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Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel (1956–2022): A legacy of foraminiferal research and scientific eminence (2023)
Book Chapter
Price, G. D., & Montenari, M. (2023). Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel (1956–2022): A legacy of foraminiferal research and scientific eminence. In Stratigraphy of Geo- and Biodynamic Processes (1-36). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2023.08.010

Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel, a prominent marine paleontologist, dedicated over 40 years to academic excellence at University College London. Her unparalleled expertise in foraminifera reshaped our paleontological and geological understanding of signi... Read More about Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel (1956–2022): A legacy of foraminiferal research and scientific eminence.

Comparative geochemistry of Early Carboniferous marine red beds (MRBs) and their significance for deep time paleoceanographic reconstructions (2022)
Journal Article
Card, C. J., & Montenari, M. (2022). Comparative geochemistry of Early Carboniferous marine red beds (MRBs) and their significance for deep time paleoceanographic reconstructions. Sedimentary Geology, 106313 - 106313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106313

Marine red beds (MRBs), also known as oceanic red beds (ORBs), are reddish colored sediments deposited within the marine realm that have been stained during deposition and/or early diagenesis because of changes in the ocean water chemistry in respons... Read More about Comparative geochemistry of Early Carboniferous marine red beds (MRBs) and their significance for deep time paleoceanographic reconstructions.

Comparative geochemistry of Early Carboniferous marine red beds (MRBs) and their significance for deep time paleoceanographic reconstructions (2022)
Journal Article
Card, C. J., & Montenari, M. (2022). Comparative geochemistry of Early Carboniferous marine red beds (MRBs) and their significance for deep time paleoceanographic reconstructions. Sedimentary Geology, 106313 - 106313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106313

Marine red beds (MRBs), also known as oceanic red beds (ORBs), are reddish colored sediments deposited within the marine realm that have been stained during deposition and/or early diagenesis because of changes in the ocean water chemistry in respons... Read More about Comparative geochemistry of Early Carboniferous marine red beds (MRBs) and their significance for deep time paleoceanographic reconstructions.

Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler-Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): Age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key bed (2021)
Journal Article
Montenari, Korn, D., & Montenari, M. (2023). Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler-Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): Age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key bed. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 97(4), 761-768. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-021-00577-4

Abstract The Protocanites Beds of the Black Forest Massif (Germany) form an important lithostratigraphic key bed, as the index fossils contained in this formation enable correlation within large areas of the internal Zone of the central Variscan Belt... Read More about Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler-Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): Age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key bed.

Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain (2020)
Book Chapter
Montenari. (2020). Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain. In Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy, Volume 5 (677-755). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.07.001

In recent years, unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs (UHRs), specifically shale gas plays, have become a vast source of economically viable hydrocarbons, in response to better drilling and stimulation techniques. To further improve recovery, more d... Read More about Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain.

Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal (2020)
Journal Article
Weber, M., Ellis, B., Thomas, Z., Montenari, M., Cage, A., Harris, M., …Rivera, A. (2020). Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Nature Geoscience, 489-497. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0587-0

The Southern Ocean occupies some 14% of the planet’s surface and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle and climate. It provides a direct connection to the deep ocean carbon reservoir through biogeochemical processes that include surface... Read More about Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal.

Computer modeling of Zircon (ZrSiO4)—Coffinite (USiO4) solid solutions and lead incorporation: Geological implications (2019)
Journal Article
Jackson, & Montenari. (2019). Computer modeling of Zircon (ZrSiO4)—Coffinite (USiO4) solid solutions and lead incorporation: Geological implications. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2019.08.005

The structure of zircon, ZrSiO4 is modeled using interatomic potentials. The uranium end-member, coffinite (USiO4) and intermediate solid solutions of zircon and coffinite (UxZr1–xSiO4) are then modeled, allowing the prediction of lattice parameters... Read More about Computer modeling of Zircon (ZrSiO4)—Coffinite (USiO4) solid solutions and lead incorporation: Geological implications.

A Facies-Independent Trans-European Anisian–Ladinian Marker Horizon?: Significance and Impact for Sequence Stratigraphy and Intra-Tethyan Correlation (2017)
Book Chapter
Götz, A. E., & Montenari, M. (2017). A Facies-Independent Trans-European Anisian–Ladinian Marker Horizon?: Significance and Impact for Sequence Stratigraphy and Intra-Tethyan Correlation. In Advances in Sequence Stratigraphy

Transcontinental correlation of European carbonate systems that developed during the onset of the Mesozoic breakup of Pangaea remains difficult due to pronounced lateral facies variations and in many cases facies-dependent fossil groups used for bios... Read More about A Facies-Independent Trans-European Anisian–Ladinian Marker Horizon?: Significance and Impact for Sequence Stratigraphy and Intra-Tethyan Correlation.

Silicification and organic matter preservation in the Anisian Muschelkalk: Implications for the basin dynamics of the central European Muschelkalk Sea (2017)
Journal Article
Montenari. (2017). Silicification and organic matter preservation in the Anisian Muschelkalk: Implications for the basin dynamics of the central European Muschelkalk Sea. Central European Geology, 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1556/24.60.2017.002

Anisian Muschelkalk carbonates of the southern Germanic Basin containing silicified ooidal grainstone are interpreted as evidence of changing pH conditions triggered by increased bioproductivity (marine phytoplankton) and terrestrial input of plant d... Read More about Silicification and organic matter preservation in the Anisian Muschelkalk: Implications for the basin dynamics of the central European Muschelkalk Sea.