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William K. Hart is affiliated with Miami University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, encompassing a range of subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, and Geology. Their work addresses diverse topics related to geology, geochemistry, paleoclimatology, and archaeology.

The scientist's publication record includes significant contributions to multiple areas, particularly focusing on geological and geochemical analysis, mapping, and exploration. Key research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration

William K. Hart's recent scholarly papers highlight their engagement with geological formations and the broader implications of geochronology and stratigraphy. Notable papers include:

  • Geochemical and Stratigraphic Analysis of the Chisana Formation, Wrangellia Terrane, Eastern Alaska: Insights Into Early Cretaceous Magmatism and Tectonics Along the Northern Cordilleran Margin, 2020, published in Tectonics
  • Integrative geochronology calibrates the Middle and Late Stone Ages of Ethiopia's Afar Rift, 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • GEOCHEMICAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE CHISANA FORMATION, INSULAR TERRANES, EASTERN ALASKA: EARLY CRETACEOUS MAGMATISM AND TECTONICS ALONG THE NORTHERN CORDILLERAN MARGIN, 2020, published in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • PRIMITIVE HIGH-AL OLIVINE THOLEIITES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST REVISITED - INSIGHTS FROM COMBINED ELEMENTAL AND ISOTOPIC DATA, 2021, published in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • NEW MAPPING AND TEPHROCHRONOLOGY AT HAGERMAN FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT, IDAHO, USA - A PROJECT DECADES IN THE MAKING, 2021, published in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, which accounts for the majority of their publications. Other notable publication venues include Tectonics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Human Evolution.

Throughout their career, William K. Hart has collaborated repeatedly with several researchers, indicating established partnerships in their scientific endeavors. Frequent co-authors include Elmira Wan, Laura C. Walkup, Kari A. Prassack, Mark E. Stelten, and Anthony F. Pivarunas.

Best Publications

  • Environment and Behavior of 2.5-Million-Year-Old Bouri Hominids

    Jean de Heinzelin;J. Desmond Clark;Tim White;William Hart

  • The characteristics and chronology of the earliest Acheulean at Konso, Ethiopia

    Yonas Beyene;Shigehiro Katoh;Giday WoldeGabriel;William K. Hart

  • Stratigraphic, chronological and behavioural contexts of Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia.

    J. Desmond Clark;Yonas Beyene;Giday WoldeGabriel;William K. Hart

  • Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia

    Berhane Asfaw;W. Henry Gilbert;Yonas Beyene;William K. Hart

  • Ecological and temporal placement of early Pliocene hominids at Aramis, Ethiopia

    Giday WoldeGabriel;Tim D. White;Gen Suwa;Paul Renne

  • Basaltic volcanism in Ethiopia: Constraints on continental rifting and mantle interactions

    William K. Hart;Giday WoldeGabriel;Robert C. Walter;Stanley A. Mertzman

  • Asa Issie, Aramis and the origin of Australopithecus

    Tim D. White;Tim D. White;Giday WoldeGabriel;Berhane Asfaw;Stan Ambrose

  • Geology and palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash valley, Afar rift, Ethiopia

    Giday WoldeGabriel;Yohannes Haile-Selassie;Paul R. Renne;William K. Hart

  • African Homo erectus: old radiometric ages and young Oldowan assemblages in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia.

    J. D. Clark;J. de Heinzelin;K. D. Schick;W. K. Hart

  • Crustal genesis on the Oregon Plateau

    Richard W. Carlson;William K. Hart

  • New discoveries of Australopithecus at Maka in Ethiopia

    T D White;G Suwa;W K Hart;R C Walter

  • New age constraints on the timing of volcanism and tectonism in the northern Main Ethiopian Rift southern Afar transition zone (Ethiopia)

    Tadiwos Chernet;William K. Hart;James L. Aronson;Robert C. Walter

  • Use of probability distribution functions for discriminating between cloud and aerosol in lidar backscatter data

    Zhaoyan Liu;Mark A. Vaughan;David M. Winker;Chris A. Hostetler

  • The geological, isotopic, botanical, invertebrate, and lower vertebrate surroundings of Ardipithecus ramidus.

    Giday WoldeGabriel;Stanley H. Ambrose;Doris Barboni;Raymonde Bonnefille

  • Areal distribution and age of low-K, high-alumina olivine tholeiite magmatism in the northwestern Great Basin

    William K. Hart;James L. Aronson;Stanley A. Mertzman

  • Chronostratigraphy of the Miocene-Pliocene Sagantole Formation, Middle Awash Valley, Afar rift, Ethiopia

    Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne;Giday WoldeGabriel;William K. Hart;Grant Heiken

  • Chemical and isotopic evidence for mixing between depleted and enriched mantle, northwestern U.S.A.

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  • Distribution and geochronology of Oregon Plateau (U.S.A.) flood basalt volcanism: The Steens Basalt revisited

    Matthew E. Brueseke;Matthew T. Heizler;William K. Hart;Stanley A. Mertzman

  • Lithosphere-scale thrusting in the western U.S. Cordillera as constrained by Sr and Nd isotopic transitions in Neogene volcanic rocks

    William P. Leeman;John S. Oldow;William K. Hart

  • Flood Basalt Volcanism in the Northwestern United States

    Richard W. Carlson;William K. Hart

  • Early Pleistocene Homo erectus fossils from Konso, southern Ethiopia

    Gen Suwa;Berhane Asfaw;Yohannes Haile-Selassie;Tim White

  • Mio-Pliocene mammals from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia

    Yohannes Haile-Selassie;Giday Woldegabriel;Tim D White;Raymond L Bernor

  • Radiogenic Os in primitive basalts from the northwestern U.S.A.: Implications for petrogenesis

    William K. Hart;Richard W. Carlson;Steven B. Shirey

Frequent Co-Authors

Giday WoldeGabriel
Giday WoldeGabriel Los Alamos National Laboratory
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Gen Suwa
Gen Suwa University of Tokyo
Richard W. Carlson
Richard W. Carlson Carnegie Institution for Science
Grant Heiken
Grant Heiken Los Alamos National Laboratory
Stanley H. Ambrose
Stanley H. Ambrose University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stanley A. Mertzman
Stanley A. Mertzman Franklin & Marshall College
Nicholas J. G. Pearce
Nicholas J. G. Pearce Aberystwyth University
Brian S. Currie
Brian S. Currie Miami University

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