--> -->
University of Southern California
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  
Sarah Feakins, PhD | USC College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences
 

Publications

(underlined = advisee)

Submitted

Feakins, S.J., Levin, N.E., Liddy, H.M., Sieracki, A., Eglinton, T.I.,  Bonnefille, R., Northeast African vegetation change over 12 million years, in review Geology.

Feakins, S.J., Warny, S., Lee, J.E. Plant leaf wax evidence for Antarctic precipitation 20 to 15 million years ago, in review Nature Geoscience.

2012

Sachse, D., Billault, I., Bowen, G.J., Chikaraishi, Y., Dawson, T., Feakins, S.J., Freeman, K.H., Magill, C., McInerney, F.A., van der Meer, M., Polissar, P., Robins, R., Sachs, J.P., Schmidt, H.L., Sessions, A.L., White, J., West, J.B., Kahmen, A., Molecular Paleohydrology: Interpreting the Hydrogen-Isotopic Composition of Lipid Biomarkers from Photosynthesizing Organisms. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 40, 221-249.

2011

Romero, I.C. and Feakins, S.J. Spatial gradients in plant leaf wax D/H across a coastal salt marsh in southern California, Organic Geochemistry, doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.04.001.

Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 2 Volume Set, Wood, B. (Editor), Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1264. ISBN: 978-1-4051-5510-6. (Feakins, S.J. Contributing Editor)

2010

Feakins, S.J. and Sessions, A. L., 2010. Crassulacean Acid Metabolism influences D/H of leaf wax in succulent plants, Organic Geochemistry, doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.09.007.

Feakins, S.J. and Sessions, A. L., 2010. Controls on the D/H ratios of plant leaf waxes from an arid ecosystem. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 2128-2141. Article

Feakins, S.J. and deMenocal, P.B., 2010. Global and African regional climate during the in review Cenozoic, in Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, Eds: Werdelin, L and Sanders, W.J., University of California Press, p.45-55.

2007

Feakins, S.J., Eglinton, T.I. and deMenocal, P.B., 2007. A comparison of biomarker records of northeast African vegetation from lacustrine and marine sediments ca. 3.40 Ma, Organic Geochemistry, doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.06.008.

Feakins, S.J., Brown, F.H., and deMenocal, P.B., 2007.Plio-Pleistocene Microtephra in DSDP Site 231, Gulf of Aden, Journal of African Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2007.05.004.

2005

Feakins, S.J., deMenocal, P,B. Eglinton, T.I,2005. Biomarker Records of Late Neogene changes in northeast African Vegetation, Geology, 33, 977-980.

2003

Stokes, S., Ingram, S., Aitken, M., Sirocko, F., Anderson, R., Leuschner, D., 2003. Alternative chronologies for Late Quaternary (Last Interglacial - Holocene) deep sea sediments via optical dating of silt-sized Quartz, Quaternary Science Reviews, 22, 925-941.

2001

Ingram, S., Stokes, S., Bailey, R., 2001. Confirmation of backscattered beta dose enhancement rates based on single aliquot regeneration (SAR) analysis of quartz sand and silt, Ancient TL, 19, 51-54.