Dr Kaja Fenn
Quaternary Geochronologist, Geochemist, and Sedimentologist
JOURNALS
Fenn, K., Millar, I.L., Bird, A., Veres, D., Wagner, D. (2025) Provenance of late Pleistocene loess in central and eastern Europe: isotopic evidence for dominant local sediment sources. Scientific Reports, 15, 1624 1–18.
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Duszyński, F., Waroszewski, J., Fenn, K., Kacprzak, A., Jancewicz, K., Egli, M. (2024) Cliff-foot sandy cones: A proxy to study the time frames, patterns and rates of sandstone caprock decay? Catena, 247, 108529.
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SkurzyÅ„ski, J., Jary, Z., Fenn, K., Lehmkuhl, F., Raczyk, J., Stevens, T., & Wieczorek, M. (2024) Implications of the geochemistry of L1LL1 (MIS2) loess in Poland for paleoenvironment and new normalizing values for loess-focused multi-elemental analyses. Quaternary Research, 18–35.
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Marković, S.B., Hughes, P.D., Schaetzl, R., Gibbard, P.L., Hao, Q., Radaković, M.G., Vandenberghe, J., Obreht, I., Sipos, G., Laag, C., Gavrilov, M.B., Antić, A., Marković, R.S., Krsmanović, P., Fenn, K., Lukić, T., Perić, Z.M. (2024) The relationship between the loess stratigraphy in the Vojvodina region of northern Serbia and the Saalian and Rissian Stage glaciations – a review. Boreas, 53(4), 577-592.
Smedley, R. K., Fenn, K., Stanistreet, I. G., Stollhofen, H., Njau, J. K., Schick, K., Toth, N. (2023) Age-depth model for uppermost Ndutu Beds constrains Middle Stone Age technology and climate-induced paleoenvironmental changes at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution, 186, 103465.
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Pánek, T., BÅ™ežný, M., Smedley, R., Winocurc, D., Schönfeldt, E., Agliardi, F., Fenn, K. (2023) The largest rock avalanches in Patagonia: Timing and relation to Patagonian Ice Sheet retreat. Quaternary Science Reviews, 302, 107962.
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Fenn, K., Millar, I., Thomas, D.S.G., Durcan, J. A., Veres, D., Banak, A., Markovic, S.B., Stevens, T. (2022) The provenance of Danubian loess. Earth Science Reviews, 226C, 103920.
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Fenn, K., Thomas, D.S.G., Durcan, J.A., Millar, I., Veres, D., Piermattei, A., Lane, C.S. (2021) A tale of two signals: Global and local influences on Late Pleistocene loess sequences in Bulgarian Lower Danube. Quaternary Science Reviews, 274.
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Fenn, K., Durcan, J.A., Thomas, D.S.G., Millar, I., Markovic, S.B. (2020) Re-analysis of late Quaternary dust mass accumulation rates in Serbia using new luminescence chronology for loess-palaeosol sequence at Surduk. Boreas, 49(3), 634-652.
Fenn, K., Durcan, J.A., Thomas, D.S.G., Banak, A. (2020) A 180 ka record of environmental change at Erdut (Croatia): a new chronology for the loess-palaeosol sequence and its implications for environmental interpretation. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35(4), 582-593.
Fenn, K., Stevens, T., Bird, A., Limonta, M., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Zhang, H. and Lin, Z. (2017) Insights into the provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau from joint zircon U-Pb and garnet geochemical analysis of last glacial loess. Quaternary Research, 89, 645-659.
BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Fenn, K., Prud'homme, C. (2022) Dust deposits: Loess. Editor(s): Shroder, J. F., Treatise on Geomorphology (2nd Eds.), Academic Press, 320-365.
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Stone, A., Fenn, K. (2022) Dating Aeolian Deposits. Editor(s): Shroder, J. F., Treatise on Geomorphology (2nd Eds.), Academic Press, 120-168.
PhD
Fenn, K. (2019) Provenance of late Quaternary loess along the Middle and Lower Danube River, Europe. (Unpublished doctoral PhD
Thesis). University of Oxford, Oxford.