Cornelis ("Kase") Klein

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965 (Emeritus Professor)
Northrop Hall Rm. 212; 277-2023. Email:cklein@unm.edu

Research and Academic Interests:

Petrology, geochemistry, and the genesis of Precambrian iron-formations worldwide; the mineralogy of amphiboles and of amphibolite-type metamorphic assemblages. Joint studies (with N.J. Beukes) of Proterozoic iron-formations in South Africa have provided much new insight into their probable origin. This work has been extended (jointly with A.E. Ladeira) to the Archean and Proterozoic iron-formations (and ores) in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero of Brazil.

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Listing of Recent Publications:

C. Klein and B. Dutrow, 2007, Manual of Mineral Science, 23rd ed., John Wiley and Sons, 675 pp., to be published February, 2007.

C. Klein, 2007, Minerals and Rocks: Exercises in Crystal Chemistry and Mineral Chemistry, Crystallography, X-ray Powder Diffraction, Mineral and Rock Identification, and Ore Mineralogy, 3rd ed., John Wiley and Sons, 441 pp., to be published February, 2007.

E.J. Essene and C. Klein, Evaluation of the High-Pressure status of Calderite, Mn3Fe2Si3O12, American Mineralogist, submitted for publication.

C. Klein, 2005, Some Precambrian Banded Iron-Formations (BIFs) from around the World: Their age, Geologic Setting, Mineralogy, Metamorphism, Geochemistry, and Origin, American Mineralogist, v. 90, p. 1473-1499.

C. Klein and E.A. Ladeira, 2004, Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Neoproterozoic Iron-formations and some selected Siliceous Manganese Formations from the Urucum District, Mato Gross do Sul, Brazil, Economic Geology, v. 99, p. 1233-1244.

C.M. Johnson, B.L. Beard, N.J. Beukes, C. Klein and J.M. O’Leary, 2003, Ancient Geochemical Cycling in the Earth as inferred from Fe isotope studies of Banded Iron-Formations from the Transvaal Craton, Contributions to Mineralogy/Petrology, v. 144, p. 523-547.

C. Klein and A.E. Ladeira, 2002, Petrography and Geochemistry of the least altered Banded Iron-Formation of the Archean Carajás Formation, northern Brazil, Economic Geology, v. 97, p. 643-651.

C. Klein and A.E. Ladeira, 2000, Geochemistry and Petrology of some Proterozoic Banded Iron-Formations of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Economic Geology, v. 95, p. 405-428.

C. Klein and N.J. Beukes, 1993, Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Glaciogenic Late Proterozoic Iron-Formation in Canada, Economic Geology, v. 88, p. 545-565.

C. Klein, 1993, Rocks, Minerals and a Dusty World, Chapter 2 in Health Effects of Mineral Dust, G.D. Guthrie, B.T. Mossman, eds., Reviews in Mineralogy, v. 28, Mineralogical Society of America, p. 7-59.