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Torgeir B. Andersen

Torgeir B. Andersen

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Earth Science

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52
Citations
7969
World Ranking
3116
National Ranking
38

Overview

Torgeir B. Andersen is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and works primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research contributions span 24 publications focusing on geophysical phenomena and geological processes.

The main subfields of Andersen's research include:

  • Geophysics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Paleontology
  • Artificial Intelligence

Key topics explored in their work are:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-Pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Their publication record includes contributions to various scientific journals such as:

  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Tectonics
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Geosciences
  • Basin Research

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Andersen include:

  • Vestiges of the Pre-Caledonian Passive Margin of Baltica in the Scandinavian Caledonides: Overview, Revisions and Control on the Structure of the Mountain Belt, 2022, Geosciences
  • Widening of Hydrous Shear Zones During Incipient Eclogitization of Metastable Dry and Rigid Lower Crust-Holsnøy, Western Norway, 2021, Tectonics
  • Focal Mechanisms of Intraslab Earthquakes: Insights From Pseudotachylytes in Mantle Units, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • P Wave Anisotropy Caused by Partial Eclogitization of Descending Crust Demonstrated by Modeling Effective Petrophysical Properties, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Fault Growth and Orthogonal Shortening in Transtensional Supradetachment Basins: Insights from the 'Old Red' of Western Norway, 2023, Basin Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Andersen are:

  • Timm John
  • Sascha Zertani
  • Loïc Labrousse
  • Johannes C. Vrijmoed
  • Johannes Jakob

Best Publications

  • Subduction and eduction of continental crust: major mechanisms during continent‐continent collision and orogenic extensional collapse, a model based on the south Norwegian Caledonides

    Torgeir B. Andersen;Bjørn Jamtveit;John F. Dewey;Eivind Swensson

  • Uplift of deep crust during orogenic extensional collapse: A model based on field studies in the Sogn-Sunnfjord Region of western Norway

    Torgeir B. Andersen;Bjørn Jamtveit

  • Extensional tectonics in the Caledonides of southern Norway, an overview

    Torgeir B. Andersen

  • High-Temperature Deformation During Continental-Margin Subduction & Exhumation: The Ultrahigh-Pressure Western Gneiss Region of Norway

    Bradley R. Hacker;Torgeir B. Andersen;Scott Johnston;Andrew R.C. Kylander-Clark

  • Campaign-style titanite U–Pb dating by laser-ablation ICP: Implications for crustal flow, phase transformations and titanite closure

    K.J. Spencer;B.R. Hacker;A.R.C. Kylander-Clark;T.B. Andersen

  • The trapped fluid phase in upper mantle xenoliths from Victoria, Australia: implications for mantle metasomatism

    T. Andersen;Suzanne Y. O'Reilly;W. L. Griffin

  • Orogenic uplift and collapse, crustal thickness, fabrics and metamorphic phase changes: the role of eclogites

    J. F. Dewey;P. D. Ryan;T. B. Andersen

  • Generation of intermediate-depth earthquakes by self-localizing thermal runaway

    Timm John;Timm John;Sergei Medvedev;Lars H. Rüpke;Torgeir B. Andersen

  • The Scandinavian Caledonides: main features, conceptual advances and critical questions

    F. Corfu;T. B. Andersen;D. Gasser

  • The middle Devonian basins of western Norway: sedimentary response to large-scale transtensional tectonics?

    P.T. Osmundsen;T.B. Andersen

  • Crustal‐scale boudinage and migmatization of gneiss during their exhumation in the UHP Province of Western Norway

    L. Labrousse;L. Jolivet;P. Agard;R. Hébert

  • Softening trigerred by eclogitization, the first step toward exhumation during continental subduction

    Laurent Jolivet;Hugues Raimbourg;Loïc Labrousse;Dov Avigad

  • Devonian, orogen-parallel, opposed extension in the Central Norwegian Caledonides

    Alvar Braathen;Øystein Nordgulen;Per-Terje Osmundsen;Torgeir B. Andersen

  • Deep crustal fabrics and a model for the extensional collapse of the southwest Norwegian Caledonides

    Torgeir B Andersen;Per Terje Osmundsen;Laurent Jolivet

  • Evidence for hyperextension along the pre-Caledonian margin of Baltica

    Torgeir B. Andersen;Fernando Corfu;Loic Labrousse;Per-Terje Osmundsen

  • Fossil earthquakes recorded by pseudotachylytes in mantle peridotite from the Alpine subduction complex of Corsica

    Torgeir B. Andersen;Håkon Austrheim

  • Absolute dating of brittle fault movements: Late Permian and late Jurassic extensional fault breccias in western Norway

    Elizabeth A. Eide;Trond H. Torsvik;Torgeir B. Andersen

  • Palaeomagnetic dating of fault rocks: evidence for Permian and Mesozoic movements and brittle deformation along the extensional Dalsfjord Fault, western Norway

    T. H. Torsvik;B. A. Sturt;E. Swensson;T. B. Andersen

  • The Sunnfjord melange, evidence of Silurian ophiolite accretion in the West Norwegian Caledonides

    T. B. Andersen;K. P. Skjerlie;H. Furnes

  • Stress release in exhumed intermediate and deep earthquakes determined from ultramafic pseudotachylyte

    Torgeir B. Andersen;Karen Mair;Håkon Austrheim;Yuri Y. Podladchikov

  • Exhuming Norwegian ultrahigh-pressure rocks: Overprinting extensional structures and the role of the Nordfjord-Sogn Detachment Zone

    Scott M. Johnston;Scott M. Johnston;Bradley R. Hacker;Torgeir B. Andersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Corfu
Fernando Corfu University of Oslo
Loïc Labrousse
Loïc Labrousse Sorbonne University
Timm John
Timm John Freie Universität Berlin
Trond H. Torsvik
Trond H. Torsvik University of Oslo
Håkon Austrheim
Håkon Austrheim University of Oslo
Lewis D. Ashwal
Lewis D. Ashwal University of the Witwatersrand
Bradley R. Hacker
Bradley R. Hacker University of California, Santa Barbara
Christian Tegner
Christian Tegner Aarhus University
Per Terje Osmundsen
Per Terje Osmundsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Bjørn Jamtveit
Bjørn Jamtveit University of Oslo

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