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Robert R. Gaines

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#2745

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#3689

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#606

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Robert R. Gaines's Degrees

PhD Geology Stanford University
Masters Geology Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Riepma Gaines is an American geologist who teaches at Pomona College in Claremont, California. From July 2019 to June 2022, he served as the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the college. He is known for his research on fossils in Burgess Shale-type deposits, having been a member of two teams that made two of the most important fossil discoveries in recent decades, one in Kootenay National Park in British Columbia, Canada and the other in the Yangtze Gorges area in South China.

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Robert R. Gaines's Published Works

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Formation of the ‘Great Unconformity’ as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion (2012) (259)
Cambrian Burgess Shale–type deposits share a common mode of fossilization (2008) (171)
Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation (2012) (162)
A new hypothesis for organic preservation of Burgess Shale taxa in the middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation, House Range, Utah (2005) (121)
The Qingjiang biota—A Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China (2019) (115)
The Fezouata fossils of Morocco; an extraordinary record of marine life in the Early Ordovician (2015) (113)
Microbial dissolution of clay minerals as a source of iron and silica in marine sediments (2009) (110)
Burgess Shale-type Preservation and its Distribution in Space and Time (2014) (103)
A new phyllopod bed-like assemblage from the Burgess Shale of the Canadian Rockies (2014) (82)
A new Burgess Shale–type assemblage from the “thin” Stephen Formation of the southern Canadian Rockies (2010) (79)
Paleoecology of the familiar trilobite Elrathia kingii: An early exaerobic zone inhabitant (2003) (66)
Early Cambrian oxygen minimum zone-like conditions at Chengjiang (2017) (52)
A large new leanchoiliid from the Burgess Shale and the influence of inapplicable states on stem arthropod phylogeny (2015) (51)
Microstratigraphy, Trilobite Biostratinomy, and Depositional Environment of the "Lower Cambrian" Ruin Wash Lagerstätte, Pioche Formation, Nevada (2008) (51)
The paleoredox setting of Burgess Shale-type deposits (2010) (50)
Global Standard Stratotype-Section and Point (GSSP) for the conterminous base of the Miaolingian Series and Wuliuan Stage (Cambrian) at Balang, Jianhe, Guizhou, China (2019) (48)
Burgess shale-type biotas were not entirely burrowed away (2012) (40)
A mineralogical signature for Burgess Shale–type fossilization (2018) (39)
The Weeks Formation Konservat-Lagerstätte and the evolutionary transition of Cambrian marine life (2018) (37)
PRESERVATION OF GIANT ANOMALOCARIDIDS IN SILICA-CHLORITE CONCRETIONS FROM THE EARLY ORDOVICIAN OF MOROCCO (2012) (35)
Dynamic palaeoredox and exceptional preservation in the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah (2012) (35)
New Approaches to Understanding the Mechanics of Burgess Shale-type Deposits: From the Micron Scale to the Global Picture (2005) (34)
The Burgess Shale paleocommunity with new insights from Marble Canyon, British Columbia (2020) (33)
Paleoredox and pyritization of soft-bodied fossils in the Ordovician Frankfort Shale of New York (2013) (33)
Stratigraphic and Microfacies Analysis of the Kaili Formation, a Candidate GSSP for the Cambrian Series 2-Series 3 Boundary (2011) (33)
Palynomorphs of the Fezouata Shale (Lower Ordovician, Morocco): Age and environmental constraints of the Fezouata Biota (2016) (27)
A paleosol record of the evolution of Cr redox cycling and evidence for an increase in atmospheric oxygen during the Neoproterozoic (2019) (19)
PALEOECOLOGY OF THE OLENID TRILOBITE TRIARTHRUS: NEW EVIDENCE FROM BEECHER'S TRILOBITE BED AND OTHER SITES OF PYRITIZATION (2011) (19)
TAPHONOMY AND DEPOSITIONAL SETTING OF THE BURGESS SHALE TULIP BEDS, MOUNT STEPHEN, BRITISH COLUMBIA (2014) (16)
Growth mechanisms and geochemistry of carbonate concretions from the Cambrian Wheeler Formation (Utah, USA) (2016) (16)
Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Interpretations of the Late Paleocene Goler Formation, Southern California, U.S.A., Based On Paleosol Geochemistry (2013) (12)
The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project (2021) (11)
Depositional Environments, Ichnology, and Rare Soft-Bodied Preservation in the Lower Cambrian Latham Shale, East Mojave (2002) (10)
New Burgess Shale-Type Locality in the "Thin" Stephen Formation, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia: Stratigraphic and Paleoenvironmental Setting (2011) (10)
THE LIMITS OF BURGESS SHALE-TYPE PRESERVATION: ASSESSING THE EVIDENCE FOR PRESERVATION OF THE BLOOD PROTEIN HEMOCYANIN IN THE BURGESS SHALE (2019) (6)
Curation and Analysis of Global Sedimentary Geochemical Data to Inform Earth History (2021) (6)
