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Dr. Ed Landing

State Paleontologist Emeritus

ed.landing@nysed.gov

518-473-8071

Publications

2024

Landing, E., Bartholomew, A.J., 2024. Stark’s Knob: A New Plate TectonicsModel—First Volcano Described from a Subducting Plate Margin. GSA Today 34, 30–33. doi:10.1130/GSAT10.1130/GSATG114GH.1

Keppie, D.F., Keppie, J.D., Landing, E., 2024. A tectonic solution for the Early Cambrian palaeogeographic enigma. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 542, 167 - 177. doi:10.1144/SP542-2022-355

Landing, E., Geyer, G., Westrop, S.R., Wotte, T., 2024. Unconformity-bounded rift sequences in Terreneuvian−Miaolingian strata of the Caledonian Highlands, Atlantic Canada: Comment. Geological Society of America Bulletin 136, 3472–3478. doi:10.1130/B37005.1

Landing, E., Webster, M., Bowser, S.S., 2024. Terminal Ediacaran-Late Ordovician evolution of the NE Laurentia palaeocontinent: rift–drift-onset of Taconic orogeny, sea-level change, and ‘Hawke Bay’ onlap (not offlap). Geological Society, London, Special Publications 542. doi:10.1144/SP542-2023-4

Liu, Z., Algeo, T.J., Arefifard, S., Wei, W., Brett, C., Landing, E., Lev, S.M., 2024. Testing the salinity of Cambrian to Silurian epicratonic seas. Journal of the Geological Society 2024, jgs2023-217. doi:10.1144/jgs2023-217

2023

Landing, E., Schmitz, M.D., Westrop, S.R., Geyer, G., 2023. U-Pb zircon dates from North American and British Avalonia bracket the Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary interval, with evaluation of the Miaolingian Series as a global unit. Geological Magazine 1 - 27. doi:10.1017/S0016756823000729

Landing, E., Geyer, G., 2023. Discussion: The Terreneuvian MacCodrum Brook section, Mira terrane, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: age constraints from ash layers, organic-walled microfossils, and trace fossils. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. doi:10.1139/cjes-2023-0031

Landing, E., Kroger, B., Westrop, S.R., Geyer, G., 2023. Proposed Early Cambrian cephalopods are chimaeras, the oldest known cephalopods are 30 m.y. younger. Communications Biology 6, 32. doi:10.1038/s42003-022-04383-9

Mghazli, K., Lazreq, N., Geyer, G., Landing, E., Boumehdi, M.A., Youbi, N., 2023. Cambrian microfossils from the High Atlas, Morocco: Taxonomic, biostratigraphic, palaeobiogeographic, and depositional significance of the Brèche à Micmacca limestone beds. Journal of African Earth Sciences 197, 104751. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104751

2022

Nguyen, J.J., Westrop, S.R., Landing, E., 2022. The Cambrian (Furongian) olenid trilobite Peltura from Avalonian Nova Scotia, Canada, with a review of some species from Baltica. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. doi:10.1139/cjes-2022-0007