Professor Rob Ellam
- Emeritus Professor (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre)
email:
Rob.Ellam@glasgow.ac.uk
SUERC, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride G75 0QF
Publications
2022
Liu, Y., Liu, X., Wang, S., Xu, S., Ellam, R. M. , Fabel, D. and Chen, J. (2022) Late Cenozoic channel migration of the proto-Yangtze River in the delta region: Insights from cosmogenic nuclide burial dating of onshore boreholes. Geomorphology, 407, 108228. (doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108228)
2021
Zhong, J., Wallin, M. B., Wang, W., Li, S.-L., Guo, L., Dong, K., Ellam, R. M. , Liu, C.-Q. and Xu, S. (2021) Synchronous evaporation and aquatic primary production in tropical river networks. Water Research, 200, 117272. (doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117272)
Yang, X. et al. (2021) New insights into mechanisms of sunlight- and dark-mediated high-temperature accelerated diurnal production-degradation of fluorescent DOM in lake waters. Science of the Total Environment, 760, 143377. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143377)
Troll, V. R., Nicoll, G. R., Ellam, R. M. , Emeleus, C. H. and Mattsson, T. (2021) Petrogenesis of the Loch Bà ring-dyke and Centre 3 granites, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 176(2), 16. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-020-01763-4)
Ellam, R. M. (2021) Radiogenic isotopes and mantle evolution. In: Alderton, D. and Elias, S. A. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Geology. Academic Press: Amsterdam, pp. 330-344. ISBN 9780081029091 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12533-3)
2020
Zhong, J., Chen, S., Wang, W., Yan, Z., Ellam, R. M. and Li, S.‐L. (2020) Unravelling the hydrological effects on spatiotemporal variability of water chemistry in mountainous rivers from Southwest China. Hydrological Processes, 34(26), pp. 5595-5605. (doi: 10.1002/hyp.13980)
Liu, W., Liu, Y., Zeng, Z., Yang, B., Peng, L., Xu, D., Wei, Y., Li, Y., Ellam, R. M. and Xu, S. (2020) K-bentonites in Ordovician–Silurian transition from South China: implications for tectonic evolution in the northern margin of Gondwana. Journal of the Geological Society, 177(6), pp. 1245-1260. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2020-049)
Mohinuzzaman, M., Yuan, J., Yang, X., Senesi, N., Li, S.-L., Ellam, R. M. , Mostofa, K. M.G. and Liu, C.-Q. (2020) Insights into solubility of soil humic substances and their fluorescence characterisation in three characteristic soils. Science of the Total Environment, 720, 137395. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137395)
Liu, L., Song, Z., Yu, C., Yu, G., Ellam, R. M. , Liu, H., Singh, B. P. and Wang, H. (2020) Silicon effects on biomass carbon and phytolith-occluded carbon in grasslands under high-salinity conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, 657. (doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00657) (PMID:32528507) (PMCID:PMC7264264)
Upton, B. G.J., Kirstein, L. A., Odling, N., Underhill, J. R., Ellam, R. M. , Cayzer, N. and Clarke, B. A. (2020) Silicic volcanism in the Scottish Lower Carboniferous; lavas, intrusions and ignimbrites of the Garleton Hills Volcanic Formation, SE Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 56(1), pp. 63-79. (doi: 10.1144/sjg2019-008)
Vincent, S. J., BouDagher-Fadel, M. K., Guo, L., Flecker, R., Ellam, R. M. and Kandemir, R. (2020) Reply to the Discussion by Granier of Vincent et al. 2018 (Marine and Petroleum Geology, 91, 639-657). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 112, 103996. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.08.024)
Janssens, N., Capezzuoli, E., Claes, H., Muchez, P., Yu, T.-L., Shen, C.-C., Ellam, R. M. and Swennen, R. (2020) Fossil travertine system and its palaeofluid provenance, migration and evolution through time: Example from the geothermal area of Acquasanta Terme (Central Italy). Sedimentary Geology, 398, 105580. (doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.105580)
2019
Modestou, S.E. , Gutjahr, M., Schee, M., Ellam, R.M. and Flecker, R. (2019) Precessional cyclicity of seawater Pb isotopes in the late Miocene Mediterranean. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(12), pp. 2201-2222. (doi: 10.1029/2018PA003538)
Maxwell, V., Ellam, R.M. , Skarpelis, N. and Sampson, A. (2019) The context and nature of the evidence for metalworking from mid 4th Millennium Yali (Nissyros). Journal of Greek Archaeology, 4, pp. 1-30. (doi: 10.32028/9781789693775-2)
Troll, V. R., Emeleus, C. H., Nicoll, G. R., Mattsson, T., Ellam, R. M. , Donaldson, C. H. and Harris, C. (2019) A large explosive silicic eruption in the British Palaeogene Igneous Province. Scientific Reports, 9, 494. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-35855-w) (PMID:30679443) (PMCID:PMC6345756)
Ren, L. et al. (2019) Compound-specific stable carbon isotope ratios of terrestrial biomarkers in urban aerosols from Beijing, China. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 3(9), pp. 1896-1904. (doi: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00113)
Yue, S. et al. (2019) Abundance and diurnal trends of fluorescent bioaerosols in the troposphere over Mt. Tai, China, in spring. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(7), pp. 4158-4173. (doi: 10.1029/2018JD029486)
2018
Vincent, B., Waters, J., Witkowski, F., Daniau, G., Oxtoby, N., Crowley, S. and Ellam, R. (2018) Diagenesis of Rotliegend sandstone reservoirs (offshore Netherlands): The origin and impact of dolomite cements. Sedimentary Geology, 373, pp. 272-291. (doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.06.012)
Zhong, J., Li, S.-L., Liu, J., Ding, H., Sun, X., Xu, S., Wang, T., Ellam, R. M. and Liu, C.-Q. (2018) Climate variability controls on CO2 consumption fluxes and carbon dynamics for monsoonal rivers: evidence from Xijiang River, Southwest China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123(8), pp. 2553-2567. (doi: 10.1029/2018jg004439)
Vincent, S. J., Guo, L., Flecker, R., BouDagher-Fadel, M. K., Ellam, R. M. and Kandemir, R. (2018) Age constraints on intra-formational unconformities in Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous carbonates in northeast Turkey; geodynamic and hydrocarbon implications. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 91, pp. 639-657. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.01.011)
Morgan, L. E., Santiago Ramos, D. P., Davidheiser-Kroll, B., Faithfull, J. , Lloyd, N. S., Ellam, R. M. and Higgins, J. A. (2018) High-precision 41K/39K measurements by MC-ICP-MS indicate terrestrial variability of δ41K. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 33(2), pp. 175-186. (doi: 10.1039/C7JA00257B)
Anderson, P.E., Stevenson, C.T., Cooper, M.R., Meighan, I.G., Reavy, R.J., Hurley, C.T., Inman, J. and Ellam, R.M. (2018) Refined model of incremental emplacement based on structural evidence from the granodioritic Newry igneous complex, Northern Ireland. GSA Bulletin, 130(5-6), pp. 740-756. (doi: 10.1130/B31756.1)
2017
de Leeuw, G.A.M., Ellam, R.M. , Stuart, F.M. and Carlson, R.W. (2017) 142Nd/144Nd Inferences on the nature and origin of the source of high 3He/4He magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 472, pp. 62-68. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.05.005)
Modestou, S. , Simon, D., Gutjahr, M., Marzocchi, A., Kouwenhoven, T. J., Ellam, R. M. and Flecker, R. (2017) Precessional variability of 87 Sr/86 Sr in the late Miocene Sorbas Basin: An interdisciplinary study of drivers of interbasin exchange. Paleoceanography, 32(6), pp. 531-552. (doi: 10.1002/2016pa003061)
2016
Ugidos, J.M., Barba, P., Valladares, M.I., Suarez, M. and Ellam, R.M. (2016) The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in the Cantabrian Zone 1 (North Spain): sub-Cambrian weathering, K-metasomatism and provenance of detrital series. Journal of the Geological Society, 173(4), pp. 603-615. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2016-004)
Natali, C., Beccaluva, L., Bianchini, G. G., Ellam, R. M. , Savo, A., Siena, F. and Stuart, F. M. (2016) High-MgO lavas associated to CFB as indicators of plume-related thermochemical effects: the case of ultra-titaniferous picrite-basalt from the Northern Ethiopian-Yemeni plateau. Gondwana Research, 34, pp. 29-48. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.02.009)
Hole, M.J., Ellam, R.M. , MacDonald, D.I.M. and Kelley, S.P. (2016) Gondwana break-up related magmatism in the Falkland Islands. Journal of the Geological Society, 173(1), pp. 108-126. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2015-027)
2015
Clog, M.D. , Ellam, R.M. , Hilkert, A., Schwieters, J.B. and Hamilton, D. (2015) New developments in High-resolution Gas Source Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometers. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 14-18 Dec 2015.
