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Roger Bryant

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2016Rising activity

Publications

32

Citations

328

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

10

Publishing since 2016

Research summary
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Roger Bryant studies how the chemical signals preserved in ancient rocks and fossils (such as carbon, sulfur, and boron isotopes in carbonates and pyrite) can be distorted by processes that happen after burial, known as diagenesis. This work helps refine what these geochemical records actually tell us about past ocean chemistry, oxygen levels, and major events in Earth's history, from the rise of animal life to mass extinctions and warming episodes.

Geochemistry of ancient oceansDiagenesis and preservation of fossil/sedimentary recordsSulfur and carbon isotope cyclesCarbonate and foraminifera geochemistryPaleoclimate and mass extinction events

Publication output has grown over the last decade, rising from about one paper per year in 2017-2019 to a more active and somewhat variable pace of several papers per year since 2020-2021.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.4/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 1 publication182019: 1 publication192020: 3 publications202021: 8 publications8212022: 1 publication222023: 7 publications232024: 3 publications242025: 6 publications2526
Recent publications
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  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts×4
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America×3
  • Science×2
  • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry×2
  • AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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