Staff and Postgraduate Students
Prof Kevin Burton
Contact Prof Kevin Burton (email at kevin.burton@durham.ac.uk)
Research
Research interests bring together a number of interrelated disciplines within the earth and environmental sciences - all linked by the use of isotopes and trace elements, measured using mass spectrometric techniques, to determine absolute timescales and to trace chemical sources through processes that range from planetary differentiation and mantle melting to continental weathering and erosion. Research interests bring together a number of interrelated disciplines within the earth and environmental sciences - all linked by the use of isotopes and trace elements, measured using mass spectrometric techniques, to determine absolute timescales and to trace chemical sources through processes that range from planetary differentiation and mantle melting to continental weathering and erosion.
Research Groups
- Climate and Environmental Change
- The Solid Earth
Publications
- 1: Pearce, C R, Cohen, A S, Coe, A L & Burton, K W (2008). Molybdenum isotope evidence for global ocean anoxia coupled with perturbations to the carbon cycle during the Early Jurassic. Geology 36(3): 231-234.
- 2: Burton, K W, Gannoun, A & Parkinson, I J (2010). Climate driven glacial-interglacial variations in the osmium isotope composition of seawater recorded by planktic foraminifera. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 295(1-2): 58-68.
- 3: Bayon, G, Burton, K W, Soulet, G, Vigier, N, Dennielou, J, Etoubleau, E, Ponzevera, C R, German, C R & Nesbitt, R W (2009). Hf and Nd isotopes in marine sediments: Constraints on global silicate weathering. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 277(3-4): 318-326.
- 4: Pearce, C R, Burton, K W, Pogge von Strandmann, P A E, James, R H & Gislason, S R (2010). Molybdenum isotope behaviour accompanying weathering and riverine transport in a basaltic terrain. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 295(1-2): 104-114.
- Burton, K W & Vigier, N (2011). Chapter 4: Lithium isotopes in Marine and Terrestrial environments. In Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry. 1: 41-59.
- Dale, C.W.,, Burton, K.W.,, Greenwood R.C.,, Gannoun, A., Wade, J.,, Wood, B.J., & Pearson, D.G. (2012). Late accretion on the earliest planetesimals revealed by the highly siderophile elements. Science 336(6077): 72-75.
- Burton, K.W.,, Cenki-Tok, B.,, Mokadem, F.,, Harvey, J.,, Gannoun, A.,, Alard, O., & Parkinson, I.J., (2012). Unradiogenic lead in Earth’s upper mantle. Nature Geoscience 5(8): 570-573.
- Nielsen, S G, Gannoun, A, Marnham, C, Burton, K W, Halliday, A N & Hein, J R (2011). New age for ferromanganese crust 109D-C and implications for isotopic records of lead, neodymium, hafnium, and thallium in the Pliocene Indian Ocean. Paleoceanography 26(2).
- Opfergelt, S, Eiriksdottir, E S, Burton, K W, Einarsson, A, Siebert, C, Gislason, S R & Halliday, A N (2011). Quantifying the impact of freshwater diatom productivity on silicon isotopes and silicon fluxes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 305(1-2): 73-82.
- Savage, P S, Georg, R B, Williams, H M, Burton, K W & Halliday, A N (2011). Silicon isotope fractionation during magmatic differentition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75(20): 6124-6139.
- Wimpenny, J, Burton, K W, James, R H, Gannoun, A, Mokadem, F & Gislason, S R (2011). The behaviour of magnesium and its isotopes during glacial weathering in an ancient shield terrain in West Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 304(1-2): 260-269.
- Pogge von Strandmann, P A E, Burton, K W, Porcelli, D, James, R H, van Caslteren, P & Gisalson, S R (2011). Transport and exchange of U-series nuclides between suspended material, dissolved load and colloids in rivers draining basaltic terrains. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 301(1-2): 125-136.
- Pogge von Strandmann, P A E, Burton, K W, James, R H, van calsteren, P & Gislason, S R (2010). Assessing the role of climate on uranium and lithium isotope behaviour in rivers draining a basaltic terrain. Chemical Geology 270(1-4): 227.
- Wimpenny, J, James, R H, Burton, K W, Gannoun, A, mokadem, F & Gislason, S R (2010). Glacial effects on weathering processes: New insights from the elemental and lithium isotope composition of West Greenland rivers. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 290(3-4): 427-437.
- Wimpenny, J, Gislason, S R, James, R H, Gannoun, A, Pogge von strandmann, P A E & Burton, K W (2010). The behaviour of Li and Mg isotopes during primary phase dissolution and secondary mineral formation in basalt. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74(18): 5259-5279.
- Harvey, J, Gannoun, A, Burton, KW, Schiano, P, Rogers, N W & Alard, O (2010). Unravelling the effects of melt depletion and secondary infiltration on mantle Re-Os isotopes beneath the French Massif central. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74(1): 293-320.
- Dale, C W, Burton, K W, Pearson, D G, Gannoun, A, Alard, O, Argles, T W & Parkinson, I J (2009). Highly siderophile element behaviour accompanying subduction of oceanic crust: Whole rock and mineral-scale insights from a high-pressure terrain. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73(5): 1394–1416.
- Nielsen, S G, Mar-Gerrison, A, Gannoun, A, LaRowe, D, Klemm, V, Halliday, A N, Burton, K W & Hein, J R (2009). Thallium isotope evidence for a permanent increase in marine carbon export in the early Eocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 278(3-4): 297-307.
- Vigier, N, Gislason, S R, Burton, K W, Millot, R & Mokadem, F (2009). The relationship between riveting lithium isotope composition and silicate weathering rates in Iceland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 287(3-4): 434-441.
- Pogge von Strandmann, P A E, James, R H, van Caslteren, P, Gislason, S R & Burton, K W (2008). Lithium, magnesium and uranium isotope behaviour in the estuarine environment of basaltic islands. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 274(3-4): 462-471.
- Pogge von Strandmann, P A E, Burton, K W, James, R H, van Calsteren, P, Gislason, S R & Sigfusson, B (2008). The influence of weathering processes on riverine magnesium isotopes in a basaltic terrain. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 276(1-2): 187197.