Indiana University, B.S. with Honors, Geology, 1984
Harvard University, Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1989
Approximately 12,100 research citations.
h-index = 58
Research Publications, Peer-reviewed
(Organized by subject)
Impact Cratering on Earth
Chicxulub Impact Event
Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) Boundary Mass Extinction Event
Environmental Consequences of Impact Events
1991 D. A. Kring and W. V. Boynton, "Altered spherules of impact melt and associated relic glass from K/T boundary sediments in Haiti," Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 55, pp. 1737—1742.
1991 A. R. Hildebrand, G. T. Penfield, D. A. Kring, M. Pilkington, A. Camargo Z., S. Jacobsen, and W. V. Boynton, "The Chicxulub Crater: A possible Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico," Geology 19, pp. 867–871.
1992 D. A. Kring and W. V. Boynton, "The petrogenesis of an augite-bearing melt rock in the Chicxulub structure and its relationship to K/T impact spherules in Haiti," Nature 358, pp. 141–144.
1993 D. A. Kring, "The Chicxulub impact event and possible causes of K/T boundary extinctions," in Proceedings of the First Annual Symposium of Fossils of Arizona, D. Boaz and M. Dornan (eds.), Mesa Southwest Museum and the Southwest Paleontological Society, Mesa, pp. 63–79. Invited paper.
1993 D. A. Kring and W. V. Boynton, "K/T melt glasses," Nature 363, pp. 503–504.
1994 D. A. Kring, A. R. Hildebrand, and W. V. Boynton, "Provenance of mineral phases in the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sediments exposed on the southern peninsula of Haiti," Earth Planet. Sci. Letters 128, pp. 629–641.
1995 D. A. Kring, "The dimensions of the Chicxulub impact crater and impact melt sheet," J. Geophys. Res. 100, pp. 16,979-16,986.
1996 D. A. Kring, H. J. Melosh, and D. M. Hunten, "Impact-induced perturbations of atmospheric sulfur," Earth Planet. Sci. Letters 140, pp. 201–212.
1997 D. A. Kring, “Air blast produced by the Meteor Crater impact event and a reconstruction of the affected environment,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 32, pp. 517–530
1997 T. D. Swindle and D. A. Kring, “Implications of small comets for the noble gas inventories of Earth and Mars,” Geophys. Res. Lett. 24, pp. 3113–3116.
1998 E. Pierazzo, D. A. Kring, and H. J. Melosh, “Hydrocode simulation of the Chicxulub impact event and the production of climatically active gases,” J. Geophys. Res. 103, pp. 28607–28626.
2000 D . A. Kring, “Impact events and their effect on the origin, evolution, and distribution of life,” GSA Today 10, no. 8, pp. 1–7. Invited paper.
2002 D. A. Kring and D. D. Durda, “Trajectories and distribution of material ejected from the Chicxulub impact crater: Implications for post-impact widlfires,” J. Geophysical Res. 107(E6), 10.1029/2001JE001532.
2002 D. A. Kring, "Reevaluating the impact cratering kill curve," Meteoritics and Planetary Science 37, pp. 1648–1649.
2003 D. A. Kring, "Environmental consequences of impact cratering events as a function of ambient conditions on Earth," Astrobiology 3(1), pp. 133–152. Invited paper.
2004 D. A. Kring, L. Zurcher, F. Hörz, and J. Urrutia Fucugauchi, "Impact Lithologies and Their Emplacement in the Chicxulub Impact Crater: Initial Results from the Chicxulub Scientific Drilling Project, Yaxcopoil, Mexico," Meteoritics and Planetary Science 39, pp. 879–897.
2004 L. Zurcher and D. A. Kring, "Post-impact hydrothermal alteration in the Yaxcopoil-1 hole, Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico," Meteoritics and Planetary Science 39, pp. 1199–1221.
2004 A. Gelinas, D. A. Kring, L. Zurcher, and J. Urrutia Fucugauchi, O. Morton, and R. J. Walker "Osmium isotope constraints on the proportion of bolide component in Chicxulub impact melts," Meteoritics and Planetary Science 39, pp. 1003–1008.
2004 D. D. Durda and D. A. Kring, "Ignition threshold for impact-generated fires," J. Geophysical Research 109, E08004, 14 p., doi: 10.1029/2004JE002279.
2005 L. Zurcher, D. A. Kring, D. Dettman, and M. Rollog, "Stable isotope record of post-impact fluid activity in the Yaxcopoil-1 borehole, Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico," In Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution III, (T. Kenkmann et al., eds.), Geological Society of America Special Paper 384, pp. 323–338.
2005 D. A. Kring, "Hypervelocity collisions into continental crust composed of sediments and an underlying crystalline basement: Comparing the Ries (~24 km) and Chicxulub (~180 km) impact craters," Chemie der Erde 65, pp. 1–46. Invited paper.
2005 J. V. Bailey, A. S. Cohen, and D. A. Kring, "Lacustrine fossil preservation in acidic environments: Implications of experimental and field studies for the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary acid rain trauma," Palaios 20, pp. 376–389.
2005 V. T. Holliday, D. A. Kring, J. H. Mayer, and R. J. Goble, “Age and effects of the Odessa meteorite impact, Western Texas,” Geology 33, pp. 945–948.
2007 O. Abramov and D. A. Kring, “Numerical modeling of impact-induced hydrothermal activity at the Chicxulub crater,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 42, pp. 93-112.
2007 D. A. Kring, “The Chicxulub impact event and its environmental consequences at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary,” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 255, pp. 4-21. Invited paper.
2010 P. Schulte, L. Alegret, I. Arenillas, J.A. Arz, P.J. Barton, P.R. Bown, T.J. Bralower, G.L. Christeson, P. Claeys, C.S. Cockell, G.S. Collins, A. Deutsch, T.J. Goldin, K. Goto, J.M. Grajeles-Nishimura, R.A.F. Grieve, S.P.S. Gulick, K.R. Johnson, W. Kiessling, C. Koeberl, D.A. Kring, K.G. MacLeod, T. Matsui, J. Melosh, A. Montanari, J.V. Morgan, C.R. Neal, D.J. Nichols, R.D. Norris, E. Pierazzo, G. Ravizza, M. Rebolledo-Vieyra, W.U. Reimold, E. Robin, T. Salge, R.P. Speijer, A.R. Sweet, J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, V. Vajda, M.T. Whalen, and P. Willumsen, “The Chicxulub asteroid impact and mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary,” Science 327, pp. 1214–1218
2010 P. Schulte, L. Alegret, I. Arenillas, J.A. Arz, P.J. Barton, P.R. Bown, T.J. Bralower, G.L. Christeson, P. Claeys, C.S. Cockell, G.S. Collins, A. Deutsch, T.J. Goldin, K. Goto, J.M. Grajeles-Nishimura, R.A.F. Grieve, S.P.S. Gulick, K.R. Johnson, W. Kiessling, C. Koeberl, D.A. Kring, K.G. MacLeod, T. Matsui, J. Melosh, A. Montanari, J.V. Morgan, C.R. Neal, D.J. Nichols, R.D. Norris, E. Pierazzo, G. Ravizza, M. Rebolledo-Vieyra, W.U. Reimold, E. Robin, T. Salge, R.P. Speijer, A.R. Sweet, J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, V. Vajda, M.T. Whalen, and P. Willumsen, “Response – Cretaceous Extinctions,” Science 328, pp. 975–976.
2013 O. Abramov, D. A. Kring, and S. J. Mojzsis (2013) The impact environment of the Hadean Earth. Chemie der Erde – Geochemistry 73, 227–248. Invited review.
2014 S. Marchi, W.F. Bottke, L.T. Elkins-Tanton, M. Bierhaus, K. Wuennemann, A. Morbidelli, and D.A. Kring, “Widespread mixing and burial of Earth’s Hadean crust by asteroid impacts,” Nature 511, 578–582.
2016 J. Morgan, S. Gulick, T. Bralower, E. Chenot, G. Christeson, P. Claeys, C. Cockell, G. S. Collins, M. J. L. Coolen, L. Ferrière, C. Gebhardt, K. Goto, H. Jones, D. A. Kring, E. Le Ber, J. Lofi, X. Long, C. Lowery, C. Mellett, R. Ocampo-Torres, G. R. Osinski, L. Perez-Cruz, A. Pickersgill, M. Pölchau, A. Rae, C. Rasmussen, M. Rebolledo-Vieyra, U. Riller, H. Sato, D. R. Schmitt, J. Smit, S. Tikoo, N. Tomioka, J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, M. Whalen, A. Wittmann, K. Yamaguchi, and W. Zylberman, “The formation of peak rings in large impact craters,” Science 354 (6314), 878-882 [doi: 10.1126/science/aah6561].
