COMPLETE LIST OF REFERENCES TO AMINO ACID RACEMIZATION WORK -

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE RESEARCH GROUP

Wehmiller, J. F. and P.E. Hare (1971) Amino acid content of some samples from the JOIDES Deep Sea Drilling Program. In Initial Reports, Deep Sea Drilling Program 9, 903-905. National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Wehmiller, J. F. and P. E. Hare (1971) Racemization of amino acids in marine sediments. Science 173, 907-911.

Kvenvolden, K. A., E. Peterson, J. Wehmiller, and P. E. Hare (1973) Racemization of amino acids in marine sediments determined by gas chromatography. Geochimca et Cosmochimica Acta 37, 2215-2225.

Wehmiller, J. F., P. E. Hare, and G. A. Kujala (1976) Amino acids in fossil corals: racemization (epimerization) reactions and their implications for diagenetic models and geochronological studies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 40, 763-776.

Wehmiller, J. F., G. L. Kennedy, and K. R. Lajoie (1977) Amino Acid age estimates for Pleistocene marine deposits in the Eureka-Fields Landing area, Humboldt Co., California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 77-517, pp. 1-25.

Wehmiller, J. F., K. R. Lajoie, K. A. Kvenvolden, E. Peterson, D. F. Belknap, G. L. Kennedy, W. O. Addicott, J. G. Vedder, and R. W. Wright (1977) Correlation and chronology of Pacific coast marine terrace deposits of continental United States by fossil amino acid stereochemistry-technique evaluation, relative ages, kinetic model ages, and geologic implications. U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 77-680, pp. 1-196.

Wehmiller, J. F. (1977) Amino acid studies of the Del Mar, California midden site: apparent rate constants, ground temperature models, and chronological implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 37, 184-196.

Wehmiller, J. F. and D. F. Belknap (1978) Alternative kinetic models for the interpretation of amino acid enantiomeric ratios in Pleistocene mollusks: examples from California, Washington, and Florida. Quaternary Research 9, 330-348. (see also Q.R. 11, 278)

Wehmiller, J. F. and W. K. Emerson (1980) Calibration of amino acid racemization in late Pleistocene mollusks: results from Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico, with dating applications and paleoclimatic implications. The Nautilus 94, 31-36.

Lajoie, K., J. F. Wehmiller, and G. L. Kennedy (1980) Inter- and intra-generic trends in apparent racemization kinetics of amino acids in Quaternary mollusks. In: Hare, P. E., Hoering, T. C., and King, K., Jr. (eds.), Biogeochemistry of Amino Acids, John Wiley, New York, pp. 305-340.

Wehmiller, J. F. (1980) Intergeneric differences in apparent racemization kinetics in mollusks and foraminifera: implications for models of diagenetic racemization. In: Hare, P. E., Hoering, T.C., and King, K., Jr. (eds.), Biogeochemistry of Amino Acids, John Wiley, New York, pp. 341-355.

Belknap, D. F. and J. F. Wehmiller (1980) Amino acid racemization in Quaternary mollusks: examples from Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. In: Hare, P. E., Hoering, T. C., and King, K., Jr. (eds.), Biogeochemistry of Amino Acids, John Wiley, New York, pp. 401-414.

Emerson, W. K., G. L. Kennedy, J. F. Wehmiller, and E. Kennan (1981) Age relations and zoogeographic implications of late Pleistocene marine invertebrate faunas from Turtle Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The Nautilus 95, 105-116.

Atwater, B. F., B. E. Ross, and J. F. Wehmiller (1981) Stratigraphy of late Quaternary estuarine deposits and amino acid stereochemistry of oyster shells beneath San Francisco Bay, California. Quaternary Research 16, 181-200.

Wehmiller, J. F. (1981) Kinetic model options for interpretation of amino acid enantiomeric ratios in Quaternary mollusks: comments on a paper by Kvenvolden et al. (1979). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 45, 261-264.

Oldale, R. N., P. C. Valentine, T. M. Cronin, E. C. Spiker, B. W. Blackwelder, D. F. Belknap, J. F. Wehmiller, and B. J. Szabo (1982) Stratigraphy, structure, absolute age, and paleontology of the upper Pleistocene deposits at Sankaty Head, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Geology 10, 246-252.

Kennedy, G. L., K. R. Lajoie, and J. F. Wehmiller (1982) Aminostratigraphy and faunal correlations of late Quaternary marine terraces, Pacific coast, U.S.A. Nature 299, 545-547.

Wehmiller, J. F. and D. F. Belknap (1982) Amino acid age estimates, Quaternary Atlantic coastal plain: comparison with U-series dates, biostratigraphy, and paleomagnetic control. Quaternary Research 18, 311-336.

McCartan, L., J. P. Owens, B. W. Blackwelder, B. J. Szabo, N. Kriausakul, R. M. Mitterer, D. F. Belknap, and J. F. Wehmiller (1982) Comparison of amino acid racemization geochronometry with lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, uranium-series coral dating, and magneto-stratigraphy in the Atlantic coastal plain of the southeastern United States, Quaternary Research 18, 337-359.

