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Michael R. Rampino's Degrees
- PhD Geology Columbia University
- Masters Geology Columbia University
- Bachelors Geology Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael R. Rampino is a Geologist and Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies at New York University, known for his scientific contributions on causes of mass extinctions of life. Along with colleagues, he's developed theories about periodic mass extinctions being strongly related to the earth's position in relation to the galaxy. "The solar system and its planets experience cataclysms every time they pass "up" or "down" through the plane of the disk-shaped galaxy." These ~30 million year cyclical breaks are an important factor in evolutionary theory, along with other longer 60-million- and 140-million-year cycles potentially caused by mantle plumes within the planet, opining "The Earth seems to have a pulse," He is also a research consultant at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.
Michael R. Rampino's Published Works
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- Volcanic winter and accelerated glaciation following the Toba super-eruption (1992) (391)
- Impact Event at the Permian-Triassic Boundary: Evidence from Extraterrestrial Noble Gases in Fullerenes (2001) (368)
- Flood Basalt Volcanism During the Past 250 Million Years (1988) (314)
- Terrestrial mass extinctions, cometary impacts and the Sun's motion perpendicular to the galactic plane (1984) (257)
- The terminal Paleozoic fungal event: evidence of terrestrial ecosystem destabilization and collapse. (1996) (242)
- Historic Eruptions of Tambora (1815), Krakatau (1883), and Agung (1963), their Stratospheric Aerosols, and Climatic Impact (1982) (235)
- The 1883 eruption of Krakatau (1981) (210)
- Fungal event and palynological record of ecological crisis and recovery across the Permian-Triassic boundary (1995) (186)
- Sulphur-rich volcanic eruptions and stratospheric aerosols (1984) (181)
- The possible effects of large 19th and 20th century volcanic eruptions on zonal and hemispheric surface temperatures (1981) (176)
- Magma volume, volatile emissions, and stratospheric aerosols from the 1815 eruption of Tambora (2004) (168)
- Volcanic eruptions in the Mediterranean before A.D. 630 from written and archaeological sources (1983) (166)
- Volcanological study of the great Tambora eruption of 1815 (1984) (148)
- Can Rapid Climatic Change Cause Volcanic Eruptions? (1979) (147)
- Climate-Volcanism Feedback and the Toba Eruption of ∼74,000 Years Ago (1993) (142)
- Tempo of the end-Permian event: High-resolution cyclostratigraphy at the Permian-Triassic boundary (2000) (142)
- Volcanic winter in the Garden of Eden: The Toba supereruption and the late Pleistocene human population crash (2000) (132)
- Holocene volcanic history as recorded in the sulfate stratigraphy of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica Dome C (EDC96) ice core (2005) (124)
- The mid-Cretaceous super plume, carbon dioxide, and global warming. (1991) (117)
- Fungal abundance spike and the Permian^Triassic boundary in the Karoo Supergroup (South Africa) (2003) (110)
- Basaltic fissure eruptions, plume heights, and atmospheric aerosols (1986) (105)
- Geological Rhythms and Cometary Impacts (1984) (100)
- Holocene Transgression in South-Central Long Island, New York (1980) (100)
- Climate: History, periodicity and predictability (1988) (98)
- Carbon dioxide emissions from Deccan volcanism and a K/T boundary greenhouse effect. (1990) (86)
- Major perturbation of ocean chemistry and a ‘Strangelove Ocean’ after the end‐Permian mass extinction (2005) (84)
- Supereruptions as a threat to civilizations on earth-like planets (2002) (73)
- Clay Mineralogy of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Clay (1983) (72)
- Major episodes of geologic change: correlations, time structure and possible causes (1993) (71)
- Evolution of the barrier islands of southern Long Island, New York (1981) (66)
- Evidence for abrupt latest Permian mass extinction of foraminifera: Results of tests for the Signor-Lipps effect (1998) (65)
- Volcanic aerosol perturbations and strong El Niño events: No general correlation (1997) (60)
- The atmospheric effects of EL Chichon (1984) (60)
- Bottleneck in human evolution and the Toba eruption. (1993) (56)
- Historic Volcanism, European Dry Fogs, and Greenland Acid Precipitation, 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1500 (1983) (50)
