Allison R. Palmer
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Allison R. Palmer's Degrees
- Bachelors Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Geophysics Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Allison Ralph Palmer was an American paleontologist and geologist. His work focused on the Cambrian period. He had a career of nearly fifty years as a geologist with the United States Geological Survey and universities. The author of some 137 scientific articles, his research has been important in understanding of the origin and evolution of life on Earth. He was a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder.
Allison R. Palmer's Published Works
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- Precambrian geology and tectonic history of North America (1989) (822)
- The Decade of North American Geology 1983 Geologic Time Scale (1983) (491)
- The Geology of North America: An Overview (1989) (407)
- Physical stratigraphy and trilobite biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the southern Great Basin (1979) (138)
- A proposed nomenclature for stages and series for the Cambrian of Laurentia (1998) (130)
- The Late Cambrian Spice (δ13C) Event and the Sauk II-SAUK III Regression: New Evidence from Laurentian Basins in Utah, Iowa, and Newfoundland (2004) (130)
- Trilobites of the Late Cambrian Pterocephaliid biomere in the Great Basin, United States (1965) (129)
- Confirmation of the Carolina Slate Belt as an Exotic Terrane (1983) (119)
- The biomere problem; evolution of an idea (1984) (119)
- Cambrian trilobites of east-central Alaska (1968) (108)
- Latest Precambrian to latest Devonian time; Development of a continental margin (1992) (102)
- Through a glass darkly: taxonomy, phylogeny, and biostratigraphy of the Olenellina (1993) (92)
- The faunas of the Riley Formation in central Texas (1954) (87)
- Depositional history of pre-Devonian strata and timing of Ross orogenic tectonism in the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica (2002) (81)
- High-resolution sequence stratigraphy of lower Paleozoic sheet sandstones in central North America: The role of special conditions of cratonic interiors in development of stratal architecture (2007) (80)
- Glyptagnostus and associated trilobites in the United States (1962) (76)
- Early and Middle Cambrian trilobites from Antarctica (1972) (72)
- Origin of a classic cratonic sheet sandstone: Stratigraphy across the Sauk II–Sauk III boundary in the Upper Mississippi Valley (1998) (71)
- Early Cambrian Trilobites from the Shackleton Limestone of the Central Transantarctic Mountains (1995) (67)
- Magnetic anomaly map of North America (1988) (65)
- Terminal Early Cambrian extinction of the Olenellina: Documentation from the Pioche Formation, Nevada (1998) (63)
- Neltneriidae and Holmiidae (Trilobita) from Morocco and the problem of Early Cambrian intercontinental correlation (1995) (61)
- Biogeographical significance of Cambrian trilobites from the Carolina slate belt (1990) (51)
- GRAVITY ANOMALY MAP OF NORTH AMERICA (1988) (47)
- Biomere boundaries re-examined (1979) (47)
- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Dunderberg shale, Eureka district, Nevada (1960) (43)
- An Appraisal of the Great Basin Middle Cambrian Trilobites Described Before 1900 (1954) (42)
- Neoproterozoic and Cambrian strata of Sonora, Mexico: Rodinian supercontinent to Laurentian Cordilleran margin (2002) (41)
- MORPHOLOGY AND ONTOGENY OF A LOWER CAMBRIAN PTYCHOPARIOID TRILOBITE FROM NEVADA (1958) (32)
- Miocene arthropods from the Mojave Desert, California (1957) (31)
- Upper Cambrian Agnostidae of the Eureka District, Nevada (1955) (29)
- Some Aspects of the Early Upper Cambrian Stratigraphy of White Pine County, Nevada and Vicinity (1960) (28)
- An unusual Lower Cambrian trilobite fauna from Nevada (1964) (26)
- Geological implications of Middle Cambrian boulders from the Haymond Formation (Pennsylvanian) in the Marathon basin, west Texas (1984) (25)
- Miocene copepods from the Mojave Desert, California (1960) (24)
- Significance of fossiliferous Middle Cambrian rocks of Rhode Island to the history of the Avalonian microcontinent (1978) (24)
- General geology of central Cochise County, Arizona, with sections on age and correlation (1956) (23)
- Comparative ontogeny of some opisthoparian, gonatoparian and proparian Upper Cambrian trilobites (1962) (21)
- Upper Cambrian Orr Formation; its subdivisions and correlatives in western Utah (1976) (21)
- BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE CAMBRIAN SYSTEM- A PROGRESS REPORT (1977) (21)
- MIDDLE CAMBRIAN FOSSILS FROM THE DOONERAK ANTICLINORIUM, CENTRAL BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA (1984) (20)
- The record of time in cratonic interior strata: Does exceptionally slow subsidence necessarily result in exceptionally poor stratigraphic completeness? (2008) (19)
- A Search for Iridium Abundance Anomalies at Two Late Cambrian Biomere Boundaries in Western Utah (1984) (16)
- Geologic time scale (2016) (16)
