Papers:

Sjostrom D.J., Hendrix M.S., Badamgarav D., Graham S.A. and Nelson B.K. (in press)
Sedimentology and provenance of Mesozoic non-marine starta in western Mongolia: A record of intracontinental deformation: Geol. Soc. America Special Paper.

Holcomb R.T., Nelson B.K., Reiners P.W. and Sawyer N.-L. (in press)
Origin of Hilo Ridge and growth of Hawaii: Geology.

McCallum I.S., Thurber M.W., OUBrien H.E. and Nelson B.K. (1999) 
Lead isotopes in sulfides from the Stillwater Complex, Montana: Evidence for subsolidus remobilization: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 137, p. 206-209.

de Villiers S. and Nelson B.K. (1999) 
Low-temperature hydrothermal flux controls on seawater chemistry: evidence from nonconservative behavior of "conservative" elements: Science, v. 285, p. 721-723. 

Reiners P.W., Nelson B.K. and Izuka S.K. (1998) 
Stratigraphy and geochemistry of the Lihue basin and eastern Kauai, Hawaii: Late-stage post-shield and post-erosional alkalic magmatism and large debris flow deposits: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 674-685. 

Reiners P.W. and Nelson B.K. (1998) 
Systematic trace element and isotopic changes during monogenetic eruptions of primitive, alkalic lavas, Kauai, Hawaii: Constraints on melt migration and reaction in the mantle: Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, v. 62, p. 2347-2368. 

Holcomb R.T., Reiners P.W., Nelson B.K. and Sawyer N.-L. E. (1997) 
Evidence for two shield volcanoes exposed on the island of Kauai, Hawaii: Geology, v. 25, p. 811-814. 

Hinn G.M. and Nelson B.K. (1997) 
Production and analysis of repetitive sub-boiling laboratory reagents for purity enhancement: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, v. A354, p. 189-193. 

Hastings D., Emerson S., Erez J. and Nelson B.K. (1996) 
Vanadium in foraminiferal calcite: Evaluation of a method to determine paleo-seawater vanadium concentrations: Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, v. 60, p. 3701-3715. 

Hastings D., Emerson S. and Nelson B.K. (1996) 
Determination of picogram quantities of vanadium in calcite and seawater by isotope dilution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry with electrothermal vaporization: Analytical Chemistry, v. 68, p. 371-377. 

Reiners P.W., Nelson B.K. and Nelson S.W. (1996) 
Evidence for multiple mechanisms of crustal contamination of magma from compositionally zoned plutons of the Alaska Range: Journal of Petrology, v. 37, p. 261-292. 

de Villiers S.D., Nelson B.K. and Chivas A.R. (1995) 
Biological controls on coral Sr/Ca and d18O reconstructions of sea surface temperatures: Science, v. 269, p. 1247-1249. 

Reiners P.W., Nelson B.K. and Ghiorso M.S. (1995) 
Assimilation of felsic crust by basaltic magma:  Thermal limits and extents of crustal contamination of mantle-derived magma: Geology, v. 23, p. 563-566. 

Nelson B.K. (1995) 
Fluid flow in subduction zones: Evidence from Nd- and Sr-isotope variations in metabasalts of the Franciscan Complex, California: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 119, p. 247-262. 

Herrmann U.R., Nelson B.K. and Ratschbacher L.R. (1994) 
The origin of a terrane: U/Pb zircon systematics and tectonics of the Xolapa complex (southern Mexico): Tectonics, v. 13, p. 455-474. 

Russell A.D., Emerson S., Nelson B.K., Erez J. and Lea, D.W., (1994) 
Uranium in foraminiferal calcite as a recorder of seawater uranium concentrations: Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, v. 58, p. 671-681. 

de Villiers S., Shen G.T. and Nelson B.K. (1994) 
Sr/Ca-thermometry: coral skeletal uptake and surface ocean variability in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific upwelling area: Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, v. 58, p. 197-208. 

