Publications
Grotzinger, J.P. and Read, J.F. 1983. Evidence for primary aragonite precipitation, early Proterozoic (1.9 Ga) Rocknest Dolomite, Wopmay Orogen, northwest Canada. Geology, v.11, n. 12, p. 710-713.

Hofmann, H.J. and Grotzinger, J.P. 1986. Shelf-facies Microbiotas from the Odjick and Rocknest Formations (Epworth Group; 1.89 Ga), northwestern Canada. Can. Jour. Earth Sci., V.22, p. 1781-1792.

Grotzinger, J.P. 1986. Cyclicity and paleoenvironmental dynamics of an early Proterozoic carbonate platform, Rocknest Formation, Wopmay Orogen, N.W.T., Canada. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., v. 97, p. 1208-1231.

Grotzinger, J.P. 1986. Upward shallowing platform cycles: A response to 2.2 billion years of low-amplitude, high-frequency (Milankovitch band) sea level oscillations. Paleoceanography, v. 1, no. 4, p. 403-416.

Grotzinger, J.P. 1986. Evolution of early Proterozoic passive-margin carbonate platform, Rocknest Formation, Wopmay Orogen, N.W.T., Canada. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 56, no. 6, p. 831-847.

Pelechaty, S.M. and Grotzinger, J.P. 1989. Stromatolite bioherms of a 1.9 Ga foreland basin carbonate ramp, Beechey Formation, Kilohigok Basin, Northwest Territories, in, H.H.J. Geldsetzer et al. (eds.), Reefs of Canada and Adjacent Areas: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 13, p. 93-104.

Hoffman, P.F. and Grotzinger, J.P. 1989. Abner/Denault reef complex (2.1 Ga), Labrador Trough, NE Quebec, in, H.H.J. Geldsetzer et al. (eds.), Reefs of Canada and Adjacent Areas: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 13, p. 49-54.

Grotzinger, J.P. 1989. Introduction to Precambrian Reefs, in, H.H.J. Geldsetzer et al. (eds.), Reefs of Canada and Adjacent Areas: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 13, p. 9-12.

Grotzinger, J.P. 1989. Construction of early Proterozoic (1.9 Ga) Barrier reef complex, Rocknest Platform, Northwest Territories, in, H.H.J. Geldsetzer et al. (eds.), Reefs of Canada and Adjacent Areas: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 13, p. 30-37.

Grotzinger, John P. 1989. Facies and evolution of Precambrian carbonate depositional systems: emergence of the modern platform archetype, in, P.D. Crevello et al. (eds.), Controls on Carbonate Platform and Basin Development: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 44, p. 79-106.

Burdett, J.W., Grotzinger, J.P., and Arthur, M.A. 1990. Did major changes in the stable isotopic composition of Proterozoic seawater occur? Geology, v. 18, p. 227-230.

Grotzinger, J.P. 1990. Geochemical model for Proterozoic stromatolite decline. American Journal of Science, v. 290-A, p. 80-103.

Walter, M. R., Grotzinger, J. P., and Schopf, J. W. 1992. Proterozoic Stromatolites, in, Schopf, J.W., and Klein, C., (eds.), The Proterozoic Biosphere. Cambridge University Press, p. 253-259.

Kah, L.C. and Grotzinger, J.P. 1992. Fabrics and significance of early Proterozoic (1.9 Ga) thrombolites of the Rocknest Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada. Palaios, v. 7, p. 305-315.

Veizer, J., Plumb, K.A., Clayton, R.N., Hinton, R.W., and Grotzinger, J.P. 1992. Geochemistry of Precambrian carbonates: V. Late Proterozoic seawater. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, V. 56, p. 2487-2501.

Grotzinger, J.P. and Kasting, J. 1993. New constraints on Precambrian ocean composition. Journal of Geology, v. 101, p. 235-243.

