CV

A .pdf of my most recent CV can be found at the bottom of this page

Publications

Accepted:

1. BP Weiss, EN Mansbach, C Maurel, C Sprain, NL Swanson-Hysell, and W Williams, 2024, What We Can Learn About Mars from the Magnetism of Returned Samples, Accepted at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

In Print:

2. Y Engbers, R Bono, D.Thallner, C Sprain, M Murray, K Bristol*, B Handford, T Torsvik, and A Biggin, 2024, A global paleosecular variation database for the Paleogene: stationary secular variation behavior since the Triassic?, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 25, e2023GC011203, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011203.

3. J Dannberg, R Gassmöller, D Thallner, F LaCombe*, and C Sprain, 2024, Changes in the core-mantle boundary heat flux throughout a supercontinent cycle, Geophysical Journal International, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae075.

4. M Hounslow, A Biggin, P Cozar, I Somerville, T Kamenikova, and C Sprain, 2024, A hyperactive geomagnetic field in the Late Visean (Early Carboniferous), from the late Asbian type section in northwest England, UK, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 25, e2023GC011282, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011282.

5. G Uenzelmann-Neben, SM Bohaty, LB Childress, OA Archontikis, SJ Batenburg, PK Bijl, A Burkett, P Chanda, JJ Coenen, E Dallanave, PC Davidson, KE Doiron, J Geldmacher, D Gürer, SJ Haynes, JO Herrle, Y Ichiyama, D Jana, MM Jones, C Kato, DK Kulhanek, J Li, J Liu, J McManus, AN Minakov, DE Penman, CJ Sprain, AC Tessin, T Wagner, and T Westerhold. 2023. Expedition 392 Proceedings Volume Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate: drilling the Agulhas Plateau and Transkei Basin to reconstruct the Cretaceous–Paleogene tectonic and climatic evolution of the Southern Ocean basin, 5 February–7 April 2022, Proceedings of the International Ocean Drilling Program, vol. 392. http://publications.iodp.org/proceedings/392/392title.html#pgfId-1002344

6. G Uenzelmann-Neben, SM Bohaty, LB Childress, OA Archontikis, SJ Batenburg, PK Bijl, A Burkett, P Chanda, JJ Coenen, E Dallanave, PC Davidson, KE Doiron, J Geldmacher, D Gürer, SJ Haynes, JO Herrle, Y Ichiyama, D Jana, MM Jones, C Kato, DK Kulhanek, J Li, J Liu, J McManus, AN Minakov, DE Penman, CJ Sprain, AC Tessin, T Wagner, and T Westerhold.  2022. Expedition 392 Preliminary Report Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate: drilling the Agulhas Plateau and Transkei Basin to reconstruct the Cretaceous–Paleogene tectonic and climatic evolution of the Southern Ocean basin, 5 February–7 April 2022.  International Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Reports. 392 IODP: 1–56. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.392.2022

7. T Mittal, CJ Sprain, P Renne, and M Richards, 2022, Deccan volcanism at K-Pg time: From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean Microplates to the Mexican Killer Asteroid: Honoring the Career of Walter Alvarez, The Geological Society of America Special Paper 557.  471-496. https://doi.org/10.1130/2022.2557(22)

8. RK Bono, GA Paterson, A van der Boon, YA Engbers, JM Grappone, B Handford, LMA Hawkins, SJ Lloyd, CJ Sprain, D Thallner, and AJ Biggin, 2022, The PINT database: a definitive compilation of absolute palaeomagnetic intensity determinations since 4 billion years ago, Geophysical Journal International, v. 229, 522–545, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab490.

9. CJ Sprain, JM Feinberg, R. Lamers, and RK Bono, 2021, Characterization of magnetic mineral assemblages in clinkers: Potential tools for full vector paleomagnetic studies. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 22, e2021GC009795. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC009795

10. LM Hawkins, JM Grappone, CJ Sprain, P Saengduean, EJ Sage, S Thomas-Cunningham, S., ... and AJ Biggin, 2021, Intensity of the Earth's magnetic field: Evidence for a Mid-Paleozoic dipole low. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 118, e2017342118.

11. TS Tobin, JW Honeck, LN Weaver, IM Fendley, CJ Sprain, ML Tuite, DT Flannery, and GP Wilson, 2021, Analyzing sources of uncertainty in terrestrial organic carbon isotope data: A case study across the K-Pg boundary in Montana, USA, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology v. 574, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.11045.

12. A Schaen, …CJ Sprain et al. (41 authors), 2021, On the reporting and interpretation of 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 133, 461–487.

13. GP Wilson Mantilla, SGB Chester, WA Clemens, JR Moore, CJ Sprain, BT Hovatter, WS Mitchell, WW Mans, R Mundil, R., and PR Renne, 2021, Earliest Palaeocene purgatoriids and the initial radiation of stem primates, Royal Society Open Science, v. 8, 210050.

14. A Biggin, RK Bono, DG Meduri, CJ Sprain, CJ Davies, R Holme, and P Doubrovine, 2020, Quantitative estimates of geomagnetic axial dipole dominance in deep geological time, Nature Communications, v. 11, 1–9.

15. JM Grappone, A Biggin, T Barrett, M Hill, and CJ Sprain, 2020, Comparison of Thermal and Microwave Paleointensity Estimates in Specimens Displaying Non-Ideal Behavior in Thellier-Style Paleointensity Experiments, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 125, e2020JB019802.

