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Frank T. Kyte, Geochemistry Researcher |
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| Mailing Address: | Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics
University of California, Los Angeles
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 |
| Office: | Slichter 4871 |
| Telephone: | (310) 825-2015 |
| Fax: | (310) 825-2779 |
| E-mail: | kyte@igpp.ucla.edu |
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Courses Taught |
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Education |
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| | A.A. (Gen.Ed.), 1970, San Francisco City College
B.A. (Geology), 1972, California State University, San Francisco
M.S. (Geology), 1977, San Jose State University
Ph.D. (Geology), 1983, University of California, Los Angeles/p> |
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Selected Publications |
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Brownlee D.E., Tomandl D., Blanchard M.B.,
Ferry G.V., and Kyte F.T. (1976) An atlas of extraterrestrial
particles collected with NASA U-2 aircraft: 1974-1976. NASA
TM X-73,152, 45pp.
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Kyte F.T. (1977) On the origin of extraterrestrial stratospheric
particles: meteor ablation debris or interplanetary dust?
M.S. Thesis, San Jose State University, San Jose, 71 pp. |
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Blanchard M.B., Bunch T., Davis A., Kyte F.T., Shade H., Erlichman
J., and Polkowski G. (1977) Results of analyses performed on
soil adjacent to penetrators emplaced into sediments at McCook,
Nebraska, January 1976. NASA TN D- 8500, 28pp. |
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Blanchard M.B. and Kyte F.T. (1978) Are the stratospheric
dust particles meteor ablation debris or interplanetary dust?
NASA TM-78507, 49pp. |
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Blanchard M.B., Brownlee D.E., Bunch T.E., Hodge P.W., and
Kyte F.T. (1980) Meteoroid ablation spheres from deep-sea sediments.
Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 46, 178-190. |
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Kyte F.T., Zhou Z., and Wasson J.T. (1980) Siderophile-enriched
sediments from the Cretaceous- Tertiary boundary. Nature
288, 651-656. |
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Kyte F.T., Zhou Z., and Wasson J.T. (1981) High noble metal
concentrations in a late Pliocene sediment. Nature 292,
417-420. |
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Kyte F.T. and Wasson J.T. (1982) Geochemical constraints on
the nature of large accretionary events. Geol. Soc. Amer.
Spec. Paper 190, 235-242. |
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DePaolo D.J., Kyte F.T., Marshall B.D., O'Neil J.R., and Smit
J. (1983) Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, K-Ca, O, and H isotopic study of the
Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sediments, Caravaca, Spain: evidence
for an oceanic impact site. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.
64, 356-373. |
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Kyte F.T. (1983) Analyses of extraterrestrial materials
in terrestrial sediments. Ph.D. Thesis, University of California,
Los Angeles, 152 pp. |
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Smit J. and Kyte F.T. (1984) Siderophile-rich magnetic spheroids
from the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Umbria, Italy. Nature
310, 403-405. |
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Kyte F.T. and Brownlee D.E. (1985) Unmelted meteoritic debris
in the Late Pliocene Ir anomaly: evidence for the impact of
a nonchondritic asteroid. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 49,
1095-1108. |
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Kyte F.T., Smit J., and Wasson J.T. (1985) Siderophile interelement
variations in the Cretaceous- Tertiary boundary sediments from
Caravaca, Spain. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 73,
183-195. |
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Sanfilippo A., Riedel W.R., Glass B.P., and Kyte F.T. (1985)
Late Eocene microtektites and radiolarian extinctions on Barbados.
Nature 314, 613-615. |
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Smit J. and Kyte F.T. (1985) Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions:
alternative models. Science 230, 1292-1293. |
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Kyte F.T. and Smit J. (1986) Regional variations in spinel
compositions: an important key to the Cretaceous-Tertiary event.
Geology, 14, 485-487. |
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Kyte F.T. and Wasson J.T. (1986) Accretion rate of extraterrestrial
matter: Iridium deposited 33 to 67 million years ago. Science,
232, 1225-1229. |
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Kyte F.T. and Wasson J.T. (1986) Comet showers, periodic extinctions
and iridium. Science 234, 1486-1487. |
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Wasson J.T. and Kyte F.T. (1987) Comment on the letter "On
the influx of small comets into the Earth's upper atmosphere
II: interpretation." Geophys. Res. Lett., 14,
780-781. |
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Kyte F.T. (1988) The extraterrestrial component in marine
sediments. Paleoceanography, 3, 235-247. |
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Kyte F.T., Zhou L., and Wasson J.T. (1988) New evidence on
the size and possible effects of a late Pliocene oceanic impact,
Science 241, 63-65. |
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Zhou L. and Kyte F.T. (1988) The Permian-Triassic boundary
event: A geochemical study of three Chinese sections. Earth
Plan. Sci. Lett. 90, 411-421. |
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Lowe. D.R., Byerly G.R., Asaro F. and Kyte F.T. (1989) Geological
and geochemical evidence for a record of 3,400 Ma-old terrestrial
meteorite impacts. Science 245, 959-962. |
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Kyte F.T. (1990) Comment on "Origin of microlayering
in worldwide distributed Ir-rich marine Cretaceous/Tertiary
boundary clays." Geology 18, 87-88. |
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Margolis S.V., Claeys P. and Kyte F.T. (1991) Microtektites,
microkrystites and spinels from a Late Pliocene asteroid impact
in the Southern Ocean. Science 251, 1594-1597. |
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Zhou L., Kyte F.T. and Bohor B.F. (1991) Cretaceous/Tertiary
boundary of DSDP Site 596, South Pacific. Geology 19,
694-697. |
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Kyte F.T., Zhou L. and Lowe D.R. (1992) Noble metal abundances
in an early Archean impact deposit. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta
56, 1365-1372. |
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Zhou L. and Kyte F.T. (1992) Sedimentation history of the
South Pacific pelagic clay province over the last 80 million
years inferred from the geochemistry of DSDP Hole 596. Paleoceanography
7, 441-465. |
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Kyte F.T., Heath G.R., Leinen M. and Zhou L. (1993) Cenozoic
sedimentation history of the central North Pacific: Inferences
from the elemental geochemistry of core LL44-GPC3. Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta 57, 1719-1740. |
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Elliot D.H., Askin R.A., Kyte F.T. and Zinsmeister W.J. (1994)
Iridium and dinocysts at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at
Seymour Island, Antarctica: implications for the K-T event.
