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Timothy D. Raub is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on paleontology, geochemistry, and geophysics. Their research spans various subfields, including paleontology, geochemistry and petrology, geophysics, astronomy and astrophysics, and mechanics of materials.

The scientist's work covers main topics such as paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, astro and planetary science, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, as well as geologic mapping and geological and geophysical studies.

Recent publications by Timothy D. Raub include the following:

  • Reexamination of 2.5-Ga "whiff" of oxygen interval points to anoxic ocean before GOE, 2022, Science Advances
  • Geochemical fingerprints of seawater in the Late Mesoproterozoic Midcontinent Rift, North America: Life at the marine-land divide, 2020, Chemical Geology
  • Response to comment on "Reexamination of 2.5-Ga 'whiff' of oxygen interval points to anoxic ocean before GOE", 2023, Science Advances
  • Fluid Flow, Alteration, and Timing of Cu-Ag Mineralization at the White Pine Sediment-Hosted Copper Deposit, Michigan, USA, 2023, Economic Geology
  • High-Resolution Late Devonian Magnetostratigraphy From the Canning Basin, Western Australia: A Re-Evaluation, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science

Timothy D. Raub frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Science Advances
  • Chemical Geology
  • Economic Geology
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • American Mineralogist

Collaborations feature repeatedly with several co-authors, including Sarah P. Slotznick, Joseph L. Kirschvink, Jena E. Johnson, Birger Rasmussen, and Samuel M. Webb.

Best Publications

  • Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota

    Judy P. Pu;Judy P. Pu;Samuel A. Bowring;Jahandar Ramezani;Paul Myrow

  • Rapid, precise, and high‐sensitivity acquisition of paleomagnetic and rock‐magnetic data: Development of a low‐noise automatic sample changing system for superconducting rock magnetometers

    Joseph L. Kirschvink;Robert E. Kopp;Robert E. Kopp;Timothy D. Raub;Christopher T. Baumgartner

  • Extinction patterns, δ18 O trends, and magnetostratigraphy from a southern high-latitude Cretaceous–Paleogene section: Links with Deccan volcanism

    Thomas S. Tobin;Peter D. Ward;Eric J. Steig;Eduardo B. Olivero

  • Proterozoic onset of crustal reworking and collisional tectonics: Reappraisal of the zircon oxygen isotope record

    Christopher J. Spencer;Peter A. Cawood;Chris J. Hawkesworth;Timothy D. Raub

  • Unique Neoproterozoic carbon isotope excursions sustained by coupled evaporite dissolution and pyrite burial

    Graham A. Shields;Benjamin J. W. Mills;Maoyan Zhu;Timothy D. Raub

  • An Appalachian Amazon? Magnetofossil evidence for the development of a tropical river-like system in the mid-Atlantic United States during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum

    Robert E. Kopp;Dirk Schumann;Timothy D. Raub;David S. Powars

  • Paleomagnetism of the late Cryogenian Nantuo Formation and paleogeographic implications for the South China Block

    Shihong Zhang;David A.D. Evans;Haiyan Li;Huaichun Wu

  • Zn isotope evidence for immediate resumption of primary productivity after snowball Earth

    Marcus Kunzmann;Galen P. Halverson;Galen P. Halverson;Paolo A. Sossi;Timothy D. Raub

  • Globally synchronous Marinoan deglaciation indicated by U-Pb geochronology of the Cottons Breccia, Tasmania, Australia

    C.R. Calver;J.L. Crowley;Michael Wingate;Michael Wingate;D.A.D. Evans

  • The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits

    A. Cohen;Christopher Campisano;Ramon Arrowsmith;A. Asrat

  • Reexamination of 2.5-Ga “whiff” of oxygen interval points to anoxic ocean before GOE

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  • Geology and geochronology of the Tana Basin, Ethiopia: LIP volcanism, super eruptions and Eocene-Oligocene environmental change

    A. R. Prave;C. R. Bates;C. H. Donaldson;Harry Toland

  • A methane fuse for the Cambrian explosion: carbon cycles and true polar wander

    Joseph L. Kirschvink;Joseph L. Kirschvink;Timothy D. Raub

  • Correlation of Sturtian diamictite successions in southern Australia and northwestern Tasmania by Re-Os black shale geochronology and the ambiguity of "Sturtian"-type diamictite-cap carbonate pairs as chronostratigraphic marker horizons

    Brian Kendall;Brian Kendall;Robert A. Creaser;Clive R. Calver;Timothy D. Raub

  • Magnetofossil spike during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: Ferromagnetic resonance, rock magnetic, and electron microscopy evidence from Ancora, New Jersey, United States

    Robert E. Kopp;Timothy D. Raub;Dirk Schumann;Hojatollah Vali

  • Neoproterozoic cap-dolostone deposition in stratified glacial meltwater plume

    Chao Liu;Zhengrong Wang;Timothy D. Raub;Francis A. Macdonald

  • Gigantism in unique biogenic magnetite at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.

    Dirk Schumann;Timothy D. Raub;Robert E. Kopp;Jean-Luc Guerquin-Kern

  • Evidence for melting mud in Earth's mantle from extreme oxygen isotope signatures in zircon

    Christopher J. Spencer;Aaron J. Cavosie;Aaron J. Cavosie;Timothy D. Raub;Hugh Rollinson

  • SQUID–SIMS is a useful approach to uncover primary signals in the Archean sulfur cycle

    Woodward W. Fischer;David A. Fike;Jena E. Johnson;Timothy D. Raub;Timothy D. Raub

  • Palaeomagnetic analyses of calcified deposits from the Plio-Pleistocene hominid site of Kromdraai, South Africa

    J. F. Thackeray;Joseph L. Kirschvink;Timothy D. Raub

  • Triple oxygen isotope variations in sedimentary rocks

    Naomi E. Levin;Timothy D. Raub;Nicolas Dauphas;John M. Eiler

  • Un fusible de méthane pour l'explosion cambrienne : les cycles du carbone et dérive des pôles

    Joseph L. Kirschvink;Timothy D. Raub

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph L. Kirschvink
Joseph L. Kirschvink California Institute of Technology
Robert E. Kopp
Robert E. Kopp Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Christopher J. Spencer
Christopher J. Spencer Queen's University
David Evans
David Evans Yale University
Anthony R. Prave
Anthony R. Prave University of St Andrews
Woodward W. Fischer
Woodward W. Fischer California Institute of Technology
Ross N. Mitchell
Ross N. Mitchell Chinese Academy of Sciences
John M. Eiler
John M. Eiler California Institute of Technology
Monica M. Grady
Monica M. Grady The Open University
Hojatollah Vali
Hojatollah Vali McGill University

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