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Paul R. Renne
Researcher at Berkeley Geochronology Center
Publications - 374
Citations - 32299
Paul R. Renne is an academic researcher from Berkeley Geochronology Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Basalt & Lava. The author has an hindex of 89, co-authored 363 publications receiving 29354 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul R. Renne include University of California, Berkeley & Planetary Science Institute.
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Geology and palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash valley, Afar rift, Ethiopia
Giday WoldeGabriel,Yohannes Haile-Selassie,Paul R. Renne,William K. Hart,Stanley H. Ambrose,Berhane Asfaw,Grant Heiken,Tim D. White +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that these earliest hominids derive from relatively wet and wooded environments that were modulated by tectonic, volcanic, climatic and geomorphic processes, and require fundamental reassessment of models that invoke a significant role for global climatic change and/or savannah habitat in the origin of hominid origins.
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High-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Jehol Biota
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors obtained an age of 129.7 ± 0.5 ǫ for a basaltic lava from the bottom of the Yixian Formation and a tuff from the lowermost part of the overlying Jiufotang Formation.
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Alder Creek sanidine (ACs-2): A Quaternary 40Ar/39Ar dating standard tied to the Cobb Mountain geomagnetic event
Sébastien Nomade,Sébastien Nomade,Paul R. Renne,Paul R. Renne,Nadia Vogel,Nadia Vogel,Alan L. Deino,Warren D. Sharp,Tim A. Becker,A.R. Jaouni,Roland Mundil +10 more
TL;DR: Renne et al. as discussed by the authors used sanidine phenocryts from the Alder Creek rhyolite (ACs-2) from three separate irradiations and two distinct grain sizes to yield ages ranging from 1.190±0.004 to 1.003 Ma.
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The geological, isotopic, botanical, invertebrate, and lower vertebrate surroundings of Ardipithecus ramidus.
Giday WoldeGabriel,Stanley H. Ambrose,Doris Barboni,Raymonde Bonnefille,Laurent Bremond,Brian S. Currie,David DeGusta,William K. Hart,Alison M. Murray,Paul R. Renne,Marie-Claude Jolly-Saad,Kathlyn M. Stewart,Tim D. White +12 more
TL;DR: G Geological data presented here, along with floral, invertebrate, and vertebrate paleontological and taphonomic evidence associated with the hominids, suggest that they occupied a wooded biotope over the western three-fourths of the paleotransect.
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Geology and thermochronology of Tertiary Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complexes in the Saghand region of central Iran
C. Verdel,Brian P. Wernicke,Jahandar Ramezani,Jamshid Hassanzadeh,Paul R. Renne,Terry L. Spell +5 more
TL;DR: The discovery of metamorphic core complexes within the mid-Tertiary magmatic arcs of Iran demonstrates that Cordilleran-style core complexes are an important tectonic element in all major segments of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic system as discussed by the authors.