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Maria Ovtcharova is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including Geophysics, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, notably:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maria Ovtcharova include:

  • Urs Schaltegger
  • Joshua H.F.L. Davies
  • Sean P. Gaynor
  • Ulf Linnemann
  • Mandy Hofmann

Their research is published extensively, with recurring contributions to these venues:

  • Geological Magazine
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Lithos
  • Geochronology
  • Chemical Geology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Maria Ovtcharova include:

  • The use of ASH-15 flowstone as a matrix-matched reference material for laser-ablation U − Pb geochronology of calcite, 2021, Geochronology
  • Long-term repeatability and interlaboratory reproducibility of high-precision ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology, 2021, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
  • A Mesozoic fossil lagerstätte from 250.8 million years ago shows a modern-type marine ecosystem, 2023, Science
  • Milankovitch cycles in banded iron formations constrain the Earth-Moon system 2.46 billion years ago, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • An Upper Ediacaran Glacial Period in Cadomia: the Granville tillite (Armorican Massif) - sedimentology, geochronology and provenance, 2021, Geological Magazine

Best Publications

  • The Bushveld Complex was emplaced and cooled in less than one million years – results of zirconology, and geotectonic implications

    Armin Zeh;Maria Ovtcharova;Allan H. Wilson;Urs Schaltegger

  • How Accurately Can We Date the Duration of Magmatic-Hydrothermal Events in Porphyry Systems?—An Invited Paper

    Massimo Chiaradia;Urs Schaltegger;Richard Spikings;Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw

  • Timing of the Early Triassic carbon cycle perturbations inferred from new U–Pb ages and ammonoid biochronozones.

    Thomas Galfetti;Hugo Bucher;Maria Ovtcharova;Urs Schaltegger

  • Incremental growth of the Patagonian Torres del Paine laccolith over 90 k.y

    Jürgen Michel;Lukas Baumgartner;Benita Putlitz;Urs Schaltegger

  • New Early to Middle Triassic U–Pb ages from South China: Calibration with ammonoid biochronozones and implications for the timing of the Triassic biotic recovery

    Maria Ovtcharova;Hugo Bucher;Urs Schaltegger;Thomas Galfetti

  • Precise U–Pb age constraints for end-Triassic mass extinction, its correlation to volcanism and Hettangian post-extinction recovery

    Urs Schaltegger;Jean Guex;Annachiara Bartolini;Blair Schoene

  • Zircon and titanite recording 1.5 million years of magma accretion, crystallization and initial cooling in a composite pluton (southern Adamello batholith, northern Italy)

    Urs Schaltegger;Peter Brack;Maria Ovtcharova;Irena Peytcheva;Irena Peytcheva;Irena Peytcheva

  • Evaluating the temporal link between the Karoo LIP and climatic–biologic events of the Toarcian Stage with high-precision U–Pb geochronology

    Bryan Sell;Maria Ovtcharova;Jean Guex;Annachiara Bartolini

  • 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

  • 2: Hydrothermal ore deposits related to post-orogenic extensional magmatism and core complex formation: The Rhodope Massif of Bulgaria and Greece

    Peter Marchev;Majka Kaiser-Rohrmeier;Christoph Heinrich;Maria Ovtcharova

  • Zircon petrochronology reveals the temporal link between porphyry systems and the magmatic evolution of their hidden plutonic roots (the Eocene Coroccohuayco deposit, Peru)

    Cyril Chelle-Michou;Massimo Chiaradia;Maria Ovtcharova;Alexey Ulianov

  • Time resolved construction of a bimodal laccolith (Torres del Paine, Patagonia)

    Julien Leuthold;Othmar Müntener;Lukas P. Baumgartner;Benita Putlitz

  • Zircon record of the plutonic-volcanic connection and protracted rhyolite melt evolution

    Chad D. Deering;Brenhin Keller;Blair Schoene;Olivier Bachmann

  • Long-lived, stationary magmatism and pulsed porphyry systems during Tethyan subduction to post-collision evolution in the southernmost Lesser Caucasus, Armenia and Nakhitchevan

    Robert Moritz;Hervé Rezeau;Maria Ovtcharova;Rodrik Tayan

  • The use of ASH-15 flowstone as a matrix-matched reference material for laser-ablation U?????????Pb geochronology of calcite

    Perach Nuriel;Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw;Maria Ovtcharova;Anton Vaks

  • Developing a strategy for accurate definition of a geological boundary through radio-isotopic and biochronological dating: The Early–Middle Triassic boundary (South China)

    Maria Ovtcharova;Nicolas Goudemand;Øyvind Hammer;Kuang Guodun

  • A Mesozoic fossil lagerstätte from 250.8 million years ago shows a modern-type marine ecosystem

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  • New high-precision U–Pb dates from western European Carboniferous tuffs; implications for time scale calibration, the periodicity of late Carboniferous cycles and stratigraphical correlation

    Michael A. Pointon;David M. Chew;Maria Ovtcharova;George D. Sevastopulo

  • Metagranitoids from the eastern part of the Central Rhodopean Dome (Bulgaria): U–Pb, Rb–Sr and 40Ar/39Ar timing of emplacement and exhumation and isotope-geochemical features

    I. Peytcheva;A. von Quadt;M. Ovtcharova;R. Handler

  • Cenozoic granitoids in the Dinarides of southern Serbia: age of intrusion, isotope geochemistry, exhumation history and significance for the geodynamic evolution of the Balkan Peninsula

    Senecio Schefer;Vladica Cvetković;Bernhard Fügenschuh;Alexandre Kounov

  • How Accurately Can We Date the Duration of Magmatic-Hydrothermal Events in Porphyry Systems?

    Massimo Chiaradia;Urs Schaltegger;Richard Alan Spikings;Joern Frederik Wotzlaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Urs Schaltegger
Urs Schaltegger University of Geneva
Irena Peytcheva
Irena Peytcheva Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Massimo Chiaradia
Massimo Chiaradia University of Geneva
Richard Alan Spikings
Richard Alan Spikings University of Geneva
Blair Schoene
Blair Schoene Princeton University
Robert Moritz
Robert Moritz University of Geneva
Hugo Bucher
Hugo Bucher University of Zurich
Lukas P. Baumgartner
Lukas P. Baumgartner University of Lausanne
Ulf Linnemann
Ulf Linnemann Senckenberg Naturmuseum
Jean Guex
Jean Guex University of Lausanne

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