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Mandy Hofmann is affiliated with the Senckenberg Naturmuseum in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences with 108 publications. Their research spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Geology.

Their work predominantly focuses on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Andreas Gärtner, Johannes Zieger, Ulf Linnemann, and Jessica Gärtner. Hofmann has published numerous papers in well-recognized venues such as the International Journal of Earth Sciences, Geological Society London Special Publications, Geological Magazine, Journal of the Geological Society, and International Geology Review.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mandy Hofmann include:

  • From Pan-African Transpression to Cadomian Transtension at the West African Margin: New U-Pb zircon Ages from the Eastern Saghro Inlier (Anti-Atlas, Morocco), 2020, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • The Stavelot-Venn Massif (Ardenne, Belgium), a rift shoulder basin ripped off the West African craton: Cartography, stratigraphy, sedimentology, new U-Pb on zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd isotopes evidence, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • An Upper Ediacaran Glacial Period in Cadomia: the Granville tillite (Armorican Massif) - sedimentology, geochronology and provenance, 2021, Geological Magazine
  • Sediment-derived origin of the putative Munnar carbonatite, South India, 2020, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • U-Pb geochronology and isotopic geochemistry of adakites and related magmas in the Ediacaran arc section of the SW Iberian Massif: The role of subduction erosion cycles in peri-Gondwanan arcs, 2022, Gondwana Research

Best Publications

  • The Cadomian Orogen: Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian crustal growth and orogenic zoning along the periphery of the West African Craton—Constraints from U-Pb zircon ages and Hf isotopes (Schwarzburg Antiform, Germany)

    Ulf Linnemann;Axel Gerdes;Mandy Hofmann;Linda Marko

  • Sands of West Gondwana: An archive of secular magmatism and plate interactions — A case study from the Cambro-Ordovician section of the Tassili Ouan Ahaggar (Algerian Sahara) using U-Pb-LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon ages

    Ulf Linnemann;Khadidja Ouzegane;Amar Drareni;Mandy Hofmann

  • New high-resolution age data from the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary indicate rapid, ecologically driven onset of the Cambrian explosion

    Ulf Linnemann;Maria Ovtcharova;Urs Schaltegger;Andreas Gärtner

  • The Ediacaran–Early Cambrian detrital zircon record of NW Iberia: possible sources and paleogeographic constraints

    J. Fernández-Suárez;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso;D. Pastor-Galán;M. Hofmann

  • The provenance of Late Ediacaran and Early Ordovician siliciclastic rocks in the Southwest Central Iberian Zone: constraints from detrital zircon data on northern Gondwana margin evolution during the late Neoproterozoic

    M.F. Pereira;U. Linnemann;M. Hofmann;M. Chichorro

  • The Cambrian to Devonian odyssey of the Brabant Massif within Avalonia: A review with new zircon ages, geochemistry, Sm–Nd isotopes, stratigraphy and palaeogeography

    Ulf Linnemann;Alain Herbosch;Jean-Paul Liégeois;Christian Pin

  • 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

  • The India and South China cratons at the margin of Rodinia — Synchronous Neoproterozoic magmatism revealed by LA-ICP-MS zircon analyses

    Mandy Hofmann;Ulf Linnemann;Vibhuti Rai;Sindy Becker

  • The missing Rheic Ocean magmatic arcs: Provenance analysis of Late Paleozoic sedimentary clastic rocks of SW Iberia

    M.F. Pereira;M. Chichorro;S.T. Johnston;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso

  • Provenance analysis of the Paleozoic sequences of the northern Gondwana margin in NW Iberia: Passive margin to Variscan collision and orocline development

    Daniel Pastor-Galán;Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;J. Brendan Murphy;Javier Fernández-Suárez

  • Plate interactions of Laurussia and Gondwana during the formation of Pangaea — Constraints from U-Pb LA-SF-ICP-MS detrital zircon ages of Devonian and Early Carboniferous siliciclastics of the Rhenohercynian zone, Central European Variscides

    Katja Eckelmann;Heinz-Dieter Nesbor;Peter Königshof;Ulf Linnemann

  • New U-Pb dates show a Paleogene origin for the modern Asian biodiversity hot spots

    U. Linnemann;T. Su;L. Kunzmann;R.A. Spicer;R.A. Spicer

  • A ~565 Ma old glaciation in the Ediacaran of peri-Gondwanan West Africa

    Ulf Linnemann;Agustín Pieren Pidal;Mandy Hofmann;Kerstin Drost

  • U–Pb zircon ages from volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Ediacaran Bas Draâ inlier (Anti-Atlas Morocco): Chronostratigraphic and provenance implications

    Brahim Karaoui;Christoph Breitkreuz;Abdelkader Mahmoudi;Nasrrddine Youbi;Nasrrddine Youbi

  • Continuous Neoproterozoic to Ordovician sedimentation at the East Gondwana margin — Implications from detrital zircons of the Ross Orogen in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

    Solveig Estrada;Andreas Läufer;Katja Eckelmann;Mandy Hofmann

  • The four Neoproterozoic glaciations of southern Namibia and their detrital zircon record: The fingerprints of four crustal growth events during two supercontinent cycles

    Mandy Hofmann;Ulf Linnemann;Karl-Heinz Hoffmann;Gerard Germs

  • U-Pb LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon ages from the Cambrian of Al Qarqaf Arch, central-western Libya: Provenance of the West Gondwanan sand sea at the dawn of the early Palaeozoic

    Muftah Mahmud Altumi;Olaf Elicki;Ulf Linnemann;Mandy Hofmann

  • S-type granite generation and emplacement during a regional switch from extensional to contractional deformation (Central Iberian Zone, Iberian autochthonous domain, Variscan Orogeny)

    M. F. Pereira;R. Díez Fernández;C. Gama;M. Hofmann

  • The zircon evidence of temporally changing sediment transport—the NW Gondwana margin during Cambrian to Devonian time (Aoucert and Smara areas, Moroccan Sahara)

    Andreas Gärtner;Nasrrddine Youbi;Nasrrddine Youbi;Michel Villeneuve;Anja Sagawe

  • Stratigraphy, palaeontology and geochemistry of the late Neoproterozoic Aar Member, southwest Namibia: Reflecting environmental controls on Ediacara fossil preservation during the terminal Proterozoic in African Gondwana

    Michael Hall;Alan J. Kaufman;Patricia Vickers-Rich;Andrey Ivantsov;Andrey Ivantsov

  • Morphology of zircon crystal grains in sediments - characteristics, classifications, definitions Morphologie von Zirkonen in Sedimenten - Merkmale, Klassifikationen, Definitionen

    Andreas Gärtner;Ulf Linnemann;Anja Sagawe;Mandy Hofmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Linnemann
Ulf Linnemann Senckenberg Naturmuseum
Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso
Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso University of Salamanca
Javier Fernández-Suárez
Javier Fernández-Suárez Complutense University of Madrid
Nasrrddine Youbi
Nasrrddine Youbi Cadi Ayyad University
José R. Martínez Catalán
José R. Martínez Catalán University of Salamanca
Thomas H. Rich
Thomas H. Rich Museums Victoria
Klaudia F. Kuiper
Klaudia F. Kuiper Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
David Chew
David Chew Trinity College Dublin
Stephen T. Johnston
Stephen T. Johnston University of Alberta

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