Anne Raymond
Research
Paleobotany, Paleoecology, Modern Wetlands, Terrestrial Organic Carbon in Marine Environments
Selected Publications
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Amosu, A.*, Imsalem, M.*, Raymond, A., Sun, Y. 2020. FischerLab: An application for generating fischer plots and dynamic fischer plots from wireline well-logs and stratigraphic data. Earth 1(1):36-48. doi:10.3390/earth1010004
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Raymond, A., Lambert, L., Jr., and Costanza, S. H. 2019. Are coal balls rare? A cyclostratigraphic analysis of coal-ball occurrences in North America. International Journal of Coal Geology 206:65-79.
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Imsalem, M.*, Amosu, A.*, Wehner, M.*, Raymond, A. and Sun, Y. 2018, Reservoir quality assessment of the Lower Acacus and Tannezuft formations in the NC4 block, Ghadames Basin, Libya: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 68, p. 255–268.
- Raymond, A., Wehner, M.* and Costanza, S. H., 2014. Permineralized Alethopteris ambigua (Lesquereux) White: A medullosan with relatively long-lived leaves, adapted for sunny habitats in mires and floodplains. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 200:82-96.
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Raymond, A., Slone, E. D. J.* and Wehner, M.* 2013. A new permineralized Alethopteris from the Kalo Formation and a simple method for distinguishing permineralized Alethopteris species. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 60: 338-342.
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Kelley, P. H., Fastovsky, D. E., Wilson, M. A. Laws, R., A., and Raymond, A. 2013. From paleontology to paleobiology: a half-century of progress in understanding life history. In: Bickford, M. E. (ed.) The Web of Geological Sciences: Advances, Impacts and Interactions. Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America, p. 191-232.
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O’Keefe, J. M. K., Bechtel, A., Christans, K., Dai, S., DiMichele, W. A., Eble, C. F., Esterle, J. S., Mastalerz, M., Raymond, A. L., Valentim, B. V., Wagner, N. J., Ward, C. R., and Hower, J. C., 2013. On the fundamental difference between coal rank and coal type. International Journal of Coal Geology 118: 58-87.
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Raymond, A., Guillemette, R., Jones, C., and Ahr W., 2012. Carbonate petrology and geochemistry of Pennsylvanian coal balls from the Kalo Formation of Iowa. International Journal of Coal Geology 94:137-149. doi:10.1016/j.coal.2012.01.007
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Heise, E. A.*, Raymond, A., Parsons-Hubbard, K., Walker, S. E., Staff*, G. M., Powell, E. A., Brett, C. and Ashton-Alcox, K. A., 2011. Wood taphonomy in mairne carbonate environments: Experimental results. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 312: 363-379. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.04.031
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Powell, E. N., Staff, G. M.*, Callender, W. R.,* Ashton-Alcox, K. A., Brett, C. E., Parsons-Hubbard, K. M., Walker, S.A., Raymond, A. 2011. Taphonomic degradation of molluscan remains during thirteen years on the continental shelf and slope of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 312: 209-232. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.12.006
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Powell, E. N., Staff, G. M.*, Callender, W. R.*, Ashton-Alcox, K. A., Brett, C. E., Parsons-Hubbard, K. M., Walker, S. A., Raymond, A. 2011. The Influence of molluscan taxon on taphofacies development over a broad range of environments of preservation: The SSETI Experience. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 312: 233-264. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.01.008
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Hower, J. C., O’Keefe, J. M. K.*, Eble, C. F., Raymond, A., Valentim, B., Volk, T. J., Richardson, A. R., Satterwhite, A. B., Hatch, R. S., Stucker, J. D., and Watt, M. A., 2011. Notes on the origin of intertinite macerals in coal: Evidence for fungal and arthropod transformations of degraded macerals. Int. J. Coal Geol. 86: 231-240. doi:10.1016/j.coal.2011.02.005
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Raymond, A., Lambert, L.,* Costanza, S. H., Slone, E. J.* and Cutlip, P. G.* 2010. Cordaiteans in paleotropical wetlands: An ecological re-evaluation . International Journal of Coal Geology, 83(2-3): 248-265. doi:10.1016/j.coal.2009.10.009.Raymond, A., and McCarty, R.* 2009. Pachytesta crenulata n. sp., a new medullosan ovule from the Pennsylvanian of Iowa. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 156: 283-306 DOI:10.1016/j.revpalbo.200903.007.
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Parsons-Hubbard, K. M., Powell, E. N., Raymond, A., Walker, S. E., Brett, C., Ashton-Alcox, K., Shepard, R. N., Krause, R., and Deline, B., 2008. The taphonomic signature of a brine seep and the potential for Burgess Shale style preservation. Journal of Shellfish Research 27(1):227-239.
