Isotopengeochemie

Prof. Dr. Ronny Schönberg

Address
Universität Tübingen GUZ
Isotopengeochemie
Schnarrenbergstrasse 94-96
72076 Tübingen

Office: Room 6P02, GUZ

Phone: +49-(0)7071-29-78903
Fax: +49-(0)7071-29-3060
Mail: schoenberg(at)ifg.uni-tuebingen.de

Fields of study

  • Paleoenvironmental reconstructions
  • Heavy stable isotope geochemistry

Research

My current research interests focus on the geochemical interactions between atmospheric, terrestrial surface and marine processes and their influence on the evolution and development of life on our planet throughout Earth’s history. Current projects include:

  • The development of oxygenic continental weathering in the Neoproterozoic
  • Investigation of microbial activity during the formation of the massive Løkken jasper deposit in Norway
  • Transition metal cycling in cold off-spreading axis hydrothermal systems and associated microbial iron oxy-hydroxide deposits of the N-Atlantik
  • The reaction kinetics of chromium species in aqueous media and chromium isotope cycling in the oceans
  • The development of new isotope geochemical tools

I use a variety of geochemical tools and isotope systems for my research. Major tools include:

  • Major and trace element systematics
  • Radiogenic isotopes (Sr, Nd, Pb)
  • Traditional (C, O, S) and non-traditional stable (Li, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn, Mo) isotope systems

Short CV

Since 2010

Professor for Isotope Geochemistry at the University of Tuebingen (Germany)
2008-2010

Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen (Norway)
2009

Habilitation at the Institute of Mineralogy, University of Hannover (Germany)
2002-2008

Research Scientist at the Institute of Mineralogy, University of Hannover (Germany)
2000-2002

Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Queensland (Australia)
2000

Ph.D. at the Institute for Geosciences, University of Bern (Switzerland)
1996

Diploma in Mineralogy at the Institute for Geosciences, University of Bern (Switzerland)

Publications

2021 - today

  • Rosca C, Junginger A, Kübler S, Babechuk MG, Olaka LA & Schoenberg R (2024): Isotopic and trace element record of changing metal source contributions to tropical freshwater Lake Naivasha (Kenya). Science of The Total Environment 951: 175082; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175082
  • Havsteen JC, Eickmann B, Izon G, Kleinhanns IC, Rosca C, Beukes NJ & Schoenberg R (2024): Atmospheric oxygenation at the onset of Earth’s Great Oxidation forced enhanced marine anoxia. South African Journal of Geology 127 (2): 455–472, https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.127.0002
  • Wagner LJ, Kleinhanns IC, Varas-Reus MI, Rosca C, König S, Bach W & Schoenberg R (2023): Light stable Cr isotope compositions of mid-ocean ridge basalts: Implications for mantle source composition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.04.028
  • Havsteen JC, Kleinhanns IC, Schröder S, Eickmann B, Izon G, Gogouvitis MG, Ngobeli R, Beukes NJ & Schoenberg R (2023): Evidence for contemporaneous deposition of the Duitschland and Rooihoogte formations (Transvaal Supergroup): Implications for tempo and mode of Earth’s Great Oxidation. Precambrian Research 391: 107055, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107055 
