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Publications

Please check Google Scholar for the most recent version of my publication list: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=igT-b0kAAAAJ&hl=de

 

(35) Tatzel M., Frings P. J., Oelze M., Herwartz D., Lünsdorf N. K., Wiedenbeck M. (2022): Chert oxygen isotope ratios are driven by Earth's thermal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2213076119.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2213076119

(34) Obert J.C., Münker C., Staubwasser M., Herwartz D., Reicherter K., Chong G. (2022): 230Th dating of gypsum from lacustrine, brackish-marine and terrestrial environments. Chemical Geology 607, 121019
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0009254122003138

(33) Bajnai D. and Herwartz D. (2021): Kinetic Isotope Fractionation between Water and Aqueous OH- during hydroxylation of CO2. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 5, 3375-3384.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00194
To fully understand kinetic isotope effects, we must understand the isotope reactions at the molecular level. This paper shows how the kinetic isotope effects associated to hydroxylation (CO2 + OH- à HCO3-) contribute to kinetic effects in carbonates.

(32) Klipsch S., Herwartz D., Staubwasser M. (2021) Optimizing sulfate pyrolysis triple oxygen isotope analysis for samples from desert environments. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 35, e9102.
https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rcm.9102

(31) Herwartz D., Pack A., Nagel T.J. (2021): A CO2 greenhouse efficiently warmed the early Earth and decreased seawater 18O/16O before the onset of plate tectonics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, e2023617118.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2023617118
In this manuscript I reinterpret published triple oxygen isotope data from four recent ∆17O papers on ancient cherts. I show how elevated ancient pCO2 that counterbalanced the faint young sun modified seawater triple oxygen isotope compositions in a way consistent with the chert ∆17O data.

(30) Henselowsky F, Eichstädter R., Schröder-Ritzrau A., Herwartz D. Almoazamy A., Frank N., Kindermann K., Bubenzer O. (2021) Quaternary International in press.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618221002913

(29) Voigt, C., Herwartz D., Dorador C., Staubwasser M. (2021) Triple oxygen isotope systematics of evaporation and mixing processes in a dynamic desert lake system. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 25, 1211-1228.
https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/25/1211/2021/
Claudia Voigt is the first PhD student that I supervised from writing the proposal until her PhD defense. This is her second paper which demonstrates how mixing processes add to the complex isotopic composition of dynamic lake systems.

(28) Herwartz D. (2021) Triple oxygen isotopes in igneous, metamorphic and hydrothermally altered rocks. In: Triple oxygen isotopes on Earth, edited by Andreas Pack and Ilya Bindeman, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 86, 291-322.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/rimg/article/86/1/291/593237/Triple-Oxygen-Isotope-Variations-in-Earth-s-Crust
This is my single author COVID paper. I mainly wrote it in the early morning hours before my three-year old sun woke up. Read this one if you want to learn how triple oxygen isotopes can be used.

(27) Melnik A.E., Skublov S.G., Rubatto D., Müller D., Lia X.-H., Lia Q.-L., Berezin A.V., Herwartz D., Machevarianic M.M. (2021) Garnet and zircon geochronology of the Paleoproterozoic Kuru-Vaara eclogites, northern Belomorian Province, Fennoscandian Shield. Precambrian Research 353, 106014.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301926820306033

(26) Szilas K., Tusch J., Herwartz D., Fonseca R.O.C. (2020) Two metamorphic gold mineralization events confirmed by Lu-Hf isotope dating of garnet in the Late Archean Storø gold deposit, Nuuk region of SW Greenland. Ore Geology Reviews, 103476.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169136819310108

(25) Voigt, C., Klipsch S., Herwartz D., Chong G., Staubwasser M. (2020) The spatial distribution of soluble salts in the surface soil of the Atacama Desert and their relationship to hyperaridity. Global and Planetary Change 184, 103077.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818119305624

(24) Surma J., Assonov S., Herwartz D., Voigt C., Staubwasser M. (2018) The evolution of 17O-excess in surface water of the arid environment during recharge and evaporation. Scientific Reports 8, 4972.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-23151-6
This paper reveals how the two basic types of evaporation systems (pan evaporation vs. recharged evaporation) differ in triple oxygen isotope space.

