Professor Dr. Alexander Deutsch

Professor Dr. Alexander Deutsch

Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10
48149 Münster

T: +49 251 83-33484

  • Research Focus

    • Impaktprozesse
  • CV

    Academic Education

    Post-Doktorand, Institut für Kristallographie and Petrographie, ETH-Zürich, Schweiz
    Promotion in Geologie an der Universität Wien, Österreich

    Positions

    Lecturer, summer school of the European Mineralogical Union, Univ. of Glasgow
    Ko-Sprecher der DFG-Forschergruppe 887 Experimental Impact Cratering - The MEMIN I and II Program
    apl. Professor, Inst. für Planetologie, WWU Münster
    Direktor des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs “Origin and Evolution of the Solar System”, WWU Münster
    Visiting Scientist (several terms), Geol. Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finnland
    Guest Professor, Lab. de Géochronologie, IPG-Paris
    Visiting Scientist (several long-terms), Lab. de Géochronologie, IPG-Paris, Frankreich
    Visiting Scientist, Université du Québec à Montréal, Kanada
    wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Planetologie, WWU Münster
    wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Mineralogie, WWU Münster
    Geologe, Lab. for Isotope Geochemistry and Mass Spectrometry, ETH-Zürich
    Assistent, Geologisches Institut, Uni. Wien

    Honors

    Barringer Medal and AwardThe Meteoritical Society
    Post-Doc Stipendium – Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft
    Begabtenstipendium – BM für Wissenschaft und Forschung Österreich
    Fellow of the Meteoritical Society – The Meteoritical Society

    External Functions

    Barringer Award Committee, Meteoritical Society
    Editor in Chief - Chemie der Erde /Geochemistry
    Member of the Council of the Meteoritical Society
    ERASMUS teaching assignement, University of Oulu, Finland
    Co-Sprecher DFG-Forschergrupp MEMIN http://www.memin.de/
    Associated Editor Meteoritics & Planetary Science
    Gastprofessor Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Secretary of the Coordination, Member of the Steering Committee, ESF Network -Scientific programme "impact processes”
    European Science Foundation Short Course "Impact Metamorphism", Nördlingen, Germany 2000
    Barringer Award Committee, Meteoritical Society
    Nordic Council short course “Dating of impact events”, Tallin – Nova (Estonia)
    ERASMUS teaching assignement, Geological Observatory Coldigioco, Italy
  • Projects

  • Publications

    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.Science, 2020: 266272. doi: 10.1126/science.aay5055.

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , and . . “Cosmic collisions in the experimental chamber.german research, 37 (1 /2015): 3135. doi: 10.1002/germ.201590016.
    • , , , and . “Impact glass spherules in the Chicxulub K-Pg event bed at Beloc, Haiti: Alteration patterns.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 50 (3): 418-432. doi: 10.1111/maps.12432.
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • , , and . . “Impact metamorphism in terrestrial and experimental cratering events.” in EMU Notes in Mineralogy - volume 15 Planetary Mineralogy, Vol.15 of European Mineralogical Union Notes in Mineralogy, edited by Martin R. Lee and Hughes Leroux. N/A: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.

    • , , , and . . “Kosmische Kollisionen in der Experimentierkammer.Forschung - Magazin der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2014 (3): 1519.
    • , , , and . . “Impact controversies: Impact recognition criteria and related issues.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 49 (5): 723–731. doi: 10.1111/maps.12284.
    • , , and . “Geochemical processes between steel projectiles and silica-rich targets in hypervelocity impact experiments.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 133: 257–279. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2014.02.034.