  • Ossa Ossa FG, Pons ML, Bekker A, Hofmann A, Poulton SW Andersen MB, Agangi A, Gregory D, Reinke C, Steinhilber B, Marin-Carbonne J & Schoenberg R (2023): Zinc enrichment and isotopic fractionation in a marine habitat of the c. 2.1 Ga Francevillian Group: A signature of zinc utilization by eukaryotes? Earth and Planetary Science Letters 611: 118147, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118147
  • Sindol GP, Babechuk MG, Conliffe J, Slack JF, Rosca C & Schoenberg R (2022): Shallow-ocean and atmospheric redox signatures preserved in the ca. 1.88 Ga Sokoman iron formation, Labrador Trough, Canada. Precambrian Research 379: 106750, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106750
  • Ossa Ossa FG, Spangenberg JE, Bekker A, König S, Stüeken EE, Hofmann A, Poulton SW, Yierpan A, Varas-Reus MI, Eickmann B, Andersen MB & Schoenberg R (2022): Moderate levels of oxygenation during the late stage of Earth's Great Oxidation Event. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 594: 117716, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117716
  • Rosca C, König S, Pons M-L, Schoenberg R (2021) Improved protocols for Zn purification and MC-ICP-MS analyses enable determination of small-scale Zn isotope variations. Chemical Geology, 120440, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120440
  • Schoenberg R, Schaller M, Pettke T (2021): Geochemical and isotopic constraints on the dynamics of the Earth: a Special Issue dedicated to Jan Dirk Kramers and his legacy to geochemistry. Chemical Geology 583: 120462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120462
  • Ossa Ossa F, Bekker A, Hofmann A, Poulton SW, Ballouard C, Schoenberg R (2021): Limited expression of the Paleoproterozoic Oklo natural nuclear reactor phenomenon in the aftermath of a widespread deoxygenation event ~2.11–2.06 billion years ago. Chemical Geology 578, 120315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120315
  • Kurzweil F, Archer C, Wille M, Schoenberg R, Münker C, Dellwig O (2021): Redox control on the tungsten isotope composition of seawater. PNAS 118 e2023544118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023544118
  • Han X, Tomaszewski EJ, Schoenberg R, Konhauser KO, Amor M, Pan Y, Warter V, Kappler A, Byrne JM (2021): Using Zn and Ni behavior during magnetite precipitation in banded iron formations to determine its biological or abiotic origin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 568: 117052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117052
  • Wang Y, Ossa Ossa F, Spangenberg J, Wille M, Schoenberg R (2021): Restricted oxygen-deficient basins on the northern European epicontinental shelf across the Toarcian carbon isotope excursion interval. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004207
  • Roué L, Kurzweil F, Wille M, Wegwerth A, Dellwig O, Münker C, Schoenberg R (2021):  Stable W and Mo isotopic evidence for increasing redox-potentials from the Paleoarchean towards the Paleoproterozoic deep Ocean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.05.013
  • König S, Rosca C, Kurzawa T, Varas-Reus M-I, Dragovic B, Schoenberg R, John T (2021): Selenium isotope evidence for pulsed flow of oxidative slab fluids. Geochemical Perspectives Letters 17, 27-32. https://doi: 10.7185/geochemlet.2110
  • Wagner JL, Kleinhanns IC, Weber N, Babechuk MG, Hofmann A, Schoenberg R (2021): Coupled stable chromium and iron isotopic fractionation tracing magmatic mineral crystallization in Archean komatiite-tholeiite suites. Chemical Geology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120121

