publications

(without published abstracts)

• Gruhle, W. & Kober, B. (1977). The reactions 16O(p,alpha), 20Ne(p,alpha )17F and 24Mg(p,alpha)21Na. Nucl.Phys. A286: 523-528. (abstract)
   
• Kober, B. & Gruhle, W. & Hillen, M. (1980). Gardner analysis of decay components with strong fluctuations. Nucl.Instr.Meth. 174: 173-177. (abstract)
   
• Kober, B. & Lippolt, H.J. (1982). Bleimodelle und Zeit: Wandel in der Interpretation von Bleiisotopenverhältnissen. Aufschluß 33: 291-311.
   
• Kober, B. & Lippolt, H.J. (1983). Grenzen der Altersinterpretation von Bleiisotopen aus hydrothermalen Erzen. In: GDMB Ges. Dt. Metallhütten u. Bergleute e.V. (Hrsg.) - Postvariscische Gangmineralisationen in Mitteleuropa: Alter, Genese und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung. 375-389 .
   
• Kober, B. & Lippolt, H.J. (1985). Pre-Hercynian mantle lead transfer to basement rocks as indicated by lead isotopes of the Schwarzwald crystalline, SW-Germany. I. The lead isotope distribution and its correlation. Contrib.Mineral.Petrol. 90: 162-171. (abstract)
   
• Kober, B. & Lippolt, H.J. (1985). Pre-Hercynian mantle lead transfer to basement rocks as indicated by lead isotopes of the Schwarzwald crystalline, SW-Germany. II. Lead isotope evolution of the European Hercynides.Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 90: 172-178.  (abstract)
   
• Kober, B. (1986). Whole-grain evaporation for 207Pb/206Pb age investigations on single zircons using a double-filament thermal ion source. Contrib.Mineral.Petrol. 93: 482-490. (abstract)
   
• Kober, B. (1986). Grundgebirge und geochemische Isotopie. Heidelberger.Geowiss.Abh. 6: 233-245.
   
• Kober, B. (1987). Single-zircon evaporation combined with Pb+ emitter bedding for 207Pb/206Pb age investigations using thermal ion mass spectrometry, and implications for zirconology. Contrib.Mineral.Petrol. 96: 63-71. (abstract)
   
• Kirsch, H. & Kober, B. & Lippolt, H.J. (1988). Age of intrusion and rapid geological cooling of the Frankenstein gabbro (Saxothuringian zone) evidenced by 40Ar/39Ar and single zircon 207Pb/206Pb measurements. Geol.Rundsch. 77: 693-711. (abstract)
   
• Kober, B. & Pidgeon, R.T. & Lippolt, H.J. (1989). Single zircon dating by stepwise Pb-evaporation constraints the Archean history of detrital zircons from the Jack Hills, Western Australia. Earth.Planet.Sci.Lett. 91: 286-296. (abstract)
   
• Stähle, V. & Frenzel, G. & Kober, B. & Michard, A. & Puchelt, H. & Schneider, W. (1990). Zircon syenite pegmatites in the Finero peridotite (Ivrea zone): evidence for a syenite from a mantle source. Earth.Planet.Sci.Lett. 101: 196-205. (abstract)
   
• Hanel, M. & Lippolt, H.J. & Kober, B. & Wimmenauer, W. (1993). Lower Carboniferous granulites in the Schwarzwald basement near Hohengerolgseck (SW-Germany). Naturwissenschaften 80: 25-28. (abstract)
   
• Hess, J.C. & Pohl, J.R. & Kober, B. & Borsuk, A.M. (1993). Origin and petrogenesis of Miocene A-type trachite-rhyolites from the Northern Great Caucasus. Chemie der Erde/Geochemistry 53: 185-200.
   
• Hanel, M. & Lippolt, H.J. & Kober, B. & Gurbanov, A.G. & Bosuk, A.M. (1993). Isotope geochemical reconstruction of the primary nature of volcanites in metamorphic complexes of the Great Caucasus. Petrology 1: 143-158.
   
