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Robert H. Rainbird

Robert H. Rainbird

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Earth Science

D-Index
44
Citations
8774
World Ranking
4648
National Ranking
217

Overview

Robert H. Rainbird is affiliated with the Geological Survey of Canada and focuses on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Geophysics, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research covers various topics, notably Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geological formations and processes, earthquake and tectonic studies, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

The following papers represent recent contributions to the field:

  • Strong evidence for a weakly oxygenated ocean-atmosphere system during the Proterozoic, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Emplacement of the Franklin large igneous province and initiation of the Sturtian Snowball Earth, 2022, Science Advances
  • Shale-hosted biota from the Dismal Lakes Group in Arctic Canada supports an early Mesoproterozoic diversification of eukaryotes, 2021, Journal of Paleontology
  • Shale and pyrite Re-Os ages from the Hornby Bay and Amundsen basins provide new chronological markers for Mesoproterozoic stratigraphic successions of northern Canada, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • High-resolution correlation between contrasting early Tonian carbonate successions in NW Canada highlights pronounced global carbon isotope variations, 2020, Precambrian Research

Publications have appeared frequently in these venues:

  • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Journal of Paleontology
  • Precambrian Research
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborations with other researchers are a notable aspect of their work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Galen P. Halverson
  • Corentin Loron
  • Tom Skulski
  • Elizabeth C. Turner
  • Emmanuelle Javaux

Best Publications

  • Detrital Zircon Analysis of the Sedimentary Record

    Christopher M. Fedo;Keith N. Sircombe;Robert H. Rainbird

  • Low Mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

    Noah J. Planavsky;Christopher T. Reinhard;Xiangli Wang;Danielle Thomson

  • Nature and timing of Franklin igneous events, Canada: Implications for a Late Proterozoic mantle plume and the break-up of Laurentia

    L.M. Heaman;A.N. LeCheminant;R.H. Rainbird

  • Behavior of major and trace elements (including REE) during Paleoproterozoic pedogenesis and diagenetic alteration of an Archean granite near Ville Marie, Québec, Canada

    Alireza Panahi;Grant M. Young;Robert H. Rainbird

  • U–Pb geochronology of Riphean sandstone and gabbro from southeast Siberia and its bearing on the Laurentia–Siberia connection

    Robert H Rainbird;Richard A Stern;Andrei K Khudoley;Anatoly P Kropachev

  • Sampling Laurentia: Detrital zircon geochronology offers evidence for an extensive Neoproterozoic river system originating from the Grenville orogen

    Robert H. Rainbird;Larry M. Hearnan;Grant Young

  • Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

    Timothy M. Gibson;Patrick M. Shih;Patrick M. Shih;Vivien M. Cumming;Woodward W. Fischer

  • Sedimentary evolution of the Riphean–Vendian basin of southeastern Siberia

    A.K Khudoley;R.H Rainbird;R.A Stern;A.P Kropachev

  • Pan-Continental River System Draining Grenville Orogen Recorded by U-Pb and Sm-Nd Geochronology of Neoproterozoic Quartzarenites and Mudrocks, Northwestern Canada

    R. H. Rainbird;V. J. McNicoll;R. J. Thériault;L. M. Heaman

  • The early Neoproterozoic sedimentary Succession B of northwestern Laurentia: Correlations and paleogeographic significance

    R. H. Rainbird;C. W. Jefferson;G. M. Young

  • Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada

    Corentin C. Loron;Camille François;Robert H. Rainbird;Elizabeth C. Turner

  • Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of the Torridonian, NW Scotland

    Robert H. Rainbird;Michael A. Hamilton;Grant M. Young

  • Two Neoarchean supercontinents revisited: The case for a Rae family of cratons

    Sally J. Pehrsson;Robert G. Berman;Bruce Eglington;Robert Rainbird

  • Sequence stratigraphy and evolution of the Paleoproterozoic intracontinental Baker Lake and Thelon basins, western Churchill Province, Nunavut, Canada

    R.H Rainbird;T Hadlari;L.B Aspler;J.A Donaldson

  • Claypool continued: Extending the isotopic record of sedimentary sulfate

    Peter W. Crockford;Peter W. Crockford;Peter W. Crockford;Marcus Kunzmann;Andrey Bekker;Justin Hayles;Justin Hayles

  • Diverse organic-walled fossils, including “possible dinoflagellates,” from the early Neoproterozoic of arctic Canada

    Nicholas J. Butterfield;Robert H. Rainbird

  • Age, provenance, and regional correlation of the Athabasca Group, Saskatchewan and Alberta, constrained by igneous and detrital zircon geochronology

    R H Rainbird;R A Stern;N Rayner;C W Jefferson

  • The Great Grenvillian Sedimentation Episode: Record of Supercontinent Rodinia's assembly

    Robert Rainbird;Peter Cawood;Peter Cawood;George Gehrels

  • Early Paleoproterozoic supracrustal assemblages of the Rae domain, Nunavut, Canada: Intracratonic basin development during supercontinent break-up and assembly

    R.H. Rainbird;W.J. Davis;S.J. Pehrsson;N. Wodicka

  • U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of the late Paleoproterozoic Dubawnt Supergroup: Linking sedimentation with tectonic reworking of the western Churchill Province, Canada

    R.H. Rainbird;W.J. Davis

  • Formation and Diagenesis of a Sub-Huronian Saprolith: Comparison with a Modern Weathering Profile

    R. H. Rainbird;H. W. Nesbitt;J. A. Donaldson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean H. Bédard
Jean H. Bédard Geological Survey of Canada
Derek J. Thorkelson
Derek J. Thorkelson Simon Fraser University
Galen P. Halverson
Galen P. Halverson McGill University
William J. Davis
William J. Davis Geological Survey of Canada
Brian Cousens
Brian Cousens Carleton University
Grant M. Young
Grant M. Young University of Western Ontario
Richard A. Stern
Richard A. Stern University of Alberta
Larry M. Heaman
Larry M. Heaman University of Alberta
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University
Simon Hanmer
Simon Hanmer Geological Survey of Canada

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