Urs Schaltegger

portrait Prof. Urs Schaltegger

Isotope geochemistry and geochronology
Dépt. des sciences de la Terre
Université de Genève
rue des Maraîchers 13
CH-1205 Genève
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 22 379 66 38
Phone2: +41 (0) 22 379 66 19
Fax: +41 (0) 22 379 32 10
E-mail: urs.schaltegger(at)unige.ch
URL Institution: https://www.unige.ch/sciences/terre/en/
Personal URL: link

with involvement of Urs Schaltegger
in which Urs Schaltegger holds an official function.

Key Publications of Urs Schaltegger (up to ten) :
Schaltegger U., Schmitt A. & Horstwood M. (2015) U-Th-Pb zircon geochronology by ID-TIMS, SIMS and laser ablation ICP-MS: recipes, interpretations and opportunities. Invited review Chem Geol., 402, 89-110

Schaltegger U. & Davies J.H.F.L. (2017) Petrochronology of zircon and baddeleyite in igneous rocks: reconstructing magmatic processes at high temporal resolution. In: Reviews in Mineralogy and Geo-chemistry, vol 83, 297-328, doi:10.2138/rmg.2017.83.11

Davies J.H.F.L., Marzoli A., Bertrand A., Youbi H., Ernesto N. & Schaltegger U. (2017) End-Triassic mass extinction started by intrusive CAMP activity. Nature Communications 8, 15596, doi:10.1038/ncomms15596

Linnemann U., Ovtcharova M., Schaltegger U., Gärtner A., Hautmann M., Geyer G., Vickers-Rich P., Rich T., Plessen B., Hofmann M., Zieger J., Krause R., Kriesfeld L. & Smith J. (2019) New high-resolution age data indicate rapid, ecologically-driven onset of the Cambrian explosion. Terra Nova, 31, 49-58, doi: 10.1111/ter.12368

Schaltegger U., Nowak A., Ulianov A., Fisher C.M., Gerdes A., Spikings R., Whitehouse M., Bindeman I.N., Brack P., Hanchar J., Duff J., Vervoort J.D., Sheldrake T., Caricchi L. & Münten-er O. (2019) Zircon petrochronology and 40Ar-39Ar thermochronology of the Adamello intru-sive suite, N-Italy: monitoring the growth and decay of an incrementally assembled magmatic system. J. Petrol. 60, 701-722, doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egz010

Lantink M., Davies J., Hilgen F., Mason P. & Schaltegger U. (2019) Climate control on banded iron formations linked to orbital eccentricity. Nature Geoscience, doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0332-8

Lena L., Taylor D., Guex J., Bartolini A., Adatte Th., Van Acken D., Spangenberg J., Saman-kassou E., Vennemann T. & Schaltegger U. (2019) The driving mechanisms of the carbon cycle perturbations in the Late Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic). Sci. Rep. 9:18430; doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-54593-1

Widmann P., Bucher H., Leu M., Vennemann T., Bagherpour B., Schneebeli-Herrmann E., Goudemand N. & Schaltegger U. (2020) Dynamics of the largest carbon isotope excursion during the Early Triassic biotic recovery. Frontiers in Earth Science, doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00196

Davies J.H.F.L., Marzoli A., Bertrand H., Youbi N., Ernesto M., Greber N., Ackerson M., Simp-son G., Bouvier A-S., Baumgartner L., Pettke T., Farina F., Ahrenstedt H.V. & Schaltegger U. (2021) Zircon petrochronology in large igneous provinces reveals upper crustal contamination processes: new U-Pb ages, Hf and O isotopes and trace elements from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP). Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 176, 9, doi.org/10.1007/s00410-020-01765-2

Schaltegger U., Ovtcharova M., Gaynor S.P., Davies J.H.F.L., Wotzlaw J.F., Greber N., Farina F., Szymanowski D. & Chelle-Michou C. (2021) Long-term repeatability and interlaboratory repro-ducibility of high-precision ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology. J. Anal. Atom. Spectrom., 36, 1466-1477; doi.org/10.1039/D1JA00116G


Expertise of Urs Schaltegger:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeScientific / Fundamental Research
Topic HydrosphereOcean
Topic LithosphereGeochemical Processes
Tectonics
Sediments: Formation, Dynamics, Metamorphism
Magmatic Rocks: Formation, Metamorphism
Topic Integrated SystemsCarbon Cycle
Biogeochemical Cycles except Carbon
Topic SustainabilityEcological Sustainability
Time FrameTime Frame
Past
Past: Tertiary
Past: Cretaceous
Past: Jurassic
Past: Triassic
Past: Palaeozoic
Past: Precambrian
Time Scale100 kyr
Billenial (Mio yrs)
MethodsData Collection
Data Collection - Measurement
Data Analysis

Specialties of Urs Schaltegger:
Radiogenic isotope geochemistry, geochronology, timescales of magmatic systems, environmental change in the geological past and biotic feedback timescales, mass extinctions

Last update: 9/3/23
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
Update the personal data for Urs Schaltegger

Go Back