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Isotope Geology and Petrology

Prof. Dr. Axel K. Schmitt

Address:	Institute of Earth Sciences Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 236 D-69120 Heidelberg
Room:	411
Phone: Fax:	+49 6221 54-8206 +49 6221 54-4805 (secretariat)
E-mail:	axel.schmitt@geow.uni-heidelberg.de

Research interests and projects

Time scales of magmatic processes (Origin and timing of melt generation and storage underneath active and fossil volcanoes, Example: Laacher See - Article & Cover Photo)
Origin, growth, and recycling of the continental crust (Formation of batholith complexes in subduction zones, element cycles in oceanic arcs, Example: Central Andes - Article & Cover Photo)
Continental rifting and magmatism (Embryonic ocean spreading in the Gulf of California, Example: Salton Sea - Article)
Volcanism and anthropology (Impact of volcanic eruptions on human evolution in the Mediterranean and Anatolia, Example: Hasan Dag - Article 1, Article 2 & Audio Comment)
Magma-driven geothermal systems and their thermal history (Cooling rates of magma reservoirs in oceanic and continental crustal environments)
Accessory mineral chronometers in impact rocks and meteorites (In situ dating of baddeleyite using ion microprobe analysis, Example: The age of shergottite meteorites and the Martican crustal paradox - Article)
Geomaterials in archaeology (Origins of raw materials of Maya ceramics, Sourcing of neolithic nephrite artifacts, Example: Ilopango - Cover Photo)
High resolution stable isotope analysis of carbonates (Speleothems as climate archives)
Environmental geochemistry of biominerals (reconstruction of Pacific salmon life cycles from sulfur isotopic analysis of otoliths, Example: Mokelumne River, California)

Academic career and professional employment

(complete CV here)

Since 08/2015	Heidelberg University, Professor
2011 - 2015	University of California Los Angeles, Associate Professor-in-Residence
2009 - 2011	University of California Los Angeles, Associate Adjunct Professor
2008 - 2009	University of California Los Angeles, Assistant Adjunct Professor
2006 - 2008	University of California Los Angeles, Associate Research Specialist and Lecturer
2003 - 2006	University of California Los Angeles, Staff Research Associate
2003	GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Researcher (with tenure)
2002	Australian National University, Visiting Fellow
2000 - 2001	University of California, Los Angeles, Post-doctoral researcher
1999 - 2000	GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Researcher (termed contract)
1999	Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.), Mineralogie, Justus-von-Liebig Universität Gießen
1995	Diplom, Mineralogie, Justus-von-Liebig Universität Gießen
1994	First state examination for secondary school teachers, Justus-von-Liebig University Gießen (Subjects: German and Chemistry)

Stipends / Grants / Awards

2019	DAAD stipend for lecture tour to Iran
2015	Fulbright Scholar Award
2014	German Scholars Organization e.V. (GSO) and Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung (CZS) Program for returning scientists
2014	Mineralogical Society of America Fellow
2014	ETH Zürich Department of Earth Sciences Visiting Professor
2012	DAAD “Rückgewinnung deutscher Wissenschaftler aus dem Ausland”
2006	Best Paper Award, Geothermal Resources Council Meeting
2002	Best Paper Award, Geothermal Resources Council Meeting
1999	Award for excellence in PhD, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
1998	DAAD research stipend

Expeditions

2017	Cappadocia, Turkey (DFG Project „Eruptive recurrence and magma accumulation for Quaternary stratovolcanoes in Central Anatolia“)
2015	Cappadocia, Turkey (Fulbright scholar at Hacettepe University Ankara)
2014	Izu-Bonin-Marianas, Japan (International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 350, Shipboard scientists on the JOIDES Resolution)
2014	El Chichon, Mexico (UC-Mexus, co-principal investigator)
2013	Campi Flegrei, Italy (National Geographic Society, Young Explorer Grant, academic advisor)
2013 and 2011	Dominica, Antilles (Auckland University, scientific team member)
2009	Altiplano, Chile (Volcano World, scientific team member)
2008	St Lucia, Antillen (National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration, principal investigator)
2008 and 2006	Tres Virgenes and La Reforma, Mexico (Sutter Buttes Volcano Observatory, scientific team member)

Current teaching

2020/2021 Winter Semester:

System Erde (BS)
Seminar Mineralogie (BS)
Magmatische Petrologie (MS)
Geochronologie (MS)

Student supervision

Schmitt, Fabian, 2019 BSc, Petrologie von Metabasiten des Zagros-Orogens nordöstlich von Sadegh Abad, Iran
Dürr, Tobias, 2019 MSc, The evolution of zircon-undersaturated to zircon-saturated calc-alkaline magma: A case study of Mount Rainier (Washington, USA)
Sturm, Anne, 2018 BSc, Xenoliths from the Weinfelder Maar and Meerfelder Maar, West Eifel Volcanic Field: Crustal provenance and pyrometamorphism by petrology and high spatial resolution zircon geochronology
Pohlner, Johannes, 2018 MSc, Stratigraphic framework and accessory mineral U-Pb geochronology of early Paleozoic igneous rocks of the western Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland

Heyroth, Lisa, 2017 BSc, Petrographie zirkonführender plutonischer Auswürflinge aus der Vulkaneifel
Möller, Bruno, 2017 BSc, Pink Pumice and Ochre Pumice plinian eruptions of the Popocatépetl stratovolcano: geochemical and geochronological constraints for magma residence and conditions
Sun, Yi, 2017 BSc, Uran-Thorium-Umgleichgewichtsdatierung von Perowskit aus quartären Alkalibasalten der Vulkaneifel