Geology 22, 675-678. Geology 22,
675-678 |
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Kyte F.T. and Bostwick J.A. (1995) Magnesioferrite spinel
in Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sediments of the Pacific basin:
Hot, early condensates of the Chicxulub impact? Earth Plan.
Sci. Lett. 132, 113-127. |
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Kyte F.T., Bostwick J.A. and Zhou L. (1995) Identification
of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at ODP Site 886, ODP Site
803, and DSDP Site 576. Proc. ODP Sci. Results 145,
427-434. |
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Kyte F.T. and Bohor B.H. (1995) Ni-rich magnesiowüstite -
a new high-temperature mineral in Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
spherules crystallized from ultramafic, refractory silicate
liquid. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 4967-4974. |
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Bostwick J.A. and Kyte F.T. (1996) The size and abundance
of shocked quartz in Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sediments
from the Pacific basin. in The Cretaceous-Tertiary Event
and Other Catastrophes in Earth History, Geol. Soc. Amer.
Spec. Pap. 307, 403-415. |
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Kyte F.T., Bostwick J.A. and Zhou L. (1996) The Cretaceous-Tertiary
boundary on the Pacific plate: composition and distribution
of impact debris. in The Cretaceous-Tertiary Event and Other
Catastrophes in Earth History, Geol. Soc. Amer. Spec. Pap.
307, 389-401. |
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Claeys P., Kyte F.T., Herbosh A. and Casier J.-G. (1996) Geochemistry
of the Frasnian Famennian boundary: Mass extinctions, anoxic
oceans, and microtektite layer, but not much iridium? in The
Cretaceous-Tertiary Event and Other Catastrophes in Earth History,
Geol. Soc. Amer. Spec. Pap. 307, 491-504. |
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Gersonde R., Kyte F.T., Bleil U., Diekmann B., Flores J.A.,
Gohl K., Grahl G., Hagen R., Kuhn K., Sierro F.J., Völker D.,
Abelmann A. and Bostwick J.A. (1997) Geological record and reconstruction
of the late Pliocene impact of the Eltanin asteroid in the Southern
Ocean, Nature, 390, 357-363.. |
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Retallack G.J., Seyedolali A., Krull E.S., Holser W.T., Ambers
C.P. and Kyte F.T. (1998) Search for evidence of impact at the
Permian-Triassic boundary in Antarctica and Australia. Geology
26, 979-982. |
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Kyte F.T. (1998) A meteorite from the Cretaceous-Tertiary
boundary. Nature 396, 237-239. |
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Barker P., Camerlenghi A., Acton G., Brachfeld S., Cowan E.,
Daniels J., Domack E., W., Escutia C., Evans A., Eyles N., Guyodo
Y., Iorio M., Iwai M., Kyte F.T., Lauer C., Maldonado A., Moerz
T., Osterman L., Pudsey C., Schuffert J., Sjunneskog C., Vigar
K., Weinheimer A., Williams T., Winter D. and Wolf-Welling T.
(1998) Antarctic glacial history and sea-level change; Leg 178
samples Antarctic Peninsula margin sediments. JOIDES Journal;
24, No. 2, 7-10. |
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Warren P.H., Kallemeyn G.W. and Kyte F.T. (1999) Origin of
planetary cores: Evidence from highly siderophile elements in
martian meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63,
2105-2122. |
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Barker P.F., Camerlenghi A., Acton G.D., Brachfeld S., Cowan
E., Daniels J., Domack E., W., Escutia C., Evans A., Eyles N.,
Guyodo Y., Iorio M., Iwai M., Kyte F.T., Lauer C., Maldonado
A., Moerz T., Osterman L., Pudsey C., Schuffert J., Sjunneskog
C., Vigar K., Weinheimer A., Williams T., Winter D. and Wolf-Welling
T. (1999). Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 178 [CD-ROM]. Available
from: Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College
Station, TX 77845-9547, U.S.A. or www-odp.tamu.edu/publications |
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Shukolyukov A., Kyte F.T., Lugmair G.W., Lowe D.R., and Byerly
G.R. (2000) The Oldest Impact Deposits on Earth - First Confirmation
of an Extraterrestrial Component. in Gilmour I. and Koeberl
C., eds. Impacts and the Early Earth : Heidelberg, Germany,
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 92, 99-116. |
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Kyte F.T. (2001) Identification of late Eocene impact deposits
at ODP Site 1090. Proc. ODP Scientific Results, 177 (in
press). |
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Kyte F.T. (2001) Tracers of the extraterrestrial component
in sediments and inferences on Earth's Accretion history. Proc.
Conf. Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and
Beyond. (in press).
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Other Cosmochemists at UCLA |
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| | 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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