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Amy Bonsor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.
Tuesday 25 October 2016, 12:00-13:00
Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences
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Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
The composition of Earth and Exo-planets
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Application of Se stable isotopes: From microbial redox reactions to environmental cycling of Se
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact OR What really killed the dinosaurs?
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Working with Natural Hazards: Perspectives from a Catastrophe Modelling Company
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Our ocean in motion: How currents carry plankton, and how that affects palaeoproxy reconstructions
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Relamination, delamination and tadpole zones: Formation of lower continental crust by density sorting of buoyant arc lavas and plutons
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Tectonic pulsing, climate cycles and contourites: drilling results from IODP Expedition 339
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Could early land vegetation have bioengineered the planet?
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Earth history’s largest carbon isotopic shift: Constraints on the origin and timing of the Cryogenian Trezona d13C anomaly
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Partitioning of water fluxes across the Himalayas
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One of the many relationships between mantle petrology and atmospheric chemistry: The case of nitrogen.
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Himalaya: from mountains to drilling in the Bengal fan
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Principles of triple oxygen isotope geochemistry
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Disparities in the evolution of multicellularity
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New insights into early Cenozoic glaciation: Eocene-Oligocene climate records from IODP Exp. 318, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
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Oscillations in stratified, bubbly magma and long-period volcanic seismicity at Kilauea, Hawaii AND The role of magmatic lithospheric thickening on arc front migration
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Chilean Volcanoes constrain global models of convergent margin volcanism
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The interplay between brittle and ductile processes at oceanic transform faults
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Constraining sediment routing system responses to tectonics and climate
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Understanding sulfur isotopes in modern and ancient marine sediments: From the microbial to the global scale
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TBD
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Copper porphyries (TBC)
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Temperature-dependent carbon cycling in the Eocene greenhouse
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Feedbacks between early animal evolution and global geochemical cycles
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Beyond the age of fishes: assembling the other half of vertebrate diversity
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Greenhouse-icehouse shifts and the evolution of latitudinal diversity gradients
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A molecular approach to the bioenergetics of sulfate reduction
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Searching for Bird Origins in the Gobi Desert of China; The Middle-Upper Jurassic Shishugou Fauna of Xinjiang
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Influence of large Sulfur Bacteria on the Geochemistry of Coastal Sediments
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Rift initiation in a continental setting: the western Balkan peridotites
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Environmental effects of sulfur emitted by large-scale flood lava eruptions
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The composition of the lower mantle and its influence on the redox state of the Earth
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The chalcophile (sulfur-loving) cycle: from MORB to crust
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Greenhouse Algae: The Calcifying Phytoplankton during Cenozoic Warm Climates
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Detachment-mode seafloor spreading and the tectonics of oceanic core complexes
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A Dual Rift Model for the Opening of the NE Atlantic
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Simulating radiocarbon in ocean and atmosphere through the deglaciation
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Chasing waterfalls: constraining the global sulfur isotopic budget in rivers
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Reservoir architectures of flood basalt systems - a 3D Reservoir architectures of interlava systems - a 3D photogrammetric study of Eocene cliff sections, Faroe Islands
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Copper isotopes and the role of sulfides during Earth’s differentiation
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The deep ocean density structure at the Last Glacial Maximum: what was it and why?
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Fast Crystal Clocks, at the Speed of Magma Ascent
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The Origin, Evolution, and Extinction of the Dinosaurs
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The application of X-ray computed microtomography to Geosciences: examples from the world of Volcanology and Petrology
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
TBA
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Hydrothermal sediments are a source of water column Fe and Mn in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica
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Hydrated peridotite as a sink for boron: implications for mantle heterogeneity and arc volcanism
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The pulse of the Southern Ocean
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The Frasnian-Famennian Mass Extinction
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The deep ocean's role in glacial cycles with an emphasis on stratification and potential energy storage
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Atmospheres and Interiors of Extrasolar Planets
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Why no Phanerozoic Snowball Earth? Changes in biogeochemical cycling across the Precambrian-Cambrian transition
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Sea ice in a Cretaceous greenhouse world?
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Ni partitioning between olivine and silicate melts, and insights into Hawaiian petrogenesis
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Magma intrusive rates and the growth of melt reservoirs and magma chambers
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Effects of source heterogeneity on segmentation and melt production at mid-ocean ridges
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Past Abrupt Climate Change and Freshwater Forcing: What do we know?
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Why don't tomographic models have error bars?
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Challenges in constraining and understanding Strombolian (and Hawaiian) volcanism
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Magma ocean Influence on early atmosphere composition and mass
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Seismic Tremors and Wagging Magma: Key Precursors of Explosive Volcanism?
