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My publications are listed below in reverse chronological order. For a comprehensive index of publications by the White Rose Palaeobiology Group please click here.

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Paul Wignall

 

 

2002

Wignall, P.B. & Twitchett, R.J. (2002) Extent, duration and nature of the Permian-Triassic superanoxic event. In Koeberl, C. & MacLeod, K. C. (editors), Catastrophic events and mass extinctions: impacts and beyond. Geological Society of America, Special Paper. 356, 395-413.

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Wignall, P.B. (2001) Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions. Earth-Science
Reviews,
53, 1-33.

Twitchett, R.J., Looy, C.V., Morante, R., Visscher, H. & Wignall, P.B. (2001) Rapid and synchronous collapse of marine and terrestrial ecosystems during the end-Permian biotic crisis. Geology, 29, 351-354.

Fisher, Q.J. & Wignall, P.B. (2001) Palaeoenvironmental controls on the uranium distribution in an Upper Carboniferous black shale (Gastrioceras listeri Marine Band) and associated strata, England. Chemical Geology, 175, 605-621

Raiswell, R., Newton, R. & Wignall, P.B. (2001) An indicator of water column anoxia: resolution of biofacies variations in the Kimmeridge Clay (Upper Jurassic, U.K.). Journal of Sedimentary Research, 71A, 286-294.

Lai X., Wignall, P.B. & Zhang, K. (2001) Palaeoecology of the conodonts Hindeodus and Clarkina during the Permian-Triassic transitional period. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 171, 63-72.

Wignall, P.B. & Newton, R. (2001) Black shales on a basin margin: a model based on examples from the Upper Jurassic of the Boulonnais, northern France. Sedimentary Geology, 144, 335-356.

Wignall, P.B. (2001) Sedimentology of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary beds in Pinhay Bay (Devon, SW England). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 112, 349-360

Wignall, P.B. (2001) End Permian extinction. D.E.G.Briggs and P.R. Crowther (editors) Palaeobiology II, Oxford, Blackwells Scientific, 226-229.

Racki, G. & Wignall, P.B. (2001) Eutrophication by decoupling of the marine biogeochemical cycles of C, N, and P: A mechanism for the Late Devonian mass extinction: Comment and reply. Geology, 29, 469.

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Hallam, A. & Wignall, P.B. (2000) Facies change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in Nevada, USA. Journal of the Geological Society, 156, 453-456.

Wignall, P.B. & Best, J.L. (2000) The Western Irish Namurian Basin Reassessed. Basin Research, 12, 59-78.

Hallam, A., Wignall, P.B., Yin J. and Riding, R. (2000) An investigation into possible facies changes across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in southern Tibet. Sedimentary Geology, 137, 101-106.

Wignall, P.B. (2000) The end-Triassic mass extinction. In: Encylcopedia of Life Sciences, Macmillan Reference Ltd (website publication).

Wignall, P.B. & Benton, M.J. (2000) Reply to Discussion on Lazarus taxa and fossil abundance at times of biotic crisis. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 157, 512.

Wignall, P.B. Black shales. P.L. Hancock & B.J. Skinner, (editors) (2000) Oxford Companion to the Earth, p.77,Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Looy, C.V., Twitchett, R.J., Wignall, P.B., Morante, R. & Visscher, H. (2000) Rapid and synchronous collapse of marine and terrestrial ecosystems during the end-Permian mass extinction event. Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 13, 15-24.

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Wignall, P.B. & Twitchett, R.J. (1999) Unusual intraclastic limestones in Lower Triassic carbonates and their bearing on the aftermath of the end Permian mass extinction. Sedimentology, 46, 303-316.

Wignall, P.B. & Benton, M.J. (1999) Lazarus taxa and fossil abundances at times of biotic crisis. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 156, 453-456.

Hallam, A. & Wignall, P.B. (1999) Mass extinctions and sea-level changes. Earth-Science Reviews 48, 217-250.

Wignall, P.B. (1999) Comment on: Evidence for abrupt latest Permian mass extinction of foraminifera: Results of tests for the Signor-Lipps effect. Geology, 27, 383.

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Wignall, P.B., Morante, R. & Newton, R. (1998) The Permo-Triassic transition in Spitsbergen: d13Corg. chemostratigraphy, Fe and S geochemistry, facies, fauna and trace fossils. Geological Magazine, 133, p. 47-62.

Wignall, P.B. & Newton, R. (1998) Pyrite framboid diameter as a measure of oxygen deficiency in ancient mudrocks. American Journal of Science, 298, p. 537-552.

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Hallam, A. and Wignall, P.B. (1997) Mass extinctions and their aftermath. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 330pp.

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Twitchett, R.J. & Wignall, P.B. (1996) Trace fossils and the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic mass extinction: evidence from northern Italy. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 124, p. 137-151.

Waters, C.N., Maynard, J.R. & Wignall, P.B. (1996) New developments in the Late Carboniferous geology of the central Pennines, northern England: a review. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 51, p. 81-86.

Wignall, P.B. & Hallam, A. (1996) Facies change and the end-Permian mass extinction in S.E. Sichuan, China. Palaios, 11, p. 587-596.

