Publications

submitted / in review / in press

Prow, A.N., Lu, Z., Blättler, C.L., He, T., Yang, Z., Singh, P., Kemeny, P.C., Todes, J.P., Pohl, A., Bhattacharya, T., van de Schootbrugge, B., Wignall, P.B., Payne, J.L. Temporal and spatial dynamics of paleo-redox conditions across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary.

Wood, M.M., Blättler, C.L., Kolevica, A., Eisenhauer, A., Paytan, A. Stable and radiogenic strontium isotopes trace the composition and diagenetic alteration of remnant glacial seawater.

Schroedl, P., Silverstein, M., DiGregorio, D., Blättler, C., Lloyd, S., Bradbury, H., Edwards, R.L., Marlow, J. Carbonate chimneys at the highly productive Point Dume methane seep: Fine-Scale mineralogical, geochemical, and microbiological heterogeneity reflects dynamic and long-lived methane-metabolizing habitats.

2024

Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the Expedition 401 Scientists. Expedition 401 Preliminary Report: Mediterranean–Atlantic Gateway Exchange. International Ocean Discovery Program, 2024. doi:10.14379/iodp.pr.401.2024

Kemeny, P.C., Torres, M.A., Fischer, W.W., Blättler, C.L., 2024. Balance and imbalance in biogeochemical cycles reflect the operation of closed, exchange, and open sets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, e2316535121. doi:10.1073/pnas.231653512

2023

Bryant, R.N., Richardson, J.A., Kalia, T.C., Gros, O., Lopez-Garriga, J., Blättler, C.L., 2023. Inorganic sulfate-based signatures of chemosymbiosis in modern lucinids. Geology 51, 1022–1026. doi:10.1130/G51353.1 

2022

Bryant, R.N., Present, T.M., Ahm, A.S.C., McClelland, H.L.O, Razionale, D., Blättler, C.L., 2022. Early diagenetic constraints on Permian seawater chemistry from the Capitan Reef. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 328, 1–18. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2022.04.027 

Razionale, D.P., Bryant, R.N., Blättler, C.L., 2022. Adapting automated instrumentation for high-throughput calcium isotope measurements by MC-ICP-MS. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 36, e9247. doi:10.1002/rcm.9249.

Waldeck, A.R., Olson, H.C., Yao, W., Blättler, C.L., Paytan, A., Hodell, D.A., Johnston, D.T., 2022. Calibrating the triple oxygen isotope composition of evaporite minerals as a proxy for marine sulfate. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 578, 117320. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117320. 

2021

Hoffman, P.F., Halverson, G.P., Schrag, D.P., Higgins, J.A., Domack, E.W., Macdonald, F.A., Pruss, S.B., Blättler, C.L., Crockford, P.W., Hodgin, E.B., Bellefroid, E.J., Johnson, B.W., Hodgskiss, M.S.W., Lamothe, K.G., LoBianco, S.J.C., Busch, J.F., Howes, B.J., Greenman, J.W., Nelson, L.L., 2021. Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia). Earth-Science Reviews 219, 103616. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103616.

Hoffman, P.F., Pruss, S.B., Blättler, C.L., Bellefroid, E.J., Johnson, B.W., 2021. A reference section for the Otavi Group (Damara Supergroup) in Eastern Kaoko Zone near Ongongo, Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 23, 1–25.

Blättler, C.L., Hong, W.L., Kirsimäe, K., Higgins, J.A., Lepland, A., 2021. Small calcium isotope fractionation at slow precipitation rates in methane seep authigenic carbonates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 298, 227–239. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2021.01.001.

Crockford, P.W., Kunzmann, M., Blättler, C.L., Kalderon-Asael, B., Murphy, J.G., Ahm, A.-S., Sharoni, S., Halverson, G.P., Planavsky, N.J., Halevy, I., Higgins, J.A., 2021. Reconstructing Neoproterozoic seawater chemistry from early diagenetic dolomite. Geology 49, 442–446 . doi:10.1130/G48213.1.

2020

Ingalls, M., Blättler, C.L., Higgins, J.A., Magyar, J.S., Eiler, J.M., Fischer, W.W., 2020. P/Ca in carbonates as a proxy for alkalinity and phosphate levels. Geophysical Research Letters 47, e2020GL088804. doi:10.1029/2020GL088804.

Thiagarajan, N., Crémière, A., Blättler, C., Lepland, A., Kirsimäe, K., Higgins, J., Brunstad, H., Eiler, J., 2020. Stable and clumped isotope characterization of authigenic carbonates in methane cold seep environments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 279, 204–219. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.015.

Blättler, C.L., Bergmann, K.D., Kah, L.C., Gómez-Pérez, I., Higgins, J.A., 2020. Constraints on Meso- to Neoproterozoic seawater from ancient evaporite deposits. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 532, 115951. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115951.

2019

Lanci, L., Zanella, E., Jovane, L, Alonso-García, M., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Betzler, C., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Eberli, G.P., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Kroon, D., Laya, J.C., Ling Hui Mee, A., Lüdmann, T., Nakakuni, M., Bejugam, N.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z., Young, J.R., 2019. Magnetic properties of Early Pliocene sediments from IODP Site U1467 (Maldives platform) reveal changes in the monsoon system. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 533, 109283. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109283.

Swart, P.K., Blättler, C.L., Nakakuni, M., Mackenzie, G.J., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Reolid, J., Alonso-García, M., Slagle, A.L., Wright, J.D., Kroon, D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Hui Mee, A.L., Young, J.R., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Bialik, O.M., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Lüdmann, T., Nagender Nath, B., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Su, X., Sloss, C.R., Yao, Z., 2019. Cyclic anoxia and organic rich carbonate sediments within a drowned carbonate platform linked to Antarctic ice volume changes: Late Oligocene–early Miocene Maldives. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 521, 1–13. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.019.