Tepper J.H., Nelson B.K., Bergantz G.W. and Irving A.J. (1993) 
Petrology of the Chilliwack batholith, North Cascades, Washington: generation of calc-alkaline granitoids by melting of mafic lower crust with variable water fugacity: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 113, p. 333-351. 

Hurlow H.A. and Nelson B.K. (1993) 
U-Pb zircon and monazite ages for the Okanogan Range Batholith, Washington: Implications for the magmatic and tectonic evolution of the southern Canadian and northern United States Cordillera: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 231-240. 

Nelson B.K., Nelson S.W. and Till A.B. (1993) 
Nd- and Sr-isotope evidence for Proterozoic and Paleozoic crustal evolution in the Brooks Range, northern Alaska: Journal of Geology, v. 101, p. 435-450. 

Ward P.D., Nelson B.K. and MacLeod K.G. (1992) 
Marine isotope evolution - reply to McArthur et al.: Nature, v. 358, p. 378. 

Nelson B.K. (1991) 
Sediment-derived fluids in subduction zones: Isotopic evidence from veins in blueschist and eclogite of the Franciscan Complex, California: Geology, v. 19, p. 1033-1036. 

Nelson B.K., MacLeod K.G. and Ward P.D. (1991) 
Rapid change in strontium isotopic composition of seawater prior to the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: Nature, v. 351, p. 644-647. 

Nelson B.K. and Vidal P. (editors) (1990) 
Development  of Continental Crust through Geological Time : Chemical Geology, v. 83, no. 3/4. 

Van Schmus W.R., Bickford M.E., Anderson, R.R. Shearer, C.K. Papike, J.J. and Nelson B.K. (1989) 
Quimby, Iowa, scientific drill hole: Definition of Precambrian crustal features in northwestern Iowa: Geology, v. 17, p. 536-539. 

Nelson B.K. and DePaolo D.J. (1988) 
Application of Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr isotope systematics to sedimentary provenance determination and  basin analysis:  Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 58, p. 348-357. 
 

Abstracts:

Nelson B.K., Butterfield D.A., de Villiers S. and Wheat C.G. (1998) 
Mg-, Ca-concentration and Sr-isotope evidence for low-temperature flank flux as a significant contribution to the oceanic chemical mass balance: Eighth Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Mineralogical Magazine, v. 62A, p. 1071-1072. 

Reiners P.W., Clague D.A. and Nelson B.K. (1998) 
Petrologic and structural evolution of Kauai, Hawaii:  Evolution of Ocean Island Volcanoes Penrose Conference Series, Geological Society of America, Program and Abstracts, p. 71. 

Reiners P.W., Sawyer N.-L., Nelson B.K. and Holcomb R.T. (1997) 
Alkalic and tholeiitic submarine lavas from the Hilo Ridge rift zone, Hawaii: Implications for the evolution of Mauna Kea volcano: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v. 78, p. F645. 

Holcomb R.T., Nelson B.K. and Carracedo J.C. (1997) 
Growth, collapse and subsidence of Wailau Volcano, East Molokai, Hawaii: International Workshop on Volcanism and Volcanic Hazards in Immature Intraplate Oceanic Islands, Programme and Abstracts, pp.94-96. 

McGee W.D., Nelson B.K. and Holcomb R.T. (1997) 
Pb, Sr and Nd isotope data from Lanai, Hawaii: Implications for mantle source mixing and magmagenesis: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6, p. 28. 

Holcomb R.T., Nelson B.K., West B.P., Carracedo J.C., Ten Brink U. and McGee D. (1997) 
Post-landslide stratigraphy of the 1300-m terrace, submarine north flank of East Molokai Volcano, Hawaii: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6, p. 19. 

Nelson B.K., Herrmann U.R., Gordon M.B. and Ratschbacher L. (1997) 
Sm-Nd and U-Pb evidence for Proterozoic crust in the Chortis Block, Central America: Comparison with the crustal history of southern Mexico: Terra Nova, v. 9, Abstract Supplement No 1, p. 496. 

