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Jan Wijbrans is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work predominantly focuses on Geophysics, with additional research interests spanning Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geology.

The scientist's main topics of investigation include geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Further topics of focus cover geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, geological and geophysical studies, and geochemistry and geologic mapping.

Jan Wijbrans has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Interpreting and reporting 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data (2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin)
  • Early onset and late acceleration of rapid exhumation in the Namche Barwa syntaxis, eastern Himalaya (2020, Geology)
  • Comparison of Detrital Zircon U-Pb and Muscovite 40Ar/39Ar Ages in the Yangtze Sediment: Implications for Provenance Studies (2020, Minerals)
  • No Yangtze River Prior to the Late Miocene: Evidence From Detrital Muscovite and K-Feldspar40Ar/39Ar Geochronology (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Consistent detachment of supracrustal rocks from a fixed subduction depth in the Cyclades (2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Geochronology, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Minerals, Gondwana Research, and Tectonics.

Jan Wijbrans has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including Klaudia F. Kuiper, Xilin Sun, Yuntao Tian, Zengjie Zhang, and Pieter Z. Vroon.

Best Publications

  • Synchronizing Rock Clocks of Earth History

    K. F. Kuiper;K. F. Kuiper;A. Deino;F. J. Hilgen;W. Krijgsman

  • Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving

    Josephine C. A. Joordens;Josephine C. A. Joordens;Francesco d’Errico;Francesco d’Errico;Frank P. Wesselingh;Stephen Munro;Stephen Munro

  • 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating of white micas from an Alpine high-pressure metamorphic belt on Naxos (Greece): the resetting of the argon isotopic system

    Jan R. Wijbrans;Ian McDougall

  • Short-lived and discontinuous intraplate volcanism in the South Pacific: Hot spots or extensional volcanism?

    Anthony A. P. Koppers;Hubert Staudigel;Malcolm S. Pringle;Jan R. Wijbrans

  • Generation of the Early Cenozoic adakitic volcanism by partial melting of mafic lower crust, Eastern Turkey: Implications for crustal thickening to delamination

    Orhan Karsli;Abdurrahman Dokuz;İbrahim Uysal;Faruk Aydin

  • Multistage exhumation of the Menderes Massif, western Anatolia (Turkey).

    Andor L. W. Lips;Daniel Cassard;Hasan Sözbilir;Huseyin Yilmaz

  • Argon geochronology of small samples using the Vulkaan argon laserprobe

    J. R. Wijbrans;M. S. Pringle;A. A P Koppers;R. Scheveers

  • Interpreting and reporting 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data

    Allen J. Schaen;Brian R. Jicha;Kip V. Hodges;Pieter Vermeesch

  • Metamorphic evolution of the Attic Cycladic Metamorphic Belt on Naxos (Cyclades, Greece) utilizing 40Ar/39Ar age spectrum measurements

    J.R. Wijbrans;I. McDOUGALL

  • Relative contributions of crust and mantle to generation of Campanian high-K calc-alkaline I-type granitoids in a subduction setting, with special reference to the Harşit Pluton, Eastern Turkey

    Orhan Karsli;Abdurrahman Dokuz;İbrahim Uysal;Faruk Aydin

  • Cenozoic magmatism in the western Ross Embayment: Role of mantle plume versus plate dynamics in the development of the West Antarctic Rift System

    Sergio Rocchi;Pietro Armienti;Massimo D'Orazio;Sonia Tonarini

  • The Paleogene record of Himalayan erosion: Bengal Basin, Bangladesh

    Y. Najman;M.J. Bickle;M. Boudagher-Fadel;Andrew Carter

  • Single grain argon laser probe dating of phengites from the blueschist to greenschist transition on Sifnos (Cyclades, Greece)

    Jan R. Wijbrans;Manfred Schliestedt;Derek York

  • The Magellan seamount trail: implications for Cretaceous hotspot volcanism and absolute Pacific plate motion.

    Anthony A.P. Koppers;Hubert Staudigel;Hubert Staudigel;Jan R. Wijbrans;Malcolm S. Pringle

  • Age and nature of eclogites in the Huwan shear zone, and the multi-stage evolution of the Qinling-Dabie-Sulu orogen, central China

    Yuan-Bao Wu;Yuan-Bao Wu;Yuan-Bao Wu;John M. Hanchar;Shan Gao;Shan Gao;Paul J. Sylvester

  • Age constraints on the geological evolution of the Narryer Gneiss Complex, Western Australia

    P. D. Kinny;J. R. Wijbrans;D. O. Froude;I. S. Williams

  • Dating crystalline groundmass separates of altered Cretaceous seamount basalts by the 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating technique

    Anthony A.P Koppers;Anthony A.P Koppers;Hubert Staudigel;Hubert Staudigel;Jan R Wijbrans

  • Laser 40Ar/39Ar dating of single detrital muscovite grains from early foreland-basin sedimentary deposits in India: Implications for early Himalayan evolution

    Y. M. R. Najman;Y. M. R. Najman;M. S. Pringle;M. R. W. Johnson;A. H. F. Robertson

  • Time markers for the evolution and exhumation history of a Late Palaeozoic paired metamorphic belt in North-Central Chile (34°-35°30′S)

    Arne P. Willner;Stuart N. Thomson;Stuart N. Thomson;Alfred Kröner;Jo Anne Wartho

  • Geological evolution of Mount Etna volcano (Italy) from earliest products until the first central volcanism (between 500 and 100 ka ago) inferred from geochronological and stratigraphic data

    Stefano Branca;Mauro Coltelli;Emanuela De Beni;Jan Wijbrans

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaudia F. Kuiper
Klaudia F. Kuiper Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Wilfried Jokat
Wilfried Jokat University of Bremen
Yani Najman
Yani Najman Lancaster University
Anthony A. P. Koppers
Anthony A. P. Koppers Oregon State University
Barbara Carrapa
Barbara Carrapa University of Arizona
A. Veldkamp
A. Veldkamp University of Twente
Wout Krijgsman
Wout Krijgsman Utrecht University
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Giovanni Bertotti
Giovanni Bertotti Delft University of Technology
Darrel Maddy
Darrel Maddy Newcastle University

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