Christa Göpel is « Chargée de Recherche » of CNRS at the Laboratoire de Géochimie et Cosmochimie at Institut Physique du Globe de Paris, France.
Christa worked many years as Editorial assistant and co-Editor in Chief of Chemical Geology.
Her main research concerns the chronology and the thermal evolution of the early solar system. Her primary experimental focus resides in high precision mass spectrometry on small natural samples. She analyses different classes of extraterrestrial material including lunar samples with long- lived (U/Pb) and short-lived (Al/Mg, Hf/W) radioactivities. By combining these different isotopic systems it should be possible to construct a time-scale for the early evolution of both the solar system and the Earth.
Recent publications include the following:
- Allègre C.J., Manhès G. and Göpel, C. (2008)
The major differentiation of the Earth at ~ 4.45 Ga. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 267, 386-398 - Barrat J.A., Chaussidon, M., Bohn, M., Gillet, P., Göpel, C. and Lesourd, M. (2005)
Lithium behaviour during cooling of a dry basalt: An ion-microprobe study of the lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 479 (NWA 479). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69, 5597-5609. - Jambon, A., Barrat, J. A., Boudouma, O., Fonteilles, M., Badia, D., Göpel, C. and Bohn, M. (2005)
Mineralogy and Petrology of the Angrite Northwest Africa 1296. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 40, 361-375 - Zinner, E., and C. Göpel (2002)
Aluminum-26 in H4 chondrites: Implications for its production and its usefulness as a fine-scale chronometer for early solar system events. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 37, 1001-1013.