    • , , , and . “The MEMIN research unit: Experimental impact cratering.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 48 (1): 12. doi: 10.1111/maps.12035.
    • , , , , , , and . “Hypervelocity impacts on dry and wet sandstone: Observations of ejecta dynamics and crater growth.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 48 (1): 2332. doi: 10.1111/maps.12044.
    • , , , , , , , and . “Testing the ureilite projectile hypothesis for the El’gygytgyn impact: Determination of siderophile element abundances and Os isotope ratios in ICDP drill core samples and melt rocks.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48: 12961324.
    • , , , , , and . “Petrology of impactites from El’gygytgyn crater: Breccias in ICDP-drill core 1C, glassy impact melt rocks and spherules.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48: 11991235.
    • , , , , , , , and . “Ejection behavior characteristics of experimental impacts into dry and wet sandstone.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48: 3349.
    • , , , , , , , and . “Deformation and melting of steel projectiles in hypervelocity cratering experiments.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48: 150164.
    • , , , and . “Chemical modification of projectile residues and target material in a MEMIN cratering experiment.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48: 134149.
    • , , , , , , and . “Crater morphology in sandstone targets: the MEMIN impact parameter study.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48: 5070.

    • , , and . . “Dating terrestrial impact structures.Elements, 8 (1): 4953.
    • , , , , , and . . “Tsunami backwash deposits with vertebrate remains and Chicxulub ejecta from the Cretaceous-Palogene boundary in the La Popa basin, NE Mexico.Sedimentology, 59 (737-765) doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01274.x.
    • , , and . . “Major geological cycles substantiated by U-Pb ages and εHfi of detrital zircon grains from the Lower Rhine Basin.Chemical Geology, 294-295: 6374. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.11.007.
    • , , , , , , and . “Shock experiments in range of 10-45 GPa with small multidomain magnetite in porous targets.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 47: 16711680.
    • , and . . “Shock metamorphism of minerals.Elements, 8 (1): 3136. doi: 10.2113/gselements.8.1.31.

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , , , , , and . . “Lithium in tektites and impact glasses: Implications for sources, histories and large impacts.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75 (8): 21372158.
    • , , , , , and . . “Impact cratering in sandstone: the MEMIN pilot study on the effect of pore water.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 46 (6): 890902. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01200.x.
    • , , , , and . . “Experimental investigation of shock metamorphic effects in a metapelitic granulite: The importance of shock impedance contrast between components.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 46: 15651586.
    • , , and . “The genesis of deep-mantle xenocrystic zircon and baddeleyite megacrysts: trace element patterns (Mbuji-Mayi kimberlite).European Journal of Mineralogy, 23: 241255. doi: 10.1127/0935-1221/2011/0023-2088.
    • , , , and . “The Chicxulub ejecta deposit at Demerara Rise (W Atlantic): Dissecting the geochemical anomaly using laser ablation mass spectrometry.Geology, 39: 279282. doi: 10.1130/G31599.
    • , , , , , and . . “Meteoriteneinschläge im Labor - das MEMIN-Projekt.GMIT, 46: 615.
    • , , , , , and . . “Major geological cycles substantiated by U-Pb ages and initial epsilon Hf of deetrital zircon grains from the Lower Rhine Basin.Chemical Geology, 294–295: 63–74. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.11.007.
    • , , , and . . “Shock experiments on anhydrite and new constraints on the impact-induced SOx release at the K-Pg boundary.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 46: 16191629. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01249.x.
    • , , , , , , and . . “Experimental impact cratering in sandstone: the effect of pore fluids.Proceedings of the 11th Hypervelocity Impact Symposium, No.112, 64-74, 112: 6474.
    • , , , , and . . “Paleomagnetism and paleointensity of the 1.1 Ga old diabase sheets from Central Arizona.Geophysica, 47 (1-2): 330.
    Working Papers
    • , , , and . . “Inter-element fractionation processes between target melts, projectile matter and shocked quartz in cratering experiments.

