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  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1986 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Paul E. Olsen is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on paleontology, geophysics, and atmospheric science. Their work spans 108 publications in these areas, emphasizing various subfields such as Paleontology, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geology, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their research covers key topics including Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Geological Studies and Exploration, and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

Paul E. Olsen's recent scholarly output includes notable papers such as:

  • "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)
  • "Molecular and isotopic evidence reveals the end-Triassic carbon isotope excursion is not from massive exogenous light carbon" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Two-pronged kill mechanism at the end-Triassic mass extinction" (2022, Geology)
  • "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)
  • "Arctic ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs" (2022, Science Advances)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Sean Kinney
  • Clara Chang
  • Jessica H. Whiteside
  • Dennis V. Kent
  • Yanan Fang

Paul E. Olsen has published predominantly in these venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America (32 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 publications)
  • Geological Society London Special Publications (6 publications)
  • Geology (2 publications)
  • Gondwana Research (2 publications)

The scientist has been recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2008 and was granted a Fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1986.

Best Publications

  • Zircon U-Pb Geochronology Links the End-Triassic Extinction with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province

    Terrence J. Blackburn;Paul E. Olsen;Samuel A. Bowring;Noah M. McLean

  • A 40-million-year lake record of early mesozoic orbital climatic forcing

    Paul E. Olsen

  • Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary.

    P. E. Olsen;Dennis Kent;Dennis Kent;H. D. Sues;C. Koeberl

  • STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE EARLY MESOZOIC BREAKUP OF PANGEA IN THE LAURASIA-GONDWANA RIFT SYSTEM

    Paul E. Olsen

  • Type material of the type species of the classic theropod footprint genera Eubrontes, Anchisauripus, and Grallator (Early Jurassic, Hartford and Deerfield basins, Connecticut and Massachusetts, U.S.A.)

    Paul E. Olsen;Joshua B. Smith;Nicholas G. McDonald

  • Milankovitch climate forcing in the tropics of Pangaea during the Late Triassic

    Paul E. Olsen;Dennis V. Kent

  • A review of the reptile and amphibian assemblages from the Stormberg of southern Africa, with special emphasis on the footprints and the age of the Stormberg

    Paul E. Olsen;Peter M. Galton

  • Diachronous rifting, drifting, and inversion on the passive margin of central eastern North America; an analog for other passive margins

    Martha Oliver Withjack;Roy W. Schlische;Paul E. Olsen

  • Long-period Milankovitch cycles from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic of eastern North America and their implications for the calibration of the Early Mesozoic time–scale and the long–term behaviour of the planets

    Paul E. Olsen;Dennis V. Kent

  • High-resolution stratigraphy of the Newark rift basin (early Mesozoic, eastern North America)

    Paul E. Olsen;Dennis V. Kent;Bruce Cornet;William K. Witte

  • 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

  • Tethyan magnetostratigraphy from Pizzo Mondello (Sicily) and correlation to the Late Triassic Newark astrochronological polarity time scale

    Giovanni Muttoni;Dennis V. Kent;Paul E. Olsen;Piero Di Stefano

  • Late Triassic‐earliest Jurassic geomagnetic polarity sequence and paleolatitudes from drill cores in the Newark rift basin, eastern North America

    Dennis V. Kent;Paul E. Olsen;William K. Witte

  • Astronomically tuned geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Late Triassic

    Dennis V. Kent;Paul E. Olsen

  • Tectonic, Climatic, and Biotic Modulation of Lacustrine Ecosystems--Examples from Newark Supergroup of Eastern North America: Chapter 13

    Paul E. Olsen

  • Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

    Jennifer Sills;P. H. Gleick;R. M. Adams;R. M. Amasino

  • Rift-Basin Structure and Its Influence on Sedimentary Systems

    Martha Oliver Withjack;Roy W. Schlische;Paul E. Olsen

  • New early Jurassic tetrapod assemblages constrain Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod extinction event.

    PE Olsen;NH Shubin;MH Anders

  • QUANTITATIVE FILLING MODEL FOR CONTINENTAL EXTENSIONAL BASINS WITH APPLICATIONS TO EARLY MESOZOIC RIFTS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

    Roy W. Schlische;Paul E. Olsen

  • FOSSIL GREAT LAKES OF THE NEWARK SUPERGROUP IN NEW JERSEY

    Paul E. Olsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Roy W. Schlische
Roy W. Schlische Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John W. Geissman
John W. Geissman The University of Texas at Dallas
Hans-Dieter Sues
Hans-Dieter Sues National Museum of Natural History
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
Kliti Grice
Kliti Grice Curtin University
Giovanni Muttoni
Giovanni Muttoni University of Milan

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