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Anthropogenic dissolved and colloid/nanoparticle-bound samarium, lanthanum and gadolinium in the Rhine River and the impending destruction of the natural rare earth element distribution in rivers

scientific article published in January 2013

Anthropogenic gadolinium as a conservative tracer in hydrology

scientific article published in June 2000

Anthropogenic gadolinium as a microcontaminant in tap water used as drinking water in urban areas and megacities

scientific article published in November 2011

Anthropogenic gadolinium as a micropollutant in river waters in Pennsylvania and in Lake Erie, northeastern United States

scientific article published in May 2006

Anthropogenic gadolinium in tap water and in tap water-based beverages from fast-food franchises in six major cities in Germany

scientific article published on 06 July 2019

Assessing the bioavailability of dissolved rare earths and other trace elements: Digestion experiments with aquatic plant species Lemna minor (“duckweed” reference standard BCR-670)

scientific article published in November 2021

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago.

scientific article

Banded iron formation from Antarctica: The 2.5 Ga old Mt. Ruker BIF and the antiquity of lanthanide tetrad effect and super-chondritic Y/Ho ratio in seawater

scientific article published in March 2021

Behavior of rare earth elements and yttrium during simulation of arctic estuarine mixing between glacial-fed river waters and seawater and the impact of inorganic (nano-)particles

scientific article published in November 2016

Bioprocessing of oxidized platinum group element (PGE) ores as pre-treatment for efficient chemical extraction of PGE

scientific article published in September 2020

Calcium phosphate control of REY patterns of siliceous-ooze-rich deep-sea sediments from the central equatorial Pacific

scientific article published in April 2019

Chemical composition of waters in a former Cu-As mine: water–rock interaction, REE systematics and stability of secondary copper minerals

scientific article published in January 2015

Chemical evolution of seawater in the Transvaal Ocean between 2426 Ma (Ongeluk Large Igneous Province) and 2413 Ma ago (Kalahari Manganese Field)

scientific article published in December 2020

Comparing yttrium and rare earths in hydrothermal fluids from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: implications for Y and REE behaviour during near-vent mixing and for the Y/Ho ratio of Proterozoic seawater

scientific article published in March 1999

Continentally-derived solutes in shallow Archean seawater: Rare earth element and Nd isotope evidence in iron formation from the 2.9Ga Pongola Supergroup, South Africa

scientific article published in January 2008

Contrasting behaviour of anthropogenic gadolinium and natural rare earth elements in estuaries and the gadolinium input into the North Sea

scientific article published in August 2007

Contrasting impact of organic and inorganic nanoparticles and colloids on the behavior of particle-reactive elements in tropical estuaries: An experimental study

scientific article published in January 2017

Decoupled Hf and Nd isotopes in suspended particles and in the dissolved load of Late Archean seawater

scientific article published in April 2018

Decoupled Hf-Nd isotopes in Neoarchean seawater reveal weathering of emerged continents

scholarly article

Discovery of high-grade REE-Nb-Fe mineralization associated with calciocarbonatite in south Morocco

scientific article published in September 2020

Discriminating between different genetic types of marine ferro-manganese crusts and nodules based on rare earth elements and yttrium

scientific article published in August 2014

Distribution of high field strength elements (Y, Zr, REE, Hf, Ta, Th, U) in adjacent magnetite and chert bands and in reference standards FeR-3 and FeR-4 from the Temagami iron-formation, Canada, and the redox level of the Neoarchean ocean

scientific article published in November 2009

Distribution of major and trace elements in the bolete mushroom Suillus luteus and the bioavailability of rare earth elements

scientific article published in April 2018

Distribution of rare earth elements and other high field strength elements in glacial meltwaters and sediments from the western Greenland Ice Sheet: Evidence for different sources of particles and nanoparticles

scientific article published in September 2015

Earth’s geodynamic evolution constrained by 182W in Archean seawater

scholarly article

Effects of phosphatization on the geochemical and mineralogical composition of marine ferromanganese crusts

scientific article published in October 1997

Fluid regime in faulting deformation of the Waratah Fault Zone, Australia, as inferred from major and minor element analyses and stable isotopic signatures

scientific article published in August 1998

Fluid source and methane-related diagenetic processes recorded in cold seep carbonates from the Alvheim channel, central North Sea

scholarly article

Fraction-specific rare earth elements enable the reconstruction of primary seawater signatures from iron formations

scientific article published in October 2018

Fractionation of germanium and silicon during scavenging from seawater by marine Fe (oxy)hydroxides: Evidence from hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts and nodules

scientific article published in April 2022

Fractionation of the geochemical twins Zr–Hf and Nb–Ta during scavenging from seawater by hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts

scientific article published in September 2014

Gallium-aluminum systematics of marine hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts: Inter-oceanic differences and fractionation during scavenging