2017 D. A. Kring, P. Claeys, S. P. S. Gullick, J. V. Morgan, G. S. Collins, and the IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party, “Chicxulub and the exploration of large peak-ring impact craters through scientific drilling,” GSA Today 27(10), pp. 4–8. Invited paper.
2017 N. Artemieva, J. Morgan, and Expedition 364 Science Party (including D. A. Kring), "Quantifying the release of climate-active gases by large meteorite impacts with a case study of Chicxulub," Geophysical Research Letters 44, 9 p., https://doi.org/10.2002/2017GL074879.
2018 M. Schmieder, B. J. Shaulis, T. J. Lapen, and D. A. Kring, “U-Th-Pb systematics in zircon and apatite from the Chicxulub impact crater, Yucatán, Mexico,” Geological Magazine 155(6), pp. 1330-1350.
2018 G. L. Christeson, S. P. S. Gulick, J. V. Morgan, C. Gebhardt, D. A. Kring, and 33 additional authors, "Extraordinary rocks from the peak ring of the Chicxulub impact crater: P-wave velocity, density, and porosity measurements from IODP/ICDP Expedition 364," Earth and Planetary Science Letters 495, pp. 1 –11.
2018 C. M. Lowery, T. J. Bralower, J. D. Owens, F. J. Rodríguez-Tovar, H. Jones, J. Smit, M. T. Whalen, P. Claeys, K. Farley, S. P. S. Gulick, J. V. Morgan, S. Green, E. Chenot, G. L. Christeson, C. S. Cockell, M. J. L. Coolen, L. Ferrière, C. Gebhardt, K. Goto, D. A. Kring, J. Lofi, R. Ocampo-Torres, L. Perez-Cruz, A. E. Pcikersgill, M. H. Poelchau, A. S. P. Rae, C. Rasmussen, M. Rebolledo-Vieyra, U. Riller, H. Sato, S. M. Tikoo, N. Tomioka, J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J. Vellekoop, A. Wittmann, L. Xiao, K. E. Yamaguchi, and W. Zylberman (2018) Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Nature 558, pp. 288–291.
2018 J. Lofi, D. Smith, C. Delahunty, E. Le Ber, L. Brun, G. Henry, J. Paris, S. Tikoo, W. Zylberman, Ph. A. Pezard, B. Célérier, D. R. Schmitt, C. Nixon, and the Expedition 364 Scientists: S. Gulick, J.V. Morgan, T. Bralowerv E. Chenot, G. Christeson, P. Claeys, C. Cockell, M.J. L. Coolen, L. Ferrière, C. Gebhardt, S. Green, K. Goto, H. Jones, D. A. Kring, X. Long, C. Lowery, C. Mellett, R. Ocampo-Torres, L. Perez-Cruz, A. Pickersgill, M. Poelchau, A. Rae, C. Rasmussen, M. Rebolledo-Vieyra, U. Riller, H. Sato, J. Smit, N. Tomioka, J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, M. Whalen, A. Wittmann, K.E. Yamaguchi, “Drilling-induced and logging-related features illustrated from IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 downhole logs and borehole imaging tools,” Scientific Drilling 24, pp. 1–13.
2018 U. Riller, M. H. Poelchau, A. S.P. Rae, F. Schulte, H. J. Melosh, G. S. Collins, R. A.F. Grieve, J. V. Morgan, S. P. S. Gulick, J. Lofi, N. McCall, D. A. Kring, and the IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party, “Rock fluidization during peak-ring formation of large impact craters,” Nature 562, pp. 511–518.
2019 C. Lowery, J. V. Morgan, S. P. S. Gulick, T. J. Bralower, G. L. Christeson, and the Expedition 364 Scientists (including D. A. Kring), "Ocean drilling perspectives on meteorite impacts," Oceanography 32, pp. 120–134.
2019 J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, L. Pérez-Cruz, J. Morgan, S. Gulick, A. Wittmann, J. Lofi, and IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party (including D. A. Kring), “Peering inside the peak ring of the Chicxulub Impact Crater – its nature and formation mechanism,” Geology Today 35, pp. 68–72.
2019 A. S. P. Rae, G. S. Collins, M. Poelchau, U. Riller, T. M. Davison, R. A. F. Grieve, G. R. Osinski, J. V. Morgan, and IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Scientists (including D. A. Kring), “Stress-strain evolution during peak-ring formation: A case study of the Chicxulub impact structure,” J. Geophysical Research-Planets 124, 396–417.
2019 C. Rasmussen, D. F. Stockli, C. H. Ross, A. Pickersgill, S. P. Gulick, M. Schmieder, G. L. Christeson, A. Wittmann, D. A. Kring, J. V. Morgan, and the IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party, “Age preservation in Chicxulub's peak ring - applying U-Pb depth profiling to shocked zircon,” Chemical Geology 525, 356–367.
2019 A. S. P. Rae, G. S. Collins, J. V. Morgan, T. Salge, G. L. Christeson, L. Leung, J. Lofi, S. P. S. Gulick , M. Poelchau, U. Riller, C. Gebhardt, R. A. F. Grieve, G. R. Osinski, and IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Scientists (including D. A. Kring), “Impact-induced porosity and microfracturing at the Chicxulub impact structure,” J. Geophysical Research – Planets, 124, 1960–1978.
2019 S. P. S. Gulick, T. Bralower, J. Ormö, B. Hall, K. Grice, B. Schaefer, S. Lyons, K. Freeman, J. Morgan, N. Artemieva, P. Kaskes, S. de Graaff, M. Whalen, G. Collins, S. Tikoo, C. Verhagen, G. Christeson, Ph. Claeys, M. Coolen, S. Goderis, K. Goto, R. Grieve, N. McCall, G. Osinski, A. Rae, U. Riller, J. Smit, V. Vajda, A. Wittmann, and Expedition Scientists (including D. A. Kring), “The First Day of the Cenozoic,” Proc. National Academy of Sciences 116(39) 19342-19351.
2019 N. E. Timms, M. A. Pearce, T. M. Erickson, A. J. Cavosie, A. S. P. Rae, J. Wheeler, A. Wittmann, L. Ferrière, M. H. Poelchau, N. Tomioka, G. S. Collins, S.P. S. Gulick, C. Rasmussen, J. V. Morgan, and IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Scientists (including D. A. Kring), “New shock microstructures in titanite (CaTiSiO5) from the peak ring of the Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico,” Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 174:38 (23p.), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-019-1565-7.
2020 J. Zhao, L. Xiao, S. P. S. Gulick, J. V. Morgan, D. A. Kring, J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, M. Schmieder, S. J. de Graaff, A. Wittmann, C. H. Ross, Ph. Claeys, A. Pickersgill, P. Kaskes, S. Goderis, C. Rasmussen, V. Vajda, L. Ferriere, J.-G. Feignon, E. Chenot, L. Perez-Cruz, H. Sato, K. Yamaguchi, “Geochemistry, geochronology and petrogenesis of Maya Block granitoids and dykes from the Chicxulub impact crater, Gulf of México: Implications for the assembly of Pangea,” Gondwana Research 82, 128–150.
2020 V. Smith, S. Warny, D. M. Jarzen, T. Demchuk, V. Vajda, and The Expedition 364 Science Party (including D. A. Kring) Palaeocene-Eocene miospores from the Chicxulub impact crater, Mexico. Part 1: spores and gymnosperm pollen. Palynology 44(3), 473–487.
2020 V. Smith, S. Warny, K. Grice, B. Schaefer, M. T. Whalen, J. Vellekoop, E. Chenot, S. P. S. Gulick, I. Arenillas, J. A. Arz, T. Bauersachs, T. Bralower, F. Demory, J. Gattacceca, H. Jones, J. Lofi, C. M. Lowery, J. Morgan, N. B. Nuñez Otaño, J. M. K. O'Keefe, K. O'Malley, R. J. Rodríguez-Tovar, L. Schwark, and the IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Scientists (including D. A. Kring) Life and death in the Chicxulub impact crater: a record of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Climate of the Past 16, 1889–1899, doi:10.5194/cp-16-1889-2020.
