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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2002 - GSA Distinguished Service Award, The Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

John W. Geissman is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant volume of publications in this area. Subfields of study include Geophysics, Paleontology, Molecular Biology, Atmospheric Science, and Geology.

The main topics of Geissman's work cover a range of geological and paleontological themes. These include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Geissman include Roland Mundil, Cornelia Rasmussen, Paul E. Olsen, Christopher J. Lepre, and Robert A. Gastaldo.

Geissman has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Geology
  • Tectonophysics

Some of their recent papers include:

  • The base of the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, predates the end-Permian marine extinction (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • U-Pb zircon geochronology and depositional age models for the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation (Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA): Implications for Late Triassic paleoecological and paleoenvironmental change (2020), Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • LA-ICPMS U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircon grains from the Coconino, Moenkopi, and Chinle formations in the Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona) (2020), Geochronology
  • Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic evolution and cyclo- and chrono-stratigraphy of upper Permian-Lower Triassic fluvial-lacustrine deposits in Bogda Mountains, NW China - Implications for diachronous plant evolution across the Permian-Triassic boundary (2021), Earth-Science Reviews
  • A tale of two Tweefonteins: What physical correlation, geochronology, magnetic polarity stratigraphy, and palynology reveal about the end-Permian terrestrial extinction paradigm in South Africa (2021), Geological Society of America Bulletin

John W. Geissman has received recognition from professional organizations, including being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2006 and receiving the GSA Distinguished Service Award from The Geological Society of America in 2002. Geissman is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Refining Rodinia: Geologic evidence for the Australia-Western U.S. Connection in the Proterozoic

    Karl E. Karlstrom;Stephen S. Harlan;Michael L. Williams;James McLelland

  • Long-lived (1.8-1.0 Ga) convergent orogen in southern Laurentia, its extensions to Australia and Baltica, and implications for refining Rodinia

    Karl E. Karlstrom;Karl Inge Åhäll;Stephen S. Harlan;Michael L. Williams

  • The Geological Society of America Geologic Time Scale

    J. D. Walker;J. W. Geissman;S. A. Bowring;Loren Babcock

  • Parabolic distribution of circumeastern Snake River Plain seismicity and latest Quaternary faulting: Migratory pattern and association with the Yellowstone hotspot

    Mark H. Anders;John Wm. Geissman;Lucille A. Piety;J. Timothy Sullivan

  • Chuar Group of the Grand Canyon: record of breakup of Rodinia, associated change in the global carbon cycle, and ecosystem expansion by 740 Ma

    Karl E. Karlstrom;Samuel A. Bowring;Carol M. Dehler;Andrew H. Knoll

  • Pyrometamorphic rocks associated with naturally burned coal beds, Powder River basin, Wyoming

    Michael A. Cosca;Eric J. Essene;John W. Geissman;William B. Simmons

  • Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials

    Peter J. Fawcett;Josef P. Werne;Josef P. Werne;Josef P. Werne;R. Scott Anderson;Jeffrey M. Heikoop

  • Is the vertebrate-defined Permian-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, the terrestrial expression of the end-Permian marine event?

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Sandra L. Kamo;Johann Neveling;John W. Geissman

  • Empirical evidence for stability of the 405-kiloyear Jupiter-Venus eccentricity cycle over hundreds of millions of years.

    Dennis V. Kent;Paul E. Olsen;Cornelia Rasmussen;Christopher Lepre

  • Proterozoic multistage (ca. 1.1 and 0.8 Ga) extension recorded in the Grand Canyon Supergroup and establishment of northwest- and north-trending tectonic grains in the southwestern United States

    J. Michael Timmons;Karl E. Karlstrom;Carol M. Dehler;John W. Geissman

  • Chapter 3: Structural development of a major extensional accommodation zone in the Basin and Range Province, northwestern Arizona and southern Nevada; Implications for kinematic models of continental extension

    James E. Faulds;John W. Geissman;Chris K. Mawer

  • 2009 GSA Geologic Time Scale

    J. D. Walker;J. W. Geissman

  • Relations between hinterland and foreland shortening: Sevier orogeny, central North American Cordillera

    Wanda J. Taylor;John M. Bartley;Mark W. Martin;John W. Geissman

  • The Teton fault, Wyoming: Topographic signature, neotectonics, and mechanisms of deformation

    John O. D. Byrd;Robert B. Smith;John W. Geissman

  • The Base of the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, Predates the end-Permian Marine Extinction

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Sandra L. Kamo;Johann Neveling;John W. Geissman

  • Evolution and Strain Reorganization within Late Neogene Structural Stepovers Linking the Central Walker Lane and Northern Eastern California Shear Zone, Western Great Basin

    J. S. Oldow;J. W. Geissman;Daniel Stockli

  • Paleomagnetic and isotopic dating of thrust-belt deformation along the eastern edge of the Helena salient, northern Crazy Mountains Basin, Montana

    Steve S. Harlan;John Wm. Geissman;David R. Lageson;Lawrence W. Snee

  • Comparison of a paleosol-carbonate isotope record to other records of Pliocene-early Pleistocene climate in the western United States

    Gary A. Smith;Yang Wang;Thure E. Cerling;John W. Geissman

  • Environmental Magnetism: Principles and Applications of Enviromagnetics

    John Geissman

  • Rock Magnetism: Fundamentals and Frontiers

    John W. Geissman

  • Erratum: Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials (Nature (2011) 470 (518-521))

    Peter J. Fawcett;Josef P. Werne;Josef P. Werne;Josef P. Werne;R. Scott Anderson;Jeffrey M. Heikoop

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric C. Ferré
Eric C. Ferré New Mexico State University
Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Paul E. Olsen
Paul E. Olsen Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Robert A. Gastaldo
Robert A. Gastaldo Colby College
Randall B. Irmis
Randall B. Irmis University of Utah
Roland Mundil
Roland Mundil Berkeley Geochronology Center
George E. Gehrels
George E. Gehrels University of Arizona
Rob Van der Voo
Rob Van der Voo University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John S. Oldow
John S. Oldow Western Washington University
William C. McIntosh
William C. McIntosh New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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