Selected Publications: (previous name Thorn)

Witts, J.; Bowman, V.C., Wignall, P., Crame, J.A., Francis, J.E., Newton, R. (2015). Evolution and extinction of Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) cephalopods from the López de Bertodano Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 418, 193-212.

Crame, J.A.; Beu, A.; Ineson, J.; Francis, J.E.; Whittle, R.; Bowman, V.C. (2014). The early origin of the Antarctic marine fauna and its evolutionary implications. PLoS ONE, 9(12), e114743.

Crame, J.A.; Francis, J.E.;, Robinson, S.A.; Bowman, V.C. (2014). Polar Predictions – How does the study of past environments and climates shed light on the impact of major environmental change? International International, Research Media International, 134 (Environment), 85-87.

Bowman, V.C.; Francis, J.E.; Askin, R.; Riding, J.B.; Swindles, G. (2014). Latest Cretaceous-earliest Paleogene vegetation and climate change at the high southern latitudes: palynological evidence from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 408, 26-47.

Kemp, D.; Robinson, S.; Crame, J.A.; Francis, J.E.; Ineson, J.; Whittle, R.; Bowman, V.C.; O’Brien, C. (2014). A cool temperate climate on the Antarctic Peninsula through the latest Cretaceous to early Paleogene. Geology, 42, 583-586.

Bowman, V.C.; Francis, J.E., Riding, J.B. (2013). Late Cretaceous winter sea ice in Antarctica? Geology, 41, 1227-1230.

Hill, D.J., Haywood, A.M., Valdes, P.J., Francis, J.E., Lunt, D.J., Wade, B.S., Bowman, V.C. (2013). Paleogeographic controls on the onset of the Antarctic circumpolar current. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 5199-5204.

Hambrey, M.J., Barker, P.F., Barrett, P.J., Bowman, V.C., Davies, B., Smellie, J.L., Tranter, M. (editors) (2013). Antarctic Palaeoenvironments and Earth-Surface Processes. Geological Society Special Publication 381, 506 pp.

Bowman, V.C., Riding, J.B., Francis, J.E., Crame, J.A., Hannah, M.J. (2013) The taxonomy and palaeobiogeography of small chorate dinoflagellate cysts from the Late Cretaceous to Quaternary of Antarctica. Palynology, 37, 151-169.

Bowman, V.C., Francis, J.E., Riding, J.B., Hunter, S.J., Haywood, A.M. (2012). A latest Cretaceous to earliest Paleogene dinoflagellate cyst zonation from Antarctica, and implications for phytoprovincialism in the high southern latitudes. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 171, 40-56.

Thorn, V.C., Riding, J.B., Francis, J.E. (2009). The Late Cretaceous dinoflagellate cyst Manumiella –biostratigraphy, systematics, and palaeoecological signals in Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 156(3-4), 436-448.

Francis, J.E., Ashworth, A., Cantrill, D., Crame, J.A., Howe, J., Stephens, R., Tosolini, A-M., Thorn, V.C. (2008). 100 million years of Antarctic climate evolution: evidence from fossil plants. In: Cooper, A.K., Barrett, P.J., Stagg, H., Storey, B., Stump, E., Wise, W., and 10th ISAES editorial team (editors), Antarctica: a keystone in a changing world, Washington, D C: The National Academies Press, pp 19-27.

Francis, J.E., Marenssi, S., Levy, R., Hambrey, M., Thorn, V.C., Mohr, B., Brinkhuis, H., Warnaar, J., Zachos, J., Bohaty, S., DeConto, R. (2008). From Greenhouse to Icehouse – the Eocene/Oligocene in Antarctica. In: Florindo, F., Seigert, M. (editors), Antarctic Climate Evolution, 8, The Netherlands: Elsevier, pp 309-368.

Thorn, V.C. (2008). New Zealand sub-Antarctic phytoliths and their potential for vegetation reconstruction. Antarctic Science, 20(1), 21-32.

Francis, J.E., Thorn, V.C. (2006). Antarctic fossil plants. In: Riffenburgh, B (editor), Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, New York: Routledge.

Thorn, V.C., DeConto, R. (2006). Antarctic climate at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary – climate model sensitivity to high latitude vegetation type and comparisons with the palaeobotanical record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 231, 134-157.

Whitehead, J.M., Ehrmann W., Harwood, D.M., Hillenbrand, C-D., Quilty, P.G., Hart, C., Taviani, M., Thorn, V.C., Mcminn, A. (2006). Late Miocene paleoenvironment of the Lambert Graben embayment, East Antarctica, evidence from: mollusc paleontology, sedimentology and geochemistry. Global and Planetary Change, 50(3-4), 127-147.

Thorn, V.C. (2004a). Phytoliths from subantarctic Campbell Island: plant production & soil surface spectra. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 132, 37-59.