Anguelova, Merislava, 2017 MSc, Petrologie und Geochronologie von mylonitischen Hochdruck-Granuliten des Schwarzwaldes
Gassert, Henja, 2017 MSc, Analyses of trace elements and REE of plutonic and volcanic zircon from The Geysers, California Coast Ranges
Nitsche, Christoph, 2017 Msc, Three Proterozoic orogenic cycles in the Livingstone Mountains, Tanzania. Evidence from petrology and ion microprobe dating of zircon and monazite
Dürr, Tobias, 2016 BSc, Die Entstehungsgeschichte von Kalifeldspatmegakristen des Albtalgranits, Südschwarzwald, anhand von Zr-Hf-Verhältnissen in eingeschlossenen Zirkonen
Klitzke, Malte, 2016 BSc, Zircon from igneous rocks of the Eifel: Trace element analysis to reconstruct their origin
Coffey, Kevin Thomas, 2015 MS, Oligocene-Miocene Sedimentary and Volcanic Strata of the Vincent Gap Region, Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, Southern California, USA, and Their Tectonic Significance
Kaiser, Jason F., 2014 PhD, Understanding Large Resurgent Calderas and Associated Magma Systems: the Pastos Grandes Caldera Complex, Southwest Bolivia
Wielicki, Matt, 2014 PhD, Developing Zircon as a Probe of Planetary Impact History
Wu, Wan-Ning, 2014 MS, Development of Baddeleyite as a Chronometer for Recent Silica-undersaturated Lavas
Bell, Elizabeth Ann, 2013 PhD, Hadean-Archean Transitions: Constraints from the Jack Hills Detrital Zircon Record
Huh, Michael, 2013 MS, Experimental Determination of Fluorine and Hydrogen Partitioning between Apatite and Basaltic Melt
Pempeña, Napoleon VII, 2013 BS, U-Th dating of Sunset Amphitheater Tephra from Mount Rainier, Washington
Perrine, Andrew, 2013 BS, Physical Volcanology of Obsidian Butte, Imperial County, California
Song, Eun Jin, 2013 BS, Environmental and Human Impact on Minoan Civilization and Geochronological Analysis of Zircon Crystals to Improve Existing Dates of the Minoan Eruption
Stang, Dallon, 2013 MS, Provenance, Offset Equivalent and Palinspastic Reconstruction of the Miocene Cajon Valley Formation, Southern California
Storm, Sonja, 2013 PhD, Crystallization history of rhyolite magmas at Tarawera volcano, New Zealand, from in-situ 238U-230Th disequilibrium dating and trace element geochemistry of zircon
Trung, Timothy Do Nguyen, 2013 MS, Li/Ca, B/Ca, and Mg/Ca Composition of Cultured Sea Urchin Spines and Paleo-Echinoderms Measured Using a Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer
Cisneros, Miguel, 2012 BS, Geochronology of Detrital Minerals by Using the 40K/40Ca Decay System
Coffey, Kevin Thomas, 2012 BS, Comparing Zircon Crystallization Ages Between Volcanic Ash in Maya Ceramics and Tierra Blanca Joven Pumice (Ilopango Volcano, Central American Volcanic Arc)
Hoyt, Johanna, 2012 MS, Provenance and Detrital-Zircon Studies of the Mint Canyon Formation and its Correlation to the Caliente Formation, Southern California
Kern, Jamie M., 2012 BS, Timescales of Large Silicic Magma Systems: Investigating the Magmatic History of Ignimbrite Eruptions in the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex of the Central Andes through U-Pb Zircon Dating
Gebauer, Samantha, 2011 BS, Improved Geochronology of the Breccia Museo Eruption (Campi Flegrei, southern Italy) via Uranium-series Dating of Zircons
Tierney, Casey R., 2011 MS, Timescales of Large Silicic Magma Systems: Implications from Accessory Minerals in Pleistocene Lavas of the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex, Central Andes
McCammon, Miles, 2008 BS, Thermometry results from Soufrière Volcanic Center (Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles)

Memberships / Reviewer

PRIMA Evaluation Commission Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences (seit 2019)
Co-editor: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (since 2007)
Co-editor: PLOS One (since 2014)
NERC Ion Microprobe Facility Advisory Board Member (since 2013)
UC-MEXUS grant proposal review panel (2009, 2010)
Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Chemical Geology, Chemie der Erde, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Geochemistry-Geophysics-Geosystems (G3), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Geology, Geospheres, Gondwana Research, GSA Bulletin, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Elements, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, Journal of Petrology, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Lithos, Nature Geoscience, Microscopy and Microanalysis, PLOS One, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Science, Surface and Interface Analysis, National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Natural Environment Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation

Publications

(complete bibliography here)

2021:

206	Friedrichs, B., Atıcı, G., Danišík, M., Yurteri, E. & Schmitt, A. K. (2021). Sequence modeling in zircon double-dating of early Holocene Mt. Erciyes domes (Central Anatolia). Quaternary Geochronology, v. 61, 101129, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2020.101129.

