Max Coleman

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Emeritus Professor
Areas of interest
- Interactions of sedimentary organic matter with inorganic and aqueous species and especially, application of microbial biochemistry to geological problems - self-organisation and controls on optimised dissipation of chemical potential energy
- Astrobiology - definition of generic inorganic biosignatures and quantification of energy budgets for biotic processes
- Controls on the chemical composition of basinal brines, including development of new, natural geochemical tracers of origin.
- Integration of chemical, microbiological and physical processes to understand and remedy environmental pollution problems.
- Palaeo-oceanography and quantitative palaeoclimatology.
- Clastic sediment diagenesis - understanding of specific processes and integration of effects from pore-scale to basin-scale diagenesis, with application to hydrocarbons.
Research centres and groups
Emeritus Member of the Aquatic Environments Research Centre
Publications
- (2009) Inorganic synthesis of Fe-Ca-Mg carbonates at low temperature. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , 73 (18). pp. 5361-5376.
- (2009) Aqueous geochemistry and oxygen isotope compositions of acid mine drainage from the Río Tinto, SW Spain, highlight inconsistencies in current models . Chemical Geology , 265 (3-4). pp. 321-334.
- (2009) The effect of aqueous diffusion on the fractionation of chlorine and bromine stable isotopes. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta , 73 (12). pp. 3539-3548.
- (2009) Controls on development and diversity of Early Archean stromatolites. PNAS , 106 (24). pp. 9548-9555.
- (2008) Hydrochemical variations and contaminant load in the Rio Tinto (Spain) during flood events. Journal of Hydrology , 350 (1-2). pp. 25-40.
- (2008) The chlorine isotope composition of Earth's mantle. Science , 319 (5869). pp. 1518-1520.
- (2008) Microbial perchlorate reduction: A precise laboratory determination of the chlorine isotope fractionation and its possible biochemical basis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 269 (3-4). pp. 604-612.
- (2007) Pyrohydrolysis-IRMS determination of silicate chlorine stable isotope compositions. Application to oceanic crust and meteorite samples. Chemical Geology , 242 (1-2). pp. 187-201.
- (2006) GC/multiple collector-ICPMS method for chlorine stable isotope analysis of chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons. Analytical Chemistry , 78 (13). pp. 4663-4667.
- (2006) Hiatal surfaces from the Miocene Globigerina Limestone Formation of Malta: Biostratigraphy, sedimentology, trace fossils and early diagenesis. Elsevier Science Bv pp. 239-251.
- (2005) A dendrochemical study of Pinus sylvestris from Siljansfors Experimental Forest, central Sweden. Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd pp. 1681-1691.
- (2005) Can tree-ring chemistry reveal absolute dates for past volcanic eruptions?. Journal of Archaeological Science , 32 (8). pp. 1265-1274.
- (2004) Source zone dynamics in the Rio Tinto, SW Spain. Index was outside the bounds of the array. In: , (eds.) Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd pp. A452-A452.
- (2004) A cross-calibration of chlorine isotopic measurements and suitability of seawater as the international reference material. Chemical Geology , 207 (1-2). pp. 1-12.
- (2004) Data corrections for mass-spectrometer analysis of SO2. In: de Groot, . , (eds.) Handbook of Stable Isotope Analytical Techniques. , 1. Elsevier , Amsterdam. pp. 14pp.
- (2003) Record of natural and anthropogenic changes in reef environments (Barbados West Indies) using laser ablation ICP-MS and sclerochronology on coral cores. Coral Reefs , 22 (4). pp. 416-426.
- (2003) Palaeoenvironmental conditions of hardgrounds formation in the Late Turonian-Coniacian of Mangyshlak Mountains, Western Kazakhstan. Acta. Geol. Polonica , 52 pp. 423-435.
- (2003) Microbial isotopic fractionation of perchlorate chlorine. Applied and Environmental Microbiology , 69 (8). pp. 4997-5000.
- (2003) A preliminary investigation into mining and smelting impacts on trace element concentrations in the soils and vegetation around Tharsis, SW Spain. Mineralogical Magazine , 67 (2). pp. 279-288.
- (2003) Fe-sulphate-rich evaporative mineral precipitates from the Rio Tinto, southwest Spain. Mineralogical Magazine , 67 (2). pp. 263-278.