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Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
4916
World Ranking
6567
National Ranking
2322

Best Publications

  • The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change

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

  • Testate amoebae in the Neoproterozoic Era: evidence from vase-shaped microfossils in the Chuar Group, Grand Canyon

    Susannah M. Porter;Andrew H. Knoll

  • Vase-shaped Microfossils from the Neoproterozoic Chuar Group, Grand Canyon: A Classification Guided by Modern Testate Amoebae

    Susannah M. Porter;Susannah M. Porter;Ralf Meisterfeld;Andrew H. Knoll

  • An emerging picture of Neoproterozoic ocean chemistry: Insights from the Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, USA

    David Thomas Johnston;Simon W. Poulton;Carol Dehler;Susannah Porter

  • Seawater Chemistry and Early Carbonate Biomineralization

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  • Chuar Group of the Grand Canyon: record of breakup of Rodinia, associated change in the global carbon cycle, and ecosystem expansion by 740 Ma

    Karl E. Karlstrom;Samuel A. Bowring;Carol M. Dehler;Andrew H. Knoll

  • Constraints on early Cambrian carbon cycling from the duration of the Nemakit-Daldynian–Tommotian boundary δ13C shift, Morocco

    Adam C. Maloof;Jahandar Ramezani;Samuel A. Bowring;David A. Fike

  • Calcite and aragonite seas and the<i>de novo</i>acquisition of carbonate skeletons

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  • On the co-evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals.

    Devon B. Cole;Daniel B. Mills;Douglas H. Erwin;Douglas H. Erwin;Erik A. Sperling

  • Biomineralization by particle attachment in early animals

    Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert;Susannah M. Porter;Chang-Yu Sun;Shuhai Xiao

  • Biomineralization by particle attachment in early animals

    Pupa Gilbert;Susannah Porter;Chang-Yu Sun;Shuhai Xiao

  • Vase-shaped microfossils from the Neoproterozoic Chuar Group, Grand Canyon: A classification guided by modern testate amoebae

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  • Early sponges and toxic protists: possible sources of cryostane, an age diagnostic biomarker antedating Sturtian Snowball Earth.

    J. J. Brocks;A. J. M. Jarrett;E. Sirantoine;F. Kenig

  • Insights into eukaryogenesis from the fossil record

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  • Atmosphere-ocean oxygen and productivity dynamics during early animal radiations.

    Tais W. Dahl;James N. Connelly;Da Li;Artem Kouchinsky

  • The rise of predators

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  • Chemostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic Cap Carbonates from the Volta Basin, West Africa

    Susannah M. Porter;Andrew H. Knoll;Pascal Affaton

  • A new rock-based definition for the Cryogenian Period (circa 720 - 635 Ma)

    Graham A. Shields-Zhou;Susannah Porter;Galen P. Halverson

  • The fossil record of early eukaryotic diversification

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  • Chapter 10 Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biogeochemical Evolution

    Galen P. Halverson;Matthew T. Hurtgen;Susannah M. Porter;Alan S. Collins

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