Publications of Ethan L. Grossman

RECENT ABSTRACTS (2008+) (*student author; #talks given by ELG)

Grossman E.L., Flake* R., Yancey T., Olszewski T., Thomas D., Marcantonio F., Raymond A., Miller B., 2011. Circulation in the Carboniferous epicontinental seas of North American – stable isotopic evidence. 17th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Perth, Australia.

Henkes*, G.A., Passey B.H., Grossman E.L., and Yancey TE., 2011. Clumped isotope geochemistry of Carboniferous brachiopods:early lessons from a novel paleothermometer. 17th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Perth, Australia.

Passey B., Henkes* G., Grossman E., Yancey T., 2011. Deep time paleoclimate reconstruction using carbonate clumped isotope thermometry: a status report. 17th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Perth, Australia.

Qie* W., Zhang X., Grossman, E., Du Y., Huang X., 2011. Carbon and oxygen isotopic records of Lower Carboniferous brachiopod shells from Southern Guizhou, South China. 17th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Perth, Australia.

Strauss*, J., Grossman, E.L., and S.F. DiMarco, 2011, Stable isotopes of mollusk shells as indicators of benthic respiration and fresh water penetration in the northern Gulf of Mexico, 11th Annual Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference & 4th Austalasian Hydrogeology Research Conf., Cairns, Queensland, Australia, July 12-14.

#Sosdian, S.M., Grossman, E.L., Lear, C.H., Tao, K., and Rosenthal, Y., 2010. Cenozoic Seawater Sr/Ca ratios: Implications for coral reef development through ocean de-acidification. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl.

*Flake, R.C., Grossman, E.L., Yancey, T.E., Olszewski, T.D., Thomas, D.J., Raymond, A., Miller, B.V., 2010. Circulation of North American epicontinental seas during the Carboniferous based on stable isotope analysis of brachiopod shells. Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, p. 467.

#Grossman, E.L., 2010. The oxygen isotope record for the Paleozoic: The case for constant seawater d18O and warm early –mid Paleozoic oceans. Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, p. 513.

#Grossman, E.L., 2010. The oxygen isotope record for the Phanerozoic. Goldschmidt Conference, Knoxville.

Strauss*, J., Grossman, E.L., DiMarco, S.F., 2010. Oxygen and carbon isotopes of hypoxic waters from the 2009 Louisiana hypoxic zone: Indicators of fresh water sources and benthic respiration. AGU Ocean Sciences Abstract.

Strauss*, J., Grossman, E.L., DiMarco, S.F., 2009. Oxygen and carbon isotopes of hypoxic waters: Indicators of fresh water sources and benthic respiration on the Texas-Louisiana shelf. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl.

Tao*, K.., and Grossman, E.L., 2009. Late Neogene marine temperatures reconstruction of the Florida Platform from molluscan stable isotopic and Sr/Ca records. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl.

#Sosdian, S., Grossman, E., Lear, C., Rosenthal, Y., Tao*, K., 2009. Cenozoic variations in seawater Sr/Ca ratios: Insight from gastropod shells. Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs 41.

Woodard*, S.C., Thomas, D.J., Grossman, E., Miller, B.V., Olszewski, T.D., Yancey, T.E., Barley*, B., Raymond, A., and Hensley*, M., 2009. Radiogenic isotope composition of Carboniferous seawater – North American time series and geographic transect. Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs 41.

DiMarco, S.F., May, N., Quigg, A.S., Fisher, M., Denton, W., Grossman, E., Strauss*, J.,  Bianchi, T.S., Mullins*, R., 2009. 24-year climatology of coastal Texas water quality: stratification, nutrients, and hypoxia. Nutrient Criteria Research Framework Workshop, Gulf of Mexico Alliance, New Orleans.

Noret*, J.R., Grossman, E.L., Yancey, T.E., and Chuvashov, B.I., 2009. Global climatic and ecological correlations during the Early Permian (Cisuralian). South-Central GSA Abstracts with Programs.

PAPERS (*student author) (reprints linked as pdf files)

Strauss, J. Grossman, E.L., Carlin, J.A., Dellapenna, T.M., 2012. 100 years of benthic foraminiferal history on the inner Texas shelf: faunal indications and stable isotopes. Continental Shelf Research (in press).