• Hanel, M. & Lippolt, H.J. & Kober, B. & Gurbanov, A.G. & Borsuk, A.M. (1993). Early Paleozoic intrusion age of metagranodiorites in the Main Range Zone of the Great Caucasus. In: Bogatikov, O.A. (ed.): Rift and folt belt magmatism. 12-29. (in Russian).
   
• Hanel, M. & Lippolt, H.J. & Kober, B. & Gurbanov, A.G. 6 Borsuk, A.M. (1993). Evolution of the Buulgen and Makera derived series from the southern margin of the Great Caucasus, deduced from isotopic data. In: Bogatikov, O.A. (ed.): Rift and folt belt magmatism. 30-57. (In Russian).
   
• Pohl, J.R. & Hess, J.C. & Kober, B. & Borsuk, A.M. (1993). Origin and petrogenesis of Miocene A-type trachy-rhyolites from the Northern Great Caucasus. In: Bogatikov, O.A. (ed.): Rift and folt belt magmatism. 108-125. (in Russian).
   
• Hanel, M. & Lippolt, H.J. & Kober, B. & Gurbanov, A.G. & Borsuk, A.M. (1993). On the Early Paleozoic age of metagranodiorites in the Main Range Zone of the Great Caucasus. Petrology 1: 429-439.
   
• Hess, J.C. & Lippolt, H.J. & Kober, B. (1995). The age of the Kagenfels granite (northern Vosges) and its bearing on the intrusion scheme of late Variscan granitoids. Geol.Rundsch. 84: 568-577. (abstract)
   
• Kral, J. & Hess, J.C. & Kober, B. & Lippolt, H.J. (1997) 207Pb/206Pb and 40Ar/39Ar age data from plutonic rocks of the Strazovske vrchy Mts. Basement, Western Carpathians. In: Grecula, P. & Hovorka, D. & Putis, M. (Eds.) Geological evolution of the Western Carpathians. Mineralia.Slovaca. - Monograph: 253-260.
   
• Matschullat, J. & Gaber, U. & Raphael, S. & Kober, B. (1998) Rekonstruktion der Versauerungsgeschichte eines Sees - sedimentologische, diatomologische und geochemische Untersuchungen an Sedimenten des Oderteichs im Harz. N.Jb.Geol.Paläont.Abh. 208: 1-16.
   
• Kober, B. & Wessels, M. & Bollhöfer, A. & Mangini, A. (1999) Pb isotopes in sediments of Lake Constance, Central Europe constrain the heavy metal pathways and the pollution history of the catchment, the lake and the regional atmosphere. Geochim.et.Cosmochim.Acta. 63: 1293-1303. (abstract) ;        Academic Search;
  diagram example: Pb pollution in sediments of Lake Constance indicated by the Pb isotope distribution in top sediments
   
• Nasdala, L. & Wenzel, M. & Vavra, G. & Irmer, G. & Wenzel, Th. & Kober, B. (2001) Metamictisation of natural zircon: accumulation versus thermal annealing of radioactivity-induced damage. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 141: 125-144. (abstract)
   
• Glasmacher, U.A. & Bauer, W. & Giese, U. & Reynolds, P. & Kober, B. & Puchkov, V. & Stroink, L. & Alekseyev, A. & Willner, A.P. (2001) The metamorphic complex of Beloretzk, SW Urals, Russia - a terrane with a polyphase Meso- to Neoproterozoic thermodynamic evolution. Precambrian Research 110: 185-213. (abstract)
    
• LeRoux, G. & Weiss, D. & Grattan, J. & Givelet, N. & Krachler, M. & Cheburkin, A. & Rausch, N. & Kober, B. & Shotyk, W. (2004) Identifying the sources and timing of ancient and medieval atmospheric lead pollution in England using a peat profile from Lindow bog, Manchester. J. Environ. Monit. 6 : 502-510. (abstract)
   
• Krachler, M. & LeRoux, G. & Kober, B. & Shotyk, W. (2004) Optimising accuracy and precision of lead isotope measurement (206Pb, 207Pb,208Pb) in acid digests of peat with ICP-SMS using individual mass discrimination correction. J. Analyt. At. Spectrom. 19: 354-361. (abstract)
   