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Response - Cretaceous Extinctions.Science, 328 (5981): 975976. doi: 10.1126/science.328.5981.975.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary.Science, 327 (5970): 12141218. doi: 10.1126/science.1177265.
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • . . “Kosmische Katastrophen.” in Dynamische Erde – Zukunftsaufgaben der Geowissenschaften. Strategieschrift, Senatskommission für Geowissenschaftliche Gemeinschaftsforschung der DFG 367pp, edited by - Wefer G (Ed). Bremen: Universität Bremen.
    • . . “Kollisionen im Sonnensystem – Einschlagskrater – Zeugen eines kosmischen Bombardements.” in Expedition Erde – Wissenswertes und Spannendes aus den Geowissenschaften, edited by G Wefer and F(Ed) Schmieder. Bremen: Universität Bremen.
    Non-Scientific Contributions (Journals)
    • . . “Gefahr aus dem All? Die Bedeutung von Kollisionen im Erde-Mond-System für die geologische Entwicklung beider Körper.Geographie und Schule, 187: 1419.

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , and . . “Geochemical characteristics of target rocks and suevitic glasses from the Eyreville B drill core, Chesapeake Bay impact structure.Geological Society of America Special Paper 458: 435445.
    • , , , , , , , and . . “A dual-layer Chicxulub ejecta sequence with shocked carbonates from the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, Demerara Rise, western Atlantic.Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 73: 11801204.
    Non-Scientific Contributions (Journals)
    • . . “Gefahr aus dem All? - Impaktforschung als interdisziplinäre Grundlagenforschung.Terra Nostra, 2009/2: 2023.

    • , , , , , and . . “Marine impacts and environmental consequences - Drilling of the Mjølnir structure, the Barents Sea.Scientific Drilling(6): 5557.

    • , and . . “Proceedings of the workshop on impact craters as indicators for planetary environmental evolution and astrobiology.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 42 (11): 18591860. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb00544.x.
    • , and . . “On the fate of carbonates and anhydrite in impact processes - evidence from the Chicxulub event.GFF, 129: 155160. doi: 10.1080/11035890701292155.
    • , , and . . “The ICDP Lake Bosumtwi impact crater scientific drilling project (Ghana): Core LB-08A litho-log, related ejecta, and shock recovery experiments.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 42 (4-5): 635654. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb01065.x.

    • , and . . “Establishing the link between the Chesapeake Bay impact structure and the North American tektite strewn field: The Sr-Nd isotopic evidence.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 41 (5): 689703. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00985.x.

    Books (Edited Collections)
    • Kekmann, T, Hörz, F, and Deutsch, A, eds. . Geological Society of America Special Paper 384, Vol.384, Large Meteorite Impacts III,
    Other Scientific Publications
    • . . Geologische Karte der Republik Österreich 1:50.000, Blatt 182 Spital an der Drau, Geologische Bundesanstalt Wien.

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , and . . “Microstructure of 24-1928 Ma concordant monazites; implications for geochronology and nuclear waste deposits.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68 (11): 25172527. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2003.10.042.
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • . . “Relating impact debris in the stratigraphic record to the source crater – the Chesapeake case.” in roceedings volume, ICDP-USGS workshop on deep drilling in the central crater of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, Virginia, USA., Vol.2004-1016 of U.S. Geol. Survey Open File Rep., edited by LE (Edwards, JW Jr Horton and GS (eds. Gohn.

    • , and . . “Geochemical variability of the Yucat̀an basement: Constraints from crystalline clasts in Chicxulub impactites.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 38 (7): 10791092. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00299.x.
    • , , , and . . “Transmission electron microscope study of polyphase and discordant monazites: Site-specific specimen preparation using the focused ion beam technique.Geology, 31 (11): 973976. doi: 10.1130/G19582.1.
    • , and . . “Geochemical variability of the Yucatan basement: Constraints from crystalline clasts in Chicxulub impactites.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 38 (7): 10791092. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00299.x.
    • , , and . . “Homogeneous impact melts produced by a heterogeneous target? Sr-Nd isotopic evidence from the Popigai crater, Russia.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67 (4): 733750. doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(02)01143-2.

