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Molecular Paleontology and the Stratigraphic Record
The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Research on Terminal Proterozoic Evolution and the Coevolution of Life and Environments

Molecular Paleontology and the Stratigraphic Record top
Banfield, J.F., & Marshall, C.R. (2000). Genomics and the geosciences. Science, 287: 605-606.


Marshall, C.R. (1999). Fossil gap analysis supports early Tertiary origin of trophically diverse avian orders: Comment. Geology, 27(1): 95.


Marshall, C.R. (1999). Missing links in the history of life. In: J.W. Schopf (Ed.), Evolution: Facts and Falacies (pp. 37-69). New York: Academic Press.


Marshall, C.R., Alroy, J., & the NCEAS Phanerozoic Diversity Group. (1999). Toward a sample-standardized Phanerozoic diversity curve [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A-336.


Marshall, C.R., Orr, H.A., & Patel, N.H. (1999). Morphological innovation and developmental genetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 96: 9995-9996.


Weiss, R.E., & Marshall, C.R. (1999). The uncertainity in the true end point of a fossil's stratigraphic range when stratigraphic sections are sampled discretely. Mathematical Geology, 31(4): 435-453.


Marshall, C.R., & Weiss, R.E. (1999). Incorporating abundance data in Bayesian analysis of times of origination and extinction of species from discretely samples local sections [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A-336.


Marshall, C.R., & Weiss, R.E. (1999). Incorporating abundance data in Bayesian analysis of times of origination and extinction of species from discretely samples local sections [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A-336.


Project: Redox-Sensitive Metals and Environmental Evolution Anbar, A.D., & Knoll, A.H. (1999). Trace metal limitation of primary production 1.85- 1.25 Ga. [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.


Anbar, A.D., Roe, J.E., Barling, J., & Nealson, K.H. (2000). Nonbiological fract-ionation of iron isotopes. Science, 288: 126-128.


Barling, J., Ravizza, G., Tuit, C., & Anbar, A.D. (2000). Fractionation of molybdenum isotopes in Black Sea sediments [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C.


 
The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Research on Terminal Proterozoic Evolution and the Coevolution of Life and Environments top
Grotzinger, J.P., & Chan, K. (1999). Stromatolite Morphogenesis [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A393


Grotzinger, J.P., & Knoll, A.H. (1999). Stromatolites in Precambrian carbonates: Evolutionary mileposts or environmental dipsticks? Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 27: 313-58.


Grotzinger, J.P., Knoll, A.H., & Watters, W.A. (In Press, 2000). Calcified metazoans in thrombolite-stromatilite reefs of the Terminal Proterozoic Nama Grou, Namibia. [Journal name not known]


Halverson, G. P., Hoffman, P. F., & Soffer, G. (1999). Stratigraphy and Carbon Isotopic Record through the Neoproterozoic Rasthoff Formation Cap Carbonate, Otavi Group, Northwest Namibia [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A486.


Halverson, G.P., Kaufman, A.J., Hoffman, P.F., & Soffer, G. (1999). Stratigraphy and carbon isotopic record through the Neoproterozoic Rasthoff Formation cap carbonate, Otavi Group, NW Namibia. [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs (p. A-486).


Hayes, J.M., Bian, L., Hinrichs, K-U., Xie, T., Iversen, N., Fossing, H., & Jorrgensen, B.B. (1999). Life at minimum energy [Abstract]. Symposium on Life in Extreme Environments, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.


Hinrichs, S., Hayes, J.M., et.al. (1999). Molecular and isotopic evidence that both Archaea and Eubacteria are involved in the anaerobic oxida [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.


Hinrichs, K-U., Pancost, R.D., Summons, R.E., Sprott, G.D., Sylva, S.P., Sinninghe-Damste, J.S., & Hayes, J.M. (2000). Mass spectra of sn-2-hydroxyarchaeol, a polar lipid biomarker for anaerobic methanotrophy. Geochemisty, Geophysics, and Geosystems, 1: Paper number 2000-GC000042 [Online]. Website: http://146.201.254.53/


Hinrichs, K-U., Summons, R.E., Victoria Orphan, V., & Hayes, J.M. (In Press, 2000). Organic Geochemistry (Special Volume). Proceedings of the 19th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, September 1999, Istanbul, Turkey.


Hinrichs, K-U., Sylva, J.M., Hayes, J.M., Sylva, S.P., Brewer, P.G., & DeLong, E.F. (1999). Methane consuming archaebacteria in marine sediments. Nature 398: 802-805.


Hoffman, P.F. (1999). Geochemical and isotopic implications of the Snowball Earth Hypothesis [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union, 1999 Fall Meeting.


Hoffman, P.F., Halverson, G., & Kaufman, A.J. (1999). Sea-level changes associated with Neoproterozoic "Snowball Earth" events in the Otavi Group, Namibia [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A486.