2020:

205	Burns, D. H., de Silva, S. L., Tepley, F. J. & Schmitt, A. K. (2020). Chasing the mantle: Deciphering cryptic mantle signals through Earth's thickest continental magmatic arc, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 531, 115985, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115985.
204	Weber, G., Caricchi, L., Arce, J.L. & Schmitt, A. K. (2020). Determining the current size and state of subvolcanic magma reservoirs. Nature Communications 11, 5477, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19084-2.
203	Harangi, S., Molnár, K., Schmitt, A.K., Dunkl, I., Seghedi, I., Novothny, Á., Molnár, M., Kiss, B., Ntaflos, T., Mason, P.R.D. & Lukács, R. (2020). Fingerprinting the Late Pleistocene tephras of Ciomadul volcano, eastern–central Europe. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35: 232-244, https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3177.
202	Ashtiani, R. J., Hassanzadeh, J., Schmitt, A. K., Sudo, M., Timmerman, M., Günter, C. & Sobel, E. (2020). Geochronology and geochemistry of subducted Cadomian continental basement in central Iran: Decompressional anatexis along the Jurassic Neotethys margin. Gondwana Research, v. 82, p. 354-366, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.01.005.
201	Zou, H., Guo, Z., Peng, Y., Schmitt, A. K., Fan, Q., Zhao, Y. & Ma, M. (2020). U-series ages of young volcanoes from the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau: Holocene eruptions and magma evolution timescales. Lithos, v. 370–371, 105643, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105643.
200	Catlos, E. J., Mark, D. F., Suarez, S., Brookfield, M. E., Miller, C. G., Schmitt, A. K., Gallagher, V. & Kelly, A. (2020). Late Silurian zircon U–Pb ages from the Ludlow and Downton bone beds, Welsh Basin, UK. Journal of the Geological Society, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-107.
199	Carley, T. L., Miller, C. F., Fisher, C. M., Hanchar, J. M., Vervoort, J. D., Schmitt, A. K., Economos, R. C., Jordan, B. T., Padilla, A. J. & Banik, T. J. (2020). Petrogenesis of Silicic Magmas in Iceland through Space and Time: The Isotopic Record Preserved in Zircon and Whole Rocks. The Journal of Geology, 128:1, 1-28, https://doi.org/10.1086/706261.
198	Pohlner, J. E., Schmitt, A. K., Chamberlain, K. R., Davies, J. H. F. L., Hildenbrand, A. & Austermann, G. (2020). Multimethod U–Pb baddeleyite dating: insights from the Spread Eagle Intrusive Complex and Cape St. Mary's sills, Newfoundland, Canada. Geochronology 2(2):187-208 doi:10.5194/gchron-2-187-2020.
197	Weber, B., Schmitt, A. K., Cisneros de León, A., González-Guzmán, R. & Gerdes, A. (2020). Neoproterozoic extension and the Central Iapetus Magmatic Province in southern Mexico – New U-Pb ages, Hf-O isotopes and trace element data of zircon from the Chiapas Massif Complex. Gondwana Research, v. 88, p. 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.06.022.
196	Tazzo-Rangel, M. D. , Weber, B., Schmitt, A. K., González-Guzmán, R., Cisneros de León, A. & Hecht, L. (2020). Permo–Triassic metamorphism in the Mérida Andes, Venezuela: new insights from geochronology, O-isotopes, and geothermobarometry. International Journal of Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01926-5.
195	Friedrichs, B., Schmitt, A. K., McGee, L. & Turner, S. (2020). U–Th whole rock data and high spatial resolution U–Th disequilibrium and U–Pb zircon ages of Mt. Erciyes and Mt. Hasan Quaternary stratovolcanic complexes (Central Anatolia). Data in Brief, v. 29, 105113, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105113.
194	Friedrichs, B., Schindlbeck-Belo, J. C., Danišík, M., Jenkins, S. F., Yurteri, E., Çobankaya, M., Frische, M., Wang, K.-L., Lee, H.-Y., Atıcı, G., Schmitt, A. K. & Sparks, R. S. J. (2020). New insights into source and dispersal of Mediterranean S1 tephra, an early Holocene marker horizon erupted at Mt. Erciyes (Turkey). Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 249, 106606, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106606.
193	Danišík, M., Lowe, D. J., Schmitt, A. K., Friedrichs, B., Hogg, A. G. & Evans, N. J. (2020). Sub-millennial eruptive recurrence in the silicic Mangaone Subgroup tephra sequence, New Zealand, from Bayesian modelling of zircon double-dating and radiocarbon ages. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 246, 106517, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106517.
192	Friedrichs, B., Atıcı, G., Danišík, M., Atakay, E., Çobankaya, M., Harvey, J. C., Yurteri, E. & Schmitt, A. K. (2020). Late Pleistocene eruptive recurrence in the post-collisional Mt. Hasan stratovolcanic complex (Central Anatolia) revealed by zircon double-dating. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 404, 107007, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107007.
191	Friedrichs, B., Schmitt, A. K., McGee, L. & Turner, S. (2020). Corrigendum to 'U-Th whole rock data and high spatial resolution U-Th disequilibrium and U-Pb zircon ages of Mt. Erciyes and Mt. Hasan Quaternary stratovolcanic complexes (Central Anatolia). Data in brief, 31, 106009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.106009.
190	Gençalioğlu-Kuşcu, G., Uslular, G., Danišík, M., Koppers, A., Miggins, D. P., Friedrichs, B., & Schmitt, A. K. (2020). U–Th disequilibrium, (U–Th)/He and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of distal Nisyros Kyra tephra deposits on Datça peninsula (SW Anatolia). Quaternary Geochronology, 55, 101033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2019.101033.
189	Cardona, A., León, S., Jaramillo, J.S., Valencia, V., Zapata, S., Pardo–Trujillo, A., Schmitt, A.K., Mejía, D. & Arenas, J.C. (2020). Cretaceous record from a Mariana– to an Andean–type margin in the Central Cordillera of the Colombian Andes. In: Gómez, J. & Pinilla–Pachon, A.O. (editors), The Geology of Colombia, Volume 2 Mesozoic. Servicio Geológico Colombiano, Publicaciones Geológicas Especiales 36, 39 p. Bogotá. https://doi.org/10.32685/pub.esp.36.2019.10.

