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Frakes, L.A., Francis, J.E. and Syktus, J.I. (1992) Climate Modes of the Phanerozoic. 274pp, Cambridge University Press.

Refereed chapters in books

Creber. G. T. and Francis, J. E. (1999). Tree ring analysis: palaeodendrochronology. In Jones, T. and Rowe, N. (Eds) Fossil Plants and Spores: Modern Techniques. Geological Society Special Publication, 245-250.

Creber, G.T. and Francis, J.E. (1987). Productivity in fossil forests. In: Jacoby, G.C. (Ed). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ecological Aspects of Tree-ring Analysis. U.S. Dept. of Energy, Washington, D.C. 319-326.

Frakes, L.A. and Francis, J.E. (1990). Cretaceous climates. In: Ginsburg, R. N. and Beaudoin, B. (Eds.) I NATO ASI Series C, vol. 304. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. 273-287.

Francis, J. E. (1998). Interpreting palaeoclimates. In Doyle, P. and Bennet, M. (Eds). Interpreting the Stratigraphic Record. Wiley and Sons. 471-490.

Francis, J.E. (1991). The dynamics of polar fossil forests: Tertiary fossil forests of Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic. In: Christie, R.L. and McMillan, N.J. (Eds.) Fossil Forests of Tertiary age in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 403, 29-38.

Francis, J.E. (1991). The palaeoclimatic significance of Cretaceous and Tertiary fossil forests of the Antarctic Peninsula. In: Thomson, M.R.A., Crame, J.A. and Thomson, J.W. Geological Evolution of Antarctica, Cambridge University Press. 623-628.

Francis, J.E. (1987). Growth rings in Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous fossil wood from southern England and their palaeoclimatic significance. In: Ward, R.G. (Ed.) Applications of Tree-Ring Studies. British Archaeological Report Series 333, 21-36.

Francis, J.E. (1986). The calcareous paleosols of the basal Purbeck Formation (Upper Jurassic), southern England. In: Wright, V.P. (Ed.) Paleosols: Their Recognition and Interpretation. Blackwells Scientific Publications, Oxford. 112-138.

Francis, J.E. and Frakes, L.A. (1993). Cretaceous Climates. In: PRIS Sedimentology Review, (Ed.) V.P. Wright, 17-30.

Macdonald, D.I.M. and Francis, J.E. (1992). The potential for Cretaceous coals in Antarctica.In: McCabe, P.J. (Ed.) "Controls on the distribution and quality of Cretaceous coals". Geological Society of America Special Publication, 267, 385-395.

Refereed Journal Papers

Allen, P., Alvin, K. L., Andrews, J. E., Batten, D. J., Charlton, W. A., Cleevely, R. J., Ensom, P. C., Evans, S. E., Francis, J. E., Hailwood, E. L., Harding, I. C., Horne, D. J., Hughes, N. F., Jarzembowski, E. A., Jones, T. P., Knox, R.W.O'B., Milner, A., Norman, D. B., Palmer, C. P., Parker, A., Radley, J. D., Rawson, P. F., Ross, A. J., Rolfe, S., Ruffell, A. H., Sellwood, B. W., Taylor, K. G., Watson, J., Wright, V. P. and Wimbledon, W. A. (1998). Purbeck-Wealden (early Cretaceous) climates. Proceedings of the geologists' Association. 109, 197-236.

Beerling, D. J. and Francis J, E. (2000). Back to the future for plant and ecosystem evolution. TREE 15, p.442.

Clayton, T., Francis, J. E., Hillier, S. J., Hodson, F., Saunders, R. A., and Stone, J. (1996). The implications of reworking on the mineralogy and chemistry of Lower Carboniferous k-bentonites. Clay Minerals 31, 377-390.

Crame, J.A., Francis, J.E., Cantrill, D. and Pirrie, D. 2004. Maastrichtian stratigraphy of Antarctica. Cretaceous Research, 25, 411-423.

Creber and Francis. In press. The growth of trees in the polar regions: evidence from Glossopteris of Permian age, Antarctica. Acta Horticulturae International Society for Horticultural Science.

