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2025

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41
Citations
5155
World Ranking
5642
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Czechia Leader Award

Overview

Ondrej Lexa is affiliated with Charles University in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on geophysics as demonstrated by 39 publications in this subfield. Additional areas of study include Artificial Intelligence, Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The main topics of Lexa's work cover a range of geological and geophysical subjects:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Mineralogy and Gemology Studies

Lexa has contributed to a variety of academic journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Gondwana Research
  • Tectonics
  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Journal of Metamorphic Geology
  • Tectonophysics

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Trans-lithospheric diapirism explains the presence of ultra-high pressure rocks in the European Variscides (2021, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Structural, metamorphic and geochronological constraints on Palaeozoic multi-stage geodynamic evolution of the Altai accretionary wedge system (Hovd Zone, western Mongolia) (2021, Lithos)
  • Eclogite subduction wedge intruded by arc-type magma: The earliest record of Variscan arc in the Bohemian Massif (2021, Gondwana Research)
  • Structures and geodynamics of the Mongolian tract of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt constrained by potential field analyses (2021, Gondwana Research)
  • Paleozoic Geodynamics and Architecture of the Southern Part of the Mongolian Altai Zone (2022, Tectonics)

Lexa frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Karel Schulmann (11 coauthored papers)
  • Petr Jeřábek (10 coauthored papers)
  • Pavla Štípská (6 coauthored papers)
  • Vít Peřestý (5 coauthored papers)
  • Jitka Míková (5 coauthored papers)

Best Publications

  • An Andean type Palaeozoic convergence in the Bohemian Massif

    Karel Schulmann;Jiří Konopásek;Vojtĕch Janoušek;Ondrej Lexa

  • Chronological constraints on the pre-orogenic history, burial and exhumation of deep-seated rocks along the eastern margin of the Variscan Orogen, Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic

    Karel Schulmann;Alfred Kröner;Ernst Hegner;Immo Wendt

  • Lithostratigraphic and geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt in SW Mongolia: Early Paleozoic rifting followed by late Paleozoic accretion

    Alfred Kröner;Jérémie Lehmann;Karel Schulmann;Antoine Demoux

  • Structural constraints on the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt in SW Mongolia

    Jérémie Lehmann;Karel Schulmann;Ondrej Lexa;Michel Corsini

  • Vertical extrusion and horizontal channel flow of orogenic lower crust: key exhumation mechanisms in large hot orogens?

    K. Schulmann;O. Lexa;P. Štípská;M. Racek

  • Anatomy of a diffuse cryptic suture zone: An example from the Bohemian Massif, European Variscides

    Karel Schulmann;Ondrej Lexa;Vojtěch Janoušek;Jean Marc Lardeaux

  • Heat sources and trigger mechanisms of exhumation of HP granulites in Variscan orogenic root.

    O Lexa;Karel Schulmann;V Janoušek;P. Štípská

  • The Moldanubian Zone in the French Massif Central, Vosges/Schwarzwald and Bohemian Massif revisited: differences and similarities

    J. M. Lardeaux;Karel Schulmann;Michel Faure;V Janoušek

  • Late Palaeozoic palaeomagnetic and tectonic constraints for amalgamation of Pangea supercontinent in the European Variscan belt

    Jean Bernard Edel;Karel Schulmann;Ondrej Lexa;Jean Marc Lardeaux

  • Metamorphic record of burial and exhumation of orogenic lower and middle crust: a new tectonothermal model for the Drosendorf window (Bohemian Massif, Austria)

    M. Racek;M. Racek;P. Štípská;P. Pitra;K. Schulmann

  • Anatexis of accretionary wedge, Pacific‐type magmatism, and formation of vertically stratified continental crust in the Altai Orogenic Belt

    Yuchao Jiang;Yuchao Jiang;K. Schulmann;M. Sun;P. Štípská

  • Origin of migmatites by deformation-enhanced melt infiltration of orthogneiss: a new model based on quantitative microstructural analysis

    P. Hasalová;K. Schulmann;O. Lexa;P. Štípská

  • Early Cambrian eclogites in SW Mongolia: evidence that the Palaeo‐Asian Ocean suture extends further east than expected

    P. Štípská;K. Schulmann;J. Lehmann;M. Corsini

  • Late Paleozoic–Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Trans-Altai and South Gobi Zones in southern Mongolia based on structural and geochronological data

    Alexandra Guy;Alexandra Guy;Karel Schulmann;Norbert Clauer;Pavlina Hasalová

  • Mid-crustal shear zone formation in granitic rocks: Constraints from quantitative textural and crystallographic preferred orientations analyses

    Emilien Oliot;Emilien Oliot;Philippe Goncalves;Karel Schulmann;Didier Marquer

  • Geochemical and geochronological constraints on distinct Early-Neoproterozoic and Cambrian accretionary events along southern margin of the Baydrag Continent in western Mongolia

    David Buriánek;Karel Schulmann;Kristýna Hrdličková;Pavel Hanžl

  • Transforming mylonitic metagranite by open-system interactions during melt flow

    Pavlina Hasalova;Pavla Stipska;Roger Powell;Karel Schulmann

  • Crustal influx, indentation, ductile thinning and gravity redistribution in a continental wedge: Building a Moldanubian mantled gneiss dome with underthrust Saxothuringian material (European Variscan belt)

    F. Chopin;F. Chopin;K. Schulmann;E. Skrzypek;J. Lehmann

  • A geophysical model of the Variscan orogenic root (Bohemian Massif): Implications for modern collisional orogens

    Alexandra Guy;Alexandra Guy;Jean-Bernard Edel;Karel Schulmann;Čestmir Tomek

  • Model of syn‐convergent extrusion of orogenic lower crust in the core of the Variscan belt: implications for exhumation of high‐pressure rocks in large hot orogens

    J. Franěk;K. Schulmann;O. Lexa;Č. Tomek

  • Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic Peri-Pacific Accretionary Evolution of the Mongolian Collage System: Insights From Geochemical and U-Pb Zircon Data From the Ordovician Sedimentary Wedge in the Mongolian Altai

    Y. D. Jiang;Y. D. Jiang;K. Schulmann;A. Kröner;M. Sun

  • Cretaceous collision and indentation in the West Carpathians: View based on structural analysis and numerical modeling

    Ondrej Lexa;Karel Schulmann;Josef Ježek

Frequent Co-Authors

Karel Schulmann
Karel Schulmann University of Strasbourg
Pavla Štípská
Pavla Štípská University of Strasbourg
Jean-Bernard Edel
Jean-Bernard Edel University of Strasbourg
Alfred Kröner
Alfred Kröner Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
John W. Cosgrove
John W. Cosgrove Imperial College London
Andrew R.C. Kylander-Clark
Andrew R.C. Kylander-Clark University of California, Santa Barbara
Min Sun
Min Sun University of Hong Kong
Bradley R. Hacker
Bradley R. Hacker University of California, Santa Barbara
František Hrouda
František Hrouda Charles University
Chao Yuan
Chao Yuan Chinese Academy of Sciences

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