2020 G. S. Collins, N. Patel, T. M. Davison, A. S. P. Rae, J. V. Morgan, S. P. S. Gulick, and the IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party (including D. A. Kring), “A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact,” Nature Communications 11, 1480, 10p., doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15269-x.
2020 D. A. Kring, S. M. Tikoo, M. Schmieder, U. Riller, M. Rebolledo-Vieyra, S. L. Simpson, G. R. Osinski, J. Gattacceca, A. Wittmann, C. M. Verhagen, C. S. Cockell, M. J. L. Coolen, F. J. Longstaffe, S. P. S. Gulick, J. V. Morgan, T. J. Bralower, E. Chenot, G. L. Christeson, Ph. Claeys, L. Ferrière, C. Gebhardt, K. Goto, S. L. Green, H. Jones, J. Lofi, C. M. Lowery, R. Ocampo-Torres, L. Perez-Cruz, A. E. Pickersgill, M. H. Poelchau, A. S. P. Rae, C. Rasmussen, H. Sato, J. Smit, N. Tomioka, J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, M. T. Whalen, L. Xiao, and K. E. Yamaguchi, “Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater,” Science Advances 6, 9p., eaaz3053.
2020 M. A. Cox, T. M. Erickson, M. Schmieder, R. Christoffersen, D. K. Ross, A. J. Cavosie, P. A. Bland, D. A. Kring, and the IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Scientists, “High-resolution microstructural analysis of shock deformation in apatite from the peak ring of the Chicxulub impact crater,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 55, 1715–1733.
2020 S. L. Simpson, G. R. Osinski, F. J. Longstaffe, M. Schmieder, and D. A. Kring, “Hydrothermal alteration associated with the Chicxulub impact crater upper peak-ring breccias,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 547, 12 p., 116425, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116425.
2020 T. Bralower, J. Cosmidis, M. S. Fantle, C. M. Lowery, B. H. Passey, S. P. S. Gulick, J. V. Morgan, V. Vajda, M. T. Whalen, A. Wittmann, N. Artemieva, K. Farley, S. Goderis, E. Hajek, D. A. Kring, S. L. Lyons, C. Rasmussen, E. Sibert, F. J. Tovar, G. Turner-Walker, J. C Zachos, J. Carte, S. A. Chen, C. Cockell, M. Coolen, K. H. Freeman, J. Garbar, M. Gonzalez, K. Grice, P. J. Heaney, H. L. Jones, B. Schaefer, J. Smit, and S. M. Tikoo, “The habitat of the nascent Chicxulub crater,” AGU Advances 1, 27 p., e2020AV000208, doi:10.1029/2020AV00208.
2020 M. T. Whalen, S. P. S. Gulick, C. M. Lowery, T. J. Bralower, J. V. Morgan, K. Grice, B. Schaefer, J. Smit, J. Ormö, A. Wittmann, D. A. Kring, S. Lyons, S. Goderis, F. J. Rodríguez-Tovar, and the IODP Expedition 364 Scientists, “Winding down the Chicxulub impact: the transition between impact and normal marine sedimentation at ground zero,” Marine Geology 430, 18p., 106368, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106368.
2021 D. A. Kring, M. J. Whitehouse, and M. Schmieder, “Microbial sulfur isotope fractionation in the Chicxulub hydrothermal system,” Astrobiology 21, 103–114, doi:10.1089/ast.2020.2286.
2021 F. M. Schulte, A. Wittmann, S. Jung, J. V. Morgan, S. P.S. Gulick, D. A. Kring, R. A.F. Grieve, G. R. Osinski, U. Riller, and the IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party, “Ocean resurge-induced impact melt dynamics on the peak-ring of the Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico,” International Journal of Earth Sciences, 18p., doi:10.1007/s00531-021-02008-w.
2021 S. Goderis, H. Sato, L. Ferrière, B. Schmitz, D. Burney, P. Kaskes, J. Vellekoop, A. Wittmann, T. Schulz, S. Chernonozhkin, Ph. Claeys, S. J. de Graaff, T. Déhais, N. J. de Winter, M. Elfman, J.-G. Feignon, A. Ishikawa, C. Koeberl, P. Kristiansson, C. R. Neal, J. D. Owens, M. Schmieder, M. Sinnesael, F. Vanhaecke, S. J. M. Van Malderen, T. J. Bralower, S. P. S. Gulick, D. A. Kring, C. M. Lowery, J. V. Morgan, J. Smit, M. T. Whalen, and the IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Scientists, “Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure,” Science Advances 7, 13 p., eabe3647.
2021 J. Zhao, L. Xiao, Z. Xiao, J. V. Morgan, G. R. Osinski, C. R. Neal, S. P. S. Gulick, U. Riller, Ph. Claeys, S. Zhao, N. C. Prieur, A. Nemchin, S. Yu, and IODP 364 Science Party (including D. A. Kring), “Shock-deformed zircon from the Chicxulub impact crater and implications for cratering process,” Geology 49, 755–760.
2021 C. S. Cockell, B. Schaefer, C. Wuchter, M. J. L. Coolen, K. Grice, L. Schnieders, J. V. Morgan, S. P. S. Gulick, A. Wittmann, J. Lofi, G. L. Christeson, D. A. Kring, M. T. Whalen, T. J. Bralower, G. Osinski, Ph. Claeys, P. Kaskes, S. de Graaff, T. Dehais, S. Goderis, N. Hernandez Becerra, S. Nixon and IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Scientists, “Shaping of the Present-Day Deep Biosphere at Chicxulub by the Impact Catastrophe That Ended the Cretaceous,” Frontiers in Microbiology 12:668240, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.668240.
2021 D. A. Kring and W. Bach, “Hydrogen production from alteration of Chicxulub Crater impact breccias: Potential energy source for a subsurface microbial ecosystem,” Astrobiology 21, 1547–1564.
2021 A. Wittmann, A. J. Cavosie, N. E. Timms, L. Ferrière, A. Rae, C. Rasmussen, C. Ross, D. Stockli, M. Schmieder, D. A. Kring, J. Zhao, L. Xiao, J. V. Morgan, S. P. S. Gulick, and the IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Scientists, “Shock impedance amplified impact deformation of zircon in granitic rocks from the Chicxulub impact crater,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 575, 13p., doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117201.
2022 S. L. Simpson, F. J. Longstaffe, G. R. Osinski, C. M. Caudill, and D. A. Kring, “A low-temperature, meteoric water-dominated origin for smectite clay minerals in the Chicxulub impact crater upper peak ring, as inferred from their oxygen and hydrogen isotope compositions,” Chemical Geology 588, 17p., doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120639.
2022 C. H. Ross, D. F. Stockli, C. Rasmussen, S. P.S. Gulick, S. J. de Graaff, Ph. Claeys, J. Zhao, L. Xiao, A. E. Pickersgill, M. Schmieder, D. A. Kring, A. Wittmann, and J. V. Morgan, “Evidence of Carboniferous Arc Magmatism Preserved in the Chicxulub Impact Structure,” GSA Bulletin 134, 241–260.
2022 L. Hernandez-Terrones, L. Martínez, J. Szamotulski, E. González-Partida, J. V. Morgan, S. P. S. Gulick, C. M. Lowery, M. Rebolledo-Vieyra, and D. A. Kring, “Study of fluid circulation through the Chicxulub crater using Rock-Eval pyrolysis and fluid inclusions,” Applied Geochemistry, in press.
2022 C. G. Nixon, D. R. Schmitt, R. Kofman, J. Lofi, S. P. S. Gulick, S. Saustrup, G. L. Christeson, and D. A. Kring, “Borehole Seismic Observations from the Chicxulub Impact Drilling: Implications for Seismic Reflectivity and Impact Damage,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23, 22p., e2021GC009959, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC009959.
2022 E. Le Ber, D. Loggia, N. Denchik, J. Lofi, D. A. Kring, P. Sardini, M. Siitari-Kauppi, P. Pezard, G. Olivier, and IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party, “Petrophysics of Chicxulub impact crater's peak ring.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 127, 24p., e2021JB023801.
2023 C. M. Verhagen, J.-I. Jung, S. M. Tikoo, A. Wittmann, D. A. Kring, S. Brachfeld, L. Wu, D. H. Burns, S. P. S. Gulick, “Significance of Secondary Fe-Oxide and Fe-Sulfide Minerals in Upper Peak Ring Suevite from the Chicxulub Impact Structure,” Minerals 13, 353, 19 p.
