Frank Schönian, Instituto de Mineralogía

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Datos Personales

Fecha de Nacimiento: 15/01/1973 en Berlin-Oriental
Estado Civil: Soltero, una hija, exploradora

Estudios Secundarios y Superiores

03/2005 - 08/2005: Científico visitante en el Instituto de Geofísica de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México

Desde 10/2001: Cursando el doctorado en el programa de investigaciónes de graduados Transformaciónes Evolutivas y Extinciónes en Masa en el Museo de Ciencias Naturales en Berlin (Proyecto A1).

01/2001 - 09/2001: Entrenamiento para Especialista de Aplicaciónes geo-Informáticas

1994 - 2000: Estudio de Geografía Física y de Geología en la Universidad de Humboldt y la Universidad Técnica de Berlin

1991 - 1993: Estudio de Matemáticas en la Universidad de Humboldt en Berlin

07/1991: Bachiller académico en el Colegio especializado en Matemática, Ciencias Naturales y Tecnologia 'Heinrich Hertz' en Berlin

Tesis de Grado

Historia de la deposición de las diamictitas de Cancañiri (Ordovícico/Silúrico) en el area de la Santa Cruz Loma, cerca de Tarija, sur de Bolivia
(TU-Berlin, Departamento de la Geología Histórica, Instituto de Ciencias Geológicas Aplicadas II)

El Proyecto Actual (tesis doctoral)

Distribución, Petrografía y Genesis de la capa de eyecta del cráter del impacto 'Chicxulub' en el area sur de la peninsula de Yucatán 
(Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Berlin, Instituto de Mineralogía; acompañando el ICDP "Chicxulub Scientific Drilling Project")

Principales Intereses de Investigación

- Eventos cataclísticos e indicadores paleoclimáticos en sucesiones sedimentarias
(Eventos de impáctos y glaciaciónes relacionados a extinciónes en masa; p.e. los límites O/S y K/T)
- Petrografía y génesis de rocas de bajo nivel de selección
(Diamictitas y brechas; capas de eyecta, movimientos de masa, depósitos glaciales)
- Deposición continua y catastrófica
(El factor tiempo en sucesiones sedimentarias)
- Planetología: Craters de Impactos, deposición de capas de eyecta y otros procesos sedimentarios en el Sistema Solar
(esp. Comparación de capas de eyecta en la Luna, Marte, Venus y la Tierra)

Reconocimientos

06/2003: Barringer Foundation - 'Barringer Award for Meteorite Impact Research' (Research Grant)
06/2002: European Science Foundation ('ESF impact' program) - Student Travel Grant
09/2000: International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) - Student Travel Grant

Membrecias

International Association of Sedimentologists

The Meteoritical Society

European Geosciences Union

The Geological Society of America

Publicaciones

Artículos y resúmenes extendidos

Schönian, F., D. Stöffler & T. Kenkmann, 2008. On the distribution of impact melt and basement clasts in the Chicxulub ejecta blanket. In: Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV, August 2008, Vredefort Dome, South Africa, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston : abstract #3100. (resumen, 30 kB)
Schönian, F., D. Stöffler & T. Kenkmann, 2008. Particle abrasion within the Chicxulub ejecta blanket: Implications for the emplacement process. In: 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 2008, League City, USA, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston : abstract #2029. (resumen, 300 kB; poster, 741 kB)
Schönian, F. & S. Egenhoff, 2007. A Late Ordovician ice sheet in South America: Evidence from the Cancañiri tillites, southern Bolivia. In: Linnemann, U., Nance, R.D., Kraft, P., and Zulauf, G. (eds.), The evolution of the Rheic Ocean: From Avalonian-Cadomian active margin to Alleghenian-Variscan collision, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 423 : 525-548. (resumen, 43 kB)
Kenkmann, T. & F. Schönian, 2006. Ries and Chicxulub: impact craters on Earth provide insights for Martian ejecta blankets. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 41 (10) : 1587-1603. (resumen, 20 kB)
Schönian, F., T. Salge, T. Kenkmann, D. Stöffler, A.M. Soler Arechalde & J. Urrutia Fucugauchi, 2006. Chicxulub ejecta blanket: the suevites of the UNAM 5 and 7 drill cores. In: 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 2006, League City, USA, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston : abstract #2229. (resumen, 715 kB; poster, 1.4 MB)
Kenkmann, T. & F. Schönian, 2005. Impact craters on Mars and Earth: Implications by analogy. In: Workshop on the role of volatiles and atmospheres on Martian impact craters, June 2005, Laurel, Maryland, USA, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston : abstract #3017. (resumen, 207 kB)
Schönian, F., R. Tagle, D. Stöffler & T. Kenkmann, 2005. Geology of southern Quintana Roo (Mexico) and the Chicxulub ejecta blanket. In: 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 2005, League City, USA, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston : abstract #2389. (resumen, 103 kB)
Schönian, F., D. Stöffler, T. Kenkmann & A. Wittmann, 2004. The fluidized Chicxulub ejecta blanket, Mexico: Implications for Mars. In: 35th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 2004, League City, USA, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston : abstract #1848. (resumen, 363 kB; poster, 1.1 MB)
Schönian, F., 2003. Ambiente sedimentario de las diamictitas de la Formación Cancañiri en el área de Sella, sur de Bolivia. Revista Técnica de Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Cochabamba, Bolivia, 21 : 131-146. (pdf, 915 kB)
Schönian, F., T. Kenkmann, & D. Stöffler, 2003. Internal shearing and subsurface erosion from the Chicxulub ejecta blanket (Albion Fm.), Quintana Roo, Mexico. In: Third International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts, Nördlingen, Germany, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, LPI Contribution No. 1167 : abstract #4128. (resumen, 103 kB)
Schönian, F., T. Salge, D. Stöffler & J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, 2003. Additional observations on the impact breccias of the Chicxulub ejecta blanket from the UNAM-7 drill core, Yucatán, Mexico. In: Third International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts, Nördlingen, Germany, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, LPI Contribution No. 1167 : abstract #4132. (resumen, 311 kB; poster, 331 kB)
Schönian, F., S.O. Egenhoff, J. Marcinek & B.-D. Erdtmann, 1999. Glaciation at the Ordovician - Silurian boundary in southern Bolivia. In: Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Geologica, 43 (1/2) : 175-178. Praha.(pdf, 290 kB)

