Professor Darren Grocke's Outputs (13)

Trans-Atlantic correlation of Late Cretaceous high-frequency sea-level cycles (2021)
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Plint, A. G., Uličný, D., Čech, S., Walaszczyk, I., Gröcke, D. R., Laurin, J., Shank, J. A., & Jarvis, I. (2022). Trans-Atlantic correlation of Late Cretaceous high-frequency sea-level cycles. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 578, Article 117323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117323

Previous studies of Cretaceous sedimentary rocks have used multi-proxy correlation methods to suggest eustatic change, modulated by the c. 400 kyr long eccentricity rhythm. Although numerous authors have inferred eustatic changes on shorter timescale... Read More about Trans-Atlantic correlation of Late Cretaceous high-frequency sea-level cycles.

Fluvial organic carbon composition regulated by seasonal variability in lowland river migration and water discharge (2021)
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Golombek, N. Y., Scheingross, J. S., Repasch, M. N., Hovius, N., Menges, J., Sachse, D., Lupker, M., Eglinton, T. I., Haghipour, N., Poulson, S. R., Gröcke, D. R., Latosinski, F. G., & Szupiany, R. N. (2021). Fluvial organic carbon composition regulated by seasonal variability in lowland river migration and water discharge. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(24), Article e2021GL093416. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl093416

Identifying drivers of seasonal variations in fluvial particulate organic carbon (POC) composition can aid sediment provenance and biogeochemical cycling studies. We evaluate seasonal changes in POC composition in the Río Bermejo, Argentina, a lowlan... Read More about Fluvial organic carbon composition regulated by seasonal variability in lowland river migration and water discharge.

Transhumance in the Early Neolithic? Carbon and oxygen isotope insights into sheep husbandry at Arene Candide, Northern Italy (2021)
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Karkuleviciute, K., Gron, K., Patterson, W., Panelli, C., Rossi, S., Timsic, S., Gröcke, D., Maggi, R., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2021). Transhumance in the Early Neolithic? Carbon and oxygen isotope insights into sheep husbandry at Arene Candide, Northern Italy. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 40(Part B), Article 103240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103240

Vertical transhumance is historically known as an animal management practice in the Mediterranean that mitigates the risk of overgrazing and unpalatable pastures. It has long been debated whether the practice developed together with the spread of the... Read More about Transhumance in the Early Neolithic? Carbon and oxygen isotope insights into sheep husbandry at Arene Candide, Northern Italy.

New evidence for a long Rhaetian from a Panthalassan succession (Wrangell Mountains, Alaska) and regional differences in carbon cycle perturbations at the Triassic-Jurassic transition (2021)
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Caruthers, A., Marroquín, S., Gröcke, D., Golding, M., Aberhan, M., Them, T., Veenma, Y., Owens, J., McRoberts, C., Friedman, R., Trop, J., Szűcs, D., Pálfy, J., Rioux, M., Trabucho-Alexandre, J., & Gill, B. (2022). New evidence for a long Rhaetian from a Panthalassan succession (Wrangell Mountains, Alaska) and regional differences in carbon cycle perturbations at the Triassic-Jurassic transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 577, Article 117262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117262

The end-Triassic mass extinction is one of the big five extinction events in Phanerozoic Earth history. It is linked with the emplacement of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province and a host of interconnected environmental and climatic responses that... Read More about New evidence for a long Rhaetian from a Panthalassan succession (Wrangell Mountains, Alaska) and regional differences in carbon cycle perturbations at the Triassic-Jurassic transition.

Childhood in Colonial Otago, New Zealand: Integrating Isotopic and Dental Evidence for Growth Disturbance and Oral Health (2021)
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King, C. L., Kinaston, R. L., Snoddy, A. M. E., Buckley, H. R., Petchey, P., Millard, A. R., & Gröcke, D. R. (2022). Childhood in Colonial Otago, New Zealand: Integrating Isotopic and Dental Evidence for Growth Disturbance and Oral Health. Childhood in the Past, 15(1), 15-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2021.1989211

Experiences of childhood in colonial New Zealand are difficult to reconstruct from the historical record alone. Many of those who came to the colony were illiterate, and the Victorian tendency to avoid discussion of pregnancy and breastfeeding practi... Read More about Childhood in Colonial Otago, New Zealand: Integrating Isotopic and Dental Evidence for Growth Disturbance and Oral Health.

Fluvial organic carbon cycling regulated by sediment transit time and mineral protection (2021)
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Repasch, M., Scheingross, J. S., Hovius, N., Lupker, M., Wittmann, H., Haghipour, N., Gröcke, D. R., Orfeo, O., Eglinton, T. I., & Sachse, D. (2021). Fluvial organic carbon cycling regulated by sediment transit time and mineral protection. Nature Geoscience, 14(11), 842-848. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00845-7

Rivers transfer terrestrial organic carbon (OC) from mountains to ocean basins, playing a key role in the global carbon cycle. During fluvial transit, OC may be oxidized and emitted to the atmosphere as CO2 or preserved and transported to downstream... Read More about Fluvial organic carbon cycling regulated by sediment transit time and mineral protection.

Variation in δ13C and δ15N values of mothers and their calves across southern right whale nursery grounds: the effects of nutritional stress? (2021)
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Carroll, E., Dunshea, G., Ott, P., Valenzuela, L., Baker, C., Childerhouse, S., Gaggiotti, O., Flores, P., Groch, K., Gröcke, D., Hindell, M., Lundqvist, D., Oliviera, L., Rowntree, V., Sironi, M., & Newsome, S. (2022). Variation in δ13C and δ15N values of mothers and their calves across southern right whale nursery grounds: the effects of nutritional stress?. Marine Mammal Science, 38(2), 486-499. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12871

Southern right whales (SRW) are capital breeders that use stored energy reserves to sustain themselves and their calves on nursery areas. With successful calving events declining in some SRW populations, it has been hypothesized that nutritional stre... Read More about Variation in δ13C and δ15N values of mothers and their calves across southern right whale nursery grounds: the effects of nutritional stress?.

Climate reconstruction from paired oxygen-isotope analyses of chironomid larval head capsules and endogenic carbonate (Hawes Water, UK) - Potential and problems (2021)
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Lombino, A., Atkinson, T., Brooks, S. J., Gröcke, D. R., Holmes, J., Jones, V. J., Marshall, J. D., Nierop, K. G., & Thomas, Z. (2021). Climate reconstruction from paired oxygen-isotope analyses of chironomid larval head capsules and endogenic carbonate (Hawes Water, UK) - Potential and problems. Quaternary Science Reviews, 270, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107160

Temperature and the oxygen isotopic composition (δ18O) of meteoric water are both important palaeoclimatic variables, but separating their influences on proxies such as the δ18O of lake carbonates is often problematic. The large temperature variation... Read More about Climate reconstruction from paired oxygen-isotope analyses of chironomid larval head capsules and endogenic carbonate (Hawes Water, UK) - Potential and problems.

Experimental determination of the temperature dependence of oxygen-isotope fractionation between water and chitinous head capsules of chironomid larvae (2021)
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Lombino, A., Atkinson, T., Brooks, S. J., Gröcke, D. R., Holmes, J., Jones, V. J., & Marshall, J. D. (2021). Experimental determination of the temperature dependence of oxygen-isotope fractionation between water and chitinous head capsules of chironomid larvae. Journal of Paleolimnology, 66(2), 117 - 124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00191-z

Oxygen-isotope values of invertebrate cuticle preserved in lake sediments have been used in palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, generally with the assumption that fractionation of oxygen isotopes between cuticle and water (αcuticle−H2O) is independe... Read More about Experimental determination of the temperature dependence of oxygen-isotope fractionation between water and chitinous head capsules of chironomid larvae.

The fate of fluvially-deposited organic carbon during transient floodplain storage (2021)
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Scheingross, J., Repasch, M., Hovius, N., Sachse, D., Lupker, M., Fuchs, M., Halevy, I., Gröcke, D., Golombek, N., Haghipour, N., Eglinton, T., Orfeo, O., & Schleicher, A. (2021). The fate of fluvially-deposited organic carbon during transient floodplain storage. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 561, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116822

CO2 release from particulate organic carbon (POC) oxidation during fluvial transit can influence climate over a range of timescales. Identifying the mechanistic controls on such carbon fluxes requires determining where POC oxidation occurs in river s... Read More about The fate of fluvially-deposited organic carbon during transient floodplain storage.

A Land of Plenty? Colonial Diet in Rural New Zealand (2021)
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King, C. L., Petchey, P., Kinaston, R., Gröcke, D. R., Millard, A. R., Wanhalla, A., Brooking, T., Matisoo-Smith, E., & Buckley, H. R. (2021). A Land of Plenty? Colonial Diet in Rural New Zealand. Historical Archaeology, 55(2), 250-268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-020-00276-y

Colonial New Zealand was built on the ideal of creating better lives for settlers. Emigrants came looking to escape the shackles of the class-system and poor conditions in Industrial Revolution period Britain. Colonial propaganda claimed that most em... Read More about A Land of Plenty? Colonial Diet in Rural New Zealand.

Effects of marine biofertilisation on Celtic bean carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotopes: implications for reconstructing past diet and farming practices (2021)
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Gröcke, D. R., Treasure, E. R., Lester, J. J., Gron, K. J., & Church, M. J. (2021). Effects of marine biofertilisation on Celtic bean carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotopes: implications for reconstructing past diet and farming practices. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 35(5), Article e8985. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8985

Rationale: The application of fertilisers to crops can be monitored and assessed using stable isotope ratios. However, the application of marine biofertilisers (e.g. fish, macroalgae/seaweed) on crop stable isotope ratios has been rarely studied, des... Read More about Effects of marine biofertilisation on Celtic bean carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotopes: implications for reconstructing past diet and farming practices.

Archaeological cereals as an isotope record of long-term soil health and anthropogenic amendment in southern Scandinavia (2021)
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Gron, K., Larsson, M., Gröcke, D., Andersen, N., Andreasen, M., Bech, J.-H., Henriksen, P., Hilton, R., Jessen, M., Møller, N., Nielsen, F., Nielsen, P., Pihl, A., Sørensen, L., Westphal, J., Rowley-Conwy, P., & Church, M. (2021). Archaeological cereals as an isotope record of long-term soil health and anthropogenic amendment in southern Scandinavia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 253, Article 106762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106762

Maintaining soil health is integral to agricultural production, and the archaeological record contains multiple lines of palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental proxy evidence that can contribute to the understanding and analysis of long-term trajecto... Read More about Archaeological cereals as an isotope record of long-term soil health and anthropogenic amendment in southern Scandinavia.