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Paul Hoffman
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 183
Citations - 18000
Paul Hoffman is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Semantic memory & Snowball Earth. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 169 publications receiving 15955 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Hoffman include University of Victoria & Harvard University.
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A Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth
TL;DR: Negative carbon isotope anomalies in carbonate rocks bracketing Neoproterozoic glacial deposits in Namibia, combined with estimates of thermal subsidence history, suggest that biological productivity in the surface ocean collapsed for millions of years.
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Did the breakout of laurentia turn gondwanaland inside-out?
TL;DR: Comparative geology suggests that the continents adjacent to northern, western, southern, and eastern Laurentia in the Late Proterozoic were Siberia, Australia-Antarctica, southern Africa, and Amazonia-Baltica, respectively.
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United Plates of America, The Birth of a Craton: Early Proterozoic Assembly and Growth of Laurentia
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The snowball Earth hypothesis: testing the limits of global change
Paul Hoffman,Daniel P. Schrag +1 more
TL;DR: The recent discovery that late Neoproterozoic ice sheets extended to sea level near the equator poses a palaeoenvironmental conundrum as discussed by the authors, which does not account for major features such as abrupt onsets and terminations of discrete glacial events, their close association with large (> 10&) negative d 13 C shifts in seawater proxies, the deposition of strange carbonate layers (cap carbonates) globally during postglacial sea-level rise, and the return of large sedimentary iron formations.