- The 1963–1964 eruption of Agung volcano (Bali, Indonesia) (2012) (50)
- A reappraisal of the 1835 eruption of Cosigüina and its atmospheric impact (1989) (47)
- The relationship between volcanic eruptions and climate change: Still a conundrum? (1988) (47)
- Impact cratering and flood basalt volcanism (1987) (46)
- Aftermath of the end‐Cretaceous mass extinction: Possible biogeochemical stabilization of the carbon cycle and climate (1993) (46)
- Economic Value of Beaches (2005) (44)
- Periodicity in flood basalts, mass extinctions, and impacts; A statistical view and a model (1990) (44)
- Mass extinctions, atmospheric sulphur and climatic warming at the K/T boundary (1988) (41)
- Tillites, Diamictites, and Ballistic Ejecta of Large Impacts (1994) (40)
- Deccan volcanism, greenhouse warming, and the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary (1990) (39)
- Episodic growth of Holocene tidal marshes in the northeastern United States: A possible indicator of eustatic sea-level fluctuations (1981) (38)
- The end-Guadalupian (259.8 Ma) biodiversity crisis: the sixth major mass extinction? (2019) (38)
- Impact crises and mass extinctions: A working hypothesis (1996) (37)
- Is Bedout an Impact Crater? Take 2 (2004) (36)
- Disc dark matter in the Galaxy and potential cycles of extraterrestrial impacts, mass extinctions and geological events (2015) (36)
- Periodic impact cratering and extinction events over the last 260 million years (2015) (35)
- Episodes of terrestrial geologic activity during the past 260 million years: A quantitative approach (1992) (33)
- Felsic volcanism as a factor driving the end-Permian mass extinction (2021) (33)
- Distribution and Origin of Magnetite Spherules in Air, Waters, and Sediments of the Greater New York City Area and the North Atlantic Ocean (1980) (32)
- The fungal and acritarch events as time markers for the latest Permian mass extinction: An update (2018) (32)
- Global nickel anomaly links Siberian Traps eruptions and the latest Permian mass extinction (2017) (31)
- The “Shiva Hypothesis”: Impacts, mass extinctions, and the galaxy (1996) (31)
- The Goldilocks Problem: Climatic Evolution and Long-Term Habitability of Terrestrial Planets (1994) (31)
- Possible relationships between changes in global ice volume, geomagnetic excursions, and the eccentricity of the earth's orbit. (1979) (29)
- Abruptness of the end-Permian mass extinction as determined from biostratigraphic and cyclostratigraphic analyses of European western Tethyan sections (2002) (29)
- Large ecosystem perturbations : causes and consequences (2007) (27)
- The Galactic Theory of Mass Extinctions: an Update (1997) (25)
- Cratered cobbles in Triassic Buntsandstein conglomerates in northeastern Spain: An indicator of shock deformation in the vicinity of large impacts (2001) (24)
- A Unified Theory of Impact Crises and Mass Extinctions: Quantitative Tests (1997) (23)
- Climatic effects of Volcanic eruptions (1985) (23)
- Extraterrestrial Impacts and Mass Extinctions of Life (1994) (23)
- Investigating Large Igneous Province Formation and Associated Paleoenvironmental Events: A White Paper for Scientific Drilling (2008) (22)
- Mass extinctions of life and catastrophic flood basalt volcanism (2010) (21)
- Holocene submergence of southern Long Island, New York (1979) (19)
- Biogeochemical modeling at mass extinction boundaries: Atmospheric carbon dioxide and ocean alkalinity at the K/T boundary (1990) (19)
- Geologic periodicities and the Galaxy (1986) (18)
- Periodic components in the diversity of calcareous plankton and geological events over the past 230 Myr (2004) (17)
- Correlation of the Largest Craters, Stratigraphic Impact Signatures, and Extinction Events Over the Past 250 Myr (2017) (17)
- Multiple impact event in the Paleozoic: Collision with a string of comets or asteroids? (1996) (16)
- What causes mass extinctions? Large asteroid/comet impacts, flood-basalt volcanism, and ocean anoxia—Correlations and cycles (2019) (16)
- Evidence for abrupt latest Permian mass extinction of foraminifera: Results of tests for the Signor-Lipps effect: Comment and Reply (1999) (15)
- Antipodal hotspot pairs on the Earth (1992) (15)
- Did the great dying of life take 700 k.y.? Evidence from global astronomical correlation of the Permian-Triassic boundary interval: COMMENT (2012) (15)
- A multi-causal model of mass extinctions: Increase in trace metals in the oceans (1990) (15)
- Volcanism, Climatic Change, and the Geologic Record (1991) (14)
- Impact crises, mass extinctions, and galactic dynamics: The case for a unified theory (1999) (14)
