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Dirk Frei is affiliated with the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Their primary fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science, with a significant focus on geophysics and artificial intelligence as key subfields. Their research broadly encompasses geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, as well as the study of high-pressure geophysics and materials.

The scientist's work spans various main topics such as:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Dirk Frei has contributed to multiple scientific publications. Some recent papers include:

  • "Permian to Cretaceous granites and felsic volcanics from SW Vietnam and S Cambodia: Implications for tectonic development of Indochina" (2021), published in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • "Provenance of metasedimentary rocks of the western Dom Feliciano Belt in Uruguay: Insights from U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology, Hf and Nd model ages, and geochemical data" (2021), Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • "Provenance of the Late Ediacaran Rocha Formation, Cuchilla Dionisio Terrane, Uruguay: Tectonic implications on the assembly of Gondwana" (2020), Precambrian Research
  • "Provenance and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Tamatán Group, NE Mexico: Implications for the closure of the Rheic Ocean" (2021), Gondwana Research
  • "Recalibrating the breakup history of SW Gondwana: U-Pb radioisotopic age constraints from the southern Cape of South Africa" (2020), Gondwana Research

In terms of frequent co-authors, Dirk Frei has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Bodo Weber
  • Andrew Morton
  • M. Daniela Tazzo-Rangel
  • Reneé González-Guzmán
  • Luis Alberto Delgado-Argote

Their publications are often found in specific academic venues such as:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Geosciences
  • South African Journal of Geology
  • Gondwana Research

Dirk Frei has also authored a book titled The Geology of the Egyptian Nubian Shield, published by Springer International Publishing in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Zircon M257 ‐ a Homogeneous Natural Reference Material for the Ion Microprobe U‐Pb Analysis of Zircon

    Lutz Nasdala;Wolfgang Hofmeister;Nicholas Norberg;James M. Martinson

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

    Dirk Frei;Axel Gerdes

  • Early Permian seafloor to continental arc magmatism in the eastern Paleo-Tethys: U–Pb age and Nd–Sr isotope data from the southern Lancangjiang zone, Yunnan, China

    D. Hennig;B. Lehmann;D. Frei;B. Belyatsky

  • Peneplain formation in southern Tibet predates the India-Asia collision and plateau uplift

    R. Hetzel;I. Dunkl;V. Haider;M. Strobl

  • Evidence from detrital zircons for recycling of Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic crust recorded in Paleozoic and Mesozoic sandstones of southern Libya

    Guido Meinhold;Guido Meinhold;Andrew C. Morton;C. Mark Fanning;Dirk Frei;Dirk Frei

  • Trace Element Geochemistry of Epidote Minerals

    Dirk Frei;Axel Liebscher;Gerhard Franz;Peter Dulski

  • Constraints on provenance, stratigraphic correlation and structural context of the Volta basin, Ghana, from detrital zircon geochronology: An Amazonian connection?

    Feiko Kalsbeek;Dirk Frei;Pascal Affaton

  • U–Pb LA-SF-ICP-MS zircon geochronology of the Serbo-Macedonian Massif, Greece: palaeotectonic constraints for Gondwana-derived terranes in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Guido Meinhold;Guido Meinhold;Dimitrios Kostopoulos;Dirk Frei;Felix Himmerkus

  • Crustal geodynamics from the Archaean Bundelkhand Craton, India: constraints from zircon U–Pb–Hf isotope studies

    L. Saha;L. Saha;D. Frei;A. Gerdes;J. K. Pati

  • Diamondiferous kimberlites in central India synchronous with Deccan flood basalts

    Bernd Lehmann;Ray Burgess;Dirk Frei;Boris Belyatsky

  • HOW ARE THE EMPLACEMENT OF RARE-ELEMENT PEGMATITES, REGIONAL METAMORPHISM AND MAGMATISM INTERRELATED IN THE MOLDANUBIAN DOMAIN OF THE VARISCAN BOHEMIAN MASSIF, CZECH REPUBLIC?

    Jérémie Melleton;Eric Gloaguen;Dirk Frei;Milan Novák

  • Small-scale Hf isotopic variability in the Peninsula pluton (South Africa): the processes that control inheritance of source 176 Hf/ 177 Hf diversity in S-type granites

    F. Farina;G. Stevens;A. Gerdes;D. Frei

  • Trace element partitioning between orthopyroxene and anhydrous silicate melt on the lherzolite solidus from 1.1 to 3.2 GPa and 1,230 to 1,535°C in the model system Na2O–CaO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2

    Dirk Frei;Dirk Frei;Axel Liebscher;Gerhard Franz;Bernd Wunder

  • Mesoproterozoic evolution of the Río de la Plata Craton in Uruguay: at the heart of Rodinia?

    Claudio Gaucher;Robert Frei;Farid Chemale;Dirk Frei

  • Cretaceous to Cenozoic evolution of the northern Lhasa Terrane and the Early Paleogene development of peneplains at Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau

    Vicky L. Haider;István Dunkl;Hilmar von Eynatten;Lin Ding

  • Structural and geochronological evidence for Paleogene thrusting in the western Rhodopes, SW Bulgaria: Elements for a new tectonic model of the Rhodope Metamorphic Province

    Silke Jahn-Awe;Nikolaus Froitzheim;Thorsten J. Nagel;Dirk Frei

  • Paleo- to Mesoarchean polymetamorphism in the Barberton Granite-Greenstone Belt, South Africa: Constraints from U-Pb monazite and Lu-Hf garnet geochronology on the tectonic processes that shaped the belt

    Kathryn A. Cutts;Gary Stevens;J. Elis Hoffmann;Ian S. Buick

  • The processes that control leucosome compositions in metasedimentary granulites: perspectives from the Southern Marginal Zone migmatites, Limpopo Belt, South Africa

    J Taylor;G. Nicoli;G. Nicoli;G. Stevens;D Frei

  • Basin formation near the end of the 1.60–1.45 Ga tectonic gap in southern Laurentia: Mesoproterozoic Hess Canyon Group of Arizona and implications for ca. 1.5 Ga supercontinent configurations

    Michael F. Doe;James V. Jones;Karl E. Karlstrom;Kristine Thrane

  • Rapid evolution from sediment to anatectic granulite in an Archean continental collision zone: the example of the Bandelierkop Formation metapelites, South Marginal Zone, Limpopo Belt, South Africa

    G. Nicoli;G. Nicoli;G. Stevens;J.-F. Moyen;D. Frei

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Andrew C. Morton
Andrew C. Morton University of Cambridge
Gary Stevens
Gary Stevens Stellenbosch University
Gerhard Franz
Gerhard Franz Technical University of Berlin
István Dunkl
István Dunkl University of Göttingen
M. Cemal Göncüoglu
M. Cemal Göncüoglu Middle East Technical University
David H. Cornell
David H. Cornell University of Gothenburg
Nikolaus Froitzheim
Nikolaus Froitzheim University of Bonn
Bernd Lehmann
Bernd Lehmann Clausthal University of Technology
Hilmar von Eynatten
Hilmar von Eynatten University of Göttingen

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