Publications since 2000
Affaton, P., Kröner, A. & Seddoh, K.F., 2000. Pan-African granulite formation in the Kabye Massif of northern Togo (West Africa):
Pb-Pb zircon ages. Geol. Rundschau (Int. J. Earth Sci.), 88, 778-790.
Blenkinsop, T.G.,
Kröner, A. & Chiwara, A., 2004. Single
stage, late Archaean exhumation of granulites in the Northern Marginal
Zone, Limpopo Belt, Zimbabwe, and relevance to gold mineralization at Renco Mine. South Afr. J. Geol., 107, in press.
Buchan, C., Pfänder, J.A., Kröner, A., Brewer, T.S., Tomurtogoo, O., Tomurhuu, D. Cunningham. D. & B.F. Windley, B.F., 2002.
Timing of accretion and collisional deformation in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: implications of granite geochronology in the Bayan-
khongor ophiolite zone. Chem. Geol., 192, 23-45.
Collins, A.S., Kröner, A., Fitzsimons, I.C.W. & Razakamanana, T., 2003. Detrital footprint of the Mozambique ocean: U-Pb SHRIMP
and Pb evaporation zircon geochronology of metasedimentary gneisses in eastern Madagascar. Tectonophysics, 375, 77-99.
Cox, R., Coleman, D.S., Chokel, C.B., DeOreo, S.B., Wooden, J.L., Collins, A.S., de Waele, B. & Kröner, A., 2004. Proterozoic
tectonostratigraphy and paleogeography of central Madagascar derived from detrital zircon U-Pb age populations. J. Geol., 112, 379-400.
Ekwueme, B. & Kröner, A., 2005. Single zircon ages of migmatitic gneisses and granulites in the Obudu Plateau: Timing of granulite-
facies metamorphism in southeastern Nigeria. J. Afr. Earth Sci., submitted.
Hegner, E. & Kröner, A., 2000. Review of Nd isotopic data and xenocrystic and detrital zircon ages from the pre-Variscan basement
in the eastern Bohemian Massif: speculations on palinspastic reconstructions. In: Franke, W., Altherr, R., Haak, V., Oncken, O & Tanner,
D (eds.) Orogenic processes - quantification and modelling in the Variscan belt of central Europe. Special Publ., Geol. Soc. London, 179,
113-129.
Hofmann, A., Jagoutz, O., Kröner, A. & Dirks, P.G.M. & Jelsma, H.A., 2002. The Chirwa dome: Granite emplacement during late Archaean
thrusting along the northeastern margin of the Zimbabwe craton. S. Afr. J. Geol., 105, 285-300.
Hussein, I.M., Kröner, A. & Reischmann, T., 2004. The Wadi Onib mafic-ultramafic complex: a Neoproterozoic supra-subduction
zone ophiolite in the northern Red Sea Hills of the Sudan. In: Kusky, T. (Ed.) Precambrian ophiolites and related rocks. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 163-206.
Jelsma, H., Kröner, A. & Bozhko, N., 2004. Single zircon ages for two Archaean migmatitic gneisses from the Shangani Bstholith,
central Zimbabwe. S.Afr. J. Geol., 107, 577-586.
Khain, E.V., Bibikova, E.V., Kröner, A., Zhuralev, D.Z., Sklyarov, E.V., Fedotova. A.A. & Kravchenko-Berezhnoy, I.R., 2002.
The most ancient ophiolite of the Central Asian fold belt: Sm-Nd, U-Pb and Pb-Pb evidence from the Dunzhugur Complex, Eastern Sayan,
Siberia, and geodynamic implications. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 199, 311-325.
Khain, E.V., Bibikova, E.V., Salnikova, E.B., Kröner, A., Gibsher, A.S., Didenko, A.N., Degtyarev, K.E. & Fedotova, A.A., 2003. The Palaeo-Asian
ocean in the Neoproterozoic and early Palaeozoic: New geochronologic data and palaeotectonic reconstructions. Precambrian Res., 122, 329-358.
