Publications

Pickering, R., Khosa, R., Hashibi, S., Tostevin, R., 2022, How can we ensure everyone enjoys their geological field training? GSSA Geobulletin. 65 (4) Download / Website.

Brady, M., Tostevin, R., Tosca, N. J., 2022, Marine phosphate availability and the chemical origins of life on Earth Nature Communications. Download / Website.

Yao, H., Chen, X., Wagreich, M., Grasby, S. E, Liu, S., Yin, R., Tostevin, R., Lv, Y., Gu, X., Liu, X., Wang, C., 2022, Isotopic evidence for changes in the mercury and zinc cycles during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 in the northwestern Tethys, Austria. Global and Planetary Change. Download / Website.

Liu, X., Chen, X., Tostevin, R., Yao, H., Han, K., Guo, H., Jafarian, A., 2021. Post-depositional modification of carbonate ooids by sulfate-reducing bacteria: Evidence from the Lower-Middle Jurassic, Tethyan Himalayas of Southern Tibet. Sedimentary Geology. Download / Website.

Shields, G. A., Strachan, R. A., Porter, S. M., Halverson, G. P. … Tostevin, R. … Zhu, M., 2020. Towards a new geological timescale: A template for improved rock-based subdivision of pre-Cryogenian time. Journal of the Geological Society of London. Download / Website.

Tostevin, R., Snow, J. T., Zhang, Q., Tosca, N. J., Rickaby, R. E. M., 2021. The influence of elevated SiO2(aq) on intracellular silica uptake and microbial metabolism. Geobiology. Download / Website.

Tostevin, R., 2020. Cerium anomalies and palaeoredox. Elements, Cambridge University Press. Download / Website.

Tostevin, R., Mills, B. J. W., 2020. Reconciling proxy records and models of Earth’s oxygenation during the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic. Interface Focus. Download / Website.

Johnson, B. R., Tostevin, R., Gopon, P., Wells, J., Robinson, S. A., Tosca, N. J., 2020.  Phosphorus burial in ferruginous SiO2-rich Mesoproterozoic sediments . Geology. Download / Website

Tostevin, R., Bradbury, H. J., Shields, G. A., Wood, R. A., Bowyer, F., Penny, A., Turchyn, A. V., 2019. Calcium isotopes as a record of the marine calcium cycle versus carbonate diagenesis during the late Ediacaran. Chemical Geology. Download / Website

Tostevin, R., Poulton. S. W., 2019. Oxic Sediments. In: Gargaud M. et al. (eds) Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Download / Website

Tostevin, R., Poulton. S. W., 2019. Suboxic Sediments. In: Gargaud M. et al. (eds) Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Download / Website

He, T., Zhu, M., Mills, B. J. W., Wynn, P. M., Zhuravlev, A. Y., Tostevin, R., Pogge von Strandmann, P. A. E., Yang, A., Poulton, S., and Shields, G. A., 2019. Possible links between extreme oxygen perturbations and the Cambrian radiation of animals. Nature Geoscience. Download / Website

Tostevin, R., Clarkson, M.O., Gangl, S., Shields, G.A., Wood, R.A., Bowyer, F., Penny, A.M. and Stirling, C.H., 2019. Uranium isotope evidence for an expansion of anoxia in terminal Ediacaran oceans. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 506, pp.104-112. Download / Website

Tostevin, R., He, T., Turchyn, A. V., Wood, R. A., Penny, A. M., Bowyer, F., Antler, G. & Shields, G. A., 2017. Constraints on the late Ediacaran sulfur cycle from carbonate associated sulfate. Precambrian Research. Download / Website

Penny, A. M., Wood, R. A., Zhuravlev,  A. Y., Curtis, A., Bowyer, F., Tostevin, R., 2017. Intraspecific variation in an Ediacaran skeletal metazoan: Namacalathus from the Nama Group, Namibia. Geobiology. Download / Website

Tostevin, R., Wood, R.A., Shields, G.A., Poulton, S.W., Guilbaud, R., Bowyer, F., Penny, A.M., He, T., Curtis, A., Hoffmann, K.H. and Clarkson, M.O., 2016. Low-oxygen waters limited habitable space for early animals. Nature Communications, 7. Download / Website

Tostevin, R., Shields, G. A., Tarbuck, G. M., He, T., Clarkson, M. O., & Wood, R. A., 2016. Effective use of cerium anomalies as a redox proxy in carbonate-dominated marine settings. Chemical Geology, 438, 146-162. Download / Website

Tostevin, R., Craw, D., Van Hale, R., & Vaughan, M., 2016. Sources of environmental sulfur in the groundwater system, southern New Zealand. Applied Geochemistry, 70, 1-16. Download / Website

Wood, R.A., Poulton, S.W., Prave, A.R., Hoffmann, K.H., Clarkson, M.O., Guilbaud, R., Lyne, J.W., Tostevin, R., Bowyer, F., Penny, A.M. and Curtis, A., 2015. Dynamic redox conditions control late Ediacaran metazoan ecosystems in the Nama Group, Namibia. Precambrian Research, 261, pp.252-271. Download / Website

Penny, A.M., Wood, R., Curtis, A., Bowyer, F., Tostevin, R. and Hoffman, K.H., 2014. Ediacaran metazoan reefs from the Nama Group, Namibia. Science, 344(6191), pp.1504-1506. Download / Website

Tostevin, R., Turchyn, A.V., Farquhar, J., Johnston, D.T., Eldridge, D.L., Bishop, J.K. and McIlvin, M., 2014. Multiple sulfur isotope constraints on the modern sulfur cycle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 396, pp.14-21. Download / Website

Data Access

All data related to the Nama Group can be accessed in the NERC data repository (DOI: 10.5285/3b57c988-068d-42bb-b601-ff7ed4cabc77).

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