Plasma Lab Publications (2002 – 2009)

Ackerman, L., Walker , R., Puchtel, I.S., Pitcher** , L., Jelinek, E. and Strnad, L. (2009) Effects of melt percolation on highly siderophile elements and Os isotopes in subcontinental lithospheric mantle: A study of the upper mantle profile beneath Central Europe . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 2400-2414. Link

Arévalo* Jr., R., McDonough, W.F. and Luong** , M. (2009) The K/U ratio of the silicate Earth: Insights into mantle composition, structure and thermal evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 278: 361-369. Link

Black, J. R., Umeda, G., Dunn, B., McDonough. W.F. and Kavner, A. (2009) The Electrochemical Isotope Effect and Lithium Isotope Separation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131: 9904-9905. 10.1021/ja903926x Link

Brenan, J. M. and McDonough, W. F. (2009) Core formation and metal-silicate fractionation of osmium and iridium from gold. Nature Geosciences (accepted).

Chabot, N.L., Saslow**, S.A. , McDonough, W.F. and Jones, J. H. (2009) An investigation of the behavior of Cu and Cr during iron meteorite crystallization. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 44: 505-519. Link

Corrigan, C. M., Chabot, N. L., McCoy, T. J., McDonough, W. F., Ash, R. D., Saslow**, S. A. and Watson, H. C. (2009) The iron–nickel–phosphorus system: Effects on the distribution of trace elements during the evolution of iron meteorites. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 73: 2674–2691 Link

Dasgupta, R., Hirschmann, M. M., McDonough, W. F., Spiegelman, M. and Withers, A. C., (2009) Trace element partitioning between garnet herzolite and carbonatite at 6.6 and 9.6 Gpa with applications to the geochemistry of the mantle and of mantle-derived melts. Chemical Geology, 262: 57–77 Link

Day, J.M.D., Ash, R.D., Liu, Y., Bellucci* , J.J., Rumble III, D., McDonough, W.F., Taylor , L.A. and Walker , R.J. (2009) Early Formation of evolved asteroidal crust. Nature, 457: 179-182. Link

Day, J.M.D., Ash, R.D., Liu, Y., Bellucci, J.J., Rumble III, D., McDonough, W.F., Taylor , L.A. and Walker , R.J. (2009) “Day et al. reply to Replying to: R. Arculus, I. H. Campbell, S. M. McLennan & S. R. Taylor Nature 459, doi:10.1038/nature08077 (2009) doi:10.1038/nature08078.

Dolor* , M. K., Helz, G. R. and McDonough, W. F. (2009) Sediment profiles of less commonly determined elements measured by Laser Ablation ICP-MS. Marine Pollution Bulletin 52: 182-192. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2009.03.027 Link

Dye, S.T., Alderman, M., Batygov, M., Learned, J.G., Matsuno, S., Mahoney, J.M., McDonough, W.F., Pakvasa, S., Rosen, M., Smith, S. and Varner, G. (2009) Geo-neutrino Observation. AIP Conf. Proc. 1182: 48-51, DOI:10.1063/1.3293852

Halama, R., Savov, I., Rudnick, R.L. and McDonough, W.F. (2009) Insights into Li and Li isotope cycling and sub-arc metasomatism from veined mantle xenoliths, Kamchatka, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 158:197–222. DOI 10.1007/s00410-009-0378-5 Link

Ireland * , T., Walker , R.J. and Garcia, M.O. (2009) Highly siderophile element and 187Os isotopes systematics of Hawaiian picrites: Implications for parental melt composition and source heterogeneity. Chemical Geology, 260: 112-128. Link

Ireland* , T., Arevalo* , R., Walker, R. J. and McDonough, W. F. (2009) Tungsten in Hawaiian picrites: a compositional model for the sources of Hawaiian lavas. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73: 4517-4530. Link

O'Driscoll, B., Day, J. M. D., Daly, J. S., Walker, R. J. and McDonough, W. F. (2009) Rhenium-osmium isotopes and platinum-group elements in the Rum Layered Suite, Scotland : Implications for Cr-spinel seam formation and the composition of the Iceland mantle anomaly. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 286: 41-51. Link

Pitcher** L., Helz, R.T., Walker , R.J. and Piccoli, P.M. (2009) Fractionation of the platinum-group elements and Re during crystallization of basalt in Kilauea Iki lava lake, Hawaii . Chemical Geology, 260: 196-210. Link

Puchtel, I.S., Walker , R.J., Brandon , A.D., and Nisbet, E.G. (2009) Pt–Re–Os and Sm–Nd isotope and HSE and REE systematics of the 2.7 Ga Belingwe and Abitibi komatiites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73: 6367-6389. Link