Wehmiller, J. F. (1982) A review of amino acid racemization studies in Quaternary mollusks: stratigraphic and chronologic applications in coastal and interglacial sites, Pacific and Atlantic coasts, United States, United Kingdom, Baffin Island, and Tropical Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews 1, 83-120.

Keenan, E. M., L. Ortlieb, and J. F. Wehmiller (1984) Amino acid dating of Quaternary marine terraces at Bahia Asuncion, Baja California Sur, Mexico. In: Neotectonics and sea level variations in the Gulf of California area, V. Malpica-Cruz et al., Univ. Nal. Auton, Mexico, Inst. Geologia, Mexico, D. F., pp. 149-164.

Wehmiller, J. F. (1984) Relative and absolute dating of Quaternary mollusks with amino acid racemization: evaluation, applications, and questions. In: Quaternary Dating Methods, Mahaney, W. C. (ed.), Elsevier.

Wehmiller, J. F. (1984) Interlaboratory comparison of amino acid enantiomeric ratios in fossil mollusks. Quaternary Research 22, 109-120.

Muyzer, G., P. Westbrook, J. P. M. DeVrind, J. Tanke, T. Vrijheid, E. W. DeJong, J. W. Bruning, and J. F. Wehmiller (1984) Immunology and Organic Geochemistry. Organic Geochemistry 6, 847-865.

Amino acid racemization geochronology. In: Dating Young Sediments, A. J. Hurford, E. Jager, and J.A.M. Ten Cate, Proceedings of 1985 Beijing Workshop on Dating of Young Sediments, United Nations CCOP, Bangkok, pp. 139-158, 1986.

Wehmiller, J. F. and D. F. Belknap (1987) Aminostratigraphy of coastal U.S. Quaternary marine deposts - deciphering the timing of interglaciacial high sea levels and the thermal histories of coastal regions, In: Climate, History, Periodicity and Predictability. M. R. Rampino, J. E. Sanders, W. S. Newman, and L. K. Konigsson (eds.), Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, pp. 157-165.

Wehmiller, J. F. D. F. Belknap, and L. L. York (1987) Comments on Corrado et al. (1986): Capabilities and limitations of applied aminostratigraphy as illustrated by analyses of Mulinia lateralis from the late Cenozoic marine beds near Charleston, S.C. South Carolina Geology 31(2), 109-117.

Wehmiller, J. F., D. F. Belknap, B. S. Boutin, J. E. Mirecki, S. D. Rahaim, and L. L. York (1988) A Review of the Aminostratigraphy of Quaternary Mollusks from United States Atlantic Coastal Plain Sites. Geol. Soc. Amer. Special Paper 227, Dating Quaternary Sediments, D. L. Easterbrook (ed.), pp. 69-110.

Muyzer, G., P. Westbroek, and J. F. Wehmiller (1988) Phylogenetic implications and diagenetic stability of macromolecules from Pleistocene and recent shells of Mercenaria mercenaria. Historical Biology, 1, 135-144.

York, L. L., J. F. Wehmiller, T. M. Cronin, and T. A. Ager (1989) Stetson Pit, Dare County, North Carolina: an integrated chronologic, faunal, and floral record of subsurface coastal Quaternary sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 72, 115-132. (Proceedings volume, INQUA Long Continental Records Symposium, August 1987, G. Kukla and D. Adam (eds.)

Hsu, J. T., E. M. Leonard, and J. F. Wehmiller (1989) Aminostratigraphy of Peruvian and Chilean marine terraces. Quaternary Science Reviews 8, 255-262.

Wehmiller, J. F., J. E. Mirecki, and C. H. Fletcher (1989) Lithostratigraphy and aminostratigraphy of the southeastern Virginia coastal plain. IGCP 274 Guidebook, July, 1989.

Groot, J. J., K. W. Ramsey, and J. F. Wehmiller (1990) Ages of the Bethany, Beverdam, and Omar Formations of southern Delaware. Delaware Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 47, pp. 1-19.

Wehmiller, J. F. (1990) Amino acid racemization: applications in chemical taxonomy and chronostratigraphy of Quaternary fossils, In: Skeletal Biomineralization: Patterns, Processes, and Evolutionary Trends, Vol. 1, Joseph Carter (ed.). Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, pp. 583-608.

Leonard, E. M. and J. F. Wehmiller (1991) Geochronology of marine terraces at Caleta Michilla, Northern Chile: implications for late Pleistocene and Holocene uplift. Revista Geologica de Chile 18(1), 81-86.

Wehmiller, J. F., L. L. York, D. F. Belknap, and S. W. Snyder (1992) Aminostratigraphic discontinuities in the U.S. Atlantic coastal plain and their relation to preserved Quaternary stratigraphic records. Quaternary Research 38, 275-291.

