matthew S. Fantle;John Andrew Higgins

  • Aftermath of a snowball Earth

    John Andrew Higgins;Daniel P. Schrag

  • Oxygenation of the ocean and sediments: Consequences for the seafloor carbonate factory

    J. A. Higgins;W. W. Fischer;D. P. Schrag

  • The Mg isotopic composition of Cenozoic seawater - evidence for a link between Mg-clays, seawater Mg/Ca, and climate

    John A. Higgins;Daniel P. Schrag

  • Atmospheric composition 1 million years ago from blue ice in the Allan Hills, Antarctica.

    John A. Higgins;Andrei V. Kurbatov;Nicole E. Spaulding;Ed Brook

  • Mg and Ca isotope signatures of authigenic dolomite in siliceous deep-sea sediments

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  • Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth's great oxidation.

    Clara Blättler;Mark Claire;Anthony Robert Prave;K. Kirsimäe

  • Two-million-year-old snapshots of atmospheric gases from Antarctic ice.

    Yuzhen Yan;Michael L. Bender;Michael L. Bender;Edward J. Brook;Heather M. Clifford

  • A lithium-isotope perspective on the evolution of carbon and silicon cycles

    Boriana Kalderon-Asael;Joachim A. R. Katchinoff;Noah J. Planavsky;Ashleigh Von S. Hood

  • High-precision 41K/39K measurements by MC-ICP-MS indicate terrestrial variability of δ41K

    Leah E. Morgan;Danielle P. Santiago Ramos;Brett Davidheiser-Kroll;John Faithfull

  • The future of the carbon cycle: review, calcification response, ballast and feedback on atmospheric CO2

    Stephen Barker;J. A. Higgins;H. Elderfield

  • The effects of secular calcium and magnesium concentration changes on the thermodynamics of seawater acid/base chemistry: Implications for Eocene and Cretaceous ocean carbon chemistry and buffering

    Mathis P. Hain;Daniel M. Sigman;John A. Higgins;Gerald H. Haug

Frequent Co-Authors

Giacinto Scoles
Giacinto Scoles University of Udine
Kevin K. Lehmann
Kevin K. Lehmann University of Virginia
Michael L. Bender
Michael L. Bender Princeton University
Daniel P. Schrag
Daniel P. Schrag Harvard University
Adam C. Maloof
Adam C. Maloof Princeton University
Francis A. Macdonald
Francis A. Macdonald University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter K. Swart
Peter K. Swart University of Miami
Andrei V. Kurbatov
Andrei V. Kurbatov University of Maine
Maciej Gutowski
Maciej Gutowski Heriot-Watt University
Paul Andrew Mayewski
Paul Andrew Mayewski University of Maine

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