Qin, K., Zhao, L., Ash, R.D., McDonough, W.F. and Zhao, R. Y. (2009) ATM-mediated transcriptional elevation of prion to copper-induced oxidative stress. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 284: 4582–4593 (10.1074/jbc.M808410200). Link

Qiu* , L., Rudnick, R. L., McDonough, W. F. and Merriman, R. J. (2009) Li and d 7 Li in mudrocks from the British Caledonides: metamorphism and source influences. Chemical Geology, 73: 7325-7340 (doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.08.017) Link

Teng* , F. Z., Rudnick, R.L., McDonough, W. F. and Wu, F-Y. (2009) Lithium isotopic systematics of A-type granites and their mafic enclaves: Further constraints on the Li isotopic composition of the continental crust. Chemical Geology, 262: 415–424. Link

2008

Arévalo* Jr., R and McDonough, W F (2008) Tungsten geochemistry and implications for understanding the Earth's interior. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272: 656-665. Link

Aulbach, S., Rudnick, R.L. and McDonough, W.F. (2008) Li-Sr-Nd Isotope Signatures of the Plume and Cratonic Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Margin of the Rifted Tanzanian Craton (Labait). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 155: 79-92. Link

Carmichael* , S. K., Ferry, J. M. and McDonough, W. F. (2008) Formation of replacement dolomite in the Latemar carbonate buildup, Dolomites, Northern Italy : Part I. Field relations, mineralogy and Geochemistry. American Journal of Science, 308: 851-884. Link

Chabot, N. L., Campbell, A. J., McDonough, W. F., Draper, D. S., Agee, C. B., Humayun, M., Watson, H. C., Cottrell, E. and Saslow** , S. A. (2008) Trace Element Partitioning in the Fe-C system at 5 GPa: Implications for Earth's Core. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72: 4146-4158. Link

Corgne, A., Keshav, S., Wood, B.J., McDonough, W.F. and Fei, Y. (2008) New metal-silicate partition coefficients and constraints on core composition and oxygen fugacity during Earth accretion. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72: 574-589. Link

Finnigan* , C. S., Brenan, J. M., Mungall, J. E. and McDonough, W. F. (2008) Experiments and models bearing on the role of chromite as a collector of platinum group minerals by local reduction. Journal of Petrology, 49: 1647-1665. Link

Gao, S., Rudnick, R.L., Xu, W-L., Yuan, H-L., Liu, Y-S., Walker , R.J., Puchtel, I.S., Liu, X., Huang, H. and Wang, X-R. (2008) Recycling deep cratonic lithosphere and generation of intraplate magmatism in the North China Craton. Earth Planet. Sci Lett. 270, 41-53. Link

Halama, R., McDonough, W.F., Rudnick, R.L. and Bell , K. (2008) Tracking the lithium isotopic evolution of the mantle using carbonatites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 265: 726-743. Link

Maloney* , J.S., Nabelek, P.I., Sirbescu, M-L.C. and Halama, R. (2008) Lithium and its isotopes in tourmaline as indicators of the crystallization process in the San Diego County pegmatites, California, USA. European Journal of Mineralogy; 20: 905-916, doi: 10.1127/0935-1221/2008/0020-1823 Link

Marks, M. A., Rudnick, R. L., Ludwig, T., Marschall, H., Zack, T., Halama, R., McDonough, W.F., Rost, D., Wensel, T., Vicenzi, E. P., Savov, I. P., Altherr, R. and Markl, G. (2008) Sodic pyroxene and sodic amphibole as potential reference materials for in-situ Li isotope analyses by SIMS. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 32: 295-310. Link

Matthews* , K. A., Grottoli, A. G., McDonough, W. F. and Palardy** , J. E. (2008) Upwelling, species and depth effects on coral skeletal cadmium to calcium ratios (Cd/Ca). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72: 4537-4550. Link

McDonough, W. F. (2008) Deducing a Reducing Mantle. Nature , 455: 881-882.

McDonough , W.F. and Arévalo Jr., R. (2008) Uncertainties in the composition of Earth, its core and silicate sphere. Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Puchtel, I.S., Walker, R.J., Anhaeusser, C., and Gruau, G. (2008) Re-Os isotope systematics and HSE abundances of the 3.5 Ga Schapenburg komatiites, South Africa: Hydrous melting or prolonged survival of primordial heterogeneities in the mantle? Chemical Geology, 262: 355-369. Link

Puchtel, I.S., Walker , R.J., James, O.B, and Kring, D.A. (2008) Osmium isotope and highly siderophile element systematics of lunar impact melt rocks: Implications for the late accretion history of the Moon and Earth. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72: 3022-3042. Link

Teng* , F.-Z., Rudnick, R. L., McDonough, W. F., Gao, S., Tomascak, P. B. and Liu, Y. (2008) Lithium isotopic composition and concentration of the deep continental crust. Chemical Geology, 255: 47-59. Link