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Powell, E. N., Callender, W. R., Staff, G. M.*, Parsons-Hubbard, K. M., Brett, C., Walker, S. E, Raymond, A., and Ashton-Alcox, K., 2008. Molluscan shell condition after eight years on the sea floor -- Taphonomy in the Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas. Journal of Shellfish Research 27(1):191-225.
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Baez-Cazull, S. E.*, McGuire, J. T., Cozzarelli, I. M., Raymond, A., and Welsh, L.*, 2007. Centimeter-scale characterization of biogeochemical gradients at a wetland-aquifer interface using capillary electrophoresis. Applied Geochemistry 22(12): 2664-2683.
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Raymond, A., Gensel, P., and Stein, W. A. 2006. Phytogeography of Late Silurian macrofloras. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 142: 165-192.
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O’Keefe, J. M.* K., Sancay, R. H.,*, Raymond, A, and Yancey, T. E., 2005. A comparison of late Paleocene and late Eocene lignite depositional systems using palynology, upper Wilcox and upper Jackson Groups, east-central Texas. In: Warwick, P. A. (ed.) Coal Depositional Systems. GSA Special Paper 387: 59-71.
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Raymond, A. and Metz, C.* 2004. Ice and its consequences: Glaciation in the Late Ordovician, Late Devonian, Pennsylvanian-Permian, and Cenozoic compared. Journal of Geology 112: 655-670.
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Staff, G. M.,* Callender, W. R.*, Powell, E. N., Parsons-Hubbard, K. M., Brett, C. E., Walker, S. E., Carlson, D. D., White, S., Raymond, A., Heise, E. A.* 2002. Taphonomic trends along a forereef slope: Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas. I. Location and Water Depth. Palaios 17: 50-65.
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Staff, G. M., Callender, W. R., Powell, E. N., Parsons-Hubbard, K. M., Brett, C. E., Walker, S. E., Carlson, D. D., White, S., Raymond, A., Heise, E. A. 2002. Taphonomic trends along a forereef slope: Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas. II. Time. Palaios 17: 66-83.
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Powell, E. N., Parsons-Hubbard, K. M., Callender, W. R.*, Staff, G. M.*, Rowe, G. T., Brett, C. E., Walker, S. E., Raymond, A., Carlson, D. D., White, S., Heise, E. A.*, 2002. Taphonomy on a continental shelf and slope: two-year trends -- Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
184:1-35.
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Raymond, A., Cutlip, P.*, and Sweet, M. 2001. Rates and processes of terrestrial nutrient cycling in the Paleozoic: The world before beetles, termites and flies. Pp 235-283. In: Allmon, W., and Bottjer, D. (eds.) Evolutionary Paleoecology. Columbia University Press, New York.
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Zhou Yu-Xing*, Raymond, A., and Eble, C. 2000. Lower Chesterian (Late Visean) palynomorphs from the Black Warrior Basin, Northwest Alabama. Proc. Ninth International Palynological Congress: 69-76.
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Parsons-Hubbard, K., Callender, W. R., Powell, E. A. N., Brett, C. E., Walker, S. E., Raymond, A., and Staff, G. M. 1999. Rates of burial and disturbance on experimentally-deployed molluscs: Gulf of Mexico Shelf and Slope and Bahamas Platform Edge. Palaios 14: 337-351.
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Raymond, A., Phillips, M. K.* Gennett, J. A.* and Comet, P., 1997. Palynology and paleoecology of Eocene lignites from the Manning Formation (Jackson Group) outcrop in the Lake Somerville Spillway. International Journal of Coal Geology 34(3/4): 195-223
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Raymond, A., 1996. Latitudinal patterns in the diversification of mid-Carboniferous land plants: Climate and the floral break. In: Leary R. L. (ed.) Patterns in Paleobotany: Proceedings of a Czech-U.S. Carboniferous Paleobotany Workshop. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers 26: 1-18.
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Webb, G. E., Sando, W. J. and Raymond, A., 1997. Mississippian latitudinal diversity gradients (Western Interior United States): Testing the limits of high resolution diversity data. Journal of Paleontology 71(5): 780-791.
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De Wet, C. B., Moshier, S. O., Hower, J.C., De Wet, A. P., Brennan, S. T., Helfrich, C. T., Raymond, A. L., 1997. Disrupted coal and carbonate facies within two Pennsylvanian cyclothems, southern Illinois Basin, United States. GSA Bulletin 109 (10): 1231-1248.
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Raymond, A., and Metz, C. M.*, 1995, Laurussian land-plant diversity during the Silurian and Devonian: Mass extinction, sampling bias, or both? Paleobiology 21(1): 74-91.
