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Derek Vance

Derek Vance

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Earth Science

D-Index
75
Citations
16399
World Ranking
737
National Ranking
19

Overview

Derek Vance is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, contributing extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on geochemistry and related fields. Their research spans several subfields including Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Inorganic Chemistry, and Ecology.

Their work concentrates on core topics such as Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing, Mercury Impact and Mitigation Studies, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Derek Vance has published numerous studies in leading scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts

Notable recent papers authored by or co-authored with Derek Vance include:

  • "The oceanic biogeochemistry of nickel and its isotopes: New data from the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean biogeochemical divide" (2020), Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Towards balancing the oceanic Ni budget" (2020), Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Upper limits on the extent of seafloor anoxia during the PETM from uranium isotopes" (2021), Nature Communications
  • "Isotopic fingerprinting of biogeochemical processes and iron sources in the iron-limited surface Southern Ocean" (2021), Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Pervasive sources of isotopically light zinc in the North Atlantic Ocean" (2020), Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent collaborators in Derek Vance's research include:

  • Corey Archer
  • Jianghui Du
  • Jörg Rickli
  • James McManus
  • Nolwenn Lemaitre

Best Publications

  • The significance of monazite U–Th–Pb age data in metamorphic assemblages; a combined study of monazite and garnet chronometry

    Gavin Foster;Pete Kinny;Derek Vance;Christophe Prince

  • The Isotope Geochemistry of Zinc and Copper

    Frédéric Moynier;Derek Vance;Toshiyuki Fujii;Paul Savage

  • Rise to modern levels of ocean oxygenation coincided with the Cambrian radiation of animals

    Xi Chen;Hong-Fei Ling;Derek Vance;Graham A. Shields-Zhou

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • An assessment of mass discrimination in MC-ICPMS using Nd isotopes

    Derek Vance;Matthew Thirlwall

  • The oceanic mass balance of copper and zinc isotopes, investigated by analysis of their inputs, and outputs to ferromanganese oxide sediments

    S.H. Little;D. Vance;C. Walker-Brown;W.M. Landing

  • Mo isotope fractionation during adsorption to Fe (oxyhydr)oxides

    Tatiana Goldberg;Corey Archer;Derek Vance;Simon W. Poulton

  • A humid corridor across the Sahara for the migration of early modern humans out of Africa 120,000 years ago

    Anne H. Osborne;Derek Vance;Eelco J. Rohling;Nick Barton

  • Erosion and Exhumation in the Himalaya from cosmogenic isotope inventories of river sediments

    Derek Vance;Mike Bickle;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Peter W. Kubik

  • Mass discrimination correction in multiple-collector plasma source mass spectrometry: an example using Cu and Zn isotopes

    Corey Archer;Derek Vance

  • The isotopic signature of the global riverine molybdenum flux and anoxia in the ancient oceans

    C. Archer;D. Vance

  • The determination of the isotopic composition of Cu and Zn in seawater

    J. Bermin;D. Vance;C. Archer;P.J. Statham

  • Variable Quaternary chemical weathering fluxes and imbalances in marine geochemical budgets

    Derek Vance;Damon A. H. Teagle;Gavin L. Foster

  • Fe isotope fractionation on FeS formation in ambient aqueous solution

    Ian B. Butler;Corey Archer;Derek Vance;Anthony Oldroyd

  • The copper isotope geochemistry of rivers and the oceans

    Derek Vance;Corey Archer;J Bermin;J Perkins

  • Controls on trace metal authigenic enrichment in reducing sediments: Insights from modern oxygen-deficient settings

    Susan H. Little;Derek Vance;Timothy W. Lyons;James McManus

  • Timing of prograde metamorphism in the Zanskar Himalaya

    D. Vance;N. Harris

  • Proposal for an International Molybdenum Isotope Measurement Standard and Data Representation

    Thomas F. Nägler;Ariel D. Anbar;Corey Archer;Tatiana Goldberg

  • A modern framework for the interpretation of 238U/235U in studies of ancient ocean redox

    Morten Andersen;Morten Andersen;S. Romaniello;D. Vance;S. H. Little

  • The pressure-temperature-time path of migmatites from the Sikkim Himalaya

    N. B. W. Harris;M. Caddick;J. Kosler;S. Goswami

  • New neodymium isotope data quantify Nile involvement in Mediterranean anoxic episodes

    Adam E. Scrivner;Derek Vance;Eelco J. Rohling

Frequent Co-Authors

Corey Archer
Corey Archer ETH Zurich
Gavin L. Foster
Gavin L. Foster University of Southampton
Morten B. Andersen
Morten B. Andersen Cardiff University
Michael J. Ellwood
Michael J. Ellwood Australian National University
Eelco J. Rohling
Eelco J. Rohling Utrecht University
Nigel Harris
Nigel Harris The Open University
Daniela N Schmidt
Daniela N Schmidt University of Bristol
Kevin W. Burton
Kevin W. Burton Durham University
Simon W. Poulton
Simon W. Poulton University of Leeds
Maeve C. Lohan
Maeve C. Lohan University of Southampton

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