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Axel K. Schmitt

Axel K. Schmitt

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Earth Science

D-Index
74
Citations
15044
World Ranking
775
National Ranking
55

Overview

Axel K. Schmitt is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a primary focus on geophysics. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including atmospheric science, artificial intelligence applications in geoscience, paleontology, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their scholarly output includes extensive work in geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, geology and paleoclimatology research, high-pressure geophysics and materials, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, as well as geological and tectonic studies in Latin America.

Notable recent publications by Schmitt include:

  • Determining the current size and state of subvolcanic magma reservoirs, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Sub-millennial eruptive recurrence in the silicic Mangaone Subgroup tephra sequence, New Zealand, from Bayesian modelling of zircon double-dating and radiocarbon ages, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • A history of violence: magma incubation, timing and tephra distribution of the Los Chocoyos supereruption (Atitlán Caldera, Guatemala), 2021, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Can shellfish be used to monitor SARS-CoV-2 in the coastal environment?, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Zircon double-dating of Quaternary eruptions on Jeju Island, South Korea, 2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schmitt include:

  • Martin Danišík
  • Alejandro Cisneros de León
  • Steffen Kutterolf
  • Bodo Weber
  • Julie Schindlbeck-Belo

Axel K. Schmitt publishes regularly in several scientific venues, with a significant number of contributions in:

  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Lithos
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

In addition to journal publications, Schmitt has authored at least one book published by the Geological Society of America:

  • Geology of a Large Intact Extensional Oceanic Arc Crustal Section with Superior Exposures: Cretaceous Alisitos Arc, Baja California (Mexico), 2023

Best Publications

  • Zircon saturation re-revisited

    Patrick Boehnke;E. Bruce Watson;Dustin Trail;T. Mark Harrison

  • U-Pb zircon geochronology of late Neoproterozoic–Early Cambrian granitoids in Iran: Implications for paleogeography, magmatism, and exhumation history of Iranian basement

    Jamshid Hassanzadeh;Jamshid Hassanzadeh;Daniel F. Stockli;Brian K. Horton;Brian K. Horton;Gary J. Axen;Gary J. Axen

  • U–Th–Pb zircon geochronology by ID-TIMS, SIMS, and laser ablation ICP-MS: Recipes, interpretations, and opportunities

    Urs Schaltegger;Axel K. Schmitt;Matthew S. A. Horstwood

  • Early (≥ 4.5 Ga) formation of terrestrial crust: Lu–Hf, δ18O, and Ti thermometry results for Hadean zircons

    T. Mark Harrison;T. Mark Harrison;Axel K. Schmitt;Malcolm T. McCulloch;Oscar M. Lovera

  • Magmatic Evolution of the La Pacana Caldera System, Central Andes, Chile: Compositional Variation of Two Cogenetic, Large-Volume Felsic Ignimbrites

    J. M. Lindsay;A. K. Schmitt;R. B. Trumbull;S. L. De Silva

  • The origin and significance of crustal minerals in ophiolitic chromitites and peridotites

    Paul T. Robinson;Robert B. Trumbull;Axel Schmitt;Jing-Sui Yang

  • Constraints on Hadean zircon protoliths from oxygen isotopes, Ti‐thermometry, and rare earth elements

    Dustin Trail;Dustin Trail;Stephen J. Mojzsis;T. Mark Harrison;T. Mark Harrison;Axel K. Schmitt

  • Boron and Oxygen Isotope Composition of Certified Reference Materials NIST SRM 610/612 and Reference Materials JB-2 and JR-2

    Simone Kasemann;Anette Meixner;Alexander Rocholl;Torsten Vennemann

  • In search of the dead zone: Use of otoliths for tracking fish exposure to hypoxia

    Karin E. Limburg;Benjamin D. Walther;Zunli Lu;George Jackman

  • The Geysers - Cobb Mountain Magma System, California (Part 1): U-Pb zircon ages of volcanic rocks, conditions of zircon crystallization and magma residence times

    Axel K Schmitt;Marty Grove;T.Mark Harrison;T.Mark Harrison;Oscar Lovera

  • Uranium Series Accessory Crystal Dating of Magmatic Processes

    Axel K. Schmitt

  • Multiple sulfur isotopes from Paleoproterozoic Huronian interglacial sediments and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

    Dominic Papineau;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Axel K. Schmitt

  • Jurassic accretionary complex and ophiolite from northeast Turkey: No evidence for the Cimmerian continental ribbon

    Gültekin Topuz;Gönenç Göçmengil;Yann Rolland;Ö. Faruk Çelik

  • Zircon-scale insights into the history of a Supervolcano, Bishop Tuff, Long Valley, California, with implications for the Ti-in-zircon geothermometer

    Mary R. Reid;Jorge A. Vazquez;Jorge A. Vazquez;Axel K. Schmitt

  • Petrogenesis and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of the Brandberg Complex, Namibia: Evidence for a Major Mantle Contribution in Metaluminous and Peralkaline Granites

    A. K. Schmitt;R. Emmermann;R. B. Trumbull;B. Bühn

  • Re-anchoring the late Pleistocene tephrochronology of New Zealand based on concordant radiocarbon ages and combined 238U/230Th disequilibrium and (U–Th)/He zircon ages

    Martin Danišík;Martin Danišík;Phil A.R. Shane;Axel K. Schmitt;Alan G. Hogg

  • Large-volume silicic volcanism in Kamchatka: Ar-Ar and U-Pb ages, isotopic, and geochemical characteristics of major pre-Holocene caldera-forming eruptions

    I.N. Bindeman;V.L. Leonov;P.E. Izbekov;V.V. Ponomareva

  • Neogene to Quaternary broken foreland formation and sedimentation dynamics in the Andes of NW Argentina (25°S)

    M. P. Hain;M. P. Hain;M. R. Strecker;B. Bookhagen;Ricardo Narciso Alonso

  • Correlation of ignimbrites in the central Anatolian volcanic province using zircon and plagioclase ages and zircon compositions

    Erkan Aydar;Axel K. Schmitt;H. Evren Çubukçu;Lutfiye Akin

  • High sensitivity mapping of Ti distributions in Hadean zircons

    T. Mark Harrison;Axel K. Schmitt

  • Propagation of orographic barriers along an active range front: insights from sandstone petrography and detrital apatite fission-track thermochronology in the intramontane Angastaco basin, NW Argentina

    Isabelle Coutand;Isabelle Coutand;Barbara Carrapa;Anke Deeken;Axel K. Schmitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Danišík
Martin Danišík Curtin University
Ilya N. Bindeman
Ilya N. Bindeman University of Oregon
Jan M. Lindsay
Jan M. Lindsay University of Auckland
T. Mark Harrison
T. Mark Harrison University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel F. Stockli
Daniel F. Stockli The University of Texas at Austin
Oscar M. Lovera
Oscar M. Lovera University of California, Los Angeles
Marty Grove
Marty Grove Stanford University
Phil Shane
Phil Shane University of Auckland
Kevin D. McKeegan
Kevin D. McKeegan University of California, Los Angeles
Robert B. Trumbull
Robert B. Trumbull University of Potsdam

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