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British palaeontologist
Paul Barry Wignall is a British
palaeontologist and
sedimentologist . He is best known for his research on
mass extinctions in the marine realm.
[1]
[2]
[3] , particularly via the interpretation of
black shales .
[4]
[5]
[6]
Biography
Wignall obtained an undergraduate degree in Geology from
Worcester College at the
University of Oxford in 1985. He then completed a PhD in Palaeoecology at the
University of Birmingham in 1988, supervised by
Anthony Hallam .
[7]
[8] He spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher with John Hudson at the
University of Leicester before gaining employment in the School of Earth and Environment at the
University of Leeds in 1989, where he is currently Professor of Palaeoenvironments.
[7]
[8]
Research
Wignall is well known for his research on extinction in the fossil record,
[3]
[9] particularly the
Permian-Triassic mass extinction .
[2]
[10]
[11]
[12] He has published extensively on the importance of oceanic anoxia
[2]
[13] and high temperatures
[14]
[15] as kill mechanisms during this event. He also has an interest in understanding the coincidence of
supercontinents ,
large igneous provinces and
mass extinction events in Earth history.
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[16]
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Publications
Wignall has published over 200 research articles and books, including Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath ,
[19] The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
[16] and Extinction: A Very Short Introduction.
[20]
Media
Wignall has featured in several television programs, including BBC
Horizon episode
The Day The Earth Nearly Died .
[21]
Awards
Other
Wignall co-founded the Craven and Pendle Geological Society in 1990. He was President of the Leeds Geological Association in 2007-2008, and President of the
Yorkshire Geological Society in 2009-2010.
[26] He was also a member of the
Research Excellence Framework review panel for Earth Sciences in 2014.
[7]
See also
Paul Wignall's profile at
University of Leeds :
https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/1607/professor-paul-wignall
References
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a
b Wignall, Paul B. (2001-03-01).
"Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions" . Earth-Science Reviews . 53 (1): 1–33.
Bibcode :
2001ESRv...53....1W .
doi :
10.1016/S0012-8252(00)00037-4 .
ISSN
0012-8252 .
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a
b
c Wignall, Paul B.; Twitchett, Richard J. (1996-05-24).
"Oceanic Anoxia and the End Permian Mass Extinction" . Science . 272 (5265): 1155–1158.
Bibcode :
1996Sci...272.1155W .
doi :
10.1126/science.272.5265.1155 .
ISSN
0036-8075 .
PMID
8662450 .
S2CID
35032406 .
^
a
b Hallam, Anthony; Wignall, Paul B. (1999).
"Mass extinctions and sea-level changes" . Earth-Science Reviews . 48 (4): 217–250.
Bibcode :
1999ESRv...48..217H .
doi :
10.1016/S0012-8252(99)00055-0 . {{
cite journal }}
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link )
^ Wignall, Paul B. (1994).
Black Shales . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-854038-8 .
OCLC
29469074 .
^ Wignall, Paul B.; Myers, Keith J. (1988-05-01).
"Interpreting benthic oxygen levels in mudrocks: A new approach" . Geology . 16 (5): 452–455.
Bibcode :
1988Geo....16..452W .
doi :
10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0452:IBOLIM>2.3.CO;2 .
ISSN
0091-7613 .
^ Wignall, P. B.; Newton, R. (1998-09-01).
"Pyrite framboid diameter as a measure of oxygen deficiency in ancient mudrocks" . American Journal of Science . 298 (7): 537–552.
Bibcode :
1998AmJS..298..537W .
doi :
10.2475/ajs.298.7.537 .
ISSN
0002-9599 .
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a
b
c
d
"Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal" . European Geosciences Union (EGU) . Retrieved 2022-07-06 .
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a
b
Extinctions in the history of life . Paul D. Taylor. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 2004.
ISBN
0-521-84224-7 .
OCLC
54529268 . {{
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link )
^ Wignall, Paul B.; Benton, Michael J. (May 1999).
"Lazarus taxa and fossil abundance at times of biotic crisis" . Journal of the Geological Society . 156 (3): 453–456.
Bibcode :
1999JGSoc.156..453W .
doi :
10.1144/gsjgs.156.3.0453 .
ISSN
0016-7649 .
S2CID
130746408 .
^
"The Permian Extinction—When Life Nearly Came to an End | National Geographic Society" . education.nationalgeographic.org . Retrieved 2022-07-07 .
^ Twitchett, Richard J.; Looy, Cindy V.; Morante, Ric; Visscher, Henk; Wignall, Paul B. (2001-04-01).
"Rapid and synchronous collapse of marine and terrestrial ecosystems during the end-Permian biotic crisis" . Geology . 29 (4): 351–354.
Bibcode :
2001Geo....29..351T .
doi :
10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0351:RASCOM>2.0.CO;2 .
ISSN
0091-7613 .
^ Wignall, P. B. (December 2007).
"The End-Permian mass extinction – how bad did it get?" . Geobiology . 5 (4): 303–309.
doi :
10.1111/j.1472-4669.2007.00130.x .
ISSN
1472-4677 .
S2CID
130274539 .
^ Wignall, Paul B., Twitchett, Richard J. (2002).
"Extent, duration, and nature of the Permian-Triassic superanoxic event" . Geological Society of America Special Papers . 356 : 395–413. {{
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^ Sun, Yadong; Joachimski, Michael M.; Wignall, Paul B.; Yan, Chunbo; Chen, Yanlong; Jiang, Haishui; Wang, Lina; Lai, Xulong (2012-10-19).
"Lethally Hot Temperatures During the Early Triassic Greenhouse" . Science . 338 (6105): 366–370.
Bibcode :
2012Sci...338..366S .
doi :
10.1126/science.1224126 .
ISSN
0036-8075 .
PMID
23087244 .
S2CID
41302171 .
^ Song, Haijun; Wignall, Paul B.; Chu, Daoliang; Tong, Jinnan; Sun, Yadong; Song, Huyue; He, Weihong; Tian, Li (May 2015).
"Anoxia/high temperature double whammy during the Permian-Triassic marine crisis and its aftermath" . Scientific Reports . 4 (1): 4132.
doi :
10.1038/srep04132 .
ISSN
2045-2322 .
PMC
3928575 .
PMID
24549265 .
^
a
b Wignall, Paul B. (2017). The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions . Princeton University Press. pp. 1–224.
ISBN
978-0691176024 .
^ Bond, David P.G.; Wignall, Paul B. (2014),
"Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions: An update" , Volcanism, Impacts, and Mass Extinctions: Causes and Effects , Geological Society of America,
doi :
10.1130/2014.2505(02) ,
ISBN
978-0-8137-2505-5 , retrieved 2022-07-18
^ Wignall, P. (2005-12-01).
"The Link between Large Igneous Province Eruptions and Mass Extinctions" . Elements . 1 (5): 293–297.
doi :
10.2113/gselements.1.5.293 .
ISSN
1811-5209 .
^ Hallam, Anthony; Wignall, Paul B. (1997). Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0198549161 . {{
cite book }}
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link )
^ Wignall, Paul B. (2019). Extinction: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford University Press. pp. 1–144.
ISBN
978-0198807285 .
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"BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - The Day The Earth Nearly Died" . www.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 2022-07-07 .
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"Yorkshire Geological Society: Medals, Honours and Grants" (PDF) .
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"The Geological Society of London - President's Awards" . www.geolsoc.org.uk . Retrieved 2022-07-06 .
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"Geology Awards - The Clough Medal and Clough Memorial Award Winners" . Edinburgh Geological Society . Retrieved 2022-07-06 .
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"Past Science Awards Winners" . sepm.org . Retrieved 2022-07-07 .
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"Yorkshire Geological Society: Past Presidents" (PDF) .
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