Leonard, E. M. and J. F. Wehmiler (1992) Low uplift rates and terrace reoccupation inferred from mollusk aminostratigraphy, Coquimbo Bay area, Chile. Quaternary Research 38, 246-259.

York, L. L. and J. F. Wehmiller (1992) Aminostratigraphic results from Cape Lookout, N.C. and their relation to the preserved Quaternary marine record of SE North Carolina. Sedimentary Geology 80, 279-291.

Riggs, S. R., L. L. York, J. F. Wehmiller, and S. W. Snyder (1992) Depositional patterns resulting from high frequency Quaternary sea-level fluctuations in northeastern North Carolina. In: C. H. Fletcher III and J. F. Wehmiller (eds.), Quaternary Coasts of the United States: Marine and Lacustrine Systems. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication No. 48, 141-153.

Wehmiller, J. F. (1992) Aminostratigraphy of Southern California Quaternary marine terraces. In: C. H. Fletcher III and J. F. Wehmiller (eds.), Quaternary Coasts of the United States: Marine and Lacustrine Systems. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication No. 48, 317-321.

Kennedy, G. L., Wehmiller, J. F., and T. K. Rockwell (1992) Paleocology and paleozoogeography of late Pleistocene marine terrace faunas of southwestern Santa Barbara County, California. In: C. H. Fletcher III and J. F. Wehmiller (eds.), Quaternary Coasts of the United States: Marine and Lacustrine Systems. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication No. 48, 343-361.

Fletcher, C. H., III and J. F. Wehmiller (eds.) (1992) Quaternary Coasts of the United States: Marine and Lacustrine Systems. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication No. 48, 1-450.

Wehmiller, J. F. (1993) Applications of Organic Geochemistry for Quaternary Research: aminostratigraphy and aminochronology, In: Organic Geochemistry, M. Engel and S. Macko (eds.), Plenum Pub. Co., pp. 755-783.

Genau, R. B., J. A. Madsen, S. McGeary, and J. F. Wehmiller (1994) Seismic reflection identification of Susquehanna River paleochannels on the mid-Atlantic coastal plain. Quaternary Research 42, 166-175.

Wehmiller, J. F., L. L. York, and M. L. Bart (1995) Amino acid racemization geochronology of reworked Quaternary mollusks on US Atlantic coast beaches: implications for chronostratigraphy, taphonomy, and coastal sediment transport. Marine Geology 124, 303-337.

Groot, J. J., R. N. Benson, and J. F. Wehmiller (1995) Palynological, foraminiferal and aminostratigraphic studies of Quaternary sediments from the U.S. middle Atlantic upper continental slope, continental shelf, and coastal plain. Quaternary Science Reviews 14, 17-49.

Chen, Zi-Qiang, C. H. Hobbs III, J. F. Wehmiller, and S. M. Kimball (1995) Late Quaternary Paleochannel Systems on the Continental Shelf, South of the Chesapeake Bay entrance. Journal of Coastal Research 11(3), 605-614.

Mirecki, J. E., J. F. Wehmiller, and A. Skinner (1995) Geochronology of Quaternary Coastal Plain deposits, southeastern Virginia, USA. Journal of Coastal Research 11(4), 1135-1144.

Leonard F. M. and J. F. Wehmiller. Aminostratigraphy and chronology of marine terraces in the Coquimbo Bay area, Chile, IGCP 367 Guidebook, Nov. 1995.

Martin, R. E., J. F. Wehmiller, M. S. Harris, and W. D. Liddell (1996) Comparative taphonomy of bivalves and foraminifera from Holocene tidal flat sediments, Bahia la Choya, Sonora, Mexico (Northern Gulf of California); taphonomic grades and temporal resolution. Paleobiology 22(1), 80-90.

Kaufman, A., B. Ghaleb, J. F. Wehmiller, and C. Hillaire-Marcel (1996) Uranium concentration and isotopic ratio profiles within Mercenaria shells: geochronological implications. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 60, 3735-3746.

Wehmiller, J. F. (1997) Aminostratigraphic analysis of mollusk specimens: Cape May Coast Guard Station Borehole. In: Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Program V150X, K. G. Miller and S. W. Snyder (eds.), p. 355-357.

Wehmiller, J. F. and F. R. Hall (1997) Amino acid racemization geochronological studies of selected Leg 155 samples. In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program V155, R. D. Flood, D. J. W. Piper, A. Klaus, and L. C. Peterson (eds.), p. 375-378.

Wehmiller, J. F. and G. H. Miller (1998) Amino acid racemization. In: Dating and Earthquakes: Review of Quaternary Geochronology and Its Application to Paleoseismology: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR 5562, J. M. Sowers, J. S. Noller, and W. R. Lettis, eds.

Wehmiller, J. F. (1998) Stratigraphy and Geochronology of Quaternary Strata, Gomez Pit, Va. In: J. M. Sowers, J. S. Noller, and W. R. Lettis (eds.), Quaternary geochronology: applications in Quaternary geology and paleoseismology: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR 5562.


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