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Stephen Kershaw is affiliated with Brunel University London in the United Kingdom and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research portfolio includes a substantial number of publications, with a focus on paleontology and related geological disciplines.

Their work covers various subfields within Earth and Planetary Sciences, notably Paleontology, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Geophysics. Major research topics include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Geological formations and processes, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Marine Sponges and Natural Products.

Stephen Kershaw has contributed to multiple scientific publications, often collaborating with notable co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Kun Liang, Consuelo Sendino, Juwan Jeon, Jiayuan Huang, and Yuandong Zhang.

Common venues for their research include:

  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Facies
  • Journal of Paleontology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kershaw cover a range of topics and geological periods:

  • Keratose sponges in ancient carbonates - A problem of interpretation, 2022, Sedimentology
  • Microbialite development through the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in China: Distribution, characteristics, and paleoceanographic implications, 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • The Jiwozhai patch reef: A palaeobiodiversity hotspot in middle Givetian (Devonian) of South China, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Addressing a Phanerozoic carbonate facies conundrum-sponges or clotted micrite? Evidence from Early Silurian reefs, South China Block, 2021, The Sedimentary Record
  • Fossil brachiopod identification using a new deep convolutional neural network, 2021, Gondwana Research

Best Publications

  • A ?microbialite carbonate crust at the Permian–Triassic boundary in South China, and its palaeoenvironmental significance

    Stephen Kershaw;Tingshan Zhang;Guangzhi Lan

  • Microbialites and global environmental change across the Permian-Triassic boundary: a synthesis.

    Stephen Kershaw;Sylvie Crasquin;Y. Li;Pierre-Yves Collin

  • Late Pleistocene to Holocene record of changing uplift rates in southern Calabria and northeastern Sicily (southern Italy, Central Mediterranean Sea)

    Fabrizio Antonioli;Luigi Ferranti;Kurt Lambeck;Steve Kershaw

  • Relative sea-level fall since the last interglacial stage: Are coasts uplifting worldwide?

    Kevin Pedoja;Laurent Husson;Laurent Husson;Vincent Regard;Vincent Regard;Peter Robert Cobbold

  • Earliest Triassic microbialites in the South China block and other areas: controls on their growth and distribution

    Steve Kershaw;Yue Li;Sylvie Crasquin-Soleau;Qinglai Feng

  • Classification and geological significance of biostromes

    Stephen Kershaw

  • Elevation of the last interglacial highstand in Sicily (Italy): A benchmark of coastal tectonics

    F. Antonioli;S. Kershaw;P. Renda;Derek Rust

  • The contribution of regional uplift and coseismic slip to the vertical crustal motion in the Messina Straits, southern Italy: Evidence from raised Late Holocene shorelines

    Luigi Ferranti;Carmelo Monaco;Fabrizio Antonioli;Laura Maschio

  • Holocene tectonic uplift patterns in northeastern Sicily: evidence from marine notches in coastal outcrops

    Derek Rust;Stephen Kershaw

  • In the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction: the microbialite refuge?

    Marie-Béatrice Forel;Sylvie Crasquin;Steve Kershaw;Pierre-Yves Collin

  • Parameterization of stromatoporoid shape

    Stephen Kershaw;Robert RlDING

  • Cavities and cryptic faunas beneath non‐reef stromatoporoids

    Stephen Kershaw

  • Modern carbonate ooids preserve ambient aqueous REE signatures

    Fei Li;Fei Li;Gregory E. Webb;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Stephen Kershaw

  • Holocene coastal uplift in the taormina area, northeastern sicily: Implications for the southern prolongation of the calabrian seismogenic belt

    I.S. Stewart;A. Cundy;S. Kershaw;C. Firth

  • Coastal elevation changes in eastern Sicily: implications for volcano instability at Mount Etna

    Callum Firth;I. Stewart;W.J. McGuire;S. Kershaw

  • Shallow-marine dysoxia across the Permian–Triassic boundary: Evidence from pyrite framboids in the microbialite in South China

    Wei Liao;Yongbiao Wang;Stephen Kershaw;Zeting Weng

  • Stromatoporoid palaeobiology and taphonomy in a Silurian biostrome on Gotland, Sweden

    Stephen Kershaw

  • Early Triassic stromatolites in a siliciclastic nearshore setting in northern Perth Basin, Western Australia: Geobiologic features and implications for post-extinction microbial proliferation

    Zhong-Qiang Chen;Yongbiao Wang;Stephen Kershaw;Mao Luo

  • Earliest Triassic microbialites in Çürük Dag, southern Turkey: composition, sequences and controls on formation

    Steve Kershaw;Sylvie Crasquin;Marie-Béatrice Forel;Carine Randon

  • Patterns of stromatoporoid growth in level-bottom environments

    Stephen Kershaw

  • Stromatoporoid-coral intergrowths in a Silurian biostrome

    Stephen Kershaw

  • Stromatoporoid growth form and taxonomy in a Silurian biostrome, Gotland

    Stephen Kershaw

  • Ostracods (Crustacea) and water oxygenation in the earliest Triassic of South China: implications for oceanic events at the end-Permian mass extinction

    M.B. Forel;Sylvie Crasquin;S. Kershaw;Q. Feng

  • Palaeozoic stromatoporoid taphonomy: ecologic and environmental significance

    Stephen Kershaw;Frank R Brunton

  • Permian–Triassic boundary microbialites at Zuodeng Section, Guangxi Province, South China: Geobiology and palaeoceanographic implications

    Yuheng Fang;Zhong-Qiang Chen;Stephen Kershaw;Hao Yang

  • Stromatoporoid-coral intergrowths in a Silurian biostrome

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  • A Transient ElectroMagnetic (TEM) Method Survey in North-Central Coast of Crete, Greece: Evidence of Seawater Intrusion

    Despina Kalisperi;Maria Kouli;Filippos Vallianatos;Pantelis Soupios

  • Molecular records of microbialites following the end-Permian mass extinction in Chongyang, Hubei Province, South China

    Lin Chen;Yongbiao Wang;Shucheng Xie;Stephen Kershaw

  • Microbial response to limited nutrients in shallow water immediately after the end‐Permian mass extinction

    C. Jia;J. Huang;S. Kershaw;G. Luo

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhong-Qiang Chen
Zhong-Qiang Chen China University of Geosciences
Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
Joachim Reitner
Joachim Reitner University of Göttingen
Vincent Regard
Vincent Regard Paul Sabatier University
Joseph Martinod
Joseph Martinod University of Savoy Mont Blanc - Chambery
Lars E. Holmer
Lars E. Holmer Uppsala University
Shucheng Xie
Shucheng Xie China University of Geosciences
Laurent Husson
Laurent Husson Grenoble Alpes University
Rudy Swennen
Rudy Swennen KU Leuven
Maggie Cusack
Maggie Cusack University of Stirling

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