 

2016 - 2020
  • Kamber BS & Schoenberg R (2020): Evaporative loss of moderately volatile metals from the superheated 1849 Ma Sudbury impact melt sheet inferred from stable Zn isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 544. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116356
  • Yierpan A, Koenig S, Labidi J, Schoenberg R (2020): Recycled selenium in hot spot-influenced lavas records ocean-atmosphere oxygenation. Science advances 6(39). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6179
  • Planavsky NJ, Robbins LJ, Kamber BS, Schoenberg R (2020): Weathering, alteration and reconstructing Earth's oxygenation. Interface Focus 10(4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0140
  • Babechuk MG, O’Sullivan EM, McKenna CA, Rosca C, Nägler TF, Schoenberg R, Kamber BS (2020): Ultra-trace Element Characterization of the Central Ottawa River Basin using a Rapid, Flexible, and Low-volume ICP-MS Method. Aquatic Geochemistry. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10498-020-09376-w
  • Wang Y, Ossa Ossa F, Wille M, Schurr S, Sausele M‑E, Schmid‑Röhl A, Schoenberg R (2020): Evidence for local carbon‐cycle perturbations superimposed on the Toarcian carbon isotope excursion. Geobiology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12410
  • Kurzweil F, Munker C, Hoffmann JE, Tusch J, Schoenberg R (2020): Stable W isotope evidence for redistribution of homogeneous W-182 anomalies in SW Greenland. Geochemical Perspective Letters 14: 53-57. DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.2024
  • Ossa Ossa F, Hofmann A, Ballouard C, Vorster C, Schoenberg R, Fiedrich A, Mayaga‑Mikolo F, Bekker A (2020): Constraining provenance for the uraniferous Paleoproterozoic Francevillian Group sediments (Gabon) with detrital zircon geochronology and geochemistry. Precambrian Research 343: 105724
  • Bruske A, Martin AN, Rammensee P, Eroglu S, Lazarov M, Albut G, Schuth S, Aulbach S, Schoenberg R, Beukes N, Hofmann A, Nagler TF, Weyer S (2020): The onset of oxidative weathering traced by uranium isotopes. Precambrian Research 338. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105583
  • Albut G, Kamber BS, Brüske A, Beukes NJ, Smith AJB, Schoenberg R (2019): Modern weathering in outcrop samples versus ancient paleoredox information in drill core samples from a Mesoarchaean marine oxygen oasis in Pongola Supergroup, South Africa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.09.001
  • Varas-Reus MI, König S, Yierpan A, Lorand JP, Schoenberg R (2019): Selenium isotopes as tracers of a late volatile contribution to Earth from the outer Solar System. Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0414-7 (2019).
  • Yierpan A, König S, Labidi J, Schoenberg R (2019): Selenium isotope and S-Se-Te elemental systematics along the Pacific-Antarctic ridge: Role of mantle processes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 249: 199-224. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.01.028
  • Ossa Ossa F, Hofmann A, Spangenberg JE, Poulton SW, Stueken EE, Schoenberg R, Eickmann B, Wille M, Butler M, Bekker A (2019): Limited oxygen production in the Mesoarchean ocean. PNAS 116: 6647-6652. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1818762116.
  • Kurzweil F, Munker C, Grupp M, Braukmuller N, Fechtner L, Christian M, Hohl SV, Schoenberg R (2019): The stable tungsten isotope composition of modern igneous reservoirs. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 251: 176-191. DOI 10.1016/j.gca.2019.02.025.
  • Kurzawa T, König S, Alt JC, Yierpan A, Schoenberg R (2019): The role of subduction recycling on the selenium isotope signature of the mantle: Constraints from Mariana arc lavas. Chemical Geology 513: 239-249. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.03.011.
  • Babechuk MG, Weimer NE, Kleinhanns IC, Eroglu SE, Swanner ED, Kenny GG, Kamber BS, Schoenberg R (2019): Pervasivelyanoxic surface conditions at the onset of the Great Oxidation Event: New multi-proxy constraints from the Cooper Lake paleosol. Precambrian Research 323: 126-163.
  • Brodbeck M, Ubide T, Kleinhanns IC, Schoenberg R, Kamber BS (2019): Quantitative data extraction from Orthopyroxene trace element maps and its potential to examine the formtation of the UG2 unit, Bushveld complex. Minerals (9) 73; doi:10.3390/min9020073.
  • Rosca C, Schoenberg R, Tomlinson EL, Kamber BS (2019). Combined zinc-lead isotope and trace-metal assessment of recent atmospheric pollution sources recorded in Irish peatlands, Science of The Total Environment, 658, 234-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.049
  • König S, Eickmann B, Zack T, Yierpan A, Wille M, Taubald H, Schoenberg R (2019): Redox induced sulfur-selenium isotope decoupling recorded in pyrite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 244: 24-39.
  • Rivera J, Reich M, Schoenberg R, Gonzáles-Jiménez JM, Barra F, Aiglsperger T, Proenza JA, Carretier S (2018): Platinum-group element and gold enrichment in soils monitored by chromium stable isotopes during weathering of ultramafic rocks. Chemical Geology 499: 84-99.
  • Abramov S, He J, Wimmer D, Lemloh M-L, Muehe EM, Gann B, Roehm E, Kirchhof R, Babechuk MG, Schoenberg R, Thorwarth H, Helle T, Kappler A (2018): Heavy metal mobilits and valuable contents of processed municipal solid waste incineration residues from Southwestern Germany. Waste Management 79: 735-743
  • Ossa Ossa F, Hofmann A, Wille M, Spangenberg JE, Bekker A, Poulton SW, Eickmann B, Schoenberg R (2018): Aerobic iron and manganese cycling in a redox-stratified Mesoarchean epicontinental sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Koeksoy E, Halama M, Hagemann N, Weigold PR, Laufer K, Kleindienst S, Byrne JM, Sundman A, Hanselmann K, Halevy I, Schoenberg R, Konhauser KO, Kappler A (2018) A case study for late Archean and Proterozoic biogeochemical iron- and sulphur cycling in a modern habitat - the Arvadi Spring. Geobiology 16(4): 353-368. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12293
  • Eroglu S, Schoenberg R, Pascarelli S, Beukes NJ, Kleinhanns IC, Swanner ED (2018): Open ocean vs. continentally-derived iron cycles along the Neoarchean Campbellrand-Malmani Carbonate platform, South Africa. American Journal of Science 318: 367- 408. doi: 10.2475/04.2018.01
  • Suhr N, Schoenberg R, Chew D, Rosca C, Widdowson M, Kamber BS (2018): Elemental and isotopic behaviour of Zn in Deccan basalt weathering profiles: Chemical weathering from bedrock to laterite and links to Zn deficiency in tropical soils. Science of the Total Environment 619–620: 1451–1463. doi  0.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.112
  • Wille M, Nebel O, Pettke T, Vroon PZ, König S, Schoenberg R (2018) Molybdenum isotope variations in calc-alkaline lavas from the Banda arc, Indonesia: Assessing the effect of crystal fractionation in creating isotopically heavy continental crust. Chemical Geology 485: 1-13. doi 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.02.037
  • Albut G, Babechuk MG, Kleinhanns IC, Benger M, Beukes NJ, Steinhilber B, Smith AJB, Kruger SJ, Schoenberg R (2018) Modern rather than Mesoarchaean oxidative weathering responsible for the heavy stable Cr isotopic signatures of the 2.95 Ga old Ijzermijn iron formation (South Africa). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 228: 157-189. doi 10.1016/j.gca.2018.02.034
  • Banning H, Stelling M, König S, Schoenberg R, Neumann T (2018) Preparation and purification of organic samples for selenium isotope studies. PLoS ONE 13 (3): e0193826. doi 10.1371/journal.pone.0193826
  • Yierpan A, König S, Labidi J, Kurzawa T, Babechuk MG, Schoenberg R (2018): Chemical Sample Processing for Combined Selenium Isotope and Selenium-Tellurium Elemental Investigation of the Earth's Igneous Reservoirs. G³ Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 19(2) 516-533. doi 10.1002/2017GC007299
  • Eickmann B, Hofmann A, Wille M, Hao Bui T, Wing BA, Schoenberg R (2018): Isotopic evidence for oxygenated Mesoarchaean shallow oceans. Nature Geoscience 11(2): 133-137. doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0036-x
  • Kurzweil F, Münker C, Tusch J, Schoenberg R (2018): Accurate stable tungsten isotope measurements of natural samples using a 180W-183W double-spike. Chemical Geology 476: 407-417
  • Babechuk GB, Kleinhanns IC, Reitter E, Schoenberg R (2018): Kinetic stable Cr isotopic fractionation between aqueous Cr(III)-Cl-H2O complexes at 25 °C: implications for Cr(III) mobility and isotopic variations in modern and ancient natural systems. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 222: 383-405
  • Wille M, Babechuk MG, Kleinhanns IC, Stegmaier J, Suhr N, Widdowson M, Kamber BS, Schoenberg R (2018): Silicon and chromium stable isotopic systematics during basalt weathering and lateritisation: A comparison of variably weathered basalt profiles in the Deccan Traps, India. Geoderma 314:190-204
  • Labidi J, König S, Kurzawa T, Yierpan A, Schoenberg R (2018): The selenium isotopic variations in chondrites are mass-dependent; Implications for sulfide formation in the early solar system. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 481: 212-222
  • Tonderski, K, Andersson, L, Lindström, G, Cyr, R, Schoenberg, R, Taubald, H (2017): Assessing the use of δ18O in phosphate as a tracer for catchment phosphorus sources. Science of the Total Environment, 607-608, 1-10
  • Eroglu, S, van Zuilen, M, Taubald, H, Drost, K, Wille, M, Swanner, E, Beukes, N, Schoenberg, R (2017): Depth-dependent δ13C trends in platform and slope settings of the Campbellrand-Malmani carbonate platform and possible implications for Early Earth oxygenation. Precambrian Research, 302, 122-139.
  • Kurzawa T, König S, Labidi J, Yierpan A, Schoenberg R (2017). A method for Se isotope analysis of low ng-level geological samples via double spike and hydride generation MC-ICP-MS. Chemical Geology 466: 219-228.
  • Wu W, Swanner ED, Kleinhanns IC, Schoenberg R, Pab Y, Kappler A (2017): Fe isotope fractionation during Fe(II) oxidation by the marine photoferrotroph Rhodovulum iodosum in the presence of Si - implications for Precambrian iron formation deposition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 211: 307-321.
  • Swanner ED, Bayer T, Wu W, Hao L, Obst M, Sundman A, Byrne JM, Michel M, Kleinhanns IC, Kappler A, Schoenberg R (2017): Iron isotope fractionation during Fe(II) oxidation mediated by the oxygen-producing marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7002.Environmental Science & Technology 51(9): 4897-4906.
  • Babechuk MG, Kleinhanns IC, Schoenberg R (2017): Chromium geochemistry of the ca. 1.85 Ga Flin Flon paleosol. Geobiology 15, 30-50. DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12203
  • Kurzweil F, Wille M, Gantert N, Beukes NJ, Schoenberg R (2016): Manganese oxide shuttling in pre-GOE oceans - evidence from molybdenum and iron isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 452, 69-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.013
  • König S, Wille M, Voegelin A, Schoenberg R (2016): Molybdenum isotope systematics in subduction zones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 447, 95-102. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.04.033
  • Stübner K, Drost K, Schoenberg R, Böhme M, Starke J, Ehlers TA (2016): Asynchronous timing of extension and basin formation in the South Rhodope core complex, SW Bulgaria, and northern Greece. Tectonics 35, 136-159. DOI: 10.1002/2015TC004044
  • Schoenberg R, Merdian A, Holmden C, Kleinhanns IC, Hassler K, Wille M, Reitter E (2016): The stable Cr isotopic compositions of chondrites and silicate planetary reservoirs.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 183, 14-30. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.03.013
2011 - 2015
  • Whitehouse, MJ, Schoenberg, R, Fedo CM, Kamber BS (2015): Does a Heavy Fe-Isotope Composition of Akilia Quartz-Amphibole-Pyroxene Rocks Necessitate a BIF Origin?. Astrobiology 15, 816-824. DOI: 10.1089/ast.2015.1362
  • Kurzweil F, Drost K, Pašava J, Wille M, Taubald H, Schoeckle D, Schoenberg R (2015): Coupled sulfur, iron and molybdenum isotope data from black shales of the Teplá-Barrandian unit argue against deep ocean oxygenation during the Ediacaran. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 171, 121-142. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.08.022
  • Swanner ED, Wu WF, Schoenberg R, Byrne J, Michel FM, Pan YX, Kappler A (2015): Fractionation of Fe isotopes during Fe(II) oxidation by a marine photoferrotroph is controlled by the formation of organic Fe-complexes and colloidal Fe fractions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 465, 44-61. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.05.024
  • Kurzweil F, Wille M, Schoenberg R, Taubald H, van Kranendonk MJ (2015): Continuously increasing δ98Mo values in Neoarchean black shales and iron formations from the Hamersley Basin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 164, 523-542.
  • Eroglu S, Schoenberg R, Wille M, Beukes N, Taubald H (2015): Geochemical stratigraphy, sedimentology, and Mo isotope systematics of the ca. 2.58-2.50 Ga-old Transvaal Supergroup carbonate platform, South Africa. Precambrian Research 266, 27-46.
  • Swanner ED, Mloszewska AM, Cirpka OA, Schoenberg R, Konhauser KO, Kappler A (2015): Modulation of oxygen production in Archaean oceans by episodes of Fe(II) toxicity. Nature Geoscience 8 (2), 126-130.
  • Kleinhanns IC, Whitehouse MJ, Nolte N, Baero W, Wilsky F, Hansen BT, Schoenberg R (2015): Mode and timing of granitoid magmatism in the Västervik area (SE Sweden, Baltic Shield): Sr-Nd isotope and SIMS U-Pb age constraints. Lithos 212-215: 321-337.
  • Perez-Fodich A, Reich M, Alvarez F, Snyder GT, Schoenberg R, Vargas G, Muramatsu Y, Fehn U (2014): Climate change and tectonic uplift triggered the formation of the Atacama Desert's giant nitrate deposits. Geology 42 (3): 251-254. DOI: 10.1130/G34969.1
  • Moeller K, Schoenberg R, Grenne T, Thorseth IH, Drost K, Pedersen RB (2014): Comparison of Iron Isotope Variations in Modern and Ordovician Siliceous Fe Oxyhydroxide Deposits. Geochimica et Cosmochimia Acta 126: 422-440.
  • Staubwasser M, Schoenberg R, von Blanckenburg F, Krueger S, Pohl C (2013): Isotope fractionation between dissolved and suspended particulate Fe in the oxic and anoxic water column of the Baltic Sea. Biogeosciences 10: 233-245.
  • Wieser M E, Holden N, Coplen T B, Boehlke J K, Berglund M, Brand W A, De Bievre P, Groening M, Loss R D, Meija J, Hirata T, Prohaska T, Schoenberg R, O'Connor G, Walczyk T, Yoneda S, Zhu X-K, (2013): Atomic weights of the elements 2011 (IUPAC Technical Report). Pure and Applied Chemistry 85: 1047-1078.
  • Wille M, Nebel O, Van Kranendonk MJ, Schoenberg R, Kleinhanns IC, Ellwood MJ (2013): Mo-Cr isotope evidence for a reducing Archean atmosphere in 3.46-2.76 Ga black shales from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Chemical Geology 340: 68-76.
  • van Zuilen M, Schoenberg R (2013): Cr isotopes in near surface chemical sediments. In: Melezhik VA, Kump LR, Fallick AE, Strauss H, Hanski EJ, Prave AR, Lepland A (Eds.): Reading the Archive of Earth's Oxygenation. Springer.
  • Moeller K, Schoenberg R, Pedersen RB, Weiss D, Dong S (2012): Calibration of the New Certified Reference Materials ERM-AE633 and ERM-AE647 for Copper and IRMM-3702 for Zinc Isotope Amount Ratio Determinations. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 36: 177-199. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2011.00153.x.
  • Faria N, Winship PD, Weiss DJ, Coles BJ, Schoenberg R, Hutchison C, Pereira DIA, Powell JJ (2011): Development of DRC-ICP-MS methodology for the rapid determination of Fe-58 erythrocyte incorporation in human iron absorption studies. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 26 (8): 1648-1652. DOI: 10.1039/c1ja10103j.
2006 - 2010
  • Guelke M, von Blanckenburg F, Schoenberg R, Staubwasser M, Stuetzel H (2010): Determining the stable Fe isotope signature of plant-available iron in soils. Chemical Geology 277(3-4), 269-280.
  • Zink S, Schoenberg R, Staubwasser M (2010): Isotopic fractionation and reaction kinetics between Cr(III) and Cr(VI) in aqueous media. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74(20), 5729-5745.
  • Mulch A, Uba CE, Strecker MR, Schoenberg R, Chamberlain PC (2010): Late Miocene climate variability and surface elevation in the central Andes. Earth Planetary Science Letters 290(1-2), 173-182.
  • Koepke J, Schoenborn S, Oelze M, Wittmann H, Feig ST, Hellebrand E, Boudier F, Schoenberg R (2009): Petrogenesis of crustal wehrlites in the Oman ophiolite: Experiments and natural rocks. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q10002. doi:10.1029/2009GC002488.
  • Schoenberg R, Marks M, Schuessler JA, von Blanckenburg F, Markl G (2009): Fe isotope systematics of coexisting amphibole and pyroxene in the alkaline igneous rock suite of the Ilímaussaq Complex, South Greenland. Chemical Geology 258(1-2), 65-77.
  • Schuessler JA, Schoenberg R, Sigmarsson O (2009): Iron and lithium isotopes in volcanic rocks from Hekla, Iceland – Implications for isotopic fractionation during magma differentiation. Chemical Geology 258(1-2), 78-91.
  • Schoenberg R, Zink S, Staubwasser M, von Blanckenburg F (2008): The stable Cr isotope inventory of solid Earth reservoirs determined by double-spike MC-ICP-MS. Chemical Geology 249(3-4), 294-306.
  • Von Blanckenburg F, Mamberti M, Schoenberg R, Webb G, Kamber BS (2008): The iron isotope composition of microbial carbonate. Chemical Geology 249(1-2), 113-128.
  • Weiss DJ, Rehkämper M, Schoenberg R, McLaughlin M, Kirby J, Campbell P, Arnold T, Chapman J, Peel K, Gioia S (2008): Application of nontraditional stable isotope systems to the study of sources and fate of metals in the environment. Environmental Science and Technology 42(3), 655-664.
  • Schuessler JA, Schoenberg R, Behrens H, von Blanckenburg F (2007): The experimental calibration of the iron isotope fractionation factor between pyrrhotite and peralkaline rhyolitic melt. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71(2), 417-433.