• Dolgopolova, A. & Seltmann. R. & Kober, B. & Weiss, D. & Stanley, C. & Dulski, P. (2004) Geochemical characteristics and lead isotope systematics of highly fractionated Li-F-enriched amazonite granites and related host rocks of the Orlovka-Spokoinoe mining district, Eastern Transbaikalia (Russia). Applied. Earth. Science. (Trans Inst Min Metall B) 113: 1-17. (abstract)
   
• Kober, B. & Kalt, A. & Hanel, M. & Pidgeon, R.T. (2004). Shrimp dating of zircons from high-grade metasediments of the Schwarzwald/SW-Germany and implications for the evolution of the Moldanubian basement. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 147: 330-34. (abstract) ;  Diagram example: Dating of single granulite zircons from the Schwarzwald basement with SHRIMP
   
• Weiss, D. & Kober, B. & Dolgopolova, A. & Gallagher, K. & Spiro, B. & LeRoux, G. & Mason, TFD. & Kylander, M. & Coles, B.J. (2004) Accurate and precise Pb isotope ratio measurements in environmental samples by MC-ICP-MS. Int. J. Mass. Spectrom. 232: 205-215. (abstract)
           
• Le Roux, G, Aubert, D., Stille, P., Krachler, M., Kober, B., Cheburkin, A., Bonani, G., Shotyk, W. (2005) Recent atmospheric Pb deposition at a rural site in southern Germany assessed using a peat core and snowpack, and comparison with other archives. Atmospheric Environment 39: 6790–6801.        (abstract)   (pdf-file)
         
• Le Roux, G. & Aubert, D. & Stille, P. & Krachler, M. & Kober, B. & Cheburkin, A. & Noernberg, T. & Shotyk, W. (2005) Reappraisal of Lead Atmospheric Deposition in Central Western Europe Using a New Peat Record from Southern Germany Compared to Snow, Herbarium Samples and Other Bog Studies. Atmos Environ 39: 6790-6801. (abstract)
   
• Marbach, T. & Kober, B. & Mangini, A. & Warr, L.N. & Schleicher, A. (2005) Mobility of U-Th radionuclides connected with fault porosity: a case study of the Schauenburg Fault, Rhine Graben Shoulder, Germany. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 30: 1030-1037. (abstract)   (pdf-file)
   
• Aubert, D. & Le Roux, G. & Krachler, M. & Cheburkin, A. & Kober, B. & Shotyk, W. & Stille, P. (2006) Origin and fluxes of atmospheric REE entering an ombotrophic peat bog in Black Forest (SW Germany): evidence from snow, lichens and mosses. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 70: 2815-2826. (pdf-file)
   
• Dolgopolova, A. & Weiss, D. J. & Seltmann, R. & Kober, B. & Mason, T. F. D. & Coles, B. J. & Stanley, C. (2006) Use of element and isotopic ratios to assess sources and pathways of Pb and Zn dispersed in the environment during mining and ore processing within the Orlovka mining site (Russia). Appl. Geochem. 21: 563-579. (abstract)
   
• Schleicher, A. & Warr, L.N. & Kober, B. & Clauer, N. & Laverret, E. (2006) Episodic mineralization of hydrothermal illite in the Soultz-sous-forets granite (Upper Rhine Graben, France). Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 152: 349-364 (abstract)
   
• Frank, N. & Kober, B. & Mangini, A. (2006) Carbonate precipitation, U series dating, and U isotopic variations in a Holocene travertine platform at Bad Langensalza Thuringia Basin. Quaternaire 17: 321-330. (pdf-file)
     
• Kylander, M.E. & Weiss, D.J. & Jeffries, T.E. & Kober, B. & Dolgopolova, A. & Garcia-Sanchez, R. & Coles, B.J. (2007) A rapid and reliable method for Pb isotopic analysis of peat and lichens by laser ablation-quadrupole-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry for biomonitoring and sample screening. Analytica Chimica Acta 582: 116 - 124. (abstract)
   
• Kober, B. & Schwalb, A. & Schettler, G. & Wessels, M. (2007) Constraints on paleowater dissolved loads and on catchment weathering over the past 16 ka from 87Sr/86Sr ratios and Ca/Mg/Sr chemistry of freshwater ostracode tests in sediments of Lake Constance, Central Europe. Chemical Geology 240: 361-376. (abstract)
   
