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Overview

Mervyn Greaves is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Paleontology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Mervyn Greaves has published research articles in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Southern Ocean convection amplified past Antarctic warming and atmospheric CO2 rise during Heinrich Stadial 4," 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Millennial-Scale Changes in Bottom Water Temperature and Water Mass Exchange Through the Fram Strait 79°N, 63-13 ka," 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "Deglacial bottom water warming intensified Arctic methane seepage in the NW Barents Sea," 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "The Carbon-Sulfur Link in the Remineralization of Organic Carbon in Surface Sediments," 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Variability in the Concentration of Lithium in the Indo-Pacific Ocean," 2022, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Mervyn Greaves frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Mohamed M. Ezat
  • Tine L. Rasmussen
  • Alexandra V. Turchyn
  • Zvi Steiner
  • Stergios D. Zarkogiannis

Best Publications

  • The rare earth elements in seawater

    Henry Elderfield;Mervyn J. Greaves

  • A study of cleaning procedures used for foraminiferal Mg/Ca paleothermometry

    Stephen Barker;M. Greaves;Henry Elderfield

  • Evolution of Ocean Temperature and Ice Volume Through the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition

    H Elderfield;P Ferretti;M Greaves;S Crowhurst

  • Rare earth element geochemistry of oceanic ferromanganese nodules and associated sediments

    H Elderfield;C.J Hawkesworth;M.J Greaves;S.E Calvert

  • An intensity ratio calibration method for the accurate determination of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca of marine carbonates by ICP‐AES

    Stephanie de Villiers;Mervyn Greaves;Henry Elderfield

  • The behaviour of the rare earth elements during mixing of river and sea waters

    J Hoyle;H Elderfield;A Gledhill;M Greaves

  • Rare earth elements in submarine hydrothermal fluids and plumes from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    A Mitra;H Elderfield;M.J Greaves

  • Interlaboratory comparison study of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca measurements in planktonic foraminifera for paleoceanographic research

    Yair Rosenthal;Suzanne Perron‐Cashman;Caroline H. Lear;Edouard Bard

  • Interlaboratory comparison study of calibration standards for foraminiferal Mg/Ca thermometry

    M. Greaves;N. Caillon;H. Rebaubier;G. Bartoli

  • Negative cerium anomalies in the rare earth element patterns of oceanic ferromanganese nodules

    H. Elderfield;M.J. Greaves

  • Hydrothermal manganese plumes in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge rift valley

    G. Klinkhammer;P. Rona;M. Greaves;H. Elderfield

  • Dissolved rare earth elements in the Southern Ocean: Cerium oxidation and the influence of hydrography

    C.R. German;T. Masuzawa;T. Masuzawa;M.J. Greaves;H. Elderfield

  • Aeolian sources of rare earth elements to the Western Pacific Ocean

    M.J Greaves;H Elderfield;E.R Sholkovitz

  • DETERMINATION OF THE RARE EARTH ELEMENTS IN NATURAL WATERS BY ISOTOPE-DILUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY

    M.J. Greaves;H. Elderfield;G.P. Klinkhammer

  • Rare earth element mobilization from marine atmospheric dust into seawater

    M.J. Greaves;P.J. Statham;H. Elderfield

  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by Holocene warm water incursions

    Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand;James A. Smith;David A. Hodell;Mervyn Greaves

  • A record of bottom water temperature and seawater δ18O for the Southern Ocean over the past 440 kyr based on Mg/Ca of benthic foraminiferal Uvigerina spp

    H. Elderfield;M. Greaves;Stephen Barker;Ian Robert Hall

  • Determination of multiple element/calcium ratios in foraminiferal calcite by quadrupole ICP-MS

    Jimin Yu;Jason Day;Mervyn Greaves;Henry Elderfield

  • Preferential dissolution of benthic foraminiferal calcite during laboratory reductive cleaning

    Jimin Yu;Henry Elderfield;Mervyn Greaves;Jason Day

  • Rare earth elements in hydrothermal fluids and plume particulates by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    G. Klinkhammer;C.R. German;H. Elderfield;M.J. Greaves

  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by Holocene warm water incursions, supplementary data

    Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand;James A Smith;David A Hodell;Mervyn Greaves

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry Elderfield
Henry Elderfield University of Cambridge
David A Hodell
David A Hodell University of Cambridge
James P. Smith
James P. Smith Princeton University
Robert D Larter
Robert D Larter British Antarctic Survey
Gerhard Kuhn
Gerhard Kuhn University of Bremen
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand British Antarctic Survey
Thorbjørn Joest Andersen
Thorbjørn Joest Andersen University of Copenhagen
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Karsten Gohl
Karsten Gohl Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Stephen J. Roberts
Stephen J. Roberts University of Oxford

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