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Geo- and Cosmochemistry

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Dr. Alexey I. Buikin - e-Mail M.Sc. (Geol.) Institut für Geowissenschaften Im Neuenheimer Feld 236 69120 Heidelberg Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry RAS Kosygin St. 19 119991 Moscow Russia Tel: +7-495-9397087

 

• Education and employment

  1999	Bachelor of Science, Geology, Moscow State University
  2001	Master of Science, Geology, Moscow State University
  2005	Candidate of Geol.-Mineral. Sciences, GEOKHI RAS
  since 1999	Various DFG research fellowships at Mineralogical Institute, Heidelberg University (total duration 2.5 years)
  since 2001	Junior Research Fellow, then Research Fellow (2005) and Senior Staff Scientist (2009), Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

• Scientific interests
  • Noble gas and stable isotope (N, C, O, H) geochemistry in mantle rocks
  • ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar dating: geo- and cosmochronology


• Selected publications
  • A.I. Buikin, M. Trieloff, J. Hopp, T. Althaus, E.V. Korochantseva, W. Schwarz and R. Altherr. 2005. Noble gas isotopes suggest deep mantle plume source of late Cenozoic mafic alkaline volcanism in Europe. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 230, 143-162.
  • M. Trieloff, M. Falter, A. Buikin, E. Korochantseva, E. Jessberger and R. Altherr. 2005. Argon isotope fractionation induced by stepwise heating. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, V. 69, 5, 1253-1264
  • Korochantseva E.V., Trieloff M., Lorenz C.A., Buykin A.I., Ivanova M.A., Schwarz W.H., Hopp J., and Jessberger E.K. 2007. L chondrite asteroid breakup tried to Ordovician meteorite shower by multiple isochron ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar dating. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 42: 113-130.
  • Hopp J., Trieloff M., Buikin A.I., Korochantseva E.V., Schwarz W.H., Althaus T., Altherr R. 2007. Heterogeneous mantle argon isotope composition in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the Red Sea region. Chemical Geology 240: 36-53.
  • Buikin A.I., Ustinov V.I., Ignatiev A.V., Velivetskaya T.A., Grinenko V.A., Nevinny Yu.A. 2008. To the problem of noble gases atmospheric contamination in mantle rocks: Oxygen and argon isotopic compositions in Saudi Arabian mantle xenoliths (in russian). Electronic Scientific Information Journal Vestnik Otdelenia nauk o Zemle RAN - No. 1(26),2008 (pdf)
  • Buikin A.I., Grinenko V.A., Ustinov V.I. , Ignatiev A.V., Velivetskaya T.A., Nevinny Yu.A., Smirnova E.P. 2009. Oxygen isotope variations in metasomatized mantle xenoliths (in russian). Electronic Scientific Information Journal Vestnik Otdelenia nauk o Zemle RAN - No. 1(27), 2009 (pdf)