  • Frost C D, von Blanckenburg F, Schoenberg R, Frost BR, Swapp SM (2006): Preservation of Fe isotope heterogeneities during diagenesis and metamorphism of banded iron formation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 153(2), 211-235.
  • Schoenberg R, von Blanckenburg F (2006): Modes of planetary-scale Fe isotope fractionation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 252(3-4), 342-359.
  • Andersen JCO, Thalhammer OAR, Schoenberg R, (2006): Platinum-group element and Re-Os isotope variations of the high-grade Kilvenjärvi platinum-group element deposit, Portimo layered igneous complex, Finland. Economic Geology 101(1), 159-177.
  • Staubwasser M, von Blanckenburg F, Schoenberg R (2006): Iron isotopes in the early marine diagenetic iron cycle. Geology 34(8), 629-632.
  • Horn I, von Blanckenburg F, Schoenberg R, Steinhoefel G, Markl G (2006): In situ iron isotope ratio determination using UV-femtosecond laser ablation with application to hydrothermal ore formation processes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70(14), 3677-3688.
  • Horn I, Schoenberg R, von Blanckenburg F (2006): Comment on "Analysis of Fe isotopes in sulfides and iron meteorites by laser ablation high-mass resolution multi-collector-ICP mass spectrometry" by J. Kosler, R.B. Pedersen, C. Kruber and P.J. Sylvester, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 21(2), 211-213.
  • Mercolli I, Briner AP, Frei R, Schoenberg R, Nagler TF, Kramers JD, Peters T (2006): Lithostratigraphy and geochronology of the Neoproterozoic crystalline basement of Salalah, Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman. Precambrian Research 145(3-4), 182-206.
  • Krayenbuehl PA, Walczyk T, Schoenberg R, von Blanckenburg F, Schulthess G (2005): Hereditary hemochromatosis is reflected in the iron isotope composition of blood. Blood 105(10), 3812-3816
2001 - 2005
  • Schoenberg R, von Blanckenburg F (2005): An assessment of the accuracy of stable Fe isotope ratio measurements on samples with organic and inorganic matrices by high-resolution multicollector ICP-MS. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 242, 257-272.
  • Kamber BS, Greig A, Schoenberg R, Collerson KD (2003): A refined solution to Earth's hidden niobium: implications for evolution of continental crust and mode of core formation. Precambrian Research 126, 289-308.
  • Schoenberg R, Nagler TF, Gnos E, Kramers JD, Kamber BS (2003): The source of the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe, and its tectonic significance: Evidence from Re-Os isotopes. Journal of Geology 111, 565-578.
  • Schoenberg R, Kamber BS, Collerson KD, Eugster O (2002): New W-isotope evidence for rapid terrestrial accretion and very early core formation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66, 3151-3160.
  • Collerson KD, Kamber BS, Schoenberg R (2002): Applications of accurate, high-precision Pb isotope ratio measurement by multi-collector ICP-MS. Chemical Geology 188, 65-83.
  • Schoenberg R, Kamber BS, Collerson KD, Moorbath S (2002): Tungsten isotope evidence from similar to 3.8-Gyr metamorphosed sediments for early meteorite bombardment of the Earth. Nature 418, 403-405.
  • Oberthur T, Weiser TW, Gast L, Schoenberg R, Davis DW (2002): Platinum-group minerals and other detrital components in the Karoo-age Somabula gravels, Gweru, Zimbabwe. Canadian Mineralogist 40, 435-456.
  • Meisel T, Moser J, Fellner N, Wegscheider W, Schoenberg R (2001): Simplified method for the determination of Ru, Pd, Re, Os, Ir and Pt in chromitites and other geological materials by isotope dilution ICP-MS and acid digestion. Analyst 126, 322-328.
1998 - 2000
  • Schoenberg R, Nagler TF, Kramers JD (2000): Precise Os isotope ratio and Re-Os isotope dilution measurements down to the picogram level using multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 197, 85-94.
  • Schoenberg R, Kruger FJ, Nagler TF, Meisel T, Kramers JD (1999): PGE enrichment in chromitite layers and the Merensky Reef of the western Bushveld Complex; a Re-Os and Rb-Sr isotope study. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 172, 49-64.
  • Frei R, Blenkinsop TG, Schonberg R (1999): Geochronology of the late Archaean Razi and Chilimanzi suites of granites in Zimbabwe: implications for the late Archaean tectonics of the Limpopo Belt and Zimbabwe Craton. South African Journal of Geology 102, 55-63.
  • Frei R, Nagler TF, Schonberg R, Kramers JD (1998): Re-Os, Sm-Nd, U-Pb, and stepwise lead leaching isotope systematics in shear-zone hosted gold mineralization: Genetic tracing and age constraints of crustal hydrothermal activity. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62, 1925-1936.