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Dov Avigad is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and focuses on research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, and Geology.

The main areas of study for Avigad include geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Avigad has published extensively in a range of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Basin Research
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Precambrian Research
  • Gondwana Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Avigad include:

  • Axel Gerdes
  • Navot Morag
  • Leo J. Millonig
  • Richard Albert
  • Craig Dietsch

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope and focus of Avigad's research:

  • "Exploring laser ablation U-Pb dating of regional metamorphic garnet - The Straits Schist, Connecticut, USA" (2020), Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Cadomian (ca. 550 Ma) magmatic and thermal imprint on the North Arabian-Nubian Shield (south and central Israel): New age and isotopic constraints" (2020), Precambrian Research
  • "Crustal evolution of Western Europe: Constraints from detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf-O isotopes" (2022), Gondwana Research
  • "Drainage response to Arabia-Eurasia collision: Insights from provenance examination of the Cyprian Kythrea flysch (Eastern Mediterranean Basin)" (2020), Basin Research
  • "Detrital zircon and rutile U-Pb, Hf isotopes and heavy mineral assemblages of Israeli Miocene sands: Fingerprinting the Arabian provenance of the Levant" (2021), Basin Research

Best Publications

  • Mass-production of Cambro-Ordovician quartz-rich sandstone as a consequence of chemical weathering of Pan-African terranes: Environmental implications

    D. Avigad;A. Sandler;K. Kolodner;R. J. Stern

  • Origin of northern Gondwana Cambrian sandstone revealed by detrital zircon SHRIMP dating

    D. Avigad;K. Kolodner;M. McWilliams;H. Persing

  • New insights into peri-Gondwana paleogeography and the Gondwana super-fan system from detrital zircon U-Pb ages

    Guido Meinhold;Andrew C. Morton;Dov Avigad

  • Late Neoproterozoic rise and fall of the northern Arabian–Nubian shield: The role of lithospheric mantle delamination and subsequent thermal subsidence

    Dov Avigad;Zohar Gvirtzman

  • Uplift and exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic terrains: the example of the cycladic blueschist belt (Aegean Sea)

    Dov Avigad;Zvi Garfunkel

  • Back arc extension and denudation of Mediterranean eclogites

    Dov Avigad;Zvi Garfunkel;Laurent Jolivet;José M. Azañón

  • Provenance of north Gondwana Cambrian-Ordovician sandstone: U-Pb SHRIMP dating of detrital zircons from Israel and Jordan

    K. Kolodner;D. Avigad;Michael McWilliams;J. Wooden

  • 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

  • Ar–Ar and fission-track ages in the Song Chay Massif: Early Triassic and Cenozoic tectonics in northern Vietnam

    H. Maluski;C. Lepvrier;L. Jolivet;Andrew Carter

  • Low‐angle faults above and below a blueschist belt—Tinos Island, Cyclades, Greece

    Dov Avigad;Zvi Garfunkel

  • Crustal evolution and recycling in the northern Arabian-Nubian Shield: New perspectives from zircon Lu-Hf and U-Pb systematics

    Navot Morag;Dov Avigad;Axel Gerdes;Elena Belousova

  • Oligo‐Miocene midcrustal subhorizontal shear zone in Indochina

    Laurent Jolivet;Olivier Beyssac;Bruno Goffé;Dov Avigad

  • Evidence for the Snowball Earth hypothesis in the Arabian-Nubian Shield and the East African Orogen

    R.J. Stern;D. Avigad;N.R. Miller;M. Beyth

  • Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Cryogenian diamictites and Lower Paleozoic sandstone in Ethiopia (Tigrai): Age constraints on Neoproterozoic glaciation and crustal evolution of the southern Arabian-Nubian Shield

    D. Avigad;R. J. Stern;M. Beyth;Nathaniel R Miller

  • Softening trigerred by eclogitization, the first step toward exhumation during continental subduction

    Laurent Jolivet;Hugues Raimbourg;Loïc Labrousse;Dov Avigad

  • Ductile and brittle shortening, extension‐parallel folds and maintenance of crustal thickness in the central Aegean (Cyclades, Greece)

    Dov Avigad;Alon Ziv;Zvi Garfunkel

  • Block rotations and continental extension in the central Aegean Sea: palaeomagnetic and structural evidence from Tinos and Mykonos (Cyclades, Greece)

    Dov Avigad;Gidon Baer;Ariel Heimann

  • Alpine high-pressure metamorphism at the Almyropotamos window (southern Evia, Greece)

    Yonathan Shaked;Dov Avigad;Zvi Garfunkel

  • Detrital zircon Hf isotopic composition indicates long-distance transport of North Gondwana Cambrian-Ordovician sandstones

    Navot Morag;Dov Avigad;Axel Gerdes;Elena Belousova

  • Cadomian basement and Paleozoic to Triassic siliciclastics of the Taurides (Karacahisar dome, south-central Turkey): Paleogeographic constraints from U–Pb–Hf in zircons

    Avishai Abbo;Dov Avigad;Axel Gerdes;Axel Gerdes;Talip Güngör

  • The tectono-metamorphic evolution of a dismembered ophiolite (Tinos, Cyclades, Greece)

    Yaron Katzir;Alan Matthews;Zvi Garfunkel;Manfred Schliestedt

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Zvi Garfunkel
Zvi Garfunkel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Robert J. Stern
Robert J. Stern The University of Texas at Dallas
Laurent Jolivet
Laurent Jolivet Sorbonne University
Michael McWilliams
Michael McWilliams Stanford University
Elena Belousova
Elena Belousova Macquarie University
Bruno Goffé
Bruno Goffé Aix-Marseille University
Gideon Rosenbaum
Gideon Rosenbaum University of Queensland
André Michard
André Michard University of Paris-Saclay
Trevor Ireland
Trevor Ireland University of Queensland

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