Analysis and Modeling of Global C-N-P (or Carbon-Nitrogen-Phosphorus) Cycling in the Geologic Past and Anthropocene

Aller, R.C., Blair, N. E. and Brunskill, G.J. , 2007, in press, Early diagenetic cycling, incineration, and burial of sedimentary organic C in the central Gulf of Papua (Papua New Guinea). JGR-Earth Surf.

Aller, R.C., and Blair, N.E., 2006, Carbon remineralization in the Amazon-Guianas tropical mobile mudbelt: a sedimentary incinerator. Continent. Shelf Res. doi 10.1016/j.csr.2006.07.016.

Leithold, E. L., N. E. Blair, and D. W. Perkey, 2006, Geomorphologic controls on the age of particulate organic carbon from small mountainous and upland rivers. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, V. 20, GB3022, doi:10.1029/2005GB002677.

Leithold, E., Perkey, D.W. , Blair. N.E., and T. Creamer, 2006, Sedimentation and carbon burial on the northern California continental shelf: the signatures of land-use change. Continent. Shelf Res., v. 25: 349-371.

Lerman, A., Wu, L., 2008, in press, Kinetics of global geochemical cycles, in Kinetics of Water-Rock  Interactions (eds. S. L. Brantley, J. D. Kubicki, and A. F. White). Springer, New York,

Lerman, A., and Clauer, N., 2007, Stable Isotopes in the Sedimentary Record, in Treatise on Geochemistry (eds. H. D. Holland and K. K. Turekian), vol. 7 (vol. ed. F.T. Mackenzie), Elsevier, ISBN (set): 0-08-043751-6, Chapter 7.16, pp. 1-55

Andersson, 2 A.J., Mackenzie, F.T., and Lerman, A., 2006, Coastal ocean CO2-carbonic acid-carbonate sediment system of the Anthropocene. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 20, GB1S92, 13 pp., doi:10.1029/2005GB002506

Andersson, A.J., Mackenzie, F.T., and Lerman, A., 2005, Coastal ocean and carbonate systems in the high CO2 world of the Anthropocene. American Journal of Science, v. 305: 875-918.

Lerman, A., and Mackenzie, F.T., 2005, CO2 air-sea exchange due to calcium carbonate and organic matter storage, and its implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. Aquatic Geochemistry, 11:345-390, 2005.

Locklair, R.E., and Lerman, A., 2005, A model of Phanerozoic cycles of carbon and calcium in the global ocean: evaluation and constraints on ocean chemistry and input fluxes. Chemical Geology, v. 217: 113-126.

Lerman, A., Mackenzie, F.T., and Ver, L.M., 2004, Coupling of the perturbed C-N-P cycles in industrial time. Aquatic Geochemistry, v. 10: 3-32.

Mackenzie, F.T., Lerman, A., and Andersson, A.J., 2004, Past and present of sediment and carbon biogeochemical cycling models. Biogeosciences, v. 1: 11-32.

Weathering Studies and Carbon Cycling

Wu L., Jacobson A. D., Chen, H.-C., and Hausner M., 2007, Characterization of elemental release during microbe-basalt interactions at T = 28°C. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 71, 2224-2239.

Lerman, A., Wu, L., and Mackenzie, F.T., 2007, CO2 and H2SO4 consumption in weathering and material transport to the ocean, and their role in the global carbon balance. Marine Chemistry (Wollast Volume), 25 pp., 2007. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2006.04.004.

Lerman, A., and Wu, L., 2006, CO2 and sulfuric acid controls of weathering and river water composition. Jour. Geochemical Exploration, v. 88: 427-430.

Isotope Tracers in the Environment

Jacobson A. D. and Holmden C., 2008, d44Ca evolution in a carbonate aquifer and its bearing on the equilibrium isotope fractionation factor for calcite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 270, 349-353.

Jacobson A. D. and Holmden C., 2006, Calcite dust and the atmospheric supply of Nd to seawater. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 244, 418-430.

C, N, P, Fe and S cycling in modern anoxic environments

Ingall E., Kolowith L., Lyons T., Hurtgen M., 2005, Sediment carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in an anoxic fjord, Effingham Inlet, British Columbia. American Journal of Science, v. 305, p. 240-258

Hurtgen M.T., Lyons T.W., Ingall E.D., Cruse A.M., 1999, Anomalous enrichments of iron monosulfide in euxinic marine sediments and the role of H2S in iron sulfide transformations: examples from Effingham Inlet, the Orca Basin and the Black Sea. American Journal of Science, v. 299, p. 556-588.

Isotope biogeochemistry; Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Smith, F.A., Wing, S.L. and K.H. Freeman. 2007. Magnitude of the carbon isotope excursion at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: The role of plant community change. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 262: 50–65.

Smith, F.A., and K.H. Freeman. 2006. Influence of physiology and climate on d D of leaf wax n-alkanes from C 3 and C 4 grasses. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 70: 1172-1187.

Wing S.L., G.J. Harrington, F.A. Smith, J.I. Bloch, D.M. Boyer, and K.H. Freeman. 2005. Transient Floral Change and Rapid Global Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary. Science, v. 310: 993-996.

Smith, F.A., and J.W.C. White. 2004. Modern calibration of phytolith carbon isotope signatures for C 3/C 4 paleograssland reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 207: 277-304.

