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SHUKOLYUKOV, ALEXANDER

Project Scientist

Degrees:

• M.S., St. Petersburg State University, Russia
• Ph.D., St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Research Interests:

• Extinct radionuclides
• Cosmochronology and processes in the early solar system
• Isotope studies of terrestrial impact structures and deposits

Wadhwa M., Amelin Y., Bogdanovski O., Shukolyukov A., Lugmair G. W., and Janney P. (2008) Ancient High-Resolution Relative and Absolute Ages for a Basaltic Meteorite: Implications for Time Scales of Planetesimal Accretion and Differentiation. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta (accepted).

Koeberl C., Shukolyukov A., and Lugmair G.W. (2007) Chromium isotopic studies of terrestrial impact craters: Identification of meteoritic components at Bosumtwi, Clearwater East, Lappajärvi, and Rochechouart. Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett. 256: 534-546.

Maier W.D., Andreoli M., McDonald I., Higgins M.D., Boyce A.J., Shukolyukov A., Lugmair G.W., Ashwal L.D., Graeser P., Ripley E., and Hart R. (2006) Discovery of an asteroid clast in the Morokweng impact melt sheet, South Africa. Nature 441: 203-206.

Shukolyukov A. and Lugmair G.W. (2006) Manganese–chromium isotope systematics of carbonaceous chondrites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 250: 200-213.

Shukolyukov A. and Lugmair G.W. (2003) Manganese-chromium isotope systematics of enstatite meteorites. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta 68: 2875-2888.

Wadhwa M., Shukolyukov A., Davis A.M., Lugmair G.W., and Mittlefehldt D.W. (2003) Differentiation history of the mesosiderite parent body: Constraints from trace elements and manganese-chromium isotope systematics in Vaca Muerta silicate clasts. Geochi. et Cosmochim. Acta 67: 5047-5069.

Lowe, D.R., Byerly, G.R., Kyte, F.T., Shukolyukov, A., Asaro, F., and Krull, A., (2003), Characteristics, origin, and implications of Archean impact-produced spherule beds, 3.47–3.22 Ga, in the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: Keys to the role of large impacts on the evolution of the early Earth: Astrobiology 3: 7-48.

Kyte F.T., Shukolyukov A., Lugmair G.W., Lowe D.R., and Byerly G.R. (2003) Early Archean spherule beds: Chromium isotopes confirm origin from multiple impacts of projectiles of carbonaceous chondrites type. Geology 31: 283-286.

Shukolyukov A. and Lugmair G.W. (2002) Chronology of asteroid accretion and differentiation. in Bottke W.F., Jr, Cellino A., Paolicci P. Binzel R.P., eds, Asteroids III, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 687-695.

Koeberl C., Peucker-Ebrenbrink B., Reimold W.U., Shukolyukov A., and Lugmair G.W. (2002) Comparison of osmium and chromium isotopic methods for the detection of meteoritic components in impactites: Examples from the Morokweng and Vredefort impact structures, South Africa. in Koeberl, C. and MacLeod K.G., eds., Catastrophic Events&Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond, Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 356: 607-617.

Lugmair G.W. and Shukolyukov A. (2001) 53Mn and 60Fe in the early solar system. Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society 72: 403-411.

Lugmair G.W. and Shukolyukov A. (2001) Early solar system events and timescales. Meteoritics & Planet. Sci. 36: 1017-1026.

Shukolyukov A. and Lugmair G.W. (2000) On the 53Mn heterogeneity in the early solar system. Space Science Reviews 92: 225-236.

Shukolyukov A., Kyte F.T., Lugmair G.W., and Lowe D.R. (2000) The oldiest impact deposits on Earth - first confirmation of an extraterestrial component. In Impacts and the Early Earth (I. Gilmour and C. Koeberl, eds.) Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, Heidelberg, v. 92: 99-116.

Lugmair G.W. and Shukolyukov A. (1999) 53Mn and 60Fe in the early solar system. In Astronomy with Radioactivities (R. Diehl, D. Hartmann, eds.) Workshop Proceedings Schloss Ringberg, Sept.29 – Oct. 2, 1999, MPE Report 274, ISSN 0178-0719: 205-212

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2006. Shukolyukov A. and Lugmair G.W. Manganese-chromium isotope systematics of carbonaceous chondrites. Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett. 250: 200-213.

2003. Kyte F.T., Shukolyukov A., Lugmair G.W., Lowe D.R., and Byerly G.R. Early Archean spherule beds: Chromium isotopes confirm origin from multiple impacts of projectiles of carbonaceous chondrites type. Geology 31:283-286.

2001. Lugmair G.W. and Shukolyukov A. Early solar system events and timescales. Meteoritics & Planet. Sci. 36:1017-1026.

1998. Lugmair G.W. and Shukolyukov A. Early solar system timescales according to 53Mn-53Cr systematics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62:2863-2886.

1998. Shukolyukov A. and Lugmair G.W. Isotope evidence for the Cretaceous-Tertiary impactor and its type. Science 282:927-929.

1993. Shukolyukov A. and Lugmair G.W. Live iron-60 in the early solar system. Science 259:1138-1142.