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Samuel A. Bowring

Samuel A. Bowring

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Earth Science

D-Index
110
Citations
40771
World Ranking
77
National Ranking
37

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2011 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 2008 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Samuel A. Bowring was affiliated with MIT in the United States and contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Throughout their career, their research covered multiple subfields including geophysics, paleontology, atmospheric science, geochemistry and petrology, and artificial intelligence.

Their scientific work addressed various topics such as:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • High-Pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Bowring authored several research papers across notable publication venues, including:

  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geological Magazine
  • South African Journal of Geology
  • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Some recent papers authored include:

  • High-Precision U-Pb Zircon Dating of Late Magmatism in the Samail Ophiolite: A Record of Subduction Initiation, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Precise early Cambrian U-Pb zircon dates bracket the oldest trilobites and archaeocyaths in Moroccan West Gondwana, 2020, Geological Magazine
  • New age constraints on the duration and origin of the Late Ordovician Guttenberg δ13Ccarb excursion from high-precision U-Pb geochronology of K-bentonites, 2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Geochemical reconnaissance of the Guéra and Ouaddaï Massifs in Chad: evolution of Proterozoic crust in the Central Sahara Shield, 2021, South African Journal of Geology
  • Crustal eduction and slab-failure magmatism in an Orosirian (2.05-1.80 Ga) postcollisional cratonic foredeep: geochronology of Seton volcanics and Compton laccoliths, Tu Cho (Great Slave Lake), NWT, Canada, 2023, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Throughout their career, Bowring frequently collaborated with several researchers including Jahandar Ramezani, Matthew Rioux, Robert Buchwaldt, Hervé Martin, and Joshua M. Garber.

Their work earned recognition through multiple honors and fellowships:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
  • Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry (2011)
  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2008)

Best Publications

  • U-Pb ages from the neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China

    Daniel Condon;Maoyan Zhu;Samuel Bowring;Wei Wang

  • Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction

    Shu-zhong Shen;James L. Crowley;James L. Crowley;Yue Wang;Samuel A. Bowring

  • Biostratigraphic and Geochronologic Constraints on Early Animal Evolution

    John P. Grotzinger;Samuel A. Bowring;Beverly Z. Saylor;Alan J. Kaufman

  • U/Pb zircon geochronology and tempo of the end-permian mass extinction

    SA Bowring;DH Erwin;Yg (金玉玕) Jin;MW Martin

  • Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

    Gordon D. Love;Gordon D. Love;Emmanuelle Grosjean;Charlotte Stalvies;David A. Fike

  • Calibrating rates of early Cambrian evolution.

    Samuel A. Bowring;John P. Grotzinger;Clark E. Isachsen;Andrew H. Knoll

  • High-precision timeline for Earth's most severe extinction

    Seth D. Burgess;Samuel A. Bowring;Shu-zhong Shen

  • Priscoan (4.00–4.03 Ga) orthogneisses from northwestern Canada

    Samuel A. Bowring;Ian S. Williams

  • U-Pb zircon date from the Neoproterozoic Ghaub Formation, Namibia: Constraints on Marinoan glaciation

    K.-H. Hoffmann;D.J. Condon;S.A. Bowring;J.L. Crowley

  • Extinction of Cloudina and Namacalathus at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in Oman

    Joachim E. Amthor;John P. Grotzinger;Stefan Schröder;Samuel A. Bowring

  • 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

  • Reassessing the uranium decay constants for geochronology using ID-TIMS U–Pb data

    Blair Schoene;James L. Crowley;Daniel J. Condon;Mark D. Schmitz

  • An empirical evaluation of the argon diffusion geometry in muscovite

    W.E. Hames;S.A. Bowring

  • The role of an H2O-rich fluid component in the generation of primitive basaltic andesites and andesites from the Mt. Shasta region, N California

    T. L. Grove;S. W. Parman;S. A. Bowring;R. C. Price

  • High-precision geochronology confirms voluminous magmatism before, during, and after Earth's most severe extinction.

    Seth D. Burgess;Samuel A. Bowring

  • U-Pb geochronology of the Deccan Traps and relation to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

    Blair Schoene;Kyle M. Samperton;Michael P. Eddy;Gerta Keller

  • Evolution of the 87Sr/86Sr composition of Neoproterozoic seawater

    Galen P. Halverson;Francis Ö. Dudás;Adam C. Maloof;Samuel A. Bowring

  • Geochronologic constraints on the chronostratigraphic framework of the Neoproterozoic Huqf Supergroup, Sultanate of Oman

    Samuel A Bowring;John P Grotzinger;Daniel J Condon;Jahandar Ramezani

  • Metrology and traceability of U-Pb isotope dilution geochronology (EARTHTIME Tracer Calibration Part I)

    Daniel Condon;Blair Schoene;Noah McLean;Samuel Bowring

  • Age of Neoproterozoic Bilatarian Body and Trace Fossils, White Sea, Russia: Implications for Metazoan Evolution

    M. W. Martin;D. V. Grazhdankin;S. A. Bowring;D. A. D. Evans

  • The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change

    Adam C. Maloof;Susannah M. Porter;John L. Moore;Frank Ö Dudás

Frequent Co-Authors

Blair Schoene
Blair Schoene Princeton University
James L. Crowley
James L. Crowley Boise State University
Mark D. Schmitz
Mark D. Schmitz Boise State University
Daniel J. Condon
Daniel J. Condon British Geological Survey
Richard E. Hanson
Richard E. Hanson Texas Christian University
Douglas H. Erwin
Douglas H. Erwin National Museum of Natural History
Ed Landing
Ed Landing Columbia University in the City of New York
Rebecca M. Flowers
Rebecca M. Flowers University of Colorado Boulder
Shu-zhong Shen
Shu-zhong Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences

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