Konopasek, J., Kröner, S., Kitt, S.L., Passchier, C.W., Kröner, A. & Hoffmann, K.-H., 2004. Oblique collision and evolution of large-scale
transcurrent shear zones in the Kaoko belt, NW Namibia. Precambrian Res., in press.
Kröner, A., 2001. The Mozambique belt of East Africa and Madagascar: significance of zircon and Nd model ages for Rodinia and Gondwana
supercontinent formation and dispersal. S. Afr. J. Geol., 105, 151-167.
Kröner, A., O’Brien, P.J., Nemchin, A.A. & Pidgeon, R.T., 2000: Zircon ages of high pressure granulites from S Bohemia, Czech Republic,
and their bearing on the connection between Variscan high temperature metamorphism at high and low pressures. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 138, 127-142.
Kröner, A., Jaeckel, P. & Brandl, G., 2000. Single zircon ages for felsic rocks from the Pietersburg and Giyani greenstone belts and bordering granitoid
orthogneisses, northern Kaapvaal cration, South Africa. J. Afr. Earth Sci., 30, 773-794.
Kröner, A., Hegner, E., Collins, A.S., Brewer, T.S., Windley, B.F. & Razakamanana, T., 2000. Age and magmatic history of the Antananarivo Block,
central Madagascar, as derived from zircon geochronology and Nd isotopic systematics. American J. Sci., 300, 251-288.
Kröner, A., ·tipská, P., Schulmann, K. & Jaeckel, P., 2000. Chronological constraints on the pre-Variscan evolution of the northeastern margin
of the Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic. In: Franke, W., Altherr, R., Haak, V., Oncken, O & Tanner, D. (eds.) Orogenic processes - quantification
and modelling in the Variscan belt of central Europe. Special Publ., Geol Soc. London, 179, 175-197.
Kröner, A., Jaeckel, P., Hegner, E. & Opletal, M., 2000. Single zircon ages and whole-rock isotopic systematics of early Palaeozoic granitoid
gneisses from the Czech Sudetes (Jizerské hory, Krkonose Mts. and Orlické-Sneznik Dome). Int. J. Earth Sci., 90, 304-324.
Kröner, A., Willner, A., Hegner, E., Jaeckel, P. & Nemchin, A.A., 2001. Single zircon ages, PT evolution and Nd isotopic systematics of high-grade
gneisses in southern Malawi and their bearing on the extent of the Mozambique belt into southern Africa. Precambrian Res., 109, 399-406.
Kröner, A., Ekwueme, B.N. & Pidgeon, R.T., 2001 The oldest rocks in West Africa: SHRIMP zircon age for early Archean migmatitic orthogneiss
at Kaduna, northern Nigeria. J. Geol., 109, 399-406.
Kröner, A. Zhao, G.C., Wilde, S., Passchier, C.W., Li, J.H., O’Brien, P.J. & Walte, N., 2002. A late Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic lower
to upper crustal section in the Hengshan-Wutaishan area of northern China. Guidebook for Penrose Conference field trip. Chinese Acad. Sci., Beijing, 63 p.
Kröner, A., Kehelpannala, W., Hegner, E., 2003. Ca. 700-1000 Ma magmatic events and Grenvillian-age deformation in Sri Lanka: relevance for
Rodinia supercontinent formation and dispersal, and Gondwana amalgamation. J. Asian Earth Sci., 22, 279-300.
Kröner, A. & Cordani, U., 2003. African, southern Indian and South American cratons were not part of the Rodinia supercontinent:
evidence from field relationships and geochronology. Tectonophysics, 375,325-352.
Kröner, A., Muhongo, S., Hegner, E., Wingate, M.T.D. & Sommer, H., 2003. Single zircon geochronology and Nd isotopic systematics of
Proterozoic high grade rocks from the Mozambique belt of southern Tanzania (Masasi area): implications for Rodinia and Gondwana assembly.