2019:

188	Schmitt, A.K., Magee, C.W., Williams, I.S., Holden, P., Ireland, T.R., DiBugnara, D.L. & Bodorkos, S. (2019). Oxygen isotopic heterogeneity in the Temora-2 reference zircon. Record 2019/004. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2019.004.
187	Friedrichs, B., Schmitt, A., McGee, L. & Turner, S. (2019). U-Th whole rock data and high spatial resolution U-Th disequilibrium and U-Pb ages of Mt. Erciyes and Mt. Hasan Quaternary stratovolcano complexes (Central Anatolia). Data in Brief, v. 29, 105113, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105113.
186	Atici, G., Schmitt, A. K., Friedrichs, B., Sparks, S., Danišík, M., Yurteri, E., Gündoğdu, E. A., Schindlbeck-Belo, J., Çobankaya, M., Wang, K.-L. & Lee, H.-Y. (2019). Ages and glass compositions for paired large-volume eruptions from the Acigöl volcanic complex, Cappadocia (Turkey). Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews, v.1, p. 167–178, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-019-00013-5.
185	Schmitt, A. K., Zack, T., Kooijman, E., Logvinova, A. M., & Sobolev, N. V. (2019). U–Pb ages of rare rutile inclusions in diamond indicate entrapment synchronous with kimberlite formation. Lithos, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105251.
184	Sun, Y., & Schmitt, A. K. (2019). 238U/230Th disequilibrium dating and trace element geochemistry of perovskite from late Quaternary alkali mafic rocks of the West Eifel Volcanic Field (Germany). European Journal of Mineralogy, https://doi.org/10.1127/ejm/2019/0031-2883.
183	Tamblyn, R., Zack, T., Schmitt, A. K., Hand, M., Kelsey, D., Morrissey, L., Pabst, S. & Savov, I. P. (2019). Blueschist from the Mariana forearc records long-lived residence of material in the subduction channel. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 519, 171-181.
182	Akin, L., Aydar, E., Schmitt, A. K., & Çubukçu, H. E. (2019). Application of zircon typology method to felsic rocks (Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Turkey): a zircon crystallization temperature perspective. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 28(3), 351-371.
181	Ghalamghash, J., Schmitt, A. K., & Chaharlang, R. (2019). Age and compositional evolution of Sahand volcano in the context of post-collisional magmatism in northwestern Iran: Evidence for time-transgressive magmatism away from the collisional suture. Lithos, 344, 265-279.
180	Stimac, J., Sihotang, A. M., Mussofan, W., Baroek, M., Jones, C., Moore, J. N., & Schmitt, A. K. (2019). Geologic controls on the Muara Laboh geothermal system, Sumatra, Indonesia. Geothermics, 82, 97-120.
179	Cisneros de León, & Schmitt, A. K. (2019). Intrusive reawakening of El Chichón volcano prior to its Holocene eruptive hyperactivity. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 377, 53-68.
178	Ulusoy, İ., Sarıkaya, M. A., Schmitt, A. K., Şen, E., Danišík, M., & Gümüş, E. (2019). Volcanic eruption eye-witnessed and recorded by prehistoric humans. Quaternary Science Reviews, 212, 187-198.
177	Cisneros de León, A. C., Schmitt, A. K., Roberge, J., Heiler, L., Ludwig, C., & Schmitt, F. H. (2019). Zircon in sak lu'um: Evidence of multiple Eocene silicic tephra layers as palygorskite precursors in the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2019.05.005.
176	Cisneros de León, A. C., Schmitt, A. K., Storm, S., Weber, B., Schindlbeck-Belo, J. C., Trumbull, R. B., & Juárez, F. (2019). Millennial to decadal magma evolution in an arc volcano from zircon and tephra of the 2016 Santiaguito eruption (Guatemala). Lithos, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.04.027.
175	Cisneros de León, A., & Schmitt, A. K. (2019). Reconciling Li and O diffusion in zircon with protracted magmatic crystal residence. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174(4), 28.
174	Karsli, O., Dokuz, A., Kandemir, R., Aydin, F., Schmitt, A. K., Ersoy, E. Y., & Alyildiz, C. (2019). Adakite-like parental melt generation by partial fusion of juvenile lower crust, Sakarya Zone, NE Turkey: A far-field response to break-off of the southern Neotethyan oceanic lithosphere. Lithos, 338-339, 58-72.
173	Molnár, K., Lukács, R., Dunkl, I., Schmitt, A. K., Kiss, B., Seghedi, I., Szepesi J. & Harangi, S. (2019). Episodes of dormancy and eruption of the Late Pleistocene Ciomadul volcanic complex (Eastern Carpathians, Romania) constrained by zircon geochronology. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 373, 133-147.
172	Sisson, T. W., Schmitt, A. K., Danišík, M., Calvert, A. T., Pempena, N., Huang, C. Y., & Shen, C. C. (2019). Age of the dacite of Sunset Amphitheater, a voluminous Pleistocene tephra from Mount Rainier (USA), and implications for Cascade glacial stratigraphy. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 376, 27-43.
171	Ghalamghash, J., Schmitt, A. K., Shiaian, K., Jamal, R., & Chung, S. L. (2019). Magma origins and geodynamic implications for the Makran-Chagai arc from geochronology and geochemistry of Bazman volcano, southeastern Iran. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 171, 289-304.
170	Catlos, E. J., Pease, E. C., Dygert, N., Brookfield, M., Schwarz, W. H., Bhutani, R., Pande, K. & Schmitt, A. K. (2019). Nature, age and emplacement of the Spongtang ophiolite, Ladakh, NW India. Journal of the Geological Society, 176(2), 284-305.
169	Weber, B., Schmitt, A. K., Cisneros de León, A., & González‐Guzmán, R. (2019). Coeval Early Ediacaran Breakup of Amazonia, Baltica, and Laurentia: Evidence From Micro‐Baddeleyite Dating of Dykes From the Novillo Canyon, Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(4), 2003-2011.
168	Coffey, K. T., Ingersoll, R. V., & Schmitt, A. K. (2019). Stratigraphy, provenance, and tectonic significance of the Punchbowl block, San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA. Geosphere, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02025.1.
167	Schmitt, A. K., Perrine, A. R., Rhodes, E. J., & Fischer, C. (2019). Age of Obsidian Butte in Imperial County, California, Through Infrared Stimulated Luminescence Dating of Potassium Feldspar from Tuffaceous Sediment. California Archaeology, 11(1), 5-20.
166	Schmitt, A. K., Liu, M. C., & Kohl, I. E. (2019). Sensitive and rapid oxygen isotopic analysis of nephrite jade using large-geometry SIMS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 34(3), 561-569.

