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Horst Zwingmann

Horst Zwingmann

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Overview

Horst Zwingmann is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on geophysics, with additional work in artificial intelligence, atmospheric science, paleontology, and geochemistry and petrology.

The scientist's research topics cover earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, geology and paleoclimatology research, high-pressure geophysics and materials, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, as well as geochemistry and elemental analysis.

Recent publications by Horst Zwingmann include:

  • Syncing fault rock clocks: Direct comparison of U-Pb carbonate and K-Ar illite fault dating methods (2020, Geology)
  • Structural and chemical resetting processes in white mica and their effect on K-Ar data during low temperature metamorphism (2021, Tectonophysics)
  • Continental weathering and recovery from ocean nutrient stress during the Early Triassic Biotic Crisis (2022, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Precambrian faulting episodes and insights into the tectonothermal history of north Australia: microstructural evidence and K-Ar, 40 Ar- 39 Ar, and Rb-Sr dating of syntectonic illite from the intracratonic Millungera Basin (2020, Solid Earth)
  • Precambrian fault reactivation revealed by structural and K-Ar geochronological data from the spent nuclear fuel repository in Olkiluoto, southwestern Finland (2022, Tectonophysics)

Publications have appeared frequently in the following venues:

  • Tectonophysics (2 publications)
  • Geology (1 publication)
  • Communications Earth & Environment (1 publication)
  • Solid Earth (1 publication)
  • New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics (1 publication)

Frequent collaborators of Horst Zwingmann include:

  • Andrew Todd (4 joint publications)
  • Giulio Viola (2 joint publications)
  • İ. Tonguç Uysal (2 joint publications)
  • Catherine Mottram (1 joint publication)
  • Dawn A. Kellett (1 joint publication)

Best Publications

  • Diagenesis, Porosity Evolution, and Petroleum Emplacement in Tight Gas Reservoirs, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

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  • Low-temperature hydrothermal alteration of natural metamict zircons from the Eastern Desert, Egypt

    T. Geisler;A. A. Rashwan;M. K. W. Rahn;U. Poller

  • Timing of Alpine fault gouges

    Horst Zwingmann;Neil Mancktelow

  • Dating of shallow faults: New constraints from the AlpTransit tunnel site (Switzerland)

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  • Structure-related geochemical (REE) and isotopic (K-Ar, Rb-Sr, δ18O) characteristics of clay minerals from Rotliegend sandstone reservoirs (Permian, northern Germany)

    Horst Zwingmann;Norbert Clauer;Reinhard Gaupp

  • Comparative 40Ar/39Ar and K–Ar dating of illite-type clay minerals: A tentative explanation for age identities and differences

    Norbert Clauer;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Nicole Liewig;Raymond Wendling

  • Origin and timing of late diagenetic illite in the Permian–Carboniferous Unayzah sandstone reservoirs of Saudi Arabia

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  • Deconvoluting complex structural histories archived in brittle fault zones.

    Giulio Viola;Thomas Scheiber;Ola Fredin;Horst Zwingmann

  • Structural and temporal evolution of a reactivated brittle-ductile fault - Part II: Timing of fault initiation and reactivation by K-Ar dating of synkinematic illite/muscovite

    E. Torgersen;G. Viola;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;C.R. Harris

  • K-Ar illite age constraints on the Proterozoic formation and reactivation history of a brittle fault in Fennoscandia

    Giulio Viola;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Jussi Mattila;Asko Käpyaho

  • Spatiotemporal evolution of brittle normal faulting and fluid infiltration in detachment fault systems: A case study from the Menderes Massif, western Turkey

    Ralf Hetzel;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Andreas Mulch;Klaus Gessner

  • ISOTOPIC (K-AR AND OXYGEN) CONSTRAINTS ON THE EXTENT AND IMPORTANCE OF THE LIASSIC HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY IN WESTERN EUROPE

    N. Clauer;H. Zwingmann;S. Chaudhuri

  • Timing of brittle deformation within the Nojima fault zone, Japan

    Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Kunimi Yamada;Kunimi Yamada;Takahiro Tagami

  • K–Ar dating of synkinematic clay gouges from Neoalpine faults of the Central, Western and Eastern Alps

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  • Timing of fluid flow in a sandstone reservoir of the north German Rotliegend (Permian) by K-Ar dating of related hydrothermal illite

    Horst Zwingmann;Norbert Clauer;Reinhard Gaupp

  • Structural and geochronological constraints on the Pan-African tectonic evolution of the northern Damara Belt, Namibia

    Jérémie Lehmann;Jérémie Lehmann;Kerstin Saalmann;Kalin V. Naydenov;Kalin V. Naydenov;Lorenzo Milani

  • Inclined K–Ar illite age spectra in brittle fault gouges: effects of fault reactivation and wall-rock contamination

    Espen Torgersen;Giulio Viola;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Iain H. C. Henderson

  • Syncing fault rock clocks: direct comparison of U-Pb carbonate and K-Ar illite fault dating methods

    Catherine Mary Mottram;Dawn Kellett;Tony Barresi;Horst Zwingmann

  • The inheritance of a Mesozoic landscape in western Scandinavia

    Ola Fredin;Giulio Viola;Giulio Viola;Horst Zwingmann;Ronald Sørlie

  • Passive-margin prolonged volcanism, East Australian Plate : outbursts, progressions, plate controls and suggested causes

    Frederick L Sutherland;Ian T Graham;Sebastien Meffre;Horst Zwingmann

  • Microstructures, mineral chemistry and geochronology of white micas along a retrograde evolution: An example from the Aar massif (Central Alps, Switzerland)

    Alfons Berger;Philip Wehrens;Pierre Lanari;Horst Zwingmann

  • Thermal history of Triassic sandstones from the Vosges Mountains-Rhine Graben rifting area, NE France, based on K-Ar illite dating

    N. Clauer;Nicole Liewig;B. Ledesert;H. Zwingmann

  • K–Ar illite and apatite fission track constraints on brittle faulting and the evolution of the northern Norwegian passive margin

    Corine Davids;Klaus Wemmer;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Fabian Kohlmann

  • K–Ar dating of fault gouge in the northern Sydney Basin, NSW, Australia—implications for the breakup of Gondwana

    H Zwingmann;H Zwingmann;R Offler;T Wilson;Stephen Cox

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian T. Graham
Ian T. Graham University of New South Wales
Giulio Viola
Giulio Viola University of Bologna
Marco Herwegh
Marco Herwegh University of Bern
Alfons Berger
Alfons Berger University of Bern
Jochen Knies
Jochen Knies University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Axel H. E. Müller
Axel H. E. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Gideon Rosenbaum
Gideon Rosenbaum University of Queensland
Holly J. Stein
Holly J. Stein University of Oslo
Andreas Mulch
Andreas Mulch Goethe University Frankfurt

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