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  1. A biography and obituary of William G. Chaloner FRS (1928–2016)

    Article • Palynology, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  2. A Tournaisian (earliest Carboniferous) conglomerate-preserved non-marine faunal assemblage and its environmental and sedimentological context

    Article • August 2018, PeerJ

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  3. Mid-latitude continental temperatures through the early Eocene in western Europe

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, February 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  4. Comprehensive analysis of nanodiamond evidence relating to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, December 2016, Wiley

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  5. Interpreting palaeofire evidence from fluvial sediments: a case study from Santa Rosa Island, California, with implications for the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, December 2016, Wiley

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  6. The interaction of fire and mankind

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  7. The interaction of fire and mankind: Introduction

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  8. Fire history on the California Channel Islands spanning human arrival in the Americas

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  9. Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges: Table 1.

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Michael R Coughlan, Professor Andrew C Scott, Christopher Roos

  10. Global combustion: the connection between fossil fuel and biomass burning emissions (1997–2010)

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  11. Incomplete Bayesian model rejects contradictory radiocarbon data for being contradictory

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  12. Early Paleogene wildfires in peat-forming environments at Schöningen, Germany

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  13. The rise of fire: Fossil charcoal in late Devonian marine shales as an indicator of expanding terrestrial ecosystems, fire, and atmospheric change

    Article • American Journal of Science, October 2015, American Journal of Science (AJS)

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  14. The impact of fire on the Late Paleozoic Earth system

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, September 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  15. British Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) coal-bearing sequences: where is the time?

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, September 2014, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  16. Living with Fire: People, Nature and History in Steels Creek

    Article • Australian Historical Studies, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  17. Using the voids to fill the gaps: caves, time, and stratigraphy

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, March 2014, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Roy E. Plotnick

  18. Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, February 2014, Wiley

    Stephen Pyne, Professor Andrew C Scott

  19. Evolutionary stasis of sporopollenin biochemistry revealed by unaltered Pennsylvanian spores

    Article • New Phytologist, August 2012, Wiley

    Dr Barry H Lomax, Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Roy E. Plotnick

  20. Cretaceous wildfires and their impact on the Earth system

    Article • Cretaceous Research, August 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  21. Paleoecological changes at Lake Cuitzeo were not consistent with an extraterrestrial impact

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  22. Inconsistent redefining of the carbon spherule “impact” proxy

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  23. Evaluating the extent to which wildfire history can be interpreted from inertinite distribution in coal pillars: An example from the Late Permian, Kuznetsk Basin, Russia

    Article • International Journal of Coal Geology, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  24. The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, September 2011, Wiley

    Stephen Pyne, Professor Andrew C Scott

  25. The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A requiem

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  26. Variability in oxidative degradation of charcoal: Influence of production conditions and environmental exposure

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Michael I Bird

  27. Molecular signature of chitin-protein complex in Paleozoic arthropods

    Article • Geology, February 2011, Geological Society of America

    Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Roy E. Plotnick

  28. First multi-proxy record of Jurassic wildfires from Gondwana: Evidence from the Middle Jurassic of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  29. Is vitrification in charcoal a result of high temperature burning of wood?

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, October 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  30. Fire and the spread of flowering plants in the Cretaceous

    Article • New Phytologist, September 2010, Wiley

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  31. No evidence of nanodiamonds in Younger–Dryas sediments to support an impact event

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  32. Phanerozoic concentrations of atmospheric oxygen reconstructed from sedimentary charcoal

    Article • Nature Geoscience, August 2010, Nature

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  33. Charcoal reflectance measurements: implications for structural characterization and assessment of diagenetic alteration

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, July 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Michael I Bird

  34. Fungus, not comet or catastrophe, accounts for carbonaceous spherules in the Younger Dryas “impact layer”

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  35. Evidence of multiple late Bashkirian to early Moscovian (Pennsylvanian) fire events preserved in contemporaneous cave fills

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Roy E. Plotnick

  36. Charring of woods by volcanic processes: An example from the Taupo ignimbrite, New Zealand

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  37. Charcoal: Taphonomy and significance in geology, botany and archaeology

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  38. Charcoal recognition, taphonomy and uses in palaeoenvironmental analysis

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  39. The use of reflectance values for the interpretation of natural and anthropogenic charcoal assemblages

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  40. How the Romans got themselves into hot water: temperatures and fuel types used in firing a hypocaust

