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Overview

Frieder Klein is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their research spans several specialized subfields, including Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Environmental Chemistry, and Geology.

Klein's main topics of work cover a range of subjects such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Astro and Planetary Science, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Klein include:

  • Abiotic Sources of Molecular Hydrogen on Earth (2020, Elements)
  • Recycling and Metabolic Flexibility Dictate Life in the Lower Oceanic Crust (2020, Nature)
  • Chemical and Isotopic Analyses of Hydrocarbon-bearing Fluid Inclusions in Olivine-rich Rocks (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences)
  • Hydrogen Generation and Iron Partitioning During Experimental Serpentinization of an Olivine-Pyroxene Mixture (2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
  • Brucite Formation and Dissolution in Oceanic Serpentinite (2020, Geochemical Perspectives Letters)

Klein frequently publishes within venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Goldschmidt2021 abstracts, and Nature.

The scientist collaborates regularly with fellow researchers including Wolfgang Bach, Esther M. Schwarzenbach, Florence Schubotz, T. M. McCollom, and Natsue Abe, each of whom has co-authored multiple publications with Klein.

Best Publications

  • Iron partitioning and hydrogen generation during serpentinization of abyssal peridotites from 15°N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Frieder Klein;Wolfgang Bach;Niels Jöns;Thomas M McCollom

  • Compositional controls on hydrogen generation during serpentinization of ultramafic rocks

    Frieder Klein;Wolfgang Bach;Thomas M. McCollom

  • Fe–Ni–Co–O–S Phase Relations in Peridotite–Seawater Interactions

    Frieder Klein;Wolfgang Bach

  • Magnetite in seafloor serpentinite—Some like it hot

    Frieder Klein;Wolfgang Bach;Susan E. Humphris;Wolf Achim Kahl

  • Temperature trends for reaction rates, hydrogen generation, and partitioning of iron during experimental serpentinization of olivine

    Thomas M. McCollom;Frieder Klein;Mark Robbins;Bruce Moskowitz

  • Abiotic methane synthesis and serpentinization in olivine-hosted fluid inclusions

    Frieder Klein;Niya G. Grozeva;Jeffrey S. Seewald

  • The petrology of seafloor rodingites: Insights from geochemical reaction path modeling

    Wolfgang Bach;Frieder Klein

  • Thermodynamic constraints on mineral carbonation of serpentinized peridotite

    Frieder Klein;Carlos J. Garrido

  • Effect of water activity on rates of serpentinization of olivine.

    Hector M. Lamadrid;Hector M. Lamadrid;J. Donald Rimstidt;Esther M. Schwarzenbach;Frieder Klein

  • Serpentinized troctolites exposed near the Kairei Hydrothermal Field, Central Indian Ridge: Insights into the origin of the Kairei hydrothermal fluid supporting a unique microbial ecosystem

    Kentaro Nakamura;Kentaro Nakamura;Tomoaki Morishita;Wolfgang Bach;Frieder Klein

  • Abiotic Sources of Molecular Hydrogen on Earth

    Frieder Klein;Jesse D. Tarnas;Wolfgang Bach

  • Fluid mixing and the deep biosphere of a fossil Lost City-type hydrothermal system at the Iberia Margin

    Frieder Klein;Susan E. Humphris;Weifu Guo;Florence Schubotz

  • From serpentinization to carbonation: New insights from a CO2 injection experiment

    Frieder Klein;Thomas M. McCollom

  • Experimental constraints on fluid-rock reactions during incipient serpentinization of harzburgite

    Frieder Klein;Niya G. Grozeva;Jeffrey S. Seewald;Thomas M. McCollom

  • Progress in Deciphering the Controls on the Geochemistry of Fluids in Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems

    Susan E Humphris;Frieder Klein

  • Experimental study of carbonate formation in oceanic peridotite

    Niya G. Grozeva;Frieder Klein;Jeffrey S. Seewald;Sean P. Sylva

  • Recycling and metabolic flexibility dictate life in the lower oceanic crust

    Jiangtao Li;Jiangtao Li;Paraskevi Mara;Florence Schubotz;Jason B. Sylvan

  • Metasomatism within the ocean crust

    Wolfgang Bach;Niels Jöns;Frieder Klein

  • Hydrogen generation and iron partitioning during experimental serpentinization of an olivine–pyroxene mixture

    Thomas M. McCollom;Frieder Klein;Bruce Moskowitz;Thelma S. Berquó

  • Chemical and isotopic analyses of hydrocarbon-bearing fluid inclusions in olivine-rich rocks

    Niya G. Grozeva;Frieder Klein;Jeffrey S. Seewald;Sean P. Sylva

  • Quantifying the volume increase and chemical exchange during serpentinization

    Frieder Klein;Véronique Le Roux

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Bach
Wolfgang Bach University of Bremen
Thomas M. McCollom
Thomas M. McCollom University of Colorado Boulder
Susan E. Humphris
Susan E. Humphris Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jeffrey S. Seewald
Jeffrey S. Seewald Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mark D. Kurz
Mark D. Kurz Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Glenn A. Gaetani
Glenn A. Gaetani Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Horst R. Marschall
Horst R. Marschall Goethe University Frankfurt
Damon A. H. Teagle
Damon A. H. Teagle University of Southampton
Tomoaki Morishita
Tomoaki Morishita Kanazawa University
Sean P. Sylva
Sean P. Sylva Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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