(23) Decrée S., Herwartz D., Mercadier J., Miján I., de Buffrénil V., Leduc T., Lambert O. (2018) The post-mortem history of a bone revealed by its trace element signature: The case of a fossil whale rostrum. Chemical Geology 477, 137-150.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0009254117307027

(22) Gázquez F., Morellón M., Bauska T., Herwartz D., Surma J., Moreno A., Staubwasser M., Valero-Garcés B., Delgado-Huertas A., Hodell D. (2018) Triple oxygen and hydrogen isotopes of gypsum hydration water for quantitative paleo-humidity reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 481, 177-188.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X17305794
This paper came out of a fruitful collaboration between the Cologne and Cambridge working groups. While we had focused on the systematics, they directly jumped to the applications. Together we show that relative humidity was 30% lower in the Younger Dryas than it is today in northern Spain.

(21) Herwartz D., Surma J., Voigt C., Assonov S., Staubwasser M. (2017) Triple oxygen isotope systematics of structurally bonded water in gypsum. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 209, 254-266.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703717302491
This paper provides the conceptual basis for reconstructing paleo relative humidity from mineral bound water.

(20) Pack A., Höweling A., Hezel D.C., Stefanak M.T., Beck A-K. Peters S.T.M., Sengupta S., Herwartz D., Folco L. (2017) Tracing the oxygen isotope composition of the upper Earth’s atmosphere using cosmic spherules. Nature Communications 8, 15702.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15702

(19) Sandmann S., Herwartz D., Kirst K., Froitzheim N., Nagel T.J., Fonseca R.O.C., Münker C., Janák M. (2016) Timing of eclogite-facies metamorphism of mafic and ultramafic rocks from the Pohorje Mountains (Eastern Alps, Slovenia) based on Lu-Hf garnet geochronology. Lithos 262, 576-585.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0024493716302183

(18) Gázquez F., Mather I., Rolfe J., Evans N.P., Herwartz D., Staubwasser M., Hodell D. (2015) Simultaneous analysis of 17O/16O, 18O/16O and 2H/1H of gypsum hydration water by cavity ring-down laser spectroscopy. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 29, 1-10.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rcm.7312

(17) Luget A., Behrens M., Pearson D.G. König S., Herwartz D. (2015) Significance of the whole rock Re-Os ages in cryptically and modally metasomatised cratonic peridotites: Constraints from HSE-Se-Te systematics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 164, 441-463.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703715003993

(16) Pack A. and Herwartz D. (2015) Observation and interpretation of Δ17O variations in terrestrial rocks – Response to the comment by Miller et al. on the paper by Pack and Herwartz (2014). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 418, 184-186.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X15001302

(15) Herwartz D., Pack A., Krylov D., Xiao Y., Muelenbachs K., Sengupta S., Di Rocco T. (2015) Revealing the climate of snowball Earth from Δ17O systematics of hydrothermal rocks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, 5337-5341.

https://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5337
This is the first application of small triple oxygen isotope in silicates. The silicates inherit the isotopic composition of water from 2.4 Ga old glaciers and provide insight into the water cycle of Snowball Earth.

(14) Sandmann S., Nagel T.J., Herwartz D., Fonseca R.O.C., Kurzawski R.M., Münker C., Froitzheim N. (2014) Lu-Hf garnet systematics of a polymetamorphic basement unit: new evidence for coherent exhumation of the Adula Nappe (Central Alps) from eclogite facies conditions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 168, 1-21.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00410-014-1075-6

(13) Bischoff A., Horstmann M., Barrat J.A., Chaussidon M., Pack A., Herwartz D., Ward D., Vollmer C., Decker S. (2014) Trachyandesitic volcanism in the early Solar System. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 12689-12692.
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/35/12689

(12) Herwartz D., Pack A., Friedrichs A., Bischoff A. (2014) Identification of the giant impactor Theia in lunar rocks. Science 344, 1146-1150.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1146

(11) Pack A. and Herwartz D. (2014) The triple oxygen isotope composition of the Earth mantle and understanding variations in terrestrial rocks and minerals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 390, 138-145.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X14000260
This pioneering paper shows how small, purely mass dependent triple oxygen isotope variations can be used in geosciences.

