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Peer-reviewed publications:

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Medd, O. M., Otter, L. M., Williams, I. S., Stern, R. A., Förster, M. W., Eggins, S. M., Rodrigues-Sanz, L., Abram, N. J., He, M., Ellwood, M. J., Hargreaves, J., Fallon, S. J., Knowles, B. M. 2024. Matrix corrected SIMS in situ oxygen isotope analyses of marine shell aragonite for high resolution seawater temperature reconstructions. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(11). Click here to view the publication.

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Prelević, D., Förster, M. W., Buhre, S., Gülmez, F., Grützner, T., Wang, Y., & Foley, S. F. 2024. Recent advances made by reaction experiments on melting of heavily metasomatized hydrous mantle. Earth-Science Reviews, 104881. Click here to view the publication.

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Ezad, I. S., Saunders, M., Shcheka, S. S., Fiorentini, M. L., Gorojovsky, L. R., Förster, M. W., Foley, S. F. 2024. Incipient carbonate melting drives metal and sulfur mobilization in the mantle. Science Advances, 10(12), eadk5979. Click here to view the publication.

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Sirocko, F., Krebsbach, F., Albert, J., Britzius, S., Schenk, F., Förster, M. W. 2024. Relation between Central European Climate Change and Eifel Volcanism during the Last 130,000 Years: The ELSA-23-Tephra-Stack. Quaternary, 7(2), 21. Click here to view the publication.

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Förster, M. W., Chen, C., Foley, S. F., Alard, O., & Yaxley, G. M. 2024. Fluid loss to the fore-arc controls the recycling efficiency of nitrogen in subduction zones. Chemical Geology, 121985. Click here to view the publication.

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Gülmez, F., Prelević, D., Förster, M. W., Buhre, S., Günther, J. 2023. Experimental production of K-rich metasomes through sediment recycling at the slab-mantle interface in the fore-arc. Scientific Reports. 13, 19608. Click here to view the publication.

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Hu, Z., Zeng, L., Dilek, Y., Förster, M. W., Gao, L. E., Wang, Y., Madayipu, N., Li, H. 2023. Petrogenesis of Paleocene− Eocene gabbros in the Gangdese belt: Geochemical tracking of transitioning from oceanic subduction to continental collision related magmatism in southern Tibet. Geological Society of America Bulletin. Click here to view the publication.

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Chen, C., Förster, M. W., Foley S. F., Shcheka, S. S. 2023. Carbonate-rich crust subduction drives the deep carbon and chlorine cycles. Nature. 620, 576-581. Click here to view the publication.

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Arias, S. F., Förster, M. W., Sirocko, F. 2023. Rieden tephra layers in the Dottinger Maar lake sediments: Implications for the dating of the Holsteinian interglacial and Elsterian glacial. Global and Planetary Change. 227, 104143. Click here to view the publication.

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Takenaka, L. B., Förster, M. W., Alard, O., Griffin, W. L., Jacob, D.E., Basei, M. A. S., O'Reilly, S. Y. 2023. Multi-mineral geochronology of kimberlites, kamafugites and alkaline-carbonatite rocks, SW São Francisco Craton, Brazil: Appraisal of intrusion ages. Gondwana Research. 124, 246-272. Click here to view the publication.

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Ezad, I. S., Shcheka, S. S., Buhre, S., Buhre, A., Gorojovsky, L. R., Shea, J. J., Förster, M. W., Foley, S. F. 2023. Rapid quench piston cylinder apparatus: An improved design for the recovery of volatile-rich geological glasses from experiments at 0.5–2.5 GPa. Review of Scientific Instruments. 94(5). Click here to view the publication.

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Alizadeha, E., Li, H., Babazadehd, S., Mae, C., Förster, M. W. 2023. Late Eocene slab retreat, extension, and mantle upwelling inferred from mantle signatures in potassium-rich magmatism in NE Iran. International Geology Review. 65(9), 1586-1600. Click here to view the publication.

