Publications

In progress:

1. Kirkpatrick, H.M., Trail, D., Harrison, T.M., Bell, E.A., Investigating pressure effects of Ti and Zr partitioning into zircon, quartz, and rutile at crustal temperatures. In revision for Chemical Geology.

2. Jaramillo, V., Catlos, E.J., Bell, E.A., Schmitt, A.K., New structural and metamorphic constraints on the structural evolution of the Whipple Mountains detachment shear zone in southeastern California.  In revision.

3. Drabon, N., Bell, E.A., What the Zircon Record Reveals About the Habitability of the Hadean Earth.  In revision.

2024:

1. Barboni, M., Marquardt, M., Timms, N.E., Bell, E.A. (2024).  HED Zircons as a Window into the Solar System’s First Crust: Decoupling Primordial Differentiation, Metamorphism and Impact Events through Textural and Chemical Studies.  In press at Geochimica et Cosmochimia Acta.

2023:

1. Vogt, M., Schwarz, W. H., Schmitt, A. K., Schmitt, J., Trieloff, M., Harrison, T. M., & Bell, E. A. (2023). Graphitic inclusions in zircon from early Phanerozoic S-type granite: Implications for the preservation of Hadean biosignatures. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 349, 23-40.

2. Kirkpatrick, H. M., Harrison, T. M., Ibañez-Mejia, M., Tissot, F. L., MacLennan, S. A., & Bell, E. A. (2023). Temperature and co-crystallization effects on Zr isotopes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 352, 69-85.

2022:

1. Bell, E.A., Kirkpatrick, H.M., 2022. Micro-zircon inclusions in accessory minerals reveal more complete magma compositional evolution records.  Accepted in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.

2. Szumila, I., Trail, D., Erickson, T., Simon, J.I., Wielicki, M.M., Lapen, T., Nakajima, M., Fries, M., Bell, E.A., 2022. Microstructural changes and Pb mobility during the zircon to reidite transformation: implications for planetary impact chronology.  Accepted in American Mineralogist.

3.  Dauphas, N., Hopp, T., Craig, G., Zhang, Z.J., Valdes, M.C., Heck, P.R., Charlier, B.L.A., Bell, E.A., Harrison, T.M., Davis, A.M., Dussubieux, L., Williams, P.R., Krawczynski, M.J., Bouman, C., Lloyd, N.S., Tollstrup, D., Schwieters, J.B., In Situ 87Rb-87Sr analyses of terrestrial and extraterrestrial samples by LA-MC-ICPMS/MS with double Wien filter and collision cell technologies. Accepted in Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy.

4.Carley, T., Bell, E.A., Miller, C., Claiborne, L.L., Hunt, A.R., Kirkpatrick, H.M., Harrison, T.M., Zircon-modeled melts clarify the formation of Earth's crust from the Hadean to the Archean.  Accepted in Geology.

5. Bell, E.A., Kirkpatrick, H.M., Harrison, T.M., Crystallization order effects on inclusion assemblages in magmatic accessory minerals and implications for the detrital record. Accepted in Chemical Geology.

6. Eddy, M., Pamukcu, A., Schoene, B., Steiner-Leach, T., and Bell, E.A., 2022.  Constraints on the Timescales and Processes that Lead to High-SiO2 Rhyolite Production in the Searchlight Pluton, NV, USA. Geosphere.

2021:

1. Bell, E.A., Kirkpatrick, H.M., 2021. Effects of crustal assimilation and magma mixing on zircon trace element relationships across the Peninsular Ranges Batholith. Chemical Geology 586, 120616.

2. Sequeira, N., Bhattacharya, A., Bell, E.A., 2021. The ~1.4 Ga A-type granitoids in the “Chottanagpur crustal block” (India), and its relocation from Columbia to Rodinia? Geoscience Frontiers, 101138.

2020:

1. Borlina, C.S., Weiss, B.P., Lima, E.A., Tang, F., Taylor, R.J.M., Einsle, J.F., Harrison, R.J., Fu, R.R., Bell, EA., Alexander, E.W., Kirkpatrick, H.M., Wielicki, M.M., Harrison, T.M., Ramezani, J., Maloof, A.C., 2019.  Questioning the evidence for a Hadean-Eoarchean dynamo.  Science Advances 6, eaav9634.

