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Research project

The impact of submarine diagenesis

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Martin Palmer

Professor of Geochemistry
Connect with Martin

Email: M.R.Palmer@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Rachel Mills

Connect with Rachel

Email: Rachel.Mills@soton.ac.uk

Professor Damon Teagle

Director of SMMI

Research interests

  • • Formation and evolution of the ocean crust
  • • Fluid-rock interactions and Ore mineralisation
  • • Geochemical analysis
Connect with Damon

Email: Damon.Teagle@southampton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Geochemistry

We use advanced facilities to perform the precise and accurate analysis of the chemical and isotopic composition of Earth materials.

Research outputs

Impact of volcanic ash on anammox communities in deep sea sediments
Bongkeun Song, Caroline T. Buckner, Deborah J. Hembury, Rachel A. Mills & Martin R. Palmer, 2014, Environmental Microbiology Reports, 6(2), 159-166
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12137
Type: article
Uptake of dissolved oxygen during marine diagenesis of fresh volcanic material
D.J. Hembury, M.R. Palmer, G.R. Fones, R.A. Mills, R. Marsh & M.T. Jones, 2012, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 84, 353-368
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.01.017
Type: article
Submarine pyroclastic deposits formed during the 20th May 2006 dome collapse of the Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat
J. Trofimovs, C. Foster, R.S.J. Sparks, S. Loughlin, A. Friant, C. Deplus, L. Porritt, T. Christopher, R. Luckett, P.J. Talling, M.R. Palmer & T. Le Bas, 2012, Bulletin of Volcanology, 74(2), 391-405
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-011-0533-5
Type: article
Tracking the magmatic evolution of island arc volcanism: Insights from a high-precision Pb isotope record of Montserrat, Lesser Antilles
M. Cassidy, R.N. Taylor, M.R. Palmer, R.J. Cooper, C. Stenlake & J. Trofimovs, 2012, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13, Q05003
DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004064
Type: article
Iron and manganese diagenesis in deep sea volcanogenic sediments and the origins of pore water colloids
W.B. Homoky, D.J. Hembury, L.E. Hepburn, R.A. Mills, P.J. Statham, G.R. Fones & M.R. Palmer, 2011, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(17), 5032-5048
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.06.019
Type: article