Wignall, P.B., Kozur, H. & Hallam, A. (1996) On the timing of palaeoenvironmental changes at the Permo-Triassic (P/Tr) boundary using conodont biostratigraphy. Historical Biology, 12, p. 39-62.

Wignall, P.B. & Maynard, J.R. (1996) High resolution sequence stratigraphy in the early Marsdenian (Namurian, Carboniferous) of the central Pennines and adjacent areas. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 51, p. 127-140.

Wignall, P.B., Sutcliffe, O.E., Clemson, J. & Young, E. (1996) Unusual shoreface sedimentology in the Late Jurassic of the Boulonnais, northern France. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 66A, p. 577-586.

Wignall, P.B. & Twitchett, R.J. (1996) Ocean anoxia and the end-Permian mass extinction. Science, 272, p. 1155-1158.

Lai X., Yang F., Hallam, A. & Wignall, P.B. (1996) The Shangsi section candidate of the Global Stratotype section and point of the Permian-Triassic boundary. In: Yin H. (editor)The Palaeozoic-Mesozoic boundary: candidates of Global p. 113-124. Wuhan, China University of Geosciences Press.

Wignall, P.B. & Twitchett, R.J. (1996) Late Permian extinctions: response. Science, 274, p. 1552.

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Lai X., Yang F., Hallam, A. & Wignall, P.B. (1995) The Shangsi section candidate of the Global Stratotype Section & Point (GSSP) of the Permian-Triassic boundary (PTB). Journal of the China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 1995, p. 1-19.

Wignall, P.B., Hallam, A., Lai X. & Yang F. (1995) Palaeoenvironmental changes across the Permian/Triassic boundary at Shangsi (N. Sichuan, China). Historical Biology, 10, p. 175-189.

Allison, P.A., Wignall, P.B., & Brett, C.E. (1995). Palaeo-oxygenation: effects and recognition. In Bosence, D.J.W. & Allison, P.A. (eds) Marine palaeoenviornmental analysis from fossils. p. 97-112, London, Special Publication of the Geological Society, 83.

Wignall, P.B. & Chisholm, J.I. (1995) Weekend field excursion to the Central Pennines. Mercian Geologist, 13(4), p. 199-201.

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Wignall, P.B. (1994) Black shales. Geology and Geophysics Monographs, 30. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 130pp.

Turner, N., Spinner, E., Spode, F. and Wignall, P.B. (1994) Palynostratigraphy of a Carboniferous transgressive systems tract from the earliest Alportian (Namurian) of Britian. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 80, p. 39-54.

Wignall, P.B. (1994) Mudstone lithofacies in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Wessex Basin, Southern England: implications for the origin and controls of the distribution of mudstones - discussion. Journal of Sedimentary Research, A64, p. 927-929.

Wignall, P.B. & Kabrna, P.K. (1994) The Carboniferous (Namurian and Westphalian) of the Cliviger Valley, Todmorden. Scrutton, C.T. (editor) Yorkshire rocks and landscape, p. 84-91, Maryport, Ellenbank Press.

Wignall, P.B. and Pickering, K.T. (1994) Reply to John R. Underhill "Discussion on Palaeoecology and sedimentology across a Jurassic fault scarp, NE Scotland." Journal of the Geological Society of London, 151, p. 730-731.

Wignall, P.B. (1994) Sequence stratigraphy - applications to basins in Northern England. Journal of Petroleum Geology, 17, p. 243.

Wignall, P.B. & Tiratsoo, C. (1994) Progress in sequence stratigraphy. Journal of Petroleum Geology, 17, p. 360-361.

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Wignall, P.B. (1993) Distinguishing between oxygen and substrate control in fossil benthic assemblages. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 150, p.193-196.

Wignall, P.B. (1993) The stratigraphy of the Upper Kimmeridge Clay (Late Jurassic) of Golden Hill, Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 49, p. 207-214.

Wignall, P.B. and Hallam, A. (1993) Griesbachian (Earliest Triassic) palaeoenvironmental changes in the Salt Range, Pakistan and south-east China and their bearing on the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 102, p. 215-237.

Wignall, P.B. & Pickering, K.T. (1993) Paleoecology and sedimentology across a Jurassic fault scarp, N.E. Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 150, p. 323-340.

Wignall, P.B. & Maynard, J.R. (1993) The sequence stratigraphy of transgressive black shales. In: Katz, B.J. & Pratt, L. (editors) Source rocks within a sequence stratigraphic framework. p. 35-47, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology, 37.

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Hollingworth, N.T.J. & Wignall, P.B.(1992) The Callovian-Oxfordian boundary in Oxfordshire and Wiltshire based on two new temporary sections. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 103, p. 15-30.

Wignall, P.B. (1992) The day the world nearly died. New Scientist, 133, 1805, p. 51-55.

Wignall, P.B. & Hallam, A. (1992) Anoxia as a cause of the Permian/Triassic extinction: facies evidence from northern Italy and the western United States. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 93, p. 21-46.

