Yale University - Department of Geology and Geophysics













Tim Raub
Recent Graduate

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Research Interests:
Magnetostratigraphy; "Cryogenian"-Ediacaran Earth history; character and timescales of climate change; true polar wander; supercontinents; tectonic history of North America and Australia; hominin evolution; ore genesis; impact craters

Selected Publication(s):
Raub, T.D. and Evans, D.A.D., in prep. Geomagnetic Reversals Indicate Prolonged Oceanographic Anomaly During Basal Ediacaran Snowball Earth Deglaciation.

Kirschvink, J.L., Raub, T.D., Higgins, M., Condon, D., Bowring, S.A., Evans, D.A.D., Kopp, R.E., Nowlan, G., Farley, K.H., and Macdonald, F., in prep. Paleomagnetism of mid-Ediacaran Sept Iles Intrusive Complex, Quebec, Canada.

Raub, T.D., Evans, D.A.D., and Smirnov, A.V., in press. Lithostratigraphy and Rock Magnetism of the Elatina-Nuccaleena Transition and Base of the Ediacaran System. (Journal of the Geological Society of London)


Kirschvink, J. L. and Raub, T. D., 2003. A Methane Fuse for the Cambrian Explosion: True Polar Wander. Comptes Rendus Geosciences v. 335 pp. 71-83.

Thackeray, J. F., Kirschvink, J. L., and Raub, T. D., 2002. Paleomagnetic Results from Calcified Deposits at the Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Site, Kromdraai, South Africa. South African Journal of Science v. 13 pp. 13-23.