Pitra, P. and Martínez, F. 2024. Incomplete hydration during ‘retrograde’metamorphism:‘Barrovian’kyanite-, staurolite-, chloritoid-bearing pseudomorphs after andalusite (Cap de Creus, E Pyrenees, Spain). Journal of Petrology. 65, egae004.
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Researcher

Prof. Pavel Pitra
Associate Professor
Metamorphic geology, Structural geology, Tectonics
pavel.pitra@geology.cz
RID:
B-8004-2008
Research interests
My research activities are aimed at the parallel study of tectonics, structure, magmatic and metamorphic processes in different orogenic settings, based on extensive field work. The focus is on the study of PT conditions and their evolution with time. I approach these problems from a thermodynamic point of view, especially through numerical modelling of phase relations using various types of phase diagrams calculated with the help of some of the advanced features of the THERMOCALC software.
Research projects
Publications
Oreja, M. , Pitra, P. , López-Carmona, A. , Catalán, J.R.M. and Ayarza, P. 2024. Magnetization related to late-Variscan extensional collapse in the Lugo Dome (NW Iberian Massif): a metamorphic petrology approach. Lithos. 484, 107745.
DOI Google ScholarDe Hoÿm de Marien, L. , Pitra, P. , Poujol, M. , Cogné, N. , Cagnard, F. and Le Bayon, B. 2023. Complex geochronological record of an emblematic Variscan eclogite (Haut-Allier, French Massif Central). Journal of Metamorphic Geology.
DOI Google ScholarKoffi, A. , Baratoux, L. , Pitra, P. , Kouamelan, A. , Vanderhaeghe, O. , Thébaud, N. , Bruguier, O. , Block, S. , Kouadio, H. and Kone, J. 2023. A tectonic model for the juxtaposition of granulite-and amphibolite-facies rocks in the Eburnean orogenic belt (Sassandra-Cavally domain, Côte d’Ivoire). BSGF-Earth Sciences Bulletin. 194, 11.
Google ScholarManzotti, P. , Schiavi, F. , Nosenzo, F. , Pitra, P. and Ballèvre, M. 2022. A journey towards the forbidden zone: a new, cold, UHP unit in the Dora-Maira Massif (Western Alps). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 177, 59.
DOI Google ScholarSimon, M. , Pitra, P. , Yamato, P. and Poujol, M. 2022. Isothermal compression of an eclogite from the Western Gneiss Region (Norway). Journal of Metamorphic Geology.
DOI Google ScholarKoffi, A. , Thébaud, N. , Kouamelan, A. , Baratoux, L. , Bruguier, O. , Vanderhaeghe, O. , Pitra, P. , Kemp, A. and Evans, N. 2022. Archean to Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution in the Sassandra-Cavally domain (Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa): Insights from Hf and U-Pb zircon analyses. Precambrian Research. 382, 106875.
DOI Google ScholarPitra, P. , Poujol, M. , Van Den Driessche, J. , Bretagne, E. , Lotout, C. and Cogné, N. 2021. Late Variscan (315 Ma) subduction or deceptive zircon REE patterns and U–Pb dates from migmatite-hosted eclogites?(Montagne Noire, France). Journal of Metamorphic Geology.
DOI Google ScholarManzotti, P. , Ballèvre, M. , Pitra, P. and Schiavi, F. 2021. Missing lawsonite and aragonite found: P–T and fluid composition in meta-marls from the Combin Zone (Western Alps). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 176, 1–27.
DOI Google ScholarLotout, C. , Poujol, M. , Pitra, P. , Anczkiewicz, R. and Van Den Driessche, J. 2020. From Burial to Exhumation: Emplacement and Metamorphism of Mafic Eclogitic Terranes Constrained Through Multimethod Petrochronology, Case Study from the Lévézou Massif (French Massif Central, Variscan Belt). Journal of Petrology. 61.
