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Professor Darren Grocke's Outputs (11)

The wider context of the Lower Jurassic Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in Yorkshire coastal outcrops, UK (2017)
Journal Article
Thibault, N., Ruhl, M., Ullmann, C. V., Korte, C., Kemp, D. B., Gröcke, D. R., & Hesselbo, S. P. (2018). The wider context of the Lower Jurassic Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in Yorkshire coastal outcrops, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 129(3), 372-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2017.10.007

The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE, ∼183 Ma) was characterized by enhanced carbon burial, a prominent negative carbon-isotope excursion (CIE) in marine carbonate and organic matter, and numerous geochemical anomalies. A precursor excursion has... Read More about The wider context of the Lower Jurassic Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in Yorkshire coastal outcrops, UK.

Mountain glaciation drives rapid oxidation of rock-bound organic carbon (2017)
Journal Article
Horan, K., Hilton, R., Selby, D., Ottley, C., Gröcke, D., Hicks, M., & Burton, K. (2017). Mountain glaciation drives rapid oxidation of rock-bound organic carbon. Science Advances, 3(10), Article e1701107. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701107

Over millions of years, the oxidation of organic carbon contained within sedimentary rocks is one of the main sources of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, yet the controls on this emission remain poorly constrained. We use rhenium to track the oxidat... Read More about Mountain glaciation drives rapid oxidation of rock-bound organic carbon.

‘From the mouths of babes’: a subadult dietary stable isotope perspective on Roman London (Londinium) (2017)
Journal Article
Redfern, R., Gowland, R., Millard, A., Powell, L., & Gröcke, D. (2018). ‘From the mouths of babes’: a subadult dietary stable isotope perspective on Roman London (Londinium). Journal of Archaeological Science, 19, 1030-1040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.08.015

Londinium (48–410 CE) was the focus for Roman administration and trade in Britain; it was established and inhabited by people from across the Empire who continued to practice their diverse food-ways. Roman London was a unique settlement, whose fluctu... Read More about ‘From the mouths of babes’: a subadult dietary stable isotope perspective on Roman London (Londinium).

Toward more accurate temperature reconstructions based on oxygen isotopes of subfossil chironomid head-capsules in Australia (2017)
Journal Article
Chang, J. C., Shulmeister, J., Gröcke, D. R., & Woodward, C. A. (2018). Toward more accurate temperature reconstructions based on oxygen isotopes of subfossil chironomid head-capsules in Australia. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(1), 295-307. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10630

This study investigates the potential of applying stable oxygen isotopes (δ18O) from head capsules (HCs) of subfossil chironomids (subfamily Tanypodinae) to reconstruct past temperature changes from south-eastern Australia. The study reports δ18O res... Read More about Toward more accurate temperature reconstructions based on oxygen isotopes of subfossil chironomid head-capsules in Australia.

Toward more accurate temperature reconstructions based on oxygen isotopes of subfossil chironomid head-capsules in Australia (2017)
Journal Article
Chang, J., Shulmeister, J., Gröcke, D., & Woodward, C. (2018). Toward more accurate temperature reconstructions based on oxygen isotopes of subfossil chironomid head-capsules in Australia. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(1), 295-307. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10630

This study investigates the potential of applying stable oxygen isotopes (δ18O) from head capsules (HCs) of subfossil chironomids (subfamily Tanypodinae) to reconstruct past temperature changes from south-eastern Australia. The study reports δ18O res... Read More about Toward more accurate temperature reconstructions based on oxygen isotopes of subfossil chironomid head-capsules in Australia.

Evidence for rapid weathering response to climatic warming during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (2017)
Journal Article
Them, T., Gill, B., Selby, D., Gröcke, D., Friedman, R., & Owens, J. (2017). Evidence for rapid weathering response to climatic warming during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 5003. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05307-y

Chemical weathering consumes atmospheric carbon dioxide through the breakdown of silicate minerals and is thought to stabilize Earth’s long-term climate. However, the potential influence of silicate weathering on atmospheric pCO2 levels on geological... Read More about Evidence for rapid weathering response to climatic warming during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event.

