SUERC Staff
 
Professor Anthony E Fallick

Director and Professor of Isotope Geology

Tel: +44 (0) 1355 270139
Fax: +44 (0) 1355 229898
T.Fallick@suerc.gla.ac.uk


Research Interests

Stable isotope (D/H, C, N, O, S) studies in the earth, environmental and life sciences.

  • The genesis and evolution of ore bodies.
  • Diagensis of sedimentary sequences and the evolution of hydrocarbon reservoirs.
  • Fluid-rock interaction processes.
  • Crustal evolution.
  • Application of stable isotopes to environmental issues.
  • Biogeochemical applications of stable isotope analysis.


Publications

2008

Cusack, M., England, J., Parkinson, D., Dalbeck, P., Lee, M. R., Curry, G. B. and Fallick, A. E. 2008. Oxygen isotope composition, magnesium distribution and crystallography of Terebratulina retusa. Fossils and Strata, 54, 259-267.

Hofman, B. A., Farmer, J. D., von Blanckenburg, F. and Fallick, A. E. 2008. Subsurface filamentous fabrics: an evaluation of origins based on morphological and geochemical criteria, with implications for exopaleontology. Astrobiology, 8(1), 87-117.

Melezhik, V. A., Roberts, D., Fallick, A. E. and Gorokhov, I. M. 2008. The Shuram-Wonoka event recorded in a high-grade metamorphic terrane: insight from the Scandinavian Caledonides. Geological Magazine, 145(2), 161-172.

 

2007

Colonese, A. C., Zanchetta, G., Fallick, A. E., Martini, F., Manganelli, G and Lo Vetro, D. 2007. Stable isotope composition of Late Glacial land snail shells from Grotto del Romito ( Southern Italy): Palaeoclimatic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 254, 550-560.

Drits, V. A., Lindgreen, H., Sakharov, B. A., Jakobsen, H. J., Fallick, A. E., Salyn, A. L., Dainyak, L. G., Zviagina, B. B. and Barfod, D. N. 2007. Formation and transformation of mixed-layer minerals by tertiary intrusives in cretaceous mudstones, West Greenland. Clays and Clay Minerals, 55 (3), 260-283.

Drysdale, R. N., Zanchetta, G., Hellstrom, J. C., Fallick, A. E., McDonald, J. and Cartwright, I. 2007. Stalagmite evidence for the precise timing of North Atlantic cold events during the early last glacial. Geology, 35(1), 77-80.

Freeman, S., Bishop, P., Bryant, C., Cook, G., Dougans, D., Ertunc, T.,Fallick, A., Ganeshram, R., Maden, C., Naysmith, P., Schnabel, C., Scott, M., Summerfield, M. and Xu, S. 2007. The SUERC AMS laboratory after 3 years. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 259, 66-70.

Giuliani, G., Fallick, A., Rakotondrazafy, M., Ohnenstetter, D., Andriamamonjy, A., Ralantoarison, T., Rakotosamizanany, S., Razanatseheno, M., Offant, Y., Garnier, F., Dunaigre, C., Schwarz, D., Mercier, A., Ratrimo, V. and Ralison, B. 2007. Oxygen isotope systematics of gem corundum deposits in Madagascar: relevance for their geological origin. Mineralogy Deposita, 42, 251-270.

Giuliani, G., Ohnenstetter, D., Garnier, V., Fallick, A. E., Rakotondrazafy, M. and Schwarz, D. 2007. The Geology and Genesis of Gem Corundum Deposits. In: Geology of Gem Deposits, ed. Lee, A. Groat, Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course Series, vol. 37, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, p. 23-78.

Giuliani, G., Ohnenstetter, D., Rakotondrazafy, A. F. M., Fallick, A. E., Rakotosamizanany, S., Andriamamonjy, A., Ralantoarison, T., Razanatseheno, M., Dunaigre, C. and Schwarz, D. 2007. Les Gisements de corindons gemmes de Madagascar. Revue de Gemmologie, 159, 14-28.

Hardie, S. M. L., Garnett, M. H., Fallick, A. E., Rowland, A. P. and Ostle, N. J. 2007. Spatial variability of bom 14C in an upland peat bog. Radiocarbon, 14 (2), 1055-1063.

Kodera, P., Š ucha, V., Lexa, J. and Fallick, A. E. 2007. The Kremnica Au-Ag epithermal deposit: an example of laterally outflowing hydrothermal system? In: C. J. Andrews et al (eds): Digging Deeper. Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial SGA Meeting, Dublin, Ireland. Millpress, Rotterdam. 173-176.

Koptagel, O., Ulusoy, U. and Fallick, A. E. 2007. Sulfur and lead isotope investigations of the Carbonate-Hosted Pb-Zn deposits in the Yahyali Region, Kayseri, Southern Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences16, 57-76.

Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E., Smith, R. A. and Danta, M. R. 2007. Spherical and columnar, septarian, 18O-depleted, calcite concretions from Middle-Upper Permian lacustrine siltstones in northern Mozambique: evidence for very early diagnesis and multiple fluids. Sedimentology, 54, 1389-1416.

Skelton, A., Hode Vuorinen, J., Arghe, F. and Fallick, A. 2007. Fluid-rock interaction at a carbonatite-gneiss contact, Aln ö, Sweden. Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI 10.1007/s00410-007-0180-1.

Zanchetta, G., Borghini, A., Fallick, A. E., Bonadonna, F. P. and Leone, G. 2007. Quaternary palaeohydrology of Lake Pergusa ( Sicily, southern Italy) as inferred by stable isotopes of lacustrine carbonates. Journal of Paleolimnology, doi: 10.1007/s/0933-006-9070-1.

Zanchetta, G., Drysdale, R. N., Hellstrom, J. C., Fallick, A. E., Isola, I., Gagan, M. K. and Pareschi, M. T. 2007. Enhanced rainfall in the Western Mediterranean during deposition of sapropel S1 : stalagmite evidence from Corchia cave ( Central Italy). Quarternary Science Reviews.26, 279-286.

 

 

 

  • 2007

  • Drysdale, R. N., Zanchetta, G., Hellstrom, J. C., Fallick, A. E., McDonald, J. and Cartwright, I.  2007.  Stalagmite evidence for the precise timing of North Atlantic cold events during the early last glacial.  Geology, 35(1), 77-80.

    Giuliani, G., Fallick, A., Rakotondrazafy, M., Ohnenstetter, D., Andriamamonjy, A., Ralantoarison, T., Rakotosamizanany, S., Razanatseheno, M., Offant, Y., Garnier, F., Dunaigre, C., Schwarz, D., Mercier, A., Ratrimo, V. and Ralison, B.  2007.  Oxygen isotope systematics of gem corundum deposits in Madagascar:  relevance for their geological origin.  Mineralogy Deposita, 42, 251-270.

    Zanchetta, G., Borghini, A., Fallick, A. E., Bonadonna, F. P. and Leone, G.  2007.  Quaternary palaeohydrology of Lake Pergusa (Sicily, southern Italy) as inferred by stable isotopes of lacustrine carbonates.  Journal of Paleolimnology, doi: 10.1007/s/0933-006-9070-1.

    Zanchetta, G., Drysdale, R. N., Hellstrom, J. C., Fallick, A. E., Isola, I., Gagan, M. K. and Pareschi, M. T.  2007.  Enhanced rainfall in the Western Mediterranean during deposition of sapropel S1 :  stalagmite evidence from Corchia cave (Central Italy).  Quarternary Science Reviews. 26, 279-286.

     

     

    2006

    Baroni, C., Zanchetta, G., Fallick, A. E. and Longinelli, A.  2006.  Mollusca stable isotope record of a core from Lake Frassino, northern Italy:  hydrological and climatic changes during the last 14 ka.  The Holocene, 16 (6) 827-837.

    Dalbeck, P., England, J., Cusack, M., Lee, M. R. and Fallick, A. E.  2006.  Crystallography and chemistry of the calcium carbonate polymorph switch in M. edulis shells.  European Journal of Mineralogy, 18, 601-609.

    Drysdale, R., Zanchetta, G., Hellstrom, J., Maas, R., Fallick, A., Pickett, M., Cartwright, I. and Piccini, L.  2006.  Late Holocene drought responsible for the collapse of Old World civilizations is recorded in an Italian cave flowstone.  Geology, 34 (2), 101-104.

    Gorokhov, I. M., Semikhatov, M. A., Arakelyants, M. M., Fallick, A. E., Mel’nikov, N. N., Turchenko, T. L., Ivanovskaya, T. A., Zaitseva, T. S. and Kutyavin, E. P.  2006.  Rb-Sr, K-Ar, H- and O-Isotope Systematics of the Middle Riphean Shales from the Debengda Formation, the Olenek Uplift, North Siberia.  Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, 14 (3), 260-274.

    Graham. M. C., Allan, R., Fallick, A. E. and Farmer, J. G.  2006.  Investigation of extraction and clean-up procedures used in the quantification and stable isotopic characterization of PAHs in contaminated urban soils.  Science of the Total Environment, 360, 81-89.

    Hendry, J. P., Pearson, M. J., Trewin, N. H. and Fallick, A. E.  2006.  Jurassic septarain concretions from NW Scotland record interdependent bacterial, physical and chemical processes of marine mudrock diagenesis.  Sedimentology, 53, 537-565.

    McCay, G. A., Prave, A. R., Alsop, G. I. and Fallick, A. E.  2006.  Glacial trinity:  Neoproterozoic Earth history within the British-Irish Caledonides.  Geological Society of America, 34 (11), 909-912.