Strauss*, J., Grossman, E.L., DiMarco, S.F., 2012. Stable isotopes in mollusk shells as indicators of benthic respiration and freshwater penetration on the Texas-Louisiana Shelf. Bull. Marine Sci. (in press).

61. Grossman, E.L., 2012. Oxygen isotope stratigraphy. In Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., Schmitz, M., and Ogg, G., eds., The Geologic Time Scale 2012, Elsevier, p. 195-220 (in press).

60. DiMarco, S.F., Strauss*, J., May*, Mullins*, R.L., Grossman, E.L., 2012. Texas coastal hypoxia: Linkages to the Brazos River: Aquatic Geochemistry, v. 18, p. 159–181. pdf

59. Romanek, C.S., Morse, J.W., and Grossman, E.L., 2011.  Aragonite precipitation kinetics in dilute solutions: Aquatic Geochemistry, v. 17, p. 339-356. pdf

58. Tao*, K.., and Grossman, E.L., 2010. Origin of high productivity in the Pliocene of the Florida Platform: Evidence from stable isotopes and trace elements. Palaios, v. 25(11), p. 796-806. pdf

57. Ruebush*, L.E., Grossman, E.L., Miller, S.A., North, S.W., Schielack, J.F., and Simanek, E.E., 2009. Scientists’ perspective on introducing authentic inquiry to high school teachers during an intensive three-week summer professional development experience. School Science and Mathematics, v. 109 (3), p. 162-174. pdf

56. Grossman, E.L., Yancey, T.E., Jones*, T.E., Chuvashov, B., Mazzullo, S.J., and Mii, H-S., 2008. Glaciation, aridification, and carbon sequestration in the Permo-Carboniferous: The isotopic record for low latitudes.  Palaeogeog., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol., v. 268, p. 222-233.   pdf | Appendix 1 including Permo-Carb Database (26FEB09) |

55. Gentry*, D.K.,  Sosdian*, S., Grossman, E.L., Rosenthal, Y., Hicks, D.W., Lear, C., 2008. Seasonal isotope and trace-metal profiles of serially-sampled Conus gastropods: Proxies for paleoenvironmental change. Palaios, v., 23, p. 195–209.   pdf

54. Mazzullo, S.J., Boardman, D.R., Grossman, E.L. , Dimmick-Wells, K., 2007. Oxygen-carbon isotope stratigraphy of Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian marine deposits in Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma: implications for seawater isotopic composition, glaciation, and depositional cyclicity. Carbonates and Evaporites, v. 22, p. 55-72. pdf

53. Horacek, M., Wang, X., Grossman E. L., Richoz, S., Cao Z., 2007. The carbon-isotope curve from the Chaohu sec­tion, China: different trends at the Induan –Olenekian Boundary or diagenesis? Albertiana, v. 35, p. 41-45.

52. Sosdian*, S., Gentry*, D.K., Lear, C., Grossman, E.L. , Hicks, D., Rosenthal, Y., 2006. Strontium to calcium ratios in the marine gastropod Conus ermineus: Growth rate effects and temperature calibration, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3 ), v. 7, Q11023, doi:10.1029/2005GC001233.  pdf

51. Hyde, W.T., Grossman, E.L., Crowley, T.J., Pollard, D., and Scotese, C.R., 2006. Siberian glaciation as a constraint on Permo-Carboniferous CO2 levels. Geology, v. 34, p. 421-424. pdf

50. Beck*, W. C., Grossman, E. L., and Morse, .J. W., 2005, Experimental studies of oxygen isotope fractionation in the carbonic acid system at 15o, 25 o , and 40o C. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 69, p. 3493-3503. pdf

49. Cervato, C. Goldstein, S.L., Grossman, E.L., Lehnert, K., and McArthur, J., 2004. Joint discussion of [sedimentary geochemistry] data management systems that cross the waterline. EOS, v. 85, no. 44, p. 450, 452 [Words in brackets appears in online and book versions only.].  pdf

48. Kobashi*, T.,Grossman, E.L . , Dockery III, D.T., and Ivany, L.C., 2004. Water mass stability reconstructions from greenhouse (Eocene) to icehouse (Oligocene) for the northern Gulf Coast continental shelf (USA), Paleoceanography, 19, PA1022, doi:10.1029/2003PA000934. pdf

