Some of our most central, recent papers are available below.
For Birger Schmitz‘ complete publication list, click here: Publication list-Schmitz
B. Schmitz, Q.-Z.Yin, M.E. Sanborn, M. Tassinari, C.E. Caplan, G.R. Huss (2016) A new type of solar-system material recovered from Ordovician limestone. Nature Communications DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11851.
Read the full article here: 5-2016ncomms11851
B. Schmitz, P. R. Heck, W. Alvarez, N. T. Kita, S. S. Rout, A. Cronholm, C. Defouilloy, E. Martin, J. Smit, F. Terfelt (2017) Meteorite flux to Earth in the Early Cretaceous as reconstructed from sediment-dispersed extraterrestrial spinels. Geology 45:807- 810.
Read the full article here: 9-2017Schmitz-Geology
Schmitz, K.A. Farley, S. Goderis, P.R. Heck, S.M. Bergström, S. Boschi, P. Claeys, V. Debaille, A. Dronov, M. van Ginneken, D.A.T. Harper, F. Iqbal, J. Friberg, S. Liao, E. Martin, M.M.M. Meier, B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B. Soens, R. Wieler, F. Terfelt (2019) An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body. Science Advances 5:eeax4184.
Read the full article here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax4184
S. Goderis, H. Sato, L. Ferrière, B. Schmitz, D. Burney, P. Kaskes et al. (2021). Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure. Science Advances 7, eabe3647.
Read the full artice here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe3647
F. Terfelt, B. Schmitz (2021). Asteroid break-ups and meteorite delivery to Earth the past 500 million years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, e2020977118.
Read the full article here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2020977118
B. Schmitz, M. Schmieder, S. Liao, E. Martin, F. Terfelt (2022). Impact crater ages and micrometeorite paleofluxes compared: Evidence for the importance of ordinary chondrites in the flux of meteorites and asteroids to Earth over the past 500 million years. Geological Society of America Special Paper 557, DOI:10.1130/2022.2557(18).
Read the full article here: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/edited-volume/2351/chapter/132712259/Impact-crater-ages-and-micrometeorite-paleofluxes
B. Schmitz, F. Terfelt (2023) The breakup of the L-chondrite parent body 466 Ma and its terrestrial effects – a search for a mid-Ordovician biodiversity event. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 72, DOI.10.3176/earth.2023.49.
Read the full article here: https://kirj.ee/wp-content/plugins/kirj/pub/earth-1-2023-94-97_20230610113128.pdf
P.R. Heck, B. Schmitz, X. Ritter, S.S. Rout, N.T. Kita, C. Defouilloy, K. Keating, K. Eisenstein, F. Terfelt (2024) Unusual sources of fossil micrometeorites deduced from relict chromite in the small size fraction in ca. 467 Ma old limestone. Meteoritics & amp; Planetary Science 59, 502-513.
Read the full article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.14133