Dr Annemarie Pickersgill

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre)

email: Annemarie.Pickersgill@glasgow.ac.uk

Research interests

My research is focused on three aspects of impact cratering: the creation of habitable environments, age determination via ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology, and shock metamorphism.

My current research project is investigating micro-tunnels in impact-generated glasses in order to determine whether or not they are biotic in origin, and if so, whether or not the biota colonised the site as the result of an impact-induced hydrothermal system. The samples for this study come from the Ries, Boltysh, Dellen, and Rochechouart impact structures.

I am also working on the geochronology of terrestrial impact structures, including Chicxulub, Boltysh, and Gow Lake, and I am studying the effects of shock metamorphism on feldspar group minerals from Chicxulub.

Publications

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Number of items: 45.

2024

Russell, S. S. et al. (2024) Recovery and curation of the Winchcombe (CM2) meteorite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 59(5), pp. 973-987. (doi: 10.1111/maps.13956)

2022

King, A. J. et al. (2022) The Winchcombe meteorite, a unique and pristine witness from the outer solar system. Science Advances, 8(46), eabq3925. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abq3925) (PMID:36383648) (PMCID:PMC9668287)

Osinski, G. R. et al. (2022) Impact Earth: A review of the terrestrial impact record. Earth-Science Reviews, 232, 104112. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104112)

Christou, Evangelos, Hallis, Lydia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6455-8415, Daly, Luke ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092, Pickersgill, Annemarie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849 and Lee, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622 (2022) A Pessimistic Perspective on the Habitability of Early Mars: Simulations for the Northwest Africa 8159 Environment. 85th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society, Glasgow, 14-19 August 2022.

Pickersgill, Annemarie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849, Lee, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622, Mark, Darren F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0707-9773 and Christou, Evangelos (2022) What Do We Know About the Duration of Post-Impact Hydrothermal Activity? 85th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society 2022, Glasgow, 14-19 August 2022.

Lee, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622 and Pickersgill, Annemarie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849 (2022) The Role of Alkali Feldspar Impact Ejecta in the Origin and Dissemination of Early Life. 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC2022), Houston, TX, USA, 07-11 Mar 2022.

O'Brien, Aine Clare, Pickersgill, Annemarie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849, Daly, Luke ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092, Jenkins, Laura, Floyd, Cameron ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5986-491X, Martin, Pierre-Etienne, Hallis, Lydia Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6455-8415, King, Ashley and Lee, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622 (2022) The Winchcombe Meteorite: one year on. Astronomy and Geophysics, 63(1), 1.21-1.23. (doi: 10.1093/astrogeo/atac009)

Ross, C. H. et al. (2022) Evidence of Carboniferous arc magmatism preserved in the Chicxulub impact structure. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 134(1-2), pp. 241-260. (doi: 10.1130/b35831.1)

2021

Schulte, Felix M., Wittmann, Axel, Jung, Stefan, Morgan, Joanna V., Gulick, Sean P. S., Kring, David A., Grieve, Richard A. F., Osinski, Gordon R., Riller, Ulrich and IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849 (2021) Ocean resurge-induced impact melt dynamics on the peak-ring of the Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 110(7), pp. 2619-2636. (doi: 10.1007/s00531-021-02008-w)

Pickersgill, Annemarie E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849, Lee, Martin R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622, Lindgren, Paula, Daly, Luke ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092, Whitehouse, M. J., Griffin, Sammy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5308-3813 and Hallis, Lydia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6455-8415 (2021) Seeking Evidence of Life in Sulphides from the Boltysh Impact Structure. 84th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society 2021, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 15-21 Aug 2021. (doi: 10.1111/maps.13727)

Pickersgill, Annemarie E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849, Jaret, Steven J., Pittarello, Lidia, Fritz, Jörg and Harris, R. Scott (2021) Shock effects in feldspars: an overview. In: Reimold, Wolf Uwe and Koeberl, Chirstian (eds.) Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI. Series: GSA special papers (550). Geological Society of America: Boulder, Colorado, pp. 507-535. ISBN 9780813795508 (doi: 10.1130/2021.2550(23))