    Palmer, M. R., Helvaci, C. and Fallick, A. E.  2006.  Sulphur, sulphate oxygen and strontium isotope composition of Cenozoic Turkish evaporites.  Chemical Geology, 209, 341-356.

    Pond, D. W., Leakey, R. J. G. and Fallick, A. E.  2006.  Monitoring microbial predator-prey interactions:  an experimental study using fatty acid biomarker and compound-specific stable isotope techniques.  Journal of Plankton Research, 28(4), 419-427.

    Ralantoarison, T., Andriamamonjy, A., Offant, Y., Giuliani, G., Rakotondrazafy, A. F. M., Ohnenstetter, D., Schwarz, D., Dunaigre, C., Fallick, A., Razanatseheno, M., Rakotosamizanany, S., Moine, B. and Baillot, P.  2006.  Les saphirs multicolores de Sahambano et Zazafotsy, region granulitique d’lhosy, Madagascar.  Revue de Gemmologie, 158, 4-13.

    Slagstad, T., Melezhik, V. A., Kirkland, C. L., Zwaan, K. B., Roberts, D., Gorokhov, I. M. and Fallick, A. E.  2006.  Carbonate isotope chemostratigraphy suggests revisions to the geological history of the West Finnmark Caledonides, northern Norway.  Journal of the Geological Society, 163, 277-289.

    Swift, D. A., Evans, D. J. A. and Fallick, A. E.  2006  Transverse englacial debris-rich ice bands at Kvíárjökull, southeast Iceland.  Quaternary Science Reviews 25, 1708-1718.

    Valladares, M. I., Ugidos, J. M., Barba, P., Fallick, A. E. and Ellam R. M.  2006.  Oxygen, carbon and strontium isotope records of Ediacaran carbonates, in Central Iberia (Spain).  Precambrian Research, 147, 354-365.

    Wilkinson, M., Haszeldine, R. S. and Fallick, A. E. 2006.  Hydrocarbon filling and leakage history of a deep geopressured sandstone, Fulmar Formation, United Kingdom North Sea.  AAPG Bulletin, 90, 1945-1961.

    Wilkinson, M., Haszeldine, R. S. and Fallick, A. E.  2006.  Jurassic and Cretaceous clays of the northern and central North Sea hydrocarbon reservoirs reviewed.  Clay Minerals, 41, 151-186.

     

     

    2005

    Alfonso, P., Prol-Ledesma, R. M., Canet, C., Melgarejo, J. C. and Fallick, A. E.  2005. 
    Isotopic evidence for biogenic precipitation as a principal mineralization process in coastal gasohydrothermal vents, Punta Mita, Mexico.  Chemical Geology, 224 (1-3), 113-121.

    Canet, C., Alfonso, P., Melgarejo, J. C. and Fallick, A. E.  2005.  Stable istotope geochemistry of the carboniferous Zn-Pb-Cu sediment-hosted sulfide deposits, northeastern Spain.  International Geology Review, 47, 1298-1315.

    Drysdale, R. N., Zanchetta, G., Hellstrom, J. C., Fallick, A. E. and Zhao, J.  2005.  Stalagmite evidence for the onset of the Last Interglacial in southern Europe at 129 ± 1 ka.  Geophysical Research Letters, 32, 1-4.

    Garnier, V., Ohnenstetter, D., Giuliani, G., Fallick, A. E., Phan Tron, T., Hoang Quang, V., Pham Van, L. and Schwarz, D.  2005.  Basalt petrology, zircon ages and sapphire genesis from Dak Nong, southern Vietnam.  Mineralogical Magazine, 69(1), 21-38.

    Ghosh, S., Fallick, A. E., Paul, D. K. and Potts, P. J.  2005.  Geochemistry and origin of neoproterozoic granitoids of Meghalaya, Northeast India:  Implications for linkage with amalgamation of Gondwana supercontinent.  Gondwana Research, 8 (3), 421-432. 

    Giovanni, Z., Fallick, A. E., Drysdale, R. N.  2005.  Basic principles of stable isotope geochemistry and their application to palaeoclimatology and speleothems.  Istituto Italiano di Speleologia Memoria XVIII, II, 83-100.

    Giuliani, G., Fallick, A. E., Garnier, V., France-Lanord, C., Ohnenstetter, D. and Schwarz, D.  2005.  Oxygen isotope composition as a tracer for the origins of rubies and sapphires.  Geology, 33 (4), 249-252. 

    Giuliani, G., Fallick, A. E., Garnier, V., France-Lanord, C., Ohnenstetter, D. and Schwarz, D.  2005.  Les isotopes de l’oxygène, un traceur de l’origine gèologique des rubis et saphirs.  Revue de Gemmologie A. F. G., 152, 9-11.

    Hardie, S. M. L., Garnett, M. H., Fallick, A. E., Rowland, A. P. and Ostle, N. J. 2005. Carbon dioxide capture using a zeolite molecular sieve sampling system for isotopic studies (13C and 14C) of respiration.  Radiocarbon, 47, 441-451.

    Jonk, R., Hurst, A., Duranti, D., Parnell, J., Mazzini, A. and Fallick, A. E.  2005.  Origin and timing of sand injection, petroleum migration, and diagenesis in Tertiary reservoirs, south Viking Graben, North Sea.  AAPG Bulletin, 89 (3), 329-357.

    Kasemann, S. A., Hawkesworth, C. J., Prave, A. R., Fallick, A. E. and Pearson P. N.  2005.  Boron and calcium isotope composition in Neoproterozoic carbonate rocks from Namibia:  evidence for extreme environmental change.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 231, 73-86.

    Kodera, P., Lexa, J., Rankin, A. H. and Fallick, A. E. 2005. Epithermal gold veins in a caldera setting: Banská Hodrua, Slovakia. Mineralium Deposita, 39, 921-943.

    Laouar, R., Boyce, A. J., Arafa, M., Ouabadi, A. and Fallick, A. E.  2005.  Petrological, geochemical and stable isotope constraints on the genesis of the Miocene igneous rocks of Chetaibi and Cap de Fer (NE Algeria).  Journal of African Earth Sciences, 41, 445-465. 

    Lowry, D., Boyce, A. J., Fallick, A. E., Stephens, W. E. and Grassineau, N. V.  2005.  Terrane and basement discrimination in northern Britain using sulphur isotopes and mineralogy of ore deposits. In: Mineral Deposits and Earth Evolution. Geological society, London, Special Publications, 248, 133-151.

    Melezhik, V. A. and Fallick, A. E.  2005.  Palaeoproterozoic, rift-related, 13C-rich, lacustrine carbonates, NW Russia.  Part I:  Sedimentology and major element geochemistry.  Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh:  Earth Sciences, 95, 393-421, 2005.

    Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E., Hanski, E. J., Kump, L. R., Lepland, A., Prave, A. R. and Strauss, H.  2005.  Emergence of the aerobic biosphere during the Archean-Proterozoic transition:  Challenges of future research.  GSA Today, 15 (11), 4-11.

    Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E. and Kuznetsov, A. B.  2005.  Palaeoproterozoic, rift-related, 13C-rich, lacustrine carbonates, NW Russia.  Part II:  Global isotope signal recorded in the lacustrine dolostones.  Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh:  Earth Sciences, 95, 423-444.

    Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E. and Pokrovsky, B. G.  2005.  Enigmatic nature of thick sedimentary carbonates depleted in 13C beyond the canonical mantle value:  The challenges to our understanding of the terrestrial carbon cycle.  Precambrian Research, 137, 131-165.

    Melezhik, V. A., Roberts, D., Fallick, A. E., Gorokhov, I. M. and Kusnetzov, A. B.  2005.  Geochemical preservation potential of high-grade calcite marble versus dolomite marble:  implication for isotope chemostratigraphy.  Chemical Geology, 216, 203-224.

    Nielsen, P., Muchez, P., Heijlen, W., Fallick, A. E., Keppens, E., Weiss, D. and Swennen, R.  2005.  Columnar calcites as testimony of diagenetic overprinting at the boundary between Upper Tournaisian dolomites and limestones (Belgium):  multiple origins for apparently similar features.  Sedimentology, 52, 945-967.

    Parkinson, D., Curry, G. B., Cusack, M., Fallick, A. E.  2005.  Shell structure, patterns and trends of oxygen and carbon stable isotopes in modern brachiopod shells.  Chemical Geology, 219, 193-235.

    Perez-Aguilar A., Juliani, C., Monteiro, L. V. S., Fallick, A. E. and Bettencourt, J. S.  2005.  Stable isotopic constraints on Kuroko-type paleohydrothermal systems in the Mesoproterozoic Serra do Itaberaba group, Sao Paulo State, Brazil.  Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 18, 305-321.

    Russell, M. J., Hall, A. J., Boyce, A. J. and Fallick, A. E.  2005.  On hydrothermal convection systems and the emergence of life.  100th Anniversary Special Paper: Economic Geology, 100 (3), 419-438.

    Zanchetta, G., Drysdale, R. N., Hellstrom, J., Fallick, A. E., Isola, I., Bruschi, G. and Roncioni, A.  2005.  L’Archivio climatico preservato all’interno delle stalagmite dell’antro del corchia (alpi apuane, Italia centrale):  I dati isotopici.  Istituto Italiano di Speleologia Memoria XVIII, II, 161-176.

    Zanchetta, G., Leone, G., Fallick, A. E. and Bonadonna, F. P.  2005.  Oxygen isotope composition of living land snail shells:  data from Italy.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 223, 20-33.

     

    2004

    Anderson, R., Graham, C.M., Boyce, A.J. and Fallick, A.E 2004. Metamorphic and Basin Fluids in Quartz-Carbonate-Sulphide Veins in the SW Scottish Highlands: a Stable Isotope and Fluid Inclusion Study. Geofluids, 4, 169-185.

    Castroviejo, R., Moreno, T., Prichard, H. and Fallick, A. E.  2004.  Metalogenia de las ofiolitas de galicia y unidades associadas (nw del macizo iberico, espa?a).  In :  E. S. Pereira, r. Castroviejo, F. Ortiz (eds).  Complejos Ofioliticos en Ibero America, Proyecto XIII.1 – CYTED, Madrid, pp 231-266.

    Drysdale, R. N., Zanchetta, G., Hellstrom, J. C., Fallick, A. E., Zhao, J., Isola, I. and Bruschi, G.  2004.  Palaeoclimatic implications of the growth history and stable isotope (δ18O and δ13C) geochemistry of a Middle to Late Pleistocene stalagmite from central-western Italy.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 227, 215-229.

    Freeman, S., Bishop, P., Bryant, C., Cook, G., Fallick, A., Harkness, D., Metcalfe, S., Scott, M., Scott, R. and Summerfield, M.  2004.  A new environmental sciences AMS laboratory in Scotland.  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 223-224, 31-34.

    Gilg, H. A., Kasbohm, J., Plötze, M. and Fallick, A. E.  2004.  Mineral and geochemistry of clay-sized fractions from sediments of the Oligocene maar near Baruth (Saxony, Germany).  Z. geol. Wiss., 31, 331-342.

    Kodera, P., Lexa, J., Rankin, A. H. and Fallick, A. E.  2004.  Fluid evolution in a Subvolcanic Granodiorite Pluton related to Fe and Pb-ZN mineralization, Banksá ?tiavnica ore district, Slovakia.  Economic Geology, 99, 1745-1770.

    Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E. and Grillo, S. M.  2004.  Subaerial exposure surfaces in a Palaeoproterozoic 13C-rich dolostone sequence from the Pechenga Greenstone Belt:  palaeoenvironmental and isotopic implications for the 2330-2060 Ma global isotope excursion of 13C/12C.  Precambrian Research133, 75-103. 

    Severmann, S., Mills, R. A., Palmer, M. R. and Fallick, A. E.  2004.  The origin of clay minerals in active and relict hydrothermal deposits.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, 73-88.

    Thomas, C. W., Graham, C. M., Ellam, R. M. and Fallick, A. E.  2004.  87Sr/86Sr chemostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic Dalradian limestones of Scotland and Ireland: constraints on depositional ages and time scales.  Journal of the Geological Society, London, 161, 229-242.

    Van Long, P., Quang Vinh, H., Garnier, V., Giuliani, G., Ohnenstetter, D., Lhomme, T., Schwarz, D., Fallick, A., Dubessy, J. and Trong Trinh, P.  2004.  Gem corundum deposits in Vietnam.  Journal of Gemmology, 29(3), 129-147.

    Wagner, T., Kirnbauer, T., Boyce, A. J. and Fallick, A. E.  2005.  Barite-pyrite mineralization of the Wiesbaden thermal spring system, Germany:  a 500-kyr record of geochemical evolution.  Geofluids, 5, 124-139.

    Wilkinson, M., Haszeldine, R. S., Ellam, R. M. and Fallick, A.  2004.  Hydrocarbon filling history from diagenetic evidence:  Brent Group, UK North Sea.  Marine and Petroleum Geology, 21, 443-455.

    2003

    Carillo Rosua, F. J., Morales Ruano, S., Boyce, A. J. and Fallick, A. E. 2003. High and intermediate sulphidation environment in the same hydrothermal deposit:  the example of Au-Cu Palai-Islica deposit, Carboneras (Almeria). Mineral Exploration and Sustainable Development. Eliopoulos et al  (eds) Rotterdam, Millpress: 445-448.

    Garcia, M.D.G.M., Neto, M. C. C. and Fallick, A. E.  2003.  Oxygen isotope composition and geothermometry of granulite to greenschist facies metamorphic rocks:  a study from the Neoproterozoic collision-related nappe system, south of Sao Francisco Craton, SE Brazil.  Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 15, 871-883.

    Hall, A. J., Fallick, A. E., Perdikatsis, V. and Photos-Jones, E.  2003.  A model for the origin of AI-rich efflorescences near fumaroles, Melos, Greece:  enhanced weathering in a geothermal setting.  Mineralogical Magazine, 67(2), 363-379.

    Harford, C. L., Sparks, R. S. J. and Fallick, A. E.  2003.  Degassing at the Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, recorded in matrix glass compositions.  Journal of Petrology, 44(8), 1503-1523.

    Harris, N., McMilllan, A., Holness, M., Uken, R., Watkeys, M., Rogers, N. and Fallick, A. E.  2003.  Melt generation and fluid flow in the thermal aureole of the Bushveld Complex.  Journal of Petrology, 44, 1031-1054.

    Jeans, C. V., Fisher, M. J., Raine, J. I., Merriman, R. J., Campbell, H. J., Fallick, A. E., Carr, A. D. and Kemp, S. J.  2003.  Triassic sediments of the Kaka Point Structural Belt, South Island, New Zealand, and their relationship to the Murihiku Terrane.  Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 33(1), 57-84.

    Jonk, R., Duranti, D., Parnell, J., Hurst, A. and Fallick, A. E.  2003.  The structural and diagenetic evolution of injected sandstones: examples from the Kimmeridgian of NE Scotland.  Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160, 881-894.

    Kuznetsov, A. B., Melezhik, V. A., Gorokhov, I. M., Mel’nikov, N. N. and Fallick, A. E.  2003.  Sr isotope composition in Paleoproterozoic carbonates extremely enriched in 13C: Kaniapiskau supergroup, the Labrador Trough of the Canadian shield.  Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, 11 (3), 209-219.

    Meighan, I. G., Simpson, D. D. A., Hartwell, B. N., Fallick, A. E. and Kennan, P. S.  2003.  Sourcing the quartz at Newgrange, Brú na Bóinne, Ireland.  In: Stones and Bones:  formal disposal of the dead in Atlantic Europe during the Mesolithic – Neolithic interface 6000-3000 BC.   Eds.  G. Burenhult and S. Westergaard.  BAR International Series, 1201, pp 247-251.

    Melezhik, V. A. and Fallick, A. E.  2003.  δ13C and δ18O variations in primary and secondary carbonate phases: several contrasting examples from Palaeoproterozoic 13C-rich metamorphosed dolostones.  Chemical Geology, 201, 213-228.

    Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E., Smirnov, Y.P., Yakovlev,Y. N.  2003.  Fractionation of carbon and oxygen isotopes in 13C-rich Palaeoproterozoic dolostones in the transition from medium-grade greenschist facies:  a case study from the Kola Superdeep Drillhole.  Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160, 71-82.

    Melezhik, V. A., Zwaan, B. K., Motuza, G., Roberts, D., Solli, A., Fallick, A. E., Gorokhov, I. M. and Kusnetzov, A. B.  2003.  New insights into the geology of high-grade Caledonian marbles based on isotope chemostratigraphy.  Norwegian Journal of Geology, 83, 209-242.

    Pedersen, M., Nielsen, J. K., Boyce, A. J. and Fallick, A. E.  2003.  Timing and genesis of base-metal mineralisation in black shales of the Upper Permian Ravnefjeld Formation, Wegener Halvo, East Greenland.  Mineralium Deposita, 38, 108-123.

    Pereira, M. D., Peinado, M., Shaw, D., Upton, B. and Fallick, A. E.  2003.  Influencia de volátiles en un proceso de serpentinización.  Boletin de la Sociedad Española de Mineralogia, 26-A, 153-4.

    Pond, D. W., Gebruk, A., Southward, E. C., Southward, A. J., Fallick, A. E., Bell, M. V. and Sargent, J. R.  2000.  Unusual fatty acid composition of storage lipids in the bresilioid shrimp Rimicaris exoculata couples the photic zone with MAR hydrothermal vent sites.  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 198, 171-179.

    Psyrillos, A., Manning, D. A. C, Burley, S. D. and Fallick, A. E.  2003.  Coupled mineral-fluid evolution of a basin and high:  kaolinization in the SW England granites in relation to the development of the Plymouth Basin.  Hydrocarbons in Crystalline Rocks, Geological Society Special Publications, 214, 175-195.

    Sánchez-España, J., Velasco, F., Boyce, A. J. and Fallick, A. E.  2003.  Source and evolution of ore-forming hydrothermal fluids in the northern Iberian Pyrite Belt massive sulphide deposits (SW Spain): evidence from fluid inclusions and stable isotopes.  Mineralium Deposita, 38, 519-537.

    Snape, C.E., Sun, C., Fallick, A. E., Irons, R. and Haskell, J.  2003.  Potential of stable nitrogen isotope ratio measurements to resolve fuel and thermal NOx in coal combustion.  Prepr. Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Fuel Chem., 48(1), 3-5.

    Sun, C., Snape, C. E., McRae, C. and Fallick, A. E.  2003.  Resolving coal and petroleum-derived polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in some contaminated land samples using compound-specific stable carbon isotope ratio measurements in conjunction with molecular fingerprints.  Fuel, 82, 2017-2023.

    2002

    Aguirre, M. L., Zanchetta, G. and Fallick, A. E.  2002.  Stable isotope composition of Littoridina australis from the coast of Buenos Aires province, Argentina, during Holocene climatic fluctuations.  Geobios, 35, 79-88.

