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Jean-Robert Kienast is affiliated with the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with an emphasis on geophysics, geological and geochemical analysis, and geophysical methods. The scope of their work spans high-pressure geophysics, elemental analysis, tectonic and earthquake studies, and geochemical mapping.

The main fields of study associated with Kienast include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Geochemistry and Petrology

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods

Kienast has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Geochemistry
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • American Mineralogist
  • Mineralogy and Petrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers authored by or associated with Kienast include:

  • The Egéré Paleo-Mesoproterozoic rifted passive margin of the LATEA metacraton (Central Hoggar, Tuareg Shield, Algeria) subducted and exhumed during the Pan-African orogeny: U-Pb zircon ages, P-T-t paths, geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotopes, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Partial melting and P-T evolution of eclogite-facies metapelitic migmatites from the Egere terrane (Central Hoggar, South Algeria), 2020, American Mineralogist
  • Ba-rich phlogopite, dissakisite-(Ce), and fluorine-rich clinohumite in granulite-facies marbles from the In Ouzzal terrane, Western Hoggar, Algeria, 2023, Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Evidence of an Archean-Paleoproterozoic micro-continent remobilized during the Neoproterozoic from the western Hoggar (Tuareg Shield, Algeria): Geodynamic evolution and implication on gold mineralization, 2024, Geochemistry
  • Anticlockwise metamorphic evolution of the Tin Hallen area (Ahnet Terrane, NW Hoggar, Algeria): Evidence for granulitic and blueschist-facies metamorphism in Fe-Ti metagabbros, 2025, Geochemistry

Frequent collaborators in Kienast's work include:

  • Khadidja Ouzegane
  • Abderrahmane Bendaoud
  • Sidali Doukkari
  • Amar Arab
  • Amar Drareni

Best Publications

  • New constraints on the structure, thermochronology, and timing of the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, SE Asia

    P. H. Leloup;N. Arnaud;R. Lacassin;J. R. Kienast

  • A case of obduction-related high-pressure, low-temperature metamorphism in upper crustal nappes, Arabian continental margin, Oman: P-T paths and kinematic interpretation

    Bruno Goffé;André Michard;Jean Robert Kienast;Olivier Le Mer

  • Plateau ages and excess argon in phengites: an 40Ar39Ar laser probe study of Alpine micas (Sesia Zone, Western Alps, northern Italy)

    Gilles Ruffet;Gilbert Féraud;Michel Balèvre;Jean-Robert Kiénast

  • A geologic reconnaissance of the Cycladic blueschist belt, Greece

    M. C. Blake;Michel Bonneau;Jacques Geyssant;J. R. Kienast

  • Dating the metamorphic events in the Cycladic area; 39 Ar/ 40 Ar data from metamorphic rocks of the Island of Syros (Greece)

    H. Maluski;M. Bonneau;J. R. Kienast

  • Amphibolite facies conditions in the oceanic crust: example of amphibolitized flaser-gabbro and amphibolites from the Chenaillet ophiolite massif (Hautes Alpes, France)

    Catherine Mevel;Renaud Caby;Jean-Robert Kienast

  • Petrology of very-high-pressure eclogitic rocks from the Brossasco-Isasca Complex, Dora-Maira Massif, Italian Western Alps

    J. R. Kienast;B. Lombardo;C. Biino;J. L. Pinardon

  • Variscan migmatites, eclogites and garnet-peridotites of the Ulten zone, Eastern Austroalpine system

    G. Godard;S. Martin;G. Prosser;J.R. Kienast

  • Evidence of the contrasted fission-track clock behavior of the apatites from In Ouzzal carbonatites (northwest Hoggar): The low-temperature thermal history of an Archean basement

    Joëlle Carpena;Jean-Robert Kienast;Khadidja Ouzegane;Célestine Jehanno

  • Geochronology and metamorphic P-T-X evolution of the Eburnean granulite-facies metapelites of Tidjenouine (Central Hoggar, Algeria): witness of the LATEA metacratonic evolution

    Abderrahmane Bendaoud;Khadidja Ouzegane;Gaston Godard;Jean-Paul Liégeois

  • Reversal of Fe-Mg partitioning between garnet and staurolite in eclogite-facies metapelites from the Champtoceaux nappe (Brittany, France)

    Michel Ballevre;Jean-Luc Pinardon;Jean-Robert Kienast;Jean-Paul Vuichard

  • Chemical-microstructural changes in eclogite-facies shear zones (Monviso, Western Alps, north Italy) as indicators of strain history and the mechanism and scale of mass transfer

    Pascal Philippot;Jean-Robert Kienast

  • Jadeite-kosmochlor solid solution and chromian sodic amphiboles in jadeitites and associated rocks from Tawmaw (Burma)

    Catherine Mével;Jean-Robert Kienast

  • Les « Porphyroı̈des » de Bretagne méridionale : une unité de HP–BT dans la chaı̂ne hercynienne

    Florence Le Hébel;Olivier Vidal;Jean-Robert Kienast;Denis Gapais

  • Polymetamorphic Al, Mg‐rich granulites with orthopyroxene–sillimanite and sapphirine parageneses in Archaean rocks from the Hoggar, Algeria

    J. R. Kienast;K. Ouzegane

  • Continental subduction recorded by Neoproterozoic eclogite and garnet amphibolites from Western Hoggar (Tassendjanet terrane, Tuareg Shield, Algeria)

    Julien Berger;Julien Berger;Khadidja Ouzegane;Abderrahmane Bendaoud;Jean-Paul Liégeois

  • New carbonatite complexes in the Archaean In'Ouzzal nucleus (Ahaggar, Algeria): mineralogical and geochemical data

    Khadidja Ouzegane;Serge Fourcade;Jean Robert Kienast;Marc Javoy

  • Petrological constraints and PT path of Devonian collapse tectonics within the Scandian mountain belt (Western Gneiss Region, Norway)

    A. Chauvet;J. R. Kienast;J. L. Pinardon;M. Brunel

  • Petrology of an unusual orthopyroxene-bearing minette suite from southeastern Peru, Eastern Andean Cordillera: Al-rich lamproites contaminated by peraluminous granites

    Gabriel Carlier;Jean-Pierre Lorand;Etienne Audebaud;Jean-Robert Kienast

  • The gneiss of Zabargad Island: deep crust of a rift

    F Boudier;A Nicolas;S Ji;J.R Kienast

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Paul Liégeois
Jean-Paul Liégeois Royal Museum for Central Africa
Bruno Dhuime
Bruno Dhuime University of Bristol
Delphine Bosch
Delphine Bosch University of Montpellier
Etienne Deloule
Etienne Deloule University of Lorraine
Renaud Caby
Renaud Caby University of Montpellier
Olivier Vidal
Olivier Vidal Grenoble Alpes University
Olivier Bruguier
Olivier Bruguier University of Montpellier
Denis Gapais
Denis Gapais University of Rennes
Serge Fourcade
Serge Fourcade University of Rennes
Carlos J. Garrido
Carlos J. Garrido Spanish National Research Council

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