Plasma Lab Publications (2002 – 2007)
2007
Rudnick, R.L. and Ionov, D.A. (2007) Lithium elemental and isotopic disequilibrium in minerals from peridotite xenoliths from far-east Russia: product of recent melt/fluid-rock reaction, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 256: 278-293 Link to pdf
Halama, R., McDonough, W.F., Rudnick, R.L., Keller, J., Klaudius, J. (2007) The Li isotopic composition of Oldoinyo Lengai: Nature of the mantle sources and lack of isotopic fractionation during carbonatite petrogenesis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 254:77–89. Link to pdf
Baldwin, J.A, Brown, M. and Schmitz, M.D. (2007). First Application of Titanium-in-Zircon thermometry to ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism. Geology, 35: 295-298 Link to pdf
Chabot, N.L., Saslow, S.A., McDonough, W.F. and McCoy, T.J. (2007) The effect of Ni on element partitioning during iron meterorite crystallization. Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences (in press).
Corgne, A., Keshav, S. Fei, Y. and McDonough, W.F. (2007) How much potassium is in the Earth's core? New insights from partitioning experiments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (256) 567-576. Link to pdf
Teng, F. Z., McDonough, W.F., Rudnick, R.l., and Wing, B. (2007). Limited lithium isotopic fractionation during progressive metamorphic dehydration in metapelites: A case study
from the Onawa contact aureole, Maine. Chemical Geology (239) 1-12. Link to pdf
2006
Becker H., Horan M.F., Walker R.J., Gao S., Lorand J.-P. and Rudnick R.L. (2006).
Highly siderophile element composition of the Earth's primitive upper mantle: Constraints from new data on peridotite massifs and xenoliths. Geochimica et
Cosmochimica Acta. 70: 4528–4550. Link to pdf
Lee, S. R. and Walker, R. J. (2006) Re–Os isotope systematics of mantle xenoliths from South Korea: Evidence for complex growth and loss of lithospheric mantle beneath East Asia. Chemical Geology, 231:90-101. Link to pdf
Teng, F.-Z., McDonough, W.F., Rudnick, R.L. and Walker, R.J., 2006. Diffusion-driven extreme lithium isotopic fractionation in country rocks of the Tin Mountain pegmatite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 243: 701-710. Link to pdf
Lundstrom, C.C., Sutton, A.L., Chaussidon, M., McDonough, W.F. and Ash, R. (2006) Trace element partitioning between Type B CAI melt and melilite and spinel: Implications for trace element distribution during CAI formation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 70: 3421-3435. Link to pdf
Matthews, K.A., McDonough, W.F., and Grottoli, A.G. (2006) Cadmium measurements in coral skeleton using isotope dilution–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q11021, doi:10.1029/2006GC001352. Link to pdf
Pietruszka A. J., Walker R. J. and Candela P. A. (2006) Determination of mass dependent molybdenum isotopic variations by MC-ICP-MS: an evaluation of matrix effects. Chem. Geol. 225, 121-136. Link to pdf
Teng, F.-Z., McDonough, W.F., Rudnick, R.L., Walker, R. and Sirbescu, M.-L. C. (2006). Lithium isotopic systematics of granites and pegmatites from the Black Hills, South Dakota. American Mineralogist. 91:1488-1499. Link to pdf
Wheeler, K.T., Walker, D., Fei, Y., Minarik, W.G. and McDonough, W.F. (2006) Experimental partitioning of uranium between liquid iron sulfide
and liquid silicate: Implications for radioactivity in the Earth’s core. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70 , 1537–1547. Link to pdf
2005
Brenan J. M., McDonough W. F., and Ash R. (2005) An experimental study of the solubility and partitioning of iridium, osmium and gold between olivine and silicate melt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 237, 855-872. Link to pdf
Gangopadhyay A., Sproule R. A., Walker R. J. and Lesher M. (2005) Re-Os systematics of komatiites and komatiitic basalts at Dundonald Beach, Ontario, Canada: Evidence for a complex alteration history and implications of a late-Archean chondritic mantle source. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta 69, 5087-5098. Link to pdf
Hall, J.M., Chan, L.-H., McDonough, W.F. and Turekian, K.K. (2005) Determination of the lithium isotopic composition of planktic foraminifera and its application as a paleo-seawater proxy Marine Geology, 217, 255–265. Link to pdf(163Kb)
Keshav S., Corgne A., Gudfinnsson G. H., Bizimis M., McDonough W. F., and Fei Y. W. (2005) Kimberlite petrogenesis: Insights from clinopyroxene-melt partitioning experiments at 6 GPa in
the CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2 system. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69, 2829-2845.
Link to pdf
Walker R. J., Brandon A. D., Bird J. M., Piccoli P. M., McDonough W. F., and Ash R. D. (2005) 187Os-186 Os systematics of Os-Ir-Ru alloy grains from southwestern Oregon. Earth and
Planetary Science Letters 230, 211-226.
Link to pdf (664 Kb)
2004
Gelinas A., Kring D. A., Zurcher L., Urrutia-Fucugauchi J., O. Morton and Walker R. J. (2004) Osmium isotope constraints on the proportion of bolide component in Chicxulub impact melt
rocks. Meteoritics Planet. Sci. 39, 1003-1008.
McDainel D. K., Walker R. J., Hemming S. R., Horan M. F., Becker H. and R. I. Grauch (2004) Sources of osmium to the modern oceans: New evidence from the 190 Pt- 186 Os system. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68, 1243-1252. Link to pdf
Rudnick R. L., Tomascak P. B., Njo H. B., Gardner L. R. (2004) Extreme lithium isotopic fractionation during continental weathering revealed in saprolites from South Carolina. Chemical Geology 212, 45-57. Link to pdf (357 Kb)
Teng F. Z., McDonough W. F., Rudnick R. L., Dalpe C., Tomascak P. B., Chappell B. W., and Gao S. (2004) Lithium isotopic composition and concentration of the upper continental crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68, 4167-4178. Link to pdf (282 Kb)
Wiebe R. A., Manon M. R., Hawkins D. P., and McDonough W. F. (2004) Late-stage mafic injection and thermal rejuvenation of the Vinalhaven granite, coastal Maine. Journal of Petrology 45, 2133-2153. Link to pdf (1,798Kb)
2003
Brenan J. M., McDonough W. F., and Dalpe C. (2003) Experimental constraints on the partitioning of rhenium and some platinum-group elements between olivine and silicate melt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 212, 135-150. Link to pdf (452Kb)
Zack T., Tomascak P. B., Rudnick R. L., Dalpe C., and McDonough W. F. (2003) Extremely light Li in orogenic eclogites: The role of isotope fractionation during dehydration in subducted oceanic crust. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 208, 279-290.
Link to pdf (460Kb)
2002
Becker, H., Dalpe, C. and Walker, R.J. (2002) High-precision Ru isotopic measurements by multi-collector ICP-MS. Analyst. 127, 775-780. Link to pdf (548Kb)