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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023

Tracing the FLUX of cosmic dust arriving to Earth during the Phanerozoic

For the last 4.5 billion years, extraterrestrial (For the last 4.5 billion years, extraterrestrial (ET) materials have continuously bombarded the Earth. Today, the Solar System debris that reaches the Earth’s surface is dominated by particles less than 2 mm in size, termed micrometeorites (MMs). Until recently, the established misconception was that these MMs did not survive geological timescales, limiting reconstructions of the dust flux through time that are currently based on finding rare relict mineral phases or applying geochemical tools (e.g., Ir contents, 3He isotope ratios). Following a successful proof-of-concept study on a Late Devonian section, FLUX proposes first to extract…

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