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Christine Franke
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European Graduate College EUROPROX 
Dr. Christine Franke
PhD 2002-2006
Universität Bremen

Now at:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Campus du CNRS, Bat. 12, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

Phone:  +33 1 6982 3521
E-mail: christine.franke@lsce.ipsl.fr

Research
Publications
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Research of Christine Franke

Identification and characterisation of Fe redox boundaries in marine sediments applying advanced technologies to environmental magnetism 

(EUROPROX  PhD project 7)
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Most environmental magnetic analyses involve a comparatively simple set of bulk measurements that are rapid and do not require tedious sample preparation. However, while being very useful for the characterisation of large sample collections, the procedures are not geared to the detection of high-coercivity phases, while the discrimination of iron sulfides and magnetite-like oxides is not straightforward either. 

Sampling IODP core halves
By employing the Quantum Design ‘Magnetic Property Measurement System’ (MPMS-XL-7) instrument that allows magnetic characterisation at high magnetic fields (up to 7 Tesla) and low temperatures (down to 1.8 Kelvin),  new methodologies will be developed that will overcome inadequacies in existing mineral magnetic methodology. In addition, a suite of other techniques (SEM, TEM, EBSD, etc.) will be used

publications Publications of Christine Franke
2008
  • Dupont-Nivet, G., Sier, M., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J.R., DiMaggio, E.N., Reed, K., Lockwood, C.A., Franke, C., and Hüsing, S. (2009), Magnetostratigraphy of the eastern Hadar Basin (Ledi-Geraru research area, Ethiopia), implications for hominin paleoenvironments, In: Quade, J., and Wynn, J.G. (eds.), The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa, The Geological society of America Special Paper xxx, in press.
  • Vasiliev, I., Franke, C., Meeldijk, J.D.,Dekkers, M.J., Langereis, C.G. and Krijgsman, W. (2008). Putative greigite magnetofossils from the Pliocene epoch, Nature Geoscience, 1(11), 782-786.   
2007
  • Franke, C., Pennock, G.M., Drury, M.R, Engelmann, R., Lattard, D., Garming, J.F.L., Von Dobeneck, T. and Dekkers, M.J. (2007). Identification of magnetic Fe-Ti oxides in marine sediments by electron backscatter diffraction in scanning electron microscopy, Geophys. J. Int., 170 (2), 545-555. 
  • Franke, C., Frederichs, T. and Dekkers, M.J. ( 2007). Efficiency of heavy liquid separation to concentrate magnetic particles, Geophys. J. Int., 170 (3), 1053-1066. 
  • Franke, C., von Dobeneck, T., Drury, M.R., Meeldijk, J.D., and Dekkers, M.J. (2007). Magnetic Petrology of Equatorial Atlantic Sediments: Electron Microscopic Results and their Environmental Magnetic Implications, , Paleoceanography, 22, PA4207, doi: 10.1029 / 2007PA001442 
  • Garming, J.F.L., Bleil, U., Franke, C. and von Dobeneck, T. (2007). Low-temperature partial magnetic self-reversal in marine sediments by magnetostatic interaction of titanomagnetite and titanohematite intergrowths, Geophys. J. Int., 170 (3), 1067-1075 
  • Vasiliev, I., Dekkers, M.J., Krijgsman, W., Franke, C., Langereis, C.G. and Mullender, T.A.T. (2007). Early diagenetic greigite as a recorder of the palaeomagnetic signal in Miocene–Pliocene sedimentary rocks of the Carpathian foredeep (Romania),  Geophys. J. Int., 171, 613-629 
2006
  • Franke, C. (2006). Investigating Lithologic Characteristics of Marine Magnetic Proxy Parameters (PhD Thesis Utrecht University), Geologica Ultraiectina, 263, 145 pp. 
  • Riedinger, N., Kasten, S., Gröger, J., Franke, C. and Pfeifer, K. (2006). Active and buried authigenic barite fronts in sediments from the Eastern Cape Basin, Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett., 241, 876–887 
2005 2004
  • Franke, C., Hofmann, D. and Von Dobeneck, T. (2004). Does lithology influence relative paleointensity records? A statistical analysis on South Atlantic pelagic sediments, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 147, 285-296. 
2003