Reiners P.W. and Nelson B.K. (1996) 
Reactive transport of melt through the mantle: Chromatographic-reactive modeling and evidence from cogenetic lavas of the Koloa volcanics, Kaua'i: AGU Chapman Conference: Shallow Level Processes in Ocean Island Magmatism, Tenerife, Canary Islands, p. 20. 

Anders N.-L. and Nelson B.K. (1996) 
Characteristics of the Hawaiian plume: Correlations between intershield major element and isotopic compositions and the relation to the tholeiitic to alkalic basalt transition of Hawaiian volcanoes: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v. 77, p. F812. 

Reiners P.W. and Nelson B.K. (1996) 
Temporal-compositional-isotopic relationships in primitive alkalic lavas of the Koloa Volcanics, Kaua'i: Source, melting, and melt migration implications: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v. 77, p. F812. 
 

Reiners P.W. and Nelson B.K. (1996) 
Geologic and petrologic evolution of the Lihue Basin, Kaua'i and implications for the origin of Hawai'ian post-erosional volcanics: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 7, p. A-502. 

Sjostrom D.J, Hendrix M.S. and Nelson B.K. (1996) 
The relationship of Jurassic nonmarine sediments to Archean-Paleozoic basement rocks in western Mongolia: Results of petrographic and Sm/nd isotopic provenance analysis: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 7, p. A-68. 

Nelson B.K., O'Brien H.E. and Murphy M.T. (1996) 
Pb isotope characterization of sites as a means to identify and prioritize remediation targets: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 5, p. 96. 

Holcomb R.T., Reiners P.R., Nelson B.K. and Anders N.-L. (1995) 
Isotopic evidence for two shield volcanoes exposed on the Island of Kaua'i, Hawaii: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v. 76, p. F699. 

Anders N.-L. and Nelson B.K. (1995) 
Isotopic variability and evidence for the Koolau component at Waianae Volcano, Oahu, Hawaii: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v. 76, p. F692. 

Herrmann U.R., Ratschbacher L. and Nelson B.K. (1995) 
From suspect to known: The origin of some caribbean "terranes": Terra Nova, v. 7, Abstracts Supplement no. 1, p. 108-109. 

Murphy M.T., Nelson B.K. and O'Brien H.E. (1995) 
Discriminating background from anthropogenic lead by isotopic methods: Results from Eielson Air Force Base, AK: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 5, p. 67. 

Reiners P.W., Ghiorso M.S. and Nelson B.K. (1994) 
Isenthalpic assimilation of pelitic rock and its partial melt by basaltic magma: Petrologic and geochemical consequences: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 476. 

Joswiak D.J., McCallum I.S., Irving A.J. and Nelson B.K. (1994) 
Age and geochemistry of lower crustal granulite xenoliths from minette dikes in central Montana: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 296. 

Barfod D.N. and Nelson B.K. (1994) 
Contrasting shale and sandstone provenance in the Methow Basin: Nd isotope and trace element evidence: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 148. 

Holcomb R.T., Nelson B.K. and Anders N.-L. (1994) 
Headward extent and depth of giant landslide, submarine north flank of East Molokai volcano, Hawaii: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 114. 

Anders N.-L., Nelson B.K. and Holcomb R.T. (1994) 
The tholeiitic to alkalic basalt transitions of East Molokai and Waianae Volcanoes, Hawaii:  Systematic sampling of Pb isotope heterogeneities in the upper mantle: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v. 75, p. 368. 

Russell A.D., Emerson S., Mix A.C., Nelson B.K. and Lea D.W. (1994) 
U/Ca in G. sacculifer from Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific cores over las 30 kyr: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v. 75, no. 3, p. 79. 

Maximova J.V., Nelson B.K. and Prikhod'ko V.S. (in press) 
Petrology and isotopic systematics of Khungariisk granites as a key to the history of Early Cretaceous collision in the Sikhote-Alin fold belt, far-eastern Russia: AAAS Arctic Division Meeting. 

