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Max Coleman

Email:
m.l.coleman@reading.ac.uk
Job title:
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.