    Books (Edited Collections)
    • Gersonde, R, Deutsch, A, Ivanov, BA, and Kyte, FT, eds. . Oceanic Impacts: Mechanisms and Environmental Perturbations, Elmsford, NY: Pergamon Press.
    Articles
    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , and . . “Oceanic impacts - a growing field of fundamental geoscience.Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 49 (6): 951957. doi: 10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00134-5.
    • , and . . “The phase diagram of CaCO3 in ralation to shock compressionand decomposition.Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 129 (1-2): 131143. doi: 10.1016/S0031-9201(01)00268-0.
    • , , , and . . “How strong was impact-induced CO2 degassing in the K/T event? Numerical modeling of laboratory experiments.Geological Society of America Special Paper, 356: 587594.
    • , , , and . . “Experimental approach to generate shock veins in single crystal olivine by shear melting.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 37 (11): 15411553. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb00809.x.
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • , , , , , , and . . “Experimental techniques for the simulation of shock metamorphism: A case study on calcite.” in High-Pressure Shock Compression of Solids V - Shock Chemistry and Meteoritic Applications, edited by L (Davison, Y Horie and T(eds. Sekine. Düsseldorf: Springer VDI Verlag.

    • , , and . . “A treasury in Sibiria.German Research Special, 2001: 2631.
    • , , , and . . “Fast back-reactions of shock-released CO2 from carbonates: An experimental approach.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65 (15): 26152632. doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00617-2.

    • , , and . . “Der Popigai-Krater – eine Schatzkammer in Sibirien.Forschung, 3-4/2000: 3641.
    • , , , and . . “Chicxulub impactites: Geochemical clues to the precursor rocks.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 35 (6): 12291238. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01511.x.
    • , , and . . “Evidence for crystals from the lower mantle: baddeleyite megacrysts of the Mbuji Mayi kimberlite.Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 179 (2): 219225. doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00132-1.
    • , , , and . . “Popigai, Siberia - well preserved giant impact structure, national treasury, and world's geological heritage.Episodes, 23 (1): 311.

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , and . . “The age of the Kara impact structure, Russia.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 33 (2): 361372. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01640.x.
    • , , , , , , , and . . “The origin of Alpine plutons along the Periadriatic Lineament.Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 78 (1): 5566.
    • . . “New pathfinders to impact structures: The Finnish way. (editorial).Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 33: 3.
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • . . “Mineralogy of Astroblemes - Terrestrial Impact Craters.” in Mineral Matter in Space, Mantle, Ocean Floor, Biosphere, Environmental Management, Jewelry, Vol.3, Chapter 1.10. of Advanced Mineralogy, edited by Marfunin A S (ed.). Düsseldorf: Springer VDI Verlag.
    • , and . “Mineralogy of Astroblemes - Terrestrial Impact Craters.” in Mineral Matter in Space, Mantle, Ocean Floor, Biosphere, Environmental Management, Jewelry, Vol.3, Chapter 1.10. of Advanced Mineralogy, edited by Marfunin A S (ed.). Düsseldorf: Springer VDI Verlag.
    • , and . . “Mineralogy of Astroblemes - Terrestrial Impact Craters.” in Mineral Matter in Space, Mantle, Ocean Floor, Biosphere, Environmental Management, Jewelry, Vol.3, Chapter 1.10. of Advanced Mineralogy, edited by Marfunin A S (ed.). Düsseldorf: Springer VDI Verlag.

    • , , and . . “Geochemistry and neodymium-strontium isotope signature of tektite-like objects from Siberia (urengoites, South-Ural glass).Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 32 (5): 679686. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01552.x.
    • . . “Scars on Planet Earth - Terrestrial Cratering.Geowissenschaften, 15: 131137.

    • , , and . . “Impact melt dikes in the Sudbury multi-ring basin (Canada): Implications from uranium-lead geochronology on the Foy Offset Dike.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 31 (4): 494501.

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , , , , , , , and . . “The Sudbury Structure (Ontario, Canada): a tectonically deformed multi-ring impact basin.Geologische Rundschau, 84 (4): 697709. doi: 10.1007/s005310050034.
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • . . “Das Umweltbild in den Naturwissenschaften.” in Mensch - Technik - Umwelt; Internationale Sommeruniversität Münster/Osnabrück, edited by (Herausgeber: Präsident d. Univ. Osnabrück and Der Rektor d. Westf. Wilhelms-Univ. Münster. N/A: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.

