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 Award – The 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
- MEMIN II – FOR 887 TP8 - Projektil-Target-Interaktion, Schmelz- und Verdampfungsprozesse in Hochgeschwindigkeitsexperimenten und natürlichen Impaktiten ( – )
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Research Unit | Project Number: DE 401/23-2 - MEMIN II – Crater structure and excavation: the effect of lithology and target layering on crater formation in experimental and natural impact craters ( – )
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Research Unit | Project Number: DE 401/25-2 - MEMIN – FOR 887 TP8 - On the fate of the projectile in impact cratering experiments (1st funding period) ( – )
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Research Unit | Project Number: 566635 - MEMIN – FOR 886 WP6 - Crater structure and excavation: the effects of water, porosity, and target layering (1st funding period) ( – )
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Research Unit | Project Number: 570577 - SPP 1006 - Subproject: Mineralogical and geochemical studies of impact melt products from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure ( – )
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Priority Programme | Project Number: DE 401/21-1
- MEMIN II – FOR 887 TP8 - Projektil-Target-Interaktion, Schmelz- und Verdampfungsprozesse in Hochgeschwindigkeitsexperimenten und natürlichen Impaktiten ( – )
Publications
- 10.1126/science.aay5055. . ‘On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.’ Science 2020: 266–272. doi:
Research Articles (Journals)
- . . ‘Cosmic collisions in the experimental chamber.’ german research 37, № 1 /2015: 31–35. doi: 10.1002/germ.201590016.
- 10.1111/maps.12432. . ‘Impact glass spherules in the Chicxulub K-Pg event bed at Beloc, Haiti: Alteration patterns.’ Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50, № 3: 418-432. doi:
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- . . ‘Impact metamorphism in terrestrial and experimental cratering events.’ In EMU Notes in Mineralogy - volume 15 Planetary Mineralogy, edited by , 89–127. N/A: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.
- . . „Kosmische Kollisionen in der Experimentierkammer.“ Forschung - Magazin der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft 2014, № 3: 15–19.
- . . ‘Impact controversies: Impact recognition criteria and related issues.’ Meteoritics & Planetary Science 49, № 5: 723–731. doi: 10.1111/maps.12284.
- 10.1016/j.gca.2014.02.034. . ‘Geochemical processes between steel projectiles and silica-rich targets in hypervelocity impact experiments.’ Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 133: 257–279. doi:
- 10.1111/maps.12035. . ‘The MEMIN research unit: Experimental impact cratering.’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 48, № 1: 1–2. doi:
- 10.1111/maps.12044. . ‘Hypervelocity impacts on dry and wet sandstone: Observations of ejecta dynamics and crater growth.’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 48, № 1: 23–32. doi:
- . ‘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: 1296–1324.
- . ‘Petrology of impactites from El’gygytgyn crater: Breccias in ICDP-drill core 1C, glassy impact melt rocks and spherules.’ Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48: 1199–1235.
- . ‘Ejection behavior characteristics of experimental impacts into dry and wet sandstone.’ Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48: 33–49.
- . ‘Deformation and melting of steel projectiles in hypervelocity cratering experiments.’ Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48: 150–164.
- . ‘Chemical modification of projectile residues and target material in a MEMIN cratering experiment.’ Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48: 134–149.
- . ‘Crater morphology in sandstone targets: the MEMIN impact parameter study.’ Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48: 50–70.
- . . ‘Dating terrestrial impact structures.’ Elements 8, № 1: 49–53.
- . . ‘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.
- . . ‘Major geological cycles substantiated by U-Pb ages and εHfi of detrital zircon grains from the Lower Rhine Basin.’ Chemical Geology 294-295: 63–74. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.11.007.
- . ‘Shock experiments in range of 10-45 GPa with small multidomain magnetite in porous targets.’ Meteoritics & Planetary Science 47: 1671–1680.
- . . ‘Shock metamorphism of minerals.’ Elements 8, № 1: 31–36. doi: 10.2113/gselements.8.1.31.
Research Articles (Journals)
- . . ‘Lithium in tektites and impact glasses: Implications for sources, histories and large impacts.’ Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, № 8: 2137–2158.
- . . ‘Impact cratering in sandstone: the MEMIN pilot study on the effect of pore water.’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 46, № 6: 890–902. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01200.x.
- . . ‘Experimental investigation of shock metamorphic effects in a metapelitic granulite: The importance of shock impedance contrast between components.’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 46: 1565–1586.
