Gerhard Vavra

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Gerhard Vavra is a scholar working on Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerhard Vavra has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Geophysics, 5 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Gerhard Vavra's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (13 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (6 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (5 papers). Gerhard Vavra is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (13 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (6 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (5 papers). Gerhard Vavra collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Australia. Gerhard Vavra's co-authors include Dieter Gebauer, R. Schmid, W. Compston, Thomas J. Wenzel, Lutz Nasdala, Marita Wenzel, Bernd Kober, G. Irmer, Urs Schaltegger and Bent Hansen and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Geology, Tectonophysics and Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.

In The Last Decade

Gerhard Vavra

13 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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Internal morphology, habit and U-Th-Pb microanalysis of amphibolite-to-granulite facies zircons: geochronology of the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps)

1999 827 citations Gerhard Vavra, R. Schmid et al. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology profile →
Multiple zircon growth and recrystallization during polyphase Late Carboniferous to Triassic metamorphism in granulites of the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps): an ion microprobe (SHRIMP) study

1996 685 citations Gerhard Vavra, Dieter Gebauer et al. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology profile →

Peers

Gerhard Vavra

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T.H. Green Australia

Philippe Gonçalves France

Richard A. Batchelor United Kingdom

Trevor H. Green Australia

Dieter Gebauer Switzerland

Frank Tomaschek Germany

Jean-Pierre Pupin France

Filippo Ridolfi Italy

Christian Nicollet France

Sonja Aulbach Germany

T.H. Green Australia

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Nasdala, Lutz, Marita Wenzel, Gerhard Vavra, et al.. (2001). Metamictisation of natural zircon: accumulation versus thermal annealing of radioactivity-induced damage. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 141(2). 125–144. 324 indexed citations

Vavra, Gerhard & Urs Schaltegger. (1999). Post-granulite facies monazite growth and rejuvenation during Permian to Lower Jurassic thermal and fluid events in the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 134(4). 405–414. 88 indexed citations

Vavra, Gerhard, R. Schmid, & Dieter Gebauer. (1999). Internal morphology, habit and U-Th-Pb microanalysis of amphibolite-to-granulite facies zircons: geochronology of the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 134(4). 380–404. 827 indexed citations breakdown →

Vavra, Gerhard, et al.. (1997). Which processes are dated by U/Pb zircon ages of high-grade metamorphic rocks? Zircon genesis in various lithologies and structural levels of the Saxonian Granulite Massif. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 3 indexed citations

Vavra, Gerhard, Dieter Gebauer, R. Schmid, & W. Compston. (1996). Multiple zircon growth and recrystallization during polyphase Late Carboniferous to Triassic metamorphism in granulites of the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps): an ion microprobe (SHRIMP) study. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 122(4). 337–358. 685 indexed citations breakdown →

Vavra, Gerhard, Dieter Gebauer, & R. Schmid. (1994). Zircon growth and recrystallization during granulite facies metamorphism in the Ivrea Zone (southern Alps): a combined cathodoluminescence and ion microprobe study. Journal of Geosciences. 39(1). 114–115. 3 indexed citations

Vavra, Gerhard. (1994). Systematics of internal zircon morphology in major Variscan granitoid types. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 117(4). 331–344. 113 indexed citations

Vavra, Gerhard. (1994). The Thermal History of the Lower Crust Recorded by Zircon Growth and Recrystallization: An Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) Study from the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps). Mineralogical Magazine. 58A(2). 936–937. 5 indexed citations

Vavra, Gerhard. (1993). A guide to quantitative morphology of accessory zircon. Chemical Geology. 110(1-3). 15–28. 54 indexed citations

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Vavra, Gerhard & Bent Hansen. (1991). Cathodoluminescence studies and U/Pb dating of zircons in pre-Mesozoic gneisses of the Tauern Window: Implications for the Penninic basement evolution. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 80(3). 703–715. 39 indexed citations

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Vavra, Gerhard. (1990). On the kinematics of zircon growth and its petrogenetic significance: a cathodoluminescence study. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 106(1). 90–99. 284 indexed citations

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Vavra, Gerhard & Wolfgang Frisch. (1989). Pre-Variscan back-arc and island-arc magmatism in the Tauern window (Eastern Alps). Tectonophysics. 169(4). 271–280. 16 indexed citations

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Vavra, Gerhard, et al.. (1985). Phreatomagmatic volcanism during the Ordovician of the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain). International Journal of Earth Sciences. 74(3). 623–639. 17 indexed citations

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