scientific article published in October 2021

Geochemical characterisation of Neoproterozoic marine habitats: Evidence from trace elements and Nd isotopes in the Urucum iron and manganese formations, Brazil

scientific article published in September 2016

Geochemistry of diffuse low-temperature hydrothermal fluids in the North Fiji basin

scientific article published in April 2002

Geochemistry of low-temperature water–rock interaction: evidence from natural waters, andesite, and iron-oxyhydroxide precipitates at Nishiki-numa iron-spring, Hokkaido, Japan

scientific article published in October 1998

Geochemistry of the Krivoy Rog Banded Iron Formation, Ukraine, and the impact of peak episodes of increased global magmatic activity on the trace element composition of Precambrian seawater

scientific article published in November 2015

Hafnium and neodymium isotopes and REY distribution in the truly dissolved, nanoparticulate/colloidal and suspended loads of rivers in the Amazon Basin, Brazil

scientific article published in September 2017

Hafnium and neodymium isotopes in seawater and in ferromanganese crusts: The “element perspective”

scientific article published in January 2006

High-resolution Ge-Si-Fe, Cr isotope and Th-U data for the Neoarchean Temagami BIF, Canada, suggest primary origin of BIF bands and oxidative terrestrial weathering 2.7 Ga ago

scientific article published in July 2022

High-technology metals as emerging contaminants: Strong increase of anthropogenic gadolinium levels in tap water of Berlin, Germany, from 2009 to 2012

scientific article published in June 2014

Highly Siderophile Elements and Coupled Fe-Os Isotope Signatures in the Temagami Iron Formation, Canada: Possible Signatures of Neoarchean Seawater Chemistry and Earth's Oxygenation History

scientific article published in August 2021

Importance of nanoparticles and colloids from volcanic ash for riverine transport of trace elements to the ocean: evidence from glacial-fed rivers after the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull Volcano, Iceland

scientific article published on 14 May 2014

Improving recoveries of platinum and palladium from oxidized Platinum-Group Element ores of the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe, using the biogenic siderophore Desferrioxamine B

scientific article published in February 2015

Insights into the REY inventory of seep carbonates from the Northern Norwegian margin using geochemical screening

scientific article published in January 2021

Iron and manganese oxide mineralization in the Pacific

scientific article published in 1997

Major and trace element compositions (including REE) of mineral, thermal, mine and surface waters in SW Germany and implications for water–rock interaction

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Manganese microchimneys buried in the Central Pacific pelagic sediments: evidence of intraplate water circulation?

scientific article published in September 1997

Metal cycling in Mesoproterozoic microbial habitats: Insights from trace elements and stable Cd isotopes in stromatolites

scientific article published in March 2019

Mineral dissolution in the Cape Cod aquifer, Massachusetts, USA: I . Reaction stoichiometry and impact of accessory feldspar and glauconite on strontium isotopes, solute concentrations, and REY distribution 1 1Associate Editor: L. M. Walter

scientific article published in March 2004

Mineralogy and chemical composition of ferromanganese crusts from the Cruzeiro do Sul Lineament - Rio Grande Rise, South Atlantic

scientific article published in June 2021

Mobilization and isotope fractionation of chromium during water-rock interaction in presence of siderophores

scientific article published in March 2019

Mussel shells of <i>Mytilus edulis</i> as bioarchives of the distribution of rare earth elements and yttrium in seawater and the potential impact of pH and temperature on their partitioning behavior

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Naturally grown duckweeds as quasi-hyperaccumulators of rare earth elements and yttrium in aquatic systems and the biounavailability of gadolinium-based MRI contrast agents

scientific article published in September 2022

Negative Ce anomalies in Mn oxides: The role of Ce4+ mobility during water–mineral interaction

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Negative cerium anomalies in manganese (hydr)oxide precipitates due to cerium oxidation in the presence of dissolved siderophores

scientific article

Neodymium isotopes in Archean seawater and implications for the marine Nd cycle in Earth's early oceans

scientific article published in June 2009

Origin of negative Ce anomalies in mixed hydrothermal–hydrogenetic Fe–Mn crusts from the Central Indian Ridge

scientific article published in November 1998

Oxidative elemental cycling under the low O2 Eoarchean atmosphere.

