Publications


Martinez-Ruiz, F., Paytan, A., Gonzalez-Munoz, M. T., Jroundi, F., Abad, M. M., Lam, P. J., Horner, T. J., & Kastner, M. (2020). Barite precipitation on suspended organic matter in the mesopelagic zone. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.567714
Martinez-Ruiz, F., Paytam, A., Gonzalez-Munoz, M. T., Jroundi, F., Abad, M. M., Lam, P. J., Bishop, J. K. B., Horner, T. J., Morton, P. L., & Kastner, M. (2019). Barite formation in the ocean: Origin of amorphous and crystalline precipitates. Chemical Geology, 511, 441–451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.09.011
Becker, K., Austin, J. A., Exon, N., Humphris, S., Kastner, M., McKenzie, J. A., Miller, K. G., Suyehiro, K., & Taira, A. (2019). 50 years of scientific ocean drilling. Oceanography, 32(1), 17–21. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.110
Martinez-Ruiz, F., Kastner, M., Gallego-Torres, D., Rodrigo-Gámiz, M., Nieto-Moreno, V., & Ortega-Huertas, M. (2015). Paleoclimate and paleoceanography over the past 20,000 yr in the Mediterranean Sea Basins as indicated by sediment elemental proxies. Quaternary Science Reviews, 107, 25–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.018
Rose, K. K., Johnson, J. E., Torres, M. E., Hong, W.-L., Giosan, L., Solomon, E. A., Kastner, M., Cawthern, T., Long, P. E., & Todd Schaef, H. (2014). Anomalous porosity preservation and preferential accumulation of gas hydrate in the Andaman accretionary wedge, NGHP-01 site 17A. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 58, Part A, 99–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.04.009
Solomon, E. A., Spivack, A. J., Kastner, M., Torres, M. E., & Robertson, G. (2014). Gas hydrate distribution and carbon sequestration through coupled microbial methanogenesis and silicate weathering in the Krishna-Godavari Basin, offshore India. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 58, 233–253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.08.020
Kastner, M., Solomon, E. A., Harris, R. N., & Torres, M. E. (2014). Fluid origins, thermal regimes, and fluid and solute fluxes in the forearc of subduction zones. In D. K. B. F. I. Ruediger Stein & L. Hans-Christian (Eds.), Developments in Marine Geology: Vol. Volume 7 (pp. 671–733). Elsevier.
Solomon, E. A., & Kastner, M. (2012). Progressive barite dissolution in the Costa Rica forearc - Implications for global fluxes of Ba to the volcanic arc and mantle. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 83, 110–124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.12.021
Vanneste, H., Kastner, M., James, R. H., Connelly, D. P., Fisher, R. E., Kelly-Gerreyn, B. A., Heeschen, K., Haeckel, M., & Mills, R. A. (2012). Authigenic carbonates from the Darwin Mud Volcano, Gulf of Cadiz: A record of palaeo-seepage of hydrocarbon bearing fluids. Chemical Geology, 300, 24–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.01.006
Kim, J. H., Torres, M. E., Haley, B. A., Kastner, M., Pohlman, J. W., Riedel, M., & Lee, Y. J. (2012). The effect of diagenesis and fluid migration on rare earth element distribution in pore fluids of the northern Cascadia accretionary margin. Chemical Geology, 291, 152–165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.10.010
Wheat, C. G., Jannasch, H. W., Kastner, M., Hulme, S., Cowen, J., Edwards, K. J., Orcutt, B. N., & Glazer, B. (2011). Fluid sampling from oceanic borehole observatories: design and methods for CORK activities (1990-2010). Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 327, 36. https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.proc.327.109.2011
Schrum, H. N., Spivack, A. J., Kastner, M., & D’Hondt, S. (2009). Sulfate-reducing ammonium oxidation: A thermodynamically feasible metabolic pathway in subseafloor sediment. Geology, 37(10), 939–942. https://doi.org/10.1130/g30238a.1
Solomon, E. A., Kastner, M., MacDonald, I. R., & Leifer, I. (2009). Considerable methane fluxes to the atmosphere from hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. Nature Geoscience, 2(8), 561–565. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo574
Solomon, E. A., Kastner, M., Wheat, C. G., Jannasch, H., Robertson, G., Davis, E. E., & Morris, J. D. (2009). Long-term hydrogeochemical records in the oceanic basement and forearc prism at the Costa Rica subduction zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 282(1–4), 240–251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.022
Torres, M. E., & Kastner, M. (2009). Data Report: Clues about carbon cycling in methane-bearing sediments using stable isotopes of the dissolved inorganic carbon, IODP Expedition 311. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 311, 4. https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.proc.311.206.2009
Kastner, M., Claypool, G., & Robertson, G. (2008). Geochemical constraints on the origin of the pore fluids and gas hydrate distribution at Atwater Valley and Keathley Canyon, northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 25(9), 860–872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2008.01.022
