Recommended Literature
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Background Information
Bentley, R.A., (2006). Strontium isotopes from the earth to the archaeological skeleton: a review. Journal of archaeological method and theory, 13(3), pp.135-187. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-006-9009-x
Capo, R.C.; Stewart, B. W.; Chadwick, O. A., (1998): Strontium isotopes as tracers of ecosystem processes: theory and methods. Geoderma, vol. 82, pp. 197-225. DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7061(97)00102-X
McArthur, J. M.; Howarth, R. J. and Bailey, T. R., (2001). Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy: LOWESS Version 3: Best Fit to the Marine Sr‐Isotope Curve for 0–509 Ma and Accompanying Look‐up Table for Deriving Numerical Age. The Journal of Geology, vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 155-170. DOI: 10.1086/319243
Example studies
Archaeology
Lugli, F.; Cipriani, A.; Capecchi, G.; Ricci, S., Boschin, F.; Boscato, P.; Iacumin, P.; Badino, F.; Mannino, M. A.; Talamo, S.; Richards, M. P.; Benazzi, S.; Ronchitelli, A., (2019): Strontium and stable isotope evidence of human mobility strategies across the Last Glacial Maximum in southern Italy. Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 3, pp. 905–911. DOI:10.1038/s41559-019-0900-8.
Marchionni, S.; Braschi, E.; Tommasini, S.; Bollati, A.; Cifelli, F.; Mulinacci, N.; Mattei, M.; Conticelli, S., (2013). High-Precision 87Sr/86Sr Analyses in Wines and Their Use as a Geological Fingerprint for Tracing Geographic Provenance. Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, vol. 61, no. 28, pp. 6822-6831. DOI: 10.1021/jf4012592
Peters, K. E.; Walters, C. C. and Moldowan, J. M., (2005). The Biomarker Guide, Second Edition, Volum I Biomarkers and Isotopes in the Environment and Human History. Cambridge University Press, 471 p. ISBN 0 521 78158 2.
Geology
McArthur, J.M., Howarth, R.J. and Bailey, T.R., (2001): Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy: LOWESS Version 3: Best Fit to the Marine Sr-Isotope Curve for 0–509 Ma and Accompanying Look-up Table for Deriving Numerical Age. The Journal of Geology, 109(2), pp.155-170. DOI: 10.1086/319243
Prinos, S.T.; Wacker, M. A.; Cunningham, K. J.; Fitterman, D. V., (2014). Origins and Delineation of Saltwater Intrusion in the Biscayne Aquifer and Changes in the Distribution of Saltwater in Miami-Dade County, Florida. U.S. Geological Survey, Scientific Investigations Report 2014–5025. DOI: 10.3133/sir20145025
Methods
Frei, K. M.; Berghe, I. V.; Frei, R.; Mannering, U.; Lyngstrøm, H., (2010): Removal of natural organic dyes from wool implications for ancient textile provenance studies. Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 37, pp. 2136-2145. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.02.012
Pourmand, A., Prospero, J.M. and Sharifi, A., (2014): Geochemical fingerprinting of trans-Atlantic African dust based on radiogenic Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes and rare earth element anomalies. Geology, 42(8), pp.675-678. DOI: 10.1130/G35624.1
Pourmand, A. and Dauphas, N., (2010): Distribution coefficients of 60 elements on TODGA resin: application to Ca, Lu, Hf, U and Th isotope geochemistry. Talanta, 81(3), pp.741-753. DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2010.01.008
Background Information
Goslar, Tomasz, Helena Hercman, and Anna Pazdur. (2000). Comparison of U-series and radiocarbon dates of speleothems. Radiocarbon 42.3: 403-414. DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200030332
Farley, K.A., (2002). (U-Th)/He dating: Techniques, calibrations, and applications. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 47(1), pp.819-844. DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2002.47.18
Pike, A.W., Hoffmann, D.L., Pettitt, P.B., García-Diez, M. and Zilhao, J., (2017). Dating Palaeolithic cave art: Why U–Th is the way to go. Quaternary International, 432, pp.41-49. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.12.013
Example studies
Geology/Paleoclimatology
Andersen, M. B., et al. (2009). U-series dating of fossil coral reefs: consensus and controversy. Pages News 17: 54-56. DOI:10.22498/PAGES.17.2.54
Bischoff, J. L., and J. A. Fitzpatrick (1991). U‐series dating of impure carbonates: An isochron technique using total‐sample dissolution, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 55, 543–554. DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(91)90011-S
Clark, Tara R., et al. (2017). U-Th dating reveals regional-scale decline of branching Acropora corals on the Great Barrier Reef over the past century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.39 (2017): 10350-10355. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1705351114
Chen, C.Y., McGee, D., Woods, A., Pérez, L., Hatfield, R.G., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Valero-Garcés, B.L., Lehmann, S.B., Stoner, J.S. and Schwalb, A., (2020). U-Th dating of lake sediments: Lessons from the 700 ka sediment record of Lake Junín, Peru. Quaternary Science Reviews, 244, p.106422. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106422