Dettman, M.E., Molnar, R.E., Douglas, J.G., Burger, D., Fielding, C., Clifford, H.T., Francis, J.E., Jell, P., Rich, T., Wade, M., Rich, P.V., Pledge, N., Kemp, A. and Rozefelds, A. (1992). Australian Cretaceous terrestrial faunas and floras: biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications. Cretaceous Research. 13, 207-262

Eklund, H., Cantrill, D. J. and Francis, J. E. 2004. A Late Cretaceous mesofossil assemblage from Table Nunatak, Antarctica:Lycopods, ferns and vegetative structures of conifers and angiosperms. Cretaceous Research, 25, 211-228.

Ensom, P. C., Evans, S. E., Francis, J. E., Kielan-Jaworoska, Z., and Milner, A. R. (1994). The fauna and flora of the Sunnydown Farm footprint site and associated sites: Purbeck Limestone Formation, Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History Society, 115, 181-182.

Frakes, L.A. and Francis, J.E. (1988). A guide to Phanerozoic cold polar climates from high-latitude ice-rafting in the Cretaceous. Nature, 333, 547-549.

Francis, J. E. (2000). Fossil wood from Eocene high-latitude forests, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. American Geophysical Union, Antarctic Research Series, 76, 253-260.

Francis, J. E. (1999). Evidence from Fossil Plants for Antarctic Palaeoclimates over the past 100 Million Years. Terra Antarctica Reports, 3, 43-52.

Francis J. E. (1996). Antarctic palaeobotany: clues to climate change. Terra Antarctica, 3, 135-140.

Francis, J. E. (1994). Palaeoclimates of Pangea - geological evidence. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 17, 265-274.

Francis, J.E. (1988). A 50-million-year-old fossil forest from Strathcona Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada: evidence for a warm polar climate. Arctic, 41, 314-318.

Francis, J.E. (1986). Growth rings in Cretaceous and Tertiary wood from Antarctica and their palaeoclimatic implications. Palaeontology, 29, 665-684.

Francis, J.E. (1984). The seasonal environment of the Purbeck (Upper Jurassic) fossil forests. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 48, 285-307.

Francis, J.E. (1983). The dominant conifer of the Jurassic Purbeck Formation, England. Palaeontology, 26, 277-294.

Francis, J.E. and Coffin, M.F. (1992). Cretaceous fossil wood from the Raggatt Basin, southern Kerguelen Plateau (ODP Leg 120, Site 750). Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 120, 273-280.

Francis, J. E. and Harland, M. In press. The oldest record of termite borings in Lower Cretaceous fossil wood, Isle of Wight, UK. Cretaceous Research.

Francis, J. E. and Hill, R.S. (1996). Pliocene Fossil Plants from the Transantarctic Mountains: Evidence for Climate from Growth Rings and Fossil Leaves. PALAIOS Special Thematic Issue on 'Skeletal records of ecologic change'. 11, 389-396

Francis, J. E. and Poole, I. (2002) Cretaceous and early Tertiary climates of Antarctica: evidence from fossil wood. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 182, 47-64.

Francis, J. E., Woolfe, K. J., Arnot, M. J. and Barrett, P. J. (1994). Permian climates of the southern margins of Pangea: evidence from fossil wood in Antarctica. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 17, 275-282.

Francis, J. E., Woolfe, K. J., Arnot, M. J. and Barrett, P. J. (1993). Permian forests of Allan Hills, Antarctica: the palaeoclimate of Gondwanan high latitudes. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 49, 75 - 83.

Haywood, A. M., Valdes, P. J., Sellwood, B. W., Francis, J. E. and Kaplan J. O. In press (2003). Global middle Pliocene biome reconstruction: A data/model synthesis. G3 Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 3 (1), doi:10.1029/2002GC000358.

Howe, J. and Francis, J. E. (2005). Metamorphosed palaeosols from the mid Cretaceous fossil forests of Alexander Island, Antarctica. Journal of the Geological Society of London.

Poole, I., Cantrill, D.J., Hayes, P., Francis, J.E., (2000). The fossil record of Cunoniaceae: new evidence from Late Cretaceous wood of Antarctica. Rev. Palaeobotany Palynology 111, 127-144.