DOI Google ScholarAguilar, C. , Štípská, P. , Chopin, F. , Schulmann, K. , Pitra, P. , Závada, P. , Hasalová, P. and Martelat, J.-E. 2020. Syn-deformational melt percolation through a high-pressure orthogneiss and the exhumation of a subducted continental wedge (Orlica-Śnieżnik Dome, NE Bohemian Massif). International Journal of Earth Sciences. 109, 34.
DOI Google ScholarManzotti, P. , Ballèvre, M. , Pitra, P. , Putlitz, B. , Robyr, M. and Müntener, O. 2020. The Growth of Sodic Amphibole at the Greenschist- to Blueschist-facies Transition (Dent Blanche, Western Alps): Bulk-rock Chemical Control and Thermodynamic Modelling. Journal of Petrology. 61.
DOI Google ScholarDe Hoÿm de Marien, L. , Pitra, P. , Cagnard, F. and Le Bayon, B. 2020. Prograde and retrograde P–T evolution of a Variscan high-temperature eclogite, French Massif Central, Haut-Allier. BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin. 191, 14.
DOI Google ScholarKone, J. , Vanderhaeghe, O. , Diatta, F. , Baratoux, L. , Thebaud, N. , Bruguier, O. , Ndiaye, P. , Duchene, S. , Pitra, P. and Ganne, J. 2020. Source and deposition age of the Dialé-Daléma metasedimentary series (Kédougou-Kéniéba Inlier, Senegal) constrained by U–Pb geochronology on detrital zircon grains. 165, 103801.
Google ScholarDe Hoÿm de Marien, L. , Le Bayon, B. , Pitra, P. , Van Den Driessche, J. , Poujol, M. and Cagnard, F. 2019. Two-stage Variscan metamorphism in the Canigou massif: Evidence for crustal thickening in the Pyrenees. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 37, 863–888.
Google ScholarManzotti, P. , Bosse, V. , Pitra, P. , Robyr, M. , Schiavi, F. and Ballèvre, M. 2018. Exhumation rates in the Gran Paradiso Massif (Western Alps) constrained by in situ U–Th–Pb dating of accessory phases (monazite, allanite and xenotime). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 173, 24.
DOI Google ScholarLotout, C. , Pitra, P. , Poujol, M. , Anczkiewicz, R. and Van Den Driessche, J. 2018. Timing and duration of Variscan high-pressure metamorphism in the French Massif Central: A multimethod geochronological study from the Najac Massif. Lithos. 308-309, 381–394.
DOI Google ScholarPitra, P. , Schulmann, K. , Catalán, J.R.M. and Ballèvre, M. 2017. The Variscan belt: correlations and plate dynamics. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 106, 395–396.
DOI Google ScholarChopin, F. , Schulmann, K. , Skrzypek, E. , Lehmann, J. , Dujardin, J.R., Martelat, J.-E. , Lexa, O. , Corsini, M. , Edel, J.B., Štípská, P. and Pitra, P. 2012. Crustal influx, indentation, ductile thinning and gravity redistribution in a continental wedge: Building a Moldanubian mantled gneiss dome with underthrust Saxothuringian material (European Variscan belt). Tectonics. 31, TC1013.
Google ScholarŠtípská, P. , Chopin, F. , Skrzypek, E. , Schulmann, K. , Pitra, P. , Lexa, O. , Martelat, J.-E. , Bollinger, C. and Žáčková, E. 2012. The juxtaposition of eclogite and mid-crustal rocks in the Orlica-Snieznik Dome, Bohemian Massif. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 30, 213–234.
Google ScholarChopin, F. , Schulmann, K. , Štípská, P. , Martelat, J.-E. , Pitra, P. , Lexa, O. and Petri, B. 2012. Microstructural and metamorphic evolution of a high-pressure granitic orthogneiss during continental subduction (Orlica-Snieznik dome, Bohemian Massif). Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 30, 347–376.
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