Flecker, R. et al. (2015) Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change. Earth Science Reviews, 150, pp. 365-392. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.08.007)
Clemenzi, L., Storti, F., Balsamo, F., Molli, G., Ellam, R. , Muchez, P. and Swennen, R. (2015) Fluid pressure cycles, variations in permeability, and weakening mechanisms along low-angle normal faults: the Tellaro detachment, Italy. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 127(11-12), pp. 1689-1710. (doi: 10.1130/B31203.1)
2014
Taylforth, J. E., McCay, G. A., Ellam, R. , Raffi, I., Kroon, D. and Robertson, A. H.F. (2014) Middle Miocene (Langhian) sapropel formation in the easternmost Mediterranean deep-water basin: evidence from northern Cyprus. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 57, pp. 521-536. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.04.015)
Parnell, J., Mark, D. F. , Frei, R., Fallick, A. E. and Ellam, R. M. (2014) 40Ar/39Ar dating of exceptional concentration of metals by weathering of Precambrian rocks at the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary. Precambrian Research, 246, pp. 54-63. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2014.02.012)
Faithfull, J. , Hughes, J., Upton, B.J.G., Ellam, R. and Ntaflos, T. (2014) An Aillikite Dyke From Sutherland, Scotland. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6-8 Jan 2014,
Meade, F.C., Troll, V.R., Ellam, R.M. , Freda, C., Font, L., Donaldson, C.H. and Klonowska, I. (2014) Bimodal magmatism produced by progressively inhibited crustal assimilation. Nature Communications, 5, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms5199)
Morgan, L., Higgins, J., Davidheiser-Kroll, B., Lloyd, N., Faithfull, J. and Ellam, R. (2014) Potassium Isotope Geochemistry and Magmatic Processes. In: Goldschmidt2014, Sacramento, C.A., USA, 8-13 Jun 2014,
2013
Burnside, N. M. , Shipton, Z., Dockrill, B. and Ellam, R.M. (2013) Man-made versus natural CO2 leakage: a 400 k.y. history of an analogue for engineered geological storage of CO2. Geology, 41(4), pp. 471-474. (doi: 10.1130/G33738.1)
McCay, G.A., Robertson, A.H.F., Kroon, D., Raffi, I., Ellam, R.M. and Necdet, M. (2013) Stratigraphy of Cretaceous to Lower Pliocene sediments in the northern part of Cyprus based on comparative 87Sr/86Sr isotopic, nannofossil and planktonic foraminiferal dating. Geological Magazine, 150(2), pp. 333-359. (doi: 10.1017/S0016756812000465)
Natali, C., Beccaluva, L., Bianchini, G., Ellam, R.M. , Siena, F. and Stuart, F.M. (2013) Carbonated alkali-silicate metasomatism in the North Africa lithosphere: evidence from Middle Atlas spinel-lherzolites, Morocco. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 41, pp. 113-121. (doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2012.06.014)
Gardner, M.F., Troll, V.R., Gamble, J.A., Gertisser, R., Hart, G.L., Ellam, R.M. , Harris, C. and Wolff, J.A. (2013) Crustal differentiation processes at Krakatau volcano, Indonesia. Journal of Petrology, 54(1), pp. 149-182. (doi: 10.1093/petrology/egs066)
Nagarajan, R., Armstrong-Altrin, J. S., Sial, A. N., Nagendra, R. and Ellam, R. M. (2013) Carbon, oxygen and strontium isotope geochemistry of the proterozoic carbonate rocks, Bhima basin, South India: Implication for diagenesis. Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 8(2), pp. 25-38.
2012
Vandeginste, V., Swennen, R., Allaeys, M., Ellam, R.M. , Osadetz, K. and Roure, F. (2012) Challenges of structural diagenesis in foreland fold-and-thrust belts: a case study on paleofluid flow in the Canadian Rocky Mountains West of Calgary. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 35(1), pp. 235-251. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.02.014)
Cawthorn, R.G., Ellam, R.M. , Ashwal, L.D. and Webb, S.J. (2012) A clinopyroxenite intrusion from the Pilanesberg Alkaline Province, South Africa. Precambrian Research, 198-19, pp. 25-36. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.12.016)
Shah, M.M., Nader, F.H., Garcia, D., Swennen, R. and Ellam, R. (2012) Hydrothermal dolomites in the early Albian (cretaceous) platform carbonates (NW Spain): nature and origin of dolomites and dolomitising fluids. Oil and Gas Science and Technology: Revue de l' Institut Francais du Petrole, 67(1), pp. 97-122. (doi: 10.2516/ogst/2011174)
Barker, A.K., Troll, V.R., Ellam, R.M. , Hansteen, T.H., Harris, C., Stillman, C.J. and Andersson, A. (2012) Magmatic evolution of the Cadamosto Seamount, Cape Verde: beyond the spatial extent of EM1. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 163(6), pp. 949-965. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-011-0708-2)
Guilbaud, R., Butler, I. B. and Ellam, R.M. (2012) Response to Comment on "Abiotic Pyrite Formation Produces a Large Fe Isotope Fractionation". Science, 335(6068), p. 538. (doi: 10.1126/science.1213032)
Kampman, N., Burnside, N. M. , Shipton, Z. K., Chapman, H. J., Nicholl, J. A., Ellam, R. M. and Bickle, M.J. (2012) Pulses of carbon dioxide emissions from intracrustal faults following climatic warming. Nature Geoscience, 5(5), pp. 352-358. (doi: 10.1038/NGEO1451)
Wiesmaier, S., Troll, V.R., Carracedo, J.C., Ellam, R.M. , Bindeman, I. and Wolff, J.A. (2012) Bimodality of lavas in the Teide-Pico Viejo succession in Tenerife: the role of crustal melting in the origin of recent phonolites. Journal of Petrology, 53(12), pp. 2465-2495. (doi: 10.1093/petrology/egs056)
2011
Feng, M., Ngwenya, B.T., Wang, L., Li, W., Olive, V. and Ellam, R.E. (2011) Bacterial dissolution of fluorapatite as a possible source of elevated dissolved phosphate in the environment. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(19), pp. 5785-5796. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.07.019)
Guilbaud, R., Butler, I.B. and Ellam, R.M. (2011) Abiotic pyrite formation produces a large Fe isotope fractionation. Science, 332(6037), pp. 1548-1551. (doi: 10.1126/science.1202924)
Graham, M.C., Oliver, I.W., MacKenzie, A.B., Ellam, R.M. and Farmer, J.G. (2011) Mechanisms controlling lateral and vertical porewater migration of depleted uranium (DU) at two UK weapons testing sites. Science of the Total Environment, 409(10), pp. 1854-1866. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.01.011)
Beccaluva, L., Bianchini, G., Ellam, R.M. , Natali, C., Santato, A., Siena, F. and Stuart, F.M. (2011) Peridotite xenoliths from Ethiopia: inferences about mantle processes from plume to rift settings. Volcanism and Evolution of the African Lithosphere: Geological Society of America Special Papers, 478, pp. 77-104. (doi: 10.1130/2011.2478(05))
Guilbaud, R., Butler, I.B., Ellam, R.M. , Rickard, D. and Oldroyd, A. (2011) Experimental determination of the equilibrium Fe isotope fractionation between Feaq2+ and FeSm (mackinawite) at 25 and 2°C. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(10), pp. 2721-2734. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.02.023)
Hall, A., Ellam, R. , Wilson, L., Pollard, T. and Ferguson, N. (2011) Corrosion studies and lead isotope analyses of musket balls from Scottish battlefield sites. In: Turbanti-Memmi, I. (ed.) Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 13th - 16th May 2008, Siena, Italy. Springer, pp. 591-597. ISBN 9783642140770 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7)
2010
Guilbaud, R., Butler, I.B., Ellam, R.M. and Rickard, D. (2010) Fe isotope exchange between Fe(II)aq and nanoparticulate mackinawite (FeSm) during nanoparticle growth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 300(1-2), pp. 174-183. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.004)
Guilbaud, R., Ellam, R. , Butler, I.B., Gallagher, V. and Keefe, K. (2010) A procedural development for the analysis of 56/54Fe and 57/54Fe isotope ratios with new generation IsoProbe MC-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 25(10), pp. 1598-1604. (doi: 10.1039/c004876c)
Ellam, R.M. (2010) The graphical presentation of lead isotope data for environmental source apportionment. Science of the Total Environment, 408(16), pp. 3490-3492. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.03.037)
Dewever, B., Berwouts, I., Swennen, R., Breesch, L. and Ellam, R.M. (2010) Fluid flow reconstruction in karstified Panormide platform limestones (north-central Sicily): implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Sicilian fold and thrust belt. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27(4), pp. 939-958. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.10.018)
Ngwenya, B.T., Magennis, M., Olive, V., Mosselmans, F.W. and Ellam, R. (2010) Discrete site surface complexation constants for lanthanide adsorption to bacteria as determined by experiments and linear free energy relationships. Environmental Science and Technology, 44(2), pp. 650-656. (doi: 10.1021/es9014234)
2009
Vandeginste, V., Swennen, R., Reed, M.H., Ellam, R.M., Osadetz, K. and Roure, F. (2009) Host rock dolomitization and secondary porosity development in the Upper Devonian Cairn Formation of the Fairholme carbonate complex (South-west Alberta, Canadian Rockies): diagenesis and geochemical modelling. Sedimentology, 56, pp. 2044-2060. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01069.x)
Meade, F.C., Chew, D.M., Troll, V.R., Ellam, R.M. and Page, L.M. (2009) Magma ascent along a major terrane boundary: crustal contamination and magma mixing at the Drumadoon Intrusive Complex, Isle of Arran, Scotland. Journal of Petrology, 50(12), pp. 2345-2374. (doi: 10.1093/petrology/egp081)
Muldner, G., Montgomery, J., Cook, G., Ellam, R., Gledhill, A. and Lowe, C. (2009) Isotopes and individuals: diet and mobility among the medieval Bishops of Whithorn. Antiquity, 83(322), pp. 1119-1133.
