Publications | Metasomatized

Peer-reviewed publications:

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Förster, M.W., Otter, L.M., Brocks, J.J., Jayasoma, K., Cisneros-Lazaro, D., Nowak, D., Stolarski, J. and Knowles, B., 2025. Quality Control Measures for Enhancing Confidence in Nanoscale IR spectroscopy. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. Click here to view the publication.

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Foley, S. F., Ezad, I. S., Shu, C., Förster, M. W. 2025. Melting of amphibole-apatite-rich metasomes in the continental mantle and comparison of melt compositions with natural igneous rocks. Lithos. Click here to view the publication.

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Chen, C., Förster, M. W., Shchecka, S. S., Ezad, I. S., Shea, J. J., Liu, Y., Jacob, D. E., Foley, S. F. 2025. Sulfide-rich continental roots at cratonic margins formed by carbonated melts. Nature. 637, 615–621. Click here to view the publication.

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Khan, M., Li, H., Algeo T. J., Khan, A., Förster, M. W., Ullah, Z. 2025. Geochemistry and Geochronology of A-Type Intermediate-Felsic Rocks in NW Himalaya, Pakistan: Implications for Petrogenesis and Tectonic Evolution of Northern Gondwana. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 26(1). Click here to view the publication.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.