Nitrogen isotope evidence for manuring of Early Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture cereals from Stensborg, Sweden (2017)
Journal Article
Gron, K., Gröcke, D., Larsson, M., Sørensen, L., Larsson, L., Rowley-Conwy, P., & Church, M. (2017). Nitrogen isotope evidence for manuring of Early Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture cereals from Stensborg, Sweden. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 14, 575-579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.06.042

Little is known about arable agriculture in the Early Neolithic (4000–3300 cal BC, Funnel Beaker Culture) of Southern Scandinavia. Archaeobotanical material is rare and few archaeological sites have yielded more than a small number of charred cereal... Read More about Nitrogen isotope evidence for manuring of Early Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture cereals from Stensborg, Sweden.

Integrated, high-resolution allostratigraphic, biostratigraphic and carbon-isotope correlation of Coniacian strata (Upper Cretaceous), western Alberta and northern Montana (2017)
Book Chapter
Plint, A., Hooper, E., Grifi, M., Walaszczyk, I., Landman, N., Gröcke, D., & Jarvis, I. (2017). Integrated, high-resolution allostratigraphic, biostratigraphic and carbon-isotope correlation of Coniacian strata (Upper Cretaceous), western Alberta and northern Montana. In N. H. Landman, A. G. Plint, & I. Walaszczyk (Eds.), Allostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) Western Canada Foreland Basin (9-52). American Museum of Natural History

Inoceramid bivalves are the dominant invertebrate fauna of the Coniacian and basal Santonian of the Western Canada Foreland Basin in western Alberta. In the upper lower Coniacian through to basal Santonian, six successive faunas are recognized, which... Read More about Integrated, high-resolution allostratigraphic, biostratigraphic and carbon-isotope correlation of Coniacian strata (Upper Cretaceous), western Alberta and northern Montana.

Translocation of isotopically distinct macroalgae: a route to low-cost biomonitoring? (2017)
Journal Article
Gröcke, D., Racionero-Gómez, B., Marschalek, J., & Greenwell, H. (2017). Translocation of isotopically distinct macroalgae: a route to low-cost biomonitoring?. Chemosphere, 184, 1175-1185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.06.082

Nitrogen stable isotope ratios (δ15N) in macroalgae are often used to identify sources of nitrogenous pollution in fluvial and estuarine settings. This approach assumes that the macroalgal δ15N is representative of the sources of the pollution averag... Read More about Translocation of isotopically distinct macroalgae: a route to low-cost biomonitoring?.

Erosion of organic carbon from the Andes and its affects on ecosystem carbon dioxide balance (2017)
Journal Article
Clark, K., Hilton, R., West, A., Robles Caceres, A., Grocke, D., Marthews, T., …Malhi, Y. (2017). Erosion of organic carbon from the Andes and its affects on ecosystem carbon dioxide balance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122(3), 449-469. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016jg003615

Productive forests of the Andes are subject to high erosion rates that supply to the Amazon River sediment and carbon from both recently photosynthesized biomass and geological sources. Despite this recognition, the source and discharge of particulat... Read More about Erosion of organic carbon from the Andes and its affects on ecosystem carbon dioxide balance.

A comparison of using bulk and incremental isotopic analyses to establish weaning practices in the past (2017)
Journal Article
King, C. L., Millard, A. R., Gröcke, D. R., Standen, V. G., Arriaza, B. T., & Halcrow, S. E. (2017). A comparison of using bulk and incremental isotopic analyses to establish weaning practices in the past. Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, 3(1), 126-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2018.1443548

The use of incremental carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis is gaining momentum as a way of establishing infant feeding practices in the past. Here we examine the differences in information gleaned through incremental isotopic techniques applied to... Read More about A comparison of using bulk and incremental isotopic analyses to establish weaning practices in the past.