Thomas Pettke

Prof. Thomas Pettke
Deep-Fluids Geochemistry
Institut für Geologie
Universität Bern
Baltzerstrasse 1+3
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 31 684 50 59
Phone2: +41 (0) 31 684 87 61
E-mail: thomas.pettke(at)unibe.ch
URL Institution: www.earthsci.unibe.ch
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of Thomas Pettke (up to ten) :
Pettke, T., Bretscher, A. (2022) Fluid-mediated element cycling in subducted oceanic lithosphere: The orogenic serpentinite perspective. Earth-Science Reviews 225, 103896, 31pp
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103896

Pettke, T., Kodolanyi, J., Kamber, B. S. (2018) From ocean to mantle: new evidence for U-cycling with implications for the HIMU source and the secular Pb isotope evolution of Earth's mantle. Lithos 316-317, 66-76.

Markmann, T. A., Lanari, P., Piccoli, F., Pettke, T., Tamblyn, R., Tedeschi, M., Lueder, M., Kunz, B.E., Rield, N., Laughton, J. (2024) Multi-phase quantitative compositional mapping by LA-ICP-MS: Analytical approach and data reduction protocol implemented in XMapTools. Chem Geol.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121895

Piccoli, F., Hermann, J., Pettke, T., Connolly, J.A.D., Kempf, E.D., Vieira-Duarte, J.F. (2019) Subducting serpentinites release reduced, not oxidized, aqueous fluids. Scientific Reports 9, Art.-Nr. 19573

Bretscher, A., Hermann, J., Pettke, T.,(2018) The influence of oceanic oxidation on serpentinite dehydration during subduction. EPSL 499, 173–184

Eberhard, L., Pettke, T. (2021) Antigorite dehydration fluids boost carbonate mobilisation and crustal CO2 outgassing in collisional orogens. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 300, 192-214

Vieira Duarte, J., Piccoli, F., Pettke, T., Hermann, J. (2021) Textural and geochemical evidence for magnetite production upon antigorite breakdown during subduction. J. Petrol. 61, No.10, 1-29.

Kaufmann, A.K.C., Pettke, T., Wille, M. (2021) Molybdenum isotope fractionation at upper-crustal magmatic-hydrothermal conditions. Chem. Geol. 578, Art.-Nr. 120319

Pettke, T., Oberli, F., Audetat, A., Guillong, M., Simon, A., Hanley, J. and Klemm, L.M. (2012) Recent developments in element concentration and isotope ratio analysis of individual fluid inclusions by laser ablation single and multiple collector ICP–MS. Ore Geol. Rev. 44, 10–38.

Kessel, R., Schmidt, M.W., Ulmer, P. and Pettke, T. (2005) The trace element signature of subduction zone fluids, melts and supercritical liquids at 120-180 km depth. Nature 437, 724-727.


Expertise of Thomas Pettke:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeExpert Type
Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic HydrosphereHydrosphere
Ocean
Topic LithosphereLithosphere
Geochemical Processes
Magmatic Rocks: Formation, Metamorphism
Spatial ScaleSpatial Scale
Global / Hemispheric
Continental
Regional
Time FrameTime Frame
Past
Statistical FocusVariability
Time ScaleBillenial (Mio yrs)
MethodsMethod
Data Collection
Data Collection - Measurement
Data Analysis
Modeling
GeoForum Environmental-TechnologyProspection

Specialties of Thomas Pettke:
Fluid-mediated geochemical cycling and source tracing, with an emphasis on subudction zones, including constraining redox budget and redox budget transfer between geological reservoirs
Applications and methods development of LA-ICP-MS in the Earth Sciences
Geochemical characterization of mobile phases (fluids, melts) in the Earth's crust and mantle
Elemental and radiogenic isotope geochemistry, metamorphic and magmatic petrology, economic geology, geochronology
Hydrous metaperidotites and their metamorphic dehydration
Genesis of hydrothermal porphyry-type ore and orogenic gold deposits
Field geology in igneous, metamorphic and hydrothermally affected terrains

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