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Dejan Prelević

Dejan Prelević

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Dejan Prelević is affiliated with the University of Belgrade in Serbia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Geophysics and related subfields. Their research spans geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Additional areas of interest include geological formations and processes exploration, geochemistry and geologic mapping, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and geological and geophysical studies worldwide.

Dejan Prelević has authored multiple papers published in a variety of scientific journals, including:

  • Potassium isotope evidence for sediment recycling into the orogenic lithospheric mantle, 2021, Geochemical Perspectives Letters
  • Petrogenesis of Mediterranean lamproites and associated rocks: The role of overprinted metasomatic events in the post-collisional lithospheric upper mantle, 2021, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Recycled Carbonate-Bearing Silicate Sediments in the Sources of Circum-Mediterranean K-Rich Lavas: Evidence From Mg-Zn Isotopic Decoupling, 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Sediment-Peridotite Reaction Controls Fore-Arc Metasomatism and Arc Magma Geochemical Signatures, 2021, Geosciences
  • Experimental production of K-rich metasomes through sediment recycling at the slab-mantle interface in the fore-arc, 2023, Scientific Reports

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Prelević include Stephen Foley, Vladica Cvetković, Michael W. Förster, Stephan Buhre, and Sheng-Ao Liu. These collaborations indicate an interdisciplinary approach involving a range of expertise within the Earth sciences community.

Their research outputs are regularly published in journals such as Geoloski anali Balkanskog poluostrva, Geochemical Perspectives Letters, Geological Society London Special Publications, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, and Scientific Reports.

Prelević has contributed extensively to the fields of study related to geophysics, with the majority of publications falling under these areas. The research involves a blend of theoretical and applied studies aimed at understanding geological processes and properties of Earth materials under various conditions.

Best Publications

  • Trace elements and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of K-rich, shoshonitic, and calc-alkaline magmatism of the Western Mediterranean Region: Genesis of ultrapotassic to calc-alkaline magmatic associations in a post-collisional geodynamic setting

    Sandro Conticelli;Luisa Guarnieri;Alice Farinelli;Massimo Mattei

  • Minor and trace elements in olivines as probes into early igneous and mantle melting processes

    Stephen F. Foley;Dejan Prelevic;Dejan Prelevic;Tatjana Rehfeldt;Dorrit E. Jacob

  • Mediterranean Tertiary lamproites derived from multiple source components in postcollisional geodynamics

    D. Prelević;S.F. Foley;R. Romer;S. Conticelli

  • Ultrapotassic Mafic Rocks as Geochemical Proxies for Post-collisional Dynamics of Orogenic Lithospheric Mantle: the Case of Southwestern Anatolia, Turkey

    D. Prelević;D. Prelević;C. Akal;S. F. Foley;R. L. Romer

  • Tertiary Ultrapotassic Volcanism in Serbia: Constraints on Petrogenesis and Mantle Source Characteristics

    D. Prelević;D. Prelević;S. F. Foley;R. L. Romer;V. Cvetković

  • Origin and geodynamic significance of Tertiary postcollisional basaltic magmatism in Serbia (central Balkan Peninsula)

    V Cvetković;D Prelević;H Downes;M Jovanović

  • Recycling plus: A new recipe for the formation of Alpine–Himalayan orogenic mantle lithosphere

    Dejan Prelević;Dejan Prelević;Dorrit E. Jacob;Stephen F. Foley

  • Magmatic Response to Slab Tearing: Constraints from the Afyon Alkaline Volcanic Complex, Western Turkey

    Dejan Prelević;Cüneyt Akal;Rolf L. Romer;Regina Mertz-Kraus

  • Accretion of arc-oceanic lithospheric mantle in the Mediterranean: Evidence from extremely high-Mg olivines and Cr-rich spinel inclusions in lamproites

    D. Prelević;S.F. Foley

  • The olivine macrocryst problem: New insights from minor and trace element compositions of olivine from Lac de Gras kimberlites, Canada

    Yannick Bussweiler;Stephen F. Foley;Dejan Prelević;Dorrit E. Jacob

  • Origin of Minette by Mixing of Lamproite and Dacite Magmas in Veliki Majdan, Serbia

    D. Prelević;D. Prelević;S. F. Foley;V. Cvetković;R. L. Romer

  • Hf isotope compositions of Mediterranean lamproites: Mixing of melts from asthenosphere and crustally contaminated mantle lithosphere

    D. Prelevic;A. Stracke;S. F. Foley;Rolf Romer

  • Petrogenesis of orogenic lamproites of the Bohemian Massif: Sr–Nd–Pb–Li isotope constraints for Variscan enrichment of ultra-depleted mantle domains

    Lukáš Krmíček;Lukáš Krmíček;Rolf L. Romer;Jaromír Ulrych;Johannes Glodny

  • Petrological characterization of the mantle source of Mediterranean lamproites : indications from major and trace elements of phlogopite

    Tobias Fritschle;Dejan Prelević;Stephen F. Foley;Dorrit E. Jacob

  • Lamproites as indicators of accretion and/or shallow subduction in the assembly of south‐western Anatolia, Turkey

    D. Prelevic;Cüneyt Akal;R. Romer;S. Foley

  • Melting and dynamic metasomatism of mixed harzburgite + glimmerite mantle source: Implications for the genesis of orogenic potassic magmas

    Michael W. Förster;Michael W. Förster;Dejan Prelević;Harald R. Schmück;Stephan Buhre

  • Carboniferous granites on the northern margin of Gondwana, Anatolide-Tauride Block, Turkey – Evidence for southward subduction of Paleotethys

    O. Candan;C. Akal;O.E. Koralay;A.I. Okay

  • An experimental study of the role of partial melts of sediments versus mantle melts in the sources of potassic magmatism

    Michael W. Förster;Dejan Prelević;Dejan Prelević;Stephan Buhre;Regina Mertz-Kraus

  • Potassium-rich magmatism from a phlogopite-free source

    Yu Wang;Yu Wang;Stephen F. Foley;Dejan Prelević

  • Ultrapotassic Volcanism from the Waning Stage of the Neotethyan Subduction: a Key Study from the Izmir–Ankara–Erzincan Suture Belt, Central Northern Turkey

    Fatma Gülmez;Ş. Can Genç;Dejan Prelević;Okan Tüysüz

  • Early Triassic potassic volcanism in the Afyon Zone of the Anatolides/Turkey: implications for the rifting of the Neo-Tethys

    Cüneyt Akal;Osman Candan;O. Ersin Koralay;Roland Oberhänsli

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen F. Foley
Stephen F. Foley Macquarie University
Rolf L. Romer
Rolf L. Romer University of Potsdam
Hilary Downes
Hilary Downes Birkbeck, University of London
Dorrit E. Jacob
Dorrit E. Jacob Macquarie University
Sandro Conticelli
Sandro Conticelli University of Florence
Andreas Stracke
Andreas Stracke University of Münster
Sebastian Tappe
Sebastian Tappe TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Osman Candan
Osman Candan Dokuz Eylül University
Paul van den Bogaard
Paul van den Bogaard GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Martin R. Palmer
Martin R. Palmer University of Southampton

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