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Mark McMenamin | |
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| Born | 1957 or 1958 (age 66–67)[3] Oregon, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D. Stanford University, B.S. |
| Known for | Ediacaran fossils; Hypersea theory; Proterozoic supercontinent Rodinia[1] |
| Spouse | Dianna L. Schulte McMenamin |
| Awards | Presidential Young Investigator Award Sigma Xi National Lecturer 2011 Irish Education 100 Award [1][2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology, Geology |
| Institutions | Mount Holyoke College[1] |
Mark A. S. McMenamin (born c. 1957) is an American paleontologist and professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College. He has contributed to the study of the Cambrian explosion and the Ediacaran biota.
He is the author of several books, most recently Deep Time Analysis (2018) and Dynamic Paleontology (2016). His earlier works include The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the Earliest Complex Life (1998), one of the only popular accounts of research on the Ediacaran biota, and Science 101: Geology (2007). He is credited with co-naming several geological formations in Mexico, describing several new fossil genera and species, and naming the Precambrian supercontinent Rodinia[4] and the superocean Mirovia.[5][6] The Cambrian archeocyathid species Markocyathus clementensis was named in his honor in 1989.[7]
- ^ a b c "Mark McMenamin Faculty Profile". Mount Holyoke College. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
- ^ McGoldrick, Debbie, ed. (2011). "Mark McMenamin". The Irish Voice Third Annual Irish Education 100 Special Supplement: S38.
- ^ Macone, Steve (June 3, 2007). "Out there". The Boston Globe.
- ^ Meert, J. G.; Powell, C. M. (2001). "Assembly and breakup of Rodinia". Precambrian Research. 110 (1–4): 1–8. Bibcode:2001PreR..110....1M. doi:10.1016/s0301-9268(01)00177-2.
- ^ McMenamin, Mark A.; McMenamin, Dianna L. (1990). "The Rifting of Rodinia". The Emergence of Animals. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-06647-1.
- ^ Dutkiewicz, A.; Merdith, A. S.; Collins, A. S.; Mather, B.; Ilano, L.; Zahirovic, S.; Dietmar Müller, R. (2024). "Duration of Sturtian 'Snowball Earth' glaciation linked to exceptionally low mid-ocean ridge outgassing". Geology. 52 (4): 292–296. doi:10.1130/G51669.1. hdl:2440/140615.
- ^ Debrenne, F.; Gandin, A.; Rowland, S. M. (1989). "Lower Cambrian bioconstructions in Northwest Mexico (Sonora). Depositional setting, paleoecology and systematics of archaeocyaths". Geobios. 22 (2): 137–195. Bibcode:1989Geobi..22..137D. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(89)80127-5.