Osinski, G. R., Ferrière, L., Hill, P. J. A., Prave, A. R., Preston, L. J., Singleton, A. and Pickersgill, A.E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849 (2021) The Mesoproterozoic Stac Fada Member, NW Scotland: an impact origin confirmed but refined. Journal of the Geological Society, 178(1), jgs2020-056. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2020-056)

Pickersgill, Annemarie E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849, Mark, Darren F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0707-9773, Lee, Martin R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622, Kelley, Simon P. and Jolley, David W. (2021) The Boltysh impact structure: An early Danian impact event during recovery from the K-Pg mass extinction. Science Advances, 7(25), eabe6530. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe6530) (PMID:34144979) (PMCID:PMC8213223)

2020

Zhao, J. et al. (2020) 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, pp. 128-150. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.12.003)

Collins, G. S. et al. (2020) A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact. Nature Communications, 11, 1480. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15269-x) (PMID:32457325) (PMCID:PMC7251121)

Pittarello, Lidia, Daly, Luke ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092, Pickersgill, Annemarie E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849, Ferrière, Ludovic and Lee, Martin R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622 (2020) Shock metamorphism in plagioclase and selective amorphization. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 55(5), pp. 1103-1115. (doi: 10.1111/maps.13494)

Pickersgill, Annemarie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849, Mark, Darren ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0707-9773, Lee, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622 and Osinski, Gordon (2020) 40Ar/39Ar systematics of melt lithologies and target rocks from the Gow Lake impact structure, Canada. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 274, pp. 317-332. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.01.025)

Griffin, S. et al. (2020) Implications of Shock-Facilitated Alteration on Mars from EBSD and EDS Analysis of the Nakhlites. 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2020, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, 16-20 March 2020.

Pickersgill, A.E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849, Lee, M.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622, Daly, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092, Hallis, L.J. and Lindgren, P. (2020) Searching for Bioalteration in Impact Glasses. 2nd British Planetary Sciences Conference, Oxford, UK, 13-15 Jan 2020.

Kring, D. A. et al. (2020) Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater. Science Advances, 6(22), eaaz3053. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz3053) (PMID:32523986) (PMCID:PMC7259942)

2019

Rasmussen, Cornelia, Stockli, Daniel F., Ross, Catherine H., Pickersgill, Annemarie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849, Gulick, Sean P., Schmieder, Martin, Christeson, Gail L., Wittmann, Axel, Kring, David A. and Morgan, Joanna V. (2019) U-Pb memory behavior in Chicxulub's peak ring — applying U-Pb depth profiling to shocked zircon. Chemical Geology, 525, pp. 356-367. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.07.029)

Daly, L. et al. (2019) Boom boom pow: shock-facilitated aqueous alteration and evidence for two shock events in the Martian nakhlite meteorites. Science Advances, 5(9), eaaw5549. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw5549)

Gulick, S. P.S. et al. (2019) The first day of the Cenozoic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(39), pp. 19342-19351. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1909479116)

Rae, A. S.P. et al. (2019) Impact‐induced porosity and microfracturing at the Chicxulub impact structure. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, (doi: 10.1029/2019JE005929)

Forman, L.V. et al. (2019) Macroscale and Microscale Fabric Analysis of Allende. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Sapporo, Japan, 7-12 Jul 2019.

Pittarello, L., Daly, Luke ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092, Ferrière, L., Chung, P., Pickersgill, A.E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849 and Lee, M.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622 (2019) Twinning and Amorphization in Naturally Shocked Plagioclase: An EBSD Study. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Sapporo, Japan, 7-12 Jul 2019.

Timms, N. E. et al. (2019) New shock microstructures in titanite (CaTiSiO5) from the peak ring of the Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174(5), 38. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-019-1565-7)

Lowery, Chistopher, Morgan, Joanna, Gulick, Sean, Bralower, Timothy, Christeson, Gail and Expedition 364 Scientists (2019) Ocean drilling perspectives on meteorite impacts. Oceanography, 32(1), pp. 120-134. (doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2019.133)

Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime, Pérez-Cruz, Ligia, Morgan, Joanna, Gulick, Sean, Wittmann, Axel, Lofi, Johanna and IODP‐ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party (2019) Peering inside the peak ring of the Chicxulub Impact Crater—its nature and formation mechanism. Geology Today, 35(2), pp. 68-72. (doi: 10.1111/gto.12261)