Smith, F.A. and K.B. Anderson. 2001. Characterization of organic compounds in phytoliths: Improving the resolving power of phytolith d13C as a tool for paleoecological reconstruction of C3 and C4 grasses. In: Phytoliths: Applications in Earth Science and Human History, J.D., Meunier, F. Colin, Eds. A.A. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands. pp. 317-327.

Organic matter burial and carbon cycling in ancient anoxic environments

Meyers, S.R., Sageman, B.B., and Lyons, T.W., 2005, Organic carbon burial rate and the molybdenum proxy: Theoretical framework and application to Cenomanian-Turonian oceanic anoxic event 2, Paleoceanography, v. 20, 19 pp., DOI 10.1029/2004PA001068.

Arthur, M.A., and Sageman, B.B., 2005, Sea Level Control on Source Rock Development: Perspectives from the Holocene Black Sea, the mid-Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North America, and the Late Devonian Appalachian Basin, In: Harris, N.B. and Pradier, B. (eds.), The Deposition of Organic Carbon-rich Sediments:  Models, Mechanisms and Consequences, SEPM Special Publication No. 82, p. 35-59.

Sageman, B.B. and Lyons, T.W., 2004, Geochemistry of fine-grained sediments and sedimentary rocks, in MacKenzie, F., ed., vol. 7, Treatise on Geochemistry, Elsvier Publ., p. 115-158.

Sageman, B.B., Murphy, A.E., Werne, J.P. , Ver Straeten, C.A., Hollander, D.J., and Lyons, T.W., 2003, A tale of shales: The relative roles of production, decomposition, and dilution in the accumulation of organic-rich strata, Middle-Upper Devonian, Appalachian basin, Chemical Geology, v. 195, p. 229-273

Neoproterozoic C and S cycling, snowball Earth events and evolution of oxygen in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system

Halverson G.P., Hurtgen M.T., 2007, Ediacaran growth of the marine sulfate reservoir. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 263, p. 32-44.

Hurtgen M.T., Halverson, G.P., Arthur M.A., Hoffman P.F., 2006, Sulfur cycling in the aftermath of a 635-Ma snowball glaciation: Evidence for a syn-glacial sulfidic deep ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 245, p. 551-570.

Hurtgen M.T., Arthur M.A., Halverson G.P., 2005, Neoproterozoic sulfur isotopes, the evolution of microbial sulfur species, and the burial efficiency of sulfide as sedimentary pyrite. Geology, v. 33, p. 41-44.

Hurtgen M.T., 2003, Ancient Oceans and Oxygen. Nature, v. 423, p. 592-593.

Pavlov A.A., Hurtgen M.T., Kasting J.F., Arthur M.A., 2003, Methane-rich Proterozoic atmosphere? Geology, v. 31, p. 87-90.

Hurtgen M.T., Arthur M.A., Suits N., Kaufman A.J., 2002, The sulfur isotopic composition of Neoproterozoic seawater sulfate: implications for a snowball Earth? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 203, p. 413-429.

Cyclostratigraphy and Orbital Time Scale Development 

Locklair, R. E. and Sageman, B.B., 2008, Cyclostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Western Interior, U.S.A.,: A Coniaician-Santonian orbital timescale, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 269: 540-553.

Meyers, Stephen M., Sageman, Bradley B., and Pagani, M., 2008, Resolving Milankovitch: Consideration of Signal to Noise, American Journal of Science v. 308: DOI 10.2475/00.0000.00.

Meyers, S.R., and Sageman, B.B., 2007, Quantification of deep time orbital forcing by average spectral misfit, American Journal of Science, v. 307, p. 773-792.

Sageman, B.B., Meyers, S.R., and Arthur, M.A., 2006, Orbital timescale for the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary stratotype and OAE II, central Colorado, USA, Geology, v. 34, p. 125-128.

Meyers, S., Sageman, B., and Hinnov, L., 2001, Integrated Quantitative Stratigraphy Of Cenomanian-Turonian Bridge Creek Limestone Member Using Evolutive Harmonic Analysis And Stratigraphic Modeling, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 71, p. 628-644.

Sequence Stratigraphy and Analysis of Relative Sea Level Change in Ancient Environments

Gale, Andrew S., Voigt, Silke, Sageman, Bradley B., Kennedy, William J., 2008, in press, Eustatic sea-level record for the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous), Geology.

Laurin, J. and Sageman, B., 2007, Cenomanian-Turonian Coastal Record in SW Utah, U.S.A.: Orbital-Scale Transgressive-Regressive Events During Oceanic Anoxic Event II, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 731-756.

Sageman, B.B. and Speed, R.C., 2004, Upper Eocene Limestones, Associated Sequence Boundary, and Proposed Eocene Tectonics in Eastern Venezuela; In:  Claudio Bartolini, Richard T. Buffler, and Jon Blickwede, eds., The Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Region: Hydrocarbon Habitats, Basin Formation and Plate Tectonics, American Association Petroleum Geologists CD Project.

Laurin, J. and Sageman, B., 2001, Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the western margin of the Colorado Plateau during the latest Cenomanian and early Turonian, in Erskine, M.C., Faulds, J.E., Bartley, J.M., and Rowley, P., eds., The Geologic Transition, High Plateaus to Great Basin; A Syposium and Field Guide, (Cedar City, Sept. 2001), Utah Geological Association Publication 30, p. 57-74.