Nicolas Dauphas, Assistant Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the College

Publications (Articles)
(Selected publications are available for download on Professor Dauphas' website.)

Dauphas N. and Marty B. (1999). Heavy nitrogen in carbonatites of the Kola peninsula: a possible signature of the deep mantle. Science 286, 2488-2490.

Dauphas N., Robert F., and Marty B. (2000). The late asteroidal and cometary bombardment of Earth as recorded in water deuterium to protium ratio. Icarus 148, 508-512.

Dauphas N., Reisberg L., and Marty B. (2001). Solvent extraction, ion chromatography, and mass spectrometry of molybdenum isotopes. Analytical Chemistry 73, 2613-2616.

Dauphas N., Marty B., and Reisberg L. (2002). Molybdenum evidence for inherited planetary scale isotope heterogeneity of the protosolar nebula. Astrophys. J. 565, 640-644.

Dauphas N., Marty B., and Reisberg L. (2002). Molybdenum nucleosynthetic dichotomy revealed in primitive meteorites. Astrophys. J. Lett., 569, L139-L142.

Dauphas N., Marty B., and Reisberg L. (2002). Inference on terrestrial genesis from molybdenum isotope systematics. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29 (6), 1084, doi: 10.1029/2001GL014237.

Dauphas N., Reisberg L., and Marty B. (2002). An alternative explanation for the distribution of highly siderophile elements in the Earth. Geochem. J., 36, 409-419.

Dauphas N. and Marty B. (2002). Inference on the nature and the mass of Earth's late veneer from noble metals and gases. J. Geophys. Res., 107 (E12), 5129, doi: 10.1029/2001JE001617.

Marty B. and Dauphas, N. (2002). Formation and early evolution of the atmosphere. In The Early Earth: Physical, Chemical and Biological Development (Fowler C.M.R., Ebinger C.J., and Hawkesworth C.J., eds), Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 199, 213-229.

Marty B. and Dauphas N. (2003). The nitrogen record of crust-mantle interaction and mantle convection from Archean to Present. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 206, 397-410.

Dauphas N., Rauscher T., Marty B., and Reisberg L. (2003). Short-lived p-nuclides in the early solar system and implications on the nucleosynthetic role of X-ray binaries. Nucl. Phys. A, 719, 287c-295c.

Dauphas N. (2003). The dual origin of the terrestrial atmosphere. Icarus, 165, 326-339.

Marty B. and Dauphas N. (2003). Nitrogen isotopic compositions of the present mantle and the archean biosphere: response to a comment on "The nitrogen record of crust-mantle interaction and mantle convection from Archean to Present" by Pierre Cartigny and Magali Ader. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., in press.

Conference abstracts

Dauphas N., Robert F., and Marty B. (1998). Hydrogen, nitrogen, and neon elemental and isotopic constraints on cometary and meteoritic fluxes. 61st Meteoritical Society Meeting. July 27 - 31, 1998. Dublin, Ireland. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33, A38-A39.

Dauphas N., Robert F., and Marty B. (1998). Comets, carbonaceous chondrites and the earth's atmosphere. Impacts and the Early Earth. December 13 - 15, 1998. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Dauphas N., Marty B., and Tolstikhin I.N. (1999). Nitrogen and argon isotopes in carbonatites from the Kola peninsula (Russia), an open window on the deep mantle. 10th European Union of Geosciences. March 28 - April 1, 1999. Strasbourg, France. J. Conf. Abs. 4, 364.

Dauphas N., Zanda B., Dubouloz Y., Allemand J., and Sangely L. (2000). A new H5/S3/W1 brecciated meteorite from France. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society. August 28 - September 1, 2000. Chicago, USA. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35, A46-A47.

Dauphas N., Marty B., Reisberg L., Spatz C., Framboisier X., Carignan J., and Ludden J. (2000). Chemical separation of molybdenum and its isotopic analysis by MC-ICP-Hex-MS. 4th International Conference on the Analysis of Geological and Environmental Materials. August 29 - September 1, 2000. Pont-à-Mousson, France.

Dauphas N., Marty B., and Reisberg L. (2000). In search of live 97Tc in the early solar system. 11th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference. September 3 - 8, 2000. Oxford, United Kingdom. J. Conf. Abs. 5, 332.

Marty B. and Dauphas N. (2000). Nitrogen isotope systematics of the mantle and the fate of organic matter through time. 11th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference. September 3 - 8, 2000. Oxford, United Kingdom. J. Conf. Abs. 5, 672.

Dauphas N., Marty B., and Reisberg L. (2001). Molybdenum-HL isotope anomalies. 64th Meteoritical Society Meeting. September 10-14, 2001. Vatican City. Meteoritics Planet. Sci. 36, A46-A47.

Dauphas N., Marty B., and Reisberg L. (2002). Molybdenum isotope systematics in the solar system. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXIII, #1198.

Dauphas N., Rauscher T., Schatz H., Marty B., and Reisberg L. (2002). Technetium-97 and p-radionuclides. 12th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference. August 18 - 23, 2002. Davos, Switzerland. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 66, A169.

Dauphas N., Reisberg L., and Marty B. (2002). Does the primitive upper mantle 187Os/188Os ratio provide information about the composition of the late veneer? Highly Siderophile Elements in Terrestrial and Meteoritic Samples: Implications for Planetary Differentiation and Igneous Processes. August 26 - 28, 2002. Nancy, France.

Dauphas N., Rauscher T., Marty B., and Reisberg L. (2002). Short-lived p-nuclides in the early solar system: bridging the gap between galactic chemical evolution and solar system formation. 17th Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics. September 30 - October 4, 2002. Debrecen, Hungary.

Dauphas N., Marty B., Reisberg L., Rauscher T., and Davis A.M. (2002). A hint from molybdenum isotope anomalies for a new type of presolar phase. 12th annual Isotopic Anomalies Workshop. November 1 - 2, 2002. Clemson, USA.

Dauphas N., Rouxel O., Davis A.M., Lewis R.S., Wadhwa M., Marty B., Reisberg L., Janney P.E., and Zimmermann C. (2003). Iron and selenium isotope homogeneity in the protosolar nebula? Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXIV, #1807.

Dauphas N. (2003). The origin of the terrestrial atmosphere: early fractionation and cometary accretion. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXIV, #1813.

Dauphas N., Marty B., Davis A.M., Reisberg L., and Gallino R. (2003). Correlated Mo and Ru anomalies in differentiated meteorites. 13th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference. September 7-12, 2003. Kurashiki, Japan. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 67, A75.