The Making of the Earth – Reading the Geochemical Code from Meteorites and the Earth’s Oldest Rocks

Project Information

INFANT EARTH

Grant agreement ID: 669666

DOI 10.3030/669666

Project closed

EC signature date 17 August 2015

Start date 1 September 2015

End date 31 August 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 499 735,00

EU contribution € 2 499 735,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT ZU KOLN
Germany

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Stable W isotope evidence for redistribution of homogeneous 182W anomalies in SW Greenland

Author(s): F. Kurzweil, C. Münker, J.E. Hoffmann, J. Tusch, R. Schoenberg
Published in: Geochemical Perspectives Letters, Issue 14, 2020, Page(s) 53-57, ISSN 2410-3403
Publisher: GPL
DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.2024

Accurate stable tungsten isotope measurements of natural samples using a 180 W- 183 W double-spike

Author(s): Florian Kurzweil, Carsten Münker, Jonas Tusch, Ronny Schoenberg
Published in: Chemical Geology, Issue 476, 2018, Page(s) 407-417, ISSN 0009-2541
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.11.037

Silicate Earth’s missing niobium may have been sequestered into asteroidal cores

Author(s): Carsten Münker, Raúl O. C. Fonseca, Toni Schulz
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 10/11, 2017, Page(s) 822-826, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo3048

La–Ce isotope measurements by multicollector-ICPMS

Author(s): Christiane Schnabel, Carsten Münker, Erik Strub
Published in: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, Issue 32/12, 2017, Page(s) 2360-2370, ISSN 0267-9477
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c7ja00256d

The chemical composition of carbonaceous chondrites: Implications for volatile element depletion, complementarity and alteration

Author(s): Ninja Braukmüller, Frank Wombacher, Dominik C. Hezel, Raphaelle Escoube, Carsten Münker
Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Issue 239, 2018, Page(s) 17-48, ISSN 0016-7037
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2018.07.023

Ruthenium isotope vestige of Earth’s pre-late-veneer mantle preserved in Archaean rocks

Author(s): Mario Fischer-Gödde, Bo-Magnus Elfers, Carsten Münker, Kristoffer Szilas, Wolfgang D. Maier, Nils Messling, Tomoaki Morishita, Martin Van Kranendonk, Hugh Smithies
Published in: Nature, Issue 579/7798, 2020, Page(s) 240-244, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2069-3

Earth’s volatile element depletion pattern inherited from a carbonaceous chondrite-like source

Author(s): Ninja Braukmüller, Frank Wombacher, Claudia Funk, Carsten Münker
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 12/7, 2019, Page(s) 564-568, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-019-0375-x

Early Moon formation inferred from hafnium–tungsten systematics

Author(s): Maxwell M. Thiemens, Peter Sprung, Raúl O. C. Fonseca, Felipe P. Leitzke, Carsten Münker
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 12/9, 2019, Page(s) 696-700, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-019-0398-3

The stable tungsten isotope composition of modern igneous reservoirs

Author(s): Florian Kurzweil, Carsten Münker, Michaela Grupp, Ninja Braukmüller, Lena Fechtner, Mike Christian, Simon V. Hohl, Ronny Schoenberg
Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Issue 251, 2019, Page(s) 176-191, ISSN 0016-7037
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.02.025

Unravelling lunar mantle source processes via the Ti isotope composition of lunar basalts

Author(s): S. Kommescher, R.O.C. Fonseca, F. Kurzweil, M.M. Thiemens, C. Münker, P. Sprung
Published in: Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 2020, Page(s) 13-18, ISSN 2410-3403
Publisher: EAG
DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.2007

Evolution of the early to late Archean mantle from Hf-Nd-Ce isotope systematics in basalts and komatiites from the Pilbara Craton

Author(s): E. Hasenstab, J. Tusch, C. Schnabel, C.S. Marien, M.J. Van Kranendonk, H. Smithies, H. Howard, W.D. Maier, C. Münker
Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Issue 553, 2021, Page(s) 116627, ISSN 0012-821X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116627

Determination of Cu, Zn, Ga, Ag, Cd, In, Sn and Tl in Geological Reference Materials and Chondrites by Isotope Dilution ICP‐MS

Author(s): Ninja Braukmüller, Frank Wombacher, Alessandro Bragagni, Carsten Münker
Published in: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, Issue 44/4, 2020, Page(s) 733-752, ISSN 1639-4488
Publisher: Association Scientifique pour la Geologie et ses Applications
DOI: 10.1111/ggr.12352