CLR person interests, research and publications
Researcher
About me
My research aims to understand deformation in the lithosphere over a range of levels, conditions, and spatial scales, with a particular focus on processes that affect its dynamic evolution, including: the growth and collapse of orogenic systems; feedbacks between deformation and melt migration in the mid-crust through upper mantle; and mechanisms of strain localization and rheological weakening. Understanding these processes across a range of spatial scales and tectonic settings requires a multidisciplinary approach that makes use of a variety of analytical methods, which are best complemented by research fundamentally rooted in comprehensive field-based investigation. As a quantitative, field-oriented geologist, my approach to research incorporates: detailed field-based mapping and structural analyses, crystallographic textural analyses using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), magnetic fabric characterization including the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS), geochronology and thermochronology studies, and petrologic investigations to further our understanding of how intrinsic rock properties (e.g., composition, melt fraction, grain size, crystallographic texture) and extrinsic conditions (e.g., pressure-temperature conditions, deformation history) affect lithospheric processes through time.
Research interests
- Mantle geochemistry and cosmochemistry of lithium, importance for Solar System processes
- Geochemistry of lithium in mantle-derived melts, continental crust, ocean island basalts coupled with tracing recycled components, low-temperature environment
- Geochemistry of lithium at biotic/abiotic interface
- Nuclear and medical forensics of lithium
- Stable isotope cosmochemistry of lithophile isotope systems (Mg, Ca, Fe)
- Stable isotope geochemistry of lithophile and chalcophile isotope systems (Li, Mg, Si, Ca, Cu, Zn, Os) in high-temperature events using tektites and other impact-related materials
- Cenozoic volcanism in central Europe from stable, noble gas and radiogenic isotope perspective
- Geochemistry of Earth's mantle
- Early Solar System and short-lived chronometry
- Developments in analytical chemistry and mass spectrometry techniques
- Uranium–lead zircon dating
Research projects
Selected segments of Euroasian orogenic system are used to constrain relative contribution of contrasting processes of continental construction in collisional and accretionary orogenic systems. Principal objectives of the proposal are: (i) identification of the individual terranes, kinematic analysis of their movements and characterization of deformation style connected with their amalgamation; (ii) estimation of net crustal growth vs. recycling of preexistent crustal material.