Pichevin, L.E., Reynolds, B.C., Ganeshram, R.S., Cacho, I., Pena, L., Keefe, K. and Ellam, R.M. (2009) Enhanced carbon pump inferred from relaxation of nutrient limitation in the glacial ocean. Nature, 459, pp. 1114-1117. (doi: 10.1038/nature08101)
Ngwenya, B.T., Mosselmans, J.F.W., Magennis, M., Atkinson, K.D., Tourney, J., Olive, V. and Ellam, R.M. (2009) Macroscopic and spectroscopic analysis of lanthanide adsorption to bacterial cells. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(11), pp. 3134-3147. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.03.018)
Meyer, R., Nicoll, G.R., Hertogen, J., Troll, V.R., Ellam, R.M. and Emeleus, C.H. (2009) Trace element and isotope constraints on crustal anatexis by upwelling mantle melts in the North Atlantic Igneous Province: an example form the Isle of Rum, NW Scotland. Geological Magazine, 146(3), pp. 382-399. (doi: 10.1017/S0016756809006244)
Srivastava, R.K., Ellam, R.M. and Gautam, G.C. (2009) Sr-Nd isotope geochemistry of the early Precambrian sub-alkaline mafic igneous rocks from the southern Bastar craton, Central India. Mineralogy Petrology, 96(1-2), pp. 71-79. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-009-0049-2)
Sizaret, S., Marcoux, E., Boyce, A. , Jebrak, M., Stevenson, R. and Ellam, R. (2009) Isotopic (S, Sr, Sm/Nd, H, Pb) evidences for multiple sources in the Early Jurassic Chaillac F-Ba ore deposit (Indre, France). Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France, 180(2), pp. 83-94. (doi: 10.2113/gssgfbull.180.2.83)
Starkey, N.A., Stuart, F.M., Ellam, R.M., Fitton, J.G., Basu, S. and Larsen, L.M. (2009) Helium isotopes in early Iceland plume picrites: constraints on the composition of high 3He/4He mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 277(1-2), pp. 91-100. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.10.007)
Dale, C.W., Pearson, D.G., Starkey, N., Stuart, F.M., Ellam, R.M., Larsen, L.M., Fitton, J.G. and Macpherson, C.G. (2009) Osmium isotopes in Baffin Island and West Greenland picrites: implications for the 187Os/188Os composition of the convecting mantle and the nature of high 3He/4He mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 278(3-4), pp. 267-277. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.014)
Montgomery, J.G., Muldner, G., Cook, G.T. , Gledhill, A. and Ellam, R.M. (2009) Isotope analysis of bone collagen and tooth enamel. In: Lowe, C. (ed.) 'Clothing for the Soul Divine': Burials at the Tomb of St Ninian: Excavations at Whithorn Priory, 1957-67. Historic Scotland: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 65-82. ISBN 9781849170178
2008
Ugidos, J.M., Stephens, W.E., Carnicero, A. and Ellam, R.M. (2008) A reactive assimilation model for regional-scale cordierite-bearing granitoids: geochemical evidence from the Late Variscan granites of the Central Iberian Zone, Spain. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 99(3-4), pp. 225-250. (doi: 10.1017/S1755691009008159)
Graham, M.C., Oliver, I., MacKenzie, A., Ellam, R. and Farmer, J.G. (2008) An integrated colloid fractionation approach applied to the characterisation of porewater uranium-hunic interactions at a depleted uranium contaminated site. Science of the Total Environment, 404(1), pp. 207-217. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.042)
Oliver, I.W., Graham, M.C., MacKenzie, A.B., Ellam, R.M. and Farmer, J.G. (2008) Distribution and partitioning of depleted uranium (DU) in soils at weapons test ranges - Investigations combining the BCR extraction scheme and isotopic analysis. Chemosphere, 72(6), pp. 932-939. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.03.029)
Clift, P.D., Van Long, H., Hinton, R., Ellam, R.M., Hanningan, R., Thanh Tan, M., Blusztajn, J. and Anh Duc, N. (2008) Evolving east Asian river systems reconstructed by trace element and Pb and Nd isotope variations in modern and ancient Red River-Song Hong sediments. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9(4), pp. 1-29. (doi: 10.1029/2007GC001867)
Vandeginste, V., Swennen, R., Gleeson, S.A., Ellam, R.M., Osadetz, K. and Roure, F. (2008) Thermochemical sulphate reduction in the Upper Devonian Cairn Formation of the Fairholme carbonate complex (South-West Alberta, Canadian Rockies): evidence from fluid inclusions and isotopic data. Sedimentology, 56(2), pp. 439-460. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00978.x)
Beccaluva, L., Bianchini, G., Ellam, R.M. , Marzola, M., Oun, K.M., Siena, F. and Stuart, F.M. (2008) The role of HIMU metasomatic components in the African lithospheric mantle: petrological evidence from the Gharyan peridotite xenoliths, NW Libya. In: Coltorti, M. and Grégoire, M. (eds.) Metasomatism in Oceanic and Continental Lithospheric Mantle. Series: Geological Society special publication (293). Geological Society. ISBN 9781862392427
Martelli, M., Nuccio, P.M., Stuart, F.M., Di Liberto, V. and Ellam, R.M. (2008) Constraints on mantle source and interactions from He-Sr isotope variation in Italian Plio-Quaternary volcanism. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9(Q02001),
Martelli, M., Nuccio, P.M., Paternoster, M., Stuart, F.M. and Ellam, R.M. (2008) Helium isotopes in mafic phenocrysts along the Italian volcanism and inferences on the crust-mantle interaction. In: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Palermo, Palermo, Italy, 25 Feb - 1 Mar,
Oliver, I., Graham, M.C., MacKenzie, A., Ellam, R. and Farmer, J.G. (2008) Depleted uranium mobility across a weapons testing site: Isotopic investigation of porewater, earthworms and soils. Environmental Science and Technology, 42(24), pp. 9158-9164. (doi: 10.1021/es8013634)
2007
Vandeginste, V., Swennen, R., Gleeson, S.A., Ellam, R.M., Osadetz, K. and Roure, F. (2007) Geochemical constraints on the origin of the Kicking Horse and Monarch Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc ore deposits, southeast British Columbia, Canada. Mineralium Deposita, 42(8), pp. 913-935. (doi: 10.1007/s00126-007-0142-6)
Oliver, I.W., Graham, M.C., MacKenzie, A.B., Ellam, R.M. and Farmer, J.G. (2007) Assessing depleted uranium (DU) contamination of soil, plants and earthworms at UK weapons testing sites. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 9, pp. 740-748. (doi: 10.1039/b700719a)
Jones, R.E. , Kilikoglou, V., Olive, V. , Bassiakos, Y., Ellam, R. , Bray, I.S.J.. and Sanderson, D.C.W. (2007) A new protocol for the chemical characterisation of steatite - two case studies in Europe: the Shetland Islands and Crete. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34(4), pp. 626-641. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.07.002)
Atarashi-Andoh, M. et al. (2007) 129I/127I ratios in surface waters of the English Lake District. Applied Geochemistry, 22(3), pp. 628-636. (doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2006.12.008)
Schnabel, C. et al. (2007) 129I/127I ratios in Scottish coastal surface sea water: geographical and temporal responses to changing emissions. Applied Geochemistry, 22(3), pp. 619-627. (doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2006.12.007)
Boulton, S.J., Robertson, A.H.F., Ellam, R.M., Safak, U. and Unlugenc, U.C. (2007) Strontium isotopic and micropalaeontological dating used to help redefine the stratigraphy of the neotectonic Hatay Graben, southern Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 16, pp. 141-178.
Ellam, R.M. and Keefe, K. (2007) MC-ICP-MS analysis of non-natural U isotope ratios using a 229Th/232Th external mass bias correction. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 22(2), pp. 147-152. (doi: 10.1039/b612231k)
Nader, F.H., Swennen, R. and Ellam, R.M. (2007) Field geometry, petrography and geochemistry of a dolomitization front (Late Jurassic, central Lebanon). Sedimentology, 54(5), pp. 1093-1120. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00874.x)
Upton, B.G.J., Stephenson, D. and Ellam, R.M. (2007) Silica-undersaturated trachytic rocks of central Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 43(2), pp. 143-153. (doi: 10.1144/0036-9276/01-329)
2006
Cagatay, M.N., Gorur, N., Flecker, R., Sakinc, M., Tunoglu, C., Ellam, R. , Krijgsman, W., Vincent, S. and Dikbas, A. (2006) Paratethyan-Mediterranean connectivity in the Sea of Marmara region (NW Turkey) during the Messinian. Sedimentary Geology, 188-18, pp. 171-187. (doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.03.004)
Ellam, R. (2006) Development of secondary porosity in the Fairholme carbonate complex (southwest Alberta, Canada). Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 89(01-Mar), pp. 394-397. (doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2005.11.088)
Ellam, R. (2006) Identifying Late Miocene episodes of connection and isolation in the Mediterranean-Paratethyan realm using Sr isotopes. Sedimentary Geology, 188-18, pp. 189-203. (doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.03.005)
Ellam, R. (2006) New constraints on the petrogenesis of the Nuanetsi picrite basalts from Pb and Hf isotope data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 245(01-Feb), pp. 153-161.
Ellam, R. (2006) The origin of basic rocks of the Korosten AMCG complex, Ukrainian shield: Implication of Nd and Sr isotope data. Lithos, 90(03-Apr), pp. 214-222. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2006.03.004)
Ellam, R. (2006) Petrographic and geochemical study of Jurassic dolostones from Lebanon: Evidence for superimposed diagenetic events. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 89(01-Mar), pp. 288-292. (doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2005.11.003)
Valladares, M.I., Ugidos, J.M., Barba, P., Fallick, A. and Ellam, R. (2006) Oxygen, carbon and strontium isotope records of Ediacaran carbonates, in Central Iberia (Spain). Precambrian Research, 147(3-4), pp. 354-365. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.01.021)
2005
de Villiers, S., Dickson, J.A.D. and Ellam, R.M. (2005) The composition of the continental river weathering flux deduced from seawater Mg isotopes. Chemical Geology, 216(1-2), pp. 133-142. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.11.010)
Ellam, R. (2005) Reconstruction of deglacial sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific from selective analysis of a fossil coral. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(L17609), (doi: 10.1029/2005GL023183)
Ellam, R. (2005) Zebra dolomitization as a result of focused fluid flow in the Rocky Mountains Fold and Thrust Belt, Canada. Sedimentology, 52(5), pp. 1067-1095. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2005.00724.x)
Troll, V., Chadwick, J., Ellam, R., McDonnell, S., Emeleus, C. and Meighan, I. (2005) Sr and Nd isotope evidence for successive crustal contamination of slieve gullion ring-dyke magmas, Co. Armagh, Ireland. Geological Magazine, 142, pp. 659-668.
