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Earth Science
Sweden
2022

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Earth Science

D-Index
59
Citations
10178
World Ranking
2079
National Ranking
18

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Uwe Ring is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics. Their research spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Oceanography, Geology, Mechanics of Materials, and Artificial Intelligence.

The primary topics covered in their work include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration

Recent publications by Uwe Ring illustrate the scope and focus of their research:

  • The Cycladic Blueschist Unit of the Hellenic subduction orogen: Protracted high-pressure metamorphism, decompression and reimbrication of a diachronous nappe stack (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Structural architecture and Late Cretaceous exhumation history of the Saih Hatat Dome (Oman), a review based on existing data and semi-restorable cross-sections (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Tilting, uplift, volcanism and disintegration of the South German block (2020, Tectonophysics)
  • Differences in decompression of a high-pressure unit: A case study from the Cycladic Blueschist Unit on Naxos Island, Greece (2021, Lithos)
  • The Samail subduction zone dilemma: Geochronology of high-pressure rocks from the Saih Hatat window, Oman, reveals juxtaposition of two subduction zones with contrasting thermal histories (2024, Earth-Science Reviews)

Uwe Ring frequently collaborates with several researchers, notably:

  • Johannes Glodny
  • Andreas Scharf
  • Robert Bolