Professor Axel Karl Schmitt, Ph.D.

Address Curtin University
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) Facility
Kent Street
Perth WA 6102
Australien

Projects

As Applicant
- Completed projects
  - Eruptive recurrence and magma accumulation for Quaternary stratovolcanoes in Central Anatolia (Research Grants)
  - Late Proterozoic Rodinia breakup in Mexico - A new approach using SIMS dating of zircon coronas and baddeleyite (Research Grants)
  - Zircon in tephra as a novel tool to decrypt geologic and archaeological archives: a case study from Central America (Research Grants)
  - Biogenic Carbon in Magmatic Minerals and Implications for the Preservation and Obliteration of Hadean Isotopic Biosignatures (Priority Programmes)
  - Traces of explosive eruptions in Cretaceous to Quaternary Indian Ocean sediments. (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Magma evolution of the East Eifel volcanic field from a perspective based on detrital zircon in modern river sediment (Research Grants)
As Leader
- Completed projects
  - Rasterelektronenmikroskop mit integrierter Mikro-Raman-Spektroskopie (Major Research Instrumentation)
  - Radiofrequency plasma ion source for SIMS (Major Research Instrumentation)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Die Chronologie der Carbonatit-Genese im Laacher See Magmensystem (Research Grants)
  - Mikrogeochemie metamorpher Systeme (Heisenberg Fellowships)
  - Evaluation of self-consistency among geothermometers: a step toward more accurate temperature-time paths of crystallizing magmas (Research Grants)
As Ehemaliger Antragsteller
- Current projects
  - Crustal xenoliths from Eifel volcanoes: constraints on continental crustal structures and timing of Quaternary volcanism (Research Grants) to 12/2022
  - Provenance and thermal evolution of rhyolite magma reservoirs in the Great Basin – Snake River Plain igneous province (USA) (Research Grants) to 12/2022
As Cooperation Partner
- Current projects
  - Systematic variations in the eruptive history of the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field (Greece) - The IODP Expedition 398 tephra time series and its implications (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Halogen geochemistry and isotope geochemistry in magmatic systems (Research Grants)