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  • Journal article
    Meredith W, Sun C-G, Snape CE, Sephton MA, Love GDet al., 2006,

    The use of model compounds to investigate the release of covalently bound biomarkers via hydropyrolysis

    , ORG GEOCHEM, Vol: 37, Pages: 1705-1714
  • Journal article
    Pearson VK, Sephton MA, Franchi IA, Gibson JM, Gilmour Iet al., 2006,

    Carbon and nitrogen in carbonaceous chondrites:Elemental abundances and stable isotopic compositions

    , METEORIT PLANET SCI, Vol: 41, Pages: 1899-1918, ISSN: 1086-9379
  • Journal article
    Martins Z, Watson JS, Sephton MA, Botta O, Ehenfreund P, Gilmour Iet al., 2006,

    Free dicarboxylic and aromatic acids in the carbonaceous chondrites Murchison and Orgueil

    , Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol: 41, Pages: 1073-1080, ISSN: 1086-9379
  • Book chapter
    Zolensky M E, Bland P A, Brown P, Halliday I Aet al., 2006,

    Flux of meteorites to the Earth

    , Meteorites and the Early Solar System II, Editors: Lauretta, McSween, Arizona, Publisher: University of Arizona Press, Pages: 869-888, ISBN: 978-0-8165-2562-1
  • Journal article
    Matrajt G, Guan Y, Leshin L, Taylor S, Genge M, Joswaik D, Brownlee Det al., 2006,

    Oxygen isotope systematics of individual unmelted Antarctic micrometeorites.

    , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol: 70, Pages: 4007-4018
  • Journal article
    Perry RS, Lynne BY, Sephton MA, Kolb VM, Perry CC, Staley JTet al., 2006,

    Baking black opal in the desert sun: the importance of silica in desert varnish, 2006, Geology, 34, 537-540

    , Geology, Vol: 34, Pages: 537-540, ISSN: 0091-7613
  • Journal article
    Court RW, Sephton MA, Parnell J, Gilmour Iet al., 2006,

    The alteration of organic matter in response to ionising irradiation: Chemical trends and implications for extraterrestrial sample analysis

    , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol: 70, Pages: 1020-1039

    Ionising radiation is an energy source capable of generating and altering complex organic matter. A full understanding of the radiolytic formation and devolution of organic matter is essential to appreciate the budget of organic chemicals that exist in cometary and interstellar ices, carbonaceous meteorites, and to understand the results of analyses of irradiated extraterrestrial organic matter, such as that in cometary nuclei. The effects of ionising radiation on a set of 10 naturally occurring, terrestrial organic assemblages have been revealed by pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS), carbon isotopic analysis, and stepped combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (SC-IRMS). Progressive radiolytic alteration of biogenic complex-hydrocarbon mixtures induces a decrease in the average size and extent of alkylation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and an increase in the abundance of oxygen-containing compounds, as indicated by Py-GC-MS, and an enrichment in C-13. These changes are attributed to reactions with free radicals, produced by ionising radiation. In contrast, the progressive radiolytic alteration of bitumens proposed to have derived from the radiolytic polymerisation of methane into an organic solid produces, upon pyrolysis, PAH of increasing average size and degree of alkylation. This, the opposite of the trend observed in the irradiated complex-hydrocarbons mixtures, cannot be explained in terms of the radiolytic alteration of a pre-existing array of complex organic molecules. Instead, it suggests the gradual construction of PAH from smaller molecules, supporting the hypothesis of a methane origin. Radiolytic alteration is also associated with a previously unrecognised increase in the mean combustion temperature of organic matter. This leads to predictions regarding the combustion characteristics of the irradiated organic matter present on cometary nuclei. A full understanding of the relationship between the combustion characteristics
  • Conference paper
    Krasa D, Williams W, Wilkinson CD, Gadegaard N, Zhou H, Roberts AP, Muxworthy ARet al., 2006,

    Nanosized Magnetite Particle Assemblages Produced by Electron Beam Lithography (poster)

    , AGU Fall
  • Journal article
    Sephton MA, Howard LE, Bland PA, James RH, Russell SR, Prior DJ, Zolensky MEet al., 2006,

    Delving into Allende's dark secrets

    , ASTRON GEOPHYS, Vol: 47, Pages: 37-38, ISSN: 1366-8781
  • Conference paper
    Muxworthy AR, Williams W, 2006,

    Critical single-domain/multidomain grain-sizes in non-interacting and interacting elongated magnetite particles: implications for magnetosomes (poster)

    , AGU Fall
  • Journal article
    Sephton MA, 2005,

    Organic matter in carbonaceous meteorites: past, present and future research

    , PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES, Vol: 363, Pages: 2729-2742, ISSN: 1364-503X
  • Journal article
    Bland PA, 2005,

    The impact rate on Earth

    , PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES, Vol: 363, Pages: 2793-2810, ISSN: 1364-503X
  • Journal article
    Blackhurst RL, Genge MJ, Kearsley AT, Grady MMet al., 2005,

    Cryptoendolithic alteration of Antarctic sandstones: Pioneers or opportunists?

    , JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS, Vol: 110, ISSN: 2169-9097
  • Journal article
    Bada JL, Sephton MA, Ehrenfreund P, Mathies RA, Skelley AM, Grunthaner FJ, Zent AP, Quinn RC, Josset JL, Robert F, Botta O, Glavin DPet al., 2005,

    New strategies to detect life on Mars

    , ASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS, Vol: 46, Pages: 26-27, ISSN: 1366-8781
  • Journal article
    Sephton MA, Looy CV, Brinkhuis H, Wignall PB, de Leeuw JW, Visscher Het al., 2005,

    Catastrophic soil erosion during the end-Permian biotic crisis

    , GEOLOGY, Vol: 33, Pages: 941-944, ISSN: 0091-7613
  • Journal article
    Collins GS, Wunnemann K, 2005,

    How big was the Chesapeake Bay impact? Insight from numerical modeling

    , GEOLOGY, Vol: 33, Pages: 925-928, ISSN: 0091-7613
  • Journal article
    Fehr MA, Rehkamper M, Halliday AN, Wiechert U, Hattendorf B, Gunther D, Ono S, Eigenbrode JL, Rumble Det al., 2005,

    Tellurium isotopic composition of the early solar system - A search for effects resulting from stellar nucleosynthesis, Sn-126 decay, and mass-independent fractionation

    , GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, Vol: 69, Pages: 5099-5112, ISSN: 0016-7037
  • Journal article
    Schonbachler M, Rehkamper M, Fehr MA, Halliday AN, Hattendorf B, Gunther Det al., 2005,

    Nucleosynthetic zirconium isotope anomalies in acid leachates of carbonaceous chondrites

    , GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, Vol: 69, Pages: 5113-5122, ISSN: 0016-7037
  • Journal article
    Sephton MA, Love GD, Meredith W, Snape CE, Sun CG, Watson JSet al., 2005,

    Hydropyrolysis: A new technique for the analysis of macromolecular material in meteorites

    , PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE, Vol: 53, Pages: 1280-1286, ISSN: 0032-0633
  • Journal article
    Bland PA, Alard O, Benedix GK, Kearsley AT, Menzies ON, Watt LE, Rogers NWet al., 2005,

    Volatile fractionation in the early solar system and chondrule/matrix complementarity

    , PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Vol: 102, Pages: 13755-13760, ISSN: 0027-8424

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