47. Kobashi*, T., and Grossman, E.L. , 2003. The oxygen isotopic record of seasonality in Conus shells and its application to understanding Late Middle Eocene (38 Ma) climate. Paleontological Research, v. 7, no. 4, p. 343-355. pdf

46. Grossman, E.L., Bruckschen, P., Mii, H-S., Chuvashov, B.I., Yancey, T.E., and Veizer, J., 2002. Carboniferous paleoclimate and global change: Isotopic evidence from the Russian Platform. In Chuvashov, B.I., and Amon, E.O., eds., Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Paleogeography in Eurasia, Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Urals Branch, Ekaterinburg, p. 61-71, ISBN 5-94332-014-8. pdf

45. Grossman E.L. , Cifuentes, L.A., and Cozzarelli, I.M., 2002. Anaerobic methane oxidation in a landfill-leachate plume. Environmental Sci. Technol., v. 36, p. 2436-2442. pdf

44. Grossman, E.L., 2002. Stable carbon isotopes as indicators of microbial activity in aquifers, in Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 2nd ed., C.J. Hurst et al. (eds.), American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, DC, p. 728-742 (invited). pdf / Figure 2

43. Kobashi*, T., Grossman, E.L., Yancey, T.E., and Dockery, D.T. III, 2001. Reevaluation of conflicting Eocene tropical temperature estimates: Molluskan oxygen-isotope evidence for warm low-latitudes. Geology , v. 29, p. 983-986. pdf / Appendix 1 ( excel ) / Appendix 2 ( pdf [revised 7/3/02], excel [revised 7/3/02])

42. Routh*, J., Grossman, E.L. , Murphy, E.M., and Benner, R., 2001. Characterization and origin of  dissolved organic carbon in Yegua groundwaters (Brazos County, Texas): Ground Water, v. 39 (5), p. 760-767.  pdf

41. Mii*, H., Grossman, E.L. , Yancey, T.E., Chuvashov, B., Egorov A., 2001. Isotope records of brachiopod shells from the Russian Platform—evidence for the onset of mid-Carboniferous glaciation. Chemical Geology, v. 175, p. 133-147 (invited; Special IGCP Project #386 issue) pdf .   Figure 6 / Figure 7 / Appendices ( pdf , Word, html with links to specimen photomicrographs (DiGPaST))

40. Grossman, E.L. , and Desrocher*, S., 2001. Microbial sulfur cycling in terrestrial subsurface environments.  In Fredrickson, J.K., and Fletcher, M., Subsurface Microbiology and Biogeochemistry , New York, John Wiley and Sons,  p. 219-248 (Invited).

39. Routh*. J., Grossman, E.L. , Ulrich*, G.A., and Suflita, J., 2001. Volatile organic acids in the Yegua formation, east-central Texas: Applied Geochemistry, v. 16, p. 183-195.  pdf

38. Mii*, H-S., Grossman, E.L. , and Yancey, T.E.,  1999. Carboniferous isotope stratigraphies of North America: Implications for Carboniferous paleoceanography and Mississippian glaciation : Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 111, p. 960-973.  pdfFigure 7 / Figure 8 / Appendix Fig. 1 / Appendix I with links to specimen photomicrographs (DiGPaST) ( text )

37. Routh*, J., McDonald, T.J., Grossman, E.L. , 1999. Sedimentary organic matter sources and depositional environment in Yegua Formation (Brazos County, Texas): Organic Geochemistry, v. 30, p. 1437-1453.  pdf

36. Grossman, E.L. , 1999. Oxygen isotopes, in Marshall, C.P., and Fairbridge, R.W., eds., The Encyclopedia of Geochemistry, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Lancaster, p. 469-474. pdf

35. Ulrich*, G., Martino*, D., Burger*, K., Grossman, E. , Ammerman, J., and Suflita, J., 1998. S-cycling in the terrestrial subsurface: Commensal interactions, spatial scales, and microbial heterogenity: Microbial Ecology, v. 36, p. 141-151.  pdf

34. Jolley*, D.M., Grossman, E.L. , and Tilford, N.R., 1998. Dating calcic soils under marginal climatic or lithologic conditions using a soil developmental index: An example from the Stockton Plateau, Terrell County, Texas. Environ. Engineering Geosci., v. 4, p. 209-223.   pdf