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, October 2009, Maney Publishing

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  41. Pennsylvanian paleokarst and cave fills from northern Illinois, USA: A window into late Carboniferous environments and landscapes

    Article • Palaios, September 2009, Society for Sedimentary Geology

    Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Roy E. Plotnick

  42. An ultrastructural investigation of early Middle Pennsylvanian megaspores from the Illinois Basin, USA

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, July 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Roy E. Plotnick

  43. Fire in the Earth System

    Article • Science, April 2009, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  44. Geochemical evidence for combustion of hydrocarbons during the K-T impact event

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  45. Scanning Electron Microscopy and Synchrotron Radiation X-Ray Tomographic Microscopy of 330 Million Year Old Charcoalified Seed Fern Fertile Organs

    Article • Microscopy and Microanalysis, March 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Philip C Donoghue, Professor Andrew C Scott

  46. Palynological evidence of vegetation dynamics in response to palaeoenvironmental change across the onset of the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum at Cobham, Southern England

    Article • Grana, March 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  47. Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  48. X-ray microtomographic imaging of charcoal

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Michael I Bird

  49. Terrestrial biosphere: The burning issue

    Article • Nature Geoscience, September 2008, Nature

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  50. Biomolecular characteristics of an extensive tar layer generated during eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano, Montserrat, West Indies

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  51. Temperature proxy data and their significance for the understanding of pyroclastic density currents

    Article • Geology, January 2008, Geological Society of America

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  52. Increased terrestrial methane cycling at the Palaeocene–Eocene thermal maximum

    Article • Nature, September 2007, Nature

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  53. FERNS AND FIRES: EXPERIMENTAL CHARRING OF FERNS COMPARED TO WOOD AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOBIOLOGY, PALEOECOLOGY, COAL PETROLOGY, AND ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY

    Article • Palaios, September 2007, Society for Sedimentary Geology

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  54. Observations and experiments on the origin and formation of inertinite group macerals

    Article • International Journal of Coal Geology, April 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  55. Episodic fire, runoff and deposition at the Palaeocene-Eocene boundary

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, January 2007, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  56. The diversification of Paleozoic fire systems and fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen concentration

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2006, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  57. Silicified egg clusters from a Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale–type deposit, Guizhou, south China

    Article • Geology, January 2006, Geological Society of America

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  58. A fossil lycopsid forest succession in the classic Joggins section of Nova Scotia: Paleoecology of a disturbance-prone Pennsylvanian wetland

    Article • January 2006, Geological Society of America

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  59. Constraints on the thermal energy released from the Chicxulub impactor: new evidence from multi-method charcoal analysis

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, July 2005, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  60. An early Carboniferous (Mississippian), Tournaisian, megaspore assemblage from Three Mile Plains, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, May 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  61. Evaluating phenanthrene sorption on various wood chars

    Article • Water Research, February 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  62. Charcoal reflectance as a proxy for the emplacement temperature of pyroclastic flow deposits

    Article • Geology, January 2005, Geological Society of America

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  63. Evidence of plant-insect interactions in the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation of South Africa

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, May 2004, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  64. Non-destructive multiple approaches to interpret the preservation of plant fossils: implications for calcium-rich permineralizations

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, December 2003, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  65. Fireball passes and nothing burns—The role of thermal radiation in the Cretaceous-Tertiary event: Evidence from the charcoal record of North America

    Article • Geology, January 2003, Geological Society of America

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  66. Chemosystematic and microstructural investigations on Carboniferous seed plant cuticles from four North American localities

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, July 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  67. Coal petrology and the origin of coal macerals: a way ahead?

    Article • International Journal of Coal Geology, May 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  68. Federico Cesi and his field studies on the origin of fossils between 1610 and 1630

    Article • Endeavour, September 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  69. The taphonomy of charcoal following a recent heathland fire and some implications for the interpretation of fossil charcoal deposits

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, December 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  70. Experiments in waterlogging and sedimentology of charcoal: results and implications

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, December 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  71. Upland ecology of some Late Carboniferous cordaitalean trees from Nova Scotia and England

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, March 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  72. Ultrastructure and affinity of Lower Carboniferous megaspores from the Moscow Basin, Russia

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, March 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  73. Metalliferous coals of the Westphalian A Joggins Formation, Cumberland Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada: petrology, geochemistry, and palynology

    Article • International Journal of Coal Geology, January 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  74. Observations of Heterogeneity in Large Pulverized Coal Particles

