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Carsten Münker

Carsten Münker

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Earth Science

D-Index
67
Citations
18069
World Ranking
1207
National Ranking
76

Overview

Carsten Münker is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial focus on Geophysics. Münker's research spans several related subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics within their field. These include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Earthquake and Tectonic Studies, Astro and Planetary Science, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Münker has published extensively in numerous scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Chemical Geology
  • Geochemical Perspectives Letters
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Carsten Münker highlight research in isotope geochemistry and early Earth processes. These include:

  • Ruthenium isotope vestige of Earth's pre-late-veneer mantle preserved in Archaean rocks, 2020, Nature
  • Long-term preservation of Hadean protocrust in Earth's mantle, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Convective isolation of Hadean mantle reservoirs through Archean time, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Preservation of Eoarchean mantle processes in ∼3.8 Ga peridotite enclaves in the Itsaq Gneiss Complex, southern West Greenland, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Evolution of the early to late Archean mantle from Hf-Nd-Ce isotope systematics in basalts and komatiites from the Pilbara Craton, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent collaborators include several researchers with whom Münker has coauthored multiple publications. These frequent coauthors are:

  • Jonas Tusch
  • Florian Kurzweil
  • P. Sprung
  • Frank Wombacher
  • Mario Fischer-Gödde

Best Publications

  • Calibration of the lutetium-hafnium clock.

    Erik Scherer;Carsten Münker;Klaus Mezger

  • Rapid accretion and early core formation on asteroids and the terrestrial planets from Hf-W chronometry.

    T. Kleine;C. Münker;K. Mezger;H. Palme

  • Separation of high field strength elements (Nb, Ta, Zr, Hf) and Lu from rock samples for MC‐ICPMS measurements

    Carsten Münker;Stefan Weyer;Erik Scherer;Klaus Mezger

  • Evolution of planetary cores and the Earth-Moon system from Nb/Ta systematics.

    Carsten Münker;Jörg A. Pfänder;Stefan Weyer;Anette Büchl

  • Nb/Ta and Zr/Hf in ocean island basalts — Implications for crust–mantle differentiation and the fate of Niobium

    Jörg A. Pfänder;Carsten Münker;Carsten Münker;Andreas Stracke;Klaus Mezger

  • Behaviour of high field strength elements in subduction zones: constraints from Kamchatka-Aleutian arc lavas

    Carsten Münker;Gerhard Wörner;Gene Yogodzinski;Tatiana Churikova

  • 182Hf-182W isotope systematics of chondrites, eucrites, and martian meteorites: Chronology of core formation and early mantle differentiation in Vesta and Mars

    T. Kleine;Klaus Mezger;C. Münker;H. Palme

  • Rutile crystals as potential trace element and isotope mineral standards for microanalysis

    G. L. Luvizotto;T. Zack;H. P. Meyer;T. Ludwig

  • Early core formation in asteroids and late accretion of chondrite parent bodies: Evidence from 182Hf-182W in CAIs, metal-rich chondrites, and iron meteorites

    Thorsten Kleine;Klaus Mezger;Herbert Palme;Erik Scherer

  • Iron isotope fractionation during planetary differentiation

    Stefan Weyer;Ariel D. Anbar;Gerhard P. Brey;Carsten Münker

  • Stable isotope compositions of cadmium in geological materials and meteorites determined by multiple-collector ICPMS

    Frank Wombacher;Mark Rehkämper;Klaus Mezger;Carsten Münker

  • Zircon as a Monitor of Crustal Growth

    Erik E. Scherer;Martin J. Whitehouse;Carsten Münker

  • Nb/Ta, Zr/Hf and REE in the depleted mantle: implications for the differentiation history of the crust-mantle system

    Stefan Weyer;Stefan Weyer;Carsten Münker;Klaus Mezger

  • Determination of ultra-low Nb, Ta, Zr and Hf concentrations and the chondritic Zr/Hf and Nb/Ta ratios by isotope dilution analyses with multiple collector ICP-MS

    Stefan Weyer;Stefan Weyer;Carsten Münker;Mark Rehkämper;Mark Rehkämper;Klaus Mezger

  • Nb/Ta fractionation in a Cambrian arc/back arc system, New Zealand: source constraints and application of refined ICPMS techniques

    Carsten Münker

  • Mechanisms of Archean crust formation inferred from high-precision HFSE systematics in TTGs

    J. Elis Hoffmann;J. Elis Hoffmann;Carsten Münker;Tomas Næraa;Tomas Næraa;Minik T. Rosing

  • High precision Lu–Hf geochronology of Eocene eclogite-facies rocks from Syros, Cyclades, Greece

    Markus Lagos;Markus Lagos;Erik E. Scherer;Frank Tomaschek;Carsten Münker;Carsten Münker

  • Melt percolation monitored by Os isotopes and HSE abundances: a case study from the mantle section of the Troodos Ophiolite

    Anette Büchl;Gerhard Brügmann;Valentina G. Batanova;Carsten Münker

  • Generation of Eoarchean tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite series from thickened mafic arc crust

    Thorsten J. Nagel;J. Elis Hoffmann;J. Elis Hoffmann;Carsten Münker

  • Geochemical and petrological evidence for a suprasubduction zone origin of Neoarchean (ca. 2.5 Ga) peridotites, central orogenic belt, North China craton

    Ali Polat;Claude Herzberg;Carsten Münker;Rebecca Rodgers

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Mezger
Klaus Mezger University of Bern
Nikolaus Froitzheim
Nikolaus Froitzheim University of Bonn
Minik T. Rosing
Minik T. Rosing University of Copenhagen
Chris Ballhaus
Chris Ballhaus University of Bonn
Thorsten Kleine
Thorsten Kleine Max Planck Society
Erik E. Scherer
Erik E. Scherer University of Münster
Stefan Weyer
Stefan Weyer University of Hannover
Jörg A. Pfänder
Jörg A. Pfänder TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Ali Polat
Ali Polat University of Windsor

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