Nicholas Christie‐Blick

10.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Christie‐Blick is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Geophysics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Christie‐Blick has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Atmospheric Science, 42 papers in Geophysics and 34 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Christie‐Blick's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (61 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (34 papers) and Geological formations and processes (33 papers). Nicholas Christie‐Blick is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (61 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (34 papers) and Geological formations and processes (33 papers). Nicholas Christie‐Blick collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Nicholas Christie‐Blick's co-authors include Ganqing Jiang, Kenneth G. Miller, M. J. Kennedy, Michelle A. Kominz, Gregory S. Mountain, Stephen F. Pekar, Miriam Katz, James V. Browning, James D. Wright and Peter J. Sugarman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Christie‐Blick

94 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change

2005 2.5k citations Kenneth G. Miller, Michelle A. Kominz et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Christie‐Blick United States	34	4.4k	4.4k	2.9k	2.2k	1.3k	98	7.8k
Helmut Weissert Switzerland	51	6.5k 1.5×	4.1k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	916 0.7×	121	8.0k
Elisabetta Erba Italy	48	6.6k 1.5×	4.9k 1.1×	2.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	938 0.7×	150	8.4k
Felix M. Gradstein Norway	29	3.8k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	3.3k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	106	7.7k
Jan Hardenbol United States	15	4.3k 1.0×	4.8k 1.1×	3.3k 1.1×	3.6k 1.7×	2.0k 1.5×	23	9.3k
Michelle A. Kominz United States	29	2.6k 0.6×	3.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	67	6.4k
Guy M. Narbonne Canada	52	8.4k 1.9×	5.1k 1.2×	2.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	124	9.4k
James G. Ogg United States	37	3.8k 0.9×	3.0k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	162	6.9k
James E T Channell United States	61	2.9k 0.7×	8.0k 1.8×	4.3k 1.5×	2.4k 1.1×	762 0.6×	195	10.9k
James B. Riding United Kingdom	42	4.2k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	1.4k 0.6×	767 0.6×	265	6.3k
James V. Browning United States	29	3.1k 0.7×	4.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	2.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	81	6.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Christie‐Blick

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Farkaš, Juraj, Alan S. Collins, Sarah Gilbert, et al.. (2025). In situ Rb–Sr dating and REE analysis of glauconites and detrital feldspars from the Ediacaran/Cambrian strata: Centralian and Adelaide Superbasins, Australia. Precambrian Research. 427. 107851–107851.

El-Barkooky, Ahmed N., et al.. (2024). Biostratigraphically constrained age assessment and paleoenvironments of the early Miocene syn-rift deposits of the Gulf of Suez eastern margin, Egypt. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 264. 106055–106055. 1 indexed citations

Christie‐Blick, Nicholas, et al.. (2023). A subaerial origin for the mid-Ediacaran Johnnie valleys, California and Nevada: Implications for a diachronous onset of the Shuram excursion. Precambrian Research. 397. 107187–107187. 3 indexed citations

DeLuca, Michael J., et al.. (2017). CONSTRAINTS ON THE PROVENANCE OF THE OLD RED SANDSTONE (DEVONIAN) OF SCOTLAND FROM ⁴⁰AR/³⁹AR MUSCOVITE GEOCHRONOLOGY. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations

Christie‐Blick, Nicholas. (2012). Geological Time Conventions and Symbols. 22(2). 28–29. 3 indexed citations

Aubry, Marie‐Pierre, John A. Van Couvering, Nicholas Christie‐Blick, et al.. (2009). Terminology of Geological Time: Establishment of a Community Standard. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 20 indexed citations

Christie‐Blick, Nicholas. (2009). Eruptions and extinctions. Nature Geoscience. 2(8). 539–540. 3 indexed citations

Christie‐Blick, Nicholas, et al.. (2008). Re-Evaluation of the Middle Miocene Eagle Mountain Formation and Its Significance as a Piercing Point for the Interpretation of Extreme Extension Across the Death Valley Region, California, U.S.A.. Journal of Sedimentary Research. 78(3). 199–219. 10 indexed citations

Kaufman, Alan J., Ganqing Jiang, Nicholas Christie‐Blick, D. M. Banerjee, & Vibhuti Rai. (2006). Stable isotope record of the terminal Neoproterozoic Krol platform in the Lesser Himalayas of northern India. Precambrian Research. 147(1-2). 156–185. 122 indexed citations

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Christie‐Blick, Nicholas, et al.. (2003). Calibrating Oligocene eustasy to oxygen isotope data: eustatic estimates from two-dimensional flexural backstripping from the New Jersey continental margin (USA). EAEJA. 13654. 1 indexed citations

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Jiang, Ganqing, Nicholas Christie‐Blick, Alan J. Kaufman, D. M. Banerjee, & Vibhuti Rai. (2003). Carbonate platform growth and cyclicity at a terminal Proterozoic passive margin, Infra Krol Formation and Krol Group, Lesser Himalaya, India. Sedimentology. 50(5). 921–952. 78 indexed citations

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McHugh, Cecilia M., et al.. (2002). Stratigraphic Expression of the Turbidity Maximum and Evidence for Short-Term Climate Change from Estimates of Paleosalinity in the Hudson Estuary Between 6 and 2 ka. AGUFM. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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Machlus, M.L., Paul E. Olsen, Nicholas Christie‐Blick, & Sidney R. Hemming. (2001). Milankovitch Cyclicity in the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado and Wyoming. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2001. 2 indexed citations

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Miller, Kenneth G., Gregory S. Mountain, James V. Browning, et al.. (1998). Cenozoic global sea level, sequences, and the New Jersey Transect: Results From coastal plain and continental slope drilling. Reviews of Geophysics. 36(4). 569–601. 278 indexed citations

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Allmendinger, Richard W., et al.. (1995). Is the Sevier Desert reflection of west-central Utah a normal fault?: Comment and Reply. Geology. 23(7). 669–669. 15 indexed citations

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Christie‐Blick, Nicholas. (1991). Onlap, offlap, and the origin of unconformity-bounded depositional sequences. Sedimentary Geology. 70(2-4). 105–107. 8 indexed citations

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Levy, Marjorie & Nicholas Christie‐Blick. (1989). Pre-Mesozoic Palinspastic Reconstruction of the Eastern Great Basin (Western United States). Science. 245(4925). 1454–1462. 52 indexed citations

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Borch, C.C. von der, et al.. (1989). Late Proterozoic Patsy Springs Canyon, Adelaide Geosyncline: submarine or subaerial origin?. Sedimentology. 36(5). 777–792. 27 indexed citations

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Biddle, Kevin T., et al.. (1985). Strike-slip deformation, basin formation, and sedimentation : based on a symposium. 5 indexed citations

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Christie‐Blick, Nicholas, et al.. (1984). Strike-slip deformation, basin formation, and sedimentation: a summary. AAPG Bulletin. 1 indexed citations

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