    Article • Energy & Fuels, May 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  75. Factors influencing the preservation of plant cuticles: a comparison of morphology and chemical composition of modern and fossil examples

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, November 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  76. Molecular taphonomy of arthropod and plant cuticles from the Carboniferous of North America: implications for the origin of kerogen

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, June 1998, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  77. The legacy of Charles Lyell: advances in our knowledge of coal and coal-bearing strata

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1998, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  78. Introduction

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1998, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  79. Erratum to “New data on the formation of coal balls” [Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 93 (1996) 317–331]

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, May 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  80. Palaeoecological and evolutionary significance of anatomically preserved terrestrial plants in Upper Carboniferous marine goniatite bullions

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, February 1997, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  81. New data on the formation of Carboniferous coal balls

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, October 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  82. Studies of Fossil and Modern Spore Wall Biomacromolecules using13C Solid State NMR

    Article • Annals of Botany, July 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  83. 13C Solid-state n.m.r. spectra of Shanxi coals

    Article • Fuel, January 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  84. 13C solid-state n.m.r. spectroscopy of fossil sporopollenins. Variation in composition independent of diagenesis

    Article • Fuel, July 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  85. Carboniferous fossil forests

    Article • Geology Today, November 1994, Wiley

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  86. The oil-generating potential of plants from coal and coal-bearing strata through time: a review with new evidence from Carboniferous plants

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1994, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  87. Coal and coal-bearing strata as oil-prone source rocks: current problems and future directions

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1994, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  88. Coal and coal-bearing strata as oil-prone source rocks: an overview

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1994, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  89. OIL SOURCE ROCK POTENTIAL OF THE LACUSTRINE JURASSIC SIM UUJU FORMATION, WEST KOREA BAY BASIN Part II: Nature of the organic matter and hydrocarbon‐generation history

    Article • Journal of Petroleum Geology, July 1993, Wiley

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  90. Investigations of “fusain transition fossils” from the Lower Carboniferous: comparisons with modern partially charred wood

    Article • International Journal of Coal Geology, February 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  91. Arborescent gymnosperms from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland

    Article • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, January 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  92. Fossil plants from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland

    Article • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, January 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  93. Taphonomy of plant fossils from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland

    Article • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, January 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  94. The coal geology of China

    Article • Geology Today, January 1993, Wiley

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  95. The geological history of insect‐related plant damage

    Article • Terra Nova, September 1992, Wiley

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  96. Fossil charcoal: a plant‐fossil record preserved by fire

    Article • Geology Today, November 1991, Wiley

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  97. OIL SOURCE ROCK POTENTIAL OF THE LACUSTRINE JURASSIC SIM UUJU FORMATION, WEST KOREA BAY BASIN: Part I: Oil source rock correlation and environment of deposition

    Article • Journal of Petroleum Geology, July 1991, Wiley

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  98. Evidence for plant‐arthropod interactions in the fossil record

    Article • Geology Today, March 1991, Wiley

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  99. Biomarker characterisation of an oil and its possible source rock from offshore Korea Bay Basin

    Article • Applied Geochemistry, January 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  100. Deltaic coals: an ecological and palaeobotanical perspective

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1989, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  101. Coal and coal-bearing strata: problems and perspectives

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, June 1987, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  102. Implications of vegetational change through the geological record on models for coal-forming environments

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1987, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  103. Coal and coal-bearing strata: recent advances and future prospects

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1987, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  104. The sedimentology, palaeoecology and preservation of the Lower Carboniferous plant deposits at Pettycur, Fife, Scotland

    Article • Geological Magazine, January 1987, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  105. Early Triassic megaspores from the Rewan Group, Bowen Basin, Queensland

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, January 1985, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  106. Plants from the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Earth Sciences, January 1985, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  107. Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Earth Sciences, January 1984, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  108. Plant/animal interactions during the upper carboniferous

    Article • The Botanical Review, July 1983, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  109. The ecology of Coal Measure floras from northern Britain

    Article • Proceedings of the Geologists Association, January 1979, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  110. SEDIMENTOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CONTROL OF WESTPHALIAN B PLANT ASSEMBLAGES FROM WEST YORKSHIRE

    Article • Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, January 1978, Geological Society

    Professor Andrew C Scott

  111. The earliest conifer

    Article • Nature, October 1974, Nature

    Professor Andrew C Scott