Holland, H.D. (1999). When did the Earth's atmosphere become oxic? A reply. The Geochemical News, 100: 20-23.


Holland, H.D., & Zimmerman, H. (In Press, 2000). The Dolomite problem revisited. International Geology Review.


Jakosky, B., Knoll, A.H., McSween, H., & Nealson. K. ( 1999). The search for life on Mars: Fish in a barrel, needle in a haystack, or pig in a poke? [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A-303.


Jahnke, L.L., Hayes, J., Holland, H., et.al. (1999). Evidence for the early evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting.


Jin, Y.G., Wang, Y., Wang, W., Shang, Q.H., Cao, Q., & Erwin, D.H. (In Press, 2000). Pattern of marine mass extinction near the Permian-Triassic boundary in South China. Science.


Kidder, D.L., Worsley, T.R., & Erwin, D.A. (1999). Cooling episodes, silica supply and chert in the Cenozoic [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31: A-327.


Knoll, A.H. (1999). A new molecular window on early life. Science, 285: 1025-1026.


Knoll, A.H. (1999). Terrestrial experience in astrobiological exploration [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A-303.


Knoll, A.H. (1999). Overview and summary of panel 3 discussion. In: Space Studies Board, National Research Council (Eds.), Size Limits of Very Small Organisms: Proceedings of a Workshop (pp. 1-3, 85-87). Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences Press.


Knoll, A. H. (1999). Terrestrial experience in astrobiological exploration [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A303.


Knoll, A.H. (2000). Learning to Neoproterozoic time. Precambrian Research, 100: 3-20.


Knoll, A.H. (In Press, 2000). Biological signals in the rock record [Abstract]. Goldschmidt Conference in Geochemistry, Oxford, United Kingdom.


Knoll, A.H., & Bambach, R.K. (In Press, 2000). Directionality in the history of life: Diffusion from the left wall or repeated scaling of the right? [Journal name not known]


Maloof, A.C., & Hoffman, P.F. (1999). Superposed folding at the junction of the inland and coastal belts, Damaran Orogen, NW Namibia [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, A-179.


Martin, M.W., Grazhdankin, D.V., Bowring, S.A., Evans, D.A.D., Fedonkin, M.A., & Kirschvink, J.L. (2000). Age of Neoproterozoic bilatarian body and trace fossils, White Sea, Russia: Implications for metazoan evolution. Science, 288: 841-845.


Mundil, R., Bowring, S., et al. (1999). An alternative time scale for the Permian-Triassic transition [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Denver, CO.


Murray, R.W., Schrag, D, et al. (1999). Porewaters in sediment of the Benguela Upselling System (ODP Leg 175): Chemical and carbon isotopic [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting.


Nutzel, A. N., & Erwin, D.A. (1999). A phylogenetic analysis of the late Paleozoic subulitids (Gastropoda): "Featureless" shells revisited [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A42.


Porter, S.M., & Knoll, A.H. (1999). Testate amoebae in the Neoproterozoic: Evidence from vase-shaped microfossils in the Chuar Group, Grand Canyon [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A361-362.


Robb, R., & Holland, H.D. (2000). Life associated with a 2.76 Ga ephemeral pond?: Evidence from Mount Roe #2 paleosol. Geology, 28(6): 483-486.


Schrag, D. (1999). Carbon isotopic composition of dissolved inorganic carbon in deep sea pore fluids: Evidence for chemoautotrophy [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A488.


Schrag, D. (1999). Geochemical and isotopic implications for the snowball Earth hypothesis [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.


Schrag, D., Hoffman, P., & Bowring, S. (1999). Geochemical and isotopic implications of the snowball Earth hypothesis [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A-372.


Sessions, A.L., Burgoyne, T.W., Schimmelmann, A., & Hayes, J.M. (1999). Fractionation of hydrogen isotopes in lipid biosynthesis. Organic Geochemistry, 30: 1193-1200.


Sessions, A.L., Bourgoyne, T.W., & Hayes, J.M. (Submitted, 2000). Correction of H3+ contributions in hydrogen isotope-ratio-monitoring mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry.


Sessions, A.L., Bourgoyne, T.W., & Hayes, J.M. (Submitted, 2000). Determination of the H3 factor in hydrogen isotope-ratio-monitoring mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry.


Sessions, A., Jahnke, L., Londry, K., Des Marais, D.J., & Hayes, J. (1999). Hydrogen isotope fractionation in microorganisms [Abstract]. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 1999 Fall Meeting, 80(46): F82, San Francisco, CA.


Tera, F., Bowring, S.A., et al. (2000). Inference from the lead isotopes to the survival of a terrestrial crust 4.4 Ga old [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting.