- Revised age estimates of Brunhes palaeomagnetic events: Support for a link between geomagnetism and eccentricity (1981) (14)
- Large Igneous Provinces and Biotic Extinctions (2015) (14)
- A pulse of the Earth: A 27.5-Myr underlying cycle in coordinated geological events over the last 260 Myr (2021) (13)
- Comments on “a geophysical interpretation of the 1883 krakatau eruption” by I. Yokoyama (1982) (13)
- Super-Volcanism and Other Geophysical Processes of Catastrophic Import (2008) (12)
- Multispectral analysis of asteroid 3 Juno taken with the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory (2003) (12)
- A non-catastrophist explanation for the iridium anomaly at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary (1982) (12)
- Effects of megascale eruptions on Earth and Mars (2009) (12)
- Are Mantle Plumes Periodic (2013) (12)
- Relationship between impact-crater size and severity of related extinction episodes (2020) (11)
- Darwin's error? Patrick Matthew and the catastrophic nature of the geologic record (2011) (11)
- Stratigraphy, Paleomagnetic Results, and Preliminary Palynology across the Permian-Triassic (P-Tr) Boundary at Carlton Heights, Southern Karoo Basin (South Africa) (2003) (10)
- Origins of Life in the Universe (2008) (10)
- Comparison of the ages of large-body impacts, flood-basalt eruptions, ocean-anoxic events and extinctions over the last 260 million years: a statistical study (2018) (10)
- Late permian extinctions. (1996) (10)
- Cataclysms: A New Geology for the Twenty-First Century (2017) (10)
- Role of the galaxy in periodic impacts and mass extinctions on the Earth (2002) (10)
- Comment on “Atmospheric Pco2 Perturbations Associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province” (2011) (9)
- Peraluminous igneous rocks as an indicator of thermogenic methane release from the North Atlantic Volcanic Province at the time of the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) (2013) (9)
- A 27.5-My underlying periodicity detected in extinction episodes of non-marine tetrapods (2020) (8)
- Mount Etna C02 may affect climate (1992) (8)
- Volcanic Winter? Climatic Effects of the Largest Volcanic Eruptions (1989) (7)
- Chapter 24. Large igneous provinces and flood basalt volcanism (2015) (7)
- Are marine and nonmarine extinctions correlated (1988) (7)
- Geophysical evidence for a large impact structure on the Falkland (Malvinas) Plateau (2017) (7)
- Terrestrial mass extinctions and galactic plane crossings (1985) (6)
- Mass extinctions and periodicity. (1995) (6)
- Geomagnetic excursions and climate change (1983) (5)
- Episodic nature of the Cenozoic marine record (1987) (5)
- Are Impact Craters and Extinction Episodes Periodic? Implications for Planetary Science and Astrobiology. (2020) (5)
- A 32-million year cycle detected in sea-level fluctuations over the last 545 Myr (2020) (5)
- First Toba supereruption revival : Comment and Reply (5)
- Significance of carbon, nitrogen and their isotopic changes in a Permian-Triassic non-marine boundary section at Carlton Heights (Karoo Basin), South Africa (2018) (5)
- Comparison of Bosumtwi Impact Crater (Ghana) and Crater Lake Volcanic Caldera (Oregon, USA): Implications for Biotic Recovery after Catastrophic Events (2006) (5)
- Dinosaurs, comets and volcanoes (1989) (5)
- Proxy evidence from the Gartnerkofel-1 core (Carnic Alps, Austria) for hypoxic conditions in the western Tethys during the end-Permian mass-extinction event (2020) (4)
- Evidence from Iberia and the Central Atlantic Ocean for an Oceanic Impact near the Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary (2001) (3)
- A 2003 Expedition into the Libyan Desert Glass Strewn Field, Great Sand Sea, Western Egypt (2003) (3)
- Comment on “The age of the Kara impact structure, Russia” by M. Trieloff et al. (1999) (3)
- Geomagnetism, Sea Level and Tectonics (1988) (3)
- First Toba supereruption revival: Comment and Reply COMMENT (2004) (3)
- Late Permian Extinctions (1996) (2)
- Are Some Tillites Impact-Related Debris-Flow Deposits? (2017) (2)
- Variations of the earth's magnetic field and rapid climatic cooling: A possible link through changes in global ice volume (1979) (2)
- Reply to Comments on “Geophysical evidence for a large impact structure on the Falkland (Malvinas) Plateau” (2017) (2)
- Magnetic reversal rate and global sea level trends (1988) (2)
- Chapter 4 Catastrophe: impact of comets and asteroids (1995) (2)
- Predicting Earth's lifespan (1993) (2)