Thorn, V.C. (2004b). Data Report: Phytoliths within drill core sediments from Sites 1165 & 1166, Leg 188, Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. In: Cooper, A.K., O’Brien, P.E., Richter, C. (editors), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 188, 1-12. Available online at http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/188_SR/002/002.htm.

Thorn, V.C. (2001). Vegetation communities of a high palaeolatitude Middle Jurassic forest in New Zealand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 168(3-4): 273-289.

Thorn, V.C. (2000). Oligocene and Early Miocene phytoliths from CRP-2/2A and CRP-3, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 8(4): 407-422.

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2023

Ineson, Jon R., Bowman, Vanessa C., Crame, J. Alistair ORCID record for J. Alistair Crame, Francis, Jane E., Whittle, Rowan J. ORCID record for Rowan J. Whittle. (2023) Sequence stratigraphy of a wave-dominated, tidally influenced delta in the Danian of Seymour Island, Antarctica: An integrated sedimentological–palaeoecological approach. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 629 (). 22 pp. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111789

2019

Whittle, Rowan J. ORCID record for Rowan J. Whittle, Witts, James D., Bowman, Vanessa C., Crame, J. Alistair ORCID record for J. Alistair Crame, Francis, Jane E., Ineson, Jon. (2019) Nature and timing of biotic recovery in Antarctic benthic marine ecosystems following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. Palaeontology, 62 (). pp. 10.1111/pala.12434

2016

Bowman, V., Ineson, J., Riding, J. ORCID record for J. Riding, Crame, J. ORCID record for J. Crame, Francis, J., Condon, D., Whittle, R. ORCID record for R. Whittle, Ferraccioli, F. ORCID record for F. Ferraccioli. (2016) The Paleocene of Antarctica: dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy and implications for the palaeo-Pacific margin of Gondwana. Gondwana Research, 38 (). pp. 10.1016/j.gr.2015.10.018

Witts, James D., Whittle, Rowan J. ORCID record for Rowan J. Whittle, Wignall, Paul B., Crame, J. Alistair ORCID record for J. Alistair Crame, Francis, Jane E., Newton, Robert J., Bowman, Vanessa C.. (2016) Macrofossil evidence for a rapid and severe Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction in Antarctica. Nature Communications, 7 (). pp. 10.1038/ncomms11738

2015

Witts, James D., Bowman, Vanessa C., Wignall, Paul B., Crame, J. Alistair ORCID record for J. Alistair Crame, Francis, Jane E., Newton, Robert J.. (2015) Evolution and extinction of Maastrictian (Late Cretaceous) cephalopods from the López de Bertodano Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 418 (). pp. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.11.002

Bowman, Vanessa. (2015) Antarctic palynology and palaeoclimate – a review. Bionature, 35 (). pp.

2014

Crame, J. Alistair ORCID record for J. Alistair Crame, Beu, Alain G., Ineson, Jon R., Francis, Jane E., Whittle, Rowan J. ORCID record for Rowan J. Whittle, Bowman, Vanessa C.. (2014) The early origin of the Antarctic Marine Fauna and its evolutionary implications. PLoS One, 9 (). 22 pp. 10.1371/journal.pone.0114743

Bowman, Vanessa C., Francis, Jane E., Askin, Rosemary A., Riding, James B. ORCID record for James B. Riding, Swindles, Graeme T.. (2014) Latest Cretaceous–earliest Paleogene vegetation and climate change at the high southern latitudes: palynological evidence from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 408 (). pp. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.018

Kemp, David B., Robinson, Stuart A, Crame, J. Alistair ORCID record for J. Alistair Crame, Francis, Jane E., Ineson, Jon, Whittle, Rowan J. ORCID record for Rowan J. Whittle, Bowman, Vanessa, O'Brien, Charlotte. (2014) A cool temperate climate on the Antarctic Peninsula during the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene. Geology, 42 (). pp. 10.1130/G35512.1

Crame, Alistair ORCID record for Alistair Crame, Francis, Jane, Robinson, Stuart, Bowman, Vanessa. (2014) Polar predictions. International Innovation, (). pp.

Bowman, Vanessa. (2014) Book review. The vegetation of Antarctica through geological time. D.J. Poole and I. Poole. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012. Antarctic Science, 26 (). pp. 10.1017/S095410201400011X

2013

Bowman, Vanessa C., Francis, Jane E., Riding, James B. ORCID record for James B. Riding. (2013) Late Cretaceous winter sea ice in Antarctica?. Geology, 41 (). pp. 10.1130/G34891.1

Hill, Daniel J., Haywood, Alan M., Valdes, Paul J., Francis, Jane E., Lunt, Daniel J., Wade, Bridget S., Bowman, Vanessa C.. (2013) Paleogeographic controls on the onset of the Antarctic circumpolar current. Geophysical Research Letters, 40 (). pp. 10.1002/grl.50941

• DATA AS ART #12
• Impact of global disturbances on evolution of polar life
• Paleogeographic controls on the onset of the Antarctic circumpolar current