Malinverno, A., Kastner, M., Torres, M. E., & Wortmann, U. G. (2008). Gas hydrate occurrence from pore water chlorinity and downhole logs in a transect across the northern Cascadia margin (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 311). Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 113(B8). https://doi.org/10.1029/2008jb005702
Torres, M. E., Trehu, A. M., Cespedes, N., Kastner, M., Wortmann, U. G., Kim, J. H., Long, P., Malinverno, A., Pohlman, J. W., Riedel, M., & Collett, T. (2008). Methane hydrate formation in turbidite sediments of northern Cascadia, IODP Expedition 311. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 271(1–4), 170–180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.061
Solomon, E. A., Kastner, M., Jannasch, H., Robertson, G., & Weinstein, Y. (2008). Dynamic fluid flow and chemical fluxes associated with a seafloor gas hydrate deposit on the northern Gulf of Mexico slope. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 270(1–2), 95–105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.024
Newman, K. R., Cormier, M. H., Weissel, J. K., Driscoll, N. W., Kastner, M., Solomon, E. A., Robertson, G., Hill, J. C., Singh, H., Camilli, R., & Eustice, R. (2008). Active methane venting observed at giant pockmarks along the U.S. mid-Atlantic shelf break. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 267(1–2), 341–352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2007.11.053
Wei, W., Kastner, M., & Spivack, A. (2008). Chlorine stable isotopes and halogen concentrations in convergent margins with implications for the Cl isotopes cycle in the ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 266(1–2), 90–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2007.11.009
Kastner, M., Becker, K., Davis, E. E., Fisher, A. T., Jannasch, H. W., Solomon, E. A., & Wheat, G. (2006). New insights into The Hydrogeology of the oceanic crust through long-term monitoring. Oceanography, 19(4), 46–57.
Riedel, M., Collett, T. S., Malone, M. J., Guerin, G., Akiba, F., Blanc-Valleron, M. M., Ellis, M., Hashimoto, Y., Heuer, V., Higashi, Y., Holland, M., Jackson, P. D., Kaneko, M., Kastner, M., Kim, J. H., Kitajima, H., Long, P. E., Malinverno, A., Myers, G., … Yoshioka, H. (2006). Stages of gas-hydrate evolution on the northern Cascadia margin. Scientific Drilling, 3, 18–24. https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.sd.3.04.2006
Solomon, E., Kastner, M., & Robertson, G. (2006). Data Report: Barium cycling at the Costa Rica convergent margin. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 205, 22. https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.205.210.2006
Valentine, D. L., Kastner, M., Wardlaw, G. D., Wang, X. C., Purdy, A., & Bartlett, D. H. (2005). Biogeochemical investigations of marine methane seeps, Hydrate Ridge, Oregon. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 110(G2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2005jg000025
Lanoil, B. D., La Duc, M. T., Wright, M., Kastner, M., Nealson, K. H., & Bartlett, D. (2005). Archaeal diversity in ODP legacy borehole 892B and associated seawater and sediments of the Cascadia Margin. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 54(2), 167–177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsec.2005.03.015
Clift, P. D., Chan, L. H., Blusztajn, J., Layne, G. D., Kastner, M., & Kelly, R. K. (2005). Pulsed subduction accretion and tectonic erosion reconstructed since 2.5 Ma from the tephra record offshore Costa Rica. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 6. https://doi.org/10.1029/2005gc000963
Wei, W., Kastner, M., Deyhle, A., & Spivack, A. J. (2005). Geochemical cycling of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and boron and implications for fluid-rock reactions in Mariana forearc, South Chamorro Seamount, ODP Leg 195. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 195, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.195.106.2005
Wheat, C. G., Jannasch, H. W., Kastner, M., Plant, J. N., DeCarlo, E. H., & Lebon, G. (2004). Venting formation fluids from deep-sea boreholes in a ridge flank setting: ODP Sites 1025 and 1026. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 5. https://doi.org/10.1029/2004gc000710
Paytan, A., Kastner, M., Campbell, D., & Thiemens, M. H. (2004). Seawater sulfur isotope fluctuations in the cretaceous. Science, 304(5677), 1663–1665. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1095258
Jannasch, H. W., Wheat, C. G., Plant, J. N., Kastner, M., & Stakes, D. S. (2004). Continuous chemical monitoring with osmotically pumped water samplers: OsmoSampler design and applications. Limnology and Oceanography-Methods, 2, 102–113.
Kastner, M., & Rudnicki, M. D. (2004). Ridge flank sediment-fluid interactions. In E. E. Davis & H. Elderfield (Eds.), Hydrogeology of the oceanic lithosphere (pp. 536–573). Cambridge University Press.