Barfod D.N. and Nelson B.K. (1994) 
Isotopic and trace element characterization of Methow Basin sediment provenance, Washington and British Columbia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 36. 

Reiners P.W., Nelson B.K. and Nelson S.W. (1993) 
Isotopic and chemical modification of cumulate mush by partial melts of country rock: Evidence from the composite plutons of the Alaska Range: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, p. 41. 

Anders N.-L. and Nelson B.K. (1993) 
East Molokai Volcano, Hawaii: Pb isotopic evidence for source heterogeneity through the tholeiitic-alkalic transition: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v. 74, p. 324. 

de Villiers S., Shen G.T. and Nelson B.K. (1993) 
The accuracy of the Sr/Ca paleothermometer: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v. 74, p. 185. 

Herrmann U.R., Nelson B.K. and Ratschbacher L. (1993) 
Terranes and active continental margins: isotope systematics and tectonics of the Xolapa complex (southern Mexico): Terra Nova, v. 5, p. 259. 

Delaperriere E., Nelson B.K. and Barfod D. (1993) 
Accretionary processes of the northwest American margin inferred from Sr and Nd isotopic compositions of sandstones from the Methow-Tyaughton basins: Terra Nova, v. 5, p. 161. 

Nelson B.K., Herrmann U.R. and Ratschbacher L.R. (1992) 
Crustal evolution in southern Mexico: Nd- and Sr-isotope evidence for cratonal affinity of the Xolapa terrane: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.73, No. 43, p. 533. 

Reiners P.W. and Nelson B.K. (1992) 
Nd- and Sr-isotope evidence for enriched mantle in south-central Alaska from Cretaceous-Tertiary composite plutons of the Alaska Range: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.73, No. 43, p. 622. 

Delaperriere E. and Nelson B.K. (1992) 
Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd analyses of Cretaceous sandstones from Methow and Tyaughton basins (Washington-British Columbia) as an indicator of provenance: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.73, No. 43, p. 574. 

Hastings D., Emerson S., Nelson B.K., Mix A. and Erez J. (1992) 
Vanadium in planktonic foraminifera as a paleoceanographic tracer of sediment redox conditions: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.73, No. 43, p. 273. 

de Villiers S., Shen G.T., Nelson B.K. (1992) 
Sr/Ca-thermometry: an evaluation of the role of Sr:Ca variability in surface ocean waters, coral growth rate and species effects on the precision and accuracy obtainable with the Sr-paleothermometer: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.73, No. 43, p. 288. 

Russell A.D., Emerson S., Nelson B.K., Erez J. and Mix A. (1992) 
Uranium in foraminiferal calcite as a recorder of changes in seawater uranium concentration: Fourth International Conference on Paleoceanography, Berichte - Reports, Geol. Palaont. Inst. Univ. Kiel, Nr. 57, p. 244-245. 

Hastings D., Emerson S., Nelson B.K., Erez J. and Mix A. (1992) 
Vanadium in planktonic foraminifera as a paleoceanographic tracer of bottom-water redox conditions: Fourth International Conference on Paleoceanography, Berichte - Reports, Geol. Palaont. Inst. Univ. Kiel, Nr. 57, p. 137. 

Nelson S.W., Foley J.Y. and Nelson B.K. (1992) 
Metal-rich lamprophyric and associated alkaline mafic, ultramafic, and intermediate to felsic rocks from composite plutons, central Alaska Range, Alaska: International Conference on Arctic Margins, Sept. 1992, Alaska Geological Society, Anchorage, p. 43. 

Barfod D.N. and Nelson B.K. (1992) 
Isotopic evidence for provenance of Mesozoic sediments of the Methow Basin, Washington and British Columbia:  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, no. 5, p. 5. 

McCallum I.S., Thurber M.W., Bosch D. and Nelson B.K. (1992) 
Lead isotopic composition of plagioclases and sulfides in the Stillwater Complex: Evidence for isotopic disequilibrium and remobilization: Lunar and Planetary Sciences Proceedings. 

