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Paul B. O'Sullivan

Paul B. O'Sullivan

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Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
6359
World Ranking
6409
National Ranking
2283

Overview

Paul B. O'Sullivan is affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States and specializes primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans multiple areas within this broad field, notably within the subfields of Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, Geology, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist has published extensively, contributing 105 works in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Substantial portions of their research focus on:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials

The publication record includes articles in a variety of peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geosphere
  • Terra Nova
  • Tectonics
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by O'Sullivan are:

  • "Extreme Quaternary plate boundary exhumation and strike slip localized along the southern Fairweather fault, Alaska, USA" (2021, Geology)
  • "An Early Oligocene age for the oldest known monkeys and rodents of South America" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Calabrian forearc uplift paced by slab-mantle interactions during subduction retreat" (2023, Nature Geoscience)
  • "Large-scale, crustal-block vertical extrusion between the Hines Creek and Denali faults coeval with slip localization on the Denali fault since ca. 45 Ma, Hayes Range, Alaska, USA" (2022, Geosphere)
  • "Between the supercontinents: Mesoproterozoic Deer Trail Group, an intermediate age unit between the Mesoproterozoic Belt-Purcell Supergroup and the Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup in northeastern Washington, USA" (2020, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences)

O'Sullivan frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Jeffrey A. Benowitz
  • Daniel F. Stöckli
  • Trevor S. Waldien
  • Sarah M. Roeske
  • William H. Craddock

Best Publications

  • Apatite Fission-Track Analysis

    Raymond A. Donelick;Paul B. O’Sullivan;Richard A. Ketcham

  • Fission-track ages of stone tools and fossils on the east Indonesian island of Flores

    M. J. Morwood;P. B. O'Sullivan;F. Aziz;A. Raza

  • Interpretation of (U–Th)/He single grain ages from slowly cooled crustal terranes: A case study from the Transantarctic Mountains of southern Victoria Land

    P.G. Fitzgerald;S.L. Baldwin;L.E. Webb;P.B O'Sullivan

  • Thermal history and tectonic subsidence of the Bohai Basin, northern China: a Cenozoic rifted and local pull-apart basin

    Shengbiao Hu;Paul B. O’Sullivan;Asaf Raza;Barry P. Kohn

  • Fundamentals of Fission-Track Thermochronology

    Takahiro Tagami;Paul B. O’Sullivan

  • The importance of apatite composition and single-grain ages when interpreting fission track data from plutonic rocks: a case study from the Coast Ranges, British Columbia

    Paul B. O'Sullivan;Randall R. Parrish

  • Shaping the Australian crust over the last 300 million years: Insights from fission track thermotectonic imaging and denudation studies of key terranes

    B. P. Kohn;A. J. W. Gleadow;R. W. Brown;K. Gallagher

  • Apatite fission-track thermochronology of the Sierras Pampeanas, central western Argentina: Implications for the mechanism of plateau uplift in the Andes

    Timothy J. Coughlin;Paul B. O'Sullivan;Barry P. Kohn;Rodney J. Holcombe

  • Fission track thermotectonic imaging of the Australian continent

    A.J.W. Gleadow;B.P. Kohn;R.W. Brown;P.B. O'Sullivan

  • Thermochronometer record of central Andean Plateau growth, Bolivia (19.5°S)

    J. B. Barnes;T. A. Ehlers;N. McQuarrie;P. B. O'Sullivan

  • Inversion around the Bass Basin, SE Australia

    Kevin C. Hill;Kathy A. Hill;Gareth T. Cooper;Andrea J. O’Sullivan

  • Archaeological and palaeontological research in central Flores, east Indonesia: results of fieldwork 1997–98

    M. J. Morwood;F. Aziz;P. O'Sullivan;Nasruddin

  • Eocene to recent variations in erosion across the central Andean fold-thrust belt, northern Bolivia: Implications for plateau evolution

    J.B. Barnes;T.A. Ehlers;N. McQuarrie;P.B. O'Sullivan

  • Thermal history of Canadian Williston basin from apatite fission-track thermochronology—implications for petroleum systems and geodynamic history

    K.G. Osadetz;B.P. Kohn;S. Feinstein;P.B. O'Sullivan

  • Cretaceous to Recent extension in the Bering Strait region, Alaska

    Trevor A. Dumitru;Elizabeth L. Miller;Paul B. O'Sullivan;Jeffrey M. Amato

  • Two flysch belts having distinctly different provenance suggest no stratigraphic link between the Wrangellia composite terrane and the paleo-Alaskan margin

    Chad P. Hults;Frederic H. Wilson;Raymond A. Donelick;Paul B. O’Sullivan

  • Fission track data from the Bathurst Batholith: Evidence for rapid mid‐Cretaceous uplift and erosion within the eastern highlands of Australia

    P. B. O'Sullivan;B. P. Kohn;D. A. Foster;A. J. W. Gleadow

  • Provenance and detrital zircon geochronologic evolution of lower Brookian foreland basin deposits of the western Brooks Range, Alaska, and implications for early Brookian tectonism

    Thomas E. Moore;Paul B. O’Sullivan;Christopher J. Potter;Raymond A. Donelick

  • Thermotectonic history of Mt Logan, Yukon Territory, Canada: implications of multiple episodes of middle to late Cenozoic denudation

    Paul B. O'Sullivan;Lisel D. Currie

  • Multiple Phases of Tertiary Uplift and Erosion in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, Revealed by Apatite Fission Track Analysis

    Paul B. O'Sullivan;P. F. Green;S. C. Bergman;J. Decker

Frequent Co-Authors

Dwight C. Bradley
Dwight C. Bradley United States Geological Survey
Barry P. Kohn
Barry P. Kohn University of Melbourne
Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Andrew J.W. Gleadow
Andrew J.W. Gleadow University of Melbourne
Peter D. Clift
Peter D. Clift University College London
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet University of Rennes
Peter J. Haeussler
Peter J. Haeussler United States Geological Survey
Paul G. Fitzgerald
Paul G. Fitzgerald Syracuse University
David A. Foster
David A. Foster University of Florida
Michael J. Morwood
Michael J. Morwood University of Wollongong

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