2024 S. N. Quraish, C. Cockell, C. Wuchter, D. A. Kring, K. Grice, and M. J. L. Coolen, “Deep subsurface microbial life in impact-altered Late Paleozoic granitoid rocks from the Chicxulub impact crater,” Geobiology 22, e12583, 14 p., DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12583.
Impact Cataclysm 3.9–4.0 Billion Years Ago?
2000 D. A. Kring, “Impact events and their effect on the origin, evolution, and distribution of life,” GSA Today 10, no. 8, pp. 1–7. Invited paper.
2000 B. A. Cohen, T. D. Swindle, and D. A. Kring, “Lunar meteorites support the lunar cataclysm hypothesis,” Science 290, pp. 1754–1756.
2002 D. A. Kring and B. A. Cohen, “Cataclysmic bombardment throughout the inner solar system 3.9-4.0 Ga, J. Geophys. Res. 107(E2), pp. 4-1 to 4–6, 10.1029/2001JE001529.
2002 I. J. Daubar, D. A. Kring, T. D. Swindle, and A. J. T. Jull, "Northwest Africa 482: A crystalline impact melt breccia from the lunar highlands," Meteoritics and Planetary Science 37, pp. 1797–1813, 2002.
2003 D. A. Kring, "Environmental consequences of impact cratering events as a function of ambient conditions on Earth," Astrobiology 3(1), pp. 133–152, 2003. Invited paper.
2004 H. Campins, T. D. Swindle, and D. A. Kring, "Evaluating comets as a source of Earth's water," in Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Environments, volume 6, Origins: Genesis, Evolution and Diversity of Life, J. Seckbach (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 569–591. Invited paper.
2005 B. A. Cohen, T. D. Swindle, and D. A. Kring, “Geochemistry and Ar-40-Ar-39 geochronology of impact melt clasts in lunar highlands meteorites: Implications for lunar bombardment history,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 40, pp. 755–777.
2005 R.G. Strom, R. Maholtra, T. Ito, F. Yoshida, and D .A. Kring, “The origin of planetary impactors in the inner solar system,” Science 309, pp. 1847–1850.
2006 T. Ito, R. G. Strom, R. Malhotra, F. Yoshida, and D. A. Kring, “Size distribution of asteroids and old terrestrial craters: Implications for asteroid dynamics during LHB,” Advances in Geosciences 3 (Planetary Science), pp. 337–343.
2008 I.S. Puchtel, R.J. Walker, O.B. James, and D.A. Kring, “Osmium isotope and highly siderophile element systematics of lunar impact melt rocks: Implications for the late accretion history of the Moon and Earth,” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, pp. 3022–3042.
2009 T.D. Swindle, C.E. Isachsen, J.R. Weirich, and D.A. Kring, “40Ar–39Ar ages of H–chondrite impact melt breccias,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 44, pp. 747–762.
2011 K. H. Joy, D. A. Kring, D. D. Bogard, D. S. McKay, and M. E. Zolensky, “Re-examination of the formation ages of the Apollo 16 regolith breccias,” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, pp. 7208–7225.
2012 S. Marchi, W. F. Bottke, D. A. Kring, and A. Morbidelli, “The onset of the lunar cataclysm as recorded in its ancient crater populations,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 325–326, pp. 27–38.
2012 K. H. Joy, M. E. Zolensky, K. Nagashima, G. R. Huss, D. K. Ross, D. S. McKay, and D. A. Kring, “Direct detection of projectile relics from the end of the lunar basin-forming epoch,” Science 336, pp. 1426–1429.
2012 A. Morbidelli, S. Marchi, W. F. Bottke, and D.A. Kring, “A sawtooth-like timeline for the first billion years of lunar bombardment,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 355-356, pp. 144–151.
2013 S. Marchi, W. F. Bottke, B. A. Cohen, K. Wünnemann, D. A. Kring, H. Y. McSween, M. C. De Sanctis, D. P. O’Brien, P. Schenk, C. A. Raymond, and C. T. Russell, “High-velocity collisions from the lunar cataclysm recorded in asteroidal meteorites,”Nature Geosciences 6, 303–307.
2013 O. Abramov, D. A. Kring, and S. J. Mojzsis (2013) The impact environment of the Hadean Earth. Chemie der Erde – Geochemistry 73, 227–248. Invited review.
2014 T. D. Swindle, D. A. Kring, J. R. Wierich, “40Ar-39Ar ages of impacts involving ordinary chondrite meteorites,” in Advances in 40Ar/39Ar Dating: from Archeaology to Planetary Sciences, Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 378, 333–347.
2019 T. Niihara, S. P. Beard, T. D. Swindle, L. A. Schaffer, H. Miyamoto, and D. A. Kring, “Evidence for multiple 4.0 – 3.7 Ga impact events within the Apollo 16 collection,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 54, 675–698.
Impact Cratering on Earth
Miscellaneous Impact Events
1992 U. B. Marvin and D. A. Kring, "Authentication controversies and impactite petrography of the New Quebec Crater," Meteoritics 27, pp. 585–595.
1999 J. A. Grier, T. D. Swindle, D. A. Kring, and H. J. Melosh, “40Ar-39Ar analyses of samples from the Gardnos impact structure, Norway,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 34, pp. 803–807.
2001 A. J. T. Jull, G. S. Burr, and D. A. Kring, "A comment on evidence for a very high carbon/iridium ratio in the Tunguska impactor, " Meteoritics and Planetary Science 36, pp. 999–1006.
2006 M. E. Elwood Madden, D. A. Kring, and R. J. Bodnar, “Shock reequilibration of fluid inclusions in Coconino Sandstone from Meteor Crater, Arizona,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 241, pp. 32–46.
2006 G. Komatsu, J. W. Olsen, J. Ormö, G. Di Achille, D. A. Kring, T. Matsui, “The Tsenkher structure in the Gobi-Altai, Mongolia: Geomorphologic evidence of an impact origin,” Geomorphology 74, pp. 164–180.
2006 M. E. Elwood Madden, D. A. Kring, and R. J. Bodnar, “Shock reequilibration of fluid inclusions in Ries Crater crystalline basement rocks,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 41, pp. 247–262.
2007 R. A. F. Grieve and D. A. Kring, “The geologic record of destructive impact events on Earth,” In Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society, P. Bobrowsky and H. Rickman (eds.), Springer, Berlin, pp. 3–24. Invited paper.
2008 P.S. Kumar and D.A. Kring, “Impact fracturing and structural modification of sedimentary rocks at Meteor Crater, Arizona,” J. Geophysical Research 113, E09009, 17 p., doi: 10.1029/2008JE003115.
2009 A. Wittmann, R.-T. Schmitt, L. Hecht, D. A. Kring, W.U. Reimold, and H. Povenmire, “Petrology of impact melt rocks from the Chesapeake Bay crater, USA,” in The ICDP-USGS Deep Drilling Project in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Results from the Eyreville Core Holes, G.S. Gohn et al. (editors), Geological Society of America Special Paper 458, pp. 377-396, doi: 10.1130/2009.2458(17).
2009 M. H. Poelchau, T. Kenkmann, and D. A. Kring, “Rim uplift and crater shape in Meteor Crater: Effects of target heterogeneities and trajectory obliquity,” Journal of Geophysical Research 114, E01006, 14p., doi:10.1029/2008JE003235.
2010 W. F. Cannon, K. J. Schulz, J. W. Horton, and D. A. Kring, “The Sudbury impact layer in the Paleoproterozoic iron ranges of northern Michigan, USA,” Geological Society of America Bulletin 122, pp. 50–75.
2010 Kumar, J. W. Head, and D. A. Kring, “Erosional modification and gully formation at Meteor Crater, Arizona: Insights to crater degradation processes on Mars,” Icarus 20, pp. 608–620.
2012 O. Abramov, S. M. Wong, and D. A. Kring, “Differential melt scaling for oblique impacts on terrestrial planets,” Icarus 218, pp. 905–916.
2015 R. W. K. Potter, D. A. Kring, and G. S. Collins, “Scaling of basin-sized impacts and the influence of target temperature,” in Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V, G. R. Osinski and D. A. Kring (eds.), Special Paper 518, pages 99-113, Geological Society of America, Boulder.
2019 T. M. Erickson, N. E. Timms, M. A. Pearce, C. Cayron, A. Deutsch, L. P. Keller, and D. A. Kring, "Shock-produced high-pressure (La, Ce, Th)PO4 polymorph revealed by microstructural phase heritage of monazite," Geology 47, pp. 504–508.