DeCarlo, Thomas M., et al. (2016). Coral Sr‐U thermometry. Paleoceanography 31.6: 626-638. DOI: 10.1002/2015PA002908
Grothe, P.R., Cobb, K.M., Bush, S.L., Cheng, H., Santos, G.M., Southon, J.R., Lawrence Edwards, R., Deocampo, D.M. and Sayani, H.R., (2016): A comparison of U/T h and rapid‐screen 14 C dates from Line Island fossil corals. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(3), pp.833-845. DOI: 10.1002/2015GC005893
Placzek, Christa, et al. (2006). Strategies for successful U‐Th dating of paleolake carbonates: An example from the Bolivian Altiplano. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7.5. DOI: 10.1029/2005GC001157
Spötl, Christoph, and Ronny Boch (2019). Uranium series dating of speleothems. Encyclopedia of caves. Academic Press, 2019. 1096-1102. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-814124-3.00128-X
Thompson, William G., et al. (2003). An open-system model for U-series age determinations of fossil corals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 210.1-2:: 365-381. DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00121-3
Yehudai, Maayan, et al. (2017). U–Th dating of calcite corals from the Gulf of Aqaba. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 198 (2017): 285-298. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.11.005
Archaeology
Pons-Branchu, Edwige, et al. (2014). Uranium-series dating of carbonate formations overlying Paleolithic art: interest and limitations. Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française: 211-224. DOI: 10.3406/bspf.2014.14395
Sauvet, Georges, et al. (2017). Uranium–thorium dating method and Palaeolithic rock art. Quaternary International 432: 86-92. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.03.053
Hydrology
Charette, M.A., Moore, W.S. and Burnett, W.C., (2008). Uranium-and thorium-series nuclides as tracers of submarine groundwater discharge. Radioactivity in the Environment, 13, pp.155-191. DOI: /10.1016/S1569-4860(07)00005-8
Rovan, L., Lojen, S., Zuliani, T., Kanduč, T., Petrič, M., Horvat, B., Rusjan, S. and Štrok, M., (2020). Comparison of uranium isotopes and classical geochemical tracers in Karst Aquifer of Ljubljanica River catchment (Slovenia). Water, 12(7), p.2064. DOI: 10.3390/w12072064
Methods
Pourmand, A. and Dauphas, N., (2010): Distribution coefficients of 60 elements on TODGA resin: Application to Ca, Lu, Hf, U and Th isotope geochemistry. Talanta, 81(3), pp.741-753. DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2010.01.008
Pourmand, A., Tissot, F.L., Arienzo, M. and Sharifi, A., (2014): Introducing a Comprehensive Data Reduction and Uncertainty Propagation Algorithm for U-Th Geochronometry with Extraction Chromatography and Isotope Dilution MC-ICP-MS. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 38(2), pp.129-148. DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2013.00266.x
Background Information
DeFrancesco, H., Dudley, J. and Coca, A., (2016). Boron chemistry: an overview. Boron Reagents in Synthesis, pp.1-25. DOI: 10.1021/bk-2016-1236.ch001
Foster G.L., Lécuyer C., Marschall, H.R., (2016): Boron Stable Isotopes. In: White W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geochemistry. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham
Lemarchand, D., Gaillardet, J., Lewin, E. and Allegre, C.J., (2000). The influence of rivers on marine boron isotopes and implications for reconstructing past ocean pH. Nature, 408(6815), pp.951-954. DOI: 10.1038/35050058
Marschall, H.R. and Foster, G.L., (2018). Boron isotopes in the earth and planetary sciences—a short history and introduction. In Boron Isotopes (pp. 1-11). Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64666-4_1
Spivack, A.J., Palmer, M.R. and Edmond, J.M., (1987). The sedimentary cycle of the boron isotopes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 51(7), pp.1939-1949. DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(87)90183-9
Widory, D., Petelet-Giraud, E., Négrel, P. and Ladouche, B., (2005). Tracking the sources of nitrate in groundwater using coupled nitrogen and boron isotopes: a synthesis. Environmental Science & Technology, 39(2), pp.539-548. DOI: 10.1021/es0493897
Xiao, J., Xiao, Y.K., Jin, Z.D., He, M.Y. and Liu, C.Q., (2013). Boron isotope variations and its geochemical application in nature. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60(4), pp.431-447. DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2013.813585
Example studies
Hydrology
Briand, C.; Plagnes, V.; Sebilo, M.; Louvat, P.; Chesnot, T.; Schneider, M.; Ribstein, P. and Marchet, P., (2013). Combination of nitrate (N, O) and boron isotopic ratios with microbiological indicators for the determination of nitrate sources in karstic groundwater. Environ. Chem., vol. 10, pp. 365–369. DOI: 10.1071/EN13036
Bronders, J., Tirez, K., Desmet, N., Widory, D., Petelet-Giraud, E., Bregnot, A. and Boeckx, P., (2012): Use of compound-specific nitrogen (d15N), oxygen (d18O), and bulk boron (d11B) isotope ratios to identify sources of nitrate-contaminated waters: a guideline to identify polluters. Environmental Forensics, 13(1), pp.32-38. 32-38. DOI: 10.1080/15275922.2011.643338
