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William C. Mahaney

William C. Mahaney

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Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
6108
World Ranking
6424
National Ranking
333

Overview

William C. Mahaney is affiliated with York University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Anthropology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geophysics.

The main focus of Mahaney's work lies in areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Planetary Science and Exploration, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Astro and Planetary Science, Geological formations and processes, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Mahaney's recent publications include:

  • Late Pleistocene Glacial-Paleosol-cosmic record of the Viso Massif-France and Italy: New evidence in support of the Younger Dryas boundary (12.8 ka), 2022, International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • The Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB): terrestrial, cosmic, or both?, 2023, International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Clast rind-paleosol record of the Antarctic early Alpine glaciation, 2021, Polar Science

In addition to these, papers where Mahaney is a co-author or featured prominently include:

  • Basal debris of the NEEM ice core, Greenland: a window into sub-ice-sheet geology, basal ice processes and ice-sheet oscillations, 2023, Journal of Glaciology
  • Chicxulub-like Gale impact into an ocean/land interface on Mars: An explanation for the formation of Mount Sharp, 2022, Icarus

Mahaney regularly collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including Peeter Somelar, J. M. Dohm, Wolfgang Fink, J. P. Williams, and R. G. V. Hancock. The frequency of their collaborations ranges up to five joint publications.

The most common venues for Mahaney's publications include:

  • International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Icarus
  • Archaeometry
  • Geologos
  • Studia Quaternaria

Best Publications

  • Geophagy among primates: adaptive significance and ecological consequences.

    R. Krishnamani;William C. Mahaney

  • Geochemistry and mineralogy of soils eaten by humans

    S. Aufreiter;R. G. V. Hancock;W. C. Mahaney;A. Stambolic-Robb

  • Comparative scanning electron microscopy study of oriented till blocks, glacial grains and Devonian sands in Estonia and Latvia

    William C. Mahaney;Volli Kalm

  • Microtextural characteristics of quartz grains transported and deposited by tsunamis and storms

    Pedro J.M. Costa;C. Andrade;A.G. Dawson;W.C. Mahaney

  • Geochemistry and clay mineralogy of termite mound soil and the role of geophagy in chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania

    William C. Mahaney;R. G. V. Hancock;Susan Aufreiter;Michael A. Huffman

  • Aeolian microtextures in silica spheres induced in a wind tunnel experiment: Comparison with aeolian quartz

    P.J.M. Costa;C. Andrade;W.C. Mahaney;F. Marques da Silva

  • Quantification of SEM microtextures useful in sedimentary environmental discrimination

    William C. Mahaney;Andrew Stewart;Volli Kalm

  • Chemistry, mineralogy and microbiology of termite mound soil eaten by the chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, Western Tanzania

    William C. Mahaney;Jessica Zippin;Michael W. Milner;Kandiah Sanmugadas

  • Microtextures on quartz grains in tills from Antarctica

    William C. Mahaney;Graeme Claridge;Iain Campbell

  • Mineral and chemical analyses of soils eaten by humans in Indonesia

    William C. Mahaney;Michael W. Milner;Mulyono Hs;R. G. V. Hancock

  • Pleistocene and Holocene glacier thicknesses, transport histories and dynamics inferred from SEM microtextures on quartz particles

    William C. Mahaney

  • Relative differences between glacially crushed quartz transported by mountain and continental ice; some examples from North America and East Africa

    W. C. Mahaney;W. Vortisch;Patrick J. Julig

  • Bayesian chronological analyses consistent with synchronous age of 12,835–12,735 Cal B.P. for Younger Dryas boundary on four continents

    James P. Kennett;Douglas J. Kennett;Brendan J. Culleton;J. Emili Aura Tortosa

  • Geophagia by mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) in the Virunga Mountains, Rwanda

    William C. Mahaney;David P. Watts;R. G. V. Hancock

  • Analysis of Geophagy Soils in Kibale Forest, Uganda

    William C. Mahaney;Michael W. Milner;Kandiah Sanmugadas;R. G. V. Hancock

  • Mountain gorilla geophagy: A possible seasonal behavior for dealing with the effects of dietary changes

    William C. Mahaney;S. Aufreiter;R. G. V. Hancock

  • Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago. 2. Lake, Marine, and Terrestrial Sediments

    Wendy S. Wolbach;Joanne P. Ballard;Paul A. Mayewski;Andrew C. Parnell

  • Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago. 1. Ice Cores and Glaciers

    Wendy S. Wolbach;Joanne P. Ballard;Paul A. Mayewski;Victor Adedeji

  • CRE dating on the head scarp of a major landslide (Séchilienne, French Alps), age constraints on Holocene kinematics

    Olivier Le Roux;Stéphane Schwartz;Jean François Gamond;Denis Jongmans

  • GRS evidence and the possibility of paleooceans on Mars

    James M. Dohm;Victor R. Baker;William V. Boynton;Alberto G. Fairén

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Dohm
James M. Dohm University of Tokyo
Alberto G. Fairén
Alberto G. Fairén Cornell University
Pierre Tricart
Pierre Tricart Joseph Fourier University
Victor R. Baker
Victor R. Baker University of Arizona
Hideaki Miyamoto
Hideaki Miyamoto University of Tokyo
Stéphane Schwartz
Stéphane Schwartz Grenoble Alpes University
David Krinsley
David Krinsley University of Oregon
Alfonso F. Davila
Alfonso F. Davila Ames Research Center
Robert C. Anderson
Robert C. Anderson California Institute of Technology
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Dirk Schulze-Makuch Technical University of Berlin

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