Blättler, C.L., Higgins, J.A., Swart, P.K., 2019. Advected glacial seawater preserved in the subsurface of the Maldives carbonate edifice. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 257, 80–95. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2019.04.030.

2018

Kunkelova, T., Jung, S.J.A., de Leau, E.S., Odling, N., Thomas, A.L., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Ling Hui Mee, A., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Lüdmann, T., Bejugam, N.N., Nakakuni, M., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z., Young, J.R., Lindhorst, S., Stainbank, S., Rueggeberg, A., Spezzaferri, S., Carrasqueira, I., Hu, S., Kroon, D., 2018. A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 5, 20 pp. doi:10.1186/s40645-018-0238-x.

Pruss, S.B., Blättler, C.L., Macdonald, F.A., Higgins, J.A., 2018. Calcium isotope evidence that the earliest metazoan biomineralizers formed aragonite shells. Geology 46, 763–766. doi:10.1130/G45275.1.

Lüdmann, T., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Reolid, J., Reijmer, J.J.G., Sloss, C.R., Bialik, O.M., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Kroon, D., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Ling Hui Mee, A., Nakakuni, M., Nath, B.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Slagle, A.L., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z., Young, J.R., 2018. Carbonate delta drift: A new sediment drift type. Marine Geology 401, 98–111. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2018.04.011.

Blättler, C.L., Claire, M.W., Prave, A.R., Kirsimäe, K., Higgins, J.A., Medvedev, P.V., Romashkin, A.E., Rychanchik, D.V., Zerkle, A.L., Paiste, K., Kreitsmann, T., Millar, I.L., Hayles, J.A., Bao, H., Turchyn, A.V., Warke, M.R., Lepland, A., 2018. Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth’s great oxidation. Science 360, 320–323. doi:10.1126/science.aar2687.

Ahm, A.S.C., Bjerrum, C.J., Blättler, C.L., Swart, P.K., Higgins, J.A., 2018. Quantifying early marine diagenesis in shallow-water carbonate sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 236, 140–159. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2018.02.042.

Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Lüdmann, T., Reolid, J., Kroon, D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Swart, P.K., Wright, J., Young, J.R., Alvarez-Zarikian, C., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Hui Mee, A.L., Nakakuni, M., Nath, B.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Yao, Z., 2018. Refinement of Miocene sea level and monsoon events from the sedimentary archive of the Maldives (Indian Ocean). Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 5, 18 pp. doi:10.1186/s40645-018-0165-x.

Higgins, J.A., Blättler, C.L., Lundstrom, E.A., Santiago-Ramos, D.P., Akhtar, A.A., Crüger Ahm, A.-S., Bialik, O., Holmden, C., Bradbury, H., Murray, S.T., Swart, P.K., 2018. Mineralogy, early marine diagenesis, and the chemistry of shallow-water carbonate sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 220, 512–534. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2017.09.046.

2017

Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., and the Expedition 359 Scientists, Maldives Monsoon and Sea Level, 2017. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 359: College Station, TX. doi:10.14379/iodp.proc.359.2017.

Blättler, C.L., Higgins, J.A., 2017. Testing Urey’s carbonate–silicate cycle using the calcium isotopic composition of sedimentary carbonates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 479, 241–251. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.033.

Blättler, C.L., Kump, L.R., Fischer, W.W., Paris, G., Kasbohm, J.J., Higgins, J.A., 2017. Constraints on ocean carbonate chemistry and pCO2 in the Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic. Nature Geoscience 10, 41–45. doi:10.1038/ngeo2844.

2016

Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Kroon, D., Wright, J.D., Swart, P.K., Nath, B.N., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Ling Hui Mee, A., Lüdmann, T., Nakakuni, M., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Yao, Z., Young, J.R., 2016. The abrupt onset of the modern South Asian Monsoon winds. Scientific Reports 6, 29838. doi:10.1038/srep29838.

Gothmann, A.M., Bender, M.L., Blättler, C.L., Swart, P.K., Giri, S.J., Adkins, J.F., Stolarski, J., Higgins, J.A., 2016. Calcium isotopes in scleractinian fossil corals since the Mesozoic: Implications for vital effects and biomineralization through time. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 444, 205–214. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.012.

Owen, R.A., Day, C.C., Hu, C.-Y., Liu, Y.-H., Pointing, M.D., Blättler, C.L., Henderson, G.M., 2016. Calcium isotopes in caves as a proxy for aridity: Modern calibration and application to the 8.2 kyr event. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 443, 129–138. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.027.

2015 and earlier

Blättler, C.L., Miller, N.R., Higgins, J.A., 2015. Mg and Ca isotope signatures of authigenic dolomite in siliceous deep-sea sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 419, 32–42. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.006.

Blättler, C.L., Higgins, J.A., 2014. Calcium isotopes in evaporites record variations in Phanerozoic seawater SO4 and Ca. Geology 42, 711–714. doi:10.1130/G35721.1.

Blättler, C.L., Stanley, S.M., Henderson, G.M., Jenkyns, H.C., 2014. Identifying vital effects in Halimeda algae with Ca isotopes. Biogeosciences 11, 7202–7217. doi:10.5194/bg-11-7202-2014.

Blättler, C.L., Henderson, G.M., Jenkyns, H.C., 2012. Explaining the Phanerozoic Ca isotope history of seawater. Geology 40, 843–846. doi:10.1130/G33191.1.

Blättler, C.L., Jenkyns, H.C., Reynard, L.M., Henderson, G.M., 2011. Significant increases in global weathering during Oceanic Anoxic Events 1a and 2 indicated by calcium isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 309, 77–88. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.06.029.