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Ulf Linnemann is affiliated with the Senckenberg Naturmuseum in Germany and has a focused research portfolio within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including geophysics, paleontology, artificial intelligence applications, geology, and atmospheric science.

Linnemann's recent publications demonstrate a strong emphasis on geological and geochemical studies as well as stratigraphy and paleontological research. Notable papers include:

  • "From Pan-African Transpression to Cadomian Transtension at the West African Margin: New U-Pb zircon Ages from the Eastern Saghro Inlier (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)" (2020, Geological Society London Special Publications)
  • "The Stavelot-Venn Massif (Ardenne, Belgium), a rift shoulder basin ripped off the West African craton: Cartography, stratigraphy, sedimentology, new U-Pb on zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd isotopes evidence" (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "An Upper Ediacaran Glacial Period in Cadomia: the Granville tillite (Armorican Massif) - sedimentology, geochronology and provenance" (2021, Geological Magazine)
  • "Polyphase magmatic pulses along the Northern Gondwana margin: U-Pb zircon geochronology from gneiss domes of the Pyrenees" (2020, Gondwana Research)
  • "Ordovician of the Bohemian Massif" (2022, Geological Society London Special Publications)

Their research topics cover diverse areas such as geological and geochemical analysis, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geochemistry and geologic mapping, worldwide geological and geophysical studies, geological exploration, earthquake and tectonic studies, and geology coupled with paleoclimatology research.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Andreas Gärtner, Mandy Hofmann, Johannes Zieger, Katja Mende, and Axel Gerdes. These collaborations suggest an integrated approach to multidisciplinary geological sciences.

Linnemann's work has been published predominantly in venues such as the International Journal of Earth Sciences, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, Geological Society London Special Publications, Geological Magazine, and Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Evolution of the Rheic Ocean

    R. Damian Nance;Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;J. Duncan Keppie;Ulf Linnemann

  • The Cadomian Orogeny and the opening of the Rheic Ocean: The diacrony of geotectonic processes constrained by LA-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon dating (Ossa-Morena and Saxo-Thuringian Zones, Iberian and Bohemian Massifs)

    Ulf Linnemann;Francisco Pereira;Teresa E. Jeffries;Kerstin Drost

  • West African provenance for Saxo-Thuringia (Bohemian Massif): Did Armorica ever leave pre-Pangean Gondwana? – U/Pb-SHRIMP zircon evidence and the Nd-isotopic record

    Ulf Linnemann;Neal J. McNaughton;Rolf L. Romer;Michael Gehmlich

  • The continuum between Cadomian orogenesis and opening of the Rheic Ocean: Constraints from LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon dating and analysis of plate-tectonic setting (Saxo-Thuringian zone, northeastern Bohemian Massif, Germany)

    Ulf Linnemann;Axel Gerdes;Kerstin Drost;Bernd Buschmann

  • The Cadomian Orogen: Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian crustal growth and orogenic zoning along the periphery of the West African Craton—Constraints from U-Pb zircon ages and Hf isotopes (Schwarzburg Antiform, Germany)

    Ulf Linnemann;Axel Gerdes;Mandy Hofmann;Linda Marko

  • A brief history of the Rheic Ocean

    R. Damian Nance;Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;J. Duncan Keppie;Ulf Linnemann

  • Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic tectonostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the peri-Gondwanan terranes: Amazonian v. West African connections

    R. Damian Nance;J. Brendan Murphy;Rob A. Strachan;J. Duncan Keppie

  • Recent near-Earth supernovae probed by global deposition of interstellar radioactive 60 Fe

    A. Wallner;J. Feige;N. Kinoshita;M. Paul

  • Sands of West Gondwana: An archive of secular magmatism and plate interactions — A case study from the Cambro-Ordovician section of the Tassili Ouan Ahaggar (Algerian Sahara) using U-Pb-LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon ages

    Ulf Linnemann;Khadidja Ouzegane;Amar Drareni;Mandy Hofmann

  • From Cadomian subduction to Early Palaeozoic rifting: the evolution of Saxo-Thuringia at the margin of Gondwana in the light of single zircon geochronology and basin development (Central European Variscides, Germany)

    U. Linnemann;M. Gehmlich;M. Tichomirowa;B. Buschmann

  • The Rheic Ocean: Origin, Evolution, and Significance

    R. Damian Nance;Ulf Linnemann

  • The Cadomian Orogeny in Saxo-Thuringia, Germany: geochemical and Nd–Sr–Pb isotopic characterization of marginal basins with constraints to geotectonic setting and provenance

    Ulf Linnemann;Rolf L Romer

  • 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

  • Provenance of Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks of the Teplá-Barrandian unit (Bohemian Massif): Evidence from U–Pb detrital zircon ages

    Kerstin Drost;Axel Gerdes;Teresa Jeffries;Ulf Linnemann

  • Late Paleozoic–early Mesozoic continental biostratigraphy — Links to the Standard Global Chronostratigraphic Scale

    Joerg W. Schneider;Joerg W. Schneider;Spencer G. Lucas;Frank Scholze;Sebastian Voigt

  • The Variscan orogeny in the Saxo-Thuringian zone—Heterogenous overprint of Cadomian/Paleozoic Peri-Gondwana crust

    U. Kroner;T. Hahn;Rolf L. Romer;Ulf Linnemann

  • The Ediacaran–Early Cambrian detrital zircon record of NW Iberia: possible sources and paleogeographic constraints

    J. Fernández-Suárez;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso;D. Pastor-Galán;M. Hofmann

  • Inherited arc signature in Ediacaran and Early Cambrian basins of the Ossa-Morena Zone (Iberian Massif, Portugal): Paleogeographic link with European and North African Cadomian correlatives

    M. Pereira;M. Chichorro;U. Linnemann;L. Eguiluz

  • The provenance of Late Ediacaran and Early Ordovician siliciclastic rocks in the Southwest Central Iberian Zone: constraints from detrital zircon data on northern Gondwana margin evolution during the late Neoproterozoic

    M.F. Pereira;U. Linnemann;M. Hofmann;M. Chichorro

  • The Evolution of the Rheic Ocean: From Avalonian-Cadomian Active Margin to Alleghenian-Variscan Collision

    Ulf Linnemann;R. Damian Nance;Petr Kraft;Gernold Zulauf

  • Evolution of the Rheic Ocean

    Erdin Bozkurt;M. Francisco Pereira;Robin Strachan;Cecilio Quesada

Frequent Co-Authors

Mandy Hofmann
Mandy Hofmann Senckenberg Naturmuseum
Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso
Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso University of Salamanca
Nasrrddine Youbi
Nasrrddine Youbi Cadi Ayyad University
Javier Fernández-Suárez
Javier Fernández-Suárez Complutense University of Madrid
Rolf L. Romer
Rolf L. Romer University of Potsdam
R. Damian Nance
R. Damian Nance Ohio University
J. Brendan Murphy
J. Brendan Murphy St. Francis Xavier University
José R. Martínez Catalán
José R. Martínez Catalán University of Salamanca
Rob Strachan
Rob Strachan University of Portsmouth

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