2004
Ellam, R. (2004) Reflux stratabound dolostone and hydrothermal volcanism-associated dolostone: a two-stage dolomitization model (Jurassic, Lebanon). Sedimentology, 51(2), pp. 339-360. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00629.x)
Ellam, R.M. and Stuart, F.M. (2004) Coherent He-Nd-Sr isotope trends in high He-3/He-4 basalts: implications for a common reservoir, mantle heterogeneity and convection. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 228(3-4), pp. 511-523. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.10.020)
Martelli, M., Nuccio, P.M., Stuart, F.M. , Burgess, R., Ellam, R.M. and Italiano, F. (2004) Helium-strontium isotope constraints on mantle evolution beneath the Roman Comagmatic Province, Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 224(3-4), pp. 295-308. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.025)
Nader, F.H., Swennen, R. and Ellam, R.M. (2004) Reflux stratabound dolostone and hydrothermal volcanism- associated dolostone: a two-stage dolomitization model (Jurassic, Lebanon). Sedimentology, 51(2), pp. 339-360. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00629.x)
Thomas, C.W., Graham, C.M., Ellam, R.M. and Fallick, A.E. (2004) 87Sr/86Sr chemostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic Dalradian limestones of Scotland and Ireland: constraints on depositional ages and time scales. Journal of the Geological Society, 161(2), 229 -242. (doi: 10.1144/0016-764903-001)
2003
Swennen, R., Ferket, H., Benchilla, L., Roure, F. and Ellam, R.M. (2003) Fluid flow and diagenesis in carbonate dominated Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts: petrographic inferences from field studies of late-diagenetic fabrics from Albania, Belgium, Canada, Mexico and Pakistan. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 78-79, pp. 481-485. (doi: 10.1016/S0375-6742(03)00064-5)
Ellam, R. (2003) Source or Sink? An assessment of Role of the Old Red Sandstone in the Genesis of the Irish Zn-Pb Deposits. Economic Geology, 98(1), pp. 31-50.
Everett, C.E., Rye, D.M. and Ellam, R.M. (2003) Source or Sink? An assessment of Role of the Old Red Sandstone in the Genesis of the Irish Zn-Pb Deposits. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 98(1), pp. 31-50.
Stuart, F.M., Lass-Evans, S., Fitton, J.G. and Ellam, R.M. (2003) Extremely high He isotope ratios in MORB-source mantle from the proto-Iceland plume. Nature, 424, pp. 57-59. (doi: 10.1038/nature01711)
Swennen, R., Vandeginste, V. and Ellam, R.M. (2003) Genesis of zebra dolomites (Cathedral Formation: Canadian Cordillera Fold and Thrust Belt, British Columbia). Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 78-79, pp. 571-577. (doi: 10.1016/S0375-6742(03)00065-7)
Ugidos, J.M., Valladares, M.I., Barba, P. and Ellam, R.M. (2003) The Upper Neoproterozoic-Lower Cambrian of the Central Iberian Zone, Spain: Chemical and isotopic (Sm-Nd) evidence that the sedimentary succession records an inverted stratigraphy of its source. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67(14), pp. 2615-2629. (doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00027-9)
Wehmeier, S., Ellam, R. and Feldmann, J. (2003) Isotope ratio determination of antimony from the transient signal of trimethylstibine by GC-MC-ICP-MS and GC-ICP-TOF-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 18(9), pp. 1001-1007. (doi: 10.1039/b302242k)
Wehmeier, S., Ellam, R.M. and Feldmann, J. (2003) Isotope ratio determination of antimony from the transient signal of trimethylstibine by GC-MC-ICP-MS and GC-ICP-TOF-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 18(9), pp. 1001-1007. (doi: 10.1039/b302242k)
2002
Goodenough, K.M., Upton, B.G.J. and Ellam, R.M. (2002) Long-term memory of subduction processes in the lithospheric mantle: evidence from the geochemistry of basic dykes in the Gardar Province of South Greenland. Journal of the Geological Society, 159(6), pp. 705-714. (doi: 10.1144/0016-764901-154)
Meharg, A.A., Pain, D.J., Ellam, R.M., Baos, R., Olive, V., Joyson, A., Powell, N., Green, A.J. and Hiraldo, F. (2002) Isotopic identification of the sources of lead contamination for white storks (Ciconia ciconia) in a marshland ecosystem (Donana SW Spain). Science of the Total Environment, 300(1-3), pp. 81-86. (doi: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00283-8)
Flecker, R., de Villiers, S. and Ellam, R.M. (2002) Modelling the effect of evaporation on the salinity-Sr-87/Sr-86 relationship in modern and ancient marginal-marine systems: the Mediterranean Messinian Salinity Crisis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 203(1), pp. 221-233. (doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00848-8)
Ellam, R. (2002) Isotopic identification of the sources of lead contamination for white storks (Ciconia ciconia) in a marshland ecosystem (Do±ana, S W Spain). Science of the Total Environment, 300(01-Mar), pp. 81-86. (doi: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00283-8)
Ellam, R. (2002) Long-term memory of subduction processes in the lithosphere mantle? Evidence from the geochemistry of basic dykes in the Gardar Province of South Greenland. Journal of the Geological Society, 159(6), pp. 705-714. (doi: 10.1144/0016-764901-154)
2001
Tudhope, A.W., Chilcott, C.P., McCulloch, M.T., Cook, E.R., Chappell, J., Ellam, R.M., Lea, D.W., Lough, J.M. and Shimmield, G.B. (2001) Variability in the El Nino - Southern oscillation through a glacial-interglacial cycle. Science, 291(5508), pp. 1511-1517. (doi: 10.1126/science.1057969)
Ellam, R. (2001) Variability in the El Ni±o - Southern Oscillation through a glacial-interglacial cycle. Science, 291(5508), pp. 1511-1517. (doi: 10.1126/science.1057969)
Ellam, R. (2001) A protocol for the determination of the rare earth elements at picomole level in rocks by ICP-MS: Results on geological reference materials USGS PCC-1 and DTS-1. Geostandards Newsletter: The Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis, 25(02-Mar), pp. 219-228.
Fallick, A.E., Ashton, J.H., Boyce, A.J. , Ellam, R.M. and Russell, M.J. (2001) Bacteria were responsible for the magnitude of the world-class hydrothermal base metal sulfide orebody at Navan Ireland. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 96(4), pp. 885-890.
Jenkin, G.R.T., Ellam, R.M., Rogers, G. and Stuart, F.M. (2001) An investigation of closure temperature of the biotite Rb-Sr system: The importance of cation exchange. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65(7), pp. 1141-1160. (doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(00)00560-3)
Olive, V., Ellam, R.M. and Wilson, L. (2001) A protocol for the determination of the rare earth elements at picomole level in rocks by ICP-MS: Results on geological reference materials USGS PCC-1 and DTS-1. Geostandards Newsletter: The Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis, 25(2-3), pp. 219-228.
2000
Ellam, R.M. and Stuart, F.M. (2000) The sub-lithospheric source of North Atlantic basalts: Evidence for, and significance of, a common end-member. Journal of Petrology, 41(7), pp. 919-932. (doi: 10.1093/petrology/41.7.919)
Goodenough, K.M., Upton, B.G.J. and Ellam, R.M. (2000) Geochemical evolution of the Ivigtut granite, South Greenland: a fluorine-rich "A-type" intrusion. Lithos, 51(3), pp. 205-221. (doi: 10.1016/S0024-4937(99)00064-X)
Parnell, J. et al. (2000) Regional fluid flow and gold mineralization in the Dalradian of the Sperrin Mountains, northern Ireland. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 95(7), pp. 1389-1416.