J. Geol. Soc. London, 160, 745-758.
Kröner, A. & Stern, R.J., 2004. Pan-African orogeny. In: Selley, R.C., Cocks, L.R.M. & Plimer, I.R., (Eds)., Encyclopedia of Geology, v. 1,
Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 1-11.
Kröner, A., Wilde, S.A., Li, J.H. & Wang, K.Y., 2005. Age and evolution of a late Archaean to Paleoproterozoic upper to lower crustal section
in the Wutaishan/ Hengshan/Fuping terrain of northern China. J. Asian Earth Sci., in press.
Kröner, A., Wilde, S.A., Zhao, G.C., O'Brien, P.J., Sun, M., Liu, D.Y., Wan, Y.S., Liu, S.W. & Guo, J.H., 2005. Zircon geochronology and
metamorphic evolution of mafic dykes in the Hengshan Complex of northern China: evidence for late Palaeoproterozoic extension and subsequent
high-pressure metamorphism in the North China Craton. Precambrian Res., submitted.
Kröner, S., Konopasek, J., Kröner, A., Poller, U., Wingate, M.W.D., Passchier, C.W. & Hofmann, K.-H., 2004. U-Pb and Pb-Pb zircon ages
for metamorphic rocks in the Kaoko belt of NW Namibia: An extensive Palaeo- to Mesoproterozoic basement reworked during the Pan-African
orogeny. South African J. Geol., 107, 455-476.
Kuzmichev, A., Kröner, A., Liu, D.Y., Wang, Y.S. & Chernov, E., 2005. The Shishkhid ophiolite, northern Mongolia: a key to the reconstruction
of a Neoproterozoic island-arc system in central Asia. Precambrian Res., in press.
Miller, N.R., Alene, M., Sacchi, R., Stern, R.J., Conti, A., Kröner, A. & Zuppi, G., 2003. Significance of the Tambien Group (Tigrai, N. Ethiopia)
for Snowball Earth events in the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Precambrian Res., 121, 263-283.
Möller, A., O'Brien, P.J., Kennedy, A. & Kröner, A., 2002. Polyphase zircon in ultrahigh-temperature granulites (Rogaland, SW Norway): constraints for
Pb diffusion in zircon. J. Metam. Petrol., 20, 727-740.
Möller, A., O’Brien, P.J., Kennedy, A. & Kröner, A., 2003. Linking growth episodes of zircon and metamorphic textures to zircon chemistry:
an example from the ultrahigh-temperature granulites of Rogaland (SW Norway). In: D. Vance, D., Müller, W. & Villa, I.M. (eds.), Geochronology:
Linking the isotopic record with petrology and textures. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ., 220, 65-81.
Muhongo, S., Kröner, A. & Nemchin, A.A., 2000. Zircon ages from granulite facies rocks in the Mozambnique belt of Tanzania and implications
for Gondwana assembly. J. Geol., 109, 171-189.
Pfänder, J.A., Jochum, K.-P., Kozakov, I., Kröner, A. & Todt, W., 2002. Coupled evolution of back-arc and island arc-like mafic crust in the late
Neoproterozoic Agardagh Tes-Chem ophiolite, central Asia: Evidence from trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope data. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 143,
154.174.
Pfänder, J.A. & Kröner, A., 2004. Tectono-magmatic evolution, age and emplacement of the Agardagh Tes-Chem ophiolite in Tuva, Central Asia:
Crustal growth by island arc accretion. In: Kusky, T. (Ed.) Precambrian ophiolites and related rocks. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 207-221.
Ring, U., Kröner, A., Buchwaldt, R., Toulkeridis, T. & Layer, P.W., 2002. Shear-zone patterns and eclogite-facies metamorphiosm in the
Mozambique belt of northern Malawi, east-central ASfrica: implications for the assembly of Gondwana. Precambrian Res., 116, 19-56.
Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Neubauer, F., Kröner, A., Wan, Y.S., Liu, D.Y., Garcia-Delgado, D.E. & Handler, R., 2004. Geochemistry and age of late
orogenic island arc granitoids in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba: Evidence for subduction magmatism in the early Palaeogene. Chem. Geol., 213,
307-324. PDF
Roy, A.B. Kröner, A. & Laul, V., 2001. Detrital zircons constraining basement age in a late Archaean greenstone belt of south-eastern Rajasthan, India.
Current Science, 81, 407-410.
Roy, A.B., Kröner, A., Laul, V. & Purohit, R., 2004. Single zircon dating of hypersthene-bearing granitoid from the Balaram-Abu Road area, southern
part of the Aravalli Mountains, NW India: Implications from Malani magmatism-related thermal event. In: Thomas H. (ed.), Metamorphism and crustal
evolution. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, pp. 327-334.
Roy, A.B., Kröner, A., Bhattachaya, P.K. & Rathore, S., 2005. Metamorphic evolution and zircon geochronology of Palaeoproterozoic granulites in
the Aravalli Mountains of northwest India. Geol. Mag., 142, in press.
Schulmann, K., Kröner, A., Wendt, I.J., Hegner, E., Konopásek, J., Lexa, O. & ·tipská, P., 2005. Chronological constraints on the Palaeozoic evolution
of the Variscan orogenic root system in the eastern Moldanubian zone of the Bohemian Massif. Am. J. Sci., in revision.
Sommer, H., Kröner, A., Hauzenberger, C., Muhongo, S. & Wingate, M.T.D., 2003. Metamorphic petrology and zircon geochronology of
high-grade rocks from the central Mozambique belt of Tanzania: crustal recycling of Archean and Palaeoproterozoic material during the Pan-African
orogeny. J. Metam. Geol., 21, 915-934.
Sommer, H., Hauzenberger, C., Kröner, A. & Muhongo, S., 2005. Geothermobarometry and fluid composition of high-pressure granulite-facies metapelites
from the central part of the Mozambique belt in Tanzania. Lithos, in press.
Stern, R.J., Johnson, P.R., Kröner, A. & Yibas, B., 2004. Neoproterozoic ophiolites of the Arabian-Nubian shield. In: Kusky, T. (Ed.) Precambrian
ophiolites and related rocks. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 95-128.
Teklay, M., Haile, T., Kröner, A., Asmerom, Y. & Watson, J., 2003. A back-arc palaeotectonic setting for the Augaro Neoproterozoic magmatic
rocks of Western Eritrea. Gondwana Res., 6, 629-640.
Vasudevan, D., Kröner, A., Wendt, I. & Tobschall, H.J., 2005. Geochemistry, petrogenesis and age of felsic to intermediate metavolcanic rocks
from the Palaeoproterozoic Nellore Schist Belt, Vinjamur, Andhra Pradesh, India. J. Asian Earth Sci., in revision.
Vogt, M., Kröner, A., Poller, U., Sommer, H., Muhongo, S. & Wingate, M.T.D., 2005. Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic gneisses reworked
during a Neoproterozoic (Pan-African) high-grade event in the Mozambique belt of East Africa: structural relationships and zircon ages from the
Kidatu area, central Tanzania. J. Afr. Earth Sci., submitted.
Willner, A.P., Thomson, S.N., Kröner, A., Wartho, J.A., Wybrans, J. & Hervé, F., 2005. Time markers for the evolution and exhumation history
of a late Palaeozoic paired metamorphic belt in central Chile (34°-35°30’S). J. Petrol., in press.
Windley, B.F., Kröner, A., Guo, J., Qu, G., Li. Y. & Zhang, C., 2002. Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic geology of the Altai orogen, Chinese central
Asia: New zircon age data and tectonic evolution. J. Geol., 110, 719-738.