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Dr Darren Grocke - all publications

Books: sections

• Gröcke, D.R., van Hardenbroek, M., Sauer, P. & Elias, S. (2011). Hydrogen isotope studies in beetle chitin. In Chitin: formation and diagenesis. Gupta, N. S. New York: Springer. 105-116.
• Gröcke, D.R. (2009). “Greenhouse” (Warm) Climates. In Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments. Gornitz, V. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. 397-405.

Edited works: contributions

• Gröcke, D.R. (2002). The carbon isotope composition of ancient CO2 based on higher plant organic matter. In Understanding climate change: proxies, chronology, and ocean-atmosphere interactions. Gröcke, D.R. & Kucera, M. London: Royal Society. 360: 633-658.

Edited works: journals

• Gröcke, D.R. & Gillikin, D.P. (2008). Advances in mollusc sclerochronology and sclerochemistry: tools for understanding climate and environment. Geo-Marine Letters, 28 (5-6): Springer.
• Gröcke, D.R. & Wortmann, U. (2008). Investigating climates, environments and biology using stable isotopes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 266 (1-2): Elsevier.
• Gröcke, D.R. & Kucera, M. (2002). Understanding climate change: proxies, chronology and ocean-atmosphere interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series, 360 Royal Society Publishing.

Journal papers: academic

• Gröcke, D.R., Hori, R.S., Trabucho-Alexandre, J., Kemp, D.B. & Schwark, L. (2011). An open ocean record of the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event. Solid Earth: An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union 2(2): 245-257.
• Jarvis, I., Lignum, J.S., Gröcke, D.R., Jenkyns, H.C. & Pearce, M.A. (2011). Black shale deposition, atmospheric CO2 drawdown, and cooling during the Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event. Paleoceanography 26(3): PA3201.
• Sargent, C., Hobbs, R.W. & Gröcke, D.R. (2011). Improving the interpretability of air-gun seismic reflection data using deterministic filters: A case history from offshore Cape Leeuwin, south-west Australia. Geophysics 76(3): B113–B125.
• Huber, B.T., MacLeod, K.G., Gröcke, D.R. & Kucera, M. (2011). Paleotemperature and paleosalinity inferences and chemostratigraphy across the Aptian/Albian boundary in the subtropical North Atlantic. Paleoceanography 26: PA4221.
• Maloney, D., Sargent, C., Direen, N. G., Hobbs, R. W. & Gröcke. D.R. (2011). Re-evaluation of the Mentelle Basin, a polyphase rifted margin basin, offshore southwest Australia: new insights from integrated regional seismic datasets. Solid Earth 2(2): 107-123.
• van Hengstum, P.J., Scott, D.B., Gröcke, D.R. & Charette, M.A. (2011). Sea level controls sedimentation and environments in coastal caves and sinkholes. Marine Geology 286(1-4): 35-50.
• Caruthers, A.H., Gröcke, D.R. & Smith, P.L. (2011). The significance of an Early Jurassic (Toarcian) carbon-isotope excursion in Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 307(1-2): 19-26.
• Kuroda, J., Hori, R.S., Suzuki, K., Gröcke, D.R. & Ohkouchi, N. (2010). Marine osmium isotope record across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary from a Pacific pelagic site. Geology 38(12): 1095-1098.
• Szpak, P., Gröcke, D.R., Debruyne, R., MacPhee, R.D.E., Guthrie, R.D., Froese, D., Zazula, G.D., Patterson, W.P. & Poinar, H.N. (2010). Regional differences in bone collagen δ13C and δ15N of Pleistocene mammoths: Implications for paleoecology of the mammoth steppe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 286(1-2): 88-96.
• Nunn, E.V., Price, G.D., Gröcke, D.R., Baraboshkin, E.Y., Leng, M.J. & Hart, M.B. (2010). The Valanginian positive carbon isotope event in Arctic Russia: Evidence from terrestrial and marine isotope records and implications for global carbon cycling. Cretaceous Research 31(6): 577-592.
• Findlay, A.J., Selby, D. & Gröcke, D.R. (2010). Tracking the Hirnantian glaciation using Os isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 293(3-4): 339-348.
• Szpak, P., Orchard, T.J. & Gröcke, D.R. (2009). A Late Holocene vertebrate food web from southern Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia). Journal of Archaeological Science 36(12): 2734-2741.
• Diester-Haass, L., Billups, K., Gröcke, D.R., François, L., Lefebvre, V. & Emeis, K.C. (2009). Mid-Miocene paleoproductivity in the Atlantic Ocean and implications for the global carbon cycle. Paleoceanography 24: PA1209.
• Gröcke, D.R., Rimmer, S.M., Yoksoulian, L.E., Cairncross, B., Tsikos, H. & van Hunen, J. (2009). No evidence for thermogenic methane release in coal from the Karoo-Ferrar large igneous province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 277(1-2): 204-212.
