Publications
Articles, reviewed
1. Kleine, T., Münker, C., Mezger, K., and Palme, H., 2002. Rapid accretion and early core formation on asteroids and the terrestrial planets from Hf-W chronometry. Nature 418, 952-955.
2. Münker, C., Pfander, J. A., Weyer, S., Buchl, A., Kleine, T., and Mezger, K., 2003. Evolution of planetary cores and the earth-moon system from Nb/Ta systematics. Science 301, 84-87.
3. Kleine, T., Mezger, K., Münker, C., Palme, H., and Bischoff, A., 2004. 182Hf-182W isotope systematics of chondrites, eucrites, and martian meteorites: Chronology of core formation and early mantle differentiation in Vesta and Mars. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 68, 2935-2946.
4. Kleine, T., Mezger, K., Palme, H., and Münker, C., 2004. The W isotope evolution of the bulk silicate Earth: constraints on the timing and mechanisms of core formation and accretion. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 228, 109-123.
5. Kleine, T., Mezger, K., Zimmermann, U., Münker, G., and Bahlburg, H., 2004. Crustal evolution along the Early Ordovician proto-Andean margin of Gondwana: Trace element and isotope evidence from the Complejo Igneo Pocitos (northwest Argentina). Journal of Geology 112, 503-520.
6. Kleine, T., Mezger, K., Palme, H., Scherer, E., and Münker, C., 2005. Early core formation in asteroids and late accretion of chondrite parent bodies: Evidence from 182Hf-182W in CAIs, metal-rich chondrites, and iron meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 69, 5805-5818.
7. Kleine, T., Mezger, K., Palme, H., Scherer, E., and Münker, C., 2005. The W isotope composition of eucrite metals: constraints on the timing and cause of the thermal metamorphism of basaltic eucrites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 231, 41-52.
8. Kleine, T., Palme, H., Mezger, M., and Halliday, A. N., 2005. Hf-W chronometry of lunar metals and the age and early differentiation of the Moon. Science 310, 1671-1674.
9. Markowski, A., Quitté, G., Halliday, A. N., and Kleine, T., 2006. Tungsten isotopic compositions of iron meteorites: Chronological constraints vs. cosmogenic effects. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 242, 1-15.
10. Markowski, A., Quitté, G., Kleine, T., Halliday, A. N., Bizzarro, M., and Irving, A. J., 2007. Hafnium-tungsten chronometry of angrites and the earliest evolution of planetary objects. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 262, 214-229.
11. Nebel, O., Münker, C., Nebel-Jacobsen, Y. J., Kleine, T., Mezger, K., and Mortimer, N., 2007. Hf-Nd-Pb isotope evidence from Permian arc rocks for the long-term presence of the Indian-Pacific mantle boundary in the SW Pacific. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 254, 377-392.
12. Nimmo, F. and Kleine, T., 2007. How rapidly did Mars accrete? Uncertainties in the Hf-W timing of core formation. Icarus 191, 497-504.
13. Touboul, M., Kleine, T., Bourdon, B., Palme, H., and Wieler, R., 2007. Late formation and prolonged differentiation of the Moon inferred from W isotopes in lunar metals. Nature 450, 1206-1209.
14. Kleine, T., Touboul, M., Van Orman, J. A., Bourdon, B., Maden, C., Mezger, K., and Halliday, A., 2008. Hf-W thermochronometry: closure temperature and constraints on the accretion and cooling history of the H chondrite parent body. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 270, 106-118.
15. Bourdon, B., Touboul, M., Caro, G., Kleine, T., 2008. Early differentiation of the Earth and the Moon. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 366, 4105-4128.
16. Burkhardt, C., Kleine, T., Palme, H., Bourdon, B., Zipfel, J., Friedrich, J., and Ebel, D., 2008. Hf-W mineral isochron for Ca,Al-rich inclusions: Age of the solar system and the timing of core formation in planetesimals. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 72, 6177-6197.
17. Touboul, M., Kleine, T., Bourdon, B., Palme, H., and Wieler, R., 2009. Tungsten isotopes in ferroan anorthosites: implications for the age of the Moon and lifetime of its magma ocean. Icarus, 199, 245-249.
18. Kleine, T., Touboul, M., Bourdon, B., Nimmo, F., Mezger, K., Palme, H., Yin, Q.Z., Jacobsen, S.B., and Halliday, A.N., 2009. Hf-W chronology of the accretion and early evolution of asteroids and terrestrial planets. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73, 5150-5188.
19. Nyquist, L.E., Kleine, T., Shih, C.-Y., Reese, Y.D., 2009. The distribution of short-lived radionuclides in the early solar system and the chronology of asteroid differentiation, metamorphism and secondary mineralization. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73, 5115–5136.
20. Touboul, M., Kleine, T., Bourdon, B., Van Orman, J.A., Maden, C., Irving, A.J., Zipfel, J., Bunch, T.E., 2009. Hf-W thermochronometry. II. Accretion and thermal history of the acapulcoite-lodranite parent body. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 284, 168-178.
21. Fitoussi, C., Bourdon, B., Kleine, T., Oberli, F., Reynolds, B.C., 2009. Formation and differentiation of the Earth inferred from Si isotope systematics of meteorites and terrestrial peridotites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., in press.
Book chapters, reviewed
1. Halliday, A. N. and Kleine, T., 2006. Meteorites and the Timing, Mechanisms, and Conditions of Terrestrial Planet Accretion and Early Differentiation. In: Lauretta, D. S. and McSween, H. Y. (eds.), Meteorites and the Early Solar System II. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2. Kleine, T., 2008. Hf-W chronometry of planetary accretion and differentiation. In: Zaikowski, L. and Friedrich, J. (eds.), Chemical evolution across space and time: From the Big Bang to prebiotic chemistry. ACS Symposium Series 981. Oxford University Press, 448 pp.