Wheat, C. G., Jannasch, H. W., Kastner, M., Plant, J. N., & DeCarlo, E. H. (2003). Seawater transport and reaction in upper oceanic basaltic basement: chemical data from continuous monitoring of sealed boreholes in a ridge flank environment. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 216(4), 549–564. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x(03)00549-1
Carson, B., Kastner, M., Bartlett, D., Jaeger, J., Jannasch, H., & Weinstein, Y. (2003). Implications of carbon flux from the Cascadia accretionary prism: results from long-term, in situ measurements at ODP Site 892B. Marine Geology, 198(1–2), 159–180. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0025-3227(03)00099-9
Cobb, K. M., Charles, C. D., Cheng, H., Kastner, M., & Edwards, R. L. (2003). U/Th-dating living and young fossil corals from the central tropical Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 210(1–2), 91–103. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x(03)00138-9
Martinez-Ruiz, F., Paytan, A., Kastner, M., Gonzalez-Donoso, J. M., Linares, D., Bernasconi, S. M., & Jimenez-Espejo, F. J. (2003). A comparative study of the geochemical and mineralogical characteristics of the S1 sapropel in the western and eastern Mediterranean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 190, 23–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0031-0182(02)00597-7
Jannasch, H. W., Davis, E. E., Kastner, M., Morris, J. D., Pettigrew, T. L., Plant, J. N., Solomon, E. A., Villinger, H. W., & Wheat, C. G. (2003). CORK-II: Long-term monitoring of fluid chemistry, fluxes, and hydrology in instrumented boreholes at the Costa Rica subduction zone. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 205, 36. https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.ir.205.102.2003
Paytan, A., Mearon, S., Cobb, K., & Kastner, M. (2002). Origin of marine barite deposits: Sr and S isotope characterization. Geology, 30(8), 747–750. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0747:oombds>2.0.co;2
Spivack, A. J., Kastner, M., & Ransom, B. (2002). Elemental and isotopic chloride geochemistry and fluid flow in the Nankai Trough. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(14). https://doi.org/10.1029/2001gl014122
Luckge, A., Kastner, M., Littke, R., & Cramer, B. (2002). Hydrocarbon gas in the Costa Rica subduction zone: primary composition and post-genetic alteration. Organic Geochemistry, 33(8), 933–943. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0146-6380(02)00063-3
Aiello, I. W., Garrison, R. E., Moore, J. C., Kastner, M., & Stakes, D. S. (2001). Anatomy and origin of carbonate structures in a Miocene cold-seep field. Geology, 29(12), 1111–1114. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<1111:aaoocs>2.0.co;2
Moore, G. F., Taira, A., Klaus, A., Becker, L., Boeckel, B., Cragg, B. A., Dean, A., Fergusson, C. L., Henry, P., Hirano, S., Hisamitsu, T., Hunze, S., Kastner, M., Maltman, A. J., Morgan, J. K., Murakami, Y., Saffer, D. M., Sanchez-Gomez, M., Screaton, E. J., … Wilson, M. (2001). New insights into deformation and fluid flow processes in the Nankai Trough accretionary prism: Results of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 190. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 2.
Valentine, D. L., Blanton, D. C., Reeburgh, W. S., & Kastner, M. (2001). Water column methane oxidation adjacent to an area of active hydrate dissociation, Eel River Basin. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 65(16), 2633–2640. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(01)00625-1
Fisher, A. T., Giambalvo, E., Sclater, J., Kastner, M., Ransom, B., Weinstein, Y., & Lonsdale, P. (2001). Heat flow, sediment and pore fluid chemistry, and hydrothermal circulation on the east flank of Alarcon Ridge, Gulf of California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 188(3–4), 521–534. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x(01)00310-7
Kastner, M. (2001). Gas hydrates in convergent margins: formation, occurrence, geochemistry, and global significance. In C. K. Paull & W. P. Dillon (Eds.), Natural gas hydrates : occurrence, distribution, and detection (pp. 67–86). American Geophysical Union.
Chan, L. H., & Kastner, M. (2000). Lithium isotopic compositions of pore fluids and sediments in the Costa Rica subduction zone: Implications for fluid processes and sediment contribution to the arc volcanoes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 183(1–2), 275–290. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x(00)00275-2
Silver, E., Kastner, M., Fisher, A., Morris, J., McIntosh, K., & Saffer, D. (2000). Fluid flow paths in the Middle America Trench and Costa Rica margin. Geology, 28(8), 679–682. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<679:ffpitm>2.0.co;2
Martinez-Ruiz, F., Kastner, M., Paytan, A., Ortega-Huertas, M., & Bernasconi, S. M. (2000). Geochemical evidence for enhanced productivity during S1 sapropel deposition in the eastern Mediterranean. Paleoceanography, 15(2), 200–209. https://doi.org/10.1029/1999pa000419
Kastner, M., Carson, B., Bartlett, D. B., Jaeger, J., Bidle, K., & Jannasch, H. (2000). An in-situ experiment of methane sequestration as gas hydrate, authigenic carbonate, and loss to the water column and/or atmosphere. In G. D. Holder & P. R. Bishnoi (Eds.), Gas hydrates : challenges for the future (pp. 32–38). New York Academy of Sciences.
Kim, D., Schuffert, J. D., & Kastner, M. (1999). Francolite authigenesis in California continental slope sediments and its implications for the marine P cycle. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 63(19–20), 3477–3485. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(99)00271-9