Dr Kaja Fenn
Quaternary Geochronologist, Geochemist, and Sedimentologist
JOURNALS
Skurzyński, 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, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2023.69
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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. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12646
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. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103465
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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.
doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107962
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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. doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103920
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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. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107264
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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. doi.org/10.1111/bor.12445
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. doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3201
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. doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.86
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. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00028-6
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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. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00016-X.
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.