Hastings D., Emerson E., Nelson B.K., Mix A. and Erez J. (1991) 
Vanadium in planktonic foraminifera as a paleoceanographic tracer of sediment redox conditions: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.72, No. 51, p. 20. 

Nelson B.K. (1991) 
Proterozoic continental growth near the Archean craton: The isotopic record from anorogenic granites in Wisconsin: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.72, p. 544. 

Butterfield D.A. and Nelson B.K. (1991) 
Strontium isotope systematics in hydrothermal fluids from Axial Seamount: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.72, p. 539-540. 

Nelson B.K. (1991) 
Crustal growth in central Europe - Isotopic evidence from the Bohemian Massif, Austria and Germany: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. 45. 

Herrmann U.R., Nelson B.K. and Ratschbacher L. (1991) 
Structural, isotopic and petrogenetic evidence for the origin of the Xolapa terrane, southern Mexico: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. 479-480. 

Hurlow H.A. and Nelson B.K. (1991) 
Late Cretaceous-Eocene dextral transpression in the north Cascades metamorphic core, Washington: Structural styles, U-Pb chronologic constraints, and relation to plate motions: Geol. Soc. America Annual Meeting, 1991, San Diego, v. 23, p. 433. 

Bosch D., Nelson B.K. and McCallum I.S. (1991) 
Initial Pb isotope composition of feldspars from the Stillwater Complex, Montana: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.72, p. 298. 

Thurber M.W., Nelson B.K. and McCallum I.S. (1991) 
Pb isotopic evidence for remobilization of sulfides in the Stillwater Complex: Lunar Planetary Sciences Institute. 

Hurlow H.A. and Nelson B.K. (1991) 
U-Pb ages for the Okanogan Range batholith, Washington: Evidence for Middle Cretaceous Cordilleran arc magmatism: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. 37. 

Nelson B.K. and Bentz K. (1990) 
Nd isotopic evidence for a cratonal component in metasedimentary rocks from the Franciscan complex, California: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.71, p. 1689. 

Thurber M.W., Nelson B.K. and McCallum I.S. (1990) 
Pb isotope evidence for the origin of sulfide mineralization in the Stillwater complex, Montana: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.71, p. 1688-1689. 

Hastings D.H., Emerson S.R., Mix A. and Nelson B.K. (1990) 
Vanadium incorporation into planktonic foraminifera as a tracer for the extent of anoxic bottom water: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.71, p. 1351. 

Russell A.D., Emerson S.R., Nelson B.K., Mix A. and Erez J. (1990) 
Uranium in foraminiferal calcite as a tracer of ocean redox conditions: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v.71, p. 1352. 

Nelson B.K., MacLeod, K.G. and Ward, P.D. (1990) 
Time evolution of seawater Sr isotopic composition approximately 3my prior to the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Bidart, S.W. France: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 22, p. 50. 

Nelson B.K. (1990) 
Proterozoic anorogenic volcanism in North America: Isotopic and trace element constraints on andesite and rhyolite genesis, St. Francois Mts., Missouri: IAVCEI International Volcanological Conference, Abstracts with Program, p. 77. 

Tepper J.H., Nelson B.K. and Irving A.J. (1989) 
Generation of arc granitoids by melting of mafic lower crust under variable fH2O:  REE and Sr, Nd isotopic evidence from the Chilliwack batholith, North Cascades, Washington:  EOS, American Geophysical Union, v. 70, p. 1420. 

Nelson B.K., Nelson S.W. and Till A.B. (1989) 
Isotopic evidence of an early-Proterozoic crustal source for granites of the Brooks Range, northern Alaska:  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 21, p. 105. 

Nelson B.K. and Allègre C.J. (1988) 
Comparative Pb isotope chronology of Precambrian crustal evolution in the west African craton (Man Shield) and the Hoggar:  Chemical Geology, v. 70, p. 203.