• Slaby, E. & Seltmann, R. & Kober, B. & Müller, A. & Galbarczyk-Gasiorowska, L. & Jeffries, T. (2007) LREE distribution patterns in zoned alkali feldspar megacrysts from the Karkonosze pluton, Bohemian massif - implications for parental magma composition. Mineralogical Magazine 71: 193-217.  (abstract)
   
• Kylander, M.E.& Weiss, D.J & Jeffries, T.E.& Kober, B. & Dolgopolova, A. & Garcia-Sanchez, R. & Coles, B.J. (2007) A rapid and reliable method for Pb isotopic analysis of peat and lichens by laser ablation-quadrupole-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry for biomonitoring and sample screening. Anal. Chim. Acta. 582: 116 - 124. (abstract)
   
• Müller, A. & Seltmann, R. & Kober, B. & Jeffries, T. & Kronz, A. (2008) Compositional zoning of rapakivi feldspars and its petrogenetic implications. The Canadian Mineralogist 46: 1417-1442. (abstract)
   
• Kramers, J. & Frei, R. & Newville, M. & Kober, B. & Villa, I. (2009) On the valency state of radiogenic lead in zircon and its consequences. Chemical Geology 261: 4-11. (abstract)
   
• Kylander, M. & Weiss, D. & Kober, B. (2009) Two high resolution terrestrial records of atmospheric Pb deposition from New Brunswick, Canada, and Loch Laxford, Scotland. Science of the Total Environment 407: 1644 - 1657. (abstract)
   
• Diaz-Somoano, M. & Kylander, M.E. & Lopez-Anton, M.A. & Suarez-Ruiz, I. & Martinez-Tarazona, M.A. & Ferrat, M. & Kober, B. & Weiss, D.J. (2009) Stable lead isotope compositions in selected coals from around the world and implications for present day aerosol source tracing. Environmental Science and Technology 43: 1078 - 1085. (abstract)
   
• Heidak, M.O. Glasmacher, U.A. Schöler, H.F., Trieloff, M., Kober, B. (2010) Cycles of selected elements in the frame of Globalization and Global Change in the environment of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). EGU General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 1930. (abstract)
   
• Turck, R., Kober, B., Kontny, J., Haack, F., Zeeb-Lanz, A. ( 2012) "Widely travelled people" at Herxheim? Sr isotopes as indicators of mobility. In: Burger J, Kaiser E, Schier W (eds.). Population dynamics in Pre- and Early History. New Approaches by using Stable Isotopes and Genetics. Topoi. Proc. Conf. Berlin, March 24-26, 2010. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World. 2012: 149-164. (pdf)   (pdf)
      
• Kober, B., Kromer, B. (2012) Im Archiv der Erde. Wie Wissenschaftler die Zeichen der Zeit lesen. Ruperto Carola, 2012
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• Turck, R., Tütken, Th., Kober, B., Kontny, J. (2013) Den Toten auf den Zahn gefühlt. Isotopenarchäometrische Analysen zur Bestimmung von Mobilität und Herkunft der Toten aus der Grubenanlage von Herxheim bei Landau i.d. Pfalz. In: Warmbrunn, P. (ed.). Mitteilungen des historischen Vereins der Pfalz 111: 481-491.
   
• Turck, R., Kober, B., Kontny, J., Wahl , J. Ludwig, R. (2014) Strontiumisotopenanalysen und anthropologische Untersuchungen an der Mehrfachbestattung der Michelsberger Kultur in Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim. Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg 34: 385-407. (reprint on email request)
   
• Dolgopolova A, Seltmann R, Stanley C, Weiss D, Kober B, Siebel W (2015) Isotopic systematics of ore-bearing granites and host rocks of the Orlovka-Spokoinoe mining district, In: Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge, Mao, Bierlein F. (ed.), Springer-Verlag, 747-750. (Dominik Weiss, publications)
  
  
  
• current project Mauer-Grafenrain mentioned in BioPro Baden-Württemberg     (german)     (english)