2019 M. Schmieder, B. J. Shaulis, T. J. Lapen, E. Buchner, and D. A. Kring, “In situ U–Pb analysis of shocked zircon from the Charlevoix impact structure, Québec, Canada,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 54, pp. 1808–1827.
2020 M. Schmieder and D. A. Kring, “Earth’s impact events through geologic time – A list of recommended ages for terrestrial impact structures and deposits,” Astrobiology 20, pp. 91–141.
2020 C. D. Hilton, R. D. Ash, P. M. Piccoli, D. A. Kring, T. J. McCoy, and R. J. Walker, “Origin and age of metal veins in Canyon Diablo graphite nodules,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 55, pp. 771–780.
2022 S. P. Beard, T. D. Swindle, D. A. Kring, and T. J. Lapen, “Ar-Ar and U-Pb Ages of Chelyabinsk and a Re-Evaluation of Its Impact Chronology,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 57, 2276-2288.
2023 M. C. Palucis, A. D. Howard, D. A. Kring, K. Nishiizumi, and W. E. Dietrich, “The runoff required to drive post-impact gully development on the walls of Meteor Crater (Arizona, USA),” GSA Bulletin, in press.
Geologic Evolution of Asteroids
1996 D. A. Kring, T. D. Swindle, D. T. Britt, and J. A. Grier, "Cat Mountain: A meteoritic sample of an impact-melted asteroid regolith," J. Geophys. Res. 101, pp. 29,353–29,371.
1998 T. D. Swindle, D. A. Kring, M. K. Burkland, D. H. Hill, and W. V. Boynton, "Noble gases, bulk chemistry, and petrography of olivine-rich achondrites Eagles Nest and LEW 88763: Comparison to brachinites," Meteoritics and Planetary Science 33, pp. 31–48.
1999 D. A. Kring, D. H. Hill, J. D. Gleason, D. T. Britt, G. J. Consomagno, M. Farmer, S. Wilson, and R. Haag, “Portales Valley: A meteoritic sample of the brecciated and metal-veined floor of an impact crater on an H-chondrite asteroid,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 34, pp. 663–669.
2001 D. A. Kring, A. J. T. Jull, L. R. McHargue, P. A. Bland, D. H. Hill, and F. J. Berry, “Gold Basin meteorite strewn field, Mojave Desert, northwestern Arizona: Relic of a small Late Pleistocene impact event,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 36, pp. 1057–1066.
2004 J. A. Grier, D. A. Kring, T. D. Swindle, A. S. Rivkin, B. A. Cohen, and D. T. Britt, "Analyses of the chondritic meteorite Orvinio (H6): Further insight into the origins and evolution of shocked H-chondrite material," Meteoritics and Planetary Science 39, pp. 1475–1493.
2009 T. D. Swindle, C. E. Isachsen, J. R. Weirich, and D. A. Kring, 40Ar-39Ar ages of H-chondrite impact melt breccias,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 44, pp. 747–762.
2010 A. Wittmann, T. D. Swindle, L. C. Cheek, E. A. Frank, and D. A. Kring, “Impact Cratering on the H chondrite Parent Asteroid,” Journal of Geophysical Research 115, 22p., E07009, doi: 10.1029/2009JE003433.
2010 J. R. Weirich, A. Wittmann, C. E. Isachsen, D. Rumble, T. D. Swindle, and D. A. Kring, “The Ar-Ar age and petrology of Miller Range 05029: Evidence for a large impact in the very early solar system, ” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 45, 1868–1888.
2011 A. Wittmann, J. M. Friedrich, J. Troiano, R. J. Macke, D. T. Britt, T. D. Swindle, J. R. Weirich, D. Rumble III, J. Lasue, and D. A. Kring, “H/L chondrite LaPaz Icefield 031047 — A feather of Icarus?, ” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, pp. 6140–6159.
2013 S. Marchi, W. F. Bottke, B. A. Cohen, K. Wünnemann, D. A. Kring, H. Y. McSween, M. C. De Sanctis, D. P. O’Brien, P. Schenk, C. A. Raymond, and C. T. Russell, “High-velocity collisions from the lunar cataclysm recorded in asteroidal meteorites,”Nature Geosciences 6, 303–307.
2014 S. Marchi, W. F. Bottke, D. P. O’Brien, P. Schenk, S. Mottola, M. C. De Sanctis, D. A. Kring, D. A. Williams, C. A. Raymond, and C. T. Russell, “Small crater populations on Vesta,” Planetary and Space Science 103, 96-103.
2014 T. D. Swindle, D. A. Kring, J. R. Wierich, “40Ar-39Ar ages of impacts involving ordinary chondrite meteorites,” in Advances in 40Ar/39Ar Dating: from Archeaology to Planetary Sciences, Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 378, 333–347.
2016 M. Schmieder, D. A. Kring, T. D. Swindle, J. C. Bond, and C. B. Moore, “The Gao-Guenie impact melt breccia – Sampling a rapidly cooled impact melt dike on an H-chondrite asteroid?,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 51, 1022–1045.
2021 C. A. Goodrich, D. A. Kring, and R. Greenwood, “Xenoliths in ordinary chondrites and ureilites: Implications for early solar system dynamics,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 56, 1949–1987.
2022 S. P. Beard, T. D. Swindle, D. A. Kring, and T. J. Lapen, “Ar-Ar and U-Pb Ages of Chelyabinsk and a Re-Evaluation of Its Impact Chronology,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 57, 2276-2288.
Lunar Exploration
See also the section above regarding Impact Cataclysm 3.9-4.0 Billion Years Ago
2011 K. M. O’Sullivan, T. Kohout, K. G. Thaisen, and D. A. Kring, “Calibrating several key lunar stratigraphic units representing 4 billion years of lunar history within Schrödinger Basin,” in Recent Advances in Lunar Stratigraphy, D.A. Williams and W. Ambrose (eds.), Geological Society of America Special Paper 477, pp. 117–138, Boulder, CO.
2012 T. Öhman and D. A. Kring, “Photogeologic analysis of impact melt-rich lithologies in Kepler Crater that could be sampled by future missions,” Journal of Geophysical Research 117, E00H08, doi: 10.1029/2011JE003918.
2012 O. Abramov, S. M. Wong, and D. A. Kring, “Differential melt scaling for oblique impacts on terrestrial planets,” Icarus 218, pp. 905–916.
2012 D. Eppler and 40 co-authors, including D. A. Kring, “Desert Research and Technology Studies (DRATS) 2010 science operations: Operational approaches and lessons learned for managing science during human planetary surface missions,” Acta Astronautica 90, pp. 224–241.
2012 J. Flahaut, J.-F. Blanchette-Guertin, C. E. Jilly, P. Sharma, A. L. Souchon, W. van Westrenen, and D. A. Kring, “Identification and characterization of science-rich landing sites for lunar lander missions using integrated remote sensing observations,” Advances in Space Research 50, pp. 1647–1665.
2012 R. W. K. Potter, G. S. Collins, W. S. Kiefer, P. J. McGovern, and D. A. Kring, "Constraining the size of the South Pole-Aitken Basin impact," Icarus 220, pp. 730–743.
2012 R. W. K. Potter, D. A. Kring, G. S. Collins, W. S. Kiefer, and P. J. McGovern, "Estimating transient crater size using the crustal annular bulge: Insights from numerical modeling of lunar basin-scale impacts". Geophysical Research Letters 39, L18203, 5 p., doi:10.1029/2012GL052981.
2013 J.O. Burns, D.A. Kring, J.B. Hopkins, S. Norris, T.J.W. Lazio, and J. Kasper, “A lunar L2-farside exploration and science mission concept with the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and a teleoperated lander/rover,” J. Advances in Space Research 52, pp. 306–320.
2013 A.L. Nahm, T. Öhman, and D.A. Kring, “Normal faulting origin for the Cordillera and Outer Rook Rings of Orientale Basin, the Moon,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 118, 1–16, doi: 10.1002/jgre.20045.
2013 P.S. Kumar, V. Keerthi, A.S. Kumar, B.G. Krishna, Amitabh, L.R. Ostrach, D.A. Kring, A.S.K. Kumar, and J.N. Goswami, “Gullies and landslides on the Moon: Evidence for dry-granular flows,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 118, 1-18, doi:10.1002/jgre20043.
2013 G.Y. Kramer, D.A. Kring, A.L. Nahm, C.M. Pieters, “Spectral and photogeologic mapping of Schrödinger basin and implications for post-South Pole-Aitken impact deep subsurface stratigraphy,” Icarus 223, pp. 131–148.
