Axel Gerdes

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Plesovice zircon : A new natural reference material for U-Pb and Hf isotopic microanalysis

  Jirri Slama;Jirri Slama;Jirri Slama;Jan Kosler;Daniel J. Condon;James L. Crowley

  5736
  Citations

• Combined U–Pb and Hf isotope LA-(MC-)ICP-MS analyses of detrital zircons: Comparison with SHRIMP and new constraints for the provenance and age of an Armorican metasediment in Central Germany

  Axel Gerdes;Armin Zeh

  1122
  Citations

• Zircon formation versus zircon alteration — New insights from combined U–Pb and Lu–Hf in-situ LA-ICP-MS analyses, and consequences for the interpretation of Archean zircon from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt

  Axel Gerdes;Armin Zeh

  1010
  Citations

• The Cadomian Orogeny and the opening of the Rheic Ocean: The diacrony of geotectonic processes constrained by LA-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon dating (Ossa-Morena and Saxo-Thuringian Zones, Iberian and Bohemian Massifs)

  Ulf Linnemann;Francisco Pereira;Teresa E. Jeffries;Kerstin Drost

  592
  Citations

• Natural fractionation of 238U/235U

  S. Weyer;Ariel Anbar;A. Gerdes;Gwyneth Gordon

  535
  Citations

• Precise and accurate in situ U-Pb dating of zircon with high sample throughput by automated LA-SF-ICP-MS

  Dirk Frei;Axel Gerdes

  503
  Citations

• The continuum between Cadomian orogenesis and opening of the Rheic Ocean: Constraints from LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon dating and analysis of plate-tectonic setting (Saxo-Thuringian zone, northeastern Bohemian Massif, Germany)

  Ulf Linnemann;Axel Gerdes;Kerstin Drost;Bernd Buschmann

  392
  Citations

• The Cadomian Orogen: Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian crustal growth and orogenic zoning along the periphery of the West African Craton—Constraints from U-Pb zircon ages and Hf isotopes (Schwarzburg Antiform, Germany)

  Ulf Linnemann;Axel Gerdes;Mandy Hofmann;Linda Marko

  376
  Citations

• Archean Accretion and Crustal Evolution of the Kalahari Craton—the Zircon Age and Hf Isotope Record of Granitic Rocks from Barberton/Swaziland to the Francistown Arc

  Armin Zeh;Axel Gerdes;Jackson M. Barton

  351
  Citations

• Archaean to Proterozoic Crustal Evolution in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt (South Africa^Botswana): Constraints from Combined U^Pb and Lu^Hf Isotope Analyses of Zircon

  Armin Zeh;Axel Gerdes;Reiner Klemd;Jackson M. Barton

  317
  Citations

• Magma-mixing in the genesis of Hercynian calc-alkaline granitoids: an integrated petrographic and geochemical study of the Sázava intrusion, Central Bohemian Pluton, Czech Republic

  Vojtěch Janoušek;Colin J.R. Braithwaite;D.R. Bowes;Axel Gerdes

  312
  Citations

• Tantalum–(niobium–tin) mineralisation in African pegmatites and rare metal granites: Constraints from Ta–Nb oxide mineralogy, geochemistry and U–Pb geochronology

  Frank Melcher;Torsten Graupner;Hans-Eike Gäbler;Maria Sitnikova

  289
  Citations

• Tracking the evolution of large-volume silicic magma reservoirs from assembly to supereruption

  Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw;Urs Schaltegger;Daniel A. Frick;Michael A. Dungan;Michael A. Dungan

  286
  Citations

• SHRIMP U‐Pb zircon dating from Sulu‐Dabie dolomitic marble, eastern China: constraints on prograde, ultrahigh‐pressure and retrograde metamorphic ages

  F. L. Liu;A. Gerdes;J.G. Liou;H. M. Xue

  281
  Citations

• Post‐collisional granite generation and HT–LP metamorphism by radiogenic heating: the Variscan South Bohemian Batholith

  A. Gerdes;G. Wörner;A. Henk

  279
  Citations

• Multi-method chronometric constraints on the evolution of the Northern Kyrgyz Tien Shan granitoids (Central Asian orogenic belt): from emplacement to exhumation

  S. Glorie;J. De Grave;M. M. Buslov;M. A. Elburg

  266
  Citations

• U–Pb ages of detrital zircons from the Basal allochthonous units of NW Iberia: Provenance and paleoposition on the northern margin of Gondwana during the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic

  Rubén Díez Fernández;José R. Martínez Catalán;Axel Gerdes;Jacobo Abati

  220
  Citations

• U–Th–Pb and Lu–Hf systematics of zircon from TTG's, leucosomes, meta-anorthosites and quartzites of the Limpopo Belt (South Africa): Constraints for the formation, recycling and metamorphism of Palaeoarchaean crust

  Armin Zeh;Axel Gerdes;Jay Barton;Reiner Klemd

  214
  Citations

• A new appraisal of sri lankan bb zircon as a reference material for LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotope tracing.

  Maristella M. Santos;Cristiano Lana;Ricardo Scholz;Ian Buick

  205
  Citations

• Coupled U–Pb–Hf of detrital zircons of Cambrian sandstones from Morocco and Sardinia: Implications for provenance and Precambrian crustal evolution of North Africa

  D. Avigad;A. Gerdes;N. Morag;T. Bechstädt

  200
  Citations

• SHRIMP U–Pb dating, trace elements and the Lu–Hf isotope system of coesite-bearing zircon from amphibolite in the SW Sulu UHP terrane, eastern China

  Fulai Liu;Axel Gerdes;Lingsen Zeng;Huaimin Xue

  198
  Citations

• Resolving the Variscan evolution of the Moldanubian sector of the Bohemian Massif: the significance of the Bavarian and the Moravo-Moldanubian tectonometamorphic phases

  Fritz Finger;Axel Gerdes;Vojtech Janousek;Milos Rene

  190
  Citations