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Francis Macdonald

Frances MacDonald
Assistant Professor of Geology

 Office: Geological Museum 204
 Assistant: Marisa Reilly (617) 495-2350
 Email: fmacdon@fas.harvard.edu
 Web: http://francism.googlepages.com/
Research Interests:

Integrated field and laboratory studies on the co-evolution of the Earth's crust, climate, ocean geochemistry, and biology in deep time.

Environmental Courses:

EPS 21: Dynamic Earth - Geology and Tectonics though time
EPS 74: Field Geology
EPS 182: Stratigraphy and Sedimentology
[EPS 282: Topics in Stratigraphy and Earth History]
EPS 380: Topics in Geology and Earth History

Related Publications:

Johnston, D.T., Macdonald, F.A., Gill, B.C., Hoffman, P.F., and Schrag, D.P., 2012, Uncovering the Neoproterozoic Carbon Cycle, Nature, 483, 320-323.

Macdonald, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., Roots, C.F., Jones, D.S., Maloof, A.C., Strauss, J.V., Cohen, P.A., Johnston, D.T., and Schrag, D.P., 2010, Calibrating the Cryogenian, Science, 327, p. 1241-1243.

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