Sumner, D. Y. and Grotzinger, J. P. 1993. Numerical modeling of ooid size and the problem of Neoproterozoic giant ooids. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 63, p. 974-982.

Bowring, S.A., Grotzinger, J.P., Isachsen, C., Knoll, H.A., Pelechaty, S., and Kolosov, P. 1993. Calibrating rates of early Cambrian Evolution. Science, v. 261, p. 1293-1298.

Grotzinger, J. P. Trends in Precambrian carbonate sediments and their implication for understanding evolution. in, Bengtson, S. (ed.), Early Life on Earth, Columbia University Press, p. 245-258.

Knoll, A.H., Grotzinger, J.P., Kaufman, A.J., and Kolosov, P. 1995. Integrated approaches to Terminal Proterozoic stratigraphy: an example from the Olenek Uplift, northeastern Siberia. Precambrian Research, v. 73, p. 251-270.

Saylor, B. Z., Grotzinger, J. P., and Germs, J. B. 1995. Sequence stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Neoproterozoic Kuibis and Schwarzrand Subgroups (Nama Group), southwestern Namibia. Precambrian Research, v. 73, p. 153-171.

Sergeev, V., Knoll, A.H., and Grotzinger, J.P. 1995. Paleobiology of the Mesoproterozoic Billyakh Group, Anabar Uplift, Northeastern Siberia. Journal of Paleontology.

Grotzinger, J. P. and Knoll, A. H., 1995. Anomalous marine carbonate precipitates: Is the Precambrian the key to the Permian? Palaios, v. 10, p. 578-596.

Grotzinger, J. P., Bowring, S. A., Saylor, B. Z., and Kaufman, A. J., 1995. Biostratigraphic and geochronologic constraints on early animal evolution. Science, v. 270, p. 598-604/

Knoll, A. H., Kaufman, A. J., Semikhatov, M. A., Grotzinger, J. P., and Adams, W., 1995. Sizing up the sub-Tommotian unconformity in Siberia. Geology, v. 23, p. 823-850.

Sumner, D. Y., and Grotzinger, J. P. 1996. Herringbone calcite: petrography and environmental significance. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 66, p. 419-429.

Pelechaty, S. M., Kaufman, A. J., and Grotzinger, J. P., 1996. Evaluation of d13C isotope stratigraphy for intrabasinal correlation: Vendian strata of the Olenek uplift and Kharaulakh Mountains, Siberian platform, Russia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 108, p. 992-1003.

Sumner, D. Y. and Grotzinger, J. P., 1996. Were kinetics of Archean calcium carbonate precipitation related to oxygen concentration? Geology, v. 24, p. 119-122. Grotzinger, J. P. and Rothman, D. H., 1996. An abiotic model for stromatolite morphogenesis. Nature, v. 383, p. 423-425.

Pelechaty, S. M., Grotzinger, J. P., Kashirtsev, V.A., and Jerinovsky, V. P., 1996. Chemostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic constraints on Vendian-Cambrian basin dynamics, northeast Siberian craton. Journal of Geology, v. 104, p. 543-564.

Knoll, A. H., Bambach, R. K., Canfield, D. E., and Grotzinger, J. P., 1996. Comparative Earth history and Late Permian mass extinction. Science, v. 273, p. 452-457.

Narbonne, G. M., Saylor, B. Z., Grotzinger, J. P., 1997. The youngest Ediacaran fossils from southern Africa. Journal of Paleontology, v. 71, p. 953-967.

Saylor, B. Z., Kaufman, A. J., Grotzinger, J. P., and Urban, F., 1998, The partitioning of terminal Proterozoic time: Constraints from Namibia. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 68, p. 1223-1235.

Grotzinger, J. P and Knoll, A. H. 1999. Stromatolites: Evolutionary mileposts or environmental dipsticks? Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science, v. 27, p. 313-358.

Grotzinger, J. P. , Watters, W. and Knoll, A. H., 2000, Calcified metazoans in thrombolite-stromatolite reefs of the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, Namibia. Paleobiology, v. 26, p. 334-359.

Pope, M., Grotzinger, J., and Schreiber, B. C., 2000, Evaporitic subtidal stromatolites produced by in situ precipitation: Textures, facies associations, and temporal significance. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 1139-1151.

Myrow, P. and Grotzinger, J. P., 2000, Chemostratigraphic proxy records: Forward modeling the effects of unconformities, variable sediment accumulation rates, and sampling-interval bias, in, SEPM Special Publication - Carbonate Sedimentation and Diagenesis in the Evolving Precambrian World, J. Grotzinger and N. James (eds), p. 43-58.

Pope, M. C., and Grotzinger, J. P., 2000, Controls on fabric development and morphology of tufa and stromatolites, uppermost Pethei Group (1.8 Ga), Great Slave Lake, northwest Canada, in, SEPM Special Publication - Carbonate Sedimentation and Diagenesis in the Evolving Precambrian World, J. Grotzinger and N. James (eds), p. 103-122.

Grotzinger, J. P. and James, N. P., 2000, Precambrian Carbonates: Evolution of Understanding, in, SEPM Special Publication #67 - Carbonate Sedimentation and Diagenesis in the Evolving Precambrian World, J. Grotzinger and N. James (eds), p. 3-22.

Sumner, D. Y. and Grotzinger, J. P., 2000, Evidence for Late Archean aragonite precipitation: Petrography, facies associations, and environmental significance, in, SEPM Special Publication - Carbonate Sedimentation and Diagenesis in the Evolving Precambrian World, J. Grotzinger and N. James (eds), p. 123-144.

Bartley, J. K., Knoll, A. H., Grotzinger, J. P., Sergeev, V. N., 2000, Lithification and fabric genesis in precipitated stromatolites and associated peritidal carbonates, Mesoproterozoic Billyakh Group, Siberia, in, SEPM Special Publication - Carbonate Sedimentation and Diagenesis in the Evolving Precambrian World, J. Grotzinger and N. James (eds), p. 59-74.

Laval, B., Cady, S. L., Pollack, J. C., McKay, C. P., Bird, J. S., Grotzinger, J. P., Ford, D. C., and Bohm, H. R., 2000, Modern freshwater microbialite analogues for ancient dendritic reef structures. Nature, v. 407, p. 626-629.

Grotzinger, J.P. 2000. Facies and paleoenvironmental setting of Thrombolite-Stromatolite Reefs, Terminal Proterozoic Nama Group (ca. 550-543 Ma), central and southern Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia, v. 12, p. 221-233.

Watters, W. A., and Grotzinger, J. P., 2001. Digital reconstruction of calcified early metazoans, terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, Namibia. Paleobiology, v. 27, p. 159-xxx.

Zhang, R., Follows, M. J., Grotzinger, J. P., and Marshall, J., 2001. Could the late Permian deep ocean have been anoxic? Paleoceanography, v. 16, p. 317-329.

Wood, R. A., Grotzinger, J. P., and Dickson, J.A.D, 2002. Proterozoic modular skeletal metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia. Nature, v. 296, p. 2383-2386.

Noffke, N., Knoll, A. H., and Grotzinger, J. P., 2002. Controls on the formation and preservation of microbial mats in siliciclastic deposits: A case study from the Upper Neoproterozoic Nama Group, Namibia. Palaios.

Amthor, J. A., Grotzinger, J. P., Schroder, S., Bowring, S. A., Ramezani. J., Martin, M.W., and Matter, A., 2003. Extinction of Cloudina and Namacalathus at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in Oman. Geology.

Pope, M. C., and Grotzinger, J. P., 2003. Carbonate-to-Evaporite transition in the Great Slave Lake Supergroup, Athapuscow Basin, Northwest Territories, Canada: Implications for Paleoproterozoic ocean chemistry. Journal of Sedimentary Research.