16. IM Fendley, CJ Sprain, PR Renne, I Arenillas, JA Arz, V Gilabert, S Self, L Vanderkluysen, K Pande, J Smit., and T Mittal, 2020, No Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary in Exposed Rajahmundry Traps: A Refined Chronology of the Longest Deccan Lava Flows from 40Ar/39Ar Dates, Magnetostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 21, e2020GC009149

17. DG Meduri. AJ Biggin, CJ Davies, RK Bono, CJ Sprain, and J Wicht, 2020, Numerical dynamo simulations reproduce palaeomagnetism field behaviour, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 48, e2020GL090544.

18. E Kulakov, C Sprain, A Smirnov, G Paterson, A Biggin, L Hawkins, L Fairchild, P Doubrovine, and E Piispa, 2019, Analysis of an updated paleointensity database (QPI-PINT) for 65-200 Ma: Implications for the long-term history of dipole moment through the Mesozoic, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 124, 9999–10022, doi:  https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB017287.

19. CJ Sprain, AJ Biggin, CJ Davies, RK Bono, and D Meduri, 2019a, An assessment of long duration geodynamo simulations using new paleomagnetic modeling criteria (QPM), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 526, p.115758.

20. IM Fendley, T Mittal, CJ Sprain, M Marvin-DiPasquale, T Tobin, and P Renne, 2019, Constraints on the volume and rate of Deccan Traps flood basalt eruptions using a combination of high-resolution terrestrial mercury records and geochemical box models, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 524, p. 115721. 

21. CJ Sprain, PR Renne, L Vanderkluysen, K Pande, S Self, and T Mittal, 2019b, The Eruptive Tempo of Deccan Volcanism in Relation to the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary, Science, v. 363, p. 866 – 870.

22. SM Smith, CJ Sprain, GP Wilson, WA Clemens, DL Lofgren, and PR Renne, 2018, Early mammalian recovery after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: A high-resolution view from McGuire Creek area, Montana, USA, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 130, 2000–2014, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B31926.1.

23. CJ Sprain, PR Renne, GP Wilson, and WA Clemens, 2018a, Calibration of Chron C29r: New high-precision geochronologic and paleomagnetic constraints from the Hell Creek region, Montana and their implications for the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary mass extinction, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 130, 1615–1644. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B31890.1.

24. CJ Sprain, NL Swanson-Hysell, L Fairchild, and K Gaastra, 2018b, A field like today’s? The strength of the geomagnetic field 1.1 billion years ago, Geophysical Journal International, v, 213, p. 1969¬¬ – 1983, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy074.

25. LM Fairchild, NL Swanson-Hysell, J Ramezani, CJ Sprain, and SA Bowring, 2017, The end of Midcontinent Rift magmatism and the paleogeography of Laurentia, Lithosphere, L580.1, v. 9, 117–133. Doi: doi:10.1130/L580.1.

26. MA Richards, W Alvarez, S Self, L Karlstrom, PR Renne, M Manga, CJ Sprain, J Smit, L Vanderkluysen, and S Gibson, 2017, Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact: Reply, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 129, p. 256 – 256.

27. CJ Sprain, JM Feinberg, PR Renne, and M Jackson, 2016a, Importance of titanohematite in detrital remanent magnetizations of strata spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, Hell Creek region, Montana, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 17, p. 660¬ – 678.

28. CJ Sprain, JM Feinberg, JW Geissman, B Strauss, and MC Brown, 2016b, Paleointensity during periods of rapid reversal: A case study from the Middle Jurassic Shamrock batholith, western Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 128, p. 223¬ – 238, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B31283.1.

29. L Sagnotti, B Giaccio, JC Liddicoat, S Nomade, PR Renne, G Scardia, and C Sprain, 2016, How fast was the Matuyama-Brunhes geomagnetic reversal? A new subcentennial record from the Sulmona Basin, central Italy, Geophysical Journal International v. 204, p. 798¬ – 812, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv486.

30. CJ Sprain, PR Renne, GP Wilson, and WA Clemens, 2015, High-resolution chronostratigraphy of the terrestrial Cretaceous Paleogene transition and recovery interval in the Hell Creek region, Montana, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 127, p. 393¬ – 409, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B31076.1

31. PR Renne, CJ Sprain, MA Richards, S Self, L Vanderkluysen, and K Pande, 2015, State shift in Deccan volcanism at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, possibly induced by impact, Science, v. 350, p. 76¬ – 78, doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac7549.

32. B Giaccio, E Regattieri, G Zanchetta, S Nomade, PR Renne, CJ Sprain, RN Drysdale, PC Tzedakis, P Messina, G Scardia, A Sposato, and F Bassinot, 2015, Duration and dynamics of the best orbital analogue to the present interglacial, Geology, v. 43, p. 603¬ – 606, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G36677.1.

33. MA Richards, W Alvarez, S Self, L Karlstrom, PR Renne, M Manga, CJ Sprain, J Smit, L Vanderkluysen, and S Gibson, 2015, Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact, Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 127, p. 1507¬ – 1520, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B31167.1.

34. RB Ickert, SR Mulcahy, CJ Sprain, JF Banaszak, and PR Renne, 2015, Chemical and Pb isotope composition of phenocrysts from bentonites constrains the chronostratigraphy around the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the Hell Creek region, Montana, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 16, p. 2743¬ – 2761, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GC005898.

35. L Sagnotti, G Scardia, B Giaccio, JC Liddicoat, S Nomade, PR Renne, and CJ Sprain, 2015, Extremely rapid directional change during Matuyama-Brunhes geomagnetic polarity reversal, Geophysical Journal International, v. 199, p. 1110¬ – 1124, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu287.