    • , and . . “Dating terrestrial impact events.Meteoritics, 29 (3): 301322.
    • , and . . “Shock experiments on pre-heated α- and β-quartz: I. Optical and density data.Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 125 (1-4): 407420. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(94)90229-1.
    • , and . . “The Sudbury Structure: constraints on its genesis from Lithoprobe results.Geophysical Research Letters, 21 (10): 963966. doi: 10.1029/94GL00559.

    • , , , and . . “Effect of temperature on shock metamorphism of single-crystal quartz.Nature, 356 (6369): 507509. doi: 10.1038/356507a0.
    • , , and . . “On the significance of crater ages: New ages for Dellen (Sweden) and Araguainha (Brazil).Tectonophysics, 216 (1-2): 205218. doi: 10.1016/0040-1951(92)90167-5.

    • , and . . “Isotope systematics and shock-wave metamorphism: I. U-Pb in zircon, titanite and monazite, shocked experimentally up to 59 GPa.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 54 (12): 34273434. doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(90)90295-V.
    • , and . . “Isotope systematics and shock-wave metamorphism: II. U-Pb and Rb-Sr in naturally shocked rocks; the Haughton Impact Structure, Canada.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 54 (12): 34353447. doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(90)90296-W.

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , and . . “Strontium- and neodymium-isotopic characteristics of a heterolithic breccia in the basement of the Sudbury impact structure, Canada.Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 93 (3-4): 359370. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(89)90035-6.
    Other Scientific Publications
    • , , , , , , , , , , and . . Geologische Karte der Republik Österreich 1:50.000, Blatt 199 Hermagor, Geologische Bundesanstalt Wien.

    • . . “Isotope systematics in shocked material from the Haughton impact crater (Canada).Naturwissenschaften, 75 (7): 355357. doi: 10.1007/BF00368327.

    • , and . . “Rb-Sr-analyses of Apollo 16 melt rocks and a new age estimate for the Imbrium basin: Lunar basin chronology and the early heavy bombardment of the moon.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 51 (7): 19511964. doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(87)90184-0.

    • , and . . “A reassessment appraised: Comment on "Hornblende KAr ages and the climax of Tertiary metamorphism in the Lepontine Alps (south-central Switzerland): an old problem reassessed"-reply to Peter K. Zeitler and Jan R. Wijbrans.Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 76 (3-4): 393395. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(86)90090-7.
    • . . “Geochemie oligozäner shoshonitischer Ganggesteine aus der Kreuzeckgruppe (Kärnten/ Osttirol).Mitt. Ges. Geol. Bergbaustudenten Österr, 32: 105124.

    • , and . . “Hornblende KAr ages and the climax of Tertiary metamorphism in the Lepontine Alps (south-central Switzerland): an old problem reassessed.Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 72 (2-3): 175189. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(85)90004-4.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Composition and evolution of the lunar crust in the Descartes highlands, Apollo 16.15th Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf, Journal Geophysical Research Supplement, 90: C449–C506.

    • . . “Young Alpine dykes south of the Tauern Window (Austria): a K-Ar and Sr isotope study.Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 85 (1): 4557. doi: 10.1007/BF00380220.

    • . . “Alkali-basaltic dyke rocks from the western Goldeck mountains, Carinthia, Austria | Alkalibasaltische Ganggesteine aus der westlichen Goldeckgruppe (Kärnten/Österreich).TMPM Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 27 (1): 1734. doi: 10.1007/BF01081860.

    • . . “Serpentinite und Rodingite der Cima Sgiu (NW Aduladecke, Ticino).Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 59: 319347.

    • . . “Geologie und Petrographie der mittleren Goldeckgruppe (Kärnten/Österreich).Jahrbuch Geologische Bundesanstalt Wien, 120: 231294.