Stuart, F.M., Ellam, R.M., Harrop, P.J., Fitton, J.G. and Bell, B.R. (2000) Constraints on mantle plumes from the helium isotopic composition of basalts from the British Tertiary Igneous Province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 177(3-4), pp. 273-285. (doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00050-9)
1998
Ellam, R.M., Upton, B.G.J. and Fitton, J.G. (1998) Petrogenesis of late stage magmatism at Hold with Hope, East Greenland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 133(1-2), pp. 51-59. (doi: 10.1007/s004100050436)
Marty, B., Upton, B.G.J. and Ellam, R.M. (1998) Helium isotopes in early tertiary basalts, northeast Greenland: evidence for 58 Ma plume activity in the north Atlantic-Iceland volcanic province. Geology, 26(5), pp. 407-410. (doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0407:HIIETB>2.3.CO;2)
Renzulli, A., Upton, B. G.J., Boyce, A. and Ellam, R. M. (1998) Petrology of quartz syenite and hauyne syenite clasts from the Pitigliano Formation, Latera caldera, Vulsini District, Central Italy. European Journal of Mineralogy, 10(2), pp. 333-354. (doi: 10.1127/ejm/10/2/0333)
1997
Olive, V., Ellam, R.M. and Harte, B. (1997) A Re-Os isotope study of ultramafic xenoliths from the Matsoku kimberlite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 150(1-2), pp. 129-140. (doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(97)00088-5)
Articles
Liu, Y., Liu, X., Wang, S., Xu, S., Ellam, R. M. , Fabel, D. and Chen, J. (2022) Late Cenozoic channel migration of the proto-Yangtze River in the delta region: Insights from cosmogenic nuclide burial dating of onshore boreholes. Geomorphology, 407, 108228. (doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108228)
Zhong, J., Wallin, M. B., Wang, W., Li, S.-L., Guo, L., Dong, K., Ellam, R. M. , Liu, C.-Q. and Xu, S. (2021) Synchronous evaporation and aquatic primary production in tropical river networks. Water Research, 200, 117272. (doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117272)
Yang, X. et al. (2021) New insights into mechanisms of sunlight- and dark-mediated high-temperature accelerated diurnal production-degradation of fluorescent DOM in lake waters. Science of the Total Environment, 760, 143377. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143377)
Troll, V. R., Nicoll, G. R., Ellam, R. M. , Emeleus, C. H. and Mattsson, T. (2021) Petrogenesis of the Loch Bà ring-dyke and Centre 3 granites, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 176(2), 16. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-020-01763-4)
Zhong, J., Chen, S., Wang, W., Yan, Z., Ellam, R. M. and Li, S.‐L. (2020) Unravelling the hydrological effects on spatiotemporal variability of water chemistry in mountainous rivers from Southwest China. Hydrological Processes, 34(26), pp. 5595-5605. (doi: 10.1002/hyp.13980)
Liu, W., Liu, Y., Zeng, Z., Yang, B., Peng, L., Xu, D., Wei, Y., Li, Y., Ellam, R. M. and Xu, S. (2020) K-bentonites in Ordovician–Silurian transition from South China: implications for tectonic evolution in the northern margin of Gondwana. Journal of the Geological Society, 177(6), pp. 1245-1260. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2020-049)
Mohinuzzaman, M., Yuan, J., Yang, X., Senesi, N., Li, S.-L., Ellam, R. M. , Mostofa, K. M.G. and Liu, C.-Q. (2020) Insights into solubility of soil humic substances and their fluorescence characterisation in three characteristic soils. Science of the Total Environment, 720, 137395. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137395)
Liu, L., Song, Z., Yu, C., Yu, G., Ellam, R. M. , Liu, H., Singh, B. P. and Wang, H. (2020) Silicon effects on biomass carbon and phytolith-occluded carbon in grasslands under high-salinity conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, 657. (doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00657) (PMID:32528507) (PMCID:PMC7264264)
Upton, B. G.J., Kirstein, L. A., Odling, N., Underhill, J. R., Ellam, R. M. , Cayzer, N. and Clarke, B. A. (2020) Silicic volcanism in the Scottish Lower Carboniferous; lavas, intrusions and ignimbrites of the Garleton Hills Volcanic Formation, SE Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 56(1), pp. 63-79. (doi: 10.1144/sjg2019-008)
Vincent, S. J., BouDagher-Fadel, M. K., Guo, L., Flecker, R., Ellam, R. M. and Kandemir, R. (2020) Reply to the Discussion by Granier of Vincent et al. 2018 (Marine and Petroleum Geology, 91, 639-657). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 112, 103996. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.08.024)
Janssens, N., Capezzuoli, E., Claes, H., Muchez, P., Yu, T.-L., Shen, C.-C., Ellam, R. M. and Swennen, R. (2020) Fossil travertine system and its palaeofluid provenance, migration and evolution through time: Example from the geothermal area of Acquasanta Terme (Central Italy). Sedimentary Geology, 398, 105580. (doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.105580)
Modestou, S.E. , Gutjahr, M., Schee, M., Ellam, R.M. and Flecker, R. (2019) Precessional cyclicity of seawater Pb isotopes in the late Miocene Mediterranean. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(12), pp. 2201-2222. (doi: 10.1029/2018PA003538)
Maxwell, V., Ellam, R.M. , Skarpelis, N. and Sampson, A. (2019) The context and nature of the evidence for metalworking from mid 4th Millennium Yali (Nissyros). Journal of Greek Archaeology, 4, pp. 1-30. (doi: 10.32028/9781789693775-2)
Troll, V. R., Emeleus, C. H., Nicoll, G. R., Mattsson, T., Ellam, R. M. , Donaldson, C. H. and Harris, C. (2019) A large explosive silicic eruption in the British Palaeogene Igneous Province. Scientific Reports, 9, 494. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-35855-w) (PMID:30679443) (PMCID:PMC6345756)
Ren, L. et al. (2019) Compound-specific stable carbon isotope ratios of terrestrial biomarkers in urban aerosols from Beijing, China. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 3(9), pp. 1896-1904. (doi: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00113)
Yue, S. et al. (2019) Abundance and diurnal trends of fluorescent bioaerosols in the troposphere over Mt. Tai, China, in spring. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(7), pp. 4158-4173. (doi: 10.1029/2018JD029486)
Vincent, B., Waters, J., Witkowski, F., Daniau, G., Oxtoby, N., Crowley, S. and Ellam, R. (2018) Diagenesis of Rotliegend sandstone reservoirs (offshore Netherlands): The origin and impact of dolomite cements. Sedimentary Geology, 373, pp. 272-291. (doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.06.012)
Zhong, J., Li, S.-L., Liu, J., Ding, H., Sun, X., Xu, S., Wang, T., Ellam, R. M. and Liu, C.-Q. (2018) Climate variability controls on CO2 consumption fluxes and carbon dynamics for monsoonal rivers: evidence from Xijiang River, Southwest China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123(8), pp. 2553-2567. (doi: 10.1029/2018jg004439)
Vincent, S. J., Guo, L., Flecker, R., BouDagher-Fadel, M. K., Ellam, R. M. and Kandemir, R. (2018) Age constraints on intra-formational unconformities in Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous carbonates in northeast Turkey; geodynamic and hydrocarbon implications. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 91, pp. 639-657. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.01.011)
Morgan, L. E., Santiago Ramos, D. P., Davidheiser-Kroll, B., Faithfull, J. , Lloyd, N. S., Ellam, R. M. and Higgins, J. A. (2018) High-precision 41K/39K measurements by MC-ICP-MS indicate terrestrial variability of δ41K. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 33(2), pp. 175-186. (doi: 10.1039/C7JA00257B)
Anderson, P.E., Stevenson, C.T., Cooper, M.R., Meighan, I.G., Reavy, R.J., Hurley, C.T., Inman, J. and Ellam, R.M. (2018) Refined model of incremental emplacement based on structural evidence from the granodioritic Newry igneous complex, Northern Ireland. GSA Bulletin, 130(5-6), pp. 740-756. (doi: 10.1130/B31756.1)
de Leeuw, G.A.M., Ellam, R.M. , Stuart, F.M. and Carlson, R.W. (2017) 142Nd/144Nd Inferences on the nature and origin of the source of high 3He/4He magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 472, pp. 62-68. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.05.005)
Modestou, S. , Simon, D., Gutjahr, M., Marzocchi, A., Kouwenhoven, T. J., Ellam, R. M. and Flecker, R. (2017) Precessional variability of 87 Sr/86 Sr in the late Miocene Sorbas Basin: An interdisciplinary study of drivers of interbasin exchange. Paleoceanography, 32(6), pp. 531-552. (doi: 10.1002/2016pa003061)
Ugidos, J.M., Barba, P., Valladares, M.I., Suarez, M. and Ellam, R.M. (2016) The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in the Cantabrian Zone 1 (North Spain): sub-Cambrian weathering, K-metasomatism and provenance of detrital series. Journal of the Geological Society, 173(4), pp. 603-615. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2016-004)
Natali, C., Beccaluva, L., Bianchini, G. G., Ellam, R. M. , Savo, A., Siena, F. and Stuart, F. M. (2016) High-MgO lavas associated to CFB as indicators of plume-related thermochemical effects: the case of ultra-titaniferous picrite-basalt from the Northern Ethiopian-Yemeni plateau. Gondwana Research, 34, pp. 29-48. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.02.009)
Hole, M.J., Ellam, R.M. , MacDonald, D.I.M. and Kelley, S.P. (2016) Gondwana break-up related magmatism in the Falkland Islands. Journal of the Geological Society, 173(1), pp. 108-126. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2015-027)
Flecker, R. et al. (2015) Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change. Earth Science Reviews, 150, pp. 365-392. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.08.007)
Clemenzi, L., Storti, F., Balsamo, F., Molli, G., Ellam, R. , Muchez, P. and Swennen, R. (2015) Fluid pressure cycles, variations in permeability, and weakening mechanisms along low-angle normal faults: the Tellaro detachment, Italy. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 127(11-12), pp. 1689-1710. (doi: 10.1130/B31203.1)
Taylforth, J. E., McCay, G. A., Ellam, R. , Raffi, I., Kroon, D. and Robertson, A. H.F. (2014) Middle Miocene (Langhian) sapropel formation in the easternmost Mediterranean deep-water basin: evidence from northern Cyprus. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 57, pp. 521-536. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.04.015)
Parnell, J., Mark, D. F. , Frei, R., Fallick, A. E. and Ellam, R. M. (2014) 40Ar/39Ar dating of exceptional concentration of metals by weathering of Precambrian rocks at the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary. Precambrian Research, 246, pp. 54-63. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2014.02.012)
Meade, F.C., Troll, V.R., Ellam, R.M. , Freda, C., Font, L., Donaldson, C.H. and Klonowska, I. (2014) Bimodal magmatism produced by progressively inhibited crustal assimilation. Nature Communications, 5, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms5199)
Burnside, N. M. , Shipton, Z., Dockrill, B. and Ellam, R.M. (2013) Man-made versus natural CO2 leakage: a 400 k.y. history of an analogue for engineered geological storage of CO2. Geology, 41(4), pp. 471-474. (doi: 10.1130/G33738.1)
McCay, G.A., Robertson, A.H.F., Kroon, D., Raffi, I., Ellam, R.M. and Necdet, M. (2013) Stratigraphy of Cretaceous to Lower Pliocene sediments in the northern part of Cyprus based on comparative 87Sr/86Sr isotopic, nannofossil and planktonic foraminiferal dating. Geological Magazine, 150(2), pp. 333-359. (doi: 10.1017/S0016756812000465)
Natali, C., Beccaluva, L., Bianchini, G., Ellam, R.M. , Siena, F. and Stuart, F.M. (2013) Carbonated alkali-silicate metasomatism in the North Africa lithosphere: evidence from Middle Atlas spinel-lherzolites, Morocco. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 41, pp. 113-121. (doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2012.06.014)
Gardner, M.F., Troll, V.R., Gamble, J.A., Gertisser, R., Hart, G.L., Ellam, R.M. , Harris, C. and Wolff, J.A. (2013) Crustal differentiation processes at Krakatau volcano, Indonesia. Journal of Petrology, 54(1), pp. 149-182. (doi: 10.1093/petrology/egs066)
Nagarajan, R., Armstrong-Altrin, J. S., Sial, A. N., Nagendra, R. and Ellam, R. M. (2013) Carbon, oxygen and strontium isotope geochemistry of the proterozoic carbonate rocks, Bhima basin, South India: Implication for diagenesis. Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 8(2), pp. 25-38.
