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most citedSupernova Triggers for End-Devonian Extinctions

78 citations · 211 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2026

HERMES: a multi-agent framework for structured knowledge extraction from ultra-long documents in geoscience

Ziqi Song, Zongyuan Xiang, James G. Ogg +12

Authoritative scientific knowledge in geoscience remains largely trapped in legacy monographs and historical literature, where unstructured text and complex layouts hinder computat…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 78 cited

Supernova Triggers for End-Devonian Extinctions

Brian D. Fields, Adrian L. Melott, John Ellis +6

The Late Devonian was a protracted period of low speciation resulting in biodiversity decline, culminating in extinction events near the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary. Recent evi…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 12 cited

Does the Planetary Dynamo Go Cycling On? Re-examining the Evidence for Cycles in Magnetic Reversal Rate

Adrian L. Melott, Anthony Pivarunas, Joseph G. Meert +1

The record of reversals of the geomagnetic field has played an integral role in the development of plate tectonic theory. Statistical analyses of the reversal record are aimed at d…

q-bio.PE2007★ 50 cited

Considering the Case for Biodiversity Cycles: Reexamining the Evidence for Periodicity in the Fossil Record

Bruce S. Lieberman, Adrian L. Melott

Medvedev and Melott (2007) have suggested that periodicity in fossil biodiversity may be induced by cosmic rays which vary as the Solar System oscillates normal to the galactic dis…

astro-ph2006

Fossil Biodiversity: Red Noise Plus Signal

Adrian L. Melott, Bruce S. Lieberman

We have examined the Fourier power spectrum as well as the Hurst exponent of extinction, origination, and total biodiversity in the marine fossil record, using a recently improved…

astro-ph2003★ 71 cited

Did a gamma-ray burst initiate the late Ordovician mass extinction?

A. Melott, B. Lieberman, C. Laird +6

Gamma-ray bursts (hereafter GRB) produce a flux of radiation detectable across the observable Universe, and at least some of them are associated with galaxies. A GRB within our own…