- 10.1127/0935-1221/2011/0023-2088. . ‘The genesis of deep-mantle xenocrystic zircon and baddeleyite megacrysts: trace element patterns (Mbuji-Mayi kimberlite). .’ European Journal of Mineralogy 23: 241–255. doi:
- 10.1130/G31599. . ‘The Chicxulub ejecta deposit at Demerara Rise (W Atlantic): Dissecting the geochemical anomaly using laser ablation mass spectrometry.’ Geology 39: 279–282. doi:
- . „Meteoriteneinschläge im Labor - das MEMIN-Projekt.“ GMIT 46: 6–15.
- . . ‘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.
- . . ‘Shock experiments on anhydrite and new constraints on the impact-induced SOx release at the K-Pg boundary.’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 46: 1619–1629. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01249.x.
- . . ‘Experimental impact cratering in sandstone: the effect of pore fluids.’ Proceedings of the 11th Hypervelocity Impact Symposium, No.112, 64-74 112: 64–74.
- . . ‘Paleomagnetism and paleointensity of the 1.1 Ga old diabase sheets from Central Arizona.’ Geophysica 47, № 1-2: 3–30.
Working Papers
- . . Inter-element fractionation processes between target melts, projectile matter and shocked quartz in cratering experiments , .
Research Articles (Journals)
- . . ‘Response - Cretaceous Extinctions.’ Science 328, № 5981: 975–976. doi: 10.1126/science.328.5981.975.
- . . ‘The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary.’ Science 327, № 5970: 1214–1218. 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, herausgegeben von . Bremen: Universität Bremen.
- . . „Kollisionen im Sonnensystem – Einschlagskrater – Zeugen eines kosmischen Bombardements.“ In Expedition Erde – Wissenswertes und Spannendes aus den Geowissenschaften, herausgegeben von , 20–29. 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: 14–19.
Research Articles (Journals)
- . . ‘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 : 435–445.
- . . ‘A dual-layer Chicxulub ejecta sequence with shocked carbonates from the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, Demerara Rise, western Atlantic.’ Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 73: 1180–1204.
Non-Scientific Contributions (Journals)
- . . „Gefahr aus dem All? - Impaktforschung als interdisziplinäre Grundlagenforschung.“ Terra Nostra 2009/2: 20–23.
- . . ‘Marine impacts and environmental consequences - Drilling of the Mjølnir structure, the Barents Sea.’ Scientific Drilling , № 6: 55–57.
- . . ‘Proceedings of the workshop on impact craters as indicators for planetary environmental evolution and astrobiology.’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 42, № 11: 1859–1860. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb00544.x.
- . . ‘On the fate of carbonates and anhydrite in impact processes - evidence from the Chicxulub event.’ GFF 129: 155–160. doi: 10.1080/11035890701292155.
- . . ‘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: 635–654. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb01065.x.
- . . ‘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: 689–703. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00985.x.
Books (Edited Collections)
- (Eds.): . 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)
- . . ‘Microstructure of 24-1928 Ma concordant monazites; implications for geochronology and nuclear waste deposits.’ Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68, № 11: 2517–2527. 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., edited by , 49–50.
- . . ‘Geochemical variability of the Yucat̀an basement: Constraints from crystalline clasts in Chicxulub impactites.’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 38, № 7: 1079–1092. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00299.x.
- . . ‘Transmission electron microscope study of polyphase and discordant monazites: Site-specific specimen preparation using the focused ion beam technique.’ Geology 31, № 11: 973–976. doi: 10.1130/G19582.1.
- . . ‘Geochemical variability of the Yucatan basement: Constraints from crystalline clasts in Chicxulub impactites.’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 38, № 7: 1079–1092. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00299.x.
- . . ‘Homogeneous impact melts produced by a heterogeneous target? Sr-Nd isotopic evidence from the Popigai crater, Russia.’ Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67, № 4: 733–750. doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(02)01143-2.
Books (Edited Collections)
- (Eds.): . Oceanic Impacts: Mechanisms and Environmental Perturbations. Elmsford, NY: Pergamon Press.
Articles
Research Articles (Journals)
- . . ‘Oceanic impacts - a growing field of fundamental geoscience.’ Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 49, № 6: 951–957. doi: 10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00134-5.
- . . ‘The phase diagram of CaCO3 in ralation to shock compressionand decomposition.’ Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 129, № 1-2: 131–143. doi: 10.1016/S0031-9201(01)00268-0.
- . . ‘Experimental approach to generate shock veins in single crystal olivine by shear melting.’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 37, № 11: 1541–1553. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb00809.x.
- . . ‘How strong was impact-induced CO2 degassing in the K/T event? Numerical modeling of laboratory experiments.’ Geological Society of America Special Paper 356: 587–594. [online first]
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- . . ‘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 , 1–27. Düsseldorf: Springer VDI Verlag.