• Armstrong, H.A., Baldini, J., Challands, T.J., Gröcke, D.R. & Owen, A.W. (2009). Response of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone to Southern Hemisphere cooling during Upper Ordovician glaciation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 284(3-4): 227-236.
• Kingston, A.W., Gröcke, D.R. & Burchell, M. (2008). A multiaxial growth analysis of stable isotopes in the modern shell of Saxidomus gigantea: Implications for sclerochronology studies. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 9: Q01007.
• Ufnar, D.F., Gröcke, D.R. & Beddows, P.A. (2008). Assessing pedogenic calcite stable-isotope values: Can positive linear covariant trends be used to quantify palaeo-evaporation rates? Chemical Geology 256: 46-51.
• Debruyne, R., Chu, G., King, C., Bos, K., Kuch, M., Schwarz, C., Szpak, P., Gröcke, D.R., Matheus, P., Zazula, G., Guthrie, D., Froese, D., Buigues, B., de Marliave, C., Flemming, C., Poinar, D., Fisher, D., Southon, J., Tikhonov, A.N., MacPhee, R.D.E. & Poinar, H. (2008). Out of America: Ancient DNA evidence for a New World origin of Late Quaternary Woolly Mammoths. Current Biology 18(17): 1320-1326.
• Ufnar, D.F., Ludvigson, G.A., González, L. & Gröcke, D.R. (2008). Precipitation rates and atmospheric heat transport during the Cenomanian greenhouse warming in North America: Estimates from a stable isotope mass-balance model. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 266(1-2): 28-38.
• van Hengstum, P. & Gröcke, D.R. (2008). Stable-isotope record of the Eifelian–Givetian boundary Kačák–otomari Event (Middle Devonian) from Hungry Hollow, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45(3): 353-366.
• Palmqvist, P., Pérez-Claros, J.A., Janis, C.M. & Gröcke, D.R. (2008). Tracing the ecophysiology of ungulates and predator–prey relationships in an early Pleistocene large mammal community. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 266(1-2): 95-111.
• Kuch, M., Gröcke, D.R., Knyf, M., Thomas, M., Gilbert, P., Younghusband, B., Young, T., Marshal, I., Willerslev, E., Stoneking, M. & Poinar, H. (2007). A preliminary analysis of the DNA and diet of the extinct Beothuk: A systematic approach to ancient human DNA. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132(4): 594-604.
• Gröcke, D.R., Hesselbo, S.P. & Findlay, D.J. (2007). Atypical diagenetic effects on strontium-isotope composition of Early Jurassic belemnites, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44(2): 181-197.
• van Hengstum, P.J., Reinhardt, E.G., Medioli, F.S. & Gröcke, D.R. (2007). Exceptionally preserved Late Albian (Cretaceous) Arcellaceans (Thecamoebians) from the Dakota Formation near Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 37(4): 300-308.
• Gröcke, D.R. & Waltham, D. (2007). Reply to the comment on “Non-uniqueness and interpretation of the seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve” by John M. McArthur and Paul B. Wignall. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71(13): 3387.
• Waltham, D.A. & Gröcke, D.R. (2006). Non-uniqueness and interpretation of the seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70(2): 384-394.
• Gröcke, D.R., Ludvigson, G.A., Witzke, B.L., Robinson, S.L., Joeckel, R.M., Ufnar, D.F. & Ravn, R.L. (2006). Recognizing the Albian-Cenomanian (OAE1d) sequence boundary using plant carbon isotopes: Dakota Formation, Western Interior Basin, USA. Geology 34(3): 193-196.
• Gröcke, D.R., Schimmelmann, A., Elias, S. & Miller, R.F. (2006). Stable hydrogen-isotope ratios in beetle chitin: preliminary European data and re-interpretation of North American data. Quaternary Science Reviews 25(15-16): 1850-1864.
• Bádenas, B., Aurell, M. & Gröcke, D.R. (2005). Facies analysis and correlation of high-order sequences in middle-outer ramp successions: variations in exported carbonate on basin-wide δ13Ccarb (Kimmeridgian, NE Spain). Sedimentology 52(6): 1253-1275.
• Orberger, B., Gallien, J-P., Pinti, D.L., Fialin, M., Daudin, L., Gröcke, D.R. & Pasava, J. (2005). Nitrogen and carbon partitioning in diagenetic and hydrothermal minerals from Paleozoic Black Shales, (Selwyn Basin, Yukon Territories, Canada). Chemical Geology 218(3-4): 249-264.
• Gröcke, D.R., Price, G.D., Robinson, S.A., Baraboshkin, E., Mutterlose, J. & Ruffell, A.H. (2005). The Upper Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) positive carbon-isotope event recorded in terrestrial plants. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 240(2): 495-509.

Journal papers: professional

• Gröcke, D.R. & Joeckel, R.M. (2008). A stratigraphic test of the terrestrial carbon-isotope record of the latest Albian OAE from the Dakota Formation, Nebraska. Kansas Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2008(2): 24-30.