2013 R.W.K. Potter, D.A. Kring, G.S. Collins, W.S. Kiefer, and P.J. McGovern, “Numerical modeling of the formation and structure of the Orientale impact basin,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 118, pp. 963–979, doi:.10.1002/jgre.20080.
2013 D. Eppler and 40 co-authors, including D. A. Kring, “Desert Research and Technology Studies (DRATS) 2010 science operations: Operational approaches and lessons learned for managing science during human planetary surface missions,” Acta Astronautica 90, 224–241.
2013 R. W. K. Potter, D. A. Kring, and G. S. Collins, “Quantifying the attenuation of structural uplift beneath large lunar craters,” Geophysical Research Letters 40, pp. 5615–5620.
2014 A.L. Fagan, K. H. Joy, D. D. Bogard, and D. A. Kring, “Ages of globally distributed lunar paleoregoliths and soils from 3.9 Ga to the present,” Earth, Moon, and Planets112, 59–71.
2014 D. M. Hurwitz and D. A. Kring, “Differentiation of the South Pole-Aitken basin impact melt sheet: Implications for lunar exploration,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 119, 1110-1133, doi:10.1002/2013JE004530.
2014 T. Öhman, G. Y. Kramer, and D. A. Kring, “Characterization of Melt and Ejecta Deposits of Kepler Crater from Remote Sensing Data,” Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets 119, 1238–1258, doi: 10.1002/2013JE004501.
2014 M. Lemelin, D. M. Blair, C. E. Roberts, K. D. Runyon, D. Nowka, and D. A. Kring, “High-priority lunar landing sites for in situ and sample return studies of polar volatiles,” Planetary and Space Science 101, 149–161.
2014 K.H. Joy, A. Nemchin, M. Grange, T.J. Lapen, A.H. Peslier, D.K. Ross, M.E. Zolensky, and D.A. Kring, “Petrography, geochronology, and source terrain characteristics of lunar meteorites Dhofar 925, 961, and Sayh al Uhaymir 449,” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 144, 299–325.
2015 N. J. Potts, A. L. Gullikson, N. M. Curran, J. K. Dhaliwal, M. K. Leader, R. N. Rege, K. K. Klaus, and D. A. Kring, “Robotic traverse and sample return strategies for a lunar farside mission to the Schrödinger basin,” Advances in Space Research 55, 1241–1254.
2015 R. W. K. Potter, D. A. Kring, and G. S. Collins, “Scaling of basin-sized impacts and the influence of target temperature,” in Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V, G. R. Osinski and D. A. Kring (eds.), Special Paper 518, pages 99-113, Geological Society of America, Boulder.
2015 J. Liu, M. Sharp, R. D. Ash, D. A. Kring, and R. J. Walker, “Diverse impactors in Apollo 15 and 16 impact melt rocks: Evidence from osmium isotopes and highly siderophile elements,” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 155, 122–153.
2015 K. H. Joy, C. Visscher, M. E. Zolensky, T. Mikouchi, K. Hagiya, K. Ohsumi, and D. A. Kring, “Identification of magnetite in lunar regolith breccia 60016: Evidence for oxidised conditions at the lunar surface,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 50, 1157–1172.
2015 D. Hurwitz and D. A. Kring, “Potential sample sites for South Pole-Aitken basin impact melt within the Schrödinger basin,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 427, 31–36.
2016 D. Hurwitz and D. A. Kring, “Identifying the geologic context of Apollo 17 impact melt breccias,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 436, pp. 64–70.
2016 P. S. Kumar, U. Sruthi, N. Krishna, K. J. P. Lakshmi, R. Menon, Amitabh, B. G. Krishna, D. A. Kring, J. W. Head, J.N. Goswami, and A. S. K. Kumar, “Recent shallow moonquake and impact-triggered boulder falls on the Moon: New insights from the Schrödinger basin,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 121, 33 p., doi:10.1002/2015JE004850.
2016 E. S. Steenstra, D. J. P. Martin, F. E. McDonald, S. Paisarnsombat, C. Venturino, S. O’Hara, A. Calzada-Diaz, S. Bottoms, M. K. Leader, K. K. Klaus, W. van Westrenen, D. H. Needham, and D. A. Kring, “Analyses of Robotic Traverses and Sample Sites in the Schrödinger basin for the HERACLES Human-Assisted Sample Return Mission Concept,” J. Advances in Space Research 58, pp. 1050–1065.
2016 J. J. Barnes, D. A. Kring, R. Tartèse, I. A. Franchi, M. Anand, and S. S. Russell, “An asteroidal origin for water in the Moon,” Nature Communications 7, 10 p., doi:10.1038/NCOMMS11684.
2016 K. H. Joy, I. A. Crawford, N. A. Curran, M. E. Zolensky, A. L. Fagan, and D. A. Kring, “The Moon as an archive of small body migration in the Solar System,” Earth Moon and Planets 118, pp. 133–158.
2016 D. A. Kring, G. Y. Kramer, G. S. Collins, R. W. K. Potter, and M. Chandnani, “Peak-ring structure and kinematics from a multi-disciplinary study of the Schrödinger impact basin,” Nature Communications 7, 13161, 10 p., doi: 10.1038/ncomms13161.
2017 D. Needham and D. A. Kring, “Lunar volcanism produced a transient atmosphere around the ancient Moon,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 478, pp. 175–178.
2019 E. J. Allender, C. Orgel, N. V. Almeida, J. Cook, J. J. Ende, O. Kamps, S. Mazrouei, T. J. Slezak, A-J. Soini, and D. A. Kring, “Traverses for the ISECG-GER design reference mission for humans on the lunar surface,” Advances in Space Research 63, 692–727.
2019 J. J. Bellucci, A. A. Nemchin, M. Grange, K. L. Robinson, G. Collins, M. Whitehouse, J. F. Snape, M. D. Norman, and D. A. Kring, “Terrestrial-like zircon in a clast from an Apollo 14 breccia,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 510, 173–185.
2019 J. O. Burns, B. Mellinkoff, M. Spydell, T. Fong, D. A. Kring, W. D. Pratt, T. Cichan, and C. M. Edwards, “Science on the lunar surface facilitated by low latency telerobotics from a Lunar Orbiting Platform-Gateway,” Acta Astronautica 154, 195–203.
2019 V. T. Bickel, C. I. Honniball, S. N. Martinez, A. Rogaski, H. M. Sargeant, S. K. Bell, E. C. Czaplinski, B. E. Farrant, E. M. Harrington, G. D. Tolometti, and D. A. Kring, “Analysis of lunar boulder tracks: Implications for trafficability of pyroclastic deposits,” J. Geophysical Research - Planets 124, 1296–1314.
2020 H. M. Sargeant, V. T. Bickel, C. I. Honniball, S. N. Martinez, A. Rogaski, S. K. Bell, E. C. Czaplinski, B. E. Farrant, E. M. Harrington, G. D. Tolometti, and D. A. Kring, “Using Boulder Tracks as a Tool to Understand the Bearing Capacity of Permanently Shadowed Regions of the Moon,” Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets 125, 14p., e2019JE006157. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006157
2020 K. H. Joy, R. Tartese, S. Messenger, M. E. Zolensky, Y. Marrocchi, D. R. Frank, and D. A. Kring, “The isotopic composition of volatiles in the unique Bench Crater carbonaceous chondrite impactor found in the Apollo 12 regolith,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 540, 12 p., 116265, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116265.
2020 K. H. Joy, J. F. Snape, A. A. Nemchin, R. Tartèse, D. M. Martin, M. J. Whitehouse, V. Vishnyakov, J. F. Pernet-Fisher, and D. A. Kring, “Timing of geological events in the lunar highlands recorded in shocked zircon-bearing clasts from Apollo 16,” Royal Society Open Science 7, 21 p., 200236, doi:10.1098/rsos.200236.
2020 V. Bickel and D. A. Kring, “Lunar South Pole Boulders and Boulder Tracks: Implications for Crew and Rover Traverses,” Icarus 348, 17p., 113850, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2020.113850, Cover Article.
2020 A. J. Gawronska, N. Barrett, S. J. Boazman, C. M. Gilmour, S. H. Halim, Harish, K. McCanaan, A. V. Satyakumar, J. Shah, H. M. Meyer, and D. A. Kring, “Geologic context and potential EVA targets at the lunar south pole,” Advances in Space Research 66, 1247–1264.