- . . ‘A treasury in Sibiria.’ German Research Special 2001: 26–31.
- . . ‘Fast back-reactions of shock-released CO2 from carbonates: An experimental approach.’ Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 65, № 15: 2615–2632. doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00617-2.
- . . ‘Chicxulub impactites: Geochemical clues to the precursor rocks.’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 35, № 6: 1229–1238. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01511.x.
- . . „Der Popigai-Krater – eine Schatzkammer in Sibirien.“ Forschung 3-4/2000: 36–41.
- . . ‘Evidence for crystals from the lower mantle: baddeleyite megacrysts of the Mbuji Mayi kimberlite.’ Earth and Planetary Science Letters 179, № 2: 219–225. doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00132-1.
- . . ‘Popigai, Siberia - well preserved giant impact structure, national treasury, and world's geological heritage.’ Episodes 23, № 1: 3–11.
Research Articles (Journals)
- . . ‘The age of the Kara impact structure, Russia.’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 33, № 2: 361–372. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01640.x.
- . . ‘The origin of Alpine plutons along the Periadriatic Lineament.’ Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen 78, № 1: 55–66.
- . . ‘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, edited by , 119–139. Düsseldorf: Springer VDI Verlag.
- . ‘Mineralogy of Astroblemes - Terrestrial Impact Craters.’ In Mineral Matter in Space, Mantle, Ocean Floor, Biosphere, Environmental Management, Jewelry, edited by , 95–119. Düsseldorf: Springer VDI Verlag.
- . . ‘Mineralogy of Astroblemes - Terrestrial Impact Craters.’ In Mineral Matter in Space, Mantle, Ocean Floor, Biosphere, Environmental Management, Jewelry, edited by , 76–95. Düsseldorf: Springer VDI Verlag.
- . . ‘Geochemistry and neodymium-strontium isotope signature of tektite-like objects from Siberia (urengoites, South-Ural glass).’ Meteoritics and Planetary Science 32, № 5: 679–686. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01552.x.
- . . „Scars on Planet Earth - Terrestrial Cratering.“ Geowissenschaften 15: 131–137.
- . . ‘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: 494–501.
Research Articles (Journals)
- . . ‘The Sudbury Structure (Ontario, Canada): a tectonically deformed multi-ring impact basin.’ Geologische Rundschau 84, № 4: 697–709. doi: 10.1007/s005310050034.
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- . . „Das Umweltbild in den Naturwissenschaften.“ In Mensch - Technik - Umwelt; Internationale Sommeruniversität Münster/Osnabrück, herausgegeben von , 99–112. N/A: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.
- . . ‘Dating terrestrial impact events.’ Meteoritics 29, № 3: 301–322.
- . . ‘Shock experiments on pre-heated α- and β-quartz: I. Optical and density data.’ Earth and Planetary Science Letters 125, № 1-4: 407–420. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(94)90229-1.
- . . ‘The Sudbury Structure: constraints on its genesis from Lithoprobe results.’ Geophysical Research Letters 21, № 10: 963–966. doi: 10.1029/94GL00559.
- . . ‘Effect of temperature on shock metamorphism of single-crystal quartz.’ Nature 356, № 6369: 507–509. doi: 10.1038/356507a0.
- . . ‘On the significance of crater ages: New ages for Dellen (Sweden) and Araguainha (Brazil).’ Tectonophysics 216, № 1-2: 205–218. doi: 10.1016/0040-1951(92)90167-5.
- . . ‘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: 3427–3434. doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(90)90295-V.
- . . ‘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: 3435–3447. doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(90)90296-W.
Research Articles (Journals)
- . . ‘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: 359–370. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(89)90035-6.
Other Scientific Publications
- . . 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: 355–357. doi: 10.1007/BF00368327.
- . . ‘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: 1951–1964. doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(87)90184-0.
- . . ‘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: 393–395. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(86)90090-7.
- . . „Geochemie oligozäner shoshonitischer Ganggesteine aus der Kreuzeckgruppe (Kärnten/ Osttirol).“ Mitt. Ges. Geol. Bergbaustudenten Österr 32: 105–124.
- . . ‘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: 175–189. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(85)90004-4.
- . . ‘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: 45–57. 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: 17–34. doi: 10.1007/BF01081860.
- . . „Serpentinite und Rodingite der Cima Sgiu (NW Aduladecke, Ticino).“ Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen 59: 319–347.
- . . „Geologie und Petrographie der mittleren Goldeckgruppe (Kärnten/Österreich).“ Jahrbuch Geologische Bundesanstalt Wien 120: 231–294.