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Malcolm W. Wallace

Malcolm W. Wallace

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Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
5862
World Ranking
5072
National Ranking
254

Overview

Malcolm W. Wallace is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans a range of specialized subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Geophysics, Geology, and Ecology. This interdisciplinary approach informs multiple domains within Earth sciences and related geological studies.

Their scholarly output features a strong focus on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Geological formations and processes, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, as well as Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • "A lithium-isotope perspective on the evolution of carbon and silicon cycles," 2021, Nature
  • "Uncovering the Ediacaran phosphorus cycle," 2023, Nature
  • "Eocene to Oligocene terrestrial Southern Hemisphere cooling caused by declining pCO2," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "New multicellular marine macroalgae from the early Tonian of northwestern Canada," 2021, Geology
  • "Neoproterozoic syn-glacial carbonate precipitation and implications for a snowball Earth," 2021, Geobiology

Wallace frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, with multiple coauthorships reflecting ongoing scientific partnerships. Frequent co-authors include Ashleigh v.S. Hood, Maxwell Lechte, Brennan O'Connell, Noah J. Planavsky, and Elizabeth Mahon.

Their work is regularly published in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Precambrian Research, Nature, Geology, and Sedimentary Geology, indicating engagement with both broad and specialized scientific audiences.

Best Publications

  • Oxygenation history of the Neoproterozoic to early Phanerozoic and the rise of land plants

    Malcolm W. Wallace;Ashleigh vS. Hood;Ashleigh vS. Hood;Alice Shuster;Alan Greig

  • Origin of the in situ stress field in south-eastern Australia

    Mike Sandiford;Malcolm Wallace;David Coblentz

  • Origin and Timing of the Miocene-Pliocene Unconformity in Southeast Australia

    Julie A. Dickinson;Malcolm W. Wallace;Guy R. Holdgate;Stephen J. Gallagher

  • A near-field sea level record of East Antarctic Ice Sheet instability from 32 to 27 Myr

    Stephen J. Gallagher;Giuliana Villa;Russell N. Drysdale;Bridget S. Wade

  • 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

  • Neogene history of the West Pacific Warm Pool, Kuroshio and Leeuwin currents

    Stephen J. Gallagher;Malcolm W. Wallace;Chung Leong Li;Belinda Kinna

  • Neoproterozoic aragonite-dolomite seas? Widespread marine dolomite precipitation in Cryogenian reef complexes

    Ashleigh v.S. Hood;Malcolm W. Wallace;Russell N. Drysdale

  • Formation of Willemite in Hydrothermal Environments

    Joel Brugger;Derry McPhail;Malcolm Wallace;John Waters

  • Synsedimentary diagenesis in a Cryogenian reef complex: Ubiquitous marine dolomite precipitation

    Ashleigh van Smeerdijk Hood;Malcolm William Wallace

  • The effects of diagenesis on geochemical paleoredox proxies in sedimentary carbonates

    Ashleigh von S Hood;Ashleigh von S Hood;Noah J Planavsky;Malcolm W Wallace;Xiangli Wang;Xiangli Wang

  • ACRAMAN IMPACT EJECTA AND HOST SHALES - EVIDENCE FOR LOW-TEMPERATURE MOBILIZATION OF IRIDIUM AND OTHER PLATINOIDS

    Malcolm W. Wallace;Victor A. Gostin;Reid R. Keays

  • Th-Pb and U-Pb Dating of Ore-Stage Calcite and Paleozoic Fluid Flow

    Joyce C. Brannon;Susan C. Cole;Frank A. Podosek;Virginia M. Ragan

  • “Cryptic” diagenesis and its implications for speleothem geochronologies

    Petra Bajo;John Hellstrom;Silvia Frisia;Silvia Frisia;Russell Drysdale

  • The Pliocene climatic and environmental evolution of southeastern Australia: evidence from the marine and terrestrial realm

    S.J Gallagher;D.R Greenwood;D Taylor;A.J Smith

  • Extreme ocean anoxia during the Late Cryogenian recorded in reefal carbonates of Southern Australia

    Ashleigh van Smeerdijk Hood;Malcolm William Wallace

  • Uncovering the Ediacaran phosphorus cycle

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  • Eocene-Miocene carbon-isotope and floral record from brown coal seams in the Gippsland Basin of southeast Australia

    Guy R. Holdgate;Brian McGowran;Tom Fromhold;Barbara E. Wagstaff

  • Neoproterozoic marine carbonates and their paleoceanographic significance

    Ashleigh van Smeerdijk Hood;Ashleigh van Smeerdijk Hood;Malcolm William Wallace

  • NEOGENE TECTONICS IN SE AUSTRALIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PETROLEUM SYSTEMS

    J.A. Dickinson;M.W. Wallace;G.R. Holdgate;J. Daniels

  • Iridium anomaly from the Acraman impact ejecta horizon: impacts can produce sedimentary iridium peaks

    Victor A. Gostin;Reid R. Keays;Malcolm W. Wallace

  • The Miocene palaeoenvironmental and palaeoceanographic evolution of the Gippsland Basin, Southeast Australia: a record of Southern Ocean change

    S.J Gallagher;A.J Smith;K Jonasson;M.W Wallace

  • Late Neogene strandlines of southern Victoria: a unique record of eustasy and tectonics in southeast Australia

    Malcolm William Wallace;J A Dickinson;David Hugh Moore;Michael Andrew Sandiford

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Gallagher
Stephen J. Gallagher University of Melbourne
Victor A. Gostin
Victor A. Gostin University of Adelaide
Reid R. Keays
Reid R. Keays Monash University
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University
Robert S. Hill
Robert S. Hill University of Adelaide
Ian Cartwright
Ian Cartwright Monash University
Galen P. Halverson
Galen P. Halverson McGill University
Russell N. Drysdale
Russell N. Drysdale University of Melbourne
David Selby
David Selby Durham University
Mike Sandiford
Mike Sandiford University of Melbourne

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