- Tales of the earth, paroxysms and perturbations of the blue planet (1995) (2)
- Distant effects of the Tambora eruption of April 1815 (1989) (2)
- End-Permian stratigraphic timeline applied to the timing of marine and non-marine extinctions (2020) (1)
- Reply detection of a 27.5-My cycle in extinctions of non-marine tetrapods in light of a similar cycle in marine extinctions and coordinated geologic events (2021) (1)
- Galactic Triggering of Periodic Comet Showers and Mass Extinctions on Earth (2001) (1)
- Large igneous province workshop (2007) (1)
- Orbital Cyclicities Above and Below the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, Umbria-Marche Region, Italy (2000) (1)
- A general theory of impacts and mass extinctions, and the consequences of large-body impact on the Earth (1994) (1)
- Comment and Reply on ‘Episodic growth of Holocene tidal marshes in the northeastern United States: A possible indicator of eustatic sea-level fluctuations’ REPLY (1981) (1)
- Do volcanic eruptions affect climate? Sulfur gases may cause cooling (1988) (1)
- Striations, Polish, and Related Features from Clasts in Impact-Ejecta Deposits and the "Tillite Problem" (1997) (1)
- Volcanism and the atmosphere (2012) (1)
- The Greenhouse Effect, Stratospheric Ozone, Marine Productivity, and Global Hydrology: Feedbacks in the Global Climate System (1990) (1)
- Reexamining Lyell's Laws (2017) (1)
- List of Contributors to this Volume (1995) (1)
- A Meeting That Helped Foster the Acceptance of Global Tectonics (2016) (1)
- Strangelove Ocean and Deposition of Unusual Shallow-Water Carbonates After the End-Permian Mass Extinction (2003) (0)
- Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary events (2007) (0)
- Super-Eruptions and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) (2004) (0)
- Corrasion; CorrosionWeathering and erosion, mechanical (1982) (0)
- 5. Kill Curves and Strangelove Oceans (2017) (0)
- MASS EXTINCTIONS OF LIFE CAUSED BY CATASTROPHIC VOLCANISM AND COSMIC IMPACTS (2019) (0)
- Flood Basalt Eruptions, Comet Showers, and Mass Extinction Events (1988) (0)
- Solar System Passage (1984) (0)
- Developing a Methodology to Connect the Siberian Flood Basalts and the Permian-Triassic Extinction Through LA-ICP-MS (2016) (0)
- Theterminal Paleozoic fungalevent: Evidence ofterrestrial ecosystem destabilization andcollapse (1996) (0)
- Historical evidence for a connection between volcanic eruptions and climate change (1991) (0)
- Periodic Comet Showers, Mass Extinctions, and the Galaxy (2001) (0)
- Climatic impact of volcanic eruptions (1991) (0)
- 7. Impacts and Extinctions: Do They Match Up? (2017) (0)
- 10. Ancient Glaciers or Impact-Related Deposits? (2017) (0)
- 3. The Alvarez Hypothesis (2017) (0)
- Bolide impacts and climat (2009) (0)
- 9. Catastrophic Volcanic Eruptions and Extinctions (2017) (0)
- Epilogue What Does It All Mean? A New Geology (2017) (0)
- 12. Geological Upheavals and Dark Matter (2017) (0)
- Global nickel anomaly links Siberian Traps eruptions and the latest Permian mass extinction (2017) (0)
- 4. Mass Extinctions (2017) (0)
- Abrupt Changes at the Permian/Triassic Boundary: Tempo of Events from High-Resolution Cyclostratigraphy (2000) (0)
- WORLDS IN COLLUSION (1987) (0)
- 6. Catastrophism and Natural Selection: Charles Darwin Versus Patrick Matthew (2017) (0)
- Flood-Basalt Eruptions and Extraterrestrial Impacts Linked to Mass-Extinction Events and Times of Ocean Anoxia of the Past 260 Myr (2017) (0)
- Disc Dark Matter in the Galaxy and Cycles of Extraterrestrial Impacts, Mass Extinctions and Geotectonic Events (2014) (0)
- Biogeochemical modeling at mass extinction boundaries (1991) (0)
- Sources and Further Reading (2017) (0)
- Mass extinctions of life are caused by LIP volcanism and cosmic impacts (2019) (0)
- 8. The Great Dying: The End-Permian Extinctions (2017) (0)
- 1. Catastrophism Versus Gradualism (2017) (0)
- 11. The Shiva Hypothesis: Comet Showers and the Galactic Carousel (2017) (0)
- Impact Crises, Mass Extinctions, and Galactic Dynamics: A Unified Theory (1997) (0)
- Climatic Changes Resulting from Mass Extinctions at the K/T Boundary (and Other Bio-Events?) (1988) (0)
- Ocean alkalinity and the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary (1988) (0)
- Hydraulic action and wedging (1982) (0)
- Erice International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies, 17th Workshop: The Collision of an Asteroid or Comet with the Earth Held in Erice, Italy on 28 April-4 May 1993 (1993) (0)
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