Ian J. Fairchild

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(168), Karst Systems and Hydrogeology(83), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils(47), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry(43), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena(29)

Publications276 total

Earth’s Descent into ‘Snowball Earth’: Fire and Ice revisited
2025
Part 1: Anthropocene Series/Epoch: stratigraphic context and justification of rank The Anthropocene Epoch and Crawfordian Age: proposals by the Anthropocene Working Group
2024· 12 citedOpen Access
Part 2: Descriptions of the proposed Crawford Lake GSSP and supporting SABSs. The Anthropocene Epoch and Crawfordian Age: proposals by the Anthropocene Working Group
2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Executive Summary: The Anthropocene Epoch and Crawfordian Age: proposals by the Anthropocene Working Group
2024· 15 citedOpen Access
The Anthropocene within the Geological Time Scale: a response to fundamental questions
Episodes·2023· 28 citedOpen Access
Response to Merritts et al. (2023): The Anthropocene is complex. Defining it is not
Earth-Science Reviews·2023· 18 citedOpen Access
The Ernesto Cave, northern Italy, as a candidate auxiliary reference section for the definition of the Anthropocene series
The Anthropocene Review·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans
Earth-Science Reviews·2022· 78 citedOpen Access
The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid‐20<sup>th</sup> century stratigraphic event signals
Journal of Quaternary Science·2022· 59 citedOpen Access
The Anthropocene is a prospective epoch/series, not a geological event
Episodes·2022· 46 citedOpen Access
The Marinoan cap carbonate of Svalbard: Syngenetic marine dolomite with <scp><sup>17</sup>O</scp>‐anomalous carbonate‐associated sulphate
The Depositional Record·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
ISODRIP, a model to transfer the δ18O signal of precipitation to drip water — Implementation of the model for Eagle Cave (central Spain)
The Science of The Total Environment·2021· 8 cited
Selective leaching in glacierized terrains and implications for retention of primary chemical signals in carbonate rocks
2021· 4 cited
The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines
Earth s Future·2021· 172 citedOpen Access
Stratigraphic and Earth System Approaches to Defining the Anthropocene (2016)
˜The œanthropocene: Politik - economics - society - science·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Millennial climate oscillations controlled the structure and evolution of Termination II
Scientific Reports·2020· 4 citedOpen Access
Isotopic and Petrographic Evidence as a Proxy in Paleoclimatic Reconstructions from Flowstones in Southern Spain
Open Journal of Geology·2020· 2 citedOpen Access
North Iberian temperature and rainfall seasonality over the Younger Dryas and Holocene
Quaternary Science Reviews·2019· 58 citedOpen Access
Stable isotope evidence supporting the use of petrographic fabrics as a proxy to constrain paleoclimatic reconstructions from flowstones (Almería, SE Spain)
Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja)·2019
A formal Anthropocene is compatible with but distinct from its diachronous anthropogenic counterparts: a response to W.F. Ruddiman’s ‘three flaws in defining a formal Anthropocene’
Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment·2019· 51 citedOpen Access
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Frank McDermott(13), Andrea Borsato(12), Silvia Frisia(12), Andy Baker(7), Jan Zalasiewicz(7), Colin N. Waters(7), Reinhold Leinfelder(7), Colin Summerhayes(7), Michael Wagreich(7), Mark Williams(6), Anthony D. Barnosky(6), Alejandro Cearreta(6), John McNeill(6), Will Steffen(6), James P. M. Syvitski(6), Erle C. Ellis(5), Davor Vidas(5), Anna F. Tooth(5), Agnieszka Gałuszka(5), Juliana A. Ivar do Sul(5)