2018:

165	Troch, J., Ellis, B. S., Schmitt, A. K., Bouvier, A. S., & Bachmann, O. (2018). The dark side of zircon: textural, age, oxygen isotopic and trace element evidence of fluid saturation in the subvolcanic reservoir of the Island Park-Mount Jackson Rhyolite, Yellowstone (USA). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 173(7), 54.
164	Lukács, R., Guillong, M., Schmitt, A. K., Molnár, K., Bachmann, O., & Harangi, S. (2018). LA-ICP-MS and SIMS U-Pb and U-Th zircon geochronological data of Late Pleistocene lava domes of the Ciomadul Volcanic Dome Complex (Eastern Carpathians). Data in Brief, 18, 808-813.
163	Schmitt, A. K., Konrad, K., Andrews, G. D., Horie, K., Brown, S. R., Koppers, A. A., Pecha, M., Busby, C.J. & Tamura, Y. (2018). 40Ar/39Ar ages and zircon petrochronology for the rear arc of the Izu-Bonin-Marianas intra-oceanic subduction zone. International Geology Review, 60(8), 956-976.
162	Wulf, S., Hardiman, M. J., Staff, R. A., Koutsodendris, A., Appelt, O., Blockley, S. P., Lowe, J. J., Manning, C. J., Ottolini, L., Schmitt, A. K. & Smith, V. C. (2018). The marine isotope stage 1–5 cryptotephra record of Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Towards a detailed tephrostratigraphic framework for the Eastern Mediterranean region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 186, 236-262.
161	Molnár, K., Harangi, S., Lukács, R., Dunkl, I., Schmitt, A. K., Kiss, B., Garamhegyi, T. & Seghedi, I. (2018). The onset of the volcanism in the Ciomadul Volcanic Dome Complex (Eastern Carpathians): eruption chronology and magma type variation. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 354, 39-56.
160	Bindeman, I., Schmitt, A., Lundstrom, C., & Hervig, R. (2018). Stability of Zircon and its Isotopic Ratios in High-Temperature Fluids: Long-Term (4 months) Isotope Exchange Experiment at 850° C and 50 MPa. Frontiers in Earth Science, 6, 59.

2017:

159	Grocke, S. B., de Silva, S. L., Wallace, P. J., Cottrell, E., & Schmitt, A. K. (2017). Catastrophic Caldera-Forming (CCF) Monotonous Silicic Magma Reservoirs: Constraints from Volatiles in Melt Inclusions from the 3· 49 Ma Tara Supereruption, Guacha II Caldera, SW Bolivia. Journal of Petrology, 58(11), 2115-2142.
158	Carley, T. L., Miller, C. F., Sigmarsson, O., Coble, M. A., Fisher, C. M., Hanchar, J. M., Schmitt, A. K. & Economos, R. C. (2017). Detrital zircon resolve longevity and evolution of silicic magmatism in extinct volcanic centers: A case study from the East Fjords of Iceland. Geosphere, 13(5), 1640-1663.
157	Schmitt, A. K., Klitzke, M., Gerdes, A. & Schäfer C. (2017) Zircon Hafnium-Oxygen Isotope and Trace Element Petrochronology of Intraplate Volcanics from the Eifel (Germany) and Implications for Mantle versus Crustal Origins of Zircon Megacrysts. Journal of Petrology, 58 (9), 1841-1870.
156	Schmitt, A. K., & Vazquez, J. A. (2017). Secondary ionization mass spectrometry analysis in petrochronology. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 83(1), 199-230.
155	Mucek, A. E., Danišík, M., de Silva, S. L., Schmitt, A. K., Pratomo, I., & Coble, M. A. (2017). Post-supereruption recovery at Toba Caldera. Nature Communications, 8, 15248 (2017) doi:10.1038/ncomms15248.
154	Ellis, B. S., Szymanowski, D., Wotzlaw, J. F., Schmitt, A. K., Bindeman, I. N., Troch, J., Harris, C., Bachmann, O. & Guillong, M. (2017). Post-caldera Volcanism at the Heise Volcanic Field: Implications for Petrogenetic Models. Journal of Petrology, 58(1), 115-136.
153	Bezard, R., Turner, S., Davidson, J., Schmitt, A. K., & Lindsay, J. (2017). Origin and Evolution of Silicic Magmas in Oceanic Arcs; an in situ Study from St Lucia, Lesser Antilles. Journal of Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egx053.
152	Faramarzi, N. S., Amini, S., Borg, G., Schmitt, A. K., Hassanzadeh, J., McKeegan, K., Mortazavi, S.M., Jamshidibadr, M. & Razavi, S. M. H. (2017). Reply to comment on “Geochronology and geochemistry of rhyolites from Hormuz Island, southern Iran: A new Cadomian arc magmatism in the Hormuz Formation” by Atapour, H. and Aftabi, A. Lithos, 284–285, 783-787.
151	Zhang, D. H., Wei, J. H., Fu, L. B., Schmitt, A. K., Wang, D. Z., Tan, J., & Liu, J. K. (2017). Petrogenesis and thermal overprint of S-type granites in Helanshan region, North China Craton: Constraints on the 1.90 Ga khondalites decompression melting and 1.32 Ga tectono-thermal event. Precambrian Research, 303, 660-672.
150	Busby, C. J., Tamura, Y., Blum, P., Guèrin, G., Andrews, G. D. M., Barker, A. K., Berger, J. L. R., Bongiolo, E. M., Bordiga, M., DeBari, S. M., Gill, J. B., Hamelin, C., Jia, J., John, E. H., Jonas, A.-S., Jutzeler, M., Kars, M. A. C., Kita, Z. A., Konrad, K., Mahoney, S. H., Martini, M., Miyazaki, T., Musgrave, R. J., Nascimento, D. B., Nichols, A. R. L., Ribeiro, J. M., Sato, T., Schindlbeck, J. C., Schmitt, A. K., Straub, S. M., Vautravers, M. J., Yamashita, M., & Yang, Y. (2017). The missing half of the subduction factory: shipboard results from the Izu rear arc, IODP Expedition 350. International Geology Review, 1-32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2017.1292469.
149	Kaiser, J. F., de Silva, S., Schmitt, A. K., Economos, R., & Sunagua, M. (2017). Million-year melt–presence in monotonous intermediate magma for a volcanic–plutonic assemblage in the Central Andes: Contrasting histories of crystal-rich and crystal-poor super-sized silicic magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 457, 73-86.

2016:

148	Barboni, M., Boehnke, P., Schmitt, A. K., Harrison, T. M., Shane, P., Bouvier, A. S., & Baumgartner, L. (2016). Warm storage for arc magmas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(49), 13959-13964.
147	Danišík, M., Schmitt, A. K., Stockli, D. F., Lovera, O. M., Dunkl, I., & Evans, N. J. (2016). Application of combined U-Th-disequilibrium/U-Pb and (U-Th)/He zircon dating to tephrochronology. Quaternary Geochronology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2016.07.005.
146	Watts, K. E., John, D. A., Colgan, J. P., Henry, C. D., Bindeman, I. N., & Schmitt, A. K. (2016). Probing the Volcanic–Plutonic Connection and the Genesis of Crystal-rich Rhyolite in a Deeply Dissected Supervolcano in the Nevada Great Basin: Source of the Late Eocene Caetano Tuff. Journal of Petrology, 57(8), 1599-1644.
145	Ghalamghash, J., Mousavi, S. Z., Hassanzadeh, J., & Schmitt, A. K. (2016). Geology, zircon geochronology, and petrogenesis of Sabalan volcano (northwestern Iran). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 327, 192-207.
144	Padilla, A. J., Miller, C. F., Carley, T. L., Economos, R. C., Schmitt, A. K., Coble, M. A., Wooden, J. L., Fisher, C. M., Vervoort, J. D. & Hanchar, J. M. (2016). Elucidating the magmatic history of the Austurhorn silicic intrusive complex (southeast Iceland) using zircon elemental and isotopic geochemistry and geochronology. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 171(8-9), 69.
143	Wielicki, M. M., Harrison, T. M., Schmitt, A. K., Boehnke, P., & Bell, E. A. (2016). Differentiated impact melt sheets may be a potential source of Hadean detrital zircon: COMMENT. Geology, 44(8), e398. DOI: 10.1130/G38135C.1.
142	He, D., Webb, A. A. G., Larson, K. P., & Schmitt, A. K. (2016). Extrusion vs. duplexing models of Himalayan mountain building 2: The South Tibet detachment at the Dadeldhura klippe. Tectonophysics, 667, 87-107.
141	Kern, J. M., de Silva, S. L., Schmitt, A. K., Kaiser, J. F., Iriarte, A. R., & Economos, R. (2016). Geochronological imaging of an episodically constructed subvolcanic batholith: U-Pb in zircon chronochemistry of the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex of the Central Andes. Geosphere, GES01258-1. DOI: 10.1130/GES01258.1.
140	Andrews, G. D., Schmitt, A. K., Busby, C. J., Brown, S. R., Blum, P., & Harvey, J. (2016). Age and compositional data of zircon from sepiolite drilling mud to identify contamination of ocean drilling samples. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. DOI: 10.1002/2016GC006397.
139	Tierney, C. R., Schmitt, A. K., Lovera, O. M., & de Silva, S. L. (2016). Voluminous plutonism during volcanic quiescence revealed by thermochemical modeling of zircon. Geology, 44(8), 683-686.
138	Darling, J. R., Moser, D. E., Barker, I. R., Tait, K. T., Chamberlain, K. R., Schmitt, A. K., & Hyde, B. C. (2016). Variable microstructural response of baddeleyite to shock metamorphism in young basaltic shergottite NWA 5298 and improved U–Pb dating of Solar System events. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 444, 1-12.
137	Bindeman, I. N., Anikin, L. P., & Schmitt, A. K. (2016). Archean Xenocrysts in Modern Volcanic Rocks from Kamchatka: Insight into the Basement and Paleodrainage. The Journal of Geology, 124 (2), 247-253.
136	Pingel, H., Mulch, A., Alonso, R. N., Cottle, J., Hynek, S. A., Poletti, J., Rohrmann, A., Schmitt, A. K., Stockli, D.F. & Strecker, M.R. (2016). Surface uplift and convective rainfall along the southern Central Andes (Angastaco Basin, NW Argentina). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 440, 33-42.
135	Guillong, M., Sliwinski, J. T., Schmitt, A. K., Forni, F. & Bachmann, O. (2016). U‐Th Zircon Dating by Single Collector Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma‐Mass Spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS). Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 40(3), 377-387. DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2016.00396.x..
134	Pack, B., Schmitt, A. K., Roberge, J., Tenorio, F.G. & Damiata, B. N. (2016). Zircon xenocryst resorption and magmatic regrowth at El Chichón Volcano, Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 311, 170-182.
133	Ballato, P., Cifelli, F., Heidarzadeh, G., Ghassemi, M. R., Wickert, A. D., Hassanzadeh, J., Dupont‐Nivet, G., Balling, P., Sudo, M., Zeilinger, G. & Schmitt, A. K. (2016). Tectono‐sedimentary evolution of the northern Iranian Plateau: insights from middle‐late Miocene foreland‐basin deposits. Basin Research, Doi:10.1111/bre.12180.