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Searching for the earliest signs of cellular life on Earth
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Clumped-isotope geochemistry of carbonates: A new tool to study geological processes from palaeoclimatology to low-grade metamorphism
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(U-Th)/He dating of secondary Fe- and Mn-oxides in bedrock
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In the footsteps of Professor Lidenbrock: a geochemical journey to the centre of the Earth
⚠️ Sedgwick Club special talk
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Walking on broken glass: investigating magmatic processes in explosive and effusive rhyolitic eruptions
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Decoding the fossil record of the earliest animals and their embryology
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Banded Iron Formation and Ancient Life
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The source of siderophile elements in the silicate Earth – clues from the Archean rock record
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The origin of a phylum: soft-bodied fossils and early mollusc evolution
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Stable vanadium isotope fractionation at high temperatures: a proxy for oxygen fugacity?
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Fingerprints of past carbon cycle-climate changes in the Bern3D model
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Orogenesis - CO2 source or sink? Insight from quantification of fossil organic carbon weathering rates in Taiwan
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Life and times in the Cambrian and its stratigraphic constraints on Himalayan geology, tectonics, and uplift history
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Magma chamber processes in ferrobasaltic layered intrusions
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Geological Histories of Earth and Mars
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The eve of biomineralisation
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SCALING LAWS FOR AGGRADATION AND PROGRADATION OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD
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Intrusive LIPs: Petrological Interpretation of Deep Crustal Cumulate Bodies beneath Oceanic Hotspot Provinces
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A window on deep geological time: exceptional fossils studied using new methods
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Ocean turbulence, fronts, and the timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom
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The orbital pacing of Palaeogene hyperthermals - can we believe model results?
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NOTE TIME! 1-2pm! Cryptic Neoproterozoic mountain building events around the margin of Rodinia
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Under the geological rug: The fluid dynamics of CO2 sequestration
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Evolution and climate in the Cenozoic oceans
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Bubbles and Bangs: Volatile Controls on Magma Fragmentation
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The capture of the Tsangpo by the Brahmuputra River and rapid exhumation of the Namche Barwa eastern syntaxis of the Himalaya: testing the erosion-tectonic feedback hypothesis by new provenance methods using rutile and zircon U-Pb in situ dating, and im
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Silicate liquid immiscibility in tholeiitic basalt
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Tracing tephra horizons in the Greenland ice-cores and the potential for integrating disparate proxy records in the North Atlantic region
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Unravelling the complexity of the geometry and nucleation phase of Apennininc extensional systems: the case of the 2009 MW 6.1 L’Aquila normal fault system (Central Italy).
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Zooming into the subduction plate interface: constraints from petrology, geodynamics and modelling
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Strontium in the oceans: Where does it come from and where does it go?
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Virtual Fossils and the Herefordshire Lagerstatte
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Relating atmospheric CO2 levels to biogeochemical processes
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Extreme change in sulfide concentrations near the Bosporus Inlet (Black Sea) during the Little Ice Age tracked using molybdenum isotopes
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Simulation of seismic wave propagation through geometrically complex basins - the Dead Sea basin
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In situ mineral carbonation (and hydration) in peridotite for CO2 capture and storage (and geodynamics)
Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)
Volcanic-Magmatic Interplays on Mid-Ocean Ridge Construction and Petrogenesis
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The microbial biogeochemistry of the sediment/water interface - players, processes, and rates
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Multiple sulfur isotope constraints on S oxidation processes in modern and ancient ecosystems
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Recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction
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Comparative palaeoecology of mass extinction events
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Climate change and volcanism: The Siberian Traps and Yellowstone volcanic provinces
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Excursions and paleointensity: Integration of magnetic and oxygen isotope stratigraphies
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Dust Provenance in Polar Regions
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Methane plumes from the seafloor of West Spitsbergen: do they come from dissociation of methane hydrate caused by global warming?
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Millennial scale variability in the oxygen minimum zone off Baja California inferred by elemental composition over the past 70 kyr
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Challenging the assumptions of functional analysis of fossils: diet, feeding and tooth wear analysis.
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4.5 Gyr of maturation of the Upper Continental Crust? Evidence from stable isotope ratios.
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Bedrock Rivers
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Cradle of life or barren wasteland? Geochemical constraints on early martian water
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Fractionation effects in turbidity currents
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High 3He/4He in proto-Iceland plume basalts: implications for the deep Earth
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Accretion of the Earth and formation of the core
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Orbital forcing of western Antarctic Peninsula Holocene climate
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The solidification of gabbros
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Impact of the Boundary Exchange on the Element Cycle
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Characterising geomorphic responses to tectonic perturbation: Insights and implications.
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Mineral magnetism and palaeoclimate
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Explosive volcanism: a materials catastrophe
⚠️ Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer
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Deglacial Meridional Overturning changes inferred from sedimentary 231Pa/230Th records from the North Atlantic
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Heavy Stable Isotopes in Marine Geochemistry - Insights from Cadmium
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Catastrophic megafloods in the English Channel explain how Britain became an island
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Molten Earth: Magma in the Deep Mantle
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