2020 S. H. Halim, N. Barrett, S. J. Boazman, A. J. Gawronska, C. M. Gilmour, Harish, K. McCanaan, A. V. Satyakumar, J. Shah, and D. A. Kring, “Numerical modeling of the formation of Shackleton crater at the lunar south pole,” Icarus 354, 9 p., 113992, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2020.113992.
2021 E. C. Czaplinski, E. M. Harrington, S. K. Bell, G. D. Tolometti, B. E. Farrant, V. T. Bickel, C. I. Honniball, S. N. Martinez, A. Rogaski, H. M. Sargeant, and D. A. Kring, “Human-assisted sample return mission at the Schrödinger basin, lunar farside using a new geologic map and rover traverses,” Planetary Science Journal 2:51, 23 p., doi:10.3847/PSJ/abdb34.
2021 M. Lemelin, S. Li, E. Mazarico, M. A. Siegler, D. A. Kring, and D. A. Paige, “Framework for coordinated efforts in the exploration of volatiles in the south polar region of the Moon,” The Planetary Science Journal 2:103 (17p.), doi:10.3847/PSJ/abf3c5.
2021 D. A. Kring, G. Y. Kramer, D. B. J. Bussey, D. M. Hurley, A. M. Stickle, and C. H. van der Bogert, “Prominent volcanic source of volatiles in the south polar region of the Moon,” Advances in Space Research 68, 4691–4701.
2022 V. T. Bickel, B. Moseley, E. Hauber, M. Shirley, J.-P. Williams, and D. A. Kring, “Cryogeomorphic characterization of shadowed regions in the Artemis exploration zone,” Geophysical Research Letters 49, 10p., e2022GL099530.
2022 N. Kumari, J. Bretzfelder, I. Ganesh, A. Lang, and D. A. Kring, “Surface Conditions and Resource Accessibility of Potential Artemis Landing Sites 007 and 011,” Planetary Science Journal 3:224, 23p.
2022 S. J. Boazman, J. Shah, Harish, A. J. Gawronska, S. H. Halim, A. V. Satyakumar, C. M. Gilmour, V. T. Bickel, N. Barrett, and D. A. Kring, “The Distribution and accessibility of geologic targets near the lunar south pole and candidate Artemis landing sites,” Planetary Science Journal 3:275, 15p.
2023 D. A. Kring, V. T. Bickel, C. H. van der Bogert, A. L. Fagan, L. R. Gaddis, H. Hiesinger, J. M. Hurtado, K. H. Joy, M. Lemelin, C. A. Looper, G. R. Osinski, M. Siegler, S. M. Tikoo, and K. Zacny, “Elevation changes and slope that may affect EVA workload near potential Artemis landing sites,” IEEE Aerospace Paper No. 2538, 17 p.
2023 C. J. Tai Udovicic, K. R. Frizzell, G. R. L. Kodikara, M. Kopp, K. M. Luchsinger, A. Madera, M. L. Meier, T. G. Paladino, R. V. Patterson, F. B. Wroblewski, and D. A. Kring, “Buried ice deposits in lunar polar cold traps were disrupted by ballistic sedimentation,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 128, e2022JE007567, 23 p.
2023 T. J. Barrett, K. L. Robinson, J. J. Barnes, G. J. Taylor, K. Nagashima, G. R. Huss, I. A. Franchi, M. Anand, and D. A. Kring, “Deciphering the origin(s) of H and Cl in Apollo 15 quartz monzodiorites: Evidence of multiple processes and reservoirs,” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 358, 192 –206.
2024 E. Peña-Asensio, J. Sutherland, P. Tripathi, K. Mason, A. Goodwin, V. T. Bickel, and D. A. Kring, “Automated Astronaut Traverses with Minimum Metabolic Workload: Accessing Permanently Shadowed Regions near the Lunar South Pole,” Acta Astronautica 214, 324–342.
Lunar Maps
Located on the Lunar Exploration Initiative webpage.
Mars Exploration
1996 D. A. Kring (Chair), J. S. Schweitzer, C. Meyer, J I. Trombka, F. Freund, T. Economou, A. S. Yen, S. S. Kim, A. H. Treiman, D. Blake, and C. M. Lisse, “Precise chemical analyses of planetary surfaces,” in Planetary Surfaces Instrument Workshop, C. Meyer, A. H. Treiman, and T. Kostiuk (eds.), LPI Technical Report 95-05, pp. 5–19.
1997 J. D. Gleason, D. A. Kring, D. H. Hill, and W. V. Boynton, “Petrography and bulk chemistry of Martian orthopyroxenite ALH84001: Implications for the origin of secondary carbonates,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61, pp. 3503–3512.
1997 J. D. Gleason, D. A. Kring, D. H. Hill, and W. V. Boynton, "Petrography and bulk chemistry of Martian lherzolite LEW88516," Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61, pp. 4007–4014.
1998 D. A. Kring, T. D. Swindle, J. D. Gleason, and J. A. Grier, “Formation and relative ages of maskelynite and carbonate in ALH84001,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 62, pp. 2155–2166.
1998 K. Righter, R. L. Hervig, and D. A. Kring, “Accretion and core formation in Mars: Mo contents of melt inclusion glasses in three SNC meteorites,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 62, pp. 2167–2177.
2001 W. V. Boynton, S. H. Bailey, D. K. Hamara, M. S. Williams, R.C. Bode, M.R. Fitzgibbon, W. J. Ko, M. G. Ward, K. R. Shridhar, J. A. Blanchard, R.D. Lorenz, R.D. May, D.A. Paige, A.V. Pathare, D. A. Kring, L. A. Leshin, D.W. Ming, A. P. Zent, D. C. Golden, K. E. Kerry, H. V. Lauer Jr., and R. C. Quinn, “Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer: Part of the Mars Volatile and Climate Surveyor integrated payload,” J. Geophys. Res. 106, pp. 17683–17698.
2003 D. A. Kring. J. D. Gleason, T. D. Swindle, K. Nishiizumi, M.W. Caffee, D. H. Hill, A. J. T. Jull, and W. V. Boynton, "Composition of the first bulk melt sample from a volcanic region of Mars: Queen Alexandra Range 94201," Meteoritics and Planetary Science 38, pp. 1833–1848.
2005 O. Abramov and D. A. Kring, “Impact-induced hydrothermal activity on Early Mars,” Journal of Geophysical Research 110(E12), 19 pp., doi: 10.1029/2005JE002453.
2009 S. P. Schwenzer and D. A. Kring, “Impact-generated hydrothermal systems capable of forming phyllosilicates on Noachian Mars,” Geology 37, pp. 1091–1094.
2010 Kumar, J. W. Head, and D. A. Kring, “Erosional modification and gully formation at Meteor Crater, Arizona: Insights to crater degradation processes on Mars,” Icarus 20, pp. 608–620.
2012 S. P. Schwenzer, O. Abramov, C. C. Allen, S. Clifford, J. Filiberto, D. A. Kring, J. Lasue, P. J. McGovern, H. E. Newsom, A. H. Treiman, D. T. Vaniman, R. C. Wiens, and A. Wittmann, "Puncturing Mars: How impact craters interact with the Martian cryosphere," Earth and Planetary Science Letters 335-336, pp. 9–17.
2012 S. P. Schwenzer, O. Abramov, C. C. Allen, S. Clifford, J. Filiberto, D. A. Kring, J. Lasue, P. J. McGovern, H. E. Newsom, A. H. Treiman, D. T. Vaniman, R. C. Wiens, and A. Wittmann, “Gale Crater: Formation and post-impact hydrous environment,” Planetary and Space Science 70, pp. 84–95.
2013 S.P. Schwenzer and D.A. Kring, “Alteration minerals in impact-generated hydrothermal systems – Exploring host rock variability,” Icarus 226, pp. 487–496.
Origin and Evolution of the Solar Nebula
1988 D. A. Kring, The Petrology of Meteoritic Chondrules: Evidence for Fluctuating Conditions in the Solar Nebula, Harvard University, Cambridge, 346 pp.
1991 D. A. Kring, "High temperature rims around chondrules in primitive chondrites: Evidence for fluctuating conditions in the solar nebula," Earth Planet. Sci. Letters 105, pp. 65–80.
1995 A. Ruzicka, D. A. Kring, D. H. Hill, W. V. Boynton, R. N. Clayton, and T. K. Mayeda, "Silica-rich orthopyroxenite in the Bovedy chondrite," Meteoritics 30, pp. 57–70.