    Alfonso, P., Canet, C., Melgarejo, J. C. and Fallick, A. E.  2002.  Sulphur isotope composition of Silurian shale-hosted PGE-Ag-Au-Zn-Cu mineralisations of the Prades Mountains (Catalonia, Spain).  Mineralium Deposita, 37, 198-212.

    Blakeman, R, J., Ashton, J. H., Boyce, A. J., Fallick, A. E. and Russell, M. J.  2002.  Timing of interplay between hydrothermal and surface fluids in the Navan Zn+Pb orebody, Ireland:  Evidence from metal distribution trends, mineral textures and δ*34S analyses.  Economic Geology, 97, 73-91.

    Bruneau, P. M. C., Ostle, N., Davidson, D. A., Grieve, I. C. and Fallick, A. E.  2002.  Determination of rhizosphere 13C pulse signals in soil thin sections by laser ablation isotope ratio mass spectrometry.  Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 16, 2190-2194.

    Curry, G. B. and Fallick, A. E.  2002.  Use of stable oxygen isotope determinations from brachiopod shells in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2811, 1-11.

    Golani, P. R., Pandit, M. K., Sial, A. N., Fallick, A. E., Ferreira, V. P. and Roy, A. B.  2002.  B-Na rich Palaeoproterozoic Aravalli metasediments of evaporitic association, NW India:  a new repository of gold mineralization.  Precambrian Research, 116, 183-198.

    Kodera, P., Lexa, J., Rankin, A. H. and Fallick, A. E. 2002.  Genesis of epithermal Au-mineralization at Rozália Mine, Banská Hodruša, Slovakia.  Geologica Carpathica, 53, 94-96.

    Laouar, R., Boyce, A. J., Ahmed-Said, Y., Ouabadi, A., Fallick, A. E. and Toubal, A.  2002.  Stable isotope study of the igneous, metamorphic and mineralized rocks of the Edough Complex, Annaba, north-east Algeria.  Journal of African Earth Sciences, 35, 271-283.

    Marchand, A. M. E., Macaulay, C. I., Haszeldine, R. S. and Fallick, A. E.  2002. Pore water evolution in oilfield sandstones:  constraints from oxygen isotope microanalyses of quartz cement.  Chemical Geology, 191, 285-304.

    Marchand, A. M. E., Smalley, P. C., Haszeldine, R. S. and Fallick, A. E.  2002.  Note on the importance of hydrocarbon fill for reservoir quality prediction in sandstones.  AAPG Bulletin, 86 (9), 1561-1571.

    Melezhik, V. A., Gorokhov, I. M., Fallick, A. E., Roberts, D., Kuznetsov, A. B., Zwaan, K. B. and Pokrovsky, B. G.  2002.  Isotopic stratigraphy suggests Neoproterozoic ages and Laurentian ancestry for high-grade marbles from the North-Central Norwegian Caledonides.  Geological Magazine, 139(4), 375-393.

    Melezhik, V. A., Roberts, D., Gorokhov, I. M., Fallick, A. E., Zwaan, K. B., Kuznetsov, A. B., Pokrovsky, B. G.  2002.  Isotopic evidence for a complex Neoproterozoic to Silurian rock assemblage in the North-Central Norwegian Caledonides.  Precambrian Research, 114, 55-86.

    Pond, D. W, Allen, C. E., Bell, M. V., Van Dover, C. L., Fallick, A. E., Dixon, D. R. and Sargent, J. R.  2002.  Origins of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in the hydrothermal vent worms Ridgea piscesae and Protis hydrothermicaMarine Ecology Progress Series, 225, 219-226.

    Upton, B. G. J., Skovgaard, A. C., McClurg, J., Kirstein, L., Cheadles, M., Emeleus, C. H., Wadsworth, W. J. and Fallick, A. E.  2002.  Picritic magmas and the Rum ultramafic complex, Scotland.  Geological Magazine, 139, 437-452.

    Wagner, T., Boyce, A. J. and Fallick, A. E.  2002.  Laser combustion analysis of δ*34S of sulfosalt minerals:  Determination of the fractionation systematics and some crystal-chemical considerations.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66, 2855-2863.


    2001

    Bortnikov, N. S., Vikentyeva, O. V., Fallick, A. and Sazonov, V. N.  2001.  REE distribution and O and D isotope data of minerals from quartz-carbonate wall rocks at the giant Berezovsk mesothermal gold lode deposits, Urals, Russia:  Evidence for a contribution from a magmatic fluid.  In:  A. Pestrzynski et al (eds), Proceedings of Joint Sixth Biennial SGA-SEG Meeting:  Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Balkema, Lisse, 707-710.

    Brain, C. K., Hoffman, K. H., Prave, A. R., Fallick, A. E., Coetzee, J. and Botha, A. J.  2001.  Interpretive problems in a search for micro-invertebrate fossils from a Neoproterozoic limestone in Namibia.  Palaeontologia Africana, 37, 1-15.

    Curran, J. M., Meighan, I. G., Simpson, D. D. A., Rogers, G. and Fallick, A. E.  2001.  87Sr/86Sr:  A new discriminant for provenancing Neolithic porcellanite artifacts from Ireland.  Journal of Archaeological Science, 28, 713-720.

    Fallick, A. E., Ashton, J. H., Boyce, A. J., Ellam, R. M. and Russell, M. J.  2001.  Bacteria were responsible for the magnitude of the world-class hydrothermal base metal sulfide orebody at Navan, Ireland.  Economic Geology, 96, 885-890.

    Graham, M. C., Eaves, M. A., Farmer, J. G., Dobson, J. and Fallick, A. E.  2001.  A study of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope and elemental ratios as potential indicators of source and fate of organic matter in sediments of the Forth Estuary, Scotland.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 52, 375-380.

    Kodera, P., Rankin, A. H., Fallick, A. E.   2001.  Fluid processes in intrusion-related Pb-Zn stockworks (Stiavnica-Hodrusa ore district, Slovakia). In:  Mineral deposits at the Beginning of the 21st century, Piestrzynski et al. (eds). Proc. joint SGA-SEG conf., 531-534. (Balkema Press).

    Jappy, T. G., Leake, B. E. and Fallick, A. E.  2001.  Relationships between hornblende K-Ar ages, chemical composition and hydrogen isotopes, Connemara, western Ireland:  evidence for a massive extinct hydrothermal system.  Journal of the Geological Society, London, 158, 843-854.

    Maliva, R. G., Missimer, T. M., Walker, C. W., Owosina, E. S., Dickson, J. A. D. and Fallick, A. E.  2001.  Carbonate diagenesis in a high transmissivity coastal aquifer, Biscayne Aquifer, southeastern Florida, USA.  Sedimentary Geology, 143, 287-301. 

    Marchand, A. M. E., Haszeldine, R. S., Smalley, P. C., Macaulay, C. I. and Fallick, A. E.  2001.  Evidence for reduced quartz-cementation rates in oil-filled sandstones.  Geology, 29, 915-198.

    Melezhik, V. A. and Fallick, A. E.  2001.  Palaeoproterozoic travertines of volcanic affiliation from a 13C-rich rift lake environment.  Chemical Geology, 173, 293-312.

    Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A.E., Medvedev, P. V. and Makarikhin, V. V.  2001.  Palaeoproterozoic magnesite:  lithological and isotopic evidence for playa/sabkha environments.  Sedimentology, 48, 379-397.

    Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E., Medvedev, P. V. and Makarikhin, V. V. 2001.  Palaeoproterozoic magnesite from playa/sabkha environments.  In:  A. Piestrzynski et al (eds), Proceedings of the Joint Sixth Biennial SGA-SEG Meeting  Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Balkema, Lisse, 1005-1008.

    Melezhik, V. A., Gorokhov, I. M., Fallick, A. E. and Gjelle, S.  2001.  Strontium and carbon isotope geochemistry applied to dating of carbonate sedimentation:  an example from high-grade rocks of the Norwegian Caledonides.  Precambrian Research, 108, 267-292.

    Melezhik, V. A., Gorokhov, I. M., Kuznetsov, A. B. and Fallick, A. E.  2001.  Chemostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic carbonates:  implications for 'blind dating'.  Terra Nova, 13, 1-11.

    Proenza, J. A., Gervilla, F., Melgarejo, J. C., Vera, O., Alfonso, P. and Fallick, A.  2001.  Genesis of sulfide-rich chromite ores by the interaction between chromitite and pegmatitic olivine - norite dikes in the Potosí Mine (Moa-Baracoa ophiolitic massif, eastern Cuba).  Mineralium Deposita, 36, 658-669.

    Purdy, K. J., Hawes, I., Bryant, C. L., Fallick, A. E. and Nedwell, D. B.  2001.  Estimates of sulphate reduction rates in Lake Vanda, Antarctica support the proposed recent history of the lake.  Antarctic Science, 13(4), 393-399.

    Rice, C. M., Harmon, R. S., Boyce, A. J. and Fallick, A. E.  2001.  Assessment of grid-based whole-rock δ*D surveys in exploration:  Boulder County epithermal tungsten deposit, Colorado.  Economic Geology, 96, 133-143.

    Spence, M. J., Bottrell, S. H., Higgo, J. J. W., Harrison, I. and Fallick, A. E.  2001.  Denitrification and phenol degradation in a contaminated aquifer.  Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 53, 305-318.

    Wallace, C. L., Snape, C. E., Gudde, N. J., Ketley, G. W. and Fallick, A. E.  2001.  Use of 13C-labelled compounds to probe catalytic coke formation in fluid catalytic cracking.  Studies of Surface Science and Catalysis, 134, 251-262.

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