Professor Dr. Alexander Deutsch

Professor Dr. Alexander Deutsch

Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10
48149 Münster

T: +49 251 83-33484

Research Focus
  • Impaktprozesse
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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
Visiting Scientist (several terms), Geol. Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finnland
Direktor des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs “Origin and Evolution of the Solar System”, WWU Münster
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

Prizes

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

Functions and Memberships

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”
Barringer Award Committee, Meteoritical Society
European Science Foundation Short Course "Impact Metamorphism", Nördlingen, Germany 2000
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: 266–272. doi: 10.1126/science.aay5055.

Research Articles (Journals)
  • , , , and . . “Cosmic collisions in the experimental chamber.” german research 37 (1 /2015): 31–35. 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 Contribution)
  • , , 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. London U.K.: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.

  • , , , , , 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 . . “Kosmische Kollisionen in der Experimentierkammer.” Forschung - Magazin der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft 2014 (3): 15–19.
  • , , , and . . “Impact controversies: Impact recognition criteria and related issues.” Meteoritics & Planetary Science 49 (5): 723–731.. doi: 10.1111/maps.12284.

  • , , , , , , , and . “Ejection behavior characteristics of experimental impacts into dry and wet sandstone.” Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48: 33–49.
  • , , , , , , , and . “Deformation and melting of steel projectiles in hypervelocity cratering experiments.” Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48: 150–164.
  • , , , and . “Chemical modification of projectile residues and target material in a MEMIN cratering experiment.” Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48: 134–149.
  • , , , , , , and . “Crater morphology in sandstone targets: the MEMIN impact parameter study.” Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48: 50–70.
  • , , , and . “The MEMIN research unit: Experimental impact cratering.” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 48 (1): 1–2. 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): 23–32. 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: 1296–1324.
  • , , , , , and . “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.

  • , , and . . “Dating terrestrial impact structures.” Elements 8 (1): 49–53.
  • , , , , , 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: 63–74. 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: 1671–1680.
  • , and . . “Shock metamorphism of minerals.” Elements 8 (1): 31–36. 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): 2137–2158.
  • , , , , , and . . “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.
  • , , , , and . . “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.
  • , , and . “The genesis of deep-mantle xenocrystic zircon and baddeleyite megacrysts: trace element patterns (Mbuji-Mayi kimberlite).” European Journal of Mineralogy 23: 241–255. doi: 10.1127/0935-1221/2011/0023-2088.
  • , , , and . “The Chicxulub ejecta deposit at Demerara Rise (W Atlantic): Dissecting the geochemical anomaly using laser ablation mass spectrometry.” Geology 39: 279–282. doi: 10.1130/G31599.
  • , , and . “Meteoriteneinschläge im Labor - das MEMIN-Projekt.” GMIT 46: 6–15.
  • , , , , , 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: 1619–1629. 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: 64–74.
  • , , , , and . . “Paleomagnetism and paleointensity of the 1.1 Ga old diabase sheets from Central Arizona.” Geophysica 47 (1-2): 3–30.
Working Paper
  • , , , 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): 975–976. doi: 10.1126/science.328.5981.975.
  • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “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, 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 Contribution (Journal)
  • . . “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)
  • , , 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: 435–445.
  • , , , , , , , 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: 1180–1204.
Non-Scientific Contribution (Journal)
  • . . “Gefahr aus dem All? - Impaktforschung als interdisziplinäre Grundlagenforschung.” Terra Nostra 2009/2: 20–23.

  • , , , , , and . . “Marine impacts and environmental consequences - Drilling of the Mjølnir structure, the Barents Sea.” Scientific Drilling, № 6: 55–57.

  • , and . . “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.
  • , and . . “On the fate of carbonates and anhydrite in impact processes - evidence from the Chicxulub event.” GFF 129: 155–160. 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): 635–654. 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): 689–703. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00985.x.

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

Research Article (Journal)
  • , , , and . . “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 Contribution)
  • . . “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): 1079–1092. 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): 973–976. 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): 1079–1092. 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): 733–750. doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(02)01143-2.

Book (Edited Collection)
  • Gersonde, R, Deutsch, A, Ivanov, BA, and Kyte, FT, eds. . Oceanic Impacts: Mechanisms and Environmental Perturbations 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): 951–957. 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): 131–143. doi: 10.1016/S0031-9201(01)00268-0.
  • , , , and . . “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.
  • , , , 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: 587–594.
Research Article (Book Contribution)
  • , , , , , , 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. Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer VDI Verlag.

  • , , , and . . “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.
  • , , and . . “A treasury in Sibiria.” German Research Special 2001: 26–31.

  • , , , and . . “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.
  • , , and . . “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.
  • , , , and . . “Popigai, Siberia - well preserved giant impact structure, national treasury, and world's geological heritage.” Episodes 23 (1): 3–11.
  • , , and . . “Der Popigai-Krater – eine Schatzkammer in Sibirien.” Forschung 3-4/2000: 36–41.

Research Articles (Journals)
  • , , and . . “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.
  • , , , , , , , and . . “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, Vol. 3, Chapter 1.10. of Advanced Mineralogy, edited by AS (ed.) Marfunin. 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 AS (ed.) Marfunin. 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 AS (ed.) Marfunin. 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): 679–686. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01552.x.
  • . . “Scars on Planet Earth - Terrestrial Cratering.” Geowissenschaften 15: 131–137.

  • , , 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): 494–501.

Research Article (Journal)
  • , , , , , , , , , and . . “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 Contribution)
  • . . “Das Umweltbild in den Naturwissenschaften.” in Mensch - Technik - Umwelt; Internationale Sommeruniversität Münster/Osnabrück, edited by Präsident d. Univ. Osnabrück (Herausgeber: and Rektor d. Westf. Wilhelms-Univ. Münster Der. Osnabrück: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.

  • , and . . “Dating terrestrial impact events.” Meteoritics 29 (3): 301–322.
  • , and . . “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.
  • , and . . “The Sudbury Structure: constraints on its genesis from Lithoprobe results.” Geophysical Research Letters 21 (10): 963–966. doi: 10.1029/94GL00559.

  • , , , and . . “Effect of temperature on shock metamorphism of single-crystal quartz.” Nature 356 (6369): 507–509. doi: 10.1038/356507a0.
  • , , and . . “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.

  • , 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): 3427–3434. 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): 3435–3447. doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(90)90296-W.

Research Article (Journal)
  • , , 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): 359–370. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(89)90035-6.
Other Scientific Publication
  • , , , , , , , , , , 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): 355–357. 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): 1951–1964. 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): 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.

  • , 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): 175–189. 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): 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.