EPA-68-01-3201, (1976). Chemical technology and economics in environmental perspectives. Task II- Removal of Boron from wastewater. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Toxic Substances, Washington, D.C. 20460
Guinoiseau, D., Louvat, P., Paris, G., Chen, J.B., Chetelat, B., Rocher, V., Guérin, S. and Gaillardet, J., (2018): Are boron isotopes a reliable tracer of anthropogenic inputs to rivers over time?. Science of the Total Environment, 626, pp.1057-1068. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.159
Nigro, A., Sappa, G. and Barbieri, M., (2018): Boron isotopes in groundwater: Evidence from contamination and interaction with terrigenous–evaporitic sequence, east-central Italy. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, 18(4), pp.343-350. DOI: 10.1144/geochem2017-065
Quast, K.W., Lansey, K., Arnold, R., Bassett, R.L. and Rincon, M., (2006). Boron isotopes as an artificial tracer. Groundwater, 44(3), pp.453-466. DOI: 10.1021/es00060a030
Widory, D., Petelet-Giraud, E., Négrel, P. and Ladouche, B., (2005): Tracking the sources of nitrate in groundwater using coupled nitrogen and boron isotopes: a synthesis. Environmental Science & Technology, 39(2), pp.539-548. DOI: 10.1021/es0493897
Geology
De Hoog, J.C. and Savov, I.P., (2018). Boron isotopes as a tracer of subduction zone processes. Boron Isotopes, pp.217-247. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64666-4_9
Hemming, N.G. and Hönisch, B., (2007): Boron isotopes in marine carbonate sediments and the pH of the ocean. Developments in marine geology. DOI: 10.1016/S1572-5480(07)01022-6
Marschall, H.R., (2018). Boron isotopes in the ocean floor realm and the mantle. Boron isotopes, pp.189-215. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64666-4_8
Marschall, H.R., Wanless, V.D., Shimizu, N., Von Strandmann, P.A.P., Elliott, T. and Monteleone, B.D., (2017): The boron and lithium isotopic composition of mid-ocean ridge basalts and the mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 207, pp.102-138. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2017.03.028
Stewart, Joseph A., Eleni Anagnostou, and Gavin L. Foster. (2016). An improved boron isotope pH proxy calibration for the deep-sea coral Desmophyllum dianthus through sub-sampling of fibrous aragonite. Chemical Geology 447: 148-160. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.10.029
Paleoclimatology
Chalk, T.B., Foster, G.L., Wilson, P.A., (2019). Dynamic storage of CO2 in the Atlantic Ocean revealed by boron [CO32-] and pH record. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 510, pp. 1-11. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.022
Foster, G.L. and Rae, J.W., (2016). Reconstructing ocean pH with boron isotopes in foraminifera. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 44, pp.207-237. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012226
Giri, S.J.; Swart, P.K.; Pourmand, A., (2019). The influence of seawater calcium ions on coral calcification mechanisms: Constraints from boron and carbon isotopes and B/Ca ratios in Pocillopora damicornis. Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, vol. 519, pp.130-140. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.008
Kubota, K., Yokoyama, Y., Ishikawa, T. and Suzuki, A., (2015): A new method for calibrating a boron isotope paleo‐p H proxy using massive Porites corals. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(9), pp.3333-3342. DOI: 10.1002/2015GC005975
Marschall, H.R., (2018): Boron isotopes in the ocean floor realm and the mantle. Boron isotopes, pp.189-215.DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64666-4_8
Müller, T., Jurikova, H., Gutjahr, M., Tomašových, A., Schlögl, J., Liebetrau, V., Duarte, L.V., Milovský, R., Suan, G., Mattioli, E. and Pittet, B., (2020). Ocean acidification during the early Toarcian extinction event: Evidence from boron isotopes in brachiopods. Geology, 48(12), pp.1184-1188. DOI: 10.1130/G47781.1
Methods
Foster, G.L., Hönisch, B., Paris, G., Dwyer, G.S., Rae, J.W., Elliott, T., Gaillardet, J., Hemming, N.G., Louvat, P. and Vengosh, A., (2013). Interlaboratory comparison of boron isotope analyses of boric acid, seawater and marine CaCO3 by MC-ICPMS and NTIMS. Chemical Geology, 358, pp.1-14. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.08.027
Giri, S.J., Swart, P.K. and Pourmand, A., (2019): The influence of seawater calcium ions on coral calcification mechanisms: Constraints from boron and carbon isotopes and B/Ca ratios in Pocillopora damicornis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 519, pp.130-140. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.008
Background Information
Cheema, A.I., Liu, G., Yousaf, B., Abbas, Q. and Zhou, H., (2020). A comprehensive review of biogeochemical distribution and fractionation of lead isotopes for source tracing in distinct interactive environmental compartments. Science of The Total Environment, 719, p.135658. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135658
Doe, B.R., 2012. Lead isotopes (Vol. 3). Springer Science & Business Media.
