UCLA - Earth and Space Sciences

Greg Kallemeyn, Research Geochemist

Mailing Address:	Department of Earth and Space Sciences University of California, Los Angeles 595 Charles Young Drive East, Box 951567 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567
Office:	Geology 1802
Telephone:	(310) 825-3202
Fax:	(310) 825-2779
E-mail:	kallemeyn@igpp.ucla.edu

Current Research Interests

- Cosmochemistry
- Origin and composition of meteorites
- Evolution of the solar nebula
- Neutron activation analysis
- Prompt gamma analysis

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Current Research Projects

- Composition and origin of chondritic meteorites
      - metal-rich chondrites
      - ungrouped chondrites
      - carbonaceous chondrites
      - silicate inclusions in iron meteorites
- Classification of chondritic meteorites
- Mean abundances of the elements in chondrite groups and the Solar Nebula

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Education

B.S., 1974, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Ph.D., 1982, UCLA

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Selected Publications

Kallemeyn G.W. and Wasson J.T. (1981) The compositional classification of chondrites-I The carbonaceous chondrite groups. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 45, 1217-1230.

Kallemeyn, G.W. and Wasson J.T. (1986) Compostions of enstatite (EH3, EH4,5 and EL6) chondrites: implications regarding their formation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 50, 2153-2164.

Kallemeyn G.W., Rubin A.E., Wang D. and Wasson J.T. (1989) The composition and origin of ordinary chondrites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 53, 2747-2767.

Kallemeyn G. W., Rubin A. E. and Wasson J. T. (1991) The compositional classification of chondrites: V. The Karoonda (CK) group carbonaceous chondrites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 55, 881-892.

Kallemeyn G. W. (1993) Neutron activation analysis. in Advances in Analytical Geochemistry Vol. 1 (ed. M. Hyman and M. W. Rowe), JAI Press, 193-209.

Kallemeyn G. W., Rubin A. E. and Wasson J. T. (1994) The compositional classification of chondrites: VI. The CR carbonaceous chondrite group. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 58, 2873-2888.

Kallemeyn G.W. and Rubin A.E. (1995) Coolidge and Loongana 001: A new carbonaceous chondrite grouplet. Meteoritics 30, 20-27.

Rasmussen K.L., Clausen H.B. and Kallemeyn G.W. (1995) No iridium anomaly after the 1908 Tunguska impact: Evidence from a Greenland ice core. Meteoritics 30, 634-638.

Ulf-Møller F., Rasmussen K.L., Prinz M., Palme H. Spettel B. and Kallemeyn G.W. (1995) Magmatic activity on the IVA parent body: Evidence from silicate-bearing iron meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 4713-4728.

Kallemeyn G. W., Rubin A. E. and Wasson J. T. (1996) The compositional classification of chondrites: VII. The R chondrite group. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60, 2243-2256.

Weisberg M.K., Prinz M., Clayton R.N., Mayeda T.K. Grady M.M., Pillinger C.T. and Kallemeyn G.W. (1996) The K (Kakangari) chondrite grouplet. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60, 4253-4263.

Latif SK. A., Oura Y., Ebihara M., Kallemeyn G.W., Nakahara H., Yonezawa C., Matsue T. and Sawahata H. (1999) Prompt gamma-ray analysis (PGA) of meteorite samples with emphasis on the determination of Si. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 239, 577-580.

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Other Cosmochemists at UCLA

Frank Kyte
kyte@igpp.ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/kyte/

Kevin McKeegan
kdm@ess.ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/mckeegan/

Alan Rubin
aerubin@ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/researchers/rubin/

Paul Warren
pwarren@ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/researchers/warren/

John Wasson
jtwasson@ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/wasson/

Edward Young
eyoung@ess.ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/young/

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