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Oxidative mobilization of cerium and uranium and enhanced release of “immobile” high field strength elements from igneous rocks in the presence of the biogenic siderophore desferrioxamine B

scientific article published in September 2015

Oxidative scavenging of cerium on hydrous Fe oxide: Evidence from the distribution of rare earth elements and yttrium between Fe oxides and Mn oxides in hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts

scientific article published in 2009

Oxidized Ores as Future Resource for Platinum Group Metals: Current State of Research

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Oxygenated conditions in the aftermath of the Lomagundi-Jatuli Event: The carbon isotope and rare earth element signatures of the Paleoproterozoic Zaonega Formation, Russia

scientific article published in September 2020

Paleobasinal to band-scale REE + Y distribution in iron formations from Carajás, Amazon Craton, Brazil

scientific article published in December 2020

Pb, O, and C isotopes in silicified Mooidraai dolomite (Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa): implications for the composition of Paleoproterozoic seawater and ‘dating’ the increase of oxygen in the Precambrian atmosphere

scientific article

Potential of garnet sand as an unconventional resource of the critical high-technology metals scandium and rare earth elements

scientific article published on 5 March 2021

Preservation of primary REE patterns without Ce anomaly during dolomitization of Mid-Paleoproterozoic limestone and the potential re-establishment of marine anoxia immediately after the "Great Oxidation Event"

scientific article published in June 2006

Rare earth element distribution in >400°C hot hydrothermal fluids from 5°S, MAR: The role of anhydrite in controlling highly variable distribution patterns

scholarly article

Rare earth elements in mussel shells of the Mytilidae family as tracers for hidden and fossil high-temperature hydrothermal systems

scientific article published in November 2010

Rare earth elements in the Rhine River, Germany: first case of anthropogenic lanthanum as a dissolved microcontaminant in the hydrosphere

scientific article

Rare earth elements in the aragonitic shell of freshwater mussel Corbicula fluminea and the bioavailability of anthropogenic lanthanum, samarium and gadolinium in river water

scientific article

Regional variations in fluid formation and metal sources in MVT mineralization in the Pennine Orefield, UK: Implications from rare earth element and yttrium distribution, Sr-Nd isotopes and fluid inclusion compositions of hydrothermal vein fluorites

scientific article published in April 2019

Remobilization of U and REE and the formation of secondary minerals in oxidized U deposits

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Scavenging of dissolved yttrium and rare earths by precipitating iron oxyhydroxide: experimental evidence for Ce oxidation, Y-Ho fractionation, and lanthanide tetrad effect

scientific article published in January 1999

Serpentinization in the Archean and Early Phanerozoic – Insights from chromium isotope and REY systematics of the Mg Cr hydroxycarbonate stichtite and associated host serpentinites

scientific article published in March 2021

Siderophore-promoted transfer of rare earth elements and iron from volcanic ash into glacial meltwater, river and ocean water

scientific article published in February 2013

Simultaneous Determination of Cadmium, Lead, Copper, and Thallium in Highly Saline Samples by Anodic Stripping Voltammetry (ASV) Using Mercury-Film and Bismuth-Film Electrodes

scientific article published in August 2007

Small-scale heterogeneity of trace metals including rare earth elements and yttrium in deep-sea sediments and porewaters of the Peru Basin, southeastern equatorial Pacific

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Source and origin of active and fossil thermal spring systems, northern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany

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Sources of Rare-Earth Elements and Iron in Paleoproterozoic Iron-Formations from the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa: Evidence from Neodymium Isotopes

scholarly article by Michael Bau et al published January 1997 in The Journal of Geology

THE REDISTRIBUTION OF RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS IN SECONDARY MINERALS OF HYDROTHERMAL VEINS, SCHWARZWALD, SOUTHWESTERN GERMANY

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The European Shale: An improved data set for normalisation of rare earth element and yttrium concentrations in environmental and biological samples from Europe

scientific article published in March 2018

The North Anatolian Fault Zone and the Role of Fluids in Seismogenic Deformation

scientific article published in May 1997

The lanthanide tetrad effect in highly evolved felsic igneous rocks - a reply to the comment by Y. Pan

scientific article published on 14 August 1997

The ratio of tellurium and selenium in geological material as a possible paleo-redox proxy

scientific article published in May 2014

The reliability of ∼2.9 Ga old Witwatersrand banded iron formations (South Africa) as archives for Mesoarchean seawater: Evidence from REE and Nd isotope systematics

scientific article

Thorium-poor monazite and columbite-(Fe) mineralization in the Gleibat Lafhouda carbonatite and its associated iron-oxide-apatite deposit of the Ouled Dlim Massif, South Morocco

scientific article published in January 2020

Trace and rare earth elemental variation in Arabian Sea sediments through a transect across the oxygen minimum zone

scientific article published in June 1997

Trace element and Nd isotope composition of shallow seawater prior to the Great Oxidation Event: Evidence from stromatolitic bioherms in the Paleoproterozoic Rooinekke and Nelani Formations, South Africa

scientific article published in September 2018

Tracing and tracking wastewater-derived substances in freshwater lakes and reservoirs: Anthropogenic gadolinium and geogenic REEs in Lake Paranoá, Brasilia

scientific article published in September 2015

Tracing element sources of hydrothermal mineral deposits: REE and Y distribution and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes in fluorite from MVT deposits in the Pennine Orefield, England

scientific article published on 19 August 2003