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Vincent, V. I., Li, H., Girei, M. B., Förster, M. W., Kamaunji, V. D. 2023. Tourmaline and zircon trace the nature and timing of magmatic-hydrothermal episodes in granite-related Sn mineralization: Insights from the Libata Sn ore field. American Mineralogist. 108(3), 552-571. Click here to view the publication.

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Madayipu, N., Li, H., Elatikpo, S., Förster, M. W., Zhou, H. X., Zheng, H., Wu, Q. H. 2023. Magmatic-hydrothermal evolution of long-lived Nb-Ta-(Sn) mineralization in Lianyunshan, NE Hunan, South China. Geological Society of America Bulletin. Click here to view the publication.

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Hu, X. J., Li, H., Förster, M. W., Elatikpo, S. M., Kong, H., Wu, J. H., Zhu, D. P. 2023. Using apatite to differentiate metallogenic potential and environment of granitic rocks: A case study from the Tongshanling W-Sn-Cu-Pb-Zn ore field, Nanling Range (South China). Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 245, 107143. Click here to view the publication.

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Ullah, Z., Li, H., Khan, A., Faisal, S., Dilek, Y., Förster, M. W., Farhan, M., Ashraf, U., Khattak, S. A., Rehman, G., Hussain, S. A. 2022. Mineralogy and PGE geochemistry of chromitites and peridotites of the Sapat complex in the Indus suture zone, northern Pakistan: implications for magmatic processes in the supra-subduction zone. International Geology Review, 1-26. Click here to view the publication.

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Liang, Y., Zheng, H., Li, H., Förster, M.W., Li, Z. 2022 ‘Late Paleozoic-Mesozoic subduction and accretion of the Paleo- Pacific Plate: Insights from the Ocean Plate Stratigraphy of the Wandashan accretionary complex, NE China’, International Geology Review, 1-19. Click here to view the publication.

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Weis, U., Stoll, B., Förster, M.W., Hell., K., Kaiser, V., Otter, L.M., Jochum, K.P. 2022. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research Bibliographic Review 2020. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 46(1), 129-134. Click here to view the publication.

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Vincent, V. I., Li, H., Girei, M.B., Förster, M.W., Ahmed, H.A., Ntekim, E.E. 2021. In situ trace elements and sulfur isotope analysis of sulfides from the Akiri Cu ± (Ag) deposit, Benue Trough, North-central Nigeria: Implications for ore genesis, Geochemistry - Chemie der Erde, 81(9), 125801. Click here to view the publication.

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Förster, M.W., Bussweiler, Y., Prelević, D., Daczko, N. R., Buhre, S., Mertz-Kraus, R., Foley, S.F., 2021. Sediment-Peridotite Reaction Controls Fore-Arc Metasomatism and Arc Magma Geochemical Signatures, MDPI Geosciences, 11(9), 372. Click here to view the publication.

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Chen, C., Förster, M.W., Foley, S. F., Liu, Y. 2021. Massive carbon storage in convergent margins initiated by subduction of limestone, Nature Communications, 12, 4463. Click here to view the publication.

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Hu, Z., Zeng, L., Förster, M.W., Zhao, L., Gao, L., Li, H., Yang, Y., Li, S. 2021. Recycling of subducted continental crust: Geochemical evidence from syn-exhumation Triassic alkaline mafic rocks of the southern Liaodong Peninsula, Lithos, 400-401, 1-13. Click here to view the publication.

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Förster, M.W., Selway, K. 2021. Melting of subducted sediments reconciles geophysical images of subduction zones, Nature Communications, 12, 1320. Click here to view the publication.

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Otter*, L.M., Förster, M.W.*, Belousova, E., O’Reilly, P., Nowak, D., Park, S., Clark, S., Foley, S.F., Jacob, D.E. 2021. GGR Cutting-Edge Review: Nanoscale Chemical Imaging by Photo-Induced Force Microscopy: Technical Aspects and Application to the Geosciences. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 45(1), 5-27. *Authors contributed equally. Click here to view the publication.

