Gordon C. Baird

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

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Gordon C. Baird is a scholar working on Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gordon C. Baird has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Earth-Surface Processes, 34 papers in Paleontology and 19 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Gordon C. Baird's work include Geological formations and processes (36 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (33 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers). Gordon C. Baird is often cited by papers focused on Geological formations and processes (36 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (33 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers). Gordon C. Baird collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Gordon C. Baird's co-authors include Carlton E. Brett, Charles W. Shabica, C. E. BRETT, Alexander Bartholomew, Michael K. DeSantis, Charles A. Ver Straeten, Eugene Stanley Richardson, John Anderson, Keith Miller and Patrick I. McLaughlin and has published in prestigious journals such as Geology, Geological Society of America Bulletin and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

In The Last Decade

Gordon C. Baird

47 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Comparative Taphonomy: A Key to Paleoenvironmental Interpretation Based on Fossil Preservation

1986 507 citations Carlton E. Brett, Gordon C. Baird Palaios profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gordon C. Baird United States	22	1.2k	720	547	402	248	51	1.7k
Peter W. Skelton United Kingdom	26	1.7k 1.4×	891 1.2×	473 0.9×	548 1.4×	592 2.4×	84	2.4k
Christopher G. Maples United States	22	920 0.8×	707 1.0×	839 1.5×	227 0.6×	199 0.8×	64	1.5k
Raymond Énay France	19	1.1k 0.9×	582 0.8×	335 0.6×	213 0.5×	361 1.5×	79	1.5k
John C. W. Cope United Kingdom	24	1.0k 0.9×	764 1.1×	473 0.9×	433 1.1×	491 2.0×	78	1.8k
Peter Doyle United Kingdom	21	975 0.8×	592 0.8×	280 0.5×	208 0.5×	261 1.1×	63	1.4k
Claus Heilmann‐Clausen Denmark	23	797 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	371 0.7×	340 0.8×	388 1.6×	62	1.7k
Charles E. Savrda United States	25	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.8×	1.4k 2.6×	339 0.8×	333 1.3×	60	2.1k
Étienne Steurbaut Belgium	27	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.9×	450 0.8×	382 1.0×	393 1.6×	125	2.2k
Brian J. Witzke United States	23	962 0.8×	681 0.9×	353 0.6×	164 0.4×	276 1.1×	55	1.4k
Fabrizio Cecca France	22	1.3k 1.1×	797 1.1×	282 0.5×	262 0.7×	570 2.3×	67	1.6k

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Schiffbauer, James D., Gordon C. Baird, John Warren Huntley, et al.. (2025). 283,821 concretions, how do you measure the Mazon Creek? Assessing the paleoenvironmental and taphonomic nature of the Braidwood and Essex assemblages. Paleobiology. 51(3). 488–506.

Over, D. Jeffrey, Gordon C. Baird, & William T. Kirchgasser. (2023). The Frasnian strata—lower Upper Devonian—of New York State. 1–28. 1 indexed citations

Baird, Gordon C., et al.. (2023). Tully Formation and pre-Frasnian Genesee Group succession. 259–378. 2 indexed citations

Brett, Carlton E., et al.. (2022). CHAPTER 4. LOWER MIDDLE DEVONIAN (EIFELIAN-LOWER GIVETIAN) STRATA OF NEW YORK STATE: THE ONONDAGA FORMATION AND MARCELLUS SUBGROUP. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations

Brett, Carlton E., Alex J. Bartholomew, Gordon C. Baird, & James Zambito. (2022). CHAPTER 5:STRATIGRAPHY AND FACIES OF THE MIDDLE AND UPPER HAMILTON GROUP (MIDDLE DEVONIAN; GIVETIAN) IN NEW YORK STATE AND ADJACENT AREAS. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

Baird, Gordon C., et al.. (2018). LARGE-MAGNITUDE EROSION EVENTS AND ANOMALOUS, SPARSELY FOSSILIFEROUS, LATE FAMENNIAN SEDIMENTARY RECORD IN OHIO: REGIONAL PROXIES FOR GLOBAL BIOCRISES AND ASSOCIATED PALEOCLIMATIC PERTURBATIONS ON THE END-DEVONIAN EARTH. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations

Zambito, James, et al.. (2012). New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the “type interval” for coordinated stasis. Paleobiology. 38(4). 664–681. 11 indexed citations

Baird, Gordon C., James Zambito, & C. E. BRETT. (2011). Genesis of unusual lithologies associated with the Late Middle Devonian Taghanic biocrisis in the type Taghanic succession of New York State and Pennsylvania. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 367-368. 121–136. 9 indexed citations

Brett, Carlton E., et al.. (2007). Eo-Ulrichian to Neo-Ulrichian views: The renaissance of "layer-cake stratigraphy". Stratigraphy. 4(2-3). 201–215. 3 indexed citations

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BRETT, C. E., Alexander Bartholomew, & Gordon C. Baird. (2007). BIOFACIES RECURRENCE IN THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN OF NEW YORK STATE: AN EXAMPLE WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR EVOLUTIONARY PALEOECOLOGY. Palaios. 22(3). 306–324. 43 indexed citations

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Landing, Ed, et al.. (2006). Snake Hill — reconstructing eastern Taconic foreland basin litho- and biofacies from a giant mélange block in eastern New York, USA. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 242(3-4). 201–213. 6 indexed citations

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Behrens, Peter, Carlton E. Brett, Alexander Bartholomew, et al.. (2004). Geobiologie. GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). 1 indexed citations

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Brett, Carlton E. & Gordon C. Baird. (1993). Taphonomic approaches to temporal resolution in stratigraphy: Examples from Paleozoic marine mudrocks. 6. 251–274. 35 indexed citations

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Baird, Gordon C., Carlton E. Brett, & Jack T. Tomlinson. (1990). Host‐specific acrothoracid barnacles on Middle Devonian platyceratid gastropods. Historical Biology. 4(3-4). 221–244. 27 indexed citations

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Baird, Gordon C. & Carlton E. Brett. (1986). Erosion on an anaerobic seafloor: Significance of reworked pyrite deposits from the Devonian of New York state. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 57(2-4). 157–193. 57 indexed citations

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Baird, Gordon C., Charles W. Shabica, John Anderson, & Eugene Stanley Richardson. (1985). Biota of a Pennsylvanian muddy coast; habitats within the Mazonian delta complex, Northeast Illinois. Journal of Paleontology. 59(2). 253–281. 81 indexed citations

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Baird, Gordon C., et al.. (1985). Mazon Creek-type fossil assemblages in the U.S. midcontinent Pennsylvanian: their recurrent character and palaeoenvironmental significance. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 311(1148). 87–99. 50 indexed citations

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Brett, Carlton E. & Gordon C. Baird. (1985). Carbonate-shale cycles in the Middle Devonian of New York: An evaluation of models for the origin of limestones in terrigenous shelf sequences. Geology. 13(5). 324–324. 38 indexed citations

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Baird, Gordon C. & Carlton E. Brett. (1983). Regional variation and paleontology of two coral beds in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of western New York. Journal of Paleontology. 57(3). 417–446. 46 indexed citations

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Baird, Gordon C., et al.. (1982). Pennsylvanian coalified rhizomorphs in Illinois: evidence for non‐compressive coalification to bituminous coal rank. Sedimentology. 29(1). 3–15. 2 indexed citations

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