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Hartwig E. Frimmel

Hartwig E. Frimmel

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Earth Science

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54
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9444
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2732
National Ranking
176

Overview

Hartwig E. Frimmel is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Paleontology.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis

Frequent co-authors in their research include Martin Okrusch, Glen T. Nwaila, Ying Ma, Shao-Yong Jiang, and Julie E. Bourdeau.

The venues where Hartwig E. Frimmel publishes most frequently are:

  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Mineralium Deposita
  • Natural Resources Research
  • Gondwana Research
  • Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Hartwig E. Frimmel include:

  • The minerals industry in the era of digital transition: An energy-efficient and environmentally conscious approach, 2022, Resources Policy
  • The 127 Ma gold mineralization in the Wulong deposit, Liaodong Peninsula, China: Constraints from molybdenite Re-Os, monazite U-Th-Pb, and zircon U-Pb geochronology, 2020, Ore Geology Reviews
  • Unravelling the processes controlling apatite formation in the Phalaborwa Complex (South Africa) based on combined cathodoluminescence, LA-ICPMS and in-situ O and Sr isotope analyses, 2020, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Valorisation of mine waste - Part I: Characteristics of, and sampling methodology for, consolidated mineralised tailings by using Witwatersrand gold mines (South Africa) as an example, 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian timescale, 2021, Journal of the Geological Society

Hartwig E. Frimmel has contributed to book publications as well, including the book titled Mineralogy published by Springer International Publishing in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Trace element distribution in Neoproterozoic carbonates as palaeoenvironmental indicator

    Hartwig E. Frimmel

  • Trace-element characteristics of different pyrite types in Mesoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic placer deposits

    Nikola Koglin;Hartwig E. Frimmel;Hartwig E. Frimmel;W. E. Lawrie Minter;Helene Brätz

  • A connection between the Neoproterozoic Dom Feliciano (Brazil/Uruguay) and Gariep (Namibia/South Africa) orogenic belts - Evidence from a reconnaissance provenance study.

    Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei;H E Frimmel;Allen Nutman;F Preciozzi

  • Earth's continental crustal gold endowment

    H.E. Frimmel

  • West Gondwana amalgamation based on detrital zircon ages from Neoproterozoic Ribeira and Dom Feliciano belts of South America and comparison with coeval sequences from SW Africa

    M. A. S. Basei;H. E. Frimmel;A. P. Nutman;F. Preciozzi

  • New Pb-Pb Single Zircon Age Constraints on the Timing of Neoproterozoic Glaciation and Continental Break-up in Namibia

    Hartwig E. Frimmel;Urs S. Klötzli;Pete R. Siegfried

  • Neoproterozoic tectono-thermal evolution of the Gariep Belt and its basement, Namibia and South Africa

    H Frimmel

  • LA-ICP-MS trace element analysis of pyrite from the Xiaoqinling gold district, China: Implications for ore genesis

    Hai-Xiang Zhao;Hai-Xiang Zhao;Hartwig E. Frimmel;Hartwig E. Frimmel;Shao-Yong Jiang;Bao-Zhang Dai

  • Archaean atmospheric evolution: evidence from the Witwatersrand gold fields, South Africa

    Hartwig E. Frimmel

  • Early Cambrian ocean anoxia in South China

    Shao-Yong Jiang;Dao-Hui Pi;Dao-Hui Pi;Christoph Heubeck;Hartwig Frimmel

  • Neoproterozoic geodynamic evolution of SW-Gondwana: a southern African perspective

    H. E. Frimmel;H. E. Frimmel;M. S. Basei;C. Gaucher

  • The Richtersveld Igneous Complex, South Africa: U-Pb Zircon and Geochemical Evidence for the Beginning of Neoproterozoic Continental Breakup

    Hartwig E. Frimmel;Robert E. Zartman;Andreas Späth

  • Morphology of Witwatersrand gold grains from the Basal Reef; evidence for their detrital origin

    W. E. L. Minter;M. Goedhart;J. Knight;H. E. Frimmel

  • The Formation and Preservation of the Witwatersrand Goldfields, the World’s Largest Gold Province

    H.E. Frimmel;David Groves;J. Kirk;J. Ruiz

  • Recent Developments Concerning the Geological History and Genesis of the Witwatersrand Gold Deposits, South Africa

    H. E. Frimmel;W. E. L. Minter

  • Uraninite chemistry as forensic tool for provenance analysis

    Hartwig E. Frimmel;Hartwig E. Frimmel;Sibylle Schedel;Helene Brätz

  • Chemostratigraphic correlation of carbonate successions in the Gariep and Saldania Belts, Namibia and South Africa

    P. G. Fölling;H. E. Frimmel

  • Provenance and chemostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic West Congolian Group in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Hartwig Frimmel;Luc Tack;Miguel A S Basei;Allen Phillip Nutman

  • Geochemistry, geochronology and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes of two Mesozoic granitoids in the Xiaoqinling gold district: Implication for large-scale lithospheric thinning in the North China Craton

    Hai-Xiang Zhao;Hai-Xiang Zhao;Shao-Yong Jiang;Hartwig E. Frimmel;Hartwig E. Frimmel;Bao-Zhang Dai

  • Neoproterozoic tectonic and climatic evolution recorded in the Gariep Belt, Namibia and South Africa

    H. E. Frimmel;P. G. Fölling;P. G. Eriksson

  • Introduction to Geochemistry

    Martin Okrusch;Hartwig E. Frimmel

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Okrusch
Martin Okrusch University of Würzburg
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Universidade de São Paulo
Vinciane Debaille
Vinciane Debaille Université Libre de Bruxelles
Shao-Yong Jiang
Shao-Yong Jiang China University of Geosciences
Galen P. Halverson
Galen P. Halverson McGill University
Allen P. Nutman
Allen P. Nutman University of Wollongong
John T. Chesley
John T. Chesley University of Arizona
Qingdong Zeng
Qingdong Zeng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joaquin Ruiz
Joaquin Ruiz University of Arizona
Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt

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