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Sune G. Nielsen is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their scholarly work is situated primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, encompassing 111 publications. More specifically, their research extends into subfields such as Geophysics, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics include several specialized and intersecting areas:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Thallium and Germanium Studies
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing

Among their most recent papers are the following:

  • "Constraining oceanic oxygenation during the Shuram excursion in South China using thallium isotopes," 2020, published in Geobiology
  • "Barium isotope systematics of subduction zones," 2020, published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Limited iodate reduction in shipboard seawater incubations from the Eastern Tropical North Pacific oxygen deficient zone," 2020, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Sedimentary vanadium isotope signatures in low oxygen marine conditions," 2020, published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Beyond anoxia: Exploring sedimentary thallium isotopes in paleo-redox reconstructions from a new core top collection," 2022, published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Sune G. Nielsen has collaborated extensively with a number of co-authors, with the most frequent including:

  • Chadlin M. Ostrander
  • Maureen Auro
  • Yi Wang
  • Yunchao Shu
  • Jerzy Blusztajn

The scientist has published primarily in several venues, with their most frequent publication outlets being:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Chemical Geology
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

In addition to articles, Nielsen has contributed to academic books, notably publishing "Vanadium Isotopes" in 2020 through Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Geochemical evidence for mélange melting in global arcs.

    Sune G. Nielsen;Horst R. Marschall;Horst R. Marschall

  • Barium-isotopic fractionation in seawater mediated by barite cycling and oceanic circulation

    Tristan J. Horner;Christopher W. Kinsley;Sune G. Nielsen

  • Hydrothermal fluid fluxes calculated from the isotopic mass balance of thallium in the ocean crust

    Sune G. Nielsen;Sune G. Nielsen;Mark Rehkämper;Mark Rehkämper;Damon A.H. Teagle;David A. Butterfield

  • The precise and accurate determination of thallium isotope compositions and concentrations for water samples by MC-ICPMS

    Sune G. Nielsen;Mark Rehkämper;Joel Baker;Alex N. Halliday

  • Thallium isotopes reveal protracted anoxia during the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) associated with volcanism, carbon burial, and mass extinction.

    Theodore R. Them;Theodore R. Them;Benjamin C. Gill;Andrew H. Caruthers;Angela M. Gerhardt

  • Early accretion of water in the inner solar system from a carbonaceous chondrite–like source

    Adam R. Sarafian;Sune G. Nielsen;Horst R. Marschall;Francis M. McCubbin

  • Thallium isotope composition of the upper continental crust and rivers—An investigation of the continental sources of dissolved marine thallium

    Sune G. Nielsen;Mark Rehkämper;Don Porcelli;Per Andersson

  • Thallium isotope evidence for a permanent increase in marine organic carbon export in the early Eocene

    Sune G. Nielsen;Sarah Mar-Gerrison;Abdelmouhcine Gannoun;Doug LaRowe

  • Cenozoic marine geochemistry of thallium deduced from isotopic studies of ferromanganese crusts and pelagic sediments

    M. Rehkämper;Martin Frank;J. R. Hein;A. N. Halliday

  • Constraining the rate of oceanic deoxygenation leading up to a Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE-2: ~94 Ma)

    Chadlin M. Ostrander;Chadlin M. Ostrander;Jeremy D. Owens;Sune G. Nielsen

  • Fully oxygenated water columns over continental shelves before the Great Oxidation Event

    Chadlin M. Ostrander;Sune G. Nielsen;Jeremy D. Owens;Brian Kendall

  • Thallium isotopic evidence for ferromanganese sediments in the mantle source of Hawaiian basalts

    Sune G Nielsen;Sune G Nielsen;Mark Rehkamper;Mark Rehkamper;Marc Norman;Alexander Halliday;Alexander Halliday

  • Towards an understanding of thallium isotope fractionation during adsorption to manganese oxides

    Sune G. Nielsen;Sune G. Nielsen;Laura E. Wasylenki;Mark Rehkämper;Caroline L. Peacock

  • The mass balance of dissolved thallium in the oceans

    Mark Rehkämper;Sune G. Nielsen

  • Fractionation of oxygen and iron isotopes by partial melting processes : implications for the interpretation of stable isotope signatures in mafic rocks

    Helen M. Williams;Helen M. Williams;Sune G. Nielsen;Sune G. Nielsen;Christophe Renac;William L. Griffin

  • Investigation and Application of Thallium Isotope Fractionation

    Sune G. Nielsen;Mark Rehkämper;Julie Prytulak

  • Tracing subducted sediment inputs to the Ryukyu arc-Okinawa Trough system: Evidence from thallium isotopes

    Yunchao Shu;Sune G. Nielsen;Zhigang Zeng;Ryuichi Shinjo

  • Pelagic barite precipitation at micromolar ambient sulfate.

    Tristan J. Horner;Helena V. Pryer;Sune G. Nielsen;Peter W. Crockford

  • The chromium isotope composition of reducing and oxic marine sediments

    Bleuenn Gueguen;Christopher T. Reinhard;Thomas J. Algeo;Larry C. Peterson

  • Thallium-isotopic compositions of euxinic sediments as a proxy for global manganese-oxide burial

    Jeremy D. Owens;Jeremy D. Owens;Sune G. Nielsen;Tristan J. Horner;Chadlin M. Ostrander;Chadlin M. Ostrander

  • Investigation of thallium fluxes from subaerial volcanism—Implications for the present and past mass balance of thallium in the oceans

    R.G.A. Baker;R.G.A. Baker;M. Rehkämper;T.K. Hinkley;S.G. Nielsen

  • Thallium isotopic evidence for ferromanganese sediments in the mantle source of Hawaiian basalts

    Sune G. Nielsen;Mark Rehkamper;Marc D. Norman;Alex N. Halliday

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex N. Halliday
Alex N. Halliday Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jeremy D. Owens
Jeremy D. Owens Florida State University
Mark Rehkämper
Mark Rehkämper Imperial College London
Horst R. Marschall
Horst R. Marschall Goethe University Frankfurt
Julie Prytulak
Julie Prytulak Durham University
Jerzy S. Blusztajn
Jerzy S. Blusztajn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Helen M. Williams
Helen M. Williams University of Cambridge
Kevin Righter
Kevin Righter University of Arizona
James R. Hein
James R. Hein United States Geological Survey
Kevin W. Burton
Kevin W. Burton Durham University

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