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.

 

Mingram, B., Kröner, A., Hegner, E. & Krentz, O., 2004. Geochemistry, zircon ages and Nd isotopic systematics for pre-Variscan granitoid

     orthogneisses from the Erzgebirge, Saxony, and geodynamic interpretation. Int. J. Earth Sci., 93, 706-727.

 

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.

 

Stípská, P., Schulmann, K. & Kröner, A., 2004. Vertical extrusion and middle crustal spreading of omphacite granulite: a model of syn-convergent

    exhumation (Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic). J. Metam. Geol., 22, 179-198.

 

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.

 

Vrána, S., Kachlík, V., Kröner, A., Marheine, D., Seifert, A.V., Îáãek, V. & BabÛrek, J., 2004. Ubendian basement and its late Mesoproterozoic

    and early Neoproterozoic structural and metamorphic overprint in northeastern Zambia. J. Afr. Earth Sci., 38, 1-21.

 

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.

 


 

 

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