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Selected Abstracts

Abstracts from the last seven years which were selected from a total of sixteen first-authored papers presented at national meetings of the Geological Society of America and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology from 1991 to present.

• Fricke, H.C. and Rogers, R.R. (1997) Atmospheric water content in the late Cretaceous relative to the present as determined by the oxygen isotope composition of phosphate from freshwater fish scales. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 29, 395.


• Fricke, H.C. and Rogers, R.R. (1998) Oxygen isotope ratios of dinosaur tooth enamel and fish body scales: insights into climate during the late Cretaceous. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18, 43A (invited paper).


• Fricke, H.C. Rogers, R.R, and Rumble, D. (1998) Oxygen isotope microanalysis of dinosaur tooth enamel using UV-laser techniques and investigating terrestrial paleoclimate during the Mesozoic. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 30, 273.


• Fricke, H.C. (1999) Latitudinal gradients in temperature over North America during the early Eocene using a combined stable isotope-paleobotanical approach. Early Paleogene Warm Climates and Biosphere Dynamics International Meeting, Goteborg, Sweden, June 1999.


• Fricke, H.C. and Rogers, R.R. (1999). A multiple taxa and multiple locality approach to providing oxygen isotope evidence for endothermic homeothermy in theropod dinosaurs. Geological Society of America annual meeting in Denver, fall 1999.
• Fricke, H.C. and Rogers, R.R. (2000). Estimating the body temperatures of extinct animals using oxygen isotope ratios: a preliminary look at mammals, dinosaurs, and crocodiles. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting, Mexico City, fall 2000.


• Fricke, H.C. and Wing, S.L. (2000). Early eocene warming in North America: Comparing oxygen isotope and leaf margin estimates of temperature from three intermontane basins. Geological Society of America annual meeting in Reno, fall 2000.


• Fricke, H.C. (2001). Seasonal and spatial variations in carbon isotope ratios of plants in a C3 world as inferred from mammalian tooth enamel and their paleoecoligcal and paleoenvironmental interpretations. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 32, 114.


• Fricke, H.C. (2001). Patterns in _18O of early Eocene precipitation: implications for the study of vapor transport, _18O of nearshore oceans, and mountain building. International Meeting on Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene, Powell, WY, 33.


• Fricke, H.C. (2002). Low laramide reliefinferred by an inter-basinal comparison of oxygen isotope ratios from biogenic minerals. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 33, 62.


• W. Müller, H.C. Fricke, A.N. Halliday and M.T. McCulloch. (2002). Combined Sr, Pb, and O isotopic tracing of origin and migration of the Neolithic Alpine Iceman, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 66(15A), A530.


• Fricke, H.C. (2002). Late Cretaceous variations in _18O of precipitation and _13C of organic material over North America and their paleoenvironmental interpretations. Workshop on Cretaceous Climate and Ocean Dynamics, p. 29 (invited paper).


• *McArthur, K., Leonard, E.M., Fricke, H.C., Lowell, T.V., (2003). Glacial-interglacial environmental change as inferred from organic content and carbon isotope analysis of peat, Brewster Bog, Ohio. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 34, 210.


• Fricke, H.C. (2003). Tracking spatial and temporal changes in terrestrial ecosystems using carbon isotope ratios of plant and animal remains: Examples from the late Cretaceous of North America. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 34, 290.


• Shapiro, R.S. and Fricke, H.C. (2003). Microbial fossil record from the TePee Buttes (Upper Cretaceous, Colorado). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 34, 381.


• *Echt, S., Fricke, H.C., and Rogers, R.R. (2004) Assessing the impact of diagenesis on carbon isotope ratios of dinosaur tooth enamel: A case study from the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, in press.


• Fricke, H.C. (2004). Did dinosaurs eat C4 plants durin gthe Cretaceous? Carbon isotope evidence and possible ecological settings, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, in press.


• *Dwyer, C., Rogers, R.R., Thole, J., and Fricke, H.C. (2004). A Comparative Investigation of Diagenesis in Fossil Teeth and Bones: A Case Study from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine and Judith River Formations of Montana, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, in press.


