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Leander Franz is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and conducts research primarily within the Earth and Planetary Sciences field. Their publications focus extensively on geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, among other areas.

Their recent papers include:

  • U-Pb Dating of Zircon and Zirconolite Inclusions in Marble-Hosted Gem-Quality Ruby and Spinel from Mogok, Myanmar (2020, Minerals)
  • India (Tethyan Himalaya Series) in Central Myanmar: Implications for the Evolution of the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis and the Sagaing Transform-Fault System (2022, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • High-P granulites of the Songshugou area (Qinling Orogen, east-central China): Petrography, phase relations, and U/Pb zircon geochronology (2020, Journal of Metamorphic Geology)
  • A revision of the Ni-in-garnet geothermometer with special regard to its pressure dependence (2024, Lithos)
  • Carboniferous-Triassic subduction in the Qinling orogen (2024, Gondwana Research)

Leander Franz frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Michael S. Krzemnicki
  • Christian de Capitani
  • Myint Myat Phyo
  • Hao A. O. Wang
  • Walter A. Balmer

The scientist's research has appeared in leading publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Gemmology/The Journal of Gemmology
  • Minerals
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Lithos
  • Gondwana Research

Leander Franz's work covers a range of interconnected subfields, such as:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Anthropology

The main research topics addressed by Leander Franz include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Mineralogy and Gemology Studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Best Publications

  • The Sino-Korean–Yangtze suture, the Huwan detachment, and the Paleozoic–Tertiary exhumation of (ultra)high-pressure rocks along the Tongbai-Xinxian-Dabie Mountains

    Lothar Ratschbacher;Leander Franz;Eva Enkelmann;Raymond Jonckheere

  • Multistage accretion and exhumation of the continental crust (Ivrea crustal section, Italy and Switzerland)

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  • Eclogite-facies quartz veins within metabasites of the Dabie Shan (eastern China): pressure–temperature–time–deformation path, composition of the fluid phase and fluid flow during exhumation of high-pressure rocks

    Leander Franz;R. Oberhänsli;Thomas Wagner;S. Dong

  • Magmatic Underplating, Extension, and Crustal Reequilibration: Insights From A Cross-Section Through the Ivrea Zone and Strona-Ceneri Zone, Northern Italy

    Andreas Henk;Leander Franz;Stefan Teufel;Onno Oncken

  • When did the ultrahigh-pressure rocks reach the surface? A 207Pb/206Pb zircon, 40Ar/39Ar white mica, Si-in-white mica, single-grain provenance study of Dabie Shan synorogenic foreland sediments

    Jens C. Grimmer;Lothar Ratschbacher;Michael McWilliams;Leander Franz

  • The geological setting of the ultramafic-hosted Logatchev hydrothermal field (14°45′N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge) and its influence on massive sulfide formation

    Sven Petersen;K. Kuhn;Thomas Kuhn;Nico Augustin

  • Spinel inclusions in olivine of peridotite xenoliths from TUBAF seamount (Bismarck Archipelago/Papua New Guinea): evidence for the thermal and tectonic evolution of the oceanic lithosphere

    Leander Franz;Richard Wirth

  • Rb-Sr isotope studies on Tinos Island (Cyclades, Greece); additional time constraints for metamorphism, extent of infiltration-controlled overprinting and deformational activity

    Michael Bröcker;Leander Franz

  • The North American-Caribbean Plate boundary in Mexico-Guatemala-Honduras

    Lothar Ratschbacher;Leander Franz;Myo Min;Raik Bachmann

  • Metasomatic Mantle Xenoliths from the Bismarck Microplate (Papua New Guinea)—Thermal Evolution, Geochemistry and Extent of Slab-induced Metasomatism

    Leander Franz;Klaus-Peter Becker;Wolfgang Kramer;Peter M. Herzig

  • The heart of China revisited, I. Proterozoic tectonics of the Qin mountains in the core of supercontinent Rodinia

    Thomas Bader;Thomas Bader;Lothar Ratschbacher;Leander Franz;Zhao Yang;Zhao Yang

  • The Heart of China revisited: II Early Paleozoic (ultra)high‐pressure and (ultra)high‐temperature metamorphic Qinling orogenic collage

    Thomas Bader;Thomas Bader;Leander Franz;Lothar Ratschbacher;Christian de Capitani

  • Tin in granitic melts: The role of melting temperature and protolith composition

    Mathias Wolf;Rolf L. Romer;Leander Franz;Francisco Javier López-Moro

  • Potassic igneous rocks from the vicinity of epithermal gold mineralization, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

    Daniel Müller;Leander Franz;Peter M Herzig;Steve Hunt

  • Micro-XANES determination of ferric iron and its application in thermobarometry

    R. Schmid;M. Wilke;R. Oberhänsli;K. Janssens

  • Diachronous Pan-African granulite-facies metamorphism (650 Ma and 550 Ma) in the Kaoko Belt, NW Namibia

    Leander Franz;Rolf L. Romer;D. Pieter Dingeldey

  • Dating metamorphism and tectonic juxtaposition on Andros Island (Cyclades, Greece): results of a Rb–Sr study

    M. Bröcker;L. Franz

  • Steady state geotherm, thermal disturbances, and tectonic development of the lower lithosphere underneath the Gibeon Kimberlite Province, Namibia

    Leander Franz;Gerhard P. Brey;Martin Okrusch

  • High‐Grade K‐Feldspar Veining in Granulites From the Ivrea‐Verbano Zone, Northern Italy: Fluid Flow in the Lower Crust and Implications For Granulite Facies Genesis

    Leander Franz;Daniel E. Harlov

  • Reequilibration of Ultramafic Xenoliths from Namibia by Metasomatic Processes at the Mantle Boundary

    Leander Franz;Gerhard P. Brey;Martin Okrusch

  • The timing of mantle and crustal events in South Namibia, as defined by SHRIMP-dating of zircon domains from a garnet peridotite xenolith of the Gibeon Kimberlite Province

    Anthi Liati;Leander Franz;Dieter Gebauer;C. Mark Fanning

Frequent Co-Authors

Lothar Ratschbacher
Lothar Ratschbacher TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Rolf L. Romer
Rolf L. Romer University of Potsdam
Martin Okrusch
Martin Okrusch University of Würzburg
Sven Petersen
Sven Petersen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Richard Wirth
Richard Wirth Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Roland Oberhänsli
Roland Oberhänsli University of Potsdam
Michael Bröcker
Michael Bröcker University of Münster
Shuwen Dong
Shuwen Dong Nanjing University
Roger Hekinian
Roger Hekinian French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Lifei Zhang
Lifei Zhang Peking University

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