Wignall, P.B. (1992) New Kimmeridge Clay SSSI. Earth Sciences Conservation, 31, July 1992, p. 24.

Wignall, P.B. (1992) Anoxia and mass extinctions. Palaios, 7, p. 1-2.

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Maynard, J.R., Wignall, P.B. & Varker, W.J. (1991) A "hot", new shale facies from the Upper Carboniferous of northern England. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 148, p. 805-808.

Platt, N.H., Burns, S.J., Platt, J.D. & Wignall, P.B. (1991) Organic-rich deposits from the Callovian of the Sierra de la Demanda, northern Spain. Ecologae Geologicae Helveticae, 84, p. 483-508.

Ruffell, A.H. & Wignall, P.B. (1991) Depositional trends in the Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous of the northern margin of the Wessex Basin. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 101, p. 279-288.

Wignall, P.B. (1991) Model for transgressive black shales? Geology, 19, p. 167-170.

Wignall, P.B. (1991) Dysaerobic trace fossils and ichnofabrics in the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay of southern England. Palaios, 6, p. 264-270.

Wignall, P.B. (1991) Test of the concepts of sequence stratigraphy in the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of England and northern France. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 8, p. 430-441.

Wignall, P.B. & Hallam, A. (1991) Biofacies, stratigraphic distribution and depositional models of British onshore Jurassic black shales. In: Tyson, R.V. & Pearson, T.H. (editors) Modern and ancient continental shelf anoxia. p. 291-309, London,Geological Society of London Special Publication, 58.

Sageman, B.B., Wignall, P.B. & Kauffman, E.G. (1991) Biofacies models for black shales: tool for paleoenvironmental analysis. Einsele, G., Ricken, W. & Seilacher, A. (editors) Cycles and events in stratigraphy, p. 542-564, Berlin, Springer-Verlag.

Ruffell, A.H. & Wignall, P.B. (1991) Reply to Cox, B.M. et al. Thicknesses of the Kimmeridge Clay in the Oxford area. and, Moorlock, B. The Lower Greensand of the Woburn area, Bedfordshire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 102, p. 149-152.

Wignall, P.B. (1991) Depositional environments of mudrocks. Proceedings of the North East Lancashire Geological Association, 3, p. 657-661.

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Clausen, C.K. & Wignall, P.B. (1990) Early Kimmeridgian bivalves of southern England. Mesozoic Research, 2, p. 97-149.

Wignall, P.B. (1990) Benthic palaeoecology of the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay of England. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 43, 74pp.

Wignall, P.B. (1990) Ostracod and foraminifera micropaleoecology and its bearing on biostratigraphy: a case study from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of north west Europe. Palaios, 5, p. 219-226.

Wignall, P.B. (1990) Depositional history and palaeoecology of the Oxfordian/ Kimmeridgian boundary beds at South Ferriby, South Humberside. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 48, p. 197-208.

Wignall, P.B. & Ruffell, A.H. (1990) The influence of a sudden climatic change on marine deposition in the Kimmeridgian of north-west Europe. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 147, p. 365-371.

Wignall, P.B. & Simms, M.J. (1990) Pseudoplankton. Palaeontology, 33, p. 359-378.

Wignall, P.B. (1990) Observations on the evolution and classification of dysaerobic communities. In: Miller, W. (editor) Paleocommunity temporal dynamics: the long term development of multispecies assemblies, p. 99-111, Paleontological Society Special Publications, 5.

Wignall, P.B. (1990) High resolution event stratigraphy in the Kimmeridge Clay (Upper Jurassic) of England. Exploration Bulletin, 250, p. 54.

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Wignall, P.B. (1989) Sedimentary dynamics of the Kimmeridge Clay: tempests and earthquakes. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 146, p. 273-284.

Wignall, P.B., Clements, R.G. & Simms, M.J. (1989) The Triassic-Jurassic boundary beds of the city of Leicester. Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, 83, p. 25-31.

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Wignall, P.B. (1988) A geological guide to the marine and deltaic sediments of the Silesian of Deeply Vale, north Bury. The Amateur Geologist, 12, p. 25-30.

Hewitt, R.A. & Wignall, P.B. (1988) Structure and phylogenetic significance of Trachyteuthis (Coleoidea) from the Kimmeridge clay of England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 47, p. 149-153.

Wignall, P.B. & Myers, K.J. (1988) Interpreting benthic oxygen levels in mudrocks: a new approach. Geology, 16, p. 452-455.

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Wignall, P.B. (1987) A biofacies analysis of the Gastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band (Namurian) of the central Pennines. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 46, p. 111-121.

Myers, K.J. & Wignall, P.B. (1987) Understanding Jurassic organic-rich mudrocks- new concepts using gamma ray spectrometry and palaeoecology: examples from the Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset and the Jet Rock of Yorkshire. Leggett, J.K. & Zuffa, G.G. (editors) Marine clastic environments: concepts and case studies, p. 175-192, London, Graham & Trotman.

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Wignall, P.B. (1986) A guide to the geology of Turf Moor, Rossendale. The Amateur Geologist, 12, p. 28-29.

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