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Urs Klötzli is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria, contributing to research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Geology.

The research topics addressed by Klötzli focus on various aspects of the Earth sciences. These include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Mineralogy and Gemology Studies
  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration

Their scientific output includes a range of recent publications, illustrating active engagement with geological and geochemical investigations. Some selected papers include:

  • Greenland Ice Core Record of Last Glacial Dust Sources and Atmospheric Circulation (2022), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Tracing proto-Rheic - Qaidam Ocean Vestiges into the Western Tatra Mountains and Implications for the Palaeozoic Palaeogeography of Central Europe (2020), Gondwana Research
  • Cenozoic Evolution of the Yangtze River: Constraints from Detrital Zircon U-Pb Ages (2021), Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Rapid Decomposition of Geological Samples by Ammonium Bifluoride (NH4HF2) for Combined Hf-Nd-Sr Isotope Analyses (2021), Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
  • Petrochronological Study of Chloritoid Schist from the Medvednica Mountains (Croatia, Zagorje Mid-Transdanubian Zone) (2023), Geologia Croatica

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Klötzli are:

  • Jolanta Burda
  • Qiuli Li
  • Paul Ţibuleac
  • Matee Ullah
  • Muhammad Khubab

The venues where Urs Klötzli's work appears repeatedly include:

  • Lithos
  • Gondwana Research
  • Minerals
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Journal of Environment and Earth Science

Best Publications

  • Post-Collisional Potassic and Ultrapotassic Magmatism in SW Tibet: Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb–O Isotopic Constraints for Mantle Source Characteristics and Petrogenesis

    C. Miller;R. Schuster;U. Klötzli;W. Frank

  • The early Palaeozoic magmatic event in the Northwest Himalaya, India: source, tectonic setting and age of emplacement

    C. Miller;M. Thöni;W. Frank;B. Grasemann

  • New Pb-Pb Single Zircon Age Constraints on the Timing of Neoproterozoic Glaciation and Continental Break-up in Namibia

    Hartwig E. Frimmel;Urs S. Klötzli;Pete R. Siegfried

  • Proterozoic crustal evolution in the NW Himalaya (India) as recorded by circa 1.80 Ga mafic and 1.84 Ga granitic magmatism

    Christine Miller;Urs Klötzli;Wolfgang Frank;Martin Thöni

  • Accuracy of Laser Ablation U‐Pb Zircon Dating: Results from a Test Using Five Different Reference Zircons

    Urs Klötzli;Eva Klötzli;Zekeriya Günes;Jan Kosler

  • Evolution of Large Silicic Magma Systems: New U-Pb Zircon Data on the NW Permian Athesian Volcanic Group (Southern Alps, Italy)

    M. Marocchi;C. Morelli;V. Mair;U. Klötzli

  • The Wadi Mubarak belt, Eastern Desert of Egypt: a Neoproterozoic conjugate shear system in the Arabian-Nubian Shield

    A. Shalaby;K. Stüwe;F. Makroum;H. Fritz

  • U–Pb and 40Ar–39Ar geochronology of the ophiolites and granitoids from the Tauride belt: Implications for the evolution of the Inner Tauride suture

    Osman Parlak;Fatih Karaoğlan;Tamer Rızaoğlu;Urs Klötzli

  • I and S-type plutonism on Serifos (W-Cyclades, Greece)

    C. Iglseder;B. Grasemann;D.A. Schneider;K. Petrakakis

  • U–Pb and Sm–Nd geochronology of the Kızıldağ (Hatay, Turkey) ophiolite: implications for the timing and duration of suprasubduction zone type oceanic crust formation in the southern Neotethys

    Fatih Karaoğlan;Osman Parlak;Urs Klötzli;Martin Thöni

  • Duration of igneous activity in the Sesia Magmatic System and implications for high-temperature metamorphism in the Ivrea–Verbano deep crust

    Urs S. Klötzli;Silvano Sinigoi;James E. Quick;Gabriella Demarchi

  • Evidence for Archean inheritance in the pre-Panafrican crust of Central Cameroon: Insight from zircon internal structure and LA-MC-ICP-MS UPb ages

    Alembert Alexandre Ganwa;Alembert Alexandre Ganwa;Urs Stephan Klötzli;Christoph Hauzenberger

  • The temporal evolution of the active margin along the Southeast Anatolian Orogenic Belt (SE Turkey): Evidence from U–Pb, Ar–Ar and fission track chronology

    Fatih Karaoğlan;Osman Parlak;Ewald Hejl;Franz Neubauer

  • Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Rhodope orogen

    Kurt Krenn;Christoph Bauer;Alexander Proyer;Urs Klötzli

  • The role of crustal fertility in the generation of large silicic magmatic systems triggered by intrusion of mantle magma in the deep crust

    S. Sinigoi;J. E. Quick;G. Demarchi;U. Klötzli

  • The Northern Giudicarie and the Meran-Mauls fault (Alps, Northern Italy) in the light of new paleomagnetic and geochronological data from boudinaged Eo-/Oligocene tonalites

    Hannah Pomella;Urs Klötzli;Robert Scholger;Michael Stipp

  • Cadomian Lower-Crustal Contributions to Variscan Granite Petrogenesis (South Bohemian Pluton, Austria): Constraints from Zircon Typology and Geochronology, Whole-Rock, and Feldspar Pb–Sr Isotope Systematics

    U. S. Klötzli;F. Koller;S. Scharbert;V. Höck

  • Zircon U/Pb and Pb/Pb geochronology of the Rastenberg granodiorite, South Bohemian Massif, Austria

    U. S. Klötzli;R. R. Parrish

  • Greenland Ice Core Record of Last Glacial Dust Sources and Atmospheric Circulation

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  • Mafic and silica-rich glasses in mantle xenoliths from Wau-en-Namus, Libya: Textural and geochemical evidence for peridotite-melt reactions

    C. Miller;A. Zanetti;M. Thöni;J. Konzett

  • Age and duration of intra-oceanic arc volcanism built on a suprasubduction zone type oceanic crust in southern Neotethys, SE Anatolia

    Fatih Karaoğlan;Osman Parlak;Urs Klötzli;Friedrich Koller

  • Two possible source regions for central Greenland last glacial dust

    Gábor Újvári;Thomas Stevens;Anders Svensson;Urs S. Klötzli

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Thöni
Martin Thöni University of Vienna
Friedrich Koller
Friedrich Koller University of Vienna
Christoph Hauzenberger
Christoph Hauzenberger University of Graz
Bernhard Grasemann
Bernhard Grasemann University of Vienna
Osman Parlak
Osman Parlak Cukurova University
Nereo Preto
Nereo Preto University of Padua
Harald Fritz
Harald Fritz University of Graz
David Chew
David Chew Trinity College Dublin
John Wheeler
John Wheeler University of Liverpool
Jan Košler
Jan Košler University of Bergen

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