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Hans-Joachim Massonne

Hans-Joachim Massonne

Hans-Joachim Massonne publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hans-Joachim Massonne sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Hans-Joachim Massonne D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hans-Joachim Massonne sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Hans-Joachim Massonne is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Geophysics, as evidenced by a significant number of publications in this subfield. They have also contributed to studies in Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Materials Chemistry, and Paleontology.

Massonne's work spans several key topics within geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Additionally, their research covers geochemistry and geologic mapping, mineralogy and gemology studies, as well as geochemistry and elemental analysis and geological formations and processes exploration.

Frequent coauthors include Botao Li, Junfeng Zhang, Dražen Balen, Wentao Cao, and Giovanni Musumeci. This collaborative network reflects interdisciplinary approaches within geosciences.

The scientist's publication record includes articles in major venues such as the Journal of Metamorphic Geology, Lithos, Terra Nova, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, and Tectonophysics. The Journal of Metamorphic Geology stands out as the most frequent publication venue.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Massonne include:

  • The closure of the Rocas Verdes Basin and early tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Magallanes Fold-and-Thrust Belt, southern Patagonian Andes (52-54°S), 2020, Tectonophysics
  • Zoning of eclogitic garnet cores - a key pattern demonstrating the dominance of tectonic erosion as part of the burial process of worldwide occurring eclogites, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • The Main Central Thrust zone along the Alaknanda and Dhauli Ganga valleys (Garhwal Himalaya, NW India): Insights into an inverted metamorphic sequence, 2020, Lithos
  • High-P (P = 1.5-1.8 GPa) blueschist from Elba: Implications for underthrusting and exhumation of continental units in the Northern Apennines, 2020, Journal of Metamorphic Geology
  • Kyanite-garnet granulite from the Andrelândia nappe system, Brasília belt, registers two late Neoproterozoic metamorphic cycles, 2021, Precambrian Research

Best Publications

  • Phengite geobarometry based on the limiting assemblage with K-feldspar, phlogopite, and quartz

    Hans Joachim Massonne;Werner Schreyer

  • Diapirs as the source of the sediment signature in arc lavas

    Mark D. Behn;Peter B. Kelemen;Greg Hirth;Bradley R. Hacker

  • Thermodynamic properties of white micas on the basis of high-pressure experiments in the systems K2OMgOAl2O3SiO2H2O and K2OFeOAl3O3SiO2H3O

    Hans-Joachim Massonne;Zbigniew Szpurka

  • Microdiamond daughter crystals precipitated from supercritical COH + silicate fluids included in garnet, Erzgebirge, Germany

    Bernhard Stöckhert;Johannes Duyster;Claudia Trepmann;Hans-Joachim Massonne

  • Stability field of the high-pressure assemblage talc+phengite and two new phengite barometers

    Hans-Joachim Massonne;Werner Schreyer

  • The low‐high quartz and quartz‐coesite transition to 40 kbar between 600° and 1600°C and some reconnaissance data on the effect of NaAlO2 component on the low quartz‐coesite transition

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  • A comparison of the evolution of diamondiferous quartz-rich rocks from the Saxonian Erzgebirge and the Kokchetav Massif: are so-called diamondiferous gneisses magmatic rocks?

    Hans-Joachim Massonne

  • History of crustal growth and recycling at the Pacific convergent margin of South America at latitudes 29°–36° S revealed by a U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope study of detrital zircon from late Paleozoic accretionary systems

    A.P. Willner;A.P. Willner;A. Gerdes;H.-J. Massonne

  • Microdiamonds from the Saxonian Erzgebirge, Germany: in situ micro-Raman characterisation

    Lutz Nasdala;Hans-Joachim Massonne

  • A counterclockwise PTt path of high-pressure/low-temperature rocks from the Coastal Cordillera accretionary complex of south-central Chile: constraints for the earliest stage of subduction mass flow

    A.P. Willner;J. Glodny;T.V. Gerya;T.V. Gerya;E. Godoy

  • Microdiamonds from the Saxonian Erzgebirge, Germany: in situ micro-Raman characterisation;Microdiamonds from the Saxonian Erzgebirge, Germany: in situ micro-Raman characterisation

    Lutz Nasdala;Hans-Joachim Massonne

  • Pressure-temperature-time-deformation path of kyanite-bearing migmatitic paragneiss in the Kali Gandaki Valley (central Nepal); investigation of late Eocene-early Oligocene melting processes

    Salvatore Iaccarino;Chiara Montomoli;Rodolfo Carosi;Hans Joachim Massonne

  • First find of coesite in the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic area of the central Erzgebirge, Germany

    Hans-Joachim Massonne

  • The geodynamics of collision of a microplate (Chilenia) in Devonian times deduced by the pressure–temperature–time evolution within part of a collisional belt (Guarguaraz Complex, W-Argentina)

    Arne P. Willner;Arne P. Willner;Axel Gerdes;Hans-Joachim Massonne;Alexander Schmidt

  • Formation of Amphibole and Clinozoisite–Epidote in Eclogite owing to Fluid Infiltration during Exhumation in a Subduction Channel

    H.-J. Massonne

  • A high precision U–Pb age of metamorphic rutile in coesite-bearing eclogite from the Dabie Mountains in central China: a new constraint on the cooling history

    Qiuli Li;Shuguang Li;Yong-Fei Zheng;Huimin Li

  • The Bohemian Massif and the NW Himalaya

    Hans-Joachim Massonne;Patrick J. O’brien

  • Phase relations and dehydration behaviour of psammopelite and mid-ocean ridge basalt at very-low-grade to low-grade metamorphic conditions

    Hans-Joachim Massonne;Arne P. Willner;Arne P. Willner

  • Dating of zircon and monazite from diamondiferous quartzofeldspathic rocks of the Saxonian Erzgebirge – hints at burial and exhumation velocities

    H. Massonne;Allen Kennedy;L. Nasdala;T. Theye

  • Metamorphic and plutonic basement complexes

    Francisco Hervé;Victor Faundez;Mauricio Calderón;Hans Joachim Massonne

  • High-pressure syntheses and X-ray properties of white micas in the system K2O-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O

    H. J Massonne;W Schreyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Arne P. Willner
Arne P. Willner Ruhr University Bochum
Léo Afraneo Hartmann
Léo Afraneo Hartmann Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Francisco Hervé
Francisco Hervé Andrés Bello University
Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Junfeng Zhang
Junfeng Zhang China University of Geosciences
Cees R. van Staal
Cees R. van Staal Geological Survey of Canada
Chiara Montomoli
Chiara Montomoli University of Turin
Bernhard Stöckhert
Bernhard Stöckhert Ruhr University Bochum
Stuart N. Thomson
Stuart N. Thomson University of Arizona
Friedrich Koller
Friedrich Koller University of Vienna

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