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Department of Geological Sciences College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Publications

17. E Kulakov, C Sprain, A Smirnov, G Paterson, A Biggin, L Hawkins, L Fairchild, P Doubrovine, and E Piispa, Analysis of an updated paleointensity database (QPI-PINT) for 65-200 Ma: A consensus on long-term history in average dipole moment through the Mesozoic, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB017287.

16. CJ Sprain, AJ Biggin, CJ Davies, and RK Bono, Paleomagnetic Modeling criteria for Geodynamo simulations (QPM), Earth and Planetary Science Letters 526 (2019): 115758, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115758.

15. I Fendley, T Mittal, CJ Sprain, M Marvin-DiPasquale, T Tobin, and P Renne, High resolution terrestrial mercury record of Deccan Traps eruptions across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 524 (2019): 115721.

14. CJ Sprain, PR Renne, L Vanderkluysen, K Pande, S Self, and T Mittal, The Eruptive Tempo of Deccan Volcanism in Relation to the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary, Science 363 (2019): 866 – 870.

13. CJ Sprain, PR Renne, GP Wilson, WA Clemens, Calibration of chron C29r: New high-precision geochronologic and paleomagnetic constraints from the Hell Creek region, Montana, Geological Society of America Bulletin (2018), doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B31890.1.

12. SM Smith, CJ Sprain, GP Wilson, WA Clemens, DL Lofgren, PR Renne, Early mammalian recovery after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: A high-resolution view from McGuire Creek area, Montana, USA, Geological Society of America Bulletin (2018), doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B31926.1.

11. CJ Sprain, NL Swanson-Hysell, L Fairchild, K Gaastra, A field like today’s? The strength of the geomagnetic field 1.1 billion years ago, Geophysical Journal International 213 (2018): 1969-1983, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggy074.

10. LM Fairchild, NL Swanson-Hysell, J Ramezani, CJ Sprain, SA Bowring, The end of Midcontinent Rift magmatism and the paleogeography of Laurentia, Lithosphere L580.1 (2017), doi:10.1130/L580.1.

9. CJ Sprain, JM Feinberg, PR Renne, M Jackson, Importance of titanohematite in detrital remanent magnetizations of strata spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, Hell Creek region, Montana, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 17 (2016): 660-678.

8. CJ Sprain, JM Feinberg, JW Geissman, B Strauss, MC Brown, Paleointensity during periods of rapid reversal: A case study from the Middle Jurassic Shamrock batholith, western Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin 128 (2016): 223-238.

7. L Sagnotti, B Giaccio, JC Liddicoat, S Nomade, PR Renne, G Scardia, C Sprain, How fast was the Matuyama-Brunhes geomagnetic reversal? A new subcentennial record from the Sulmona Basin, central Italy, Geophysical Journal International 204 (2016): 798-812.

6. CJ Sprain, PR Renne, GP Wilson, WA Clemens, High-resolution chronostratigraphy of the terrestrial Cretaceous Paleogene transition and recovery interval in the Hell Creek region, Montana, Geological Society of America Bulletin 127 (2015): 393-409.

5. PR Renne, CJ Sprain, MA Richards, S Self, L Vanderkluysen, K Pande, State shift in Deccan volcanism at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, possibly induced by impact, Science 350 (2015): 76-78.

4. B Giaccio, E Regattieri, G Zanchetta, S Nomade, PR Renne, CJ Sprain, RN Drysdale, PC Tzedakis, P Messina, G Scardia, A Sposato, F Bassinot, Duration and dynamics of the best orbital analogue to the present interglacial, Geology 43 (2015): 603-606.

3. MA Richards, W Alvarez, S Self, L Karlstrom, PR Renne, M Manga, CJ Sprain, J Smit, L Vanderkluysen, S Gibson, Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact, Geological Society of America Bulletin 127 (2015): 1507-1520.

2. RB Ickert, SR Mulcahy, CJ Sprain, JF Banaszak, PR Renne, Chemical and Pb isotope composition of phenocrysts from bentonites constrains the chronostratigraphy around the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the Hell Creek region, Montana, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 16 (2015): 2743-2761.

1. L Sagnotti, G Scardia, B Giaccio, JC Liddicoat, S Nomade, PR Renne, CJ Sprain, Extremely rapid directional change during Matuyama-Brunhes geomagnetic polarity reversal, Geophysical Journal International 199 (2014): 1110-1124.