Research Interests
- Early Earth processes (e.g. core formation, core-mantle interactions, silicate differentiation)
- Formation of Large Igneous Provinces and the incorporation of different reservoirs (e.g. lower mantle, upper mantle, subcontinental lithospheric mantle, crust)
- Melts from the subcontinental lithospheric mantle, their chemical composition, and their interaction with basaltic melts
- The influence of fluids on the element composition of melts
- The interaction of Earth’s first oceans and continents
- High-precision isotope analyses of 182W, 142Nd, Lu, Hf, Pb, Nd, Sr, and high-field-strength elements via MC-ICP-MS
- High-precision trace element analyses via ICP-MS
Publications
- Leitzke, F.P., Pakulla, J.J., Tusch, J., Ravindran, A., Gordilho-Barbosa, R., Zincone, S.A., Hellers, M., Martins, A.A., Spreafico, R.R., Yang, R., Wombacher, F., Barbosa, J., Münker, C., 2024. Evidence for a missing late veneer from 182W and 142Nd systematics in the Archean São Francisco Craton. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 647, 119022.
- Jansen, M.W., Münker, C., Pakulla, J.J., Hasenstab-Dübeler, E., Marien, C., Schulz, T., Kirchenbaur, M., Schneider, K.P., Tordy, R., Schmitt, V., Wombacher, F., Petrogenesis of volcanic rocks from the Quarternary Eifel Volcanic Fields, Germany – detailed insights from combined trace-element and Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb-Os isotope data, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
- Pakulla, J.J., Jansen, M.W., Duraiswami, R.A., Gadpallu, P., Tusch, J., Jentzsch, C., Braukmüller, N., Wombacher, F., Münker, C., 2023, Trace element and Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotope evidence for a multi-magma chamber system beneath the Deccan Volcanic Province, India. Chemical Geology 640, 121749.
- Ballhaus, C., Pakulla, J., Wirth, R., Roddatis, V., Schreiber, A., Münker, C., Wombacher, F., Kronz, A., Fonseca, R.O.C., Cieszynski, H., Friedrich, H.-H. Quenching of basaltic melts by volatile exsolution. Contrib Mineral Petrol 178, 57 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-023-02041-9
