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Name:
Prof. Dr. Martin Frank
Private Address: Rönnerweg 1, 24223 Schwentinental, Germany.
Date of Birth: 3.2.1966 in Pforzheim, Germany.
Nationality: German
Marital Status: Married to Claudia Schmengler since 7.9.1994.
Children: Yannick Frank, born on 2.7.1995 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Alisa Frank, born on 23.12.1996 in Oxford, England.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
July 1985: “Abitur” at the Hebelgymnasium Pforzheim.
Nov. 1985 - April 1987: Compulsary Civilian Service.
April 1987 - Feb. 1992: Diplom (M.Sc.) in Geology, University of Heidelberg
M.Sc. thesis: “Investigations of the radionuclides 230 Th, 231 Pa und 10 Be in deepsea
sediments of the Galapagos-Microplate, eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean”
under the supervision of Prof. Augusto Mangini at the Department of
Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg.
May 1992 - July 1995: Ph.D. in Geology, University of Heidelberg:
Ph.D. Thesis: “Reconstruction of late Quaternary environmental conditions
applying the natural radionuclides 230 Th, 10 Be, and 231 Pa and 238 U: A study of
deep-sea sediments from the eastern sector of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
System” supervised by Prof. Augusto Mangini in collaboration with Dr. Rainer
Gersonde and Dr. Michiel Rutgers van der Loeff the Alfred-Wegener Institute for
Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
19/07/1995: Viva at the Department of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg, “magna cum
laude”.
August 1995 - March 1996: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Heidelberg
Academy of Sciences.

April 1996 until July 1999: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Earth
Sciences, University of Oxford, research group of Prof. R. Keith O’Nions.
August 1999 – December 2004: Assistant/Oberassistent at ETH Zurich, Department
of Earth Sciences, Institute for Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources, research
group of Prof. Alex N. Halliday.
April 2002: Habilitation at the Department of Earth Sciences of ETH Zurich: “The
application of trace metal isotopes in paleoceanography”.
Since December 2004: Professor of Chemical Paleoceanography (C3) at the
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.
Current activities:
Co-founder (2001) and member of the international GEOTRACES programme.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the DFG-Accelerator Mass spectrometry
facility of the University of Cologne (Cologne AMS)
Member of the Scientific advisory board of the Leibniz Labor für Altersbestimung und
Isotopenforschung of the University of Kiel.
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Supervised Ph.D. and Diploma (Masters) Students
(I only list those students that I was either fully responsible for or to the supervision of
whom I significantly contributed, which is always reflected by my co-authorships on
their respective publications. At GEOMAR in Kiel the funding for all listed student
projects was raised by myself and I have been fully responsible for all these students):
Ph.D. Students:
University of Oxford:
Ben Christopher Reynolds (2000): Neodymium and Lead isotope time series from
Atlantic ferromanganese crusts.
ETH Zürich:
Tina van de Flierdt (2003): The Nd, Hf, and Pb isotope composition of
ferromanganese crusts and their paleoceanographic implications.
Marcus Helmut Gutjahr (2006): Reconstruction of Changes in Ocean Circulation and
Continental Weathering Using Radiogenic Isotopes in Marine Sediments.
Veronika Klemm (2006): Osmium isotope stratigraphy of marine ferromanganese
crusts.
Rudolf Bastian Georg (2006): Geochemistry of Stable Silicon Isotopes measured by
High-Resolution Multi-Collector Inductively-Coupled-Plasma Mass-Spectrometry
(HR-MC-ICP-MS).
Jörg Dominik Rickli (2008): The Hafnium and Neodymium isotopic composition of
seawater and rivers.
GEOMAR:
Torben Stichel (2010): Tracing continental weathering and water mass mixing in the
Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean with neodymium and hafnium isotopes.
Roland Stumpf (2011): Reconstruction of the Late Pleistocene history of
Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) from radiogenic isotopes.
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Claudia Ehlert (2011): Late Quaternary Changes in Silicate Utilisation and Upwelling
Intensity off Peru – Insights from Silicon and Neodymium Isotopes.
Patricia Grasse (2012): Silicon and Neodymium Isotope Constraints on
Biogeochemical Cycles and Water Mass Mixing in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific.
GEOMAR (ongoing):
Susana Bolhao Muinos (disputation december 2012): Ferromanganese crusts from
the seamounts north of the Madeira Islands: composition, origin and paleooceanographic
conditions.
Steffanie Kraft (disputation in winter of 2012): Centennial-scale variability of past
heat and water mass exchange across the eastern equatorial Atlantic basin over
the past 150,000 years.
Claudia Teschner (disputation in winter of 2012): Water mass exchange and climate
variability in the northernmost Atlantic and Arctic Oceans during the beginning of
the Quaternary.
Lasse Heuer (disputation in spring 2013): Geochemistry and growth conditions of
ferromanganese crusts and nodules in the central Pacific Ocean over the past 10
million years.
Tianyu Chen (disputation end of 2013): Reconstructing Quaternary glacial-interglacial
deep circulation patterns in the western Pacific Ocean using combined Nd-Hf
isotope compositions in authigenic phases of marine sediments.
Moritz Zieringer (disputation in winter 2014): Water mass mixing, weathering inputs
and silicate utilization in the tropical Atlantic Ocean from the distribution of
radiogenic (neodymium, hafnium) and stable (silicon) isotopes
Kristin Döring (disputation in spring 2015): Reconstruction of upwelling intensity and
nutrient utilisation in the Peruvian upwelling system over the past 20,000 years.
Diploma-, Master-, and Staatsexamen Theses:
Umweltphysik Heidelberg:
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Martin Riediger (1994): Uran-Thorium-Messung an einem Sedimentkern des
mittelatlantischen Ceara-Rückens.
Tim Asmus (1996): Direkte Bestimmung von 231 Pa am Sedimentbohrkern PS-2499-5
aus dem südlichen Atlantischen Ozean.
Christian Koschmieder (1996): Zeitlich hochauflösende Rekonstruktion von
spätquartären Umweltbedingungen im Südatlantik mit Hilfe von 230 Th.
GEOMAR:
Nur Güneli (2008): Potential Iron and Nitrate Influence on Silicon Isotope
Fractionation in Diatom Culture Experiments.
Claudia Ehlert (2008): Radiogenic Isotope Signatures of Clay-size Sediments in the
Eastern Indian Ocean: Implications for Weathering Inputs and Current Regimes
during the Latest Quaternary.
Lasse Heuer (2010): The evolution of Neodymium, Lead and Hafnium Isotopes in the
Southwest Indian Ocean: Ferromanganese Crust Records of the Past 20 Million
years
Moritz Zieringer (2012): The Hf and Nd isotope signature of water masses in the
western equatorial Atlantic Ocean.
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List of publications (date Septemeber 2012; 118 publications, only peer
reviewed, H-factor in ISI Web of Science: 35):
Mangini, A., Rutsch, H.J., Frank, M., Eisenhauer, A., Eckhardt, J.-D. (1994): Is there
a relationship between atmospheric CO 2 and manganese in the Ocean?- in:
Carbon Cycling in the Glacial Ocean: Constraints on the Ocean's Role in Global
Change, NATO ASI Series, Vol. I 17, edited by R. Zahn et al., 87-104.
Eisenhauer, A., Spielhagen, R.F., Frank, M., Hentzschel, G., Mangini, A., Kubik,
P.W., Dittrich-Hannen, B., and Billen, T. (1994): 10 Be records of sediment cores
from high northern latitudes: Implications for environmental and climatic
changes.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 124, 171-184.
Frank, M., Eckhardt, J.-D., Eisenhauer, A., Kubik, P.W., Dittrich-Hannen, B., Segl,
M., and Mangini, A. (1994): Beryllium 10, thorium 230, and protactinium 231 in
Galapagos Microplate sediments: implications of hydrothermal activity and
paleoproductivity changes during the last 100,000 years.- Paleoceanography 9,
559-578.
Frank, M., Eisenhauer, A., Bonn, W.J., Walter, P., Grobe, H., Kubik, P.W., Dittrich-
Hannen, B., and Mangini, A. (1995): Sediment redistribution versus
paleoproductivity change: Weddell Sea margin sediment stratigraphy for the last
250,000 years deduced from 230 Th ex , 10 Be and biogenic barium profiles.- Earth
Planet. Sci. Lett. 136, 559-573.
Frank, M., Gersonde, R., Rutgers van der Loeff, M., Kuhn, G. and Mangini, A.
(1996): Late Quaternary sediment dating and quantification of lateral sediment
redistribution applying 230 Th ex : A study from the eastern Atlantic sector of the
Southern Ocean.- Geol. Rundsch. 85, 554-566.
Rühlemann, C., Frank, M., Hale, W., Mangini, A., Mulitza, S., Müller, P.J. and
Wefer, G. (1996): Late Quaternary productivity changes in the western equatorial
Atlantic: Evidence from 230 Th normalized carbonate and organic carbon
accumulation rates.- Marine Geology 135, 127-152.
Frank, M., Schwarz, B., Baumann, S., Kubik, P.W., Suter, M. and Mangini, A.
(1997): A 200 kyr record of cosmogenic radionuclide production rate and
geomagnetic field intensity from 10 Be in globally stacked deep-sea sediments.-
Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 149, 121-129.
Nürnberg, C.C., Bohrmann, G., Schlüter, M. and Frank, M. (1997): Barium
accumulation in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean - results from 190,000
year records.- Paleoceanography 12, 594-603.
Spielhagen, R.F., Bonani, G., Eisenhauer, A., Frank, M., Frederichs, T., Kassens,
H., Kubik, P.W., Mangini, A., Nørgaard-Pedersen, N., Nowaczyk, N.R., Schäper,
S., Stein, R., Thiede, J., Tiedemann, R. and Wahsner, M. (1997): Arctic Ocean
evidence for late Quaternary initiation of northern Eurasian ice sheets.- Geology
25, 783-786.
Francois, R., Altabet, M.A., Yu, E.-F., Sigman, D., Bacon, M.P., Frank, M.,
Bohrmann, G., Bareille, G. and Labeyrie, L. (1997): Contribution of Southern
Ocean surface-water stratification to low atmospheric CO 2 concentrations during
the last glacial period.- Nature 389, 929-935.
Ceccaroni, L., Langone, L., Frignani, M., Ravaioli, M., Frank, M., Mangini, A.,
Basavaiah, N. and Giglio, F. (1997): Late Quaternary fluctuations of organic
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carbon and biogenic silica accumulation on the continental slope of the Ross
Sea, Antarctica.- in: The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes,
Proceedings of the VII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences
Siena, 1995, edited by C.A. Ricci, Terra Antarctica Publication, Siena, Italy, 889-
896.