Vandeginste, V., Swennen, R., Allaeys, M., Ellam, R.M. , Osadetz, K. and Roure, F. (2012) Challenges of structural diagenesis in foreland fold-and-thrust belts: a case study on paleofluid flow in the Canadian Rocky Mountains West of Calgary. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 35(1), pp. 235-251. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.02.014)
Cawthorn, R.G., Ellam, R.M. , Ashwal, L.D. and Webb, S.J. (2012) A clinopyroxenite intrusion from the Pilanesberg Alkaline Province, South Africa. Precambrian Research, 198-19, pp. 25-36. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.12.016)
Shah, M.M., Nader, F.H., Garcia, D., Swennen, R. and Ellam, R. (2012) Hydrothermal dolomites in the early Albian (cretaceous) platform carbonates (NW Spain): nature and origin of dolomites and dolomitising fluids. Oil and Gas Science and Technology: Revue de l' Institut Francais du Petrole, 67(1), pp. 97-122. (doi: 10.2516/ogst/2011174)
Barker, A.K., Troll, V.R., Ellam, R.M. , Hansteen, T.H., Harris, C., Stillman, C.J. and Andersson, A. (2012) Magmatic evolution of the Cadamosto Seamount, Cape Verde: beyond the spatial extent of EM1. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 163(6), pp. 949-965. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-011-0708-2)
Guilbaud, R., Butler, I. B. and Ellam, R.M. (2012) Response to Comment on "Abiotic Pyrite Formation Produces a Large Fe Isotope Fractionation". Science, 335(6068), p. 538. (doi: 10.1126/science.1213032)
Kampman, N., Burnside, N. M. , Shipton, Z. K., Chapman, H. J., Nicholl, J. A., Ellam, R. M. and Bickle, M.J. (2012) Pulses of carbon dioxide emissions from intracrustal faults following climatic warming. Nature Geoscience, 5(5), pp. 352-358. (doi: 10.1038/NGEO1451)
Wiesmaier, S., Troll, V.R., Carracedo, J.C., Ellam, R.M. , Bindeman, I. and Wolff, J.A. (2012) Bimodality of lavas in the Teide-Pico Viejo succession in Tenerife: the role of crustal melting in the origin of recent phonolites. Journal of Petrology, 53(12), pp. 2465-2495. (doi: 10.1093/petrology/egs056)
Feng, M., Ngwenya, B.T., Wang, L., Li, W., Olive, V. and Ellam, R.E. (2011) Bacterial dissolution of fluorapatite as a possible source of elevated dissolved phosphate in the environment. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(19), pp. 5785-5796. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.07.019)
Guilbaud, R., Butler, I.B. and Ellam, R.M. (2011) Abiotic pyrite formation produces a large Fe isotope fractionation. Science, 332(6037), pp. 1548-1551. (doi: 10.1126/science.1202924)
Graham, M.C., Oliver, I.W., MacKenzie, A.B., Ellam, R.M. and Farmer, J.G. (2011) Mechanisms controlling lateral and vertical porewater migration of depleted uranium (DU) at two UK weapons testing sites. Science of the Total Environment, 409(10), pp. 1854-1866. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.01.011)
Beccaluva, L., Bianchini, G., Ellam, R.M. , Natali, C., Santato, A., Siena, F. and Stuart, F.M. (2011) Peridotite xenoliths from Ethiopia: inferences about mantle processes from plume to rift settings. Volcanism and Evolution of the African Lithosphere: Geological Society of America Special Papers, 478, pp. 77-104. (doi: 10.1130/2011.2478(05))
Guilbaud, R., Butler, I.B., Ellam, R.M. , Rickard, D. and Oldroyd, A. (2011) Experimental determination of the equilibrium Fe isotope fractionation between Feaq2+ and FeSm (mackinawite) at 25 and 2°C. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(10), pp. 2721-2734. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.02.023)
Guilbaud, R., Butler, I.B., Ellam, R.M. and Rickard, D. (2010) Fe isotope exchange between Fe(II)aq and nanoparticulate mackinawite (FeSm) during nanoparticle growth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 300(1-2), pp. 174-183. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.004)
Guilbaud, R., Ellam, R. , Butler, I.B., Gallagher, V. and Keefe, K. (2010) A procedural development for the analysis of 56/54Fe and 57/54Fe isotope ratios with new generation IsoProbe MC-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 25(10), pp. 1598-1604. (doi: 10.1039/c004876c)
Ellam, R.M. (2010) The graphical presentation of lead isotope data for environmental source apportionment. Science of the Total Environment, 408(16), pp. 3490-3492. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.03.037)
Dewever, B., Berwouts, I., Swennen, R., Breesch, L. and Ellam, R.M. (2010) Fluid flow reconstruction in karstified Panormide platform limestones (north-central Sicily): implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Sicilian fold and thrust belt. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27(4), pp. 939-958. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.10.018)
Ngwenya, B.T., Magennis, M., Olive, V., Mosselmans, F.W. and Ellam, R. (2010) Discrete site surface complexation constants for lanthanide adsorption to bacteria as determined by experiments and linear free energy relationships. Environmental Science and Technology, 44(2), pp. 650-656. (doi: 10.1021/es9014234)
Vandeginste, V., Swennen, R., Reed, M.H., Ellam, R.M., Osadetz, K. and Roure, F. (2009) Host rock dolomitization and secondary porosity development in the Upper Devonian Cairn Formation of the Fairholme carbonate complex (South-west Alberta, Canadian Rockies): diagenesis and geochemical modelling. Sedimentology, 56, pp. 2044-2060. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01069.x)
Meade, F.C., Chew, D.M., Troll, V.R., Ellam, R.M. and Page, L.M. (2009) Magma ascent along a major terrane boundary: crustal contamination and magma mixing at the Drumadoon Intrusive Complex, Isle of Arran, Scotland. Journal of Petrology, 50(12), pp. 2345-2374. (doi: 10.1093/petrology/egp081)
Muldner, G., Montgomery, J., Cook, G., Ellam, R., Gledhill, A. and Lowe, C. (2009) Isotopes and individuals: diet and mobility among the medieval Bishops of Whithorn. Antiquity, 83(322), pp. 1119-1133.
