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2008
Formolo, M.F., Petsch, S.T., Martini, A.M., Nüsslein, K., and Salacup, J. (2008) Hydrocarbon biodegradation in sedimentary rocks linked to atmospheric methane variation during deglaciation. Geology 36, p. 139-142.
Formolo, M., Martini, A., and Petsch, S. (2008) Biodegradation of sedimentary organic matter in the Powder River and San JuanBasins: The impact of thermal maturity. International Journal of Coal Geology, 76, 89-97.
McIntosh, J., Martini, A., Petsch, S., and Huang, R. (2008) Biogeochemistry of the Forest City Basin coalbed methane play. International Journal of Coal Geology, 76, 111-118.
Schillawski, S.J. and Petsch, S. (2008) Release of biodegradable dissolved organic matter from ancient sedimentary rocks. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 184, 137-144.
2007
Goñi, M.A., Alleau, Y., Corbett, R., Walsh, J.P, Mallinson, D., Allison, M.A., Gordon, E., Petsch, S.T., Dellapenna, T.S. (2007) The effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the seabed of the Louisiana Shelf. SEPM The Sedimentary Record 5, 5-9.
*Longworth, B.E., Petsch, S.T., Raymond, P.A., and Bauer, J. E. (2007) Linking lithology and land use to sources of dissolved and particulate organic matter in headwaters of a temperate, passive-margin river system. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71, 4233-4250 .
*Schillawski, S.J. and Petsch, S.T. (2007) Release of biodegradable dissolved organic matter from ancient sedimentary rocks. Global Biogeochemical Cycles,
*Waldron, P., Petsch, S.T., Martini, A.M., and Nüsslein, K. (2007) Archaeal community structure and metabolic activity across a salinity gradient within a methane-producing sedimentary basin. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73, 4171-4179.
2006
Bolton , E.W., Berner, R.A., Petsch, S.T., and Wildman, R.A. (2006) The weathering of sedimentary organic matter as a control on atmospheric O 2: II. Theoretical Modeling. American Journal of Science 306, 575-615.
*Longworth, B.E., Petsch, S.T., Raymond, P.A., and Bauer, J. E. (2006) Linking lithology and land use to sources of dissolved and particulate organic matter in headwaters of a temperate, passive-margin river system. submitted.
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Formolo, M.F., Petsch, S.T., and Salacup, J. (2006) Biodegradation of bitumens associated with subsurface methanogenesis in a black shale. submitted.
Schillawski, S.J. and Petsch, S.T. (2006) Release of biodegradable dissolved organic matter from ancient sedimentary rocks. submitted.
2005
Martini, A.M., Nüsslein, K., and Petsch, S.T. (2005) Enhancing microbial gas from unconventional reservoirs: Geochemical and microbiological characterization of methane-rich fractured black shales. Gas Technology Institute – Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America . Report GRI-05/0023 . R. Siegfried, ed. 42 p.
Martini, A.M., Nüsslein, K., Petsch, S.T. (2005) Enhancing Microbial Gas From Unconventional Reservoirs: Geochemical And Microbiological Characterization Of Methane-Rich Fractured Black Shales. Spring 2005 Gas Tips - Newsletter of the Gas Technology Institute, (invited manuscript). p. 3-7.
Petsch, S.T. , Edwards, K.J., and Eglinton, T.I. (2005) Microbial degradation of sedimentary organic matter. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (special issue: Geobiology)219, 157-170. invited manuscript.
2004
Raymond, P.A., Bauer, J.E., Caraco, N.F., Cole, J.J., Longworth, B.E., and Petsch, S.T. (2004) Controls on the variability of organic matter and dissolved inorganic carbon age in northeast U.S. rivers. Marine Chemistry (special issue honoring John Hedges) 92, 353-366. invited manuscript.
Wildman, R.A., Berner, R.A., Petsch, S.T., Bolton , E.W., Eckert, J.O., Mok, U. and Evans, J.B. (2004) The weathering of sedimentary organic matter as a control on atmospheric O 2: I. Analysis of a black shale. American Journal of Science 304, 234-249.
2003
Petsch, S.T. (2003) Ch. 11: The Global Oxygen Cycle. Treatise on Geochemistry (H.D. Holland and K.K. Turekian, eds.), vol. 8 Biogeochemstry (W.H. Schlesinger, ed.). Invited book chapter. p. 515-556, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam .
Petsch, S.T. , Edwards, K.J., and Eglinton, T.I. (2003) Abundance, distribution and d 13C analysis of microbial phospholipid-derived fatty acids in a black shale weathering profile. Organic Geochemistry34, 731-743.
2002
Jaffe, L.A. , Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B., and Petsch, S.T. (2002) Effects of weathering of organic-rich sedimentary rocks on the mobility of rhenium, platinum-group elements and organic carbon. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 198, 339-353.
2001
Petsch, S.T. , Eglinton, T.I., and Edwards, K.J. (2001) 14C-dead living biomass: evidence for microbial assimilation of ancient organic carbon during shale weathering. Science, 292, 1127-1131
Petsch, S.T. , Smernik, R.J., Eglinton, T.I., and Oades, J.M. (2001) A solid state 13C NMR study of kerogen degradation during black shale weathering. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ,65, 1867-1882.
Petsch, S.T. , (2001) The carbon cycle and atmospheric evolution. Marella, Newsletter of the Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation. N° 14. M. Coppold, ed.
2000
Berner, R.A., Petsch, S.T., Beerling, D.J., Popp, B.N., Lane, R.S., Laws, E.A., Westley, M.B., Cassar, N. Woodward, F.I., and Quick, W.P. (2000) Isotope fractionation and atmospheric oxygen: implications for Phanerozoic O 2 Evolution. Science, 287, 1630-1633.
Petsch, S.T. , Berner, R.A., and Eglinton, T.I. (2000) A field study of the chemical weathering of ancient sedimentary organic matter. Organic Geochemistry, 31,475-487.
1999
Petsch, S.T. (1999) Comment on “Carbon isotope ratios of Phanerozoic marine cements: re-evaluating global carbon and sulfur systems”. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 63, 307-310.
1998
Berner, R.A. and Petsch, S.T. (1998) The sulfur cycle and atmospheric oxygen. Science, 282, 1426-1427.
Petsch, S.T. and Berner, R.A. (1998) Coupling the geochemical cycles of C, P, Fe and S: the effect on atmospheric O 2 and the isotopic records of carbon and sulfur. American Journal of Science, 298, 246-262.