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CORNELIS ("KASE") KLEIN

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965. (Emeritus Professor; Presidential Teaching Fellow) (505) 277-2023; 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.

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.

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