O’Nions, R.K., Frank, M., von Blanckenburg, F. and Ling, H.-F. (1998): Secular
variation of Nd and Pb-isotopes in ferromanganese crusts from the Atlantic,
Indian and Pacific Oceans.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 155, 15-28.
Bruns, P., Dullo, W.-C., Hay, W.W., Frank, M. and Kubik, P.W. (1998): Hiatuses on
Vøring Plateau: sedimentary gaps or preservation artifacts - Marine Geology 145,
61-84.
Frank, M. and O’Nions, R.K. (1998): Sources of Pb for Indian Ocean
ferromanganese crusts: A record of Himalayan erosion?- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.
158, 121-130.
Ivy-Ochs, S., Heuberger, H., Kubik, P.W., Kerschner, H., Bonani, G., Frank, M., and
Schlüchter, C. (1998): The age of the Köfels event. Relative, 14 C and cosmogenic
isotope dating of an early Holocene landslide in the Central Alps (Tyrol, Austria).-
Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie 34, 57-68.
Kubik, P.W., Ivy-Ochs, S., Masarik, J., Frank, M., Schlüchter, C. (1998): 10 Be and
26 Al production rates deduced from an instantaneous event within the
dendrocalibration curve, the landslide of Köfels, Ötz Valley, Austria.- Earth
Planet. Sci. Lett. 161, 231-241.
Ceccaroni, L., Frank, M., Frignani, M., Langone, L., Ravaioli, M. and Mangini, A.
(1998): Late Quaternary fluctuations of 230 Th ex -normalized fluxes of biogenic
components on the continental slope of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.- Journal of
Marine Systems 17, 515-525.
Belshaw, N.S., Freedman, P.A., O’Nions R.K., Frank, M. and Guo, Y. (1998): A new
variable dispersion double-focussing plasma mass spectrometer with
performance illustrated for Pb-isotopes. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 181, 51-58.
Asmus, T., Frank, M., Koschmieder, C., Frank, N., Gersonde, R., Kuhn, G. and
Mangini, A. (1999): Variations of biogenic particle flux in the southern Atlantic
section of the Subantarctic Front during the late Quaternary: Evidence from
sedimentary 231 Pa ex and 230 Th ex .- Marine Geology 159, 63-78.
Frank, M., Gersonde, R. and Mangini, A. (1999): Sediment redistribution, 230 Th ex -
normalization and implications for the reconstruction of particle flux and export
paleoproductivity.- in: Use of Proxies in Paleoceanography: Examples from the
South Atlantic. edited by G. Fischer and G. Wefer, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
Heidelberg, 409-426.
Frank, M., O’Nions, R.K., Hein J.R. and Banakar, V.K. (1999): 60 Ma records of
major elements and Pb-Nd isotopes from hydrogenous ferromanganese crusts:
Reconstruction of seawater paleochemistry.- Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 63,
1689-1708.
Frank, M., Reynolds, B.C. and O’Nions, R.K. (1999): Nd and Pb isotopes in Atlantic
and Pacific water masses before and after closure of the Panama Gateway.-
Geology 27, 1147-1150.
Reynolds, B.C., Frank, M. and O’Nions, R.K. (1999): Nd- and Pb- isotope time
series from Atlantic ferromanganese crusts: Implications for changes in
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provenance and paleocirculation over the last 8 Myr.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 173,
381-396.
Frank, M. (2000): Comparison of cosmogenic radionuclide production and
geomagnetic field intensity over the last 200,000 years.- Phil. Trans. R. Soc.
Lond. A 358, 1089-1107.
O’Nions, R.K. and Frank, M. (2000): Long term records of erosional change from
marine ferromanganese crusts.- Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet. Sci.) 109,
171-180.
Frank, M., Gersonde, R., Rutgers van der Loeff, M., Bohrmann, G., Nürnberg, C.,
Kubik, P.W., Suter, M., and Mangini, A. (2000): Similar glacial and interglacial
export bioproductivity in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean: Multiproxy
evidence and implications for atmospheric CO 2 .- Paleoceanography 15, 642-658.
Frank, M., Davies, G.R., Claude-Ivanaj, C., and Hofmann, A.W. (2001): Radiogenic
isotopes: New tools help reconstruct paleocean circulation and erosional input.-
Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 82, 66, 71.
David, K., Frank, M., O'Nions, R.K., Belshaw, N.S., Arden, J.W., and Hein, J.R.
(2001): The Hf isotope composition of global seawater and the evolution of Hf
isotopes in the deep Pacific Ocean from Fe-Mn crusts.- Chemical Geology 178,
23-42.
Rühlemann, C., Diekmann, B., Mulitza, S., and Frank, M. (2001): Late Quaternary
changes of western equatorial Atlantic surface circulation and Amazon lowland
climate recorded in Ceará Rise deep sea sediments.- Paleoceanography 16,
293-305.
Masarik, J., Frank, M., Schäfer, J., and Wieler, R. (2001): Correction of in-situ
cosmogenic nuclide production rates for geomagnetic field intensity variations
during the past 800,000 years.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 65, 2995-3003.
