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Reiner Klemd is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and has an extensive record of research within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on geophysics. Their work spans subfields including geophysics, artificial intelligence, geochemistry and petrology, paleontology, and atmospheric science.

Their research covers several main topics, notably geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and elemental analysis, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Recent publications by Reiner Klemd include:

  • Uncovering and quantifying the subduction zone sulfur cycle from the slab perspective, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Phase separation and fluid mixing revealed by trace element signatures in pyrite from porphyry systems, 2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Effects of fluid boiling on Au and volatile element enrichment in submarine arc-related hydrothermal systems, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Identifying crystal accumulation and melt extraction during formation of high-silica granite, 2021, Geology
  • Tracking crystal-melt segregation and magma recharge using zircon trace element data, 2020, Chemical Geology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Klemd include:

  • Karsten M. Haase
  • Manuel Keith
  • Panagiotis Voudouris
  • Harald Strauß
  • Jun Gao

Klemd's work appears predominantly in venues such as Lithos, Chemical Geology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Geological Society of America Bulletin, and Frontiers in Earth Science. The number of publications distributed in these journals indicates a strong engagement with geochemical and geological research communities.

Best Publications

  • MPI-DING reference glasses for in situ microanalysis: New reference values for element concentrations and isotope ratios

    Klaus Peter Jochum;Brigitte Stoll;Kirstin Herwig;Matthias Willbold

  • The assembly of Rodinia: The correlation of early Neoproterozoic (ca. 900 Ma) high-grade metamorphism and continental arc formation in the southern Beishan Orogen, southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB)

    Keqing Zong;Keqing Zong;Reiner Klemd;Yu Yuan;Zhenyu He

  • Tectonic evolution of the South Tianshan orogen and adjacent regions, NW China: geochemical and age constraints of granitoid rocks

    Jun Gao;Lingli Long;Reiner Klemd;Qing Qian

  • Formation of HP–LT rocks and their tectonic implications in the western Tianshan Orogen, NW China: geochemical and age constraints

    J Gao;R Klemd

  • The collision between the Yili and Tarim blocks of the Southwestern Altaids: Geochemical and age constraints of a leucogranite dike crosscutting the HP-LT metamorphic belt in the Chinese Tianshan Orogen

    Jun Gao;Reiner Klemd;Qing Qian;Xi Zhang

  • Geochemical and geochronological studies of granitoid rocks from the Western Tianshan Orogen: Implications for continental growth in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Lingli Long;Jun Gao;Reiner Klemd;Christoph Beier

  • Mobilization of Ti Nb-Ta during subduction : Evidence from rutile-bearing dehydration segregations and veins hosted in eclogite, Tianshan, NW China

    Jun Gao;Timm John;Timm John;Reiner Klemd;Xianming Xiong

  • Volcanic arcs fed by rapid pulsed fluid flow through subducting slabs

    Timm John;Nikolaus Gussone;Yuri Y. Podladchikov;Gray E. Bebout

  • Archaean to Proterozoic Crustal Evolution in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt (South Africa^Botswana): Constraints from Combined U^Pb and Lu^Hf Isotope Analyses of Zircon

    Armin Zeh;Axel Gerdes;Reiner Klemd;Jackson M. Barton

  • Trace-element mobilization in slabs due to non steady-state fluid-rock interaction: Constraints from an eclogite-facies transport vein in blueschist (Tianshan, China)

    Timm John;Timm John;Reiner Klemd;Jun Gao;Carl-Dieter Garbe-Schönberg

  • Mineral ages and P-T conditions of Late Paleozoic high-pressure eclogite and provenance of mélange sediments from Atbashi in the south Tianshan orogen of Kyrgyzstan

    E. Hegner;R. Klemd;A. Kröner;M. Corsini

  • Gold upgrading in metamorphosed massive sulfide ore deposits: Direct evidence from laser-ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry analysis of invisible gold

    Thomas Wagner;Reiner Klemd;Thomas Wenzel;Benny Mattsson

  • Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Chinese South Tianshan Orogen: constraints from SHRIMP zircon U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry of basaltic and dioritic rocks from Xiate, NW China

    Qing Qian;Jun Gao;Reiner Klemd;Guoqi He

  • U-Pb zircon geochronology of Tianshan eclogites in NW China: implication for the collision between the Yili and Tarim blocks of the southwestern Altaids

    Wen Su;Jun Gao;Reiner Klemd;Ji-Lei Li

  • Primary fluids entrapped at blueschist to eclogite transition: evidence from the Tianshan meta-subduction complex in northwestern China

    Jun Gao;Reiner Klemd

  • Changes in dip of subducted slabs at depth: Petrological and geochronological evidence from HP-UHP rocks (Tianshan, NW-China)

    R. Klemd;T. John;E.E. Scherer;S. Rondenay;S. Rondenay

  • U–Th–Pb and Lu–Hf systematics of zircon from TTG's, leucosomes, meta-anorthosites and quartzites of the Limpopo Belt (South Africa): Constraints for the formation, recycling and metamorphism of Palaeoarchaean crust

    Armin Zeh;Axel Gerdes;Jay Barton;Reiner Klemd

  • New Age Constraints on the Metamorphic Evolution of the High‐Pressure/Low‐Temperature Belt in the Western Tianshan Mountains, NW China

    R. Klemd;M. Bröcker;B. R. Hacker;J. Gao

  • Effects of temperature, sulfur, and oxygen fugacity on the composition of sphalerite from submarine hydrothermal vents

    Manuel Keith;Karsten M. Haase;Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera;Reiner Klemd

  • Paleozoic ophiolitic mélanges from the South Tianshan Orogen, NW China: Geological, geochemical and geochronological implications for the geodynamic setting

    Tuo Jiang;Jun Gao;Reiner Klemd;Qing Qian

  • Eclogite-facies quartz veins within metabasites of the Dabie Shan (eastern China): pressure–temperature–time–deformation path, composition of the fluid phase and fluid flow during exhumation of high-pressure rocks

    Leander Franz;R. Oberhänsli;Thomas Wagner;S. Dong

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Gao
Jun Gao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Timm John
Timm John Freie Universität Berlin
Karsten M. Haase
Karsten M. Haase University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Yuri Y. Podladchikov
Yuri Y. Podladchikov University of Lausanne
Haemyeong Jung
Haemyeong Jung Seoul National University
Qingguo Zhai
Qingguo Zhai Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Michael Bröcker
Michael Bröcker University of Münster
Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Christoph Beier
Christoph Beier University of Helsinki
Jasper Berndt
Jasper Berndt University of Münster

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