Paula Noble

A.B. Paleontology, U.C. Berkeley, 1985
Ph.D. Univ. Texas Austin, 1993

Phone: (775) 784-6211
Fax: (775) 784-1833

E-mail: noblepjunr.edu

Areas of Interest: Micropaleontology, Stratigraphy, Paleoceanography

Courses Taught : General Geology, Paleontology, Paleoceanography and Micropaleontology, Introductory Field Geology

Current Research Projects:

• Assessing structural and stratigraphic relationships of siliceous units in the Roberts Mountains Allochthon, Nevada.
• Development of a composite Standard Reference Section for the Cape Phillips Basin, Canadian Arctic.In collaboration with Simon Poulson (UNR), Alf Lenz (Univ. Western Ontario)
• Mississippian Radiolarians near Istanbul, Turkey. In collaboration with Dr. Kagan Tekin (Hacettepe Universites)
• Ordovician radiolarians from the Malongulli Formation, New South Wales Australia. In collaboration with Barry Webby (Macquarie Univ.).

Students recently graduated:

• Tim Hall, M.S. candidate, Biostratigraphy and structural implications of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of the Roberts Mountains allochthon, Northern Carlin Trend, Nevada
• Brian Cellura, M.S. candidate, Biostratigraphy and structural geology in the Mary Mountains area, Carlin trend, Eureka county, Nevada
• Matt Jones, M.S. candidate, Radiolarian taxonomy and stable isotope geochemistry of Sheinwoodian strata at Rookery Creek, Canadian Arctic

Current Graduate Students:

• Yuxi Jin, P.hD. aspirant, Correspondence between Radiolarian Faunal Variation and Geochemical Variation in the Lamar Limestone, Delaware Basin, west Texas
• Amy Maldonado, M.S. candidate, Characterization of radiolarian fauna from the Reef Trail Member, Bell Canyon Formation, west Texas
• Anthony Menicucci, M.S. candidate, Paleolimnology of Quincy Diatomite, Columbia River Basin, Washington

Selected Publications:

• Jones, M. K., and Noble, P.J., 2006, Sheinwoodian (late Early Silurian) Radiolaria from the Cape Phillips Formation, Nunavut, Canada, Micropaleontology, 32(4): 289-315.
• Lenz, A.C., Noble, P. J., Masiak, M., Poulson, S.R., and Kozlowska, A., ACCEPTED, The lundgreni Extinction Event: integration of paleontological and geochemical data from Arctic Canada, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar (GFF), 128(2):153-158.
• Noble, P.J., Zimmerman, M.K., Holmden, C., and Lenz, A.C., 2005, Early Silurian (Wenlockian) ∂13C profiles from the Cape Phillips formation, Arctic Canada and their relation to biotic events. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42: 1419-1430.
• Capps, Richard C., and Noble, Paula J., 2005, Geologic setting of gold mineralization at the Double Mountain Prospect, Northern Adobe Range, Elko County, Nevada, in Rhoden, H.N., Steininger, R.C., and Vikre, P.G., eds., Geological Society of Nevada Symposium 2005: Window to the World, Reno, Nevada, May 2005, p.
• Noble, P.J., and Danelian, T., 2004, Chapter 7, Radiolarians, in: Webby, B.D., Droser, M., and Paris, F., (eds.), the Great Ordovician Biodiversification event, Columbia University Press.
• Snoke, A. W., and Noble, P.J., 2001, An ammonite?radiolarian assemblage, Tobago Volcanic Group, Tobago, West Indies—implications for the evolution of the Great Arc of the Caribbean: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, no. 2, p. 256-264.
• Noble, P.J., 2000, Revised stratigraphy and structural relationships in the Roberts Mountains allochthon of Nevada ( USA) based on radiolarian cherts in: Cluer, J.K., Price, J.G., Struhsacker, E.M., Hardyman, R.F., and Morris, C.L. (eds.), geology and Ore Deposits 2000: The Great Basin and Beyond: Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings, May 15-18, 2000, p. 439-449.
• Noble, P.J., and Aitchison, J.C., 2000, Early Paleozoic radiolarian biozonation, Geology v. 28, no. 4, p. 367-370.
• Noble, P.J., and Maletz, J., 2000, Radiolaria from the Telychian (Llandovery, Early Silurian) of Dalarna, Sweden, Micropaleontology, v.46, no. 3, p. 265-275
• Noble, P.J., and Finney, S.C., 1999, Recognition of fine-scale imbricate thrusts in Lower Paleozoic orogenic belts - an example from the Roberts Mountains allochthon, Nevada, Geology.
• Finney, S.C., Berry, W.B.N., Cooper, J.D., Ripperdan, R.L., Sweet, W.C., Jacobson, S.R., Soufiane, A., Achab, A., and Noble, P.J., 1999, Late Ordovician mass extinction: A new perspective from stratigraphic sections in central Nevada; Geology, v. 27, no. 3, p. 215-218.
• Noble, P.J., Braun, A., and McClellan, W., 1998, Haplotaeniatum faunas of Nevada and Germany, Neues Jarbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie,no. 12, p. 705-726.
• Noble, P. J., 1995, Regional sedimentation patterns associated with the passive- to active-margin transition during the Ouachita orogeny, southern midcontinental U.S., in Johnson, K. S. (ed.), Structural Styles in the Southern Midcontinent, Symposium Volume: Oklahoma Geological Survey Publication.
• Noble, P.J., and Aitchison, J., 1995, The status of Early Paleozoic Radiolarian Studies in North America, in Silicsous Microfossils, Short Courses in Paleontology, Number 8, The Paleontological Society, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Publication, p. 19 - 30.
• Noble, P. J., 1994, Silurian radiolarian zonation for the Caballos Novaculite, Marathon uplift, west Texas, Bulletins of American Paleontology, V 106, no. 345, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithica, New York, 55 pp.
• Noble, P. J., 1993, Paleoceanographic and tectonic implications of a regionally extensive early Mississippian hiatus in the Ouachita system, southern mid-continental United States: Geology, v. 21, p. 315 - 3118.
• Noble, P. J ., and Renne, P. R., 1990, Paleoenvironmental and biostratigraphic significance of siliceous microfossils from Permo-Triassic rocks of the Redding Section, Eastern Klamath Mountains, California : Marine Micropaleontology, v. 15, p. 379 - 391.