- Biomere boundaries: A possible test for extraterrestrial perturbation of the biosphere (1982) (15)
- Quantitative Study of Trempealeauian (Latest Cambrian) Trilobite Distribution in North America (1973) (14)
- Cambrian rocks of the Pioche mining district, Nevada, with a section on Pioche shale faunules (1964) (13)
- Cambrian Trilobite Distributions in North America and Their Bearing on Cambrian Paleogeography of Newfoundland: Chapter 10: Southeastern Border of the Orogenic Belt (1969) (13)
- Paleontological contributions to Paleozoic paleogeographic reconstructions of the Appalachians (1989) (13)
- New trilobite locality in the Piedmont of South Carolina, and its regional implications (1981) (12)
- Cambrian Rocks of Southern Snake Range, Nevada (1957) (12)
- Perspectives in Regional Geological Synthesis (1982) (11)
- East-Gondwana/Laurentia trilobite connections—What do they tell us? (2005) (9)
- Archaeocyatha from New Jersey: Evidence for an intra-Cambrian unconformity in the north-central Appalachians (1976) (9)
- New sedimentologic and paleontologic data for the Dow Chemical #1 B. L. Garrigan drill hole, Mississippi County, Arkansas (1992) (7)
- Cambrian Trilobites with Siberian Affinities, Southwestern Alaska: ABSTRACT (1985) (7)
- Comments and Replies on “Three new Upper Cambrian stages for North America” (1985) (6)
- Age and Correlation of Cornfield Springs and Bonanza King Formations in Southeastern California and Southern Nevada: GEOLOGICAL NOTES (1956) (6)
- Cambrian trilobites with Siberian affinities, southwestern Alaska (1985) (6)
- Nonmarine Miocene Arthropods from California. (1954) (6)
- Silurian of Central Texas: A First Record for the Region (1966) (5)
- A NEW SUNWAPTAN (LATE CAMBRIAN) TRILOBITE FAUNA FROM THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY (2005) (5)
- Chronostratigraphic definition of the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary (1984) (5)
- A paradoxidid trilobite from Nevada (1968) (4)
- Stratigraphic Problems of the Later Precambrian and Early Cambrian (1975) (4)
- What Should My Neighbor (and Thus Every High-School Graduate) Know About the Geosciences?* (1991) (4)
- Pemphigaspis, a unique Upper Cambrian trilobite (1951) (3)
- Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and paleontology of the Drum Mountains, western Utah (1981) (3)
- Uppermost Precambrian and lowest Cambrian rocks in southeastern Idaho, with contributions to Early Middle Cambrian faunal zones (1971) (3)
- Cambrian and Early Ordovician Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Basin and Range Province, Western United States: Las Vegas, Nevada to Salt Lake City, Utah, July 1–7, 1989 (1989) (3)
- Upper Cambrian Faunal Patterns on the Craton: Discussion (1972) (3)
- Revision of Cambrian Stratigraphy, Silver Island Mountains, Utah: NOTES (1968) (3)
- Day 1: Early Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Southern Great Basin, California‐Nevada (2013) (3)
- A late cambrian (dresbachian, crepicephalus zone) fauna from the Boothia Peninsula, District of Franklin (1981) (3)
- Trilobites.Riccardo Levi-Setti (1994) (1)
- Why is intercontinental correlation within the Lower Cambrian so difficult? (2022) (1)
- “The White Water” (2020) (1)
- Integrating paleontology, geothermometry, and sedimentology in determining the history of the Reelfoot Basin, southern midcontinent, U.S.A. (1992) (1)
- Book Review:Continental Drift. The Royal Society of Canada Special Publications, Number 9. G. D. Garland (1967) (0)
- Book Review:Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part 0. Arthropoda 1. Raymond C. Moore (1960) (0)
- Antarctic Oceanology I.Joseph L. Reid (1972) (0)
- Serendipity and the Changing Face of the Earth (2016) (0)
- UPPER CAMBRIAN AGNOSTIDAE OF THE (1955) (0)
- The Institute for Cambrian Studies — serving the international geological research community (1993) (0)
- The Institute for Cambrian Studies: serving the international palaeontological research community (1993) (0)
- Book Review: Bioacoustics: A Comparative Approach (1984) (0)
- Comment and Reply on “The Decade of North American Geology 1983 Geologic Time Scale” (1984) (0)
- Decade of North American Geology; what's in it for you? (1982) (0)
- Cambrian Oil and Gas: A World Review (1980) (0)
- tectonism in the central Transantarctic Mountains , Antarctica Depositional history of pre-Devonian strata and timing of Ross orogenic (2002) (0)
- Cambrian extinction events (1981) (0)
- Book Review:Essays in Paleontology and Stratigraphy. R. C. Moore Commemorative Volume. Curt Teichert, Ellis L. Yochelson (1968) (0)
- Cambrian History of Western United States: ABSTRACT (1967) (0)
- Day 0: Early and Middle Cambrian Stratigraphy of Frenchman Mountain, Nevada (2013) (0)
- Book Review:History of the Earth. An Introduction to Historical Geology. Bernhard Kummel (1971) (0)
- Book Review:Evolution and Morphology of the Trilobita, Trilobitoidea and Merostomata. Anders Martinsson (1976) (0)
- Wisarcadiaspis, A Replacement Name for Arcadiaspis Westrop and Palmer, Preoccupied (2009) (0)
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