Komárek, M., Ettler, V., Chrastný, V. and Mihaljevič, M., (2008). Lead isotopes in environmental sciences: a review. Environment international, 34(4), pp.562-577. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2007.10.005
Example studies
Paleoclimate / Paleoenvironment
Bozlaker, A.; Prospero, J. M.; Price, J., and Chellam, S., (2018) Linking Barbados Mineral Dust Aerosols to North African Sources Using Elemental Composition and Radiogenic Sr, Nd, and Pb Isotope Signatures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 123, pp. 1384–1400. DOI: 10.1002/2017JD027505
Kylander, M.E., Muller, J., Wüst, R.A.J., Gallagher, K., Garcia-Sanchez, R., Coles, B.J. and Weiss, D.J., (2007): Rare earth element and Pb isotope variations in a 52 kyr peat core from Lynch’s Crater (NE Queensland, Australia): Proxy development and application to paleoclimate in the Southern Hemisphere. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71(4), pp.942-960. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2006.10.018
Kylander, M.E., Klaminder, J., Bindler, R. and Weiss, D.J., (2010): Natural lead isotope variations in the atmosphere. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290(1-2), pp.44-53. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.055
Larsen, M. M.; Blusztajn, J. S.; Andersen, O. Dahllӧf, I., (2012). Lead isotopes in marine surface sediments reveal historical use of leaded fuel. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, vol. 14, pp.2893-2901. DOI: 10.1039/c2em30579h
Hydrology
Dunlap, C. E.; Alpers, C. N.; Bouse, R. M.; Taylor, H. E.; Unruh D. M. and Flegal, A. R., (2008). The persistence of lead from past gasoline emissions and mining drainage in a large riparian system: Evidence from lead isotopes in the Sacramento River, California. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 72, pp. 5935–5948. DOI:10.1016/j.gca.2008.10.006.
Négrel, P., Millot, R., Roy, S., Guerrot, C. and Pauwels, H., (2010). Lead isotopes in groundwater as an indicator of water–rock interaction (Masheshwaram catchment, Andhra Pradesh, India). Chemical Geology, 274(3-4), pp.136-148. DOI: 10.1016/J.CHEMGEO.2010.03.012
Forensics
Bartelink, E.J. and Chesson, L.A., (2019). Recent applications of isotope analysis to forensic anthropology. Forensic sciences research, 4(1), pp.29-44. DOI: 10.1080/20961790.2018.1549527
Chesson, L.A., Tipple, B.J., Youmans, L.V., O’Brien, M.A. and Harmon, M.M., (2018). Forensic identification of human skeletal remains using isotopes: a brief history of applications from archaeological dig sites to modern crime scenes. In New perspectives in forensic human skeletal identification (pp. 157-173). Academic Press. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-805429-1.00014-4
Sjåstad, K.E; Lucy, D. and Andersen, T., (2016). Lead isotope ratios for bullets, forensic evaluation in a Bayesian paradigm. Talanta, vol. 146, pp.62–70. DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2015.07.070
Geology / Environmental Sciences
Reimann, C., Flem, B., Fabian, K., Birke, M., Ladenberger, A., Négrel, P., Demetriades, A., Hoogewerff, J. and Team, T.G.P., (2012). Lead and lead isotopes in agricultural soils of Europe–The continental perspective. Applied Geochemistry, 27(3), pp.532-542. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.12.012
Woodhead, J. D. and Fraser, D. G., (1985). Pb, Sr and 10Be isotopic studies of volcanic rocks from the Northern Mariana Islands. Implications for magma genesis and crustal recycling in the Western Pacific. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 49. pp. 1925-1930 DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(85)90087-0
Archaeology
Macfarlane, A.W. and Lechtman, H.N., (2016). Andean ores, bronze artifacts, and lead isotopes: constraints on metal sources in their geological context. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23(1), pp.1-72 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-014-9225-8
Melheim, L., Grandin, L., Persson, P.O., Billström, K., Stos-Gale, Z., Ling, J., Williams, A., Angelini, I., Canovaro, C., Hjärthner-Holdar, E. and Kristiansen, K., (2018). Moving metals III: Possible origins for copper in Bronze Age Denmark based on lead isotopes and geochemistry. Journal of Archaeological Science, 96, pp.85-105. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.04.003
Shaw, H., Montgomery, J., Redfern, R., Gowland, R. and Evans, J., (2016). Identifying migrants in Roman London using lead and strontium stable isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 66, pp.57-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.12.001
Methods
Pourmand, A., Prospero, J.M. and Sharifi, A., (2014): Geochemical fingerprinting of trans-Atlantic African dust based on radiogenic Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes and rare earth element anomalies. Geology, 42(8), pp.675-678. DOI: 10.1130/G35624.1
Pourmand, A. and Dauphas, N., (2010): Distribution coefficients of 60 elements on TODGA resin: application to Ca, Lu, Hf, U and Th isotope geochemistry. Talanta, 81(3), pp.741-753. DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2010.01.008
First Author
Ashtiani, R.J., Schmitt, A.K., Hassanzadeh, J., Sharifi, A. and Günter, C., (2024). Permian flood basalt protoliths for Jurassic amphibolites and eclogites in SW Iran: Implications for subduction of a magma-rich passive margin. Lithos, p.107811. DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107811
Chakrabortya et al. (2025). Deep-water corals indicate the Red Sea survived the last glacial lowstand. PNAS. Vol 122.8.
Dahlstrom, S.I., (2020). Emplacement and exhumation of Andean granites: implications for porphyry copper mineralisation and enrichment in the Middle Eocene-Early Oligocene metallogenic belt of northern Chile (Doctoral dissertation, University of Bristol).
Djamali, M., Gandouin, E., Sharifi, A., Ponel, P., Tachikawa, K., Naqinezhad, A., Naderi-Beni, A., Lahijani, H., de Beaulieu, J.L., Brisset, E. and Samadi, N., 2025. Higher in the mountains: Dynamics of agro-pastoral practices in a low-latitude mountain system (Karkas Mountains, central Iran) during the Mediaeval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. Quaternary Science Reviews, 351, p.109202. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109202
Gigon, J., Deloule, E., Mercadier, J., Huston, D.L., Richard, A., Annesley, I.R., Wygralak, A.S., Skirrow, R.G., Mernagh, T.P. and Masterman, K., (2020). Tracing metal sources for the giant McArthur River Zn-Pb deposit (Australia) using lead isotopes. Geology, 48(5), pp.478-482. DOI: 10.1130/G47001.1
Gigon, J., Skirrow, R.G., Harlaux, M., Richard, A., Mercadier, J., Annesley, I.R. and Villeneuve, J., (2019). Insights into B-Mg-metasomatism at the Ranger U deposit (NT, Australia) and comparison with Canadian unconformity-related U deposits. Minerals, 9(7), p.432. DOI: 10.3390/min9070432
Pauly, M., Kamenos, N.A., Donohue, P. and LeDrew, E., (2015). Coralline algal Mg-O bond strength as a marine p CO2 proxy. Geology, 43(3), pp.267-270. DOI: 10.1130/G36386.1
Pauly, M., Helle, G., Miramont, C., Büntgen, U., Treydte, K., Reinig, F., Guibal, F., Sivan, O., Heinrich, I., Riedel, F. and Kromer, B., (2018). Subfossil trees suggest enhanced Mediterranean hydroclimate variability at the onset of the Younger Dryas. Scientific reports, 8(1), pp.1-8. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32251-2
Pauly, M., Turney, C.S.M., Palmer, J.G., Büntgen, U., Brauer, A. and Helle, G., (2021). Kauri tree‐ring stable isotopes reveal a centennial climate downturn following the Antarctic Cold Reversal in New Zealand. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(2), p.e2020GL090299. DOI: 10.1029/2020GL090299
Pauly, M., Helle, G., Büntgen, U., Wacker, L., Treydte, K., Reinig, F., Turney, C., Nievergelt, D., Kromer, B., Friedrich, M. and Sookdeo, A., (2020). An annual-resolution stable isotope record from Swiss subfossil pine trees growing in the late Glacial. Quaternary Science Reviews, 247, p.106550. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106550
Sharifi, A., Roshan Dinparastisaleh, Naresh Kumar, and Mehdi Mirsaeidi: Health effects of Radioactive Contaminated dust in the Aftermath of Potential Nuclear Accident in Ukraine. Frontiers in Public Health-Disaster and Emergency Medicine. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.959668
Sharifi, A.; Mojgan Esfahaninejad; Keivan Kabiri, 2021: Hydroclimate of the Urmia Lake catchment area: A brief overview, in P.Ghafari (Ed) The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (Lake Urmia: A Hypersaline Waterbody in a Drying Climate), Springer. DOI 10.1007/698_2021_809.
Sharifi, A., Majid Shah-Hosseini; Ali Pourmand; Mojgan Esfahaninejad; Omid Haeri-Ardakani, (2018). The vanishing of Urmia lake: a geolimnological perspective on the hydrological imbalance of the world’s second largest hypersaline lake, in P.Ghafari (Ed) The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (Lake Urmia: A Hypersaline Waterbody in a Drying Climate), Springer.DOI: 10.1007/698_2018_359
Sharifi, A.; Murphy, L. N.; Pourmand, A.; Clement, A. C.; Canuel, E. A.; Naderi Beni, A.; Lahijani, H. A. K. and Ahmady-Birgani, H., (2018). Early Holocene Greening of the Afro-Asian Dust Belt Changed Sources of Mineral Dust in West Asia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 481, pp.30-40, DOI 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.001.
Sharifi, A., Pourmand, A., Canuel, E.A., Ferer-Tyler, E., Peterson, L.C., Aichner, B., Feakins, S.J., Daryaee, T., Djamali, M., Beni, A.N. and Lahijani, H.A., (2015). Abrupt climate variability since the last deglaciation based on a high-resolution, multi-proxy peat record from NW Iran: The hand that rocked the Cradle of Civilization? Quaternary Science Reviews, 123, pp.215-230. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.006
Sharifi, A., (2004). Environmental Geochemistry of the Persian Gulf’s Sediments. Proceeding of the Workshop on the Recent Marine Environments and Role of Water Chemistry in Forming Sediments. Iranian National Center for Oceanography (INCO), pp.72-83.
Sharifi, A., (2004). Fundamentals of the Integrated Coastal Area Management. Proceeding of the Workshop on Integrated Coastal Area Management of the Southern Coastline of the Caspian Sea. Iranian National Center for Oceanography (INCO), pp.16-71.
Sharifi, A., (2004). Coastal Classification of Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman Coastlines Based on Ecological Sensitivity Indices (ESI). Proceeding of the Practical Workshop on Coastal Geomorphology of Iranian Marine Bodies. Iranian National Center for Oceanography (INCO), pp.62-101.
Sharifi, A.; Haeri-Ardakani, O; Nazarian, M.; and Danekar, A., (2003). Initial National Communication to UNFCCC Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment on Coastal Zone. Department of Environment, National Climate Change Office with cooperation of the UNDP. Chapter four, pp.81-89.
Sharifi, A. and Haeri-Ardakani, O. (2003). An introduction to marine geochemistry with emphasis on environmental issues. Proceeding of the Practical Workshop on Marine Geology. Iranian National Center for Oceanography (INCO), pp.99-112.
Sharifi, A. (2001). An introduction to Integrated Coastal Area Management. Proceeding of the Practical Workshop on the Caspian Sea. Iranian National Center for Oceanography (INCO).Vol.2, pp.81-92.
Sharifi, A. (1996). Photography using microscope. “AKS” (Photograph), Soc. Young Cinema, No. 112, pp. 26-28.
Sharifi, A., (2002). Factors controlling the sedimentological and geochemical characteristics of the Lake Urmia. Iranian National Centre for Oceanography (p. 131). Internal Report (in Persian), Tehran.