1996 L. L. Hood and D. A. Kring, “Models for multiple heating mechanisms,” in Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk, R. H. Hewins, R. H. Jones, and E. R. D. Scott (eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 265–276.
Impact-generated Hydrothermal Systems
2004 L. Zurcher and D. A. Kring, "Post-impact hydrothermal alteration in the Yaxcopoil-1 hole, Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico," Meteoritics and Planetary Science 39, pp. 1199–1221.
2004 O. Abramov and D. A. Kring, "Numerical modeling of an impact-induced hydrothermal system at the Sudbury crater," Journal of Geophysical Research 109, E10007, 16 p., doi: 10.1029/2003JE002213.
2005 L. Zurcher, D. A. Kring, D. Dettman, and M. Rollog, "Stable isotope record of post-impact fluid activity in the Yaxcopoil-1 borehole, Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico," In Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution III, (T. Kenkmann et al., eds.), Geological Society of America Special Paper 384, pp. 323–338.
2005 O. Abramov and D. A. Kring, “Impact-induced hydrothermal activity on Early Mars,” Journal of Geophysical Research 110(E12), 19 pp., doi: 10.1029/2005JE002453.
2007 O. Abramov and D. A. Kring, “Numerical modeling of impact-induced hydrothermal activity at the Chicxulub crater,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 42, pp. 93–112.
2009 S. P. Schwenzer and D. A. Kring, “Impact-generated hydrothermal systems capable of forming phyllosilicates on Noachian Mars,” Geology 37, pp. 1091–1094.
2013 S.P. Schwenzer and D.A. Kring, “Alteration minerals in impact-generated hydrothermal systems – Exploring host rock variability,” Icarus 226, pp. 487–496.
2020 D. A. Kring, S. M. Tikoo, M. Schmieder, U. Riller, M. Rebolledo-Vieyra, S. L. Simpson, G. R. Osinski, J. Gattacceca, A. Wittmann, C. M. Verhagen, C. S. Cockell, M. J. L. Coolen, F. J. Longstaffe, S. P. S. Gulick, J. V. Morgan, T. J. Bralower, E. Chenot, G. L. Christeson, Ph. Claeys, L. Ferrière, C. Gebhardt, K. Goto, S. L. Green, H. Jones, J. Lofi, C. M. Lowery, R. Ocampo-Torres, L. Perez-Cruz, A. E. Pickersgill, M. H. Poelchau, A. S. P. Rae, C. Rasmussen, H. Sato, J. Smit, N. Tomioka, J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, M. T. Whalen, L. Xiao, and K. E. Yamaguchi, “Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater,” Science Advances 6, 9p., eaaz3053.
2021 D. A. Kring and W. Bach, “Hydrogen production from alteration of Chicxulub Crater impact breccias: Potential energy source for a subsurface microbial ecosystem,” Astrobiology 21, 1547–1564.
Triassic/Jurassic Boundary Mass Extinction Event
2004 P. D. Ward, G. H. Garrison, J. W. Haggart, D. A. Kring, and M. J. Beattie, "Isotopic evidence bearing on the Late Triassic extinction events, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, and implications for the duration and cause of the Triassic/Jurassic mass extinction," Earth and Planetary Science Letters 224, pp. 589–600.
2007 P. D. Ward, G. H. Garrison, K. H. Williford, D. A. Kring, D. H. Goodwin, M. J. Beattie, and C. A. McRoberts, “The organic carbon isotopic and paleontological record across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary at the candidate GSSP section at Ferguson Hill, Muller Canyon, Nevada, USA,” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 244, pp. 281–289.
Miscellaneous Studies
1995 D. A. Kring, A. R. Hildebrand, M. J. Drake, H. J. Melosh, and A. M. Vickery, "Report of centimeter-sized tektites in Pima County, Arizona, cannot be verified," Meteoritics 30, pp. 110 –112.
2007 J. D. Gleason, G. E. Gehrels, W. R. Dickinson, P. J. Patchett, and D. A. Kring, "Laurentian sources for detrital zircon grains in turbidite and deltaic sandstones of the Pennsylvanian Haymond Formation, Marathon Assemblage, West Texas, U.S.A." Journal of Sedimentary Research 77, pp. 888–900.
Scholarly Books
2002 D. A. Kring, Desert Heat – Volcanic Fire: The Geologic History of the Tucson Mountains and Southern Arizona, Arizona Geological Society, 104 p.
2007 D. A. Kring, Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona (aka Meteor Crater), Lunar and Planetary Institute (Contribution No. 1355), Houston, 150 pp.
2012 D. A. Kring and D. D. Durda (eds.) A Global Lunar Landing Site Study to Provide the Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon, LPI Contribution No. 1694, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, 688 p.
2015 G. R. Osinski and D. A. Kring (eds.) Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V, Special Paper 518, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, 227 pp.
2017 S. Gulick, J. Morgan, C. L. Mellett, and the Expedition 364 Scientists, Expedition 364 Preliminary Report: Chicxulub: Drilling the K-Pg Impact Crater. International Ocean Discovery Program. http://dx.doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.364.2017
2017 J. Morgan, S. Gulick, C. L. Mellett, S. L. Green, and the Expedition 364 Scientists (including D. A. Kring). Chicxulub: Drilling the K-Pg Impact Crater. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 364: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program), 163 pp. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.364.2017
2017 D. A. Kring, Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona (aka Meteor Crater), Second edition, Lunar and Planetary Institute (Contribution No. 2040), 272 pp.
2023 D. A. Kring, Astronaut Training for Operations in Impact-Cratered Terrains, Lunar and Planetary Institute (Contribution No. 3001), 570 pages.
Education Research: Peer-reviewed
2006 T. J. Manning, G. Abadi, J. Nienov, E. Lochner, K. Riddle, D. Phillips, and D. A. Kring, “A meteor impact in the classroom? A micro and nano view of the thermite reaction,” The Chemical Educator 11, pp. 1–10.
2023 A. Shaner, S. Buxner, and D. A. Kring, “ExMASS: Implementation and evaluation of an authentic, inquiry-based research experience for secondary students,” Astronomy Education Journal 3(1), 12 p., doi:10.32374/AEJ.2023.3.1.051aep.
Education & Public Outreach Publications
Located on separate page: click here.
Community Service Publications
1997 D.A. Kring, “Book Review: Roy S. Clarke, Jr. (Editor). The Port Orford, Oregon, Meteorite Mystery. (Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences),” Isis 88(2), 346-347.
1999 D.A. Kring, “Review of Traces of Catastrophe: A Handbook of Shock-metamorphic Effects in Terrestrial Meteorite Impact Structures by Bevan M. French,” GSA Today 10 (3), 46.
2001 D.A. Kring, “Review of Impacts and the Early Earth by Iain Gilmour and Christian Koeberl (eds.),” GSA Today 11(5), 11.
2001 D.A. Kring, “Review of Catalogue of Meteorites by Monica Grady (ed.),” Earth Sciences History 20(2), pp. 208–210.
2004 D.A. Kring, “Review of Impact Markers in the Stratigraphic Record by C. Koeberl and F. Martínez-Ruiz (eds.),” Palaios 19(4), 418.
2006 G. Consolmagno, B. Fegley, and D. Kring, “Alastair Graham Walter Cameron (1925-2005) – Memorial,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 41, 1, 151–153.
2006 G. S. Gohn, C. Koeberl, K. G. Miller, W. U. Reimold, and the Scientific Staff of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Drilling Project, “Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Deep Drilling Project Completes Coring,” Scientific Drilling 3, 34–37.
2007 D. A. Kring, “Professor James Kriegh – Memorial,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 42(9), 10–11.
2007 D.A. Kring, “Review of Impact Structures in Canada by Richard A. F. Grieve,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 42, 1035–1036.
2008 Dieter Stöffler and D. A. Kring, “2008 Service Award for Drew Barringer,” Meteoritics and Planetary Science 43, 7, Supplement A13-A14.
2012 D. A. Kring, J. O. Burns, D. B. J. Bussey, “Timely reminder to return to the Moon,” Nature 490, 487.
2015 D. Kring and R. Canup, “Meeting Highlights: Workshop on Early Solar System Bombardment III,” Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, issue 143 (December), pp. 29-31, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX.
2019 D. A. Kring, “Meeting Highlights: The First Billion Years – Bombardment: Shaping Planetary Surfaces and Their Environments,” Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, issue 155 (January), 27–28, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX.
2022 D. A. Kring, “Memorial – Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929–2021),” GSA Planetary Geology Division Newsletter, February edition.
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