David Large

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• workRoom A13 Coates
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 951 4114
• david.large@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

Dr Large's main teaching and research interests are in the fields of geology, petrography , geochemistry, palaeoenvironment, peatland systems.

Research Summary

My research career in the Earth Sciences is characterised by its diversity and this is reflected in my publication output which includes high quality publications on ore deposits, organic… read more

Recent Publications

• WANG, H, SHAO, LY, NEWTON, RJ, BOTTRELL, SH, WIGNALL, PB and LARGE, DJ, 2012. Records Of Terrestrial Sulfur Deposition From The Latest Permian Coals In Sw China Chemical Geology. 292, 18-24
• FERRAT, M, WEISS, DJ, DONG, SF, LARGE, DJ, SPIRO, B, SUN, YB and GALLAGHER, K, 2012. Lead Atmospheric Deposition Rates And Isotopic Trends In Asian Dust During The Last 9.5 Kyr Recorded In An Ombrotrophic Peat Bog On The Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. 82, 4-22
• WRIGHT E, BLACK CR, CHEESMAN AW, DRAGE T, LARGE D, TURNER BL AND SJÖGERSTEN S, 2011. Contribution of subsurface peat to CO2 and CH4 fluxes in a neotropical peatland Global Change Biology. 17, 2867-2881
• WANG, H, SHAO, LY, LARGE, DJ and WIGNALL, PB, 2011. Constraints On Carbon Accumulation Rate And Net Primary Production In The Lopingian (Late Permian) Tropical Peatland In Sw China Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 300(1-4), 152-157

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Current Research

My research career in the Earth Sciences is characterised by its diversity and this is reflected in my publication output which includes high quality publications on ore deposits, organic geochemistry, palaeoenvironment, reactive transport modelling, inorganic geochemistry, and petrology. Currently my main focus is on understanding the long term evolution of the peatland carbon reservoir, utililising peat and thick lignite cores to obtain time resolved records of carbon accumulation and atmospheric deposition. Recent research activity includes work on the Tibetan peatland to establish a record of changes in the East Asian Monsoon and atmospheric deposition. On a different note we have recently completed ground breaking work on the link between the lung cancer and coals from the Permo-Triassic Boundary. This work indicates that high silica coals produced at the Permo-Triassic boundary may be responsible for the highest known lung cancer mortality rates in Xuan Wei, Yunnan Province, China.