• Fricke, H.C., *Picard, P., and *Echt, S. (2004). Correlation between Laramide basin sediments and fossil localities using carbon isotope chemostratigraphy: Examples from the Late Cretaceous. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, in press.


• *Pope, E., Fricke, H.C., Brady, J., and J. (2004). A geochemical investigation of temperature change and fluid flow during high pressure metamorphism in Syros, Greece, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, in press.

* denotes student author!

Refereed Journal Articles:

• Fricke, H.C., Wickham S.M., and O'Neil J.R. (1992) Oxygen and hydrogen isotope evidence for meteoric water infiltration during mylonitic deformation and uplift in the Ruby-East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex, Nevada. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 111, 203-221.


• Wickham S.M., Peters M.T., Fricke, H.C., and O'Neil J.R. (1993) Identification of magmatic and meteoric fluid sources and upward- and downward-moving infiltration fronts in a metamorphic core complex. Geology 21, 81-84.


• Fricke, H.C. and O'Neil J.R. (1995) Oxygen isotope composition of human tooth enamel from medieval Greenland: Linking climate and society. Geology 23, no. 10, 869-872.


• Fricke, H.C. and O'Neil J.R. (1996) Oxygen isotope composition of human tooth enamel from medieval Greenland: Linking climate and society: Reply. Geology 24, no. 5, 478-479.


• Fricke, H.C. and O'Neil J.R. (1996) Inter- and intra-tooth variations in the oxygen isotope ratio of mammalian tooth enamel phosphate: Implications for paleoclimatological and paleobiological research. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology 126, 91-100.


• Keenleyside A., Bertulli M., and Fricke, H.C. (1997) The final days of the Franklin expedition: New skeletal evidence. Arctic 50, 36-46.


• Fricke, H.C., Clyde W.C., and O'Neil J.R. (1998) Intra-tooth variation in d18O of mammalian tooth enamel as a record of seasonal changes in continental climate variables. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62, 1839-1851.


• Fricke, H.C., Clyde W.C., O'Neil J.R., and Gingerich P.D. (1998) Evidence for rapid climate change in North America during the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum: Oxygen isotope compositions of biogenic phosphate from the Bighorn Basin (Wyo). Earth Planetary Science Letters 160, 193-208.


• Fricke, H.C. and O'Neil J.R. (1999) The correlation between 18O/16O ratios of meteoric water and surface temperature: Its use in investigating terrestrial climate change over geological time. Earth Planetary Science Letters 170, 181-196.


• Fricke, H.C. and Rogers R. (2000) A multiple taxa and multiple locality approach to providing oxygen isotope evidence for endothermic homeothermy in theropod dinosaurs. Geology 28, 799-802.


• Fricke H.C. and Rogers R. (2001) A multiple taxa and multiple locality approach to providing oxygen isotope evidence for endothermic homeothermy in theropod dinosaurs: Reply. Geology. 29, 566-567.


• Vennemann, T., Fricke H.C., Blake R.E., O’Neil J.R, and Coleman A. (2002) Oxygen isotope analysis of phosphates: a comparison of techniques for analysis of Ag3PO4, Chemical Geology 185, 321-336.


• Fricke H.C. (2003) Investigation of early Eocene water-vapor transport and paleoelevation using oxygen isotope data from geographically widespread mammal remains. Geological Society of America Bulletin 115, 1088-1096.


• W. Müller, H.C. Fricke, A.N. Halliday and M.T. McCulloch. (2003). Origin and migration of the Alpine Iceman. Science 302, 862-865.


• Fricke H.C. and Wing, S.L. (2004). Oxygen isotope and paleobotanical estimates of temperature and δ¹⁸O-Latitude gradients over North America during the early Eocene. American Journal of Science 304, 612-635.

In Preparation

• *MacPherson, A., Fricke, H.C., Patterson, W., and Martini, A. Precipitation Changes in Western Ireland over the Mid-Holocene: Evidence from Carbon Isotope Analysis of Peat Moss. In preparation.

* denotes student author