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William A. Cobban publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William A. Cobban sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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William A. Cobban D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William A. Cobban sits on this spectrum.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1982 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William A. Cobban was affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their scientific contributions were situated within this institution during their career.

Throughout their professional life, William A. Cobban received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1982.

Details about their main fields of study, frequent co-authors, recent papers, frequent publication venues, book publications, subfields of study, and main research topics are not publicly documented in the available data.

Best Publications

  • A USGS Zonal Table for the Upper Cretaceous Middle Cenomanian--Maastrichtian of the Western Interior of the United States Based on Ammonites, Inoceramids, and Radiometric Ages

    William A. Cobban;Ireneusz Walaszczyk;John D. Obradovich;Kevin C. McKinney

  • CORRELATION OF THE CRETACEOUS FORMATIONS OF THE WESTERN INTERIOR OF THE UNITED STATES

    William A Cobban;John B Reeside

  • The Red Bird section of the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale in Wyoming, with a section on a new echinoid from the Cretaceous Pierre Shale of eastern Wyoming

    J.R. Gill;W.A. Cobban;P.M. Kier

  • Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Montana group and equivalent rocks, Montana, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota

    James R. Gill;William Aubrey Cobban

  • Stratigraphy and ammonite fauna of the Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Limestone near Pueblo, Colorado

    William Aubrey Cobban;G.R. Scott

  • The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Turonian Stage of the Cretaceous: Pueblo, Colorado, U.S.A.

    W.J. Kennedy;I. Walaszczyk;W.A. Cobban

  • Pueblo, Colorado, USA, candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Turonian Stage of the Cretaceous, and for the base of the Middle Turonian Substage, with a revision of the Inoceramidae (Bivalvia)

    William J. Kennedy;Ireneusz Walaszczyk;William A. Cobban

  • The Red Bird section of the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale in Wyoming

    J. R. Gill;W. A. Cobban;P. M. Kier

  • Effect of diagenesis on the Sr, O, and C isotope composition of late Cretaceous mollusks from the Western Interior Seaway of North America

    J. Kirk Cochran;Kristal Kallenberg;Neil H. Landman;Peter J. Harries

  • Studies of the Mowry shale (Cretaceous) and contemporary formations in the United States and Canada

    John B. Reeside;William Aubrey Cobban

  • Stratigraphy and interregional correlation of the Cenomanian-Turonian transition in the Western Interior of the United States near Pueblo, Colorado, a potential boundary stratotype for the base of the Turonian stage

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  • The Late Cretaceous ammonites Scaphites leei Reeside and Scaphites hippocrepis (DeKay) in the western interior of the United States

    William Aubrey Cobban

  • Mode of life and habitat of scaphitid ammonites

    Neil H. Landman;William A. Cobban;Neal L. Larson

  • Stratigraphy and nomenclature of some Upper Cretaceous and lower Tertiary rocks in south-central Wyoming

    James R. Gill;E.A. Merewether;William Aubrey Cobban

  • Mid-Cretaceous ammonite zones, Western Interior, United States

    William A. Cobban

  • Ammonite correlation of the uppermost Campanian of Western Europe, the U.S.Gulf Coast, Atlantic Seaboard and Western Interior, and the numerical age of the base of the Maastrichtian

    W. J. Kennedy;W. A. Cobban;G. R. Scott

  • Stratigraphy of the Niobrara Formation at Pueblo, Colorado

    G.R. Scott;W.A. Cobban

  • Scaphites of the “Nodosus Group” from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of the Western Interior of North America

    Neil H. Landman;W. James Kennedy;William A. Cobban;Neal L. Larson

  • The Manson Impact Structure: 40Ar/39Ar Age and Its Distal Impact Ejecta in the Pierre Shale in Southeastern South Dakota.

    G.A. Izett;W. A. Cobban;J. D. Obradovich;Michael J. Kunk

  • Maastrichtian ammonites chiefly from the Prairie Bluff Chalk in Alabama and Mississippi

    W. A. Cobban;W. J. Kennedy

  • Scaphitoid cephalopods of the Colorado group

    W.A. Cobban

  • Colorado Shale of Central and Northwestern Montana and Equivalent Rocks of Black Hills

    William Aubrey Cobban

Frequent Co-Authors

William James Kennedy
William James Kennedy University of Oxford
Neil H. Landman
Neil H. Landman American Museum of Natural History
Andrew S. Gale
Andrew S. Gale University of Portsmouth
Kazushige Tanabe
Kazushige Tanabe University of Tokyo
James S. Crampton
James S. Crampton Victoria University of Wellington
J. Kirk Cochran
J. Kirk Cochran Stony Brook University
Kirk R. Johnson
Kirk R. Johnson National Museum of Natural History
Karl K. Turekian
Karl K. Turekian Yale University

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