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Neil J. Tabor is affiliated with Southern Methodist University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work focuses on several subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The main topics of their research encompass:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Their recent published papers include:

  • 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
  • Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction of Cretaceous (Aptian-Cenomanian) terrestrial formations of Texas and Oklahoma using phyllosilicates, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Adaptive foraging behaviours in the Horn of Africa during Toba supereruption, 2024, Nature
  • Mixed-Layer Illite-Smectite in Pennsylvanian-Aged Paleosols: Assessing Sources of Illitization in the Illinois Basin, 2021, Minerals
  • Calcic Vertisols in the upper Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, Balfour Formation, Karoo Basin, South Africa: Implications for Late Permian Climate, 2020, Journal of Sedimentary Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Julia A. McIntosh
  • Christian A. Sidor
  • Isabel P. Montañez
  • Timothy S. Myers
  • Roger M. H. Smith

Neil J. Tabor's research has been published repeatedly in a selection of venues with notable frequency, such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Quantitative paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction using paleosols

    Nathan D. Sheldon;Neil J. Tabor

  • CO 2 as a primary driver of Phanerozoic climate

    Dana L. Royer;Robert A. Berner;Isabel P. Montañez;Neil J. Tabor

  • CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation

    Isabel P. Montañez;Neil J. Tabor;Deb Niemeier;William A. DiMichele

  • A 400 million year carbon isotope record of pedogenic carbonate; implications for paleoatomospheric carbon dioxide

    Douglas D. Ekart;Thure E. Cerling;Isabel P. Montanez;Neil J. Tabor

  • Palaeoclimate across the Late Pennsylvanian–Early Permian tropical palaeolatitudes: A review of climate indicators, their distribution, and relation to palaeophysiographic climate factors

    Neil J. Tabor;Christopher J. Poulsen

  • Middle Miocene paleoaltimetry of southern Tibet: Implications for the role of mantle thickening and delamination in the Himalayan orogen

    Brian S. Currie;David B. Rowley;Neil J. Tabor

  • Paleosols as Indicators of Paleoenvironment and Paleoclimate

    Neil J. Tabor;Timothy S. Myers

  • Climate and vegetational regime shifts in the late Paleozoic ice age earth

    William A. DiMichele;I. P. Montañez;C. J. Poulsen;Neil J. Tabor

  • From wetlands to wet spots; environmental tracking and the fate of Carboniferous elements in Early Permian tropical floras

    William A. DiMichele;N. J. Tabor;Dan S. Chaney;W. J. Nelson

  • Depositional environments and cyclo- and chronostratigraphy of uppermost Carboniferous–Lower Triassic fluvial–lacustrine deposits, southern Bogda Mountains, NW China — A terrestrial paleoclimatic record of mid-latitude NE Pangea

    Wan Yang;Qiao Feng;Yiqun Liu;Neil Tabor

  • Morphology and distribution of fossil soils in the Permo-Pennsylvanian Wichita and Bowie Groups, north-central Texas, USA: implications for western equatorial Pangean palaeoclimate during icehouse-greenhouse transition

    Neil John Tabor;Isabel P. Montañez

  • Shifts in late Paleozoic atmospheric circulation over western equatorial Pangea: Insights from pedogenic mineral δ18O compositions

    Neil J. Tabor;Isabel P. Montañez

  • Hot summers in the Bighorn Basin during the early Paleogene

    Kathryn E. Snell;Kathryn E. Snell;Bridget L. Thrasher;John M. Eiler;Paul L. Koch

  • Prograding Distributive Fluvial Systems—Geomorphic Models and Ancient Examples:

    G. S. Weissmann;A. J. Hartley;L. A. Scuderi;G. J. Nichols

  • Chronostratigraphy and Paleoclimatology of the Lodève Basin, France: Evidence for a Pan-Tropical Aridification Event Across the Carboniferous–Permian Boundary

    Lauren A. Michel;Neil J. Tabor;Isabel P. Montañez;Mark D. Schmitz

  • Paleosol archives of environmental and climatic history in paleotropical western Pangea during the latest Pennsylvanian through Early Permian

    Neil J Tabor;Isabel P Montañez;Christopher R Scotese;Christopher J Poulsen

  • The so-called "Paleophytic-Mesophytic" transition in equatorial Pangea — Multiple biomes and vegetational tracking of climate change through geological time

    William A. DiMichele;Hans Kerp;Neil J. Tabor;Cynthia V. Looy

  • Stratigraphy and architecture of the Upper Triassic Ischigualasto Formation, Ischigualasto Provincial Park, San Juan, Argentina

    Brian S. Currie;Carina E. Colombi;Neil J. Tabor;Todd C. Shipman

  • Oxygen and hydrogen isotope compositions of Permian pedogenic phyllosilicates: Development of modern surface domain arrays and implications for paleotemperature reconstructions

    Neil J. Tabor;Isabel P. Montañez

  • Paleoenvironmental reconstruction from chemical and isotopic compositions of Permo-Pennsylvanian pedogenic minerals

    Neil John Tabor;Isabel P. Montanez;Randal J. Southard

  • Applying a Quantitative Pedogenic Energy Model across a Range of Environmental Gradients

    Craig Rasmussen;Neil J. Tabor

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabel P. Montañez
Isabel P. Montañez University of California, Davis
Christian A. Sidor
Christian A. Sidor University of Washington
William A. DiMichele
William A. DiMichele Smithsonian Institution
Louis L. Jacobs
Louis L. Jacobs Southern Methodist University
Roger M. H. Smith
Roger M. H. Smith University of the Witwatersrand
Robert A. Gastaldo
Robert A. Gastaldo Colby College
Cindy V. Looy
Cindy V. Looy University of California, Berkeley
Kenneth D. Angielczyk
Kenneth D. Angielczyk Field Museum of Natural History
Christopher J. Poulsen
Christopher J. Poulsen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nathan D. Sheldon
Nathan D. Sheldon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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