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Staub, J. R., Esterle, J. S., and Raymond, A., 1991. Comparative geomorphic analysis of central Appalachian coal beds and Malaysian peat deposits. Bull. Soc. geol. France 162: 339-351.
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Kelley, P. H., and Raymond, A., 1991. Brachiopod migration, diversity and evolution in the Southern Hemisphere during the early and middle Carboniferous. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology 86:23-39.
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Raymond, A., Kelley, P. H., and Lutken, C. B., l990. Dead by degrees: Articulate brachiopods, paleoclimate, and the mid-Carboniferous extinction event. Palaios 5(2): 111-123.
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Kelley, P. H., Raymond, A., and Lutken, C. B., 1990. Carboniferous brachiopod migration and latitudinal diversity: a new paleoclimatic method. In: McKerrow, W. S. and Scotese, C. R. (eds.) Paleozoic Biogeography and Paleogeography. Geological Society Memoir 12: 325-332.
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Covington, D. J.* and Raymond, A., 1989. Taxonomic uniformitarianism: the problem with shoot/root ratios of peats. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 58: 85-94.
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Raymond, A., Kelley, P. H., and Lutken, C. B., 1989. Polar glaciers and life at the equator: the history of Dinantian and Namurian (Carboniferous) climate. Geology 17: 408-411.
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Raymond, A., 1988. The paleoecology of a coal-ball deposit from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Iowa dominated by Cordaitalean gymnosperms. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 53: 233-250.
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Ziegler, A. M., Raymond, A., Gierlowski, T. C., Horrell, M. A., Rowley, D. B., and Lottes, A. L., 1987. Coal, climate and terrestrial productivity: the Present and Early Cretaceous compared. In: Scott, A. C. (ed.) Coal and coal-bearing strata: Recent Advances. Geological Society of London Special Publication No. 32: 25-50.
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Raymond, A., Kelley, P. H., and Lutken, C. B., 1987. Comment on 'Frasnian/Fammenian mass extinction and cold-water oceans. Geology 15: 777.
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Raymond, A., 1987. Paleogeographic distribution of Early Devonian plant traits. Palaios 2: 113-132.
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Raymond, A., 1987. Interpreting ancient swamp communities: Can we see the forest in the peat? Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 52: 217-231.
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Gennett, J. A.*, Raymond, A., and Parker, W. C., 1986. Changes in floral composition within depositional environments in Texas Jackson Group lignites. Transactions G.C.A.G.S. 36: 449-456.
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Raymond, A., 1985. Phytogeography, floral diversity and climatic amelioration during the Early Carboniferous (Dinantian). Paleobiology 11: 293-309.
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Raymond, A., Parker, W. C., and Barrett, S. F., 1985, Phytogeography of the Early Devonian, p. 129-167. In: Tiffney, B. (ed.) Geological Factors and the Evolution of Plants. Yale University Press, New Haven.
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Raymond, A., Parker, W. C., and Parrish, J. T., 1985, Phytogeography and paleoclimatology of the Early Carboniferous, p. 169-222. In: Tiffney, B. (ed.), Geological Factors and the Evolution of Plants. Yale University Press, New Haven.
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Rowley, D. B., Raymond, A., Parrish, J. T., Lottes, A. L., Scotese, C. R., and Ziegler, A. M., 1985. Carboniferous paleogeographic and paleoclimatic reconstructions. International Journal of Coal Geology 5: 7-42.
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Raymond, A. and Phillips, T. L., 1983, Evidence for an Upper Carboniferous mangrove community, in Teas, H. (ed.) Biology and Ecology of Mangroves. Tasks for Vegetation Science 8: 19-30.
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Ziegler, A. M., Bambach, R. K., Parrish, J. T., Barrett, S. F., Gierlowski, E. H., Parker, W. C., Raymond, A., and Sepkoski , J. J., Jr., 1981, Paleozoic biogeography and climatology, p. 231-266. In: Niklas, K. J. (ed.), Paleobotany, Paleoecology, and Evolution: Vol. 2. Praeger Publishers, New York.
* Denotes student or former student co-author
Education
A. B. Harvard University 1977
Ph.D. University of Chicago 1983
Awards
Fellow, Geological Society of America, 2020 - present
Fellow, Paleontological Society, 2015 - present
Texas A&M Association of Former Students College Teaching Award, 2009
Earl Cook Professor of Geosciences, 2003 - 2008
Texas A&M Association of Former Students College Teaching Award, 1988
Mary Ingraham Bunting Science Fellowship, Harvard University 1986-1987
N.S.F. Graduate Fellowship 1977-1981
University of Chicago Robert C. McCormick Fellowship 1977-1981
Courses
Geol 101 Principles of Geology
Geol 207 Dinosaur World
Geol 650 Paleoecology
Geol 658 Earth Systems through Deep Time