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Roland Mundil is affiliated with the Berkeley Geochronology Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial focus on Paleontology, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Science. The subfields they contribute to include Paleontology, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Artificial Intelligence.

The topics in their work cover a range of areas, notably:

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

Mundil has published extensively, with 60 publications classified primarily under Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Gondwana Research
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some of their recent peer-reviewed papers are:

  • A chronostratigraphic framework for the upper Stormberg Group: Implications for the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in southern Africa, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Evidence for the Carnian Pluvial Episode in Gondwana: New multiproxy climate records and their bearing on early dinosaur diversification, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Geochemical, biostratigraphic, and high-resolution geochronological constraints on the waning stage of Emeishan Large Igneous Province, 2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • 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
  • High-latitude ice and climate control on sediment supply across SW Gondwana during the late Carboniferous and early Permian, 2021, Geological Society of America Bulletin

Roland Mundil frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Their most common coauthors include:

  • Neil Griffis
  • Randall B. Irmis
  • Isabel P. Montañez
  • J. W. Geissman
  • Paul R. Renne

Best Publications

  • Improved 206Pb/238U microprobe geochronology by the monitoring of a trace-element-related matrix effect; SHRIMP, ID-TIMS, ELA-ICP-MS and oxygen isotope documentation for a series of zircon standards

    Lance P. Black;Lance P. Black;Sandra L. Kamo;Charlotte M. Allen;Donald W. Davis

  • A test for systematic errors in 40Ar/39Ar geochronology through comparison with U/Pb analysis of a 1.1-Ga rhyolite

    Kyoungwon Min;Roland Mundil;Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne;Kenneth R. Ludwig

  • Joint determination of 40K decay constants and 40Ar∗/40K for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard, and improved accuracy for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology

    Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne;Roland Mundil;Greg Balco;Greg Balco;Kyoungwon Min

  • Response to the comment by W.H. Schwarz et al. on “Joint determination of 40K decay constants and 40Ar∗/40K for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard, and improved accuracy for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology” by P.R. Renne et al. (2010)

    Paul R. Renne;Greg Balco;Kenneth R. Ludwig;Roland Mundil

  • Age and timing of the Permian mass extinctions: U/Pb dating of closed-system zircons.

    Roland Mundil;Kenneth R. Ludwig;Ian Metcalfe;Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne

  • Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

    Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne;Alan L. Deino;Frederik J. Hilgen;Klaudia F. Kuiper

  • The application of SHRIMP to Phanerozoic geochronology; a critical appraisal of four zircon standards

    Lance P Black;Sandra L Kamo;Ian S Williams;Roland Mundil

  • Precise age determination of mafic and felsic intrusive rocks from the Permian Emeishan large igneous province (SW China)

    J. Gregory Shellnutt;J. Gregory Shellnutt;Steven W. Denyszyn;Roland Mundil

  • CA-TIMS zircon U–Pb dating of felsic ignimbrite from the Binchuan section: Implications for the termination age of Emeishan large igneous province

    Yu-Ting Zhong;Bin He;Roland Mundil;Yi-Gang Xu

  • Timing of the Permian-Triassic biotic crisis: implications from new zircon U/Pb age data (and their limitations)

    Roland Mundil;Ian Metcalfe;Kenneth R. Ludwig;Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne

  • High resolution UPb dating of Middle Triassic volcaniclastics: Time-scale calibration and verification of tuning parameters for carbonate sedimentation

    Roland Mundil;Peter Brack;Martin Meier;Hans Rieber

  • The Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Ladinian Stage (Middle Triassic) at Bagolino (Southern Alps, Northern Italy) and its implications for the Triassic time scale

    Peter Brack;Hans Rieber;Alda Nicora;Roland Mundil

  • The precise temporal calibration of dinosaur origins

    Claudia Alicia Marsicano;Randall Irmis;Adriana Cecilia Mancuso;Roland Mundil

  • The Triassic timescale: new constraints and a review of geochronological data

    Roland Mundil;József Pálfy;Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne;Peter Brack

  • High-resolution U-Pb ages from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation (New Mexico, USA) support a diachronous rise of dinosaurs

    Randall B. Irmis;Roland Mundil;Jeffrey W. Martz;William G. Parker

  • Alder Creek sanidine (ACs-2): A Quaternary 40Ar/39Ar dating standard tied to the Cobb Mountain geomagnetic event

    S. Nomade;S. Nomade;P.R. Renne;P.R. Renne;N. Vogel;N. Vogel;A.L. Deino

  • Implications of pre-eruptive magmatic histories of zircons for U–Pb geochronology of silicic extrusions

    Justin I. Simon;Justin I. Simon;Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne;Roland Mundil

  • Magmatic lobes as “snapshots” of magma chamber growth and evolution in large, composite batholiths: An example from the Tuolumne intrusion, Sierra Nevada, California

    Valbone Memeti;Scott Paterson;Jennifer Matzel;Roland Mundil

  • A new stratigraphic framework built on U-Pb single-zircon TIMS ages and implications for the timing of the penultimate icehouse (Paraná Basin, Brazil)

    Neil Patrick Griffis;Roland Mundil;Isabel Patricia Montañez;John Isbell

  • 40Ar/39Ar and U–Pb dating of the Fish Canyon magmatic system, San Juan Volcanic field, Colorado: Evidence for an extended crystallization history

    O. Bachmann;F. Oberli;M.A. Dungan;M. Meier

  • BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND RADIOMETRIC AGE DATA QUESTION THE MILANKOVITCH CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LATEMAR CYCLES (SOUTHERN ALPS, ITALY)

    Peter Brack;Roland Mundil;Felix Oberli;Martin Meier

  • for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard, and improved accuracy for 40 Ar/ 39 Ar geochronology

    Paul R. Renne;Roland Mundil;Greg Balco;Kyoungwon Min

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Randall B. Irmis
Randall B. Irmis University of Utah
Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Isabel P. Montañez
Isabel P. Montañez University of California, Davis
Paul E. Olsen
Paul E. Olsen Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
George E. Gehrels
George E. Gehrels University of Arizona
Qing-Zhu Yin
Qing-Zhu Yin University of California, Davis
John W. Geissman
John W. Geissman The University of Texas at Dallas
Scott R. Paterson
Scott R. Paterson University of Southern California
Kenneth R. Ludwig
Kenneth R. Ludwig Berkeley Geochronology Center

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