Publications
Papers (peer review)
(2026)
Dröllner M, Barham M, Kirkland CL, Scharf T, Niemeyer S, Dunai TJ. 2026: Ancient landscape evolution tracked through cosmogenic krypton in detrital zircon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2516058122.
Dröllner M, Kirkland CL, Evans K, Owen S, Minh DH. 2026: Multi-mineral U–Pb geochronology of the Ban Phuc disseminated Ni sulfide deposit, Ta Khoa District, northern Vietnam: Implications for genesis and exploration. Lithos, 522–523, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108344.
(2025)
Dröllner M, Barham M, Kirkland CL, Zametzer A, Schulz M. 2025: Australian continental-scale heavy mineral patterns track climate, weathering and erosion. Sedimentology, 72, 1430–1452. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.70008.
Dröllner M, Kirkland CL, Olierook HKH, Zametzer A, Ribeiro BV, Kaempf J, Danišík M, Ware B, Rankenburg K, Kelsey DE, Turnbull R, Fielding IOH, Smithies RH, Parker P, Wray S, Dunn A, Vinnicombe K. 2025: Multi-method geochronology and isotope geochemistry of carbonatites in the Aileron Province, central Australia. Geological Magazine, 162, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756825100204.
Kirkland CL, Liebmann J, Gamaleldien H, Olierook HKH, Dröllner M, Johnson T, O’Neill C, Schmitt AK. 2025: An exogenic to endogenic thermal transition on Earth 3.9 billion years ago. Communications Earth & Environment, 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02575-9.
Zametzer A, Dröllner M, Barham M, Kirkland CL, Norris CA. 2025: Grain selection for representative detrital zircon age populations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 671, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119619.
Lin, X., M. Dröllner, M., Barham, J. Liu-Zeng, M. Jolivet, H. Liu, K. Guan, C. Hu, and X. Chen. 2025: The Cenozoic evolution of the Yellow River. Earth-Science Reviews 261
2024
Lin, X., Q. Xu, M. Barham, J. Liu-Zeng, H. Liu, M. Dröllner, Z. Wu, Z. Li, C. Hu, and X. Chen. 2024: Tracing the source areas of detrital zircon and K-feldspar in the Yellow River Basin. Earth-Science Reviews 251
Kirkland, C. L., M. Dröllner, R. Quentin de Gromard, B. V. Ribeiro, H. K. H. Olierook, M. Hartnady, M. Barham, J. Liebmann, H. Smithies, and A. Zametzer. 2024: Cryptic geological histories accessed through entombed and matrix geochronometers in dykes. Communications Earth and Environment 5 (1)
Zametzer, A., M. Dröllner, C. L. Kirkland, M. Barham, A. T. Walker, and L. Requilme. 2024. "When the river meets the sea: Transport and provenance in a long-lived estuary." Basin Research 36 (5)
2023
Dröllner, M., M. Barham, and C. L. Kirkland. 2023. "Reorganization of continent-scale sediment routing based on detrital zircon and rutile multi-proxy analysis." Basin Research 35 (1): 363-386.
Dröllner, M., M. Barham, C. L. Kirkland, M. Danišík, J. Bourdet, M. Schulz, and M. Aspandiar. 2023: Directly Dating Plio-Pleistocene Climate Change in the Terrestrial Record. Geophysical Research Letters 50 (8)
Dröllner, M., M. Barham, C. L. Kirkland, and M. P. Roberts. 2023: Older than they look: Cryptic recycled xenotime on detrital zircon. Geology 51 (8): 768-772.
Dröllner, M., M. Danišík, M. Barham, and C. L. Kirkland. 2023: Tracking thermal histories through the detrital record using rutile U-Pb-He double-dating. Geology 53 (4)
2022
Dröllner, M., C. L. Kirkland, M. Barham, N. J. Evans, and B. J. McDonald. 2022: A persistent Hadean–Eoarchean protocrust in the western Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Terra Nova
Dröllner, M., M. Barham, and C. L. Kirkland. 2022: Gaining from loss: Detrital zircon source-normalized α-dose discriminates first-versus multi-cycle grain histories. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 579
2021
Dröllner, M., M. Barham, C. L. Kirkland, and B. Ware. 2021: Every zircon deserves a date: Selection bias in detrital geochronology. Geological Magazine 158 (6): 1135-1142.