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Rainer Altherr is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has made contributions primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, notably geophysics, atmospheric science, geochemistry and petrology, astronomy and astrophysics, and ecology.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics, including geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, mineralogy and gemology studies, astro and planetary science, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Rainer Altherr include:

  • Michael Hanel
  • Hans-Peter Meyer
  • Gültekin Topuz
  • Osman Candan
  • Jia-Min Wang

Key venues where Rainer Altherr has published their research include:

  • Journal of Petrology
  • Lithos
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Rainer Altherr are:

  • Petrology and Tectonic Significance of Epidote Blueschist-Facies Rocks from the Northern Margin of the Pelagonian Unit in the Republic of North Macedonia, 2023, Journal of Petrology
  • Metabasic rocks from the Variscan Schwarzwald (SW Germany): metamorphic evolution and igneous protoliths, 2021, International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Retrograded garnet peridotites from Col des Bagenelles and Crébimont in the Variscan Vosges Mountains (NE France), 2021, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Other papers in collaboration with different authors include:

  • Carboniferous mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the Eastern Pontides (Pulur Complex): Implications for the source of coeval voluminous granites, 2022, Lithos
  • 53Mn-53Cr systematics of sphalerite in enstatite chondrites, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Best Publications

  • High-potassium, calc-alkaline I-type plutonism in the European Variscides: northern Vosges (France) and northern Schwarzwald (Germany)

    Rainer Altherr;Albert Holl;Ernst Hegner;Carola Langer

  • Carboniferous high-potassium I-type granitoid magmatism in the Eastern Pontides: The Gümüşhane pluton (NE Turkey)

    Gueltekin Topuz;Rainer Altherr;Wolfgang Siebel;Winfried H. Schwarz

  • I-type plutonism in a continental back-arc setting: Miocene granitoids and monzonites from the central Aegean Sea, Greece

    Rainer Altherr;Wolfgang Siebel

  • Upper mantle temperatures from teleseismic tomography of French Massif Central including effects of composition, mineral reactions, anharmonicity, anelasticity and partial melt

    Stephan V. Sobolev;Hermann Zeyen;Gerald Stoll;Friederike Werling

  • The Late Precambrian Timna igneous complex, Southern Israel: Evidence for comagmatic-type sanukitoid monzodiorite and alkali granite magma

    Michael Beyth;Robert J. Stern;Rainer Altherr;Alfred Kröner

  • Geochronology of high-pressure rocks on Sifnos (Cyclades, Greece)

    Rainer Altherr;Manfred Schliestedt;Martin Okrusch;Eberhard Seidel

  • Post-collisional plutonism with adakite-like signatures: the Eocene Saraycık granodiorite (Eastern Pontides, Turkey)

    Gültekin Topuz;Rainer Altherr;Winfried H. Schwarz;Wolfgang Siebel

  • Variscan amphibolite-facies rocks from the Kurtoğlu metamorphic complex (Gümüşhane area, Eastern Pontides, Turkey)

    Gültekin Topuz;Rainer Altherr;Winfried H. Schwarz;Abdurrahman Dokuz

  • Asthenosphere versus lithosphere as possible sources for basaltic magmas erupted during formation of the Red Sea: constraints from Sr, Pb and Nd isotopes

    Rainer Altherr;Friedhelm Henjes-Kunst;Friedhelm Henjes-Kunst;Albrecht Baumann

  • Aluminous granulites from the Pulur complex, NE Turkey: a case of partial melting, efficient melt extraction and crystallisation

    Gültekin Topuz;Rainer Altherr;Angelika Kalt;Muharrem Satır

  • Upper mantle temperatures and lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath the French Massif Central constrained by seismic, gravity, petrologic and thermal observations

    Stephan V. Sobolev;Hermann Zeyen;Michel Granet;Ulrich Achauer

  • Post-collisional adakite-like magmatism in the Ağvanis Massif and implications for the evolution of the Eocene magmatism in the Eastern Pontides (NE Turkey)

    Gültekin Topuz;Aral I. Okay;Rainer Altherr;Winfried H. Schwarz

  • Squeezing out the slab — modelling the release of Li, Be and B during progressive high-pressure metamorphism

    Horst R. Marschall;Rainer Altherr;Lars Rüpke

  • Syros metasomatic tourmaline: evidence for very high-δ11B fluids in subduction zones

    Horst R. Marschall;Thomas Ludwig;Rainer Altherr;Angelika Kalt

  • Styles of continental rifting: crust-mantle detachment and mantle plumes

    Hermann Zeyen;Frank Volker;Veronika Wehrle;Karl Fuchs

  • The Role of Lithospheric Mantle Heterogeneity in the Generation of Plio-Pleistocene Alkali Basaltic Suites from NW Harrat Ash Shaam (Israel)

    Y. Weinstein;Y. Weinstein;O. Navon;R. Altherr;M. Stein

  • Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic characteristics of Paleocene plagioleucitites from the Eastern Pontides (NE Turkey)

    Rainer Altherr;Gültekin Topuz;Wolfgang Siebel;Cüneyt Şen

  • Lithospheric Mantle Evolution beneath the Eifel (Germany): Constraints from Sr–Nd–Pb Isotopes and Trace Element Abundances in Spinel Peridotite and Pyroxenite Xenoliths

    G Witt-Eickschen;H Seck;Klaus Mezger;Stephen Eggins

  • Evolution of the Cycladic Crystalline Complex: Petrology, Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronolgy

    Manfred Schliestedt;Rainer Altherr;Alan Matthews

  • Evolution and composition of the lithospheric mantle underneath the western Arabian peninsula: constraints from Sr−Nd isotope systematics of mantle xenoliths

    Friedhelm Henjes-Kunst;Rainer Altherr;Albrecht Baumann

Frequent Co-Authors

Horst R. Marschall
Horst R. Marschall Goethe University Frankfurt
Muharrem Satir
Muharrem Satir University of Tübingen
Wolfgang Siebel
Wolfgang Siebel University of Freiburg
Alan B. Woodland
Alan B. Woodland Goethe University Frankfurt
Lutz Nasdala
Lutz Nasdala University of Vienna
Karl Fuchs
Karl Fuchs Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Aral I. Okay
Aral I. Okay Istanbul Technical University
Hilary Downes
Hilary Downes Birkbeck, University of London
Stephan V. Sobolev
Stephan V. Sobolev University of Potsdam
Malcolm T. McCulloch
Malcolm T. McCulloch University of Western Australia

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