Member Since 1972
Dennis V. Kent
Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
DENNIS V. KENT is Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and Board of Governor Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. He is an author of more than 300 widely cited journal and book articles dealing with paleogeography, paleoclimate, and the long-term carbon cycle, the tempo of geomagnetic polarity reversals, and other aspects of Earth magnetism.
Professional Experience
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Adjunct Senior Research Scientist
1998 - Present
Education
Columbia University of New York
Doctorate
1974
Columbia University
Doctorate
1974
City College of New York
Bachelors
1968
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Publications
Paleomagnetic Constraints From South Georgia on the Tectonic Reconstruction of the Early Cretaceous ...
South Georgia exists as a microcontinent along the North Scotia Ridge ∼1,700 km east of Cape Horn. The tectonostratigraphic units of Sou...
February 18, 2022
Magnetochronology of the Entire Chinle Formation (Norian Age...
November 05, 2019
AGU Abstracts
Identification of Spurious Hiatuses Between Lavas of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) Diminishes the Number of Eruptions but Greatly Amplifies their Possible Environmental Effects.
TOPICS IN VOLCANOLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND PETROLOGY II POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 15 december 2023
Paul E. Olsen, Dennis V. Kent, Mohammed Et-Touhami
Most flow sequences of continental flood basalts provinces (CFBs) have distinct reddened boundaries between cooling units, often with interbedded sedi...
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High Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Scans of Cores from the Colorado Plateau Coring Project Phase 1: Preliminary Results
FRONTIERS IN MULTISCALE AND MULTIAPPROACH CHARACTERIZATION OF FINE-GRAINED GEOMATERIALS II POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 14 december 2023
Clara Chang, David Tibbits, Sean Kinney, Michael P...
The Colorado Plateau Coring Project Phase 1 recovered 850m in three stratigraphically overlapping cores at two sites in 2013 from Petrified Forest Nat...
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A Gradual increase in pCO2 punctuated by cold tropical temperatures points to volcanic winters as the trigger for the abrupt End-Triassic extinction
ADVANCES IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE OVER GEOLOGIC TIME II POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 13 december 2023
Morgan F. Schaller, Paul E. Olsen, James D. Wright...
The End Triassic Extinction (ETE) is one of the Big-5 mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic and has arguably among the best terrestrial stratigraphic re...
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Volunteer Experience
2000 - 2001
Chair
Union Fellows Committee
1998 - 1999
Member
Union Fellows Committee
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