Patrick J. O'Brien

Research.com Recognitions

• 2002 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Best Publications

• High‐pressure granulites: formation, recovery of peak conditions and implications for tectonics

  P. J. O'Brien;J. Rötzler

  688
  Citations

• High-pressure granulites in the Sanggan area, North China craton: metamorphic evolution, P-T paths and geotectonic significance

  J. H. Guo;P. J. O'Brien;M. Zhai

  470
  Citations

• Linking growth episodes of zircon and metamorphic textures to zircon chemistry: an example from the ultrahigh-temperature granulites of Rogaland (SW Norway)

  Andreas Möller;Andreas Möller;Patrick J. O’Brien;Allen Kennedy;Alfred Kröner

  437
  Citations

• Zircon geochronology and metamorphic evolution of mafic dykes in the Hengshan Complex of northern China: Evidence for late Palaeoproterozoic extension and subsequent high-pressure metamorphism in the North China Craton

  Alfred Kröner;Simon A. Wilde;Guochun Zhao;Patrick J. O'Brien

  400
  Citations

• Thermobarometry of phengite‐bearing eclogites in the Dabie Mountains of central China

  D. A. Carswell;P. J. O'brien;R. N. Wilson;M. Zhai

  365
  Citations

• Coesite in Himalayan eclogite and implications for models of India-Asia collision

  P.J. O'Brien;N. Zotov;R. Law;M.A. Khan

  345
  Citations

• Thermobarometry and Geotectonic Significance of High-Pressure Granulites: Examples from the Moldanubian Zone of the Bohemian Massif in Lower Austria

  D. A. Carswell;P. J. O'brien

  309
  Citations

• Zircon ages for high pressure granulites from South Bohemia, Czech Republic, and their connection to Carboniferous high temperature processes

  A. Kröner;P. J. O'Brien;A. A. Nemchin;R. T. Pidgeon

  251
  Citations

• Polyphase zircon in ultrahigh‐temperature granulites (Rogaland, SW Norway): constraints for Pb diffusion in zircon

  A. Moller;P. O'Brien;Allen Kennedy;A. Kroner

  220
  Citations

• Garnet zoning and reaction textures in overprinted eclogites, Bohemian Massif, European variscides: a record of their thermal history during exhumation

  Patrick J. O'Brien

  191
  Citations

• Garnet growth at high- and ultra-high pressure conditions and the effect of element fractionation on mineral modes and composition

  Matthias Konrad-Schmolke;Patrick J. O'Brien;Christian de Capitani;Dennis A. Carswell

  173
  Citations

• The fundamental Variscan problem: high-temperature metamorphism at different depths and high-pressure metamorphism at different temperatures

  Patrick J. O’Brien

  171
  Citations

• The petrology of two distinct granulite types in the Hengshan Mts, China, and tectonic implications

  Patrick J. O'Brien;Nicolas Walte;Jianghai Li

  165
  Citations

• Diamond and coesite discovered in Saxony-type granulite: Solution to the Variscan garnet peridotite enigma

  Jana Kotková;Jana Kotková;Patrick J. O'Brien;Martin A. Ziemann

  158
  Citations

• The timing of stabilisation and the exhumation rate for ultra-high pressure rocks in the Western Gneiss Region of Norway

  D. A. Carswell;H. K. Brueckner;H. K. Brueckner;S. J. Cuthbert;K. Mehta

  151
  Citations

• Eclogites with a short-lived granulite facies overprint in the Moldanubian Zone, Czech Republic: petrology, geochemistry and diffusion modelling of garnet zoning

  Patrick J. O'Brien;Stranislav Vrána

  148
  Citations

• What drives metamorphism and metamorphic reactions

  P. J. Treloar;Patrick J. O'Brien

  147
  Citations

• Combined thermodynamic and rare earth element modelling of garnet growth during subduction; examples from ultrahigh-pressure eclogite of the Western Gneiss region, Norway

  Matthias Konrad-Schmolke;Thomas Zack;Patrick J. O'Brien;Dorrit E. Jacob

  147
  Citations

• Petrological and Isotopic Studies on Palaeozoic High-pressure Granulites, Gory Sowie Mts, Polish Sudetes

  Patrick J. O'Brien;Alfred Kröner;Petra Jaeckel;Ernst Hegner

  145
  Citations

• Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Bohemian Massif: evidence from high pressure metamorphic rocks

  P. J. O'Brien;D. A. Carswell

  142
  Citations