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Robert J. Newton is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on paleontology, geochemistry, and geophysics. This work spans a variety of subfields including paleontology, geochemistry and petrology, geophysics, atmospheric science, and mechanics of materials.

The scientist's recent publications reflect ongoing research into mass extinction events and geological processes. Notable papers include "Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)" published in 2020 in Science Advances, "A nutrient control on marine anoxia during the end-Permian mass extinction" from Nature Geoscience in 2020, and "An enormous sulfur isotope excursion indicates marine anoxia during the end-Triassic mass extinction," also appearing in Science Advances in 2020. Further contributions include "Deep CO2 in the end-Triassic Central Atlantic Magmatic Province" from Nature Communications (2020) and "Permo-Triassic boundary carbon and mercury cycling linked to terrestrial ecosystem collapse" in Nature Communications (2020).

Frequent publication venues for Robert J. Newton encompass Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Global and Planetary Change, each with five publications, followed by Nature Communications with four publications, Science Advances with two, and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta also with two.

Their frequent co-authors include Tianchen He, Paul B. Wignall, Benjamin Mills, Jacopo Dal Corso, and Simon W. Poulton, indicating collaboration spanning across different areas within Earth sciences and geochemistry.

Main topics covered in their research comprise:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies

Through their work, Robert J. Newton contributes data and interpretations relevant to geological time periods marked by environmental change and mass extinction, employing interdisciplinary approaches that unite paleontology and geochemistry with broader planetary science contexts.

Best Publications

  • Pyrite framboid diameter as a measure of oxygen deficiency in ancient mudrocks

    P. B. Wignall;R. Newton

  • Volcanism, mass extinction, and carbon isotope fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China.

    Paul B. Wignall;Yadong Sun;David P. G. Bond;Gareth Izon

  • Reconstruction of changes in global sulfur cycling from marine sulfate isotopes

    Simon H. Bottrell;Robert J. Newton

  • The importance of the relationship between scale and process in understanding long-term DOC dynamics

    JM Clark;JM Clark;SH Bottrell;CD Evans;DT Monteith

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

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

  • The timing of paleoenvironmental change and cause-and-effect relationships during the early Jurassic mass extinction in Europe

    Paul B. Wignall;Robert J. Newton;Crispin T.S. Little

  • Large shifts in the isotopic composition of seawater sulphate across the Permo–Triassic boundary in northern Italy

    R.J Newton;E.L Pevitt;P.B Wignall;S.H Bottrell

  • The Permo-Triassic transition in Spitsbergen: δ13Corg chemostratigraphy, Fe and S geochemistry, facies, fauna and trace fossils

    P. B. Wignall;R. Morante;R. Newton

  • The biogeography of red snow microbiomes and their role in melting arctic glaciers

    Stefanie Lutz;Alexandre M. Anesio;Rob Raiswell;Arwyn Edwards

  • An 80 million year oceanic redox history from Permian to Jurassic pelagic sediments of the Mino-Tamba terrane, SW Japan, and the origin of four mass extinctions

    Paul B. Wignall;David P.G. Bond;Kiyoko Kuwahara;Yoshitaka Kakuwa

  • Discovery of a major negative δ13C spike in the Carnian (Late Triassic) linked to the eruption of Wrangellia flood basalts

    Jacopo Dal Corso;Paolo Mietto;Robert J. Newton;Richard D. Pancost

  • Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic).

    Jacopo Dal Corso;Jacopo Dal Corso;Massimo Bernardi;Massimo Bernardi;Yadong Sun;Haijun Song

  • An Indicator of Water-Column Anoxia: Resolution of Biofacies Variations in the Kimmeridge Clay (Upper Jurassic, U.K.)

    R. Raiswell;R. Newton;P.B. Wignall

  • Contrasting Deep-water Records from the Upper Permian and Lower Triassic of South Tibet and British Columbia: Evidence for a Diachronous Mass Extinction

    Paul B. Wignall;Robert Newton

  • Onset of the aerobic nitrogen cycle during the Great Oxidation Event

    Aubrey L. Zerkle;Simon W. Poulton;Robert J. Newton;Colin Mettam

  • Turbidite depositional influences on the diagenesis of Beecher's Trilobite Bed and the Hunsrück Slate; sites of soft tissue pyritization

    Robert Raiswell;Robert Newton;Simon H. Bottrell;Patricia M. Coburn

  • The mid-Capitanian (Middle Permian) mass extinction and carbon isotope record of South China

    D.P.G. Bond;P.B. Wignall;W. Wang;G. Izon

  • Carbon isotope records reveal synchronicity between carbon cycle perturbation and the "Carnian Pluvial Event" in the Tethys realm (Late Triassic)

    Jacopo Dal Corso;Piero Gianolla;Robert J. Newton;Marco Franceschi

  • Tree height strongly affects estimates of water-use efficiency responses to climate and CO2 using isotopes.

    R. J. W. Brienen;E. Gloor;S. Clerici;R. Newton

  • Processes affecting groundwater chemistry in a zone of saline intrusion into an urban sandstone aquifer

    Andrew P. Barker;Robert J. Newton;Simon H. Bottrell;J.H. Tellam

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul B. Wignall
Paul B. Wignall University of Leeds
Simon H. Bottrell
Simon H. Bottrell University of Leeds
Simon W. Poulton
Simon W. Poulton University of Leeds
Jane E. Francis
Jane E. Francis Charles Darwin University
David P.G. Bond
David P.G. Bond University of Hull
Yadong Sun
Yadong Sun University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Benjamin J. W. Mills
Benjamin J. W. Mills University of Leeds
Keith C. Hamer
Keith C. Hamer University of Leeds
Crispin T. S. Little
Crispin T. S. Little University of Leeds
Mark W. Claire
Mark W. Claire University of St Andrews

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