Ian Fairchild
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK i.j.fairchild@bham.ac.uk |
Ian is Professor Emeritus from the University of Birmingham, UK. He has carried out field, petrological and geochemical researches on Neoproterozoic successions in Scotland, Svalbard, Greenland, E China and Mauritania and has visited several other regions. Ian has focused mainly on carbonates, complementing his extensive work on aqueous and carbonate geochemistry in modern glacial and spelean environments which included the publication of Speleothem Science in 2012.
Between 1996 and 2004, Ian was a member of the Subcommission on the terminal Proterozoic system that defined the start of the Ediacaran Period. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Anthropocene Working Group which is tasked with making a proposal for a stratigraphic definition of the Anthropocene. Ian led a group of the Cryogenian Stratigraphic Subcommission to Islay and the Garvellach Islands in Scotland in 2013 and led on a published study which put the case for definition of the Tonian-Cryogenian boundary in Scotland in 2018. He attended the Subcommission field workshop in South Australia in 2019. |
Cryogenian related publications:
Benn, D.I., Le Hir, G., Bao, H., Donnadieu, Y., Dumas, C., Fleming, E.J., Hambrey, M.J., McMillan, E.A., Petronis, M.S., Ramstein, G., Stevenson, C.T.E., Wynn, P.M. and Fairchild, I.J. 2015 Orbitally forced ice sheet fluctuations at the end of the Marinoan Snowball Earth glaciation Nature Geoscience. 8, 704-707.
Fairchild, I.J., Fleming, E.J., Bao, H., Benn, D.I., Boomer, I., Dublyansky, Y.V., Halverson, G.P., Hambrey, M.J., Hendy, C., McMillan, E.A., Spötl, C., Stevenson, C.T.E. and Wynn, P.M. 2016 Continental carbonate facies of a Neoproterozoic panglaciation, NE Svalbard. Sedimentology, 63, 443-497.
Fairchild, I.J., Bonnand, P., Davies, T., Fleming, E.J., Grassineau, N., Halverson, G.P., Hambrey, M.J., McMillan, E.A., McKay, E., Parkinson, I.J. and Stevenson, C.T.E. 2016 The Late Cryogenian Warm Interval, NE Svalbard: chemostratigraphy and genesis of dolomitic shales. Precambrian Research, 281, 128-154.
Fairchild, I.J., Spencer, A.M., Ali, D.O., Anderson, R.P., Anderton, R., Boomer, I., Dove, D., Evans, J.D., Hambrey, M.J., Howe, J., Sawaki, Y., Wang, Z., Shields, G., Skelton, A. Tucker, M.E. and Zhou, Y. 2018 Tonian-Cryogenian boundary sections of Argyll, Scotland. Precambrian Research, 319, 37-64.
Fleming, E.J., Benn, D.I., Stevenson, C.T.E., Petronis, M.S., Hambrey, M.J. and Fairchild, I.J. 2016 Glacitectonism, subglacial and glacilacustrine processes during a Neoproterozoic panglaciation, northeast Svalbard. Sedimentology, 63, 411-442.
Spence, G.H., Le Heron, D.P. and Fairchild, I.J. 2016 Sedimentological Perspectives on Climatic, Atmospheric and Environmental Change in the Neoproterozoic Era. Sedimentology. 63, 253-306.
Fairchild, I.J., Fleming, E.J., Bao, H., Benn, D.I., Boomer, I., Dublyansky, Y.V., Halverson, G.P., Hambrey, M.J., Hendy, C., McMillan, E.A., Spötl, C., Stevenson, C.T.E. and Wynn, P.M. 2016 Continental carbonate facies of a Neoproterozoic panglaciation, NE Svalbard. Sedimentology, 63, 443-497.
Fairchild, I.J., Bonnand, P., Davies, T., Fleming, E.J., Grassineau, N., Halverson, G.P., Hambrey, M.J., McMillan, E.A., McKay, E., Parkinson, I.J. and Stevenson, C.T.E. 2016 The Late Cryogenian Warm Interval, NE Svalbard: chemostratigraphy and genesis of dolomitic shales. Precambrian Research, 281, 128-154.
Fairchild, I.J., Spencer, A.M., Ali, D.O., Anderson, R.P., Anderton, R., Boomer, I., Dove, D., Evans, J.D., Hambrey, M.J., Howe, J., Sawaki, Y., Wang, Z., Shields, G., Skelton, A. Tucker, M.E. and Zhou, Y. 2018 Tonian-Cryogenian boundary sections of Argyll, Scotland. Precambrian Research, 319, 37-64.
Fleming, E.J., Benn, D.I., Stevenson, C.T.E., Petronis, M.S., Hambrey, M.J. and Fairchild, I.J. 2016 Glacitectonism, subglacial and glacilacustrine processes during a Neoproterozoic panglaciation, northeast Svalbard. Sedimentology, 63, 411-442.
Spence, G.H., Le Heron, D.P. and Fairchild, I.J. 2016 Sedimentological Perspectives on Climatic, Atmospheric and Environmental Change in the Neoproterozoic Era. Sedimentology. 63, 253-306.