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Alexandra V. Turchyn is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with extensive work in several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Chemistry, Paleontology, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work encompasses multiple core topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis.

Frequent collaboration has taken place with colleagues including Harold J. Bradbury, Gilad Antler, Angus Fotherby, André Pellerin, and Zvi Steiner.

Publications have appeared regularly in the following venues:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Chemical Geology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Alexandra V. Turchyn include:

  • Large mass-independent sulphur isotope anomalies link stratospheric volcanism to the Late Ordovician mass extinction, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Triple oxygen isotope insight into terrestrial pyrite oxidation, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Early diagenesis of iron and sulfur in Bornholm Basin sediments: The role of near-surface pyrite formation, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Partitioning riverine sulfate sources using oxygen and sulfur isotopes: Implications for carbon budgets of large rivers, 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Controls on the Precipitation of Carbonate Minerals Within Marine Sediments, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science

Best Publications

  • A Contemporary Microbially Maintained Subglacial Ferrous "Ocean"

    Jill A. Mikucki;Ann Pearson;David T. Johnston;Alexandra V. Turchyn

  • Non-enzymatic glycolysis and pentose phosphate pathway-like reactions in a plausible Archean ocean

    Markus A Keller;Alexandra V Turchyn;Markus Ralser;Markus Ralser

  • Calcium isotope constraints on the end-Permian mass extinction

    Jonathan L. Payne;Alexandra V. Turchyn;Adina Paytan;Donald J. DePaolo

  • Remobilization of crustal carbon may dominate volcanic arc emissions.

    Emily Mason;Marie Edmonds;Alexandra V. Turchyn

  • Multiple sulfur isotope constraints on the modern sulfur cycle

    Rosalie Tostevin;Alexandra V. Turchyn;James Farquhar;David T. Johnston

  • Contribution of cyanobacterial alkane production to the ocean hydrocarbon cycle

    David J. Lea-Smith;Steven J. Biller;Matthew P. Davey;Charles A. R. Cotton

  • Recycling of water, carbon, and sulfur during subduction of serpentinites: A stable isotope study of Cerro del Almirez, Spain

    Jeffrey C. Alt;Carlos J. Garrido;Wayne C. Shanks;Alexandra Turchyn

  • Oxygen Isotope Constraints on the Sulfur Cycle over the Past 10 Million Years

    Alexandra V. Turchyn;Daniel P. Schrag

  • Coupled sulfur and oxygen isotope insight into bacterial sulfate reduction in the natural environment

    Gilad Antler;Alexandra V. Turchyn;Victoria Rennie;Barak Herut

  • Significant contribution of authigenic carbonate to marine carbon burial

    Xiaole Sun;Alexandra V. Turchyn

  • Iron oxides stimulate sulfate-driven anaerobic methane oxidation in seeps.

    Orit Sivan;Gilad Antler;Alexandra V. Turchyn;Jeffrey J. Marlow

  • Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth's great oxidation.

    Clara Blättler;Mark Claire;Anthony Robert Prave;K. Kirsimäe

  • Drilling and sampling a natural CO2 reservoir: Implications for fluid flow and CO2-fluid–rock reactions during CO2 migration through the overburden

    N. Kampman;N. Kampman;N. Kampman;M. J. Bickle;A. Maskell;H. J. Chapman

  • Cenozoic evolution of the sulfur cycle: Insight from oxygen isotopes in marine sulfate

    Alexandra V. Turchyn;Daniel P. Schrag

  • Decarbonation efficiency in subduction zones: Implications for warm Cretaceous climates

    Fraser K.B. Johnston;Alexandra V. Turchyn;Marie Edmonds

  • The preservation of δSSO434 and δOSO418 in carbonate-associated sulfate during marine diagenesis: A 25 Myr test case using marine sediments

    Victoria C.F. Rennie;Alexandra V. Turchyn

  • Kinetic oxygen isotope effects during dissimilatory sulfate reduction: a combined theoretical and experimental approach.

    Alexandra V. Turchyn;Volker Brüchert;Timothy W. Lyons;Gregory S. Engel

  • Late Glacial temperature and precipitation changes in the lowland Neotropics by tandem measurement of δ18O in biogenic carbonate and gypsum hydration water

    David A. Hodell;Alexandra V. Turchyn;Camilla J. Wiseman;Jaime Escobar;Jaime Escobar

  • Sulfur and oxygen isotope tracing of sulfate driven anaerobic methane oxidation in estuarine sediments

    Gilad Antler;Alexandra V. Turchyn;Barak Herut;Alicia Davies

  • Calcium isotope evidence for suppression of carbonate dissolution in carbonate-bearing organic-rich sediments

    Alexandra V. Turchyn;Donald J. DePaolo

  • Large sulfur isotope fractionation by bacterial sulfide oxidation

    André Pellerin;Gilad Antler;Simon Agner Holm;Alyssa J. Findlay

  • Isotope evidence for secondary sulfide precipitation along the Marsyandi River, Nepal, Himalayas

    Alexandra V. Turchyn;Edward T. Tipper;Albert Galy;Jun-Kai Lo

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel P. Schrag
Daniel P. Schrag Harvard University
Bo Barker Jørgensen
Bo Barker Jørgensen Aarhus University
Hans Røy
Hans Røy Aarhus University
Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David A Hodell
David A Hodell University of Cambridge
Mike J. Bickle
Mike J. Bickle University of Cambridge
Marie Edmonds
Marie Edmonds University of Cambridge
Sabine Kasten
Sabine Kasten University of Bremen
Andy Hodson
Andy Hodson University Centre in Svalbard

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