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Overview

Holger Stünitz is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research activity is primarily situated in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with a particular focus on Geophysics and Mechanics of Materials as dominant subfields.

The body of work covers several topics within geosciences and material mechanics including:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Geotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds

Stünitz has published extensively, with a notable number of publications appearing in these venues:

  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Solid Earth

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Holger Stünitz include:

  • Transformation weakening: Diffusion creep in eclogites as a result of interaction of mineral reactions and deformation, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Dissolution precipitation creep as a process for the strain localisation in mafic rocks, 2022, Journal of Structural Geology
  • The role of deformation-reaction interactions to localize strain in polymineralic rocks: Insights from experimentally deformed plagioclase-pyroxene assemblages, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology
  • The effect of muscovite on the microstructural evolution and rheology of quartzite in general shear, 2023, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Mechanical properties and recrystallization of quartz in presence of H2O: Combination of cracking, subgrain rotation and dissolution-precipitation processes, 2022, Journal of Structural Geology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Hugues Raimbourg
  • Jacques Précigout
  • Renée Heilbronner
  • Lucille Nègre
  • Mathieu Soret

Best Publications

  • The eastern Tonale fault zone: a ‘natural laboratory’ for crystal plastic deformation of quartz over a temperature range from 250 to 700 °C

    Michael Stipp;Holger Stünitz;Renée Heilbronner;Stefan M. Schmid

  • Dynamic recrystallization of quartz: correlation between natural and experimental conditions

    Michael Stipp;Holger Stünitz;Renée Heilbronner;Stefan M. Schmid

  • Deformation of granitoids at low metamorphic grade. I: Reactions and grain size reduction

    J.D. Fitz Gerald;H. Stünitz

  • Deformation of granitoids at low metamorphic grade. II: Granular flow in albite-rich mylonites

    H. Stünitz;J.D.Fitz Gerald

  • Deformation mechanisms and phase distribution in mafic high-temperature mylonites from the Jotun Nappe, southern Norway

    Robert Kruse;Holger Stünitz

  • Weakening and strain localization produced by syn-deformational reaction of plagioclase

    Holger Stünitz;Jan Tullis

  • Grain size distributions of fault rocks: A comparison between experimentally and naturally deformed granitoids

    Nynke Keulen;Renée Heilbronner;Holger Stünitz;Anne-Marie Boullier

  • Deformation and recrystallization of plagioclase along a temperature gradient: an example from the Bergell tonalite

    Claudio L. Rosenberg;Holger Stünitz

  • Quartz grain size reduction in a granitoid rock and the transition from dislocation to diffusion creep

    Rüdiger Kilian;Renée Heilbronner;Holger Stünitz

  • Dislocation generation, slip systems, and dynamic recrystallization in experimentally deformed plagioclase single crystals

    H Stünitz;J.D Fitz Gerald;J Tullis

  • Dynamic recrystallization processes in plagioclase porphyroclasts

    Robert Kruse;Holger Stünitz;Karsten Kunze

  • Syndeformational recrystallization – dynamic or compositionally induced?

    Holger Stünitz

  • Deformation mechanisms and reaction of hornblende: examples from the Bergell tonalite (Central Alps)

    Alfons Berger;Holger Stünitz

  • Creep cavitation bands control porosity and fluid flow in lower crustal shear zones

    Luca Menegon;Florian Fusseis;Holger Stünitz;Xianghui Xiao

  • Modification of fluid inclusions in quartz by deviatoric stress I: experimentally induced changes in inclusion shapes and microstructures

    Alexandre Tarantola;Alexandre Tarantola;Larryn W. Diamond;Holger Stünitz

  • Nucleation and growth of myrmekite during ductile shear deformation in metagranites

    Luca Menegon;Giorgio Pennacchioni;H. Stunitz

  • Reaction-induced weakening of plagioclase–olivine composites

    A.A. de Ronde;H. Stünitz;J. Tullis;R. Heilbronner

  • Dry and strong quartz during deformation of the lower crust in the presence of melt

    Luca Menegon;Pritam Nasipuri;Holger Stunitz;Harald Behrens

  • Influence of water on rheology and strain localization in the lower continental crust

    A. J. Getsinger;G. Hirth;H. Stünitz;E. T. Goergen

  • Contemporaneous plutonism and strike-slip faulting: A case study from the Tonale fault zone north of the Adamello pluton (Italian Alps)

    M. Stipp;M. Stipp;B. Fügenschuh;L. P. Gromet;H. Stünitz

  • 40Ar∗ loss in experimentally deformed muscovite and biotite with implications for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of naturally deformed rocks

    Michael Cosca;Holger Stunitz;Anne-Lise Bourgeix;John P. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Renée Heilbronner
Renée Heilbronner University of Basel
Jan Tullis
Jan Tullis Brown University
Martyn R. Drury
Martyn R. Drury Utrecht University
Harald Behrens
Harald Behrens University of Hannover
Greg Hirth
Greg Hirth Brown University
Alfons Berger
Alfons Berger University of Bern
Karsten Kunze
Karsten Kunze ETH Zurich
Larryn William Diamond
Larryn William Diamond University of Bern
Takehiro Hirose
Takehiro Hirose Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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