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Arild Andresen

Arild Andresen

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Overview

Arild Andresen is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Molecular Biology. Their research covers a range of topics within these fields, including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geological Studies and Exploration, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, as well as Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Andresen has been involved in multiple publications, primarily contributing to well-known scientific journals and special volumes. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Norwegian Journal of Geology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Andresen present research on geological formations, sedimentation, magmatic enclaves, and continental arc processes. Notable works include:

  • "Lithostratigraphic and structural data from Hardangervidda, southern Norway supporting extended interaction between Avalonia and Baltica" (2020, Geological Society London Special Publications)
  • "U-Pb zircon geochronology and geochemical constraints on the Ediacaran continental arc and post-collision Granites of Wadi Hawashiya, North Eastern Desert, Egypt: Insights into the ~600 Ma crust-forming Event in the northernmost part of Arabian-Nubian Shield" (2020, Precambrian Research)
  • "Early-Middle Ordovician sedimentation and bimodal volcanism at the margin of Iapetus: the Trollhøtta-Kinna Basin of the central Norwegian Caledonides" (2020, Geological Society London Special Publications)
  • "Field, textural, geochemical, and isotopic constraints on the origin and evolution of the magmatic microgranular enclaves from the Gharib Granitoid Complex, North Eastern Desert, Egypt" (2021, Precambrian Research)
  • "Origin of Neoproterozoic anorthosites in the Wadi El Dib ultramafic-mafic layered intrusions, Egypt" (2025, Precambrian Research)

Throughout their career, Andresen has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Hassan Eliwa
  • Mamoru Murata
  • Yasuhiro Kato
  • Koichiro Fujinaga
  • Nasser M. Mahdy

Best Publications

  • Late Cryogenian-Ediacaran history of the Arabian-Nubian Shield: A review of depositional, plutonic, structural, and tectonic events in the closing stages of the northern East African Orogen

    P.R. Johnson;A. Andresen;A.S. Collins;A.R. Fowler

  • U–Pb TIMS age constraints on the evolution of the Neoproterozoic Meatiq Gneiss Dome, Eastern Desert, Egypt

    Arild Andresen;Mohamed Ali Abu El-Rus;Per Inge Myhre;Gamal Y. Boghdady

  • Interaction of Basement-Involved and Thin-Skinned Tectonism in the Tertiary Fold-Thrust Belt of Central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

    Steffen G. Bergh;Alvar Braathen;Arild Andresen

  • In-situ hafnium and lead isotope analyses of detrital zircons from the Devonian sedimentary basin of NE Greenland: a record of repeated crustal reworking

    T. L. Knudsen;W. L. Griffin;E. H. Hartz;A. Andresen

  • Repeated magmatic pulses in the East African Orogen in the Eastern Desert, Egypt: An old idea supported by new evidence

    Anders Mattias Lundmark;Arild Andresen;Mohamed A. Hassan;Lars Eivind Augland

  • Geochemistry, geochronology, and Sr-Nd isotopes of the Late Neoproterozoic Wadi Kid volcano-sedimentary rocks, Southern Sinai, Egypt: implications for tectonic setting and crustal evolution

    Abdel Kader M Moghazi;Abdel Kader M Moghazi;Kamal A. Ali;Kamal A. Ali;Simon A. Wilde;Qin Zhou

  • Time scales of deformation and exhumation in extensional detachment systems determined by high-spatial resolution in situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar dating

    A. Mulch;M.A. Cosca;A. Andresen;J. Fiebig

  • Caledonian sole thrust of central East Greenland: A crustal-scale Devonian extensional detachment?

    E. Hartz;A. Andresen

  • Tertiary fold-and-thrust belt of Spitsbergen, Svalbard

    Winfried K. Dallmann;Arild Andresen;Steffen G. Bergh;Harmon D. Maher

  • U–Pb zircon dating and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic evidence to support a juvenile origin of the ~ 634 Ma El Shalul granitic gneiss dome, Arabian–Nubian Shield

    K. Ali;K. Ali;A. Andresen;W. I. Manton;R. J. Stern

  • Neoproterozoic basin evolution in Fennoscandia, East Greenland and Svalbard

    Johan Petter Nystuen;Arild Andresen;Risto A. Kumpulainen;Anna Siedlecka

  • Structural constraints on the evolution of the Meatiq Gneiss Dome (Egypt), East-African Orogen

    A. Andresen;L.E. Augland;G.Y. Boghdady;A.M. Lundmark

  • The tectonic significance of pre-Scandian 40Ar/39Ar phengite cooling ages in the Caledonides of western Norway

    Torgeir B. Andersen;Henry N. Berry;Daniel R. Lux;Arild Andresen

  • Timing of migmatization and granite genesis in the Northwestern Terrane of Svalbard, Norway: implications for regional correlations in the Arctic Caledonides

    Carl Henrik Pettersson;A. Tebenkov;A. Larionov;A. Andresen

  • Nature and distribution of deep crustal reservoirs in the southwestern part of the Baltic Shield: Evidence from Nd, Sr and Pb isotope data on late Sveconorwegian granites

    Tom Andersen;Arild Andresen;Arthur G. Sylvester

  • Structural Inheritance and Rapid Rift-Length Establishment in a Multiphase Rift: The East Greenland Rift System and its Caledonian Orogenic Ancestry

    Atle Rotevatn;Thomas Berg Kristensen;Anna Katharina Ksienzyk;Klaus Wemmer

  • U–Pb ID-TIMS dating of igneous and metaigneous rocks from the El-Sibai area: time constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Central Eastern Desert, Egypt

    Lars Eivind Augland;Arild Andresen;Gamal Yehia Boghdady

  • Syncontractional extension and exhumation of deep crustal rocks in the east Greenland Caledonides

    Ebbe H. Hartz;Arild Andresen;Kip V. Hodges;Mark W. Martin

  • A late orogenic extensional origin for the infracrustal gneiss domes of the East Greenland Caledonides (72 74°N)

    Arild Andresen;Ebbe H. Hartz;Jon Vold

  • The Janusfjellet Subgroup (Bathonian to Hauterivian) on central Spitsbergen: a revised lithostratigraphy

    H. Dypvik;T. A. Eikeland;K. Backer-Owe;A. Andresen

  • Lu–Hf and O isotopic compositions on single zircons from the North Eastern Desert of Egypt, Arabian–Nubian Shield: Implications for crustal evolution

    Kamal A. Ali;Basem A. Zoheir;Robert J. Stern;Arild Andresen

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Corfu
Fernando Corfu University of Oslo
Torgeir B. Andersen
Torgeir B. Andersen University of Oslo
Tom Andersen
Tom Andersen University of Oslo
Kip V. Hodges
Kip V. Hodges Arizona State University
Robert J. Stern
Robert J. Stern The University of Texas at Dallas
Henning Dypvik
Henning Dypvik University of Oslo
Yasuhiro Kato
Yasuhiro Kato University of Tokyo
William L. Griffin
William L. Griffin Macquarie University
Trond H. Torsvik
Trond H. Torsvik University of Oslo
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History

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