Pichevin, L.E., Reynolds, B.C., Ganeshram, R.S., Cacho, I., Pena, L., Keefe, K. and Ellam, R.M. (2009) Enhanced carbon pump inferred from relaxation of nutrient limitation in the glacial ocean. Nature, 459, pp. 1114-1117. (doi: 10.1038/nature08101)
Ngwenya, B.T., Mosselmans, J.F.W., Magennis, M., Atkinson, K.D., Tourney, J., Olive, V. and Ellam, R.M. (2009) Macroscopic and spectroscopic analysis of lanthanide adsorption to bacterial cells. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(11), pp. 3134-3147. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.03.018)
Meyer, R., Nicoll, G.R., Hertogen, J., Troll, V.R., Ellam, R.M. and Emeleus, C.H. (2009) Trace element and isotope constraints on crustal anatexis by upwelling mantle melts in the North Atlantic Igneous Province: an example form the Isle of Rum, NW Scotland. Geological Magazine, 146(3), pp. 382-399. (doi: 10.1017/S0016756809006244)
Srivastava, R.K., Ellam, R.M. and Gautam, G.C. (2009) Sr-Nd isotope geochemistry of the early Precambrian sub-alkaline mafic igneous rocks from the southern Bastar craton, Central India. Mineralogy Petrology, 96(1-2), pp. 71-79. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-009-0049-2)
Sizaret, S., Marcoux, E., Boyce, A. , Jebrak, M., Stevenson, R. and Ellam, R. (2009) Isotopic (S, Sr, Sm/Nd, H, Pb) evidences for multiple sources in the Early Jurassic Chaillac F-Ba ore deposit (Indre, France). Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France, 180(2), pp. 83-94. (doi: 10.2113/gssgfbull.180.2.83)
Starkey, N.A., Stuart, F.M., Ellam, R.M., Fitton, J.G., Basu, S. and Larsen, L.M. (2009) Helium isotopes in early Iceland plume picrites: constraints on the composition of high 3He/4He mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 277(1-2), pp. 91-100. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.10.007)
Dale, C.W., Pearson, D.G., Starkey, N., Stuart, F.M., Ellam, R.M., Larsen, L.M., Fitton, J.G. and Macpherson, C.G. (2009) Osmium isotopes in Baffin Island and West Greenland picrites: implications for the 187Os/188Os composition of the convecting mantle and the nature of high 3He/4He mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 278(3-4), pp. 267-277. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.014)
Ugidos, J.M., Stephens, W.E., Carnicero, A. and Ellam, R.M. (2008) A reactive assimilation model for regional-scale cordierite-bearing granitoids: geochemical evidence from the Late Variscan granites of the Central Iberian Zone, Spain. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 99(3-4), pp. 225-250. (doi: 10.1017/S1755691009008159)
Graham, M.C., Oliver, I., MacKenzie, A., Ellam, R. and Farmer, J.G. (2008) An integrated colloid fractionation approach applied to the characterisation of porewater uranium-hunic interactions at a depleted uranium contaminated site. Science of the Total Environment, 404(1), pp. 207-217. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.042)
Oliver, I.W., Graham, M.C., MacKenzie, A.B., Ellam, R.M. and Farmer, J.G. (2008) Distribution and partitioning of depleted uranium (DU) in soils at weapons test ranges - Investigations combining the BCR extraction scheme and isotopic analysis. Chemosphere, 72(6), pp. 932-939. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.03.029)
Clift, P.D., Van Long, H., Hinton, R., Ellam, R.M., Hanningan, R., Thanh Tan, M., Blusztajn, J. and Anh Duc, N. (2008) Evolving east Asian river systems reconstructed by trace element and Pb and Nd isotope variations in modern and ancient Red River-Song Hong sediments. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9(4), pp. 1-29. (doi: 10.1029/2007GC001867)
Vandeginste, V., Swennen, R., Gleeson, S.A., Ellam, R.M., Osadetz, K. and Roure, F. (2008) Thermochemical sulphate reduction in the Upper Devonian Cairn Formation of the Fairholme carbonate complex (South-West Alberta, Canadian Rockies): evidence from fluid inclusions and isotopic data. Sedimentology, 56(2), pp. 439-460. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00978.x)
Martelli, M., Nuccio, P.M., Stuart, F.M., Di Liberto, V. and Ellam, R.M. (2008) Constraints on mantle source and interactions from He-Sr isotope variation in Italian Plio-Quaternary volcanism. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9(Q02001),
Oliver, I., Graham, M.C., MacKenzie, A., Ellam, R. and Farmer, J.G. (2008) Depleted uranium mobility across a weapons testing site: Isotopic investigation of porewater, earthworms and soils. Environmental Science and Technology, 42(24), pp. 9158-9164. (doi: 10.1021/es8013634)
Vandeginste, V., Swennen, R., Gleeson, S.A., Ellam, R.M., Osadetz, K. and Roure, F. (2007) Geochemical constraints on the origin of the Kicking Horse and Monarch Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc ore deposits, southeast British Columbia, Canada. Mineralium Deposita, 42(8), pp. 913-935. (doi: 10.1007/s00126-007-0142-6)
Oliver, I.W., Graham, M.C., MacKenzie, A.B., Ellam, R.M. and Farmer, J.G. (2007) Assessing depleted uranium (DU) contamination of soil, plants and earthworms at UK weapons testing sites. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 9, pp. 740-748. (doi: 10.1039/b700719a)
Jones, R.E. , Kilikoglou, V., Olive, V. , Bassiakos, Y., Ellam, R. , Bray, I.S.J.. and Sanderson, D.C.W. (2007) A new protocol for the chemical characterisation of steatite - two case studies in Europe: the Shetland Islands and Crete. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34(4), pp. 626-641. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.07.002)
Atarashi-Andoh, M. et al. (2007) 129I/127I ratios in surface waters of the English Lake District. Applied Geochemistry, 22(3), pp. 628-636. (doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2006.12.008)
Schnabel, C. et al. (2007) 129I/127I ratios in Scottish coastal surface sea water: geographical and temporal responses to changing emissions. Applied Geochemistry, 22(3), pp. 619-627. (doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2006.12.007)
Boulton, S.J., Robertson, A.H.F., Ellam, R.M., Safak, U. and Unlugenc, U.C. (2007) Strontium isotopic and micropalaeontological dating used to help redefine the stratigraphy of the neotectonic Hatay Graben, southern Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 16, pp. 141-178.
Ellam, R.M. and Keefe, K. (2007) MC-ICP-MS analysis of non-natural U isotope ratios using a 229Th/232Th external mass bias correction. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 22(2), pp. 147-152. (doi: 10.1039/b612231k)
Nader, F.H., Swennen, R. and Ellam, R.M. (2007) Field geometry, petrography and geochemistry of a dolomitization front (Late Jurassic, central Lebanon). Sedimentology, 54(5), pp. 1093-1120. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00874.x)
Upton, B.G.J., Stephenson, D. and Ellam, R.M. (2007) Silica-undersaturated trachytic rocks of central Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 43(2), pp. 143-153. (doi: 10.1144/0036-9276/01-329)
Cagatay, M.N., Gorur, N., Flecker, R., Sakinc, M., Tunoglu, C., Ellam, R. , Krijgsman, W., Vincent, S. and Dikbas, A. (2006) Paratethyan-Mediterranean connectivity in the Sea of Marmara region (NW Turkey) during the Messinian. Sedimentary Geology, 188-18, pp. 171-187. (doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.03.004)
Ellam, R. (2006) Development of secondary porosity in the Fairholme carbonate complex (southwest Alberta, Canada). Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 89(01-Mar), pp. 394-397. (doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2005.11.088)
Ellam, R. (2006) Identifying Late Miocene episodes of connection and isolation in the Mediterranean-Paratethyan realm using Sr isotopes. Sedimentary Geology, 188-18, pp. 189-203. (doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.03.005)
Ellam, R. (2006) New constraints on the petrogenesis of the Nuanetsi picrite basalts from Pb and Hf isotope data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 245(01-Feb), pp. 153-161.
Ellam, R. (2006) The origin of basic rocks of the Korosten AMCG complex, Ukrainian shield: Implication of Nd and Sr isotope data. Lithos, 90(03-Apr), pp. 214-222. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2006.03.004)
Ellam, R. (2006) Petrographic and geochemical study of Jurassic dolostones from Lebanon: Evidence for superimposed diagenetic events. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 89(01-Mar), pp. 288-292. (doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2005.11.003)
Valladares, M.I., Ugidos, J.M., Barba, P., Fallick, A. and Ellam, R. (2006) Oxygen, carbon and strontium isotope records of Ediacaran carbonates, in Central Iberia (Spain). Precambrian Research, 147(3-4), pp. 354-365. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.01.021)
de Villiers, S., Dickson, J.A.D. and Ellam, R.M. (2005) The composition of the continental river weathering flux deduced from seawater Mg isotopes. Chemical Geology, 216(1-2), pp. 133-142. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.11.010)
Ellam, R. (2005) Reconstruction of deglacial sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific from selective analysis of a fossil coral. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(L17609), (doi: 10.1029/2005GL023183)
Ellam, R. (2005) Zebra dolomitization as a result of focused fluid flow in the Rocky Mountains Fold and Thrust Belt, Canada. Sedimentology, 52(5), pp. 1067-1095. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2005.00724.x)
Troll, V., Chadwick, J., Ellam, R., McDonnell, S., Emeleus, C. and Meighan, I. (2005) Sr and Nd isotope evidence for successive crustal contamination of slieve gullion ring-dyke magmas, Co. Armagh, Ireland. Geological Magazine, 142, pp. 659-668.
Ellam, R. (2004) Reflux stratabound dolostone and hydrothermal volcanism-associated dolostone: a two-stage dolomitization model (Jurassic, Lebanon). Sedimentology, 51(2), pp. 339-360. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00629.x)
Ellam, R.M. and Stuart, F.M. (2004) Coherent He-Nd-Sr isotope trends in high He-3/He-4 basalts: implications for a common reservoir, mantle heterogeneity and convection. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 228(3-4), pp. 511-523. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.10.020)
Martelli, M., Nuccio, P.M., Stuart, F.M. , Burgess, R., Ellam, R.M. and Italiano, F. (2004) Helium-strontium isotope constraints on mantle evolution beneath the Roman Comagmatic Province, Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 224(3-4), pp. 295-308. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.025)
Nader, F.H., Swennen, R. and Ellam, R.M. (2004) Reflux stratabound dolostone and hydrothermal volcanism- associated dolostone: a two-stage dolomitization model (Jurassic, Lebanon). Sedimentology, 51(2), pp. 339-360. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00629.x)
Thomas, C.W., Graham, C.M., Ellam, R.M. and Fallick, A.E. (2004) 87Sr/86Sr chemostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic Dalradian limestones of Scotland and Ireland: constraints on depositional ages and time scales. Journal of the Geological Society, 161(2), 229 -242. (doi: 10.1144/0016-764903-001)
Swennen, R., Ferket, H., Benchilla, L., Roure, F. and Ellam, R.M. (2003) Fluid flow and diagenesis in carbonate dominated Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts: petrographic inferences from field studies of late-diagenetic fabrics from Albania, Belgium, Canada, Mexico and Pakistan. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 78-79, pp. 481-485. (doi: 10.1016/S0375-6742(03)00064-5)
Ellam, R. (2003) Source or Sink? An assessment of Role of the Old Red Sandstone in the Genesis of the Irish Zn-Pb Deposits. Economic Geology, 98(1), pp. 31-50.