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Aubert, C., Brisset, E., Djamali, M., Sharifi, A., Ponel, P., Gambin, B., Azirani, T.A., Guibal, F., Lahijani, H., Beni, A.N. and de Beaulieu, J.L., (2017). Late glacial and early Holocene hydroclimate variability in northwest Iran (Talesh Mountains) inferred from chironomid and pollen analysis. Journal of Paleolimnology, 58(2), pp.151-167. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-017-9969-8
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Barkley, A.E., Pourmand, A., Longman, J., Sharifi, A., Prospero, J.M., Panechou, K., Bakker, N., Drake, N., Guinoiseau, D. and Gaston, C.J., (2022): Interannual variability in the source location of North African dust transported to the Amazon. Geophysical Research Letters, p.e2021GL097344. DOI: 10.1029/2021GL097344
Beni, A.N., Marriner, N., Sharifi, A., Azizpour, J., Kabiri, K., Djamali, M. and Kirman, A., (2021): Climate change: A driver of future conflicts in the Persian Gulf Region?. Heliyon, 7(2), p.e06288. DOI:10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06288.
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Jamali Ashtiani, R., Rahgoshay, M. and Sharifi, A., (2016): Zayanderoud area high pressure metamorphic rocks: correlation with the Menderes massif eclogite-gneiss and implication for the late Gondwana reconstruction. Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences, 26(101), pp.183-196. DOI: 10.22071/gsj.2016.41066
Kabiri, K., Pradhan, B., Sharifi, A., Ghobadi, Y. and Pirasteh, S., (2012): Manifestation of remotely sensed data coupled with field measured meteorological data for an assessment of degradation of Urmia Lake, Iran. In Asia Pacific Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (pp. 395-401). APEST Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Kambali, S., Quinonez, E., Sharifi, A., Shahraki, A.H., Kumar, N., Dushyantha, J. and Mirsaeidi, M. (2021): Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease in Florida and association with large-scale natural disasters. BMC public health, 21(1), pp.1-11. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-12115-7
Kroll, S., Bendezu-Sarmiento, J., Lhuillier, J., Kaniuth, K. Luneau, E., et al. (2022): Mobility and land use in the Greater Khorasan Civilization: isotopic approaches (87Sr/86Sr, δ18O) on human populations from southern Central Asia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. DOI: 0.3389/fgene.2022.884612
Lahijani, H., Haeri Ardakani, O., Sharifi, A. and Naderi Beni, A., (2010). Sedimentological and geochemical characteristics of the Gorgan Bay sediments. Journal of Oceanography, 1(1), pp.45-55. DOI: 20.1001.1.15621057.1389.1.1.6.5
Li, N., Sharifi, A., Chambers, F.M., Ge, Y., Dubois, N., Gao, G., Li, D., Liu, L., Liu, H., Wang, J. and Niu, H., (2021). Linking Holocene East Asian monsoon variability to solar forcing and ENSO activity: Multi-proxy evidence from a peatland in Northeastern China. The Holocene, 31(6), pp.966-982. DOI: 10.1177/0959683621994662
Lyons, W.B., Welch, S.A., Gardner, C.B., Sharifi, A., AghaKouchak, A., Mashkour, M., Djamali, M., Matinzadeh, Z., Palacio, S. and Akhani, H., (2020). The hydrogeochemistry of shallow groundwater from Lut Desert, Iran: The hottest place on Earth. Journal of Arid Environments, 178, p.104143. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104143
Mehterian, S., Pourmand, A., Sharifi, A., Lahijani, H.A., Naderi, M. and Swart, P.K., (2017). Speleothem records of glacial/interglacial climate from Iran forewarn of future Water Availability in the interior of the Middle East. Quaternary Science Reviews, 164, pp.187-198. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.028
Mirea, I.C., Robu, M., Petculescu, A., Kenesz, M., Faur, L., Arghir, R., Tecsa, V., Timar-Gabor, A., Roban, R.D., Panaiotu, C.G. and Sharifi, A., (2021). Last deglaciation flooding events in the Southern Carpathians as revealed by the study of cave deposits from Muierilor Cave, Romania. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 562, p.110084. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110084
Mirsaeidi, M., Motahari, H., Taghizadeh Khamesi, M., Sharifi, A., Campos, M. and Schraufnagel, D.E., (2016). Climate change and respiratory infections. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 13(8), pp.1223-1230. DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201511-729PS
Mirsaeidi, M., Vu, A., Leitman, P., Sharifi, A., Wisliceny, S., Leitman, A., Schmid, A., Campos, M., Falkinham, J. and Salathe, M., (2017). A patient-based analysis of the geographic distribution of Mycobacterium avium complex, Mycobacterium abscessus, and Mycobacterium kansasii infections in the United States. Chest, 151(4), pp.947-950. DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.02.013