Ushikubo, T., Kita, N.T., Cavosie, A.J., Wilde, S.A., Rudnick, R.L. and Valley, J.W. (2008) Lithium in Jack Hills zircons: evidence for extreme weathering of Earth's earliest crust, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 272: 666-676. Link

Van Acken* , D., Becker, H. and Walker , R.J. (2008) Refertilization of Jurassic oceanic peridotites from the Tethys Ocean - Implications for the Re-Os systematics of the upper mantle. Earth Planetary Sci. Lett. 268, 171-181. Link

Walker , R.J., McDonough, W.F., Honesto* , J., Chabot, N.L., McCoy, T.M., Ash, R.D. and Bellucci* , J.J. (2008) Modeling fractional crystallization of group IVB iron meteorites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72: 2198-2216. Link

2007

Chabot, N.L., Saslow** , S.A. , McDonough, W.F. and McCoy, T.J. (2007) The effect of Ni on iron meteorite crystallization. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 42: 1735-1750. Link

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

Halama, R., McDonough, W.F., Rudnick, R.L., Keller, J. and 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

Puchtel, I.S., Humayun, M., and Walker , R.J. (2007) Os-Pb-Nd isotope and highly siderophile and lithophile trace element systematics of komatiitic rocks from the Volotsk suite, SE Baltic Shield. Precambrian Res. 158: 119-137. Link

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

Walker , R.J., Bohlke, J.K., McDonough, W.F. and Li* , J. (2007) Effects of Mother Lode-Type Gold Mineralization on 187 Os/ 188 Os and Platinum Group Element Concentrations in Peridotite: Alleghany District, California. Economic Geology, 102: 1079-1089. Link

Yokoyama T., Rai, V.K., Alexander, C.M.O'D., Lewis, R.S., Carlson, R.W., Shirey, S.B., Thiemens, M.H. and Walker, R.J. (2007) Osmium isotope evidence for uniform distribution of s- and r-process components in the early solar system. Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett. 259, 567-580. Link

Yuan, H., Gao, S., Rudnick, R.L., Jin, Z., Liu, Y., Puchtel, I., Walker, R.J. and Yu, R. (2007) Re-Os evidence for age and origin of peridotites from the Dabie-Sulu ultrahigh pressure metamorphic belt, China . Chem. Geol. 236, 323-338. Link

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

Gangopadhyay* , A., Walker , R.J., Hanski, E. and Solheid, P. (2006) Origin of Paleoproterozoic Ti-enriched komatiitic rocks from Jeesiörova, Kittilä Greenstone Complex, Finnish Lapland. Journal of Petrology 47, 773-789. Link

Huang* , F., Lundstrom, C.C. and McDonough, W.F. (2006) Effect of melt structure on trace-element partitioning between clinopyroxene and silicic, alkaline, aluminous melts. American Mineralogist 91: 1385-1400. Link

Lee, S. R., Horton, J.W. and Walker , R.J. (2006) Osmium-isotope and platinum-group element systematics of impact melt rocks, Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, Virginia , USA . Meteoritics Planet. Sci. 41, 819-833. Link

Lundstrom, C.C., Sutton* , A.L., Chaussidon, M., McDonough, W.F., Ash, R (2006) Trace element partitioning between type BCAI melts and melilite and spinel: Implications for trace element distribution during CAI formation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70: 3421-3435. Link

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.

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

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

Wheeler* , K.T., Walker , D., Fei, Y.W., 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

Wu, F-Y., Walker , R.J., Yang, Y-H., Yuan, H-L., and Yand, J-H. (2006) The chemical-temporal evolution of lithospheric mantle underlying the North China Craton. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 70, 5013-5034. Link

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

Hall, J.M., Chan, L.H., McDonough, W.F. and Turekian, K.K. (2005) Determination of lithium isotopic composition of planktic foraminifera and its application as a paleo-seawater proxy. Marine Geology, 217: 255-265. Link

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-Al 2 O 3 -SiO 2 -CO 2 system. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69: 2829-2845. Link

Puchtel, I.S., Brandon , A.D., Humayun, M., and Walker , R.J. (2005) Evidence for the early differentiation of the core from Pt-Re-Os isotope systematics of 2.8-Ga komatiites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 237: 118-134. Link

Walker , R.J., Brandon , A.D., Bird, J.M., Piccoli, P.M., McDonough, W.F. and Ash, R.D. (2005) 187 Os- 186 Os systematics of Os-Ir-Ru alloy grains from southwestern Oregon . Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 230: 211-226. Link

  2004

Gelinas* , A., Kring, D. A., Zurcher, L., Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J., Morton, O. 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. Link

McDainel, D. K., Walker, R. J., Hemming, S. R., Horan, M. F., Becker, H. and Grauch, R. I. (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

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

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

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, doi:10.1093/petrology/egh050. Link

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

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

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