Browsing Geology by Author "Tomlinson, Emma"
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Advances in the detection of particulate matter and aerosols in peat: Exploring Icelandic volcanic activity and multi-source deposition in Ireland
Blennerhassett, Lucy Catherine (Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2024)This Ph.D. research project develops new techniques for the detection of particulate matter and aerosols in peat, a relatively underexplored atmospheric archive and carries out novel investigations of atmospheric deposition ... -
Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa
Tomlinson, Emma (2022)Efforts to date the oldest modern human fossils in eastern Africa, from Omo-Kibish and Herto in Ethiopia, have drawn on a variety of chronometric evidence, including 40Ar/39Ar ages of stratigraphically associated tuffs. ... -
Chemical zoning and open system processes in the Laacher See magmatic system
Tomlinson, Emma (2020)Unravelling the generation of compositionally and thermally zoned magma reservoirs is important to our understanding of the dynamic processes operating in magmatic systems. Here, we present new major and trace element data ... -
Co-existing fluid and silicate inclusions in mantle diamond
Tomlinson, Emma (2006)We document the compositions of co-existing silicate macro-inclusions and fluid micro-inclusions in the fibrous coats of eight coated diamonds from the Panda kimberlite (Canada). The mineral inclusions in the diamond coats ... -
Combined zinc-lead isotope and trace-metal assessment of recent atmospheric pollution sources recorded in Irish peatlands
Tomlinson, Emma; Kamber, Balz; Rosca, Carolina; Schoenberg, Ronny (2019)Atmospherically-fed Earth surface archives such as ombrotrophic peatlands, lake sediments, and ice consistently show an upward increase in Zn concentrations of hitherto unclear origin. Here, we present a combined stable ... -
Community established best practice recommendations for tephra studies?from collection through analysis
Tomlinson, Emma (2022)Tephra is a unique volcanic product with an unparalleled role in understanding past eruptions, long-term behavior of volcanoes, and the effects of volcanism on climate and the environment. Tephra deposits also provide ... -
Constraints on the thermal conditions within the cratonic lithospheric mantle through time
Hoare, Brendan Colin (Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2022)The stabilization of Earth s first continents is inescapably linked to the formation of the ancient cratonic lithospheric mantle. The cratonic lithospheric mantle is widely considered to have formed as a residue of extreme ... -
Deep, ultra-hot-melting residues as cradles of mantle diamond
Tomlinson, Emma (2023)The ancient stable continents are up to 250 km deep, with roots extending into the diamond stability field. These cratons owe their mechanical strength to being cool and rigid, features inherited from extensive melt ... -
Depth-dependent peridotite-melt interaction and the origin of variable silica in the cratonic mantle
Tomlinson, Emma (2021)Peridotites from the thick roots of Archaean cratons are known for their compositional diversity, whose origin remains debated. We report thermodynamic modelling results for reactions between peridotite and ascending mantle ... -
Eruption frequency and magnitude in a geothermally active continental rift: The Bora-Baricha-Tullu Moye volcanic complex, Main Ethiopian Rift
Tomlinson, Emma (2022)Many Quaternary silicic volcanoes in the Main Ethiopian Rift pose a potential risk due to the poorly known eruptive histories of the volcanoes in combination with a high population density. In this study we provide new ... -
Evidence for a very thick Kaapvaal craton root: Implications for equilibrium fossil geotherms in the early continental lithosphere
Tomlinson, Emma (2022)The presence of diamonds of Archaean age within the cratonic lithosphere is surprising because their formation implies a cool early mantle lithosphere despite the early Earth's hotter state. There remains a widely (albeit ... -
An exsolution origin for Archean mantle garnet
Tomlinson, Emma; Kamber, Balz (2017)It is well established that the cratonic subcontinental lithospheric mantle (C-SCLM) represents a residue of extensively melted peridotite. The widespread occurrence of garnet in C-SCLM remains a paradox because experiments ... -
Geochemical characterisation of the Late Quaternary widespread Japanese tephrostratigraphic markers and correlations to the Lake Suigetsu sedimentary archive (SG06 core)
Tomlinson, Emma; Albert, Paul G.; Smith, Victoria C.; Suzuki, Takehiko; McLean, Danielle; Miyabuchi, Yasuo; Kitaba, Ikuko; Mark, Darren F.; Moriwaki, Hiroshi; Nakagawa, Takeshi (2019)Large Magnitude (6–8) Late Quaternary Japanese volcanic eruptions are responsible for widespread ash (tephra) dispersals providing key isochrons suitable for the synchronisation and dating of palaeoclimate archives across ... -
Geochemistry of the Phlegraean Fields (Italy) proximal sources for major Mediterranean tephras: Implications for the dispersal of Plinian and co-ignimbritic components of explosive eruptions
Tomlinson, Emma (2012)Volcanic activity at Phlegraean Fields, Italy, produced several major marker tephras over a 50 ka period. The caldera forming eruptions of the Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) and Neapolitan Yellow Tuff (NYT) are of particular ... -
Geochronology and glass geochemistry of major pleistocene eruptions in the Main Ethiopian Rift: Towards a regional tephrostratigraphy
Tomlinson, Emma (2022)The Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) is renowned as a focus of investigations into human origins. It is also the site of many large volcanic calderas, whose eruptions have spanned the timeframe of speciation, cultural innovation, ... -
The Halogen Composition of the Proto-Iceland Plume Source Mantle
O'FARRELL, DÓNAL JAMES (Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2018)The study of halogens in mantle-derived melts is allowing for new and unique insights into mantle geodynamics (e.g. Kendrick et al., 2017). The current dataset of mantle halogens record the compositions of both the depleted ... -
Insight into the origins of metasomatism along the southern margin of the North Atlantic Craton, South Greenland
HOARE, BRENDAN COLIN (Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2018)The cratonic sub-continental lithospheric mantle (C-SCLM) has been isolated from mantle convection since it stabilised more than 2.5 billion years ago. Volatiles introduced into the C-SCLM drive metasomatism, ultramafic ... -
Lake Ohrid?s tephrochronological dataset reveals 1.36?Ma of Mediterranean explosive volcanic activity
Tomlinson, Emma (2021)Tephrochronology relies on the availability of the stratigraphical, geochemical and geochronological datasets of volcanic deposits, three preconditions which are both often only fragmentary accessible. This study presents ... -
The marine isotope stage 1 to 5 cryptotephra record of Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Towards a detailed tephrostratigraphic framework for the Eastern Mediterranean region
Tomlinson, Emma; Wulf, Sabine; Hardiman, Mark; Staff, Richard A.; Koutsodendris, Andreas; Appelt, Oona; Blockley, Simon P.E.; Lowe, J. John; Manning, Christina J.; Ottolini, Luisa; Schmitt, Axel K.; Smith, Victoria C.; Vakhrameeva, Polina; Knipping, Maria; Kotthoff, Ulrich; Milner, Alice M.; Müller, Ulrich C.; Christanis, Kimon; Kalaitzidis, Stavros; Tzedakis, Polychronis C.; Schmiedl, Gerhard; Pross, Jörg (2018)The iconic climate archive of Tenaghi Philippon (TP), NE Greece, allows the study of short-term palaeoclimatic and environmental change throughout the past 1.3 Ma. To provide high-quality age control for detailed palaeoclimate ... -
Metasomatism of the Kaapvaal Craton during Cretaceous intraplate magmatism revealed by combined zircon U-Pb isotope and trace element analysis
Tomlinson, Emma (2021)The origins of the mica-amphibole(K-richterite)-rutile-ilmenite-diopside (MARID) and the, presumably related, phlogopite-K-richterite-peridotite (PKP) mantle xenolith suites remain enigmatic. For instance, it is unclear ...