(10) Rojas-Agramonte Y., Herwartz D., García-Casco A., Kröner A., Alexeiev D.V., Klemd R., Buhre S., Barth M. (2013) Early Paleozoic deep subduction of continental crust in the Kyrgyz North Tianshan: Evidence from Lu-Hf garnet geochronology and petrology of mafic dykes. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 166, 525-543.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00410-013-0889-y

(9) Vitale Brovarone A. and Herwartz D. (2013) Timing of HP metamorphism in the Schistes Lustrés of Alpine Corsica: new Lu-Hf garnet and lawsonite ages. Lithos 172-173, 175-191.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0024493713001059

(8) Nagel T.J., Herwartz D., Rexroth S., Münker C., Froitzheim N., Kurz W. (2013) Lu-Hf dating, petrography, and tectonic implications of the youngest Alpine eclogites (Tauern Window, Austria). Lithos 170-171, 179-190.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0024493713000406

(7) Herwartz D., Tütken T., Jochum K.P., Sander P.M. (2013) Rare earth element systematics of fossil bone revealed by LA-ICPMS analysis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 103, 161-183.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703712006205

(6) Herwartz D., Münker C., Tütken T., Hoffmann J. E., Wittke A., Barbier B. (2013) Lu-Hf systematics of fossil biogenic apatite and their effects on geochronology. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 101, 328-343.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703712005613

(5) Herwartz D., Skublov S.G., Berezin A.V., Melnik A.E. (2012) First Lu-Hf garnet ages of eclogites from the Belmorian Mobile Belt, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Doklady Earth Sciences 443, 377-380.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1028334X12030130

(4) Hoffmann J. E., Münker C., Næraa T., Rosing M.T., Herwartz D., Garbe-Schönberg D. and Svahnberg H. (2011) Mechanisms of Archean crust formation inferred from high-precision HFSE systematics in TTGs. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 4157-4178.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703711002560

(3) Herwartz D., Nagel T.J., Münker C., Scherer E.E., Froitzheim N. (2011) Tracing two orogenic cycles in one eclogite sample by Lu-Hf garnet chronometry. Nature Geoscience 4, 178-183.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo1060

(2) Herwartz D., Tütken T., Münker C., Jochum K.P., Stoll B., Sander P.M. (2011) Timescales and mechanisms of REE and Hf uptake in fossil bones. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 82-105.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001670371000551X

(1) Herwartz D., Münker C., Scherer E. E., Nagel T.J., Pleuger J., Froitzheim N. (2008) Lu-Hf garnet geochronology of eclogites from the Balma Unit (Pennine Alps): implications for Alpine platetectonic reconstructions. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 101, 173-189.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00015-008-1292-y


Diploma thesis

Herwartz D. (2007) Geochronologie (Lu-Hf & Sm-Nd) an Eklogiten der Balma-Einheit und die Geologie des nordwestlichen Valle di Gressoney (Westalpen, Italien). Diplomarbeit, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 124 S.
 

Dissertation

Herwartz D. (2011) From fossil bones to eclogites: Lu-Hf geochronology and rare earth element systematics. Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 237 S.
 

Habilitation

Herwartz D. (2017) Triple oxygen and Lu-Hf isotope systematics. Habilitation, Universität zu Köln, 217 S.
 

Geologic map

Rehnström, E.F. (Compiler; 2011) Geological map of Greenland 1:100 000, Kapisillit 64 V.2 Syd. Copenhagen. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Printed by: Laursen Grafisk A/S, Denmark 2011.