Discussion of cangidate stratotypes for the GSSP defining the conterminous base of Cambrian provisional Series 3 and Stage 5 (2012) (5)
Central nervous system of a 310-m.y.-old horseshoe crab: Expanding the taphonomic window for nervous system preservation (2021) (5)
Paleosol geochemistry of the late Paleocene Goler Formation of Southern California (2011) (5)
Microbial reduction of structurally-coordinated iron in common clay minerals (2009) (4)
Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia: COMMENT (2019) (4)
The Parker Quarry Lagerstätte of Vermont—The first reported Burgess Shale–type fauna rediscovered (2021) (3)
Co-Evolution of Volcanic and Lacustrine Systems In Pleistocene Long Valley Caldera, California, U.S.A. (2016) (2)
The soft-bodied biota of the Cambrian Series 2 Parker Quarry Lagerstätte of northwestern Vermont, USA (2022) (2)
Synchrotron imagery of phosphatized eggs in Waptia cf. W. fieldensis from the middle Cambrian (Miaolingian, Wuliuan) Spence Shale of Utah (2021) (1)
Experimental Constraints on Microbial Liberation of Structural Iron from Common Clay Minerals in Marine Sediments (2013) (1)
Reply to Butterfield: Low-sulfate and early cements inhibit decay and promote Burgess Shale-type preservation (2012) (1)
A CHROMIUM ISOTOPE PERSPECTIVE ON BURGESS-SHALE-TYPE PRESERVATION (2016) (1)
PRESERVATION OF THE BURGESS SHALE BIOTA FROM MARBLE CANYON (2019) (1)
Macrostratigraphy: Insights into Cyclic and Secular Evolution of the Earth-Life System (2022) (1)
The paradox of exceptional trace-fossil assemblages in Cambrian unstable settings (2012) (0)
HOLOCENE AND "ANTHROPOCENE" CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN THE FINGER LAKES, NY (2006) (0)
REFINEMENT OF THE CAMBRIAN SEAWATER SR ISOTOPE CURVE THROUGH LASER-ABLATION MULTICOLLETOR ICP-MS (2018) (0)
CONCRETIONS AND OTHER EARLY DIAGENETIC PHENOMENA OF THE MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN GLENOGLE FORMATION, SOUTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA (2016) (0)
TUFFS OF THE GODDARD PENDANT: SNAPSHOTS OF VOLCANIC SOURCE DURING LOW-FLUX MAGMATISM IN THE SIERRA NEVADA ARC (2016) (0)
First record of growth patterns in a Cambrian annelid (2023) (0)
Discovery of a “phyllopod bed-like” fossil assemblage from Kootenay National Park (2012) (0)
THE MIDDLE CAMBRIAN STEPHEN FORMATION AT MARBLE CANYON, KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK, BRITISH COLUMBIA (2016) (0)
Microfossils in Middle Ordovician K-bentonites from the Precordillera of Argentina (1996) (0)
Palaeontology and stratigraphy of the middle Cambrian Stephen Formation, western Canadian Rocky Mountains (2011) (0)
The nitrogen cycle under changing redox conditions during late Neoproterozoic: the Ediacaran nitrate revolution? (2016) (0)
THE STEPHEN FORMATION OF MARBLE CANYON, KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK, BRITISH COLUMBIA: A SEDIMENTOLOGICAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION (2017) (0)
Variations in Textural Banding of Oӧids Across the Johnnie Oӧlite: Valuable Petrographic Indicators of Depositional Conditions or Vestiges of Diagenetic Activity? (2016) (0)
SEDIMENT COMPOSITION OF BURGESS SHALE TYPE LAGERSTÄTTEN: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOFT-TISSUE PRESERVATION (2016) (0)
MINIMUM AGE AND PROVENANCE OF THE CORRELATED THOMSON AND ROVE FORMATIONS OF EASTERN MINNESOTA (2006) (0)
Primary Ediacaran Ooid Formation Texture Changes as an Indicator of Shifts in Local Shallow-Sea Chemistry: Exploring Diagenetic Effects on Preservation of Carbonate Associated Nitrate in the Johnnie Formation, Death Valley, California (2015) (0)
11th North American Paleontological Conference Program with Abstracts (2019) (0)
Conulariid soft parts replicated in silica from the Scotch Grove Formation (lower Middle Silurian) of east-central Iowa (2023) (0)
NEW ENIGMAS IN THE PATTERNS OF SILICIFICATION FROM THE CAMBRIAN WEEKS FORMATION LAGERSTäTTE (2016) (0)
LIFE IN THE VICINITY OF A CAMBRIAN REEF: INSIGHTS FROM THE MID-DYERAN MCDAME KONSERVAT-LAGERSTAETTE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (2021) (0)
VARIATIONS IN TEXTURAL BANDING OF OOIDS OVER STRATIGRAPHIC HEIGHT OF THE JOHNNIE OOLITE AND THEIR GEOCHEMICAL CORRELATIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR EDIACARAN PALEOCEAN CHEMISTRY (2016) (0)
Interpreting fossilized nervous tissues (2023) (0)
Ocean Fertilization at the Dawn of the Phanerozoic (2014) (0)
DEPOSITION OF THE CARBONIFEROUS AMSDEN FORMATION IRONSTONE HAS BEEN LINKED TO UPWELLING OF DEEP FERRUGINOUS HYDROTHERMALLY INFLUENCED SEAWATER (2022) (0)
The great leap forward (2013) (0)
The geological mystery that triggered animal evolution (2013) (0)
THE BIOTA OF THE CAMBRIAN WEEKS FORMATION LAGERSTäTTE, HOUSE RANGE, UTAH (2016) (0)
Evidence for microbial liberation of structurally-coordinated iron in clay minerals as a nutrient source in the world ocean (2012) (0)
Carbon associated nitrate (CAN) in the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation, Death Valley, California and links to the Shuram negative carbon isotope excursion (2014) (0)

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