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Geoff Nowell is a researcher affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom, specializing in a diverse range of topics within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Arts and Humanities. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields including Archaeology, Geophysics, Paleontology, Geography, Planning and Development, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Nowell's research focuses on a variety of scientific themes such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Radioactive element chemistry and processing.

The scholar has contributed to several recent papers, with notable publications including:

  • Source of strontium in archaeological mobility studies-marine diet contribution to the isotopic composition, 2020, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • A Triassic to Jurassic arc in north Borneo: Geochronology, geochemistry, and genesis of the Segama Valley Felsic Intrusions and the Sabah ophiolite, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Fractionation of rhenium isotopes in the Mackenzie River basin during oxidative weathering, 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Measurements of rhenium isotopic composition in low-abundance samples, 2020, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
  • Who were the Hyksos? Challenging traditional narratives using strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis of human remains from ancient Egypt, 2020, PLoS ONE

Recurring collaborators in their research include Janet Montgomery, Charlotte L. King, Hallie R. Buckley, Peter Petchey, and Rebecca Kinaston, each having co-authored multiple publications with Nowell. These partnerships illustrate active engagement in interdisciplinary and cooperative research efforts.

Publication venues frequently used by Nowell cover a range of scientific journals and conferences. The most common venues are:

  • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Archaeological Science

Best Publications

  • High precision Hf isotope measurements of MORB and OIB by thermal ionisation mass spectrometry: insights into the depleted mantle

    G.M. Nowell;G.M. Nowell;P.D. Kempton;S.R. Noble;J.G. Fitton

  • Hf-Nd Element and Isotope Perspective on the Nature and Provenance of Mantle and Subduction Components in Western Pacific Arc-Basin Systems

    Julian A. Pearce;P. D. Kempton;G. M. Nowell;S. R. Noble

  • Common-Pb corrected in situ U–Pb accessory mineral geochronology by LA-MC-ICP-MS

    Matthew S. A. Horstwood;Gavin L. Foster;Gavin L. Foster;Randall R. Parrish;Randall R. Parrish;Stephen R. Noble

  • Magmatism Associated with Orogenic Collapse of the Betic–Alboran Domain, SE Spain

    S. P. Turner;J. P. Platt;R. M. M. George;S. P. Kelley

  • Hf Isotope Systematics of Kimberlites and their Megacrysts: New Constraints on their Source Regions

    G. M. Nowell;D. G. Pearson;D. R. Bell;R. W. Carlson

  • Methods for the microsampling and high-precision analysis of strontium and rubidium isotopes at single crystal scale for petrological and geochronological applications

    B.L.A. Charlier;B.L.A. Charlier;C. Ginibre;C. Ginibre;D. Morgan;G.M. Nowell

  • Geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of granitoids in the East Kunlun Orogenic belt, northern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for continental crust growth through syn-collisional felsic magmatism

    Hui Huang;Hui Huang;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Geoff Nowell;Zhidan Zhao

  • A link between large mantle melting events and continent growth seen in osmium isotopes.

    D. G. Pearson;S. W. Parman;G. M. Nowell

  • The Iceland plume in space and time: a Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf study of the North Atlantic rifted margin

    P.D. Kempton;J.G. Fitton;A.D. Saunders;G.M. Nowell

  • Geochemistry of hypabyssal kimberlites from Lac de Gras, Canada: Comparisons to a global database and applications to the parent magma problem

    B.A. Kjarsgaard;D.G. Pearson;S. Tappe;G.M. Nowell

  • Community differentiation and kinship among Europe's first farmers

    R.A. Bentley;Penny Bickle;Linda Fibiger;G. M. Nowell

  • The evolution from Miocene potassic to Quaternary sodic magmatism in western Turkey: implications for enrichment processes in the lithospheric mantle

    Gürol Seyitoǧlu;Duncan Anderson;Geoff Nowell;Barry Scott

  • Re--- Os and Lu--- Hf Isotope Constraints on the Origin and Age of Pyroxenites from the Beni Bousera Peridotite Massif: Implications for Mixed Peridotite--- Pyroxenite Mantle Sources

    D. G. Pearson;G. M. Nowell

  • Petrogenesis of strongly alkaline primitive volcanic rocks at the propagating tip of the western branch of the East African Rift

    A. Rosenthal;A. Rosenthal;S.F. Foley;S.F. Foley;D.G. Pearson;G.M. Nowell

  • A fresh isotopic look at Greenland kimberlites: Cratonic mantle lithosphere imprint on deep source signal

    Sebastian Tappe;D. Graham Pearson;Geoff Nowell;Troels Nielsen

  • 184Os/188Os and 186Os/188Os measurements by Negative Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometry (N-TIMS): Effects of interfering element and mass fractionation corrections on data accuracy and precision

    Ambre Luguet;Geoff M. Nowell;D. Graham Pearson

  • Highly saline fluids from a subducting slab as the source for fluid-rich diamonds

    Yaakov Weiss;John McNeill;D. Graham Pearson;Geoff M. Nowell

  • Mantle transition zone input to kimberlite magmatism near a subduction zone: Origin of anomalous Nd–Hf isotope systematics at Lac de Gras, Canada

    Sebastian Tappe;Sebastian Tappe;D. Graham Pearson;Bruce A. Kjarsgaard;Geoff Nowell

  • Enriched Pt-Re-Os Isotope Systematics in Plume Lavas Explained by Metasomatic Sulfides

    Ambre Luguet;D. Graham Pearson;Geoff M. Nowell;Scott T. Dreher

  • Hf isotopes in zircon from the western Superior province, Canada: Implications for Archean crustal development and evolution of the depleted mantle reservoir

    D W Davis;Yuri Amelin;Geoff M. Nowell;R.R. Parrish

  • New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (October, 2014)

    S. Katsanevakis;Ü. Acar;I. Ammar;B. A. Balci

Frequent Co-Authors

D.G. Pearson
D.G. Pearson University of Alberta
Chris J. Ottley
Chris J. Ottley Durham University
Colin G. Macpherson
Colin G. Macpherson Durham University
Jon P. Davidson
Jon P. Davidson Durham University
Yaoling Niu
Yaoling Niu China University of Geosciences
Ambre Luguet
Ambre Luguet University of Bonn
Sebastian Tappe
Sebastian Tappe TU Bergakademie Freiberg
R. Alexander Bentley
R. Alexander Bentley University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Kevin W. Burton
Kevin W. Burton Durham University
Darren R. Gröcke
Darren R. Gröcke Durham University

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