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Maria Schönbächler

Maria Schönbächler

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
5130
World Ranking
7855
National Ranking
182

Overview

Maria Schönbächler is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has a research focus centered on physics and astronomy, with a particular emphasis on earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans a range of subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, geophysics, ecology, atmospheric science, and nuclear and high energy physics.

The scientist's research topics cover astro and planetary science, planetary science and exploration, isotope analysis in ecology, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Schönbächler has contributed extensively to the literature, with notable recent papers including:

  • Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites, 2022, Science
  • Ryugu's nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System, 2022, Science Advances
  • Oxygen isotopes of anhydrous primary minerals show kinship between asteroid Ryugu and comet 81P/Wild2, 2022, Science Advances
  • Accretion of the Earth-Missing Components?, 2020, Space Science Reviews
  • The old, unique C1 chondrite Flensburg - Insight into the first processes of aqueous alteration, brecciation, and the diversity of water-bearing parent bodies and lithologies, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

The primary publication venues for Schönbächler's work include Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Science Advances, Nature Astronomy, and Goldschmidt Abstracts. These reflect a consistent engagement with journals focused on planetary composition, geochemistry, and astronomical phenomena.

An overview of frequent collaborators highlights a network of coauthors with whom Schönbächler has worked multiple times. This includes Andreas Pack, Tommaso Di Rocco, Makiko K. Haba, Tetsuya Yokoyama, and Martin Bizzarro, indicating active collaborative research in related scientific areas.

Best Publications

  • Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites

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  • Water in the Earth’s Interior: Distribution and Origin

    Anne H. Peslier;Maria Schönbächler;Henner Busemann;Shun-Ichiro Karato

  • Heterogeneous accretion and the moderately volatile element budget of Earth.

    M. Schönbächler;M. Schönbächler;R. W. Carlson;M. F. Horan;T. D. Mock

  • Multiple collector ICP-MS: Introduction to instrumentation, measurement techniques and analytical capabilities

    Mark Rehkämper;Maria Schönbächler;Claudine H. Stirling

  • A Common Reference Material for Cadmium Isotope Studies -- NIST SRM 3108

    Wafa Abouchami;Stephen J. G. Galer;Tristan J. Horner;Mark Rehkämper

  • Titanium isotopes and the radial heterogeneity of the solar system

    Ingo Leya;Maria Schönbächler;Uwe Wiechert;Urs Krähenbühl

  • Evidence for extremely rapid magma ocean crystallization and crust formation on Mars

    Laura C. Bouvier;Maria M. Costa;James N. Connelly;Ninna K. Jensen

  • Niobium-Zirconium Chronometry and Early Solar System Development

    Maria Schonbachler;Mark Rehkämper;Alex N. Halliday;Der Chuen Lee

  • Measurement of zinc stable isotope ratios in biogeochemical matrices by double-spike MC-ICPMS and determination of the isotope ratio pool available for plants from soil

    Tim Arnold;Tim Arnold;Maria Schönbächler;Maria Schönbächler;Mark Rehkämper;Schuofei Dong

  • Silver isotope variations in chondrites: Volatile depletion and the initial 107Pd abundance of the solar system

    M. Schönbächler;M. Schönbächler;M. Schönbächler;R.W. Carlson;M.F. Horan;T.D. Mock

  • Zirconium isotope evidence for the heterogeneous distribution of s-process materials in the solar system

    Waheed Akram;Maria Schönbächler;Sara Bisterzo;Roberto Gallino

  • Ryugu's nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System.

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  • Zirconium isotope evidence for incomplete admixing of r -process components in the solar nebula

    Maria Schonbachler;Der Chuen Lee;Mark Rehkämper;Alex N. Halliday

  • A new methodology for precise cadmium isotope analyses of seawater

    Zichen Xue;Mark Rehkämper;Maria Schönbächler;Maria Schönbächler;Peter J. Statham

  • Ferromanganese crusts as archives of deep water Cd isotope compositions

    T. J. Horner;M. Schönbächler;M. Rehkämper;S. G. Nielsen

  • Nucleosynthetic zirconium isotope anomalies in acid leachates of carbonaceous chondrites

    Maria Schönbächler;Maria Schönbächler;Mark Rehkämper;Mark Rehkämper;Manuela A. Fehr;Manuela A. Fehr;Alex N. Halliday;Alex N. Halliday

  • NEW TITANIUM ISOTOPE DATA FOR ALLENDE AND EFREMOVKA CAIs

    Ingo Leya;Maria Schönbächler;Urs Krähenbühl;Alex N. Halliday

  • The thallium isotope composition of carbonaceous chondrites — New evidence for live 205Pb in the early solar system

    R.G.A. Baker;R.G.A. Baker;M. Schönbächler;M. Schönbächler;M. Rehkämper;M. Rehkämper;H.M. Williams

  • ZIRCONIUM—HAFNIUM ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FROM METEORITES FOR THE DECOUPLED SYNTHESIS OF LIGHT AND HEAVY NEUTRON-RICH NUCLEI

    W. Akram;M. Schönbächler;P. Sprung;N. Vogel

  • Ion exchange chromatography and high precision isotopic measurements of zirconium by MC-ICP-MS

    Maria Schonbachler;Mark Rehkämper;Der Chuen Lee;Alex N. Halliday

  • Impact splash chondrule formation during planetesimal recycling

    Tim Lichtenberg;Gregor J. Golabek;Cornelis P. Dullemond;Maria Schönbächler

  • Isotope-dilution anchoring of zircon reference materials for accurate Ti-in-zircon thermometry

    Dawid Szymanowski;Manuela A. Fehr;Marcel Guillong;Matthew A. Coble

  • Bifurcation of planetary building blocks during Solar System formation

    Tim Lichtenberg;Joanna Dra̧żkowska;Maria Schönbächler;Gregor J. Golabek

  • Mesosiderite formation on asteroid 4 Vesta by a hit-and-run collision

    Makiko K. Haba;Makiko K. Haba;Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw;Yi-Jen Lai;Yi-Jen Lai;Akira Yamaguchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Rehkämper
Mark Rehkämper Imperial College London
Alex N. Halliday
Alex N. Halliday Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Gretchen Benedix
Gretchen Benedix Curtin University
Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin
Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin Technical University of Munich
Der-Chuen Lee
Der-Chuen Lee Academia Sinica
Helen M. Williams
Helen M. Williams University of Cambridge
Addi Bischoff
Addi Bischoff University of Münster
Matthias Laubenstein
Matthias Laubenstein National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Lucio Mayer
Lucio Mayer University of Zurich

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