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Marco Herwegh is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has a substantial body of work in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on geophysics. Their research spans several subfields, including geophysics, atmospheric science, mechanics of materials, management, monitoring, policy and law, and artificial intelligence.

Their published work addresses a diverse range of topics such as geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, rock mechanics and modeling, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and landslides and related hazards.

Marco Herwegh has contributed to numerous papers in well-regarded scientific journals. Selected recent publications include:

  • Long-wavelength late-Miocene thrusting in the north Alpine foreland: implications for late orogenic processes, 2020, Solid Earth
  • Structural and thermal evolution of the eastern Aar Massif: insights from structural field work and Raman thermometry, 2021, Swiss Journal of Geosciences
  • Improving Absolute Hypocenter Accuracy With 3D Pg and Sg Body-Wave Inversion Procedures and Application to Earthquakes in the Central Alps Region, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Structural and chemical resetting processes in white mica and their effect on K-Ar data during low temperature metamorphism, 2021, Tectonophysics
  • U − Pb geochronology of epidote by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) as a tool for dating hydrothermal-vein formation, 2021, Geochronology

Their frequent co-authors include Alfons Berger, Thomas Pettke, Veronica Peverelli, Sandro Truttmann, and Tobias Diehl, reflecting collaborative work within their scientific community.

Marco Herwegh's publications have appeared often in several key journals, notably:

  • Solid Earth
  • Swiss Journal of Geosciences
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Tectonophysics
  • Chemical Geology

Best Publications

  • The role of second phases for controlling microstructural evolution in polymineralic rocks: A review

    M. Herwegh;J. Linckens;A. Ebert;A. Berger

  • Evolution of a polymineralic mantle shear zone and the role of second phases in the localization of deformation

    Jolien Linckens;Marco Herwegh;Othmar Müntener;Ivan Mercolli

  • Quantitative analysis of crystal/grain sizes and their distributions in 2D and 3D

    Alfons Berger;Marco Herwegh;Jens-Oliver Schwarz;Benita Putlitz

  • The evolution of high-temperature mylonitic microfabrics: evidence from simple shearing of a quartz analogue (norcamphor)

    Marco Herwegh;Mark R. Handy

  • Deformation mechanisms in second-phase affected microstructures and their energy balance

    Marco Herwegh;Alfons Berger

  • How is strain localized in a meta-granitoid, mid-crustal basement section? Spatial distribution of deformation in the central Aar massif (Switzerland)

    Philip Chaim Wehrens;R. Baumberger;Alfons Berger;Marco Herwegh

  • Deformation at the frictional-viscous transition: Evidence for cycles of fluid-assisted embrittlement and ductile deformation in the granitoid crust

    Philip Chaim Wehrens;Alfons Berger;Max Peters;Thomas Spillmann

  • The effect of dissolved magnesium on diffusion creep in calcite

    Marco Herwegh;Xiaohui Xiao;Brian Evans

  • Tectono-metamorphic evolution of a nappe stack: A case study of the Swiss Alps

    Marco Herwegh;Othmar-Adrian Pfiffner

  • Combining natural microstructures with composite flow laws: an improved approach for the extrapolation of lab data to nature

    Marco Herwegh;J.H.P. de Bresser;J.H. ter Heege

  • Cooling induced strain localization in carbonate mylonites within a large-scale shear zone (Glarus thrust, Switzerland)

    Andreas Ebert;Marco Herwegh;Adrian Pfiffner

  • The origin of shape preferred orientations in mylonite: inferences from in-situ experiments on polycrystalline norcamphor

    Marco Herwegh;M.R. Handy

  • The influence of nano-scale second-phase particles on deformation of fine grained calcite mylonites

    Marco Herwegh;Karsten Kunze

  • Microfabrics in carbonate mylonites along a large-scale shear zone (Helvetic Alps)

    Andreas Ebert;Marco Herwegh;Brian Evans;Adrian Pfiffner

  • A new technique to automatically quantify microstructures of fine grained carbonate mylonites: two-step etching combined with SEM imaging and image analysis

    Marco Herwegh

  • Large-Scale Crustal-Block-Extrusion During Late Alpine Collision

    Marco Herwegh;Alfons Berger;Roland Baumberger;Philip Wehrens

  • Granular flow in polymineralic rocks bearing sheet silicates: new evidence from natural examples

    Marco Herwegh;Andreas Jenni

  • Late Stages of Continent-Continent Collision: Timing, Kinematic Evolution, and Exhumation of the Northern Rim (Aar Massif) of the Alps

    Marco Herwegh;Alfons Berger;Christoph Glotzbach;C. Wangenheim

  • Modeling episodic fluid-release events in the ductile carbonates of the Glarus thrust

    Thomas Poulet;Manolis Veveakis;Marco Herwegh;Thomas Buckingham

  • Temperature- and strain-rate-dependent microfabric evolution in monomineralic mylonite: evidence from in situ deformation of norcamphor

    Marco Herwegh;Mark R. Handy;Renée Heilbronner

  • The role of second phases for controlling microstructural evolution in polymineralic rocks

    M. Herwegh;J. Linckens;A. Ebert;A. Berger

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfons Berger
Alfons Berger University of Bern
Klaus Regenauer-Lieb
Klaus Regenauer-Lieb University of New South Wales
Fritz Schlunegger
Fritz Schlunegger University of Bern
Flavio S. Anselmetti
Flavio S. Anselmetti University of Bern
Thomas Pettke
Thomas Pettke University of Bern
Edi Kissling
Edi Kissling ETH Zurich
Othmar Müntener
Othmar Müntener University of Lausanne
Edwin Gnos
Edwin Gnos Natural History Museum of Geneva
Pierre Lanari
Pierre Lanari University of Bern
Igor M. Villa
Igor M. Villa University of Milano-Bicocca

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