2. Chowdhury, W., Trail, D., Guitreau, M., Bell, E.A., Buettner, J., Mojzsis, S.J., 2020. Geochemical and textural investigations of the Eoarchean Ukaliq supracrustals, Northern Québec (Canada). Lithos, 372, 105673.

3. Chowdhury, W., Trail, D., Bell, E.A., 2020. Boron partitioning between zircon and melt: Insights into Hadean, modern arc, and pegmatitic settings. Chemical Geology, 551, 119763.

2019:

1. Bell, E.A., Boehnke, P., Barboni, M., Harrison, T.M., 2019. Tracking chemical alteration in magmatic zircon using rare earth element abundances. In press in Chemical Geology.

2. Tang, H., Trail, D., Bell, E.A., Harrison, T.M., 2019. Zircon Halogen Geochemistry: Insights into Hadean-Archean Fluids.  Accepted in Geochemical Perspectives Letters.

3. Benner, S.A., Bell, E.A., Biondi, E., Brasser, R., Carell, T., Kim, H.-J., Mojzsis, S.J., Omran, A., Pasek, M., Trail, D., 2019.  When did Life Likely Emerge on Earth in an RNA-First Process? Chem Systems Chem.

2018:

1. Tang, F., Taylor, R.J.M., Einsle, J.F., Borlina, C.S., Fu, R.R., Weiss, B.P., Williams, H.M., Williams, W., Nagy, L., Midgley, P., Lima, E.A., Alexander, E.W., Bell, E.A., Harrison, T.M., Harrison, R., 2018. Secondary magnetite in ancient zircon precludes analysis of a Hadean geodynamo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

2. Keller, C.B., Husson, J.M., Mitchell, R.M., Bottke, W.F., Gernon, T.M., Boehnke, P., Bell, E.A., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., Peters, S.E., 2018. Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

3. Boehnke, P., Bell, E.A., Stephan, T., Trappitsch, R., Keller, C.B., Pardo, O.S., Davis, A.M., Harrison, T.M., & Pellin, M.J., 2018. Potassic, High-silica Hadean crust. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

4. Weiss, B.P., Fu, R.R., Einsle, J.F., Glenn, D.R., Kehayias, P., Bell, E.A., Gelb, J., Araujo, J.F.D.F., Lima, E.A., Borlina, C.S., Boehnke, P., Harrison, T.M., Harrison, R.J., & Walsworth, R.L.  Secondary magnetic inclusions in detrital zircons from the Jack Hills, Western Australia and implications for the origin of the geodynamo.  Accepted in Geology.

5. Bell, E.A., Boehnke, P., Harrison, T.M., Wielicki, M.M., 2018. Mineral inclusion assemblage and detrital zircon provenance. Chemical Geology 477, 151-160.

2017:

1. Samperton, K.M., Bell, E.A., Barboni, M., Keller, C.B., Schoene, B., 2017. Zircon age–temperature–compositional spectra in plutonic rocks.  Geology 45, 983-986.

2. Bell, E.A., Boehnke, P., Harrison, T.M., 2017. Applications of biotite inclusion composition to zircon provenance determination. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 473, 237-246.

3. Harrison, T.M., Bell, E.A., Boehnke, P., 2017. Hadean zircon petrochronology. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 83, 329-364.

2016:

1. Bell, E.A., Boehnke, P., Harrison, T.M., 2016. Recovering the primary geochemistry of Jack Hills zircons through quantitative estimates of chemical alteration.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 191, 187-202.

2. Bhattacharya, A., Das, H.H., Bell, E.A., Bhattacharya, A., Chatterjee, N.,Dutt, Saha, A., 2016. Restoration of late Neoarchean-Early Cambrian tectonics in the Rengali Orogen and its environs (eastern India): the Antarctic connection.  Lithos 263, 190-212.

3. Boehnke, P., Barboni, M., Bell, E.A., 2016. Zircon U/Th Model Ages in the Presence of Melt Heterogeneity. Quaternary Geochronology 34, 69-74.