Contribuciones a congresos

Schönian, F., 2007. A multiple-center glaciation in the Late Ordovician? Tillites from southern Bolivia suggest an independent, temperate ice shield in South America. In: European Geoscience Union, General Assembly , April 2007, Vienna, Austria, abstract #EGU2007-A-11046. (resumen, 8 kB)
Schönian, F.& T. Kenkmann, T., 2006. Implications for Martian ejecta blankets from the Ries and Chicxulub impact structures. In: First International Conference on Impact Cratering in the Solar System, May 2006, Noordwijk, Netherlands, European Space Agency / ESTEC, abstract #296141. (resumen, 77 kB)
Schönian, F., Kenkmann, T. & D. Stöffler, 2005. Sedimentary characteristics of the Chicxulub ejecta blanket: A model for Martian rampart crater. In: Paneth Kolloquium 2005, Nördlingen, Germany, October 2005, program & abstracts, abstract PC2005 #20.
Schönian, F., 2004. Tillites versus impact ejecta: A comparison from the Ordovician-Silurian (S-Bolivia) and Cretaceous-Tertiary (SE-Mexico) boundaries. In: 32nd International Geological Congress, August 2004, Firence, Italia. (resumen, 16 kB)
Stöffler, D., B.A. Ivanov, L. Hecht, T. Kenkmann, R.T. Schmitt, T. Salge, F. Schönian, R. Tagle, S. Weseler & A. Wittmann, 2003. Origin and emplacement of the impact formations at Chicxulub, Mexico, with special emphasis on the Yax-1 deep drilling. In: Third International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts, Nördlingen, Germany, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, LPI Contribution No. 1167 : abstract #4092.
Schönian, F., T. Kenkmann, & D. Stöffler, 2002. Chicxulub ejecta blanket: New insights into the KT impact event. In: Mesozoic-Cenozoic Bioevents: Possible links to impacts and other causes, International Symposium, Berlin, Germany, Scientific Program : p. 61. (resumen, 73 kB; poster, 245 kB)
Schönian, F., T. Kenkmann & D. Stöffler, 2002. Tracing the Chicxulub ejecta blanket on the Southern Yucatán Peninsula: Implications for the mechanisms of ejecta deposition on Earth. In: ESF workshop on impact tectonism, Mora, Sweden, Abstracts : p. 56. (poster, 200 kB)
Schönian, F., S. Egenhoff & B.-D. Erdtmann, 2000. Refined lithofacies codes for poorly sorted sedimentary rocks (diamictites) with an example from the Upper Ordovician of southern Bolivia. In: International Association of Sedimentologists, 20th Regional Meeting, Dublin, Abstract Volume : 131-132. (resumen, 79 kB)
Schönian, F. & S.O. Egenhoff, 2000. Roundness, shape and lithology of the pebbles from the Cancañiri tillites in southern Bolivia: Genetic and paleogeographic implications. In: International Association of Sedimentologists, 20th Regional Meeting, Dublin, Abstract Volume : 133-134. (poster, 313 kB)
Schönian, F., S.O. Egenhoff & B.-D. Erdtmann, 2000. Late Ordovician tillites in Southern Bolivia: How to describe, interprete and classify diamictite successions. In: 31st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (resumen, 46 kB)
Marek, J., B. Weber, F. Schönian, S.O. Egenhoff & B.-D.Erdtmann, 2000. Arenigian cephalopodes of southern Bolivia. In: Palaeontology Down-Under 2000, Orange, NSW, Australia, Abstracts.

Schönian, F. 2000. Die Ablagerungsgeschichte der Cancañiri-Diamiktite (Ordovizium/Silur) im Gebiet der Santa Cruz Loma, bei Tarija, Südbolivien. II. Die Cancañiri Formation bei Sella, Tarija, Südbolivien -Diplomarbeit-. (unpublished thesis paper, in German)
Schönian, F. 1999. Die Ablagerungsgeschichte der Cancañiri-Diamiktite (Ordovizium/Silur) im Gebiet der Santa Cruz Loma, bei Tarija, Südbolivien. I. Die Geologie nordwestlich von Sella bei Tarija, Südbolivien -Kartierbericht-. (unpublished mapping report, in German)

Enlaces

Barringer Crater Company / Barringer Family Fund

página de Chicxulub de la UNAM, Mexico

The Planetary Society: 'Journey to the End of an Era' - Belize expedition 2001

Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson / Arizona: 'The Chicxulub Impact Event'

Carleton University / Canada: 'The Last Day of the Cretaceous'

NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory: 'A Smoking Gun for Dinosaur Extinction'

International Continental Drilling Project (ICDP, GFZ-Potsdam): 'The Chicxulub Crater'

International Continental Drilling Project (ICDP): Chicxulub - main page

Planetary and Space Science Centre at the University of New Brunswick / Canada: World Crater Database - Chicxulub Crater

Chicxulub Crater in the NASA's 'Planetary Photojournal' (SRTM - Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 06.03.2003)