Rehkämper, M., Frank, M., Hein, J.R., Porcelli, D., Halliday, A.N., Ingri, J., and
Liebetrau, V. (2002): Thallium isotope variations in seawater and hydrogenetic,
diagenetic, and hydrothermal ferromanganese deposits.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.
197, 65-81.
van de Flierdt, T., Frank, M., Lee, D.-C., and Halliday, A.N. (2002): Glacial
weathering and the Hafnium isotope composition of seawater.- Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett. 198, 167-175 – republished after corrections in Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 201,
639-647.
Frank, M., Whiteley, N., Kasten, S., Hein, J.R., and O’Nions, R.K. (2002): North
Atlantic Deep Water export to the Southern Ocean over the past 14 Myr:
Evidence from Nd and Pb isotopes in ferromanganese crusts.-
Paleoceanography 17(2), 1022, 10.1029/2000PA000606.
Schaltegger, U., Desmurs, L., Manatschal, G., Müntener, O., Meier, M., Frank, M.,
and Bernoulli, D. (2002): The transition from rifting to seafloor spreading within a
magma-poor rifted margin: field and isotopic constraints.- Terra Nova 14, 156-
162.
Frank, M., Rutgers van der Loeff, M.M., Kubik, P.W., and Mangini, A. (2002): Quasiconservative
behaviour of 10 Be in deep waters of the Weddell sea and the
Atlantic sector of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 201,
171-186.
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Frank, M. (2002): Radiogenic isotopes: Tracers of past ocean circulation and
erosional input.- Rev. Geophys. 40(1), 1001, 10.1029/2000RG000094.
Schaltegger, U., Zeilinger, G., Frank, M., and Burg, J.-P. (2002): Multiple mantle
sources during island arc magmatism: U-Pb and Hf isotopic evidence from the
Kohistan arc complex, Pakistan.- Terra Nova 14, 461-468.
von Quadt, A., Peytcheva, I., Kamenov, B., Fanger, L., Heinrich, C.A., and Frank, M.
(2002): The Elatsite porphyry copper deposit in the Panagyurishte ore district,
Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria: U-Pb zircon geochronology and isotopegeochemical
investigations of magmatism and ore genesis.- in: The Timing and
Location of Major Ore Deposits in an Evolving Orogen edited by D.J. Blundell, F.
Neubauer, and A. von Quadt, Geological Society, London, Spec. Publ. 204, 119-
135.
van de Flierdt, T., Frank, M., Halliday, A.N., Hein, J.R., Hattendorf, B., Günther, D.,
and Kubik, P.W. (2003): Lead isotopes in North Pacific Deep Water –
Implications for past changes in input sources and circulation patterns.- Earth
Planet. Sci. Lett. 209, 149-164.
Frank, M. (2003): Radiogene Isotopensysteme in Eisen/Mangankrusten: Tracer für
Zirkulation und Verwitterungseintrag in den Ozean, Vierteljahresschrift der
Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 148, 89-96.
Frank, M., van de Flierdt, T., Halliday, A.N., Kubik, P.W., Hattendorf, B., and
Günther, D. (2003): The evolution of deep water mixing and weathering inputs in
the central Atlantic Ocean over the past 33 Myr.- Paleoceanography 18(4), 1091,
10.1029/2003PA000919.
Rehkämper, M., Frank, M., Hein, J.R., and Halliday, A.N. (2004): Cenozoic marine
geochemistry of thallium deduced from isotopic studies of ferromanganese crusts
and pelagic sediments.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 219, 77-91.
Francois, R., Frank, M., Rutgers van der Loeff, M.M., and Bacon, M.P. (2004):
230 Th-normalization: an essential tool for interpreting sedimentary fluxes during
the late Quaternary.- Paleoceanography 19, PA 1018, 10.1029/2003PA000939.
van de Flierdt, T., Frank, M., Halliday, A.N., Hein, J.R., Hattendorf, B., Günther, D.,
and Kubik, P.W. (2004): Deep and bottom water export from the Southern Ocean
to the Pacific Ocean over the past 38 million years, Paleoceanography 19, PA
1020, 10.1029/2003PA000923.
van de Flierdt, T., Frank, M., Halliday, A.N., Hein, J.R., Hattendorf, B., Günther, D.,
and Kubik, P.W. (2004): Tracing the history of submarine hydrothermal inputs
and the significance of hydrothermal Hf for the seawater budget: A combined Pb-
Hf-Nd isotope approach.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 222, 259-274.
Levasseur, S., Frank, M., Hein, J.R., and Halliday, A.N. (2004): The global variation
in the iron isotope composition of marine hydrogenetic ferromanganese deposits:
implications for seawater chemistry? - Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 224, 91-105.
Maden, C., Döbeli, M., Kubik, P.W., Frank, M., and Suter, M. (2004): Measurement
of carrier-free 10 Be samples with AMS: the method and its potential.- Nucl. Instr.
Meth. Phys. Res. B. 223-224, 247-252.
van de Flierdt, T., Frank, M., Lee, D.-C., Halliday, A.N., Reynolds, B.C., and Hein,
J.R. (2004): New constraints on the sources and behavior of neodymium and
hafnium in seawater from Pacific Ocean ferromanganese crusts.- Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta. 68, 3827-3843.
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Stoykov, S., Peytcheva, I., von Quadt, A., Moritz R., Frank, M., and Fontignie, D.
(2004): Timing and magma evolution of the Chelopech volcanic complex
(Bulgaria).- Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen 84,
101-117.
Ling, H.-F., Jiang, S-Y., Frank, M., Zhou, H.-Y., Zhou, F., Lu, Z.-L., Chen, X-M.,
Jiang, Y.-H., and Ge, C.D. (2005): Differing controls over the Cenozoic Pb and
Nd isotope evolution of deepwater in the central North Pacific Ocean.- Earth
Planet. Sci. Lett. 232, 345-361.
Polliand, M., Schaltegger, U., Frank, M., and Fontboté, L. (2005): Formation of
volcanosedimentary basins on the western flank of the central Peruvian Andes
during Late Cretaceous oblique subduction: field evidence and constraints from
U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes.- International Journal of Earth Sciences 94, 231-242.
Siddall, M., Henderson, G.M., Edwards, N.R., Frank, M., Müller, S.A., Stocker, T.F.,
and Joos, F. (2005): 231 Pa/ 230 Th fractionation by ocean transport, biogenic
particle flux and particle type.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 237, 135-155.
Klemm, V., Levasseur, S., Frank, M., Hein, J.R., and Halliday, A.N. (2005): Osmium
isotope stratigraphy of a marine ferromanganese crust.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.
238, 42-48.
Frank, M., Whiteley, N., van de Flierdt, T., Reynolds, B.C., and O’Nions, R.K.
(2006): Nd and Pb isotope evolution of deep water masses in the eastern Indian
Ocean during the past 33 Myr.- Chemical Geology 226, 264-279.
Reynolds, B.C., Frank, M., and Burton, K.W. (2006): Constraining erosional input
and deep-water formation in the North Atlantic using Nd isotopes.- Chemical
Geology 226, 253-263.
Reynolds, B.C., Frank, M., and Halliday, A.N. (2006): Silicon isotope fractionation
during nutrient utilization in the North Pacific.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 244, 431-
443.
Frank, M., Marbler, H., Koschinsky, A., van de Flierdt, T., Klemm, V., Gutjahr, M.,
Halliday, A.N., Kubik, P.W. and Halbach, P. (2006): Submarine hydrothermal
venting related to volcanism in the Lesser Antilles: Evidence from
ferromanganese precipitates.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7,
Q04010, 10.1029/2005GC001140.
Chu, N.-C., Johnson, C.M., Beard, B.L., German, C.R., Nesbitt, R.W., Frank, M.,
Bohn, M., Kubik, P.W., Usui, A. and Graham, I.J. (2006): Evidence for
hydrothermal venting in Fe isotope compositions of the deep Pacific Ocean
through time.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 245, 202-217.
Moran, K., Backman, J., Brinkhuis, H., Clemens, S.C., Cronin, T., Dickens, G.R.,
Eynaud, F., Gattacceca, J., Jakobsson, M, Jordan, R.W., Kaminski, M., King, J.,
Koc, N., Krylov, A., Martinez, N., Matthiessen, J., McInroy, D., Moore, T.C.,
Onodera, J., O’Regan, A.M., Pälike, H., Rea, B., Rio, D., Sakamoto, T., Smith,
D.C., Stein, R., St. John, K., Suto, I., Suzuki, N., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, M.,
Yamamoto, M., Farrell, J., Frank, M., Kubik, P., Jokat, W. and Kristoffersen, Y.
(2006): The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean.- Nature 441, 601-
605.
De Haller, A., Corfu, F., Fontboté L., Schaltegger, U., Barra, F., Chiaradia, M.,
Frank, M. and Zuñiga Alvarado, J. (2006): Geology, geochronology, and Hf and
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Pb isotope data of the Raúl-Condestable iron oxide-copper-gold deposit, central
coast of Peru.- Econ. Geol. 101, 281-310.
Bard, E. and Frank, M. (2006): Climate change and solar variability: What’s new
under the Sun?- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 248, 1-14.
Georg, R.B., Reynolds, B.C., Frank, M., and Halliday, A.N. (2006): Mechanisms
controlling the silicon isotopic compositions of river waters.- Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett. 249, 290-306
Georg, R.B., Reynolds, B.C., Frank, M., and Halliday, A.N. (2006): New sample
preparation techniques for the determination of Si isotopic compositions using
MC-ICPMS.- Chemical Geology 235, 95-104.
Klemm, V., Reynolds, B.C., Frank, M., Pettke, T., and Halliday, A.N. (2007):
Cenozoic changes in atmospheric lead recorded in central Pacific
ferromanganese crusts.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 253, 57-66.
Francois, R., Frank, M., Rutgers van der Loeff, M.M., Bacon, M.P., Geibert. W.,
Kienast, S., Anderson, R.F., Bradtmiller, L., Chase, Z., Henderson, G.,
Marcantonio, F., and Allen, S.A. (2007): Comment on “Do geochemical estimates
of sediment focusing pass the sediment test in the equatorial Pacific?” by Lyle et
al.- Paleoceanography 22, PA1216, 10.1029/2005PA001235.
Heck, P.R., Frank, M., Anselmetti, F.S., and Kubik, P.W. (2007): Origin and age of
submarine ferromanganese hardgrounds from the Marion Plateau, offshore
northeast Australia.- In Anselmetti, F.S., Isern, A.R., Blum, P., and Betzler, C.
(Eds.), 2006, Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 194: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling
Program), 1–22. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.194.008.2007.
Heuberger, S., Schaltegger, U., Burg, J.-P., Villa, I.M., Frank, M., Dawood, H. and
Hussain, S. (2007): Age and isotopic constraints on magmatism along the
Karakoram-Kohistan Suture Zone, NW-Pakistan: Evidence for subduction and
continued convergence after India-Asia collision.- Swiss Journal of Geosciences
100, 85-107.
Siddall, M., Stocker, T.F., Henderson, G.M., Joos, F., Frank, M., Edwards, N.R.,
Ritz, S. and Müller, S.A. (2007): Modelling the relationship between 231 Pa / 230 Th
distribution in North Atlantic sediment and Atlantic meridional overturning
circulation.- Paleoceanography 22, PA2214, 10.1029/2006PA001358.
Meister, P., McKenzie, J.A., Vasconcelos, C., Bernasconi, S., Frank, M., Gutjahr, M.
and Schrag, D. (2007): Dolomite formation in the dynamic deep biosphere:
Results from the Peru margin.- Sedimentology 54, 1007-1032.
Jakobsson, M., Backman, J., Rudels, B., Nycander, J., Frank, M., Mayer, L., Jokat,
W., Sangiorgi, F., O’Regan, M., Brinkhuis, H., King, J., and Moran, K. (2007):
The Early Miocene onset of a ventilated circulation regime in the Arctic Ocean.-
Nature 447, 986-990.
Gutjahr, M., Frank, M., Stirling, C.H., Klemm, V., van de Flierdt, T. and Halliday, A.N.
(2007): Reliable extraction of a deepwater trace metal isotope signal from Fe-Mn
oxyhydroxide coatings of marine sediments.- Chemical Geology 242, 351-370.
van de Flierdt, T., Goldstein, S.L., Hemming, S.R., Roy, M., Frank, M. and Halliday,
A.N. (2007): Global neodymium-hafnium isotope systematics - Revisited.- Earth
Planet. Sci. Lett. 259, 432-441.
Henderson, G.M., Anderson, R.F., Adkins, J., Andersson, P., Boyle, E.A., Cutter, G.,
de Baar, H., Eisenhauer, A., Frank, M., Francois, R., Orians, K., Gamo, T.,
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German, C., Jenkins, W., Moffett, J., Jeandel, C., Jickells, T., Krishnaswami, S.,
Mackey, D., Measures, C.I., Moore, J.K., Oschlies, A., Pollard, R., Rutgers van
der Loeff, M.M., Schlitzer, R., Sharma, M., von Damm, K. and Zhang, J. (2007):
GEOTRACES – An international study of the global marine biogeochemical
cycles of trace elements and their isotopes.- Chemie der Erde – Geochemistry
67, 85-131.
Haley, B.A., Frank, M., Spielhagen, R.F. and Eisenhauer, A. (2008): Influence of
brine formation on Arctic Ocean circulation over the past 15 million years.- Nature
Geoscience 1, 68-72.
Knudsen, M.F., Henderson, G.M., Frank, M., Mac Niocaill, C., and Kubik, P.W.
(2008): In-phase anomalies in Beryllium-10 production and palaeomagentic field
behaviour during the Iceland Basin geomagnetic excursion.- Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett. 265, 588-599.
Gutjahr, M., Frank, M., Stirling, C.H., Keigwin, L.D. and Halliday, A.N. (2008):
Tracing the Nd isotope evolution of North Atlantic Deep and Intermediate Waters
in the western North Atlantic since the Last Glacial Maximum from Blake Ridge
sediments.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 266, 61-77.
Muiños, S.B., Frank, M., Maden, C., Hein., J.R., van de Flierdt, T., Lebreiro, S.M.,
Gaspar, L., Monteiro, J.H. and Halliday, A.N. (2008): New constraints on the Pb
and Nd isotopic evolution of NE Atlantic water masses.- Geochemistry,
Geophysics, Geosystems. 9, Q02007, doi:10.1029/2007GC001766.
Frank, M., Backman, J., Jakobsson, M., Moran, K., O’Regan, M., King, J., Haley,
B.A., Kubik, P.W., and Garbe-Schönberg, D. (2008): Beryllium isotopes in
central Arctic Ocean sediments over the past 12.3 million years: Stratigraphic
and paleoclimatic implications.- Paleoceanography 23, PA1S02,
doi:10.1029/2007PA001478.
Haley, B.A., Frank, M., Spielhagen, R.F., and Fietzke, J. (2008): Radiogenic isotope
record of Arctic Ocean circulation and weathering inputs of the past 15 million
years.- Paleoceanography 23, PA1S13, doi:10.1029/2007PA001486.
Backman, J., Jakobsson, M., Frank, M., Sangiorgi, F., Brinkhuis, H., Stickley, C.,
O’Regan, M., Løvlie, R., Pälicke, H. Spofforth, D., Gattacecca, J., Moran, K.,
King, J., and Heil, C. (2008): Age model and core-seismic integration for the
Cenozoic Arctic Coring Expedition sediments from the Lomonosov Ridge.-
Paleoceanography 23, PA1S03, doi:10.1029/2007PA001476.
Andersson, P.S., Porcelli, D., Frank, M., Björk, G., Dahlqvist, R., and Gustafsson, Ö.
(2008): Neodymium isotopes in seawater from the Barents Sea and Fram Strait
Arctic-Atlantic gateways.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, 2854-2867.
Delacour, A., Früh-Green, G.L., Frank, M., Gutjahr, M., and Kelley, D.S. (2008): Srand
Nd-isotope geochemistry of the Atlantis Massif (30°N, MAR): Implications for
fluid fluxes and lithospheric heterogeneity.- Chem. Geol. 254, 19-35.
Klemm, V., Frank, M., Levasseur, S., Halliday, A.N., and Hein, J.R. (2008):
Seawater osmium isotope evidence for a middle Miocene flood basalt event in
ferromanganese crust records.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 273, 175-183.
Peytcheva, I., von Quadt, A., Georgiev, N., Ivanov, Zh., Heinrich, C.A., and Frank,
M. (2008): Combining trace element compositions, U-Pb geochronology and Hf
isotopes in zircons to unravel complex calcalkaline magma chambers in the
Upper Cretaceous Srednogorie Zone (Bulgaria).- Lithos 104, 405-427.
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Reynolds, B.C., Frank, M., and Halliday, A.N. (2008): Evidence for a major change
in silicon cycling in the subarctic North Pacific at 2.73 Ma.- Paleoceanography 23,
PA4219, doi:10.1029/2007PA001563.
Zimmermann, B., Porcelli, D., Frank, M., Rickli, J., Lee, D.-C., and Halliday, A.N.
(2009): The hafnium isotope composition of Pacific Ocean water.- Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta 73, 91-101.
Rickli, J., Frank, M., and Halliday A.N. (2009): The hafnium-neodymium isotope
composition of Atlantic seawater.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 280, 118-127.
Porcelli, D., Andersson, P.S., Baskaran, M., Frank, M., Björk, G., and Semiletov, I.
(2009): The distribution of Nd isotopes in Arctic Ocean basins.- Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta 73, 2645-2659.
Peytcheva, I., von Quadt, A., Neubauer, F., Frank, M., Nedialkov, R., Heinrich, C.A.,
and Strashimirov, S. (2009): U-Pb dating, Hf isotope characteristics and trace-
REE-patterns of zircons from Medet porphyry copper deposit, Bulgaria:
Implications for timing, duration and sources of ore-bearing magmatism.- Miner.
Petrol. 96, 19-41.
Zimmermann, B., Porcelli, D., Frank, M., Andersson, P.S., Baskaran, M., Lee, D.-C.,
and Halliday, A.N. (2009): Hafnium isotopes in Arctic Ocean water.- Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta 73, 3218-3233.
Sellén, E., Jakobsson, M., Frank, M., and Kubik, P.W. (2009): Pleistocene variations
of beryllium isotopes in central Arctic Ocean sediment cores.- Global and
Planetary Change 68, 38-47.
Khélifi, N., Sarnthein, M., Andersen, N., Blanz, T., Frank, M., Garbe-Schönberg, D.,
Haley, B.A., Stumpf, R., and Weinelt, M. (2009): A major and long-term Pliocene
intensification of the Mediterranean Outflow, 3.5-3.3 Ma ago.- Geology 37, 811-
814.
Frank, M., Porcelli, D., Andersson, P.S., Baskaran, M., Björk, G., Kubik, P.W.,
Hattendorf, B., and Günther, D. (2009): The dissolved Beryllium isotope
composition of the Arctic Ocean.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 6114-6133.
Gutjahr, M., Frank, M., Halliday, A.N., and Keigwin, L.D. (2009): Retreat of the
Laurentide ice sheet tracked by the isotopic composition of Pb in western North
Atlantic seawater during termination 1.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 286, 546-555.
Rickli, J., Frank, M., Baker, A.R., Aciego, S., de Souza G., Georg, R.B., and Halliday
A.N. (2010): Hafnium and Nd isotopes in surface waters of the eastern Atlantic
Ocean: Implications for sources and inputs of trace metals to the ocean.-
Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74, 540-557.
O'Regan, M., St. John, K., Moran, K., Backman, J., King, J., Haley, B.A., Jakobsson,
M., Frank, M., and Röhl, U. (2010): Plio-Pleistocene trends in ice rafted debris on
the Lomonosov Ridge.- Quat. International 219, 168-176.
van de Flierdt, T. and Frank, M. (2010): Neodymium isotopes in paleoceanography,
Editorial for special Theme: Case studies of Neodymium Isotopes in
Paleoceanography.- Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 2439-2441.
Gutjahr, M., Hoogakker, B.A.A., Frank, M. and McCave, I.N. (2010): Changes in
North Atlantic Deep Water strength and bottom water masses during Marine
Isotope Stage 3 (45 to 35 ka BP).- Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 2451-2461.
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Stumpf, R., Frank, M., Schönfeld, J., and Haley, B.A. (2010): Late Quaternary
variability of Mediterranean Outflow Water from radiogenic Nd and Pb isotopes.-
Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 2462-2472.
Frank, M. (2011): Chemical twins, separated.- Nature Geoscience 4, 220-221.
Chen, T.-Y., Ling, H.-F., Frank, M., Zhao, K.-D., and Jiang, S.-Y. (2011): Zircon effect
alone insufficient to generate seawater Nd-Hf isotope relationships.-
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 12, Q05003,
doi:10.1029/2010GC003363.
Frank, M. (2011): Geochemical proxies of ocean circulation and weathering inputs:
Radiogenic isotopes of Nd, Pb, Sr, Hf, and Os.- IOP Conference Series: Earth
and Environmental Science 14, 012010.
