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Ph.D., Yale University, 1976.
Department of Geological Sciences
323 Mitchell Hall, CB#3315
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315
email: lbenning@email.unc.edu
telephone: (919) 962-0699
fax: (919) 966-4519
- The distribution and process significance of minor and trace elements in the modern sedimentary environment and in ancient sediments.
- Natural and artificial radionuclides in sedimentary processes.
- Geochemistry of weathering.
- Carbon cycling in coastal sedimentary environments.
- Sediment transport processes in North Carolina coastal environments: estuaries, continental shelf, continental slope.
- Storage and mobility of radionuclides and trace elements in nearshore sedimentary environments.
Selected Research Publications
- Benninger, L.K.,
Aller, R.C., Cochran, J.K., and Turekian, K.K., 1979, Effects of biological
sediment mixing on the Pb-210 chronology and trace metal distribution in
a Long Island Sound sediment core: Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
v. 43, p. 241-259.
- Benninger, L.K., and Krishnaswami, S., 1980, Sedimentary processes in the inner New York Bight: Evidence from excess Pb-210 and Pu-239, 240: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 53, p. 158-174.
- Benninger, L.K., and Dodge, R.E., 1986, Fallout plutonium and natural radionuclides in annual bands of the coral Montastrea annularis, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 50, p. 2785-2797.
- Canuel, E.A., Martens, C.S., and Benninger, L.K., 1990, Seasonal variations in 7Be activity in the sediments of Cape Lookout Bight, North Carolina: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 54, p. 237-245.
- Meece, D.E. and Benninger, L.K., 1993, The coprecipitation of Pu and other radionuclides with CaCO3; Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 57, p. 1447-1458.
- Benninger, L.K., and Wells, J.T., 1993, Sources of sediment to the Neuse River estuary, North Carolina: Marine Chemistry, v. 43, p. 137-156.
- Benninger, L.K., Suayah, I.B., and Stanley, D.J., 1998, Manzala lagoon, Nile delta, Egypt: Modern sediment accumulation based on radioactive tracers: Environmental Geology, v. 34, p. 183-193.