Everett, C.E., Rye, D.M. and Ellam, R.M. (2003) Source or Sink? An assessment of Role of the Old Red Sandstone in the Genesis of the Irish Zn-Pb Deposits. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 98(1), pp. 31-50.
Stuart, F.M., Lass-Evans, S., Fitton, J.G. and Ellam, R.M. (2003) Extremely high He isotope ratios in MORB-source mantle from the proto-Iceland plume. Nature, 424, pp. 57-59. (doi: 10.1038/nature01711)
Swennen, R., Vandeginste, V. and Ellam, R.M. (2003) Genesis of zebra dolomites (Cathedral Formation: Canadian Cordillera Fold and Thrust Belt, British Columbia). Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 78-79, pp. 571-577. (doi: 10.1016/S0375-6742(03)00065-7)
Ugidos, J.M., Valladares, M.I., Barba, P. and Ellam, R.M. (2003) The Upper Neoproterozoic-Lower Cambrian of the Central Iberian Zone, Spain: Chemical and isotopic (Sm-Nd) evidence that the sedimentary succession records an inverted stratigraphy of its source. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67(14), pp. 2615-2629. (doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00027-9)
Wehmeier, S., Ellam, R. and Feldmann, J. (2003) Isotope ratio determination of antimony from the transient signal of trimethylstibine by GC-MC-ICP-MS and GC-ICP-TOF-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 18(9), pp. 1001-1007. (doi: 10.1039/b302242k)
Wehmeier, S., Ellam, R.M. and Feldmann, J. (2003) Isotope ratio determination of antimony from the transient signal of trimethylstibine by GC-MC-ICP-MS and GC-ICP-TOF-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 18(9), pp. 1001-1007. (doi: 10.1039/b302242k)
Goodenough, K.M., Upton, B.G.J. and Ellam, R.M. (2002) Long-term memory of subduction processes in the lithospheric mantle: evidence from the geochemistry of basic dykes in the Gardar Province of South Greenland. Journal of the Geological Society, 159(6), pp. 705-714. (doi: 10.1144/0016-764901-154)
Meharg, A.A., Pain, D.J., Ellam, R.M., Baos, R., Olive, V., Joyson, A., Powell, N., Green, A.J. and Hiraldo, F. (2002) Isotopic identification of the sources of lead contamination for white storks (Ciconia ciconia) in a marshland ecosystem (Donana SW Spain). Science of the Total Environment, 300(1-3), pp. 81-86. (doi: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00283-8)
Flecker, R., de Villiers, S. and Ellam, R.M. (2002) Modelling the effect of evaporation on the salinity-Sr-87/Sr-86 relationship in modern and ancient marginal-marine systems: the Mediterranean Messinian Salinity Crisis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 203(1), pp. 221-233. (doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00848-8)
Ellam, R. (2002) Isotopic identification of the sources of lead contamination for white storks (Ciconia ciconia) in a marshland ecosystem (Do±ana, S W Spain). Science of the Total Environment, 300(01-Mar), pp. 81-86. (doi: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00283-8)
Ellam, R. (2002) Long-term memory of subduction processes in the lithosphere mantle? Evidence from the geochemistry of basic dykes in the Gardar Province of South Greenland. Journal of the Geological Society, 159(6), pp. 705-714. (doi: 10.1144/0016-764901-154)
Tudhope, A.W., Chilcott, C.P., McCulloch, M.T., Cook, E.R., Chappell, J., Ellam, R.M., Lea, D.W., Lough, J.M. and Shimmield, G.B. (2001) Variability in the El Nino - Southern oscillation through a glacial-interglacial cycle. Science, 291(5508), pp. 1511-1517. (doi: 10.1126/science.1057969)
Ellam, R. (2001) Variability in the El Ni±o - Southern Oscillation through a glacial-interglacial cycle. Science, 291(5508), pp. 1511-1517. (doi: 10.1126/science.1057969)
Ellam, R. (2001) A protocol for the determination of the rare earth elements at picomole level in rocks by ICP-MS: Results on geological reference materials USGS PCC-1 and DTS-1. Geostandards Newsletter: The Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis, 25(02-Mar), pp. 219-228.
Fallick, A.E., Ashton, J.H., Boyce, A.J. , Ellam, R.M. and Russell, M.J. (2001) Bacteria were responsible for the magnitude of the world-class hydrothermal base metal sulfide orebody at Navan Ireland. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 96(4), pp. 885-890.
Jenkin, G.R.T., Ellam, R.M., Rogers, G. and Stuart, F.M. (2001) An investigation of closure temperature of the biotite Rb-Sr system: The importance of cation exchange. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65(7), pp. 1141-1160. (doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(00)00560-3)
Olive, V., Ellam, R.M. and Wilson, L. (2001) A protocol for the determination of the rare earth elements at picomole level in rocks by ICP-MS: Results on geological reference materials USGS PCC-1 and DTS-1. Geostandards Newsletter: The Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis, 25(2-3), pp. 219-228.
Ellam, R.M. and Stuart, F.M. (2000) The sub-lithospheric source of North Atlantic basalts: Evidence for, and significance of, a common end-member. Journal of Petrology, 41(7), pp. 919-932. (doi: 10.1093/petrology/41.7.919)
Goodenough, K.M., Upton, B.G.J. and Ellam, R.M. (2000) Geochemical evolution of the Ivigtut granite, South Greenland: a fluorine-rich "A-type" intrusion. Lithos, 51(3), pp. 205-221. (doi: 10.1016/S0024-4937(99)00064-X)
Parnell, J. et al. (2000) Regional fluid flow and gold mineralization in the Dalradian of the Sperrin Mountains, northern Ireland. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 95(7), pp. 1389-1416.
Stuart, F.M., Ellam, R.M., Harrop, P.J., Fitton, J.G. and Bell, B.R. (2000) Constraints on mantle plumes from the helium isotopic composition of basalts from the British Tertiary Igneous Province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 177(3-4), pp. 273-285. (doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00050-9)
Ellam, R.M., Upton, B.G.J. and Fitton, J.G. (1998) Petrogenesis of late stage magmatism at Hold with Hope, East Greenland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 133(1-2), pp. 51-59. (doi: 10.1007/s004100050436)
Marty, B., Upton, B.G.J. and Ellam, R.M. (1998) Helium isotopes in early tertiary basalts, northeast Greenland: evidence for 58 Ma plume activity in the north Atlantic-Iceland volcanic province. Geology, 26(5), pp. 407-410. (doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0407:HIIETB>2.3.CO;2)
Renzulli, A., Upton, B. G.J., Boyce, A. and Ellam, R. M. (1998) Petrology of quartz syenite and hauyne syenite clasts from the Pitigliano Formation, Latera caldera, Vulsini District, Central Italy. European Journal of Mineralogy, 10(2), pp. 333-354. (doi: 10.1127/ejm/10/2/0333)
Olive, V., Ellam, R.M. and Harte, B. (1997) A Re-Os isotope study of ultramafic xenoliths from the Matsoku kimberlite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 150(1-2), pp. 129-140. (doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(97)00088-5)
Book Sections
Ellam, R. M. (2021) Radiogenic isotopes and mantle evolution. In: Alderton, D. and Elias, S. A. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Geology. Academic Press: Amsterdam, pp. 330-344. ISBN 9780081029091 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12533-3)
Hall, A., Ellam, R. , Wilson, L., Pollard, T. and Ferguson, N. (2011) Corrosion studies and lead isotope analyses of musket balls from Scottish battlefield sites. In: Turbanti-Memmi, I. (ed.) Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 13th - 16th May 2008, Siena, Italy. Springer, pp. 591-597. ISBN 9783642140770 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7)
Montgomery, J.G., Muldner, G., Cook, G.T. , Gledhill, A. and Ellam, R.M. (2009) Isotope analysis of bone collagen and tooth enamel. In: Lowe, C. (ed.) 'Clothing for the Soul Divine': Burials at the Tomb of St Ninian: Excavations at Whithorn Priory, 1957-67. Historic Scotland: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 65-82. ISBN 9781849170178
Beccaluva, L., Bianchini, G., Ellam, R.M. , Marzola, M., Oun, K.M., Siena, F. and Stuart, F.M. (2008) The role of HIMU metasomatic components in the African lithospheric mantle: petrological evidence from the Gharyan peridotite xenoliths, NW Libya. In: Coltorti, M. and Grégoire, M. (eds.) Metasomatism in Oceanic and Continental Lithospheric Mantle. Series: Geological Society special publication (293). Geological Society. ISBN 9781862392427
Conference or Workshop Item
Clog, M.D. , Ellam, R.M. , Hilkert, A., Schwieters, J.B. and Hamilton, D. (2015) New developments in High-resolution Gas Source Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometers. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 14-18 Dec 2015.
Conference Proceedings
Faithfull, J. , Hughes, J., Upton, B.J.G., Ellam, R. and Ntaflos, T. (2014) An Aillikite Dyke From Sutherland, Scotland. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6-8 Jan 2014,
Morgan, L., Higgins, J., Davidheiser-Kroll, B., Lloyd, N., Faithfull, J. and Ellam, R. (2014) Potassium Isotope Geochemistry and Magmatic Processes. In: Goldschmidt2014, Sacramento, C.A., USA, 8-13 Jun 2014,
Martelli, M., Nuccio, P.M., Paternoster, M., Stuart, F.M. and Ellam, R.M. (2008) Helium isotopes in mafic phenocrysts along the Italian volcanism and inferences on the crust-mantle interaction. In: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Palermo, Palermo, Italy, 25 Feb - 1 Mar,