Meister, P., Gutjahr, M., Frank, M., Bernasconi, S., Vasconcelos, C., and McKenzie,
J.A. (2011): Dolomite formation within the methanogenic zone induced by
tectonically driven fluids in the Peru accretionary prism.- Geology 39, 563-566.
Kindler, P., Godefroid, F., Chiaradia, M., Ehlert, C., Eisenhauer, A., Frank, M., Hasler,
C.-A., and Samankassou, E. (2011): Discovery of Miocene to lower Pleistocene
deposits on Mayaguana, Bahamas: evidence for recent active tectonism on the
North American margin.- Geology 39, 523-526.
Ehlert, C., Frank, M., Haley, B.A., Böniger, U., DeDeckker, P. and Gingele, F.X.
(2011): Current transport versus continental inputs in the eastern Indian Ocean:
Radiogenic isotope signatures of clay-size sediments.- Geochemistry,
Geophysics, Geosystems 12, Q06017, doi:10.1029/2011GC003544.
Weldeab, S, Frank, M., Stichel, T., Haley, B.A., and Sangen, M. (2011): Spatiotemporal
evolution of the West African monsoon during the last deglaciation.-
Geophysical Research Letters 38, L13703, doi:10.1029/2011GL047805.
Stumpf, R., Frank, M., Schönfeld, J., and Haley, B.A. (2011): Climatically driven
changes in sediment supply on the SW Iberian shelf since the Last Glacial
Maximum.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 312, 80-90.
Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Watkeys, M.K., Kretzinger, W., Frank, M. and Heuer, L.
(2011): Palaeoceanographic interpretation of a seismic profile from the southern
Mozambique Ridge, Southwestern Indian Ocean.- South African Journal of
Geology 114, 449-458.
Stichel, T., Frank, M., Rickli, J., and Haley, B.A. (2012): The hafnium and
neodymium isotope composition of seawater in the Atlantic sector of the
Southern Ocean.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 317-318, 282-294.
Hathorne, E.C., Haley, B.A., Stichel, T., Grasse, P., Zieringer, M., and Frank, M.
(2012): Online preconcentration ICP-MS analysis of rare earth elements in
seawater.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 13, Q01020,
doi:10.1029/2011GC003907.
van de Flierdt T., Pahnke, K., Amakawa, H., Andersson, P., Basak, C., Coles, B.,
Colin, C., Crocket, K., Frank, M., Frank, N., Goldstein, S.L., Goswami, V., Haley,
B.A., Hathorne, E.C., Hemming, S.R., Henderson, G.M., Jeandel, C., Jones, K.,
Kreissig, K., Lacan, F., Lambelet, M., Martin, E.E., Newkirk, D.R., Obata, H., Pena,
L., Piotrowski, A.M., Pradoux, C., Scher, H.D., Schöberg, H., Singh, S.K., Stichel,
T., Tazoe, H., Vance, D., Yang, J. (2012): GEOTRACES intercalibration of
neodymium isotopes and rare earth element concentrations in seawater and
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suspended particles – Part 1: reproducibility of results for the international
intercomparison.- Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 10, 234-251.
De Souza, G.F., Reynolds, B.C., Rickli, J., Frank, M., Saito, M., Gerringa, L.J.A., and
Bourdon, B. (2012): Southern Ocean control of silicon stable isotope distribution in
the deep Atlantic Ocean.- Global Biogeochemical Cycles 26, GB2035,
doi:10.1029/2011GB004141.
Stichel, T., Frank, M., Rickli, J., Hathorne, E.A., Haley, B.A., Jeandel, C., and
Pradoux, C. (2012): Sources and input mechanisms of hafnium and neodymium in
surface waters of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean.- Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta 94, 22-37.
Chen T.-Y, Frank, M., Haley; B.A., Gutjahr, M., and Spielhagen, R.F. (2012):
Variations of north Atlantic inflow to the central Arctic Ocean over the last 14
million years inferred from hafnium and neodymium isotopes.- Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett. 353-354, 82-92.
In press:
Muiños, S.B., Hein, J.R., Frank, M., Monteiro, J.H., Gaspar, L., Conrad, T., Garcia
Pereira, H. and Abrantes, F. (2012): Deep-sea Fe-Mn crusts from the northeast
Atlantic Ocean: Composition and resource considerations.- Marine Georesources
& Geotechnology, in press.
Grasse, P., Stichel, T., Stumpf, R., Stramma, L., and Frank, M. (2012): The
distribution of neodymium isotopes and concentrations in the Eastern Equatorial
Pacific: Water mass advection versus particle exchange.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.,
in press.
Lachner, J., Christl, M., Synal, H.-A., Frank M. and Jakobsson, M. (2012): Carrier
free 10 Be/ 9 Be measurements with low-energy AMS: Determination of
sedimentation rates in the Arctic Ocean.- Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. B., in
press.
Etourneau, J., Ehlert, C., Frank, M., Martinez, P., and Schneider, R. (2012):
Contribution of changes in opal productivity and nutrient distribution in the coastal
upwelling systems to late Pliocene/early Pleistocene climate cooling.- Climate of
the Past, in press.
Cao, Z., Frank, M., Dai, M., Grasse, P., and Ehlert, C. (2012): Silicon isotope
constraints on sources and utilization of silicic acid in the northern South China
Sea.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. in press.
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