33. Martino*, D.P., Grossman, E.L. , Ulrich*, G.A., Burger*, K.C., Schlichenmeyer*, J.L., Suflita, J.M., and Ammerman, J.W., 1998. Microbial abundance and activity in a low conductivity aquifer system in east-central Texas : Microbial Ecology, v. 35, p. 224-234.  pdf / Figure 3

32. Zhang*, C., Grossman, E. L ., and Ammerman, J. W., 1998. Factors influencing methane distribution in Texas aquifers. Ground Water,  v. 36, no. 1, p. 58-66. pdf | Well information from Zhang (1994, Ph.D. dissertation)

31. Lee*, Y-J., Wiltschko, D.V., Grossman, E.L., Morse, J.W., and Lamb, W.M., 1997. Opening and precipitation history of calcite veins in the Austin Chalk Formation, Texas: J. Geophys. Res., v. 102, No. B10, p. 22,611-22,624.  pdf

30. Mii*, H-S., Grossman, E.L ., and Yancey, T.E., 1997. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope shifts in Permian seas of West Spitsbergen-global change or diagenetic artifact? Geology, v. 25, p. 227-230.  pdf / Figure 3 / Appendix I ( pdf , text ) / Appendix II ( pdf , text )

29. Grossman, E.L. , 1997. Stable carbon isotopes as indicators of microbial activity in aquifers, C.J. Hurst et al. (eds.), American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, DC, p. 565-575. Figure 2 | pdf

28. Grossman, E.L. , Mii*, H., Zhang*, C., and Yancey, T.E., 1996. Chemical variation in Pennsylvanian brachiopod shells-Diagenetic, taxonomic, microstructural, and seasonal effects . Jour. Sed. Research, v. 66, p. 1011-1022.  pdf / Figure 10 / Appendix ( Word 6.0 , text )

27. Mii*, H-S., Yancey, T.E., and Grossman, E.L., 1996. Stable isotope variations in Late Pennsylvanian brachiopods from north New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 47th Field Conference, p. 189-197.

26. Grossman, E.L. , Zhang*, C., Ammerman, J.W., and MacRae*, M., 1995. Methane and methanotrophy in Texas aquifers, in Proceedings of the 24th Water for Texas Conference, R. Jensen, ed., Texas Water Resources Institute, College Station, p. 453-456. pdf

25. Mii*, H., and Grossman, E.L ., 1994. Late Pennsylvanian seasonality reflected in the 18 O and elemental composition of a brachiopod shell : Geology, v. 22, p. 661-664.  pdf / Figure 2

24. Grossman, E.L., 1994. The carbon and oxygen isotopic record during the evolution of Pangea: Carboniferous to Triassic. Special Paper 288, Pangea: Paleoclimate, Tectonics, and Sedimentation during Accretion, Zenith, and Breakup of a supercontinent, G.D. Klein, ed., Geological Society of America , p. 207-228. pdf

23. Grossman, E.L., 1994. Book review: Ground-water Microbiology and Geochemistry, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, v. 58, p. 5364.  pdf

22. Grossman, E.L., Mii*, H-S., and Yancey, T.E., 1993. Stable isotopes in late Pennsylvanian brachiopods from the United States: Implications for Carboniferous paleoceanography: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 105, p. 1284-1296. pdf / Appendix I ( html , text , pdf ) / Appendix II ( html , text , pdf ) / Appendix III (text) | DiGPaST (specimen photomicrographs)

21. Grossman, E.L., 1993. Comment on MacLeod and Hoppe (1992): "Evidence that inoceramid bivalves were benthic and harbored chemosynthetic symbionts", Geology, v. 21, p. 94-95. pdf

20. Alcalá-Herrera*, J.A., Grossman, E.L., and Gartner, S., 1992. Nannofossil diversity and equitability and fine-fraction d13C across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Walvis Ridge Leg 74, South Atlantic: Mar. Micropaleontol., v. 20, p. 77-88. pdf

19. Romanek*, C.S., Grossman, E.L ., and Morse, J.W., 1992. Carbon isotope fractionation in synthetic aragonite and calcite: effects of temperature and precipitation rate: Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, v. 56, p. 419-430.  pdf

18. Grossman, E.L., 1992. Isotope studies of Paleozoic paleoceanography-opportunities and pitfalls: Palaios (invited "Online" contribution), v. 7, p. 241-243.  pdf

