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Friedrich Finger

Friedrich Finger

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Overview

Friedrich Finger is affiliated with the University of Salzburg in Austria and works primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses on various subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence applications, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The main topics covered in Finger's work encompass Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geological Formations and Processes Exploration, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Finger has contributed to a number of publications, including studies on the geological complexities and mineralogical characteristics of specific regions and rock units. Notable recent papers include:

  • The Dobra Gneiss and the Drosendorf Unit in the southeastern Bohemian Massif, Austria: West Amazonian crust in the heart of Europe (2020, Geological Society London Special Publications)
  • Ultrahigh-temperature granites and a curious thermal eye in the post-collisional South Bohemian batholith of the Variscan orogenic belt (Europe) (2022, Geology)
  • Two generations of Variscan garnet: Implications from a petrochronological study of a high-grade Avalonia-derived paragneiss from the Drosendorf unit, Bohemian Massif (2020, Gondwana Research)
  • Analysis of the infiltrative metasomatic relationships controlling skarn mineralization at the Abbas-Abad Fe-Cu Deposit, Isfahan, north Zefreh Fault, Central Iran (2020, Ore Geology Reviews)
  • Metamorphic stages in mountain belts during a Wilson cycle: A case study in the central Sanandaj-Sirjan zone (Zagros Mountains, Iran) (2021, Geoscience Frontiers)

The scientist's work has been published in multiple venues, including repeated contributions to Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft/Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences and Geologica Carpathica. Other publication venues with fewer papers include Geological Society London Special Publications, Geology, and Gondwana Research.

Finger's frequent collaborators include Christoph Hauzenberger, Michael Waitzinger, Dominik Sorger, Martin Lindner, and Manfred Linner. These collaborations span several publications and contribute to interdisciplinary and regional geological studies.

Best Publications

  • Variscan granitoids of central Europe: their typology, potential sources and tectonothermal relations

    Friedrich Finger;M P Roberts;B Haunschmid;A Schermaier

  • Do U-Pb zircon ages from granulites reflect peak metamorphic conditions?

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  • Replacement of primary monazite by apatite-allanite-epidote coronas in an amphibolite facies granite gneiss from the eastern Alps

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  • Application of Ti-in-zircon thermometry to granite studies: problems and possible solutions

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  • Pre-Variscan geological events in the Austrian part of the Bohemian Massif deduced from U-Pb zircon ages

    Gertrude Friedl;Fritz Finger;Jean-Louis Paquette;Albrecht von Quadt

  • Deducing the ancestry of terranes: SHRIMP evidence for South America–derived Gondwana fragments in central Europe

    Gertrude Friedl;Fritz Finger;Neal J. McNaughton;Ian R. Fletcher

  • Deciphering the petrogenesis of deeply buried granites: whole-rock geochemical constraints on the origin of largely undepleted felsic granulites from the Moldanubian Zone of the Bohemian Massif

    Vojtěch Janoušek;Fritz Finger;Malcolm Roberts;Jiří Frýda

  • 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

  • Factors controlling the development of prism faces in granite zircons: a microprobe study

    Artur Benisek;Friedrich Finger

  • The Brunovistulian: Avalonian Precambrian sequence at the eastern end of the Central European Variscides?

    F. Finger;P. Hanžl;C. Pin;A. von Quadt

  • A plate-kinematic model for the assembly of the Bohemian Massif constrained by structural relationships around granitoid plutons

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  • Low-pressure Granulites of the Lisov Massif, Southern Bohemia: Visean Metamorphism of Late Devonian Plutonic Arc Rocks

    Vojtěch Janoušek;Axel Gerdes;Stanislav Vrána;Fritz Finger

  • The Moldanubian granitoid plutons of Austria: Chemical and isotopic studies bearing on their environmental setting

    T.C. Liew;F. Finger;V. Höck

  • Formation of monazite and rhabdophane at the expense of allanite during Alpine low temperature retrogression of metapelitic basement rocks from Crete, Greece: Microprobe data and geochronological implications

    Erwin Krenn;Friedrich Finger

  • Migmatization and “secondary” granitic magmas: effects of emplacement and crystallization of “primary” granitoids in Southern Bohemia, Austria

    Friedrich Finger;J.D. Clemens

  • Syn-convergent high-temperature metamorphism and magmatism in the Variscides: a discussion of potential heat sources

    A. Henk;F. von Blanckenburg;F. Finger;Urs Schaltegger

  • Late Variscan Magmatic Evolution of the Alpine Basement

    B. Bonin;P. Brändlein;F. Bussy;J. Desmons

  • I-type granitoids as indicators of a late Paleozoic convergent ocean-continent margin along the southern flank of the central European Variscan orogen

    Friedrich Finger;H.P Steyrer

  • The Saxo-Danubian Granite Belt: magmatic response to post-collisional delamination of mantle lithosphere below the southwestern sector of the Bohemian Massif (Variscan orogen)

    Fritz Finger;Axel Gerdes;Miloš René;Gudrun Riegler

  • Durbachites-Vaugnerites - a geodynamic marker in the central European Variscan orogen

    Jürgen F. von Raumer;Fritz Finger;Petra Veselá;Gérard M. Stampfli

  • A Raman spectroscopic study on the structural disorder of monazite–(Ce)

    Katja Ruschel;Lutz Nasdala;Andreas Kronz;John M. Hanchar

  • High-resolution geochronology of Variscan granite emplacement - the South Bohemian Batholith

    Axel Gerdes;G Friedl;RR Parrish;Fritz Finger

  • The generation of voluminous S-type granites in the Moldanubian unit, Bohemian Massif, by rapid isothermal exhumation of the metapelitic middle crust

    Jiří Žák;Kryštof Verner;Fritz Finger;Shah Wali Faryad

  • Hybrids, magma mixing and enriched mantle melts in post-collisional Variscan granitoids: the Rastenberg Pluton, Austria

    A. Gerdes;G. Wörner;Friedrich Finger

  • Multistage Variscan magmatism in the central Tauern Window (Austria) unveiled by U/Pb SHRIMP zircon data

    Roland Eichhorn;Georg Loth;Rudolf Höll;Fritz Finger

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Vojtech Janousek
Vojtech Janousek Czech Geological Survey
Christian Pin
Christian Pin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Urs Klötzli
Urs Klötzli University of Vienna
Daniel E. Harlov
Daniel E. Harlov Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Gernold Zulauf
Gernold Zulauf Goethe University Frankfurt
Christoph Hauzenberger
Christoph Hauzenberger University of Graz
Lutz Nasdala
Lutz Nasdala University of Vienna
Dieter Rhede
Dieter Rhede Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Neal J. McNaughton
Neal J. McNaughton Curtin University

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