Poole I. and Francis, J.E., (1999). The first record of Atherospermataean wood from the Cretaceous of Antarctica. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 107, 97-107.

Poole, I. and Francis, J.E., (2000). The first record of fossil wood of the Winteraceae from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. Ann. Bot. 85, 307-318.

Poole, I. and Francis, J. E. (1999). Reconstruction of Antarctic palaeoclimates using angiosperm wood anatomy. Acta Palaeobotanica. Supplementum No. 2, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland. 173-180.

Poole, I., Gottwald, H. and Francis, J.E., (2000). Illicioxylon, an Element of Gondwanan Polar Forests? Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary wood in Antarctica. Annals of Botany, 86, 421-432.

Poole, I., Richter, H. and Francis, J.E., 2000. Gondwanan origins for Sassafras (Lauraceae): evidence from Late Cretaceous fossil wood of Antarctica. IAWA Bulletin 21,

Read, J. and Francis, J.E. (1992). Responses of some southern hemisphere tree species to a prolonged dark period and their phytogeographic and palaeoecological implications for high-latitude Cretaceous and Tertiary floras. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 99, 271-290.

Watkins, D.K., Quilty, P.G., Mohr, B.A.R., Mao, S., Francis, J.E., Gee, C.T. and Coffin, M.F. (1992). Cretaceous paleontology of the central Kerguelen Plateau. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 120, 951-960.

Woolfe, K. J., Francis, J. E., and Arnot, M. J. (2000). PC99: new freeware for manipulating and graphically displaying palaeocurrent data. Sedimentary Geology 133, 1-5.

Public Articles (Unrefereed)

Arnot, M.J., Barrett, P.J., Francis, J.E., Smith, N.D., Woolfe, K.J. (1992). Paleocurrent data from Allan Hills. In: Woolfe, K.J. Paleocurrent data from the Beacon Supergroup at Allan Hills and other localities in Southern Victoria Land and the Darwin Mountains, Antarctica. Data Series 16, V.U.W, Wellington, N.Z. p.7-113

Feldman, R., and Francis. J. E. (1995). Antarctic biotas through time. The Antarctic region: geological evolution and processes. 975-6.

Francis, J. E. and Smith, M. P. (2002). Palaeoclimate reconstructions using fossils and lithological indicators - foreword. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 182, 1.

Francis, J. E. (2002). Fossil forests of the polar regions: heralds of global climate change. Open University Geological Society Journal, 23, 26-28.

Francis, J. E. (2000) Forests in the Frost. Rockwatch Magazine, Winter 99, 4-5.

Francis, J. E. (1997). Glaciation - a geocatastrophe? Journal of the Open University Geological Society. 18, 43-47.

Francis, J.E. (1991). Arctic Eden. Natural History, 1/91, 57-63

Francis, J.E. (1990). Polar Forests. Geology Today, 92-95.

Francis, J.E. (1989). Antarctica: the search for fossil forests. Geology Today, 5, 155.

Francis, J.E. (1989). In search of polar forests. South Australian Museum Newsletter, 20, 3-5.

Francis, J. E. and Feldmann, R. M. (1997). Antarctic Fossil Biotas through Time. Thematic Session Overview of VII ISAEA 1995. Terra Antarctica, 3, 152-153.

Francis, J.E. and Frakes, L.A. (1990). Cretaceous climates of Australia. Contribution to 'Biology: The Common Threads'. Australian Academy of Science School Biology Project.

Francis, J.E. and McMillan, N.J. (1987). Fossil Forests in the Far North. Geos, 16, 6-9.

Francis, J. E. & Wignall. P. B. (1997). Fieldwork safety at Leeds University. Teaching Earth Sciences, 22, 91.

Kneale, P. E, Francis, J. E., Humphries, J. and Jackson, P. (1999). Faculty Reflective Portfolio. University of Leeds.

Scott, A., Butler, R., Francis, J. E., and Barnicoat, A. (1995). Geological Map Skills. Computer aided learning module. UK Earth Science Courseware Consortium.

Woolfe, K.J., Arnot, M.J., Barrett, P.J. and Francis, J.E. (1991). 1990/91 Victoria University of Wellington geological field season to Allan Hills, Transantarctic Mountains. Report for the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR).