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recent Publications

• Embryos of TTGs in Gore Mountain garnet megacrysts from water-fluxed melting of the lower crust

  S.Ferrero, I.Wannhoff, O.Laurent, C.Yakymchuk, R.Darling, B.Wunder, A.Borghini, P.J.O'Brien, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 569

• Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal

  Schaebitz, F., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Cohen, A.S., Foerster, V., Duesing, W., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Opitz, S., Viehberg, F.A., Vogelsang, R., Dean, J., Leng, M.J., Junginger, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Chapot, M.S., Deino, A., Lane, C.S., Roberts, H.., Vidal, C., Tiedemann, R., Trauth, M.H., 2021, Nature Communications Earth and Environment, doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00195-7

• Paleo-ENSO influence on African environments and early modern humans

  Kaboth-Bahr, S., Gosling, W.D., Vogelsang, R., Bahr, A., Scerri, E.M.L, Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Düsing, W., Foerster, V.E., Lamb, H.F., Maslin, M.A., Roberts, H.M., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M.H., 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Cosmogenic in situ 14C-10Be reveals abrupt Late Holocene soil loss in the Andean Altiplano

  Hippe, K., Jansen, J.D., Skov, D.S., Lupker, M., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kober, F., Zeilinger, G., Capriles, J.M., Christl, M., Maden, C.,  Vockenhuber, C., & Egholm, D.L.,  Nat Commun 12, 2546 (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22825-6  

• MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences

  Trauth M., 2021 Springer,DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38441-8

• Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transistion in hominin evolution

  Potts R., Dommain R., Riedl S., et al., 2020 Science Advances Vol. 6, no. 43,DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc8975

• Anatectic melt inclusions in ultra‐high temperature granulites

  Gianola, O., Bartoli, O., Ferri, F., Galli, A., Ferrero, S., Capizzi, L.S., Liebske, C., Remusat,. L., Poli, S., Cesare, B., 2020 Journal of Metamorphic Geology, doi:10.1111/jmg.12567.

• Melt inclusions at MT. Edixon (Antarctica): Chemistry, petrology and implications for the evolution of the Lanterman range

  Ferri, F., Cesare, B., Bartoli, O., Ferrero, S., Palmeri, R., Remusat, L., Poil, S., 2020 Lithos. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105685.

• Illuminating subduction zone rheological properties in the wake of a giant earthquake

  Weiss, J. R., Qiu Q., Barbot S., Wright T. J., Foster J. H., Saunders A., Brooks B. A., Bevis M., Kendrick E., Ericksen T. L., Avery J., Smalley R., Cimbaro S. R., Lenzon L. E., Báron J., Báez J. C., Wechalar A.. 2019.  Science Advances Vol. 5, no. 12, eaax6720, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax6720

• Cryptic metasomatic agent measured in situ in Variscan mantlerocks: Melt inclusions in garnet of eclogite, Granulitgebirge,Germany

  Borghini, A., Ferrero, S., O'Brien, P.J., Laurent, O., Günter, C., Ziemann, M.A., 2020 Journal of Metamorphic Geology, doi:10.1111/jmg.12519.

• Victoria continental microplate dynamics controlled by the lithospheric strength distribution of the East African Rift

  Glerum, A., Brune, S., Stamps, D. S., Strecker, M., 2020. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16176-x

• A portable on-axis laser-heating system for near-90° X-ray spectroscopy: application to ferropericlase and iron silicide.

  G. Spiekermann, Kupenko I., Petitgirard S., Harder M., Nyrow A., Weis C., Albers C., Biedermann N., Libon L., Sahle C. J., Cerantola V., Glazyrin K., Konôpková Z., Sinmyo R., Morgenroth W.,  Sergueev I., Yavaş H., Dubrovinsky L., Tolan M., Sternemann C. and  Wilke M..  Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. Vol.27, 414-424. DOI: 10.1107/S1600577519017041

• Exploring the efficiency of stepwise dissolution in removal of stubborn non-radiogenic Pb Condrule U-Pb dating

  Merle, R., Amelin, Y., Yin, Q.-Z., Huyskens, M. H., Sanborn, M. E., Nagashima, K., Yamashita, K., Ireland, T., Krot, A., and Sieber, M.J..2020. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta. DOI:/10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.010

• Illuminating subduction zone rheological properties in the wake of a giant earthquake

  Weiss, J. R., Qiu Q., Barbot S., Wright T. J., Foster J. H., Saunders A., Brooks B. A., BEvis M., Kendrick E., Ericksen T. L., Avery J., Smalley R., Cimbaro S. R., LEnzon L. E., Báron J., Báez J. C., EWchalar A.. 2019.  Science Advances Vol. 5, no. 12, eaax6720, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax6720