Thurmond, J.B., Grotzinger, J.P., & Lyons, W.J. (1999). Three-dimensional digital mapping of stratigrapnic geometries: Issues and examples of practical implementation [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, A-193.


Tojo, B., Kawakami, S., Yoshioka H., Okaniwa, T., Takano, M., & Hoffman, P.F. (1999). Cyclicities in Earth-warming episode recorded in the Rasthof cap carbonate overlying the Neoproterozoic Chuos diamictite in Namibia [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, A-486.


Valentine, J.W., Jablonski, D., & Erwin, D.H. (1999). Fossils, molecules and embryos: New perspectives on the Cambrian explosion. Development, 126: 851-859.


Xiao. S. & Knoll, A.H. (1999). Burgess shale-type preservation in the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, South China, and its relevance to the early evolution of bilaterians [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A-361.


Xiao, S., Yuan, X., Steiner, M., & Knoll, A.H. (In Press, 2000). Burgess-like fossil preservation in a terminal Proterozoic shale: A systematic reassessment of the Miaohe biota, South China. Journal of Paleontology.


Yoshioka, H., Kawakami, S., Okaniwa, T., Takano, M., & Hoffman, P.F. (1999). Secular variations of carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions of the Neoproterozoic Rasthof Cap carbonate in Namibia [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, A-486.


Anbar, A.D., Arnold, G.L., Mojzsis, S.J., & Zahnle, K.J. (1999). The extraterrestrial mass flux on the early Earth [Abstract]. Ninth V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Cambridge, MA.


Anbar, A.D., & Knoll, A.H. (1999). Trace metal limitation of primary production 1.85-1.25 Ga [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting.


Bolle, M., Pardo, A., Hinrichs, K., Adatte, T., Salis, K.V., Burns, S., Keller, G., & Muzylev, N. (In Press, 2000). The Paleocene-Eocene transition in the marginal northeastern Tethys, a multidiscipliary approach. International Journal of Earth Sciences.


Bowring, S.A., Erwin, D.H., and Isozaki, Y. (1999). The tempo of mass extinction and recovery: The end-Permian example. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 96: 8827-8828.


Boyce, C.K., & Knoll, A.H. (1999). Meristematic evolution and the carboniferous diversification of leaves [Abstract]. XVI International Botanical Congress, (p. 452).


Boyce, C.K., & Knoll, A.H. (In Press, 2000). Evolution of development in Paleozoic leaves [Abstract]. Eleventh Congress of the International Organization of Palaeobotany.


Boyce, C.K., Knoll, A.H., Cody, G.D., Fogel, M.L., Hauri, E., & Hazen, R.M. (1999). Exploration of the use of elemental, isotopic, and molecular analyses of permineralized fossils [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31(7): A-364.


Boyce, C.K., Knoll, A.H., Cody, G., Fogel, M. & Hazen, R. (In Press, 2000). The evolution of lignification in early land plants [Abstract]. Eleventh Congress of the International Organization of Palaeobotany.


Colman, A.S., & Holland, H.D. (1999). The global diagenetic flux of phosphorus from marine sediments to the oceans: Redox sensitivity and the control of atmospheric oxygen levels. In: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication, No. 66 (pp. 1-24).


Erwin, D.H. (1999). Biology's big bang. In: Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 99 [Computer Laser Optical Disc]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation.


Erwin, D.H. (1999). Biotic recoveries after extinction. In: "Embryonic" Encyclopedia of Life Sciences [Online]. (Article database on the web, prior to official publication within Encyclopedia of Life Sciences). London: Nature Publishing Group. Website: http://www.grovereference.com/els/embyronic/


Erwin, D.H. (1999). End-Permian mass extinction. In: "Embryonic" Encyclopedia of Life Sciences [Online]. (Article database on the web, prior to official publication within Encyclopedia of Life Sciences). London: Nature Publishing Group. Website: http://www.grovereference.com/els/embyronic/


Erwin, D.H. (1999). The origin of bodyplans. American Zoologist, 39: 617-629.


Erwin, D.H. (2000). Life's downs and ups. Nature, 404: 129-130.


Erwin, D.H. (2000). Macroevolution is more than repeated rounds of microevolution. Evolution & Development, 2: 78-84.


Erwin, D.H. (In Press, 2000). Mass extinctions: Notable examples. In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. New York: Academic Press.


Erwin, D.H., Hoffmann, K.H., Prave, A., Bowring, S.A. (1999). Occurrence of Ediacaran Aspidella-like forms from Namibia. [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31: A-487.


Espinosa, G., Farmer, G., Fedo, C.M., Martin, M., Bowring, S.A. (1999). Isotopic evidence on the provenance of the Lower Cambrian Wood Canyon Formation, Southern California [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31: A-128.


Gaidos G., Hoffman, P. et.al. (2000). Anti-Gaia: Biological trigger of neoproterozoic glaciations [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting.


 

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