Christou, E.V., Hallis, L.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6455-8415, Daly, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092, Pickersgill, A.E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-2849, Keller, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6121-5377, Hayward, C.L. and Lee, M.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622 (2019) Fluid Flow in the Martian Subsurface During the Early Amazonian Period Constrained via Numerical Simulations: Implications for Habitability. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2021, 15-19 March 2021. (Accepted for Publication)

Rae, Auriol S.P., Collins, Gareth S., Poelchau, Michael, Riller, Ulrich, Davison, Thomas M., Grieve, Richard A.F., Osinski, Gordon R., Morgan, Joanna V. and IODP‐ICDP Expedition 364 Scientists (2019) Stress‐strain evolution during peak‐ring formation: a case study of the Chicxulub impact structure. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 124(2), pp. 396-417. (doi: 10.1029/2018JE005821)

2018

Riller, U. et al. (2018) Rock fluidization during peak-ring formation of large impact structures. Nature, 562(7728), pp. 511-518. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0607-z) (PMID:30356184)

Lofi, J. et al. (2018) Drilling-induced and logging-related features illustrated from IODP–ICDP Expedition 364 downhole logs and borehole imaging tools. Scientific Drilling, 24, pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.5194/sd-24-1-2018)

Christeson, G.L. et al. (2018) 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. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.013)

Lowery, C. M. et al. (2018) Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Nature, 558, pp. 288-291. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0163-6) (PMID:29849143)

2017

Artemieva, Natalia, Morgan, Joanna and Expedition 364 Science Party (2017) Quantifying the release of climate-active gases by large meteorite impacts with a case study of Chicxulub. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(20), 10,180-10,188. (doi: 10.1002/2017GL074879)

Kring, David A., Claeys, Philippe, Gulick, Sean P.S., Morgan, Joanna V., Collins, Gareth S. and IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party (2017) Chicxulub and the exploration of large peak-ring impact craters through scientific drilling. GSA Today, 27(10), pp. 4-8. (doi: 10.1130/GSATG352A.1)

Pickersgill, A.E., Lee, M.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622, Daly, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092, Mark, D.F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0707-9773 and IODP-ICDP Expedition 2017 (2017) Planar Features (Lamellar Subgrains) in Feldspar from the Chicxulub Impact Structure. 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 23-28 Jul 2017.

Pickersgill, A.E., Lee, M.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-3622, Daly, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092 and Mark, D.F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0707-9773 (2017) Shock Metamorphism in Feldspar from the Chicxulub Impact Structure. 1st British Planetary Science Congress, Glasgow, UK, 3-5 Dec 2017.

2016

Morgan, J. V. et al. (2016) The formation of peak rings in large impact craters. Science, 354(6314), pp. 878-882. (doi: 10.1126/science.aah6561) (PMID:27856906)

2015

Pickersgill, Annemarie E., Flemming, Roberta L. and Osinski, Gordon R. (2015) Toward quantification of strain-related mosaicity in shocked lunar and terrestrial plagioclase by in situ micro-X-ray diffraction. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 50(11), pp. 1851-1862. (doi: 10.1111/maps.12514)

Pickersgill, Annemarie E., Osinski, Gordon R. and Flemming, Roberta L. (2015) Shock effects in plagioclase feldspar from the Mistastin Lake impact structure, Canada. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 50(9), pp. 1546-1561. (doi: 10.1111/maps.12495)

2013

Antonenko, I. et al. (2013) Issues of geologically-focused situational awareness in robotic planetary missions: Lessons from an analogue mission at Mistastin Lake impact structure, Labrador, Canada. Advances in Space Research, 52(2), pp. 272-284. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2012.11.024)

Osinski, G. R. et al. (2013) Impact-generated hydrothermal systems on Earth and Mars. Icarus, 224(2), pp. 347-363. (doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.08.030)

2012

Moores, J. E. et al. (2012) A mission control architecture for robotic lunar sample return as field tested in an analogue deployment to the Sudbury impact structure. Advances in Space Research, 50(12), pp. 1666-1686. (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2012.05.008)

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