• WANG, H, SHAO, LY, NEWTON, RJ, BOTTRELL, SH, WIGNALL, PB and LARGE, DJ, 2012. Records Of Terrestrial Sulfur Deposition From The Latest Permian Coals In Sw China Chemical Geology. 292, 18-24
• FERRAT, M, WEISS, DJ, DONG, SF, LARGE, DJ, SPIRO, B, SUN, YB and GALLAGHER, K, 2012. Lead Atmospheric Deposition Rates And Isotopic Trends In Asian Dust During The Last 9.5 Kyr Recorded In An Ombrotrophic Peat Bog On The Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. 82, 4-22
• WRIGHT E, BLACK CR, CHEESMAN AW, DRAGE T, LARGE D, TURNER BL AND SJÖGERSTEN S, 2011. Contribution of subsurface peat to CO2 and CH4 fluxes in a neotropical peatland Global Change Biology. 17, 2867-2881
• WANG, H, SHAO, LY, LARGE, DJ and WIGNALL, PB, 2011. Constraints On Carbon Accumulation Rate And Net Primary Production In The Lopingian (Late Permian) Tropical Peatland In Sw China Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 300(1-4), 152-157
• GALLAGHER, K, BODIN, T, SAMBRIDGE, M, WEISS, D, KYLANDER, M and LARGE, D, 2011. Inference Of Abrupt Changes In Noisy Geochemical Records Using Transdimensional Changepoint Models Earth And Planetary Science Letters. 311(1-2), 182-194
• ASCOUGH, PL, BIRD, MI, MEREDITH, W, WOOD, RE, SNAPE, CE, BROCK, F, HIGHAM, TFG, LARGE, DJ and APPERLEY, DC, 2010. Hydropyrolysis: Implications For Radiocarbon Pretreatment And Characterization Of Black Carbon
• LARGE, D. J and BARUCH SPIRO, MARION FERRAT, MICHAELA SHOPLAND, MALIN KYLANDER, KERRY GALLAGHER, XIANGDONG LI, CHENGDE SHEN, GORAN POSSNERT, GAN ZHANG, W.GEORGE DARLING, DOMINIK WEISS, 2009. The influence of climate, hydrology and permafrost on Holocene peat accumulation at 3500 m on the Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews.
• LARGE, D. J, KELLY, S, SPIRO, B, TIAN, L, SHAO, L, FINKELMAN, R, ZHANG, M, CHRIS SOMERFIELD, C, PLINT, S, ALI, Y and AND ZHOU, Y, 2009. Silica-volatile interaction and the geological cause of the Xuan Wei lung cancer epidemic Environmental Science and Technology.
• BRIGGS, J., LARGE, D.J., SNAPE, C., DRAGE, T., WHITTLES, D., COOPER, M., MACQUAKER, J.H.S. and SPIRO, B.F., 2007. Influence of climate and hydrology on carbon in an early Miocene peatland Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 253(3-4), 445-454
• LARGE, D.J., 2007. A 1.16 Ma record of carbon accumulation in western European peatland during the Oligocene from the Ballymoney lignite, Northern Ireland Journal of the Geological Society. 164(6), 1233-1240
• BERAMENDI-OROSCO, L.E., VANE, C.H., COOPER, M., SUN, C.G., LARGE, D.J. and SNAPE, C.E., 2006. Evaluation of errors associated with δ¹³C analysis of lignin-derived TMAH thermochemolysis products by gas chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. 76(1-2), 88-95
• BERAMENDI-OROSCO, L.E., CASTRO-DIAZ, M., SNAPE, C.E., VANE, C.H. and LARGE, D.J., 2004. Application of catalytic hydropyrolysis for the rapid preparation of lignin concentrates from wood Organic Geochemistry. 35(1), 61-72
• LARGE, D.J., JONES, T.F., SOMERFIELD, C., GORRINGE, M.C., SPIRO, B., MACQUAKER, J.H.S. and ATKIN, B.P., 2003. High-resolution terrestrial record of orbital climate forcing in coal Geology. 31(4), 303-306
• GORRINGE, M.C., SPIRO, B., LARGE, D.J., SOMERFIELD, C., MACQUAKER, J.H. and JONES, T.F., 2002. High-resolution phosphorus and carbon isotope records of climate change in a Late Palaeocene mire In: American Chemical Society.
• ORASCO, L.E., LARGE, D.J., SNAPE, C.E. and VANE, C.H., 2002. Application of hydropyrolysis to the geochemical characterisation of lignin In: American Chemical Society.
• LARGE, D.J., GORRINGE, M.C., SPIRO, B., SOMERFIELD, C., MACQUAKER, J.H., JONES, T.F. and ATKIN, B.P., 2001. Climate signals in coal In: Coal Research Forum.
• LARGE, D.J., JONES, T.F., SOMERFIELD, C., GORRINGE, M.C., SPIRO, B. and MACQUAKER, J.H., 2001. A high-resolution terrestrial record of orbital climate forcing in a Late Palaeocene coal In: Earth System Processes - Global Meeting.
• LARGE, D. J. and SMALL, J. S., 2000. Diffusion and reaction-controlled Cu-Pb-Zn ore mineral precipitation in a reducing system: A model applied to the pattern of ore mineral precipitation in the Kupferschiefer and other black shales Economic Geology. VOL 95(PART 3), 577-586
• DODD, J., LARGE, D. J., FORTEY, N. J., MILODOWSKI, A. E. and KEMP, S., 2000. A petrographic investigation of two sequential extraction techniques applied to anaerobic canal bed mud Environmental Geochemistry and Health. VOL 22(PART 4), 281-296
• LARGE, D. J., SAWLOWICZ, Z. and SPRATT, J., 1999. A cobaltite-framboidal pyrite association from the Kupferschiefer: possible implications for trace element behaviour during the earliest stages of diagenesis Mineralogical Magazine. VOL 63(NUMBER 3), 353-362
• LARGE, D. J. and GIZE, A. P., 1996. Pristane/phytane ratios in the mineralized Kupferschiefer of the Fore-Sudetic Monocline, southwest Poland Ore Geology Reviews. VOL 11(NUMBER 1/3), 89-104