4. Bell, E.A., 2016. Preservation of primary mineral inclusions and secondary mineralization in igneous zircon: a case study in orthogneiss from the Blue Ridge, Virginia.  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 171(3), 1-15.

2015:

1. Bell, E.A., Boehnke, P., Harrison, T.M., Mao, W., 2015. Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion year old zircon. PNAS 201517557.

2. Bell, E.A., Boehnke, P., Hopkins-Wielicki, M.D., Harrison, T.M., 2015. Distinguishing primary and secondary mineral inclusion assemblages of Jack Hills zircons. Lithos 234, 15-26.

2014:

1. Bell, E.A., Harrison,T.M., Kohl, I.E., Young, E.D., 2014.  Eoarchean crustal evolution of the Jack Hills zircon source and loss of Hadean crust.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 146, 27-42.

2013:

1. Bell, E.A., Harrison,T.M., 2013.  Post-Hadean transitions in Jack Hills zircon provenance: a signal of the Late Heavy Bombardment? Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 364, 1-11.

2011:

1. Bell, E.A., Harrison,T.M., McCulloch, M.T., Young, E.D., 2011. Early Archean crustal evolution of the Jack Hills Zircon source terrane inferred from Lu-Hf, 207Pb/206Pb, and δ18O systematics of Jack Hills zircons.  Geochim.Cosmochim. Acta., 75, 4816-4829.

Recent Conference Abstracts

(*indicates I presented)

*Bell, E.A., & Kirkpatrick, H.M., Apatite inclusion loss in detrital zircons during weathering and transport.  AGU Fall Meeting December 2022.

*Bell, E.A., & Kirkpatrick, H.M., Petrochronology of Zircon-Bearing Detrital Rutile from Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and Mill Creek, Southern California.  AGU Fall Meeting December 2022

*Bell, E.A., Kirkpatrick, H.M., Accessory mineral micro-zircon inclusions uncover more complete magma compositional evolution records. Goldschmidt 2022 meeting.

Chowdhury, W., Gravlee, S., Trail, D., Kirkpatrick, H.M., Bell, E.A., Rutile-fluid trace element partitioning as an fO2 indicator. Goldschmidt 2022 meeting.

Marquardt, M., Barboni, M., Bell, E.A. Exporing the geochemical, geochronologic, and thermal history of HED meteorites using zircon. 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2022).

*Bell, E.A., What is the relationship between magma chemistry and inclusions in zircon? AGU Fall Meeting December 2020.

Kirkpatrick, H.M., Harrison, T.M., Bell, E.A., Liu, M.-C., Tissot, F.L.H., Ibanez-Meija, M., Are Zr stable isotopes tracking magmatic differentiation in the zoned La Posta pluton? AGU Fall Meeting December 2020.

Harrison, T.M., Bell, E.A., A Plan For Detecting Hadean Life. AGU Fall Meeting December 2020.

*Bell, E.A., Miller, A., Harrison, T.M., Weiss, B.P., Microscale Secondary Phases in Detrital Zircon Record >1 Ga of Metamorphism in the Yilgarn Craton.  GSA Annual Meeting October 2020.

*Bell, E.A., Boenke, P., Harrison, T.M., Multiple oxybarometers preserved in igneous zircon. AGU Fall Meeting December 2019.

*Bell, E.A., Mineral inclusions in igneous zircon in textural and geochemical context. GSA Annual Meeting September 2019.

*Bell, E.A., Trail, D., Harrison, T.M., Boehnke, P., Implications of Hadean Mineralogical Diversity for Origin of Life Studies.  49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2018).

*Bell, E.A., Boehnke, P., Harrison, T.M., Applications of primary and secondary inclusion assemblages for zircon petrogenesis and alteration.  AGU Fall Meeting December 2017.

*Bell, E.A., Boehnke, P., Harrison, T.M., Wielicki, M.M., Mineral inclusion assemblage and composition for detrital zircon provenance. GSA Annual Meeting October 2017.

*Bell, E.A., Harrison, T.M., Boehnke, P., How Representative a View of the Hadean and Early Archean Can We Build From Detrital Zircon Records? AGU Fall Meeting December 2016.