Pestle, W.J., Hubbe, A., Pourmand, A., Arienzo, M., Swart, P., Sharifi, A. and Peterson, L., (2014). Multi-Proxy Elemental and Isotopic Analysis of Toxodon Sp. Dental Enamel: Climate, Diet, Growth, and Mobility. The Paleontological Society Special Publications, 13, pp.44-44. DOI: 10.1017/S2475262200010923
Pourmand, A., Prospero, J.M. and Sharifi, A., (2014). Geochemical fingerprinting of trans-Atlantic African dust based on radiogenic Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes and rare earth element anomalies. Geology, 42(8), pp.675-678. DOI: 10.1130/G35624.1
Pourmand, A., Tissot, F.L., Arienzo, M. and Sharifi, A., (2014). Introducing a comprehensive data reduction and uncertainty propagation algorithm for U‐Th geochronometry with extraction chromatography and isotope dilution MC‐ICP‐MS. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 38(2), pp.129-148. DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2013.00266.x
Purkis, S.J., Shernisky, H., Swart, P.K., Sharifi, A., Oehlert, A., Marchese, F., Benzoni, F., Chimienti, G., Duchâtellier, G., Klaus, J. and Eberli, G.P., (2022): Discovery of the deep-sea NEOM Brine Pools in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), pp.1-13. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-022-00482-x
Purkis, S.J., Ward, S.N., Shernisky, H., Chimienti, G., Sharifi, A., Marchese, F., Benzoni, F., Rodrigue, M., Raymo, M.E. and Abdulla, A., (2022): Tsunamigenic potential of an incipient submarine landslide in the Tiran Straits. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(4), p.e2021GL097493. DOI: 10.1029/2021GL097493
Pyarali, F.F., Schweitzer, M., Bagley, V., Salamo, O., Guerrero, A., Sharifi, A., Campos, M., Quartin, A. and Mirsaeidi, M., (2018): Increasing non-tuberculous mycobacteria infections in veterans with COPD and association with increased risk of mortality. Frontiers in medicine, 5, p.311. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2018.00311.
Reinig, F., Gärtner, H., Crivellaro, A., Nievergelt, D., Pauly, M., Schweingruber, F., Sookdeo, A., Wacker, L. and Büntgen, U., (2018). Introducing anatomical techniques to subfossil wood. Dendrochronologia, 52, pp.146-151. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2018.10.005
Reinig, F., Nievergelt, D., Esper, J., Friedrich, M., Helle, G., Hellmann, L., Kromer, B., Morganti, S., Pauly, M., Sookdeo, A. and Tegel, W., (2018). New tree-ring evidence for the Late Glacial period from the northern pre-Alps in eastern Switzerland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 186, pp.215-224. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.02.019
Reinig, F., Sookdeo, A., Esper, J., Friedrich, M., Guidobaldi, G., Helle, G., Kromer, B., Nievergelt, D., Pauly, M., Tegel, W. and Treydte, K., (2020). Illuminating IntCal during the Younger Dryas. Radiocarbon, 62(4), pp.883-889. DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2020.
Schweitzer, M.D., Calzadilla, A.S., Salamo, O., Sharifi, A., Kumar, N., Holt, G., Campos, M. and Mirsaeidi, M., (2018). Lung health in era of climate change and dust storms. Environmental research, 163, pp.36-42. DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.02.001
Sookdeo, A., Kromer, B., Büntgen, U., Friedrich, M., Friedrich, R., Helle, G., Pauly, M., Nievergelt, D., Reinig, F., Treydte, K. and Synal, H.A., (2020). Quality dating: a well-defined protocol implemented at ETH for high-precision 14C-dates tested on late glacial wood. Radiocarbon, 62(4), pp.891-899. DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2019.132
Schollaen, K., Baschek, H., Heinrich, I., Slotta, F., Pauly, M. and Helle, G., (2017). A guideline for sample preparation in modern tree-ring stable isotope research. Dendrochronologia, 44, pp.133-145. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2017.05.002
Valizadeh, M.V. and Sharifi, A., (2004): Geochemical study of “Arash Syenite”(Central Iran) with special emphasis on alkali metasomatism.
Valizadeh, M.V. and Sharifi, A., (1998): Preliminary report on REEs in apatite from Esfordi iron-apatite ore deposit. Iranian Journal of Crystallography and Mineralogy, 6(2), pp.73-84.
van der Does, M., Pourmand, A., Sharifi, A. and Stuut, J.B.W., (2018). North African mineral dust across the tropical Atlantic Ocean: Insights from dust particle size, radiogenic Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes and rare earth elements (REE). Aeolian research, 33, pp.106-116. DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2018.06.001
Weinstein, D.K., Sharifi, A., Klaus, J.S., Smith, T.B., Giri, S.J. and Helmle, K.P., (2016): Coral growth, bioerosion, and secondary accretion of living orbicellid corals from mesophotic reefs in the US Virgin Islands. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 559, pp.45-63. DOI: 10.3354/meps11883.
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