The mid-Ordovician meteorite flux to Earth shortly before breakup of the L-chondrite parent body
ShiYong Liao, Birger Schmitz IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 23 September 2022 LINK “Highlights • Flux of large micrometeorites to Earth shortly (in the 2 Ma time interval) before the breakup of the L-chondrite parent…
Middle Ordovician astrochronology decouples asteroid breakup from glacially-induced biotic radiationsOPEN ACCESS
Jan Audun Rasmussen, Nicolas Thibault & Christian Mac Ørum Rasmussen Nature Communications, Volume 12, Article number: 6430 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meso-Cenozoic evidence suggests links between changes in the expression of orbital changes…
Absolute dating of the L-chondrite parent body breakup with high-precision U–Pb zircon geochronology from Ordovician limestone
Shi Yong Liao, Magdalena H. Huyskens, Qing-Zhu Yin, Birger Schmitz Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 547, 1 October 2020, 116442 LINK “Highlights • High-precision dates for events in the asteroid belt can be derived from…
The Late Ordovician (Sandbian) Glasford structure: A marine‐target impact crater with a possible connection to the Ordovician meteorite event
Charles C. Monson, Dustin Sweet, Branimir Segvic, Giovanni Zanoni, Kyle Balling, Jacalyn M. Wittmer, G. Robert Ganis, Guo Cheng Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 15 October 2019 LINK “The Glasford structure in Illinois (USA)…
Petrology, Mineralogy and In Situ U-Pb Dating of Northwest Africa 11042
Wu Y. * Hsu W. 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2017 [#6190] abstract (PDF) “NWA 11042 was classified as a unique achondrite. Its mineralogy and petrology resemble those of martian meteorites, but the…
Refined Ordovician timescale reveals no link between asteroid breakup and biodiversificationOPEN ACCESS
A. Lindskog, M. M. Costa, C.M.Ø. Rasmussen, J. N. Connelly & M. E. Eriksson Nature Communications 8, Article number: 14066 (2017) doi:10.1038/ncomms14066 Published online: 24 January 2017 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The high…
A search for H-chondritic chromite grains in sediments that formed immediately after the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body 470 Ma ago
Philipp R. Heck, Birger Schmitz, Surya S. Rout, Travis Tenner, Krysten Villalon, Anders Cronholm, Fredrik Terfelt, Noriko T. Kita Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.11.042 In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 23 January 2016 LINK “A…