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Weis, U., Stoll, B., Arns, J., Förster, M.W., Kaiser, V., Otter, L.M., Reichstein, Lea., Jochum, K.P. 2021. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research Bibliographic Review 2019. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 45(1), 29-35. Click here to view the publication.

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Förster, M.W., Buhre, S., Xu, B., Prelević, D., Mertz-Kraus, R., Foley, S.F. 2020. Two-stage origin of K-enrichment in ultrapotassic magmatism simulated by melting of experimentally metasomatized mantle. MDPI Minerals, 10(1), 41, 1-21. Click here to view the publication.

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Förster, M.W., Zemlitskaya, A., Otter, L. M., Buhre, S., & Sirocko, F. 2020. Late Pleistocene Eifel eruptions: Insights from clinopyroxene and glass geochemistry of tephra layers from Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive sediment cores. Journal of Quaternary Science: Tephrochronology as a global geoscientific research tool, 35(1-2), 186-198. Click here to view the publication.

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Förster, M.W., Foley, S. F., Buhre, S., Alard, O. 2019. Partitioning of nitrogen during melting and recycling in subduction zones and the evolution of atmospheric nitrogen. Chemical Geology, 525, 334-342.

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Förster, M.W., Prelević, D., Buhre, S., Mertz-Kraus, R., Foley, S. F. 2019. An experimental study of the role of partial melts of sediments versus mantle melts in the sources of potassic magmatism. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: Magmatic Evolution and Crustal Growth of the Mediterranean Region: New Geochemical and Geochronological Perspectives (special issue), 177, 76-88. Click here to view the publication.

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Förster, M.W., Foley, S.F., Marschall, H.R., Alard, O., Buhre, S. 2019. Melting of sediments in the deep mantle produce saline fluid inclusions in diamonds. Science Advances, 5(5), 1-6. Click here to view the publication.

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Huong, L.T.T., Otter, L.M., Förster, M.W., Hauzenberger, C. A., Krenn, K., Alard, O., Macholdt, D. S., Weis, U., Stoll, B., Jochum, K. P. 2018. Femtosecond-laser ablation-ICP-mass spectrometry and CHNS elemental analyzer reveal trace element characteristics of danburite from Mexico, Tanzania, and Vietnam. MDPI Minerals, 8(6), 234, 1-15. Invited Article sponsored through MDPI. Click here to view the publication.

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Förster, M.W., Prelević, D., Schmück, H.R., Buhre, S., Marschall, H.R., Mertz-Kraus, R., Jacob, D.E. 2018. Melting phlogopite-rich MARID: Lamproites and the role of alkalis in olivine-liquid Ni-partitioning. Chemical Geology, 476, 429–440. Click here to view the publication.

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Förster, M.W., Prelević, D., Schmück, H.R., Veter, M., Mertz-Kraus, R., Foley, S. F., Jacob, D.E. 2017. Melting and dynamic metasomatism of mixed harzburgite + glimmerite mantle source: Implications for the genesis of orogenic potassic magmas. Chemical Geology, 455, 182-191. Click here to view the publication.

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Sirocko, F., Knapp, H., Dreher, F., Förster M.W., Albert, J., Brunck, H., Veres, D., Dietrich, Zech, M., Hambach, U., Röhner, M., Rudert, S., Schwibus, K., Adams, C., Sigl, P. 2016. The ELSA-Vegetation-Stack: Reconstruction of Landscape Evolution Zones (LEZ) from laminated Eifel maar sediments of the last 60,000 years. Global and Planetary Change, 142, 108-135. Click here to view the publication.

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Förster M.W., Sirocko, F. 2016. The ELSA tephra stack: Volcanic activity in the Eifel during the last 500,000  years. Global and Planetary Change, 142, 100-107. Click here to view the publication.

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