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Michael E. Brookfield is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant body of work in Paleontology, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Science. The scientist has contributed extensively to fields including Geochemistry and Petrology as well as Ecology.

Brookfield's research topics encompass a range of areas within earth sciences, including:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies

The scientist has published numerous papers, with selection of recent works including:

  • "Myriapod divergence times differ between molecular clock and fossil evidence: U/Pb zircon ages of the earliest fossil millipede-bearing sediments and their significance," 2020, Historical Biology
  • "Paleoenvironments and geochemistry across a continuous Permian-Triassic boundary section at Bűkk Mountains, Hungary," 2020, Geoscience Frontiers
  • "Myriapod divergence times differ between molecular clock and fossil evidence: U/Pb zircon ages of the earliest fossil millipede-bearing sediments and their significance," 2020, Historical Biology
  • "Carbon and oxygen isotope variations in shell beds from the Upper Ordovician (mid-Cincinnatian: Maysvillian to early Richmondian) of Ontario: Evaluation of the Warm Saline Deep Ocean hypothesis, paleoceanographic changes, and Milankovitch orbital cycles in the transition to the Hirnantian glaciation," 2021, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • "Climatic fluctuations during a mass extinction: Rapid carbon and oxygen isotope variations across the Permian-Triassic (PTr) boundary at Guryul Ravine, Kashmir, India," 2022, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Brookfield frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Elizabeth J. Catlos
  • Hector Garza
  • Stephanie Suarez
  • Daniel F. Stöckli
  • Jeremy C. Williams

Their publications often appear in specialized scientific venues such as:

  • Historical Biology
  • Geological Magazine
  • Geology Today
  • Preprints.org
  • Fossil Studies

Best Publications

  • The evolution of the great river systems of southern Asia during the Cenozoic India-Asia collision: rivers draining southwards

    M.E. Brookfield

  • The origin of bounding surfaces in ancient aeolian sandstones

    M. E. Brookfield

  • The Himalayan passive margin from Precambrian to Cretaceous times

    M.E. Brookfield

  • Pyrite framboid evidence for oxygen-poor deposition during the Permian-Triassic crisis in Kashmir

    Paul B. Wignall;Rob Newton;Michael E. Brookfield

  • Eolian sediments and processes

    M. E. Brookfield;Thomas S. Ahlbrandt

  • Compound-specific carbon isotopes from Earth's largest flood basalt eruptions directly linked to the end-Triassic mass extinction.

    Jessica H. Whiteside;Paul E. Olsen;Timothy Eglinton;Michael E. Brookfield

  • Geological development and Phanerozoic crustal accretion in the western segment of the southern Tien Shan (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan)

    M.E. Brookfield

  • Neoproterozoic Laurentia-Australia fit

    M. E. Brookfield

  • Late Cretaceous emplacement of the Indus suture zone ophiolitic mélanges and an Eocene-Oligocene magmatic arc on the northern edge of the Indian plate

    M.E. Brookfield;P.H. Reynolds

  • A mid-Ordovician temperate carbonate shelf-the black river and trenton limestone groups of southern Ontario, Canada

    Michael E Brookfield

  • Sequencing events across the Permian–Triassic boundary, Guryul Ravine (Kashmir, India)

    Thomas J. Algeo;Robyn Hannigan;Harold D Rowe;Michael Brookfield

  • Morphology, faunas and genesis of ordovician hardgrounds from Southern Ontario, Canada

    Carlton E. Brett;Carlton E. Brett;Michael E. Brookfield;Michael E. Brookfield

  • The geology and petroleum potential of the North Afghan platform and adjacent areas (northern Afghanistan, with parts of southern Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan)

    Michael E Brookfield;Ajruddin Hashmat

  • No link between the Panjal Traps (Kashmir) and the Late Permian mass extinctions

    J. G. Shellnutt;J. G. Shellnutt;G. M. Bhat;M. E. Brookfield;B.-M. Jahn

  • Petrogenesis of the flood basalts from the Early Permian Panjal Traps, Kashmir, India: Geochemical evidence for shallow melting of the mantle

    J. Gregory Shellnutt;Ghulam M. Bhat;Kuo Lung Wang;Michael E. Brookfield

  • Sedimentology, petrography and tectonic significance of the shelf, flysch and molasse clastic deposits across the Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh, NW India

    M.E. Brookfield;C.P. Andrews-Speed

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  • Paleoenvironments of the mid-Ordovician (Upper Caradocian) Trenton limestones of southern Ontario, Canada: Storm sedimentation on a shoal-basin shelf model

    M.E. Brookfield;M.E. Brookfield;C.E. Brett;C.E. Brett

  • Facies architecture and sequence stratigraphy in glacially influenced basins: basic problems and water-level=glacier input-point controls (with an example from the Quaternary of Ontario, Canada)

    M.E Brookfield;I.P Martini

  • Palaeoenvironments of the Permian–Triassic transition sections in Kashmir, India

    Michael E. Brookfield;Richard J. Twitchett;Craig Goodings

  • Origin of the silicic volcanic rocks of the Early Permian Panjal Traps, Kashmir, India

    J. Gregory Shellnutt;Ghulam M. Bhat;Kuo Lung Wang;Michael E. Brookfield

  • Principles of Glacial Geomorphology and Geology

    I. P. Martini;M. E. Brookfield;Steven Sadura

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlton E. Brett
Carlton E. Brett University of Cincinnati
Elizabeth G. Boulding
Elizabeth G. Boulding University of Guelph
Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
Brooks B. Ellwood
Brooks B. Ellwood Louisiana State University
Bruce M. Simonson
Bruce M. Simonson Oberlin College
Asish R. Basu
Asish R. Basu The University of Texas at Arlington
Richard J. Twitchett
Richard J. Twitchett Natural History Museum
Aymon Baud
Aymon Baud University of Lausanne
Robert J. Newton
Robert J. Newton University of Leeds
Paul B. Wignall
Paul B. Wignall University of Leeds

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