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Overview

Frank Asaro is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research intersects primarily with the fields of Materials Science and Arts and Humanities, focusing on several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Archeology, Paleontology, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions

Frank Asaro's recent publications reflect their research domains and include the following papers:

  • Local Utilitarian Pottery at Ancient Corinth: Differences in Materials and Diachronic Changes (2023), published in Hesperia The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
  • CCDC 2025781: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2020), published in The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CCDC 1920339: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2020), published in The Cambridge Structural Database

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Frank Asaro are:

  • Carla Boga
  • Rita De Zorzi
  • Patrizia Nitti
  • David Adan-Bayewitz
  • Kathleen Warner Slane

Their publications most commonly appear in the following venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Hesperia The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Best Publications

  • Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

    Luis W. Alvarez;Walter Alvarez;Frank Asaro;Helen V. Michel

  • Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico.

    Jan Smit;Alessandro Montanari;Nicola H.M. Swinburne;Walter Alvarez

  • Spheroids at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary are altered impact droplets of basaltic composition

    Alessandro Montanari;Richard L. Hay;Walter Alvarez;Frank Asaro

  • News and Short Contributions

    Anthony P. Andrews;Frank Asaro;Helen V. Michel;Fred H. Stross

  • Impact Theory of Mass Extinctions and the Invertebrate Fossil Record

    Walter Alvarez;Erle G. Kauffman;Finn Surlyk;Luis W. Alvarez

  • Proximal impact deposits at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Gulf of Mexico: a restudy of DSDP Leg 77 Sites 536 and 540.

    Walter Alvarez;Jan Smit;William Lowrie;Frank Asaro

  • Iridium Anomaly Approximately Synchronous with Terminal Eocene Extinctions

    Walter Alvarez;Frank Asaro;Helen V. Michel;Luis W. Alvarez

  • Geological and geochemical record of 3400-million-year-old terrestrial meteorite impacts.

    Donald R. Lowe;Gary R. Byerly;Frank Asaro;Frank J. Kyte

  • High-resolution iridium, δ13C, δ18O, foraminifera and nannofossil profiles across the latest Paleocene benthic extinction event at Zumaya, Spain

    Birger Schmitz;Frank Asaro;Eustoquio Molina;Simonetta Monechi

  • Current status of the impact theory for the terminal Cretaceous extinction

    Walter Alvarez;Luis W. Alvarez;Frank Asaro;Helen V. Michel

  • Spherule beds 3.47-3.24 billion years old in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: a record of large meteorite impacts and their influence on early crustal and biological evolution.

    Donald R. Lowe;Gary R. Byerly;Frank T. Kyte;Alexander Shukolyukov

  • Basaltic explosive volcanism, but no comet impact, at the Paleocene–Eocene boundary: high-resolution chemical and isotopic records from Egypt, Spain and Denmark

    Birger Schmitz;Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink;Claus Heilmann-Clausen;Göran Åberg

  • The end of the cretaceous: sharp boundary or gradual transition?

    W. Alvarez;L. W. Alvarez;F. Asaro;H. V. Michel

  • The Precursor of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Clays at Stevns Klint, Denmark, and DSDP Hole 465A.

    M. Kastner;F. Asaro;H. V. Michel;W. Alvarez

  • Chemical analyses, correlations, and ages of upper Pliocene and Pleistocene ash layers of east-central and Southern California

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  • Iridium anomalies of late Eocene age at Massignano (Italy), and ODP Site 689B (Maud Rise, Antarctic)

    Alessandro Montanari;Frank Asaro;Helen V. Michel;James P. Kennett

  • An extraterrestrial impact (accumulating evidence suggests an asteroid or comet caused the Cretaceous extinction).

    Walter Alvarez;Frank Asaro

  • LOW-LYING 1-STATES IN EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI

    Frank Stephens;Frank Asaro;I. Perlman

  • Tikal Obsidian: Sources and Typology

    Hattula Moholy-Nagy;Frank Asaro;Fred H. Stross

  • Geochemistry of meteorite-rich marine limestone strata and fossil meteorites from the lower Ordovician at Kinnekulle, Sweden

    B. Schmitz;M. Lindström;F. Asaro;M. Tassinari

  • Geochemical anomalies near the Eocene/Oligocene and Permian/Triassic boundaries

    Frank Asaro;Luis W. Alvarez;Walter Alvarez;Helen V. Michel

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez University of California, Berkeley
Alessandro Montanari
Alessandro Montanari Mines ParisTech
William Lowrie
William Lowrie ETH Zurich
Philippe Claeys
Philippe Claeys Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Miriam Kastner
Miriam Kastner University of California, San Diego
Richard L. Hay
Richard L. Hay University of Arizona
Richard L. Burger
Richard L. Burger Yale University
Birger Schmitz
Birger Schmitz Lund University
Donald R. Lowe
Donald R. Lowe Stanford University
Gary R. Byerly
Gary R. Byerly Louisiana State University

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