17. Grossman, E.L., Zhang*, C., and Yancey, T.E., 1991. Stable isotope stratigraphy from brachiopods in Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) shales of Texas: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 103, p. 953-965. Appendix pdf | DiGPaST (specimen photomicrographs)

16. Hays*, P.D., and Grossman, E.L., 1991. Oxygen isotopes in meteoric calcite cements as indicators of continental climate: Geology, v. 19, p. 441-444.  pdf

15. Romanek*, C.S., and Grossman, E.L., 1989. Stable isotope profiles of Tridacna maxima as environmental indicators: Palaios, v. 4, p. 402-413.  pdf

14. Grossman, E.L ., Coffman*, B.K., Fritz, S.J., and Wada, H., 1989. Bacterial production of methane and its influence on groundwater chemistry in east-central Texas aquifers: Geology, v. 17, p. 495-499. pdf | Cross-listing of wells to TWDB well numbers.

13. Yancey, T.E., Grossman, E.L ., Adlis*, D.S., and McLerran*, R.D., 1989. Isotope stratigraphy and paleodepth changes of Pennsylvanian shales in north-central Texas, in Middle and Late Pennsylvanian Chronostratigraphic Boundaries in North-Central Texas: Glacial-eustatic Events, Biostratigraphy, and Paleoecology, Guidebook with Contributed Papers, Part II, Geol. Soc. America, South-central Section, p. 305-316.

12. Adlis*, D.S., Grossman, E.L ., Yancey, T.E., and McLerran*, R.D., 1988. Isotope stratigraphy and paleodepth changes of Pennsylvanian cyclical sedimentary deposits: Palaios, v. 3, no. 6, p. 487-506. pdf

11. Newton, M.S., and Grossman, E.L., 1988. Late Quaternary chronology of tufa deposits, Walker Lake, Nevada: Jour. Geology, v. 96, p. 417-433.  pdf

10. Fritz, S.J., Hinz*, D.W., and Grossman, E.L., 1987. Hyperfiltration-induced fractionation of carbon isotopes: Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta., v. 51, p. 1121-1134. pdf

9. Grossman, E.L., 1987. Stable isotopes in modern benthic foraminifera: A study of vital effect: Jour. Foram. Res., v. 16, p. 48-61. pdf Figure 1 ,

8. Gennett*, J.A., and Grossman, E.L., 1986. Oxygen and carbon isotope trends in a late Glacial-Holocene pollen site in Wyoming, U.S.A.: Geographie Physique et Quaternaire, v. 40, p. 161-169. pdf

7. Grossman, E.L., and Ku, T-L., 1986. Oxygen and carbon isotope fractionation in biogenic aragonite: Temperature effects: Chem. Geol. (Isot. Geosci. Sect.), v. 59, p. 59-74. pdf

6. Grossman, E.L., Hahn*, R.W., and Fritz, S.J., 1986. Origin of gaseous hydrocarbons in the Sparta Aquifer in Brazos and Burleson Counties, Texas: Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Soc., v. 36, p. 457-470. Cross-listing of wells to TWDB well numbers.

5. Grossman, E.L., Betzer, P.R., Dudley, W.C., and Dunbar, R.B., 1986. Stable isotopic variation in pteropods and atlantids from North Pacific sediment traps. Mar. Micropaleontol., v. 10, p. 9-22. Table 2 | pdf

4. Grossman, E.L., Adlis*, D.A., and Yancey, T.E., 1985. Stable isotopes as paleoenvironmental indicators in shales of Late Pennsylvanian cyclic sedimentary deposits, i n Recent Interpretations of Late Paleozoic Cyclothems, Proceedings of Third Annual Meeting and Field Conference, Mid-Continent Section, SEPM, p. 269-270.

3. Grossman, E.L., 1984. Stable isotope fractionation in live benthic foraminifera from the Southern California Borderland: Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol., v. 47, p. 301-327. pdf

2. Grossman, E.L., 1984. Carbon isotopic fractionation in live benthic foraminifera: Comparison with inorganic precipitate studies: Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, v. 48, p. 1505-1512. pdf

1. Grossman, E. L. , 1982. Stable Isotopes in Live Benthic Foraminifera from the Southern California Borderland. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 164 p. Table 3