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Franco Marcantonio

Franco Marcantonio

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Earth Science

D-Index
34
Citations
3486
World Ranking
8119
National Ranking
2701

Overview

Franco Marcantonio is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their work covers a variety of topics within geology and environmental studies, focusing notably on:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Heavy Metals in Environment

Marcantonio's research has been published in several reputable scientific venues with multiple contributions to:

  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Environmental Research

Selected recent publications include:

  • <sup>230</sup>Th Normalization: New Insights on an Essential Tool for Quantifying Sedimentary Fluxes in the Modern and Quaternary Ocean, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Deep Equatorial Pacific Ocean Oxygenation and Atmospheric CO2 Over The Last Ice Age, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Tracking the source of contaminant lead in children's blood, 2022, Environmental Research
  • Origin of Indus ophiolite-hosted ophicarbonate veins: Isotopic evidence of mixing between seawater and continental crust-derived fluid during Neo-Tethys closure, 2020, Chemical Geology
  • An Inconsistent ENSO Response to Northern Hemisphere Stadials Over the Last Deglaciation, 2024, Geophysical Research Letters

Marcantonio regularly collaborates with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • J. E. Hertzberg
  • M. W. Schmidt
  • Danielle Schimmenti
  • Christopher T. Hayes
  • Robert F. Anderson

Best Publications

  • Re-assessing the surface cycling of molybdenum and rhenium

    Christian A. Miller;Christian A. Miller;Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink;Brett D. Walker;Brett D. Walker;Franco Marcantonio

  • Os isotope systematics in ocean island basalts

    Laurie Reisberg;Alan Zindler;Franco Marcantonio;William White

  • Os isotope systematics of La Palma, Canary Islands: Evidence for recycled crust in the mantle source of HIMU ocean islands

    Franco Marcantonio;Alan Zindler;Tim Elliott;Hubert Staudigel

  • Extraterrestrial 3He as a tracer of marine sediment transport and accumulation

    Franco Marcantonio;Franco Marcantonio;Robert F. Anderson;Martin Stute;Martin Stute;Niraj Kumar;Niraj Kumar

  • Ocean dynamics, not dust, have controlled equatorial Pacific productivity over the past 500,000 years

    Gisela Winckler;Robert F. Anderson;Samuel L. Jaccard;Franco Marcantonio

  • Sediment focusing in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Franco Marcantonio;Robert F. Anderson;Sean Higgins;Martin Stute

  • Deglacial changes in dust flux in the eastern equatorial Pacific

    D. McGee;F. Marcantonio;J. Lynch-Stieglitz

  • A comparative study of accumulation rates derived by He and Th isotope analysis of marine sediments

    Franco Marcantonio;Niraj Kumar;Martin Stute;Robert F. Anderson

  • No iron fertilization in the equatorial Pacific Ocean during the last ice age

    K. M. Costa;K. M. Costa;J. F. McManus;J. F. McManus;R. F. Anderson;R. F. Anderson;H. Ren

  • Variations in productivity and eolian fluxes in the northeastern Arabian Sea during the past 110 ka

    Ali Pourmand;Franco Marcantonio;Hartmut Schulz

  • Isotopic evidence for the crustal evolution of the Frontenac Arch in the Grenville Province of Ontario, Canada☆

    F. Marcantonio;R.H. McNutt;A.P. Dickin;L.M. Heaman

  • 230Th Normalization: New Insights on an Essential Tool for Quantifying Sedimentary Fluxes in the Modern and Quaternary Ocean

    Kassandra M. Costa;Christopher T. Hayes;Robert F. Anderson;Robert F. Anderson;Frank J. Pavia;Frank J. Pavia;Frank J. Pavia

  • A 1,800-million-year-old Proterozoic gneiss terrane in Islay with implications for the crustal structure and evolution of Britain

    F. Marcantonio;A. P. Dickin;R. H. McNutt;L. M. Heaman

  • 1.1 Ga K-rich alkaline plutonism in the SW Grenville Province

    Louise Corriveau;Larry M. Heaman;Franco Marcantonio;Otto van Breemen

  • A Pb isotope record of mid-Atlantic US atmospheric Pb emissions in Chesapeake Bay sediments

    Franco Marcantonio;Andrew Zimmerman;Yingfeng Xu;Elizabeth Canuel

  • Deglacial variability of Antarctic Intermediate Water penetration into the North Atlantic from authigenic neodymium isotope ratios

    Ruifang C. Xie;Franco Marcantonio;Matthew W. Schmidt

  • Sediment focusing creates 100-ka cycles in interplanetary dust accumulation on the Ontong Java Plateau

    Sean M. Higgins;Robert F. Anderson;Franco Marcantonio;Peter Schlosser

  • Comment on “Do geochemical estimates of sediment focusing pass the sediment test in the equatorial Pacific?” by M. Lyle et al.

    Roger Francois;Martin Frank;Michiel M. Rutgers van der Loeff;Michael P. Bacon

  • Re-Os isotopic systematics in chromitites from the Stillwater Complex, Montana, USA

    Franco Marcantonio;Alan Zindler;Laurie Reisberg;E.A. Mathez

  • The accretion rate of extraterrestrial 3He based on oceanic 230Th flux and the relation to Os isotope variation over the past 200,000 years in an Indian Ocean core

    Franco Marcantonio;Franco Marcantonio;Karl K Turekian;Sean Higgins;Robert F Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University
Martin Stute
Martin Stute Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Gisela Winckler
Gisela Winckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mitchell W Lyle
Mitchell W Lyle Oregon State University
Peter Schlosser
Peter Schlosser Arizona State University
Thomas S. Bianchi
Thomas S. Bianchi University of New Hampshire
Jerry F. McManus
Jerry F. McManus Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Alan Zindler
Alan Zindler Harvard University
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz Georgia Institute of Technology
Laurie Reisberg
Laurie Reisberg University of Lorraine

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