2015:

132	Wu, W. N., Schmitt, A. K., & Pappalardo, L. (2015). U-Th baddeleyite geochronology and its significance to date the emplacement of silica undersaturated magmas. American Mineralogist, 100(10), 2082-2090.
131	Faramarzi, N. S., Amini, S., Schmitt, A. K., Hassanzadeh, J., Borg, G., McKeegan, K., Razavi, S. M. H. & Mortazavi, S. M. (2015). Geochronology and geochemistry of rhyolites from Hormuz Island, southern Iran: A new record of Cadomian arc magmatism in the Hormuz Formation. Lithos, 236, 203-211.
130	Burns, D. H., de Silva, S. L., Tepley, F., Schmitt, A. K., & Loewen, M. W. (2015). Recording the transition from flare-up to steady-state arc magmatism at the Purico–Chascon volcanic complex, northern Chile. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 422, 75-86.
129	Harangi, S., Lukács, R., Schmitt, A. K., Dunkl, I., Molnár, K., Kiss, B., Seghedi, I., Novothny, A. & Molnár, M. (2015). Constraints on the timing of Quaternary volcanism and duration of magma residence at Ciomadul volcano, east-central Europe, from combined U-Th/He and U-Th zircon geochronology. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 301, 66-80.
128	Howe, T. M., Schmitt, A. K., Lindsay, J. M., Shane, P. & Stockli, D. F. (2015). Time scales of intraoceanic arc magmatism from combined U‐Th and (U‐Th)/He zircon geochronology of Dominica, Lesser Antilles. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(2), 347-365.
127	Schaltegger, U., Schmitt, A. K. & Horstwood, M. S. A. (2015). U–Th–Pb zircon geochronology by ID-TIMS, SIMS, and laser ablation ICP-MS: Recipes, interpretations, and opportunities. Chemical Geology, 402, 89-110.
126	Colón, D. P., Bindeman, I. N., Ellis, B. S., Schmitt, A. K. & Fisher, C. M. (2015). Hydrothermal alteration and melting of the crust during the Columbia River Basalt–Snake River Plain transition and the origin of low-δ 18 O rhyolites of the central Snake River Plain, Lithos, 224, 310-323
125	Guillong, M., Schmitt, A. K. & Bachmann, O. (2015). Comment on “Zircon U–Th–Pb dating using LA-ICP-MS: Simultaneous U–Pb and U–Th dating on 0.1 Ma Toya Tephra, Japan” by Hisatoshi Ito, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 296, 101-103
124	Peters, T. J. Simon, J. I., Jones, J. H., Usui, T., Moriwaki, R., Economos, R. C., Schmitt, A. K. & McKeegan, K. (2015). Tracking the source of the enriched martian meteorites in olivine-hosted melt inclusions of two depleted shergottites, Yamato 980459 and Tissint, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 418, 91-102
123	Shulaker, D. Z., Schmitt, A. K., Zack, T. & Bindeman, I. (2015). In-situ oxygen isotope and trace element geothermometry of rutilated quartz from Alpine fissures. American Mineralogist, 100(4), 915-925.
122	Tamura, Y., Busby, C.J., Blum, P., and the Expedition 350 Scientists (2015) Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, Expedition 350: Izu-Bonin-Mariana Rear Arc: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). http://dx.doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.350.2015.

2014:

121	Storm, S., Schmitt, A. K., Shane, P., & Lindsay, J. M. (2014). Zircon trace element chemistry at sub-micrometer resolution for Tarawera volcano, New Zealand, and implications for rhyolite magma evolution. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 167(4), 1-19.
120	He, D., Webb, A. G., Larson, K. P., Martin, A. J. & Schmitt, A. K. (2014). Extrusion vs. duplexing models of Himalayan mountain building 3: duplexing dominates from the Oligocene to Present. International Geology Review, 57(1), 1-27.
119	Vazquez, J. A., Velasco, N. O., Schmitt, A. K., Bleick, H. A. & Stelten, M. E. (2014). 238U-230Th dating of chevkinite in high-silica rhyolites from La Primavera and Yellowstone calderas. Chemical Geology. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.10.020.
118	Aydin, F., Schmitt, A. K., Siebel, W., Sönmez, M., Ersoy, Y., Lermi, A., Dirik, K. & Duncan, R. (2014). Quaternary bimodal volcanism in the Niğde Volcanic Complex (Cappadocia, central Anatolia, Turkey): age, petrogenesis and geodynamic implications. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 168(5), 1-24.
117	Schmitt, A. K., Danišík, M., Siebel, W., Elitok, Ö., Chang, Y. W., & Shen, C. C. (2014). Late Pleistocene Zircon Ages for Intracaldera Domes at Gölcük (Isparta, Turkey). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 286, 24-29.
116	Carley, T. L., Miller, C. F., Wooden, J. L., Padilla, A. J., Schmitt, A. K., Economos, R. C., Bindeman, I. N. & Jordan, B. T. (2014). Iceland is not a magmatic analog for the Hadean: Evidence from the zircon record. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 405, 85-97.
115	Simon, J. I., Weis, D., DePaolo, D. J., Renne, P. R., Mundil, R. & Schmitt, A. K. (2014). Assimilation of preexisting Pleistocene intrusions at Long Valley by periodic magma recharge accelerates rhyolite generation: rethinking the remelting model. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 167(1), 1-34.
114	Wotzlaw, J. F., Bindeman, I. N., Watts, K. E., Schmitt, A. K., Caricchi, L. & Schaltegger, U. (2014). Linking rapid magma reservoir assembly and eruption trigger mechanisms at evolved Yellowstone-type supervolcanoes. Geology, 42(9), 807-810.
113	Howe, T. M., Lindsay, J. M., Shane, P., Schmitt, A. K. & Stockli, D. F. (2014). Re-evaluation of the Roseau Tuff eruptive sequence and other ignimbrites in Dominica, Lesser Antilles. Journal of Quaternary Science, 29(6), 531-546.
112	Zou, H., Fan, Q., Zhang, H. & Schmitt, A. K. (2014). U-series zircon age constraints on the plumbing system and magma residence times of the Changbai volcano, China/North Korea border. Lithos, 200, 169-180.
111	Delavari, M., Amini, S., Schmitt, A. K., McKeegan, K. D. & Mark Harrison, T. (2014). U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of Bibi-Maryam pluton, eastern Iran: Implication for the late stage of the tectonic evolution of the Sistan Ocean. Lithos, 200, 197-211.
110	Robinson, P. T., Trumbull, R. B., Schmitt, A. K., Yang, J. S., Li, J. W., Zhou, M. F., Erzinger, J., Dare S. & Xiong, F. (2014). The origin and significance of crustal minerals in ophiolitic chromitites and peridotites. Gondwana Research, 27, 486-506, DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2014.06.003
109	Neill, I., Kerr, A. C., Chamberlain, K. R., Schmitt, A. K., Urbani, F., Hastie, A. R., Pindell, J. L., Barry, T. L. & Millar, I. L. (2014). Vestiges of the proto-Caribbean seaway: Origin of the San Souci Volcanic Group, Trinidad. Tectonophysics, 626, 170-185.
108	Franz, H. B., Kim, S. T., Farquhar, J., Day, J. M., Economos, R. C., McKeegan, K. D., Schmitt, A. K., Irving, A. J., Hoek, J. & Dottin III, J. (2014). Isotopic links between atmospheric chemistry and the deep sulphur cycle on Mars. Nature, 508(7496), 364-368.
107	Wotzlaw, J. F., Bindeman, I. N., Watts, K. E., Schmitt, A. K., Caricchi, L. & Schaltegger, U. (2014). Linking rapid magma reservoir assembly and eruption trigger mechanisms at evolved Yellowstone-type supervolcanoes. Geology, G35979-1, DOI: 10.1130/G35979.1.
106	Coffey, K. T., Schmitt, A. K., Ford, A., Spera, F. J., Christensen, C. & Garrison, J. (2014). Volcanic ash provenance from zircon dust with an application to Maya pottery. Geology 42(7), 595-598.
105	Limburg, K. E., Walther, B. D., Lu, Z., Jackman, G., Mohan, J., Walther, Y., Nissling, A., Weber, P. K., Schmitt, A. K. (2014). In search of the dead zone: use of otoliths for tracking fish exposure to hypoxia. Journal of Marine Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.02.014.
104	Bindeman, I. N., Serebryakov, N. S., Schmitt, A. K., Vazquez, J. A., Guan, Y., Azimov, P. Ya., Astafiev, B. Yu., Palandri, J. & Dobrzhinetskaya, L. (2014). Field and microanalytical isotopic investigation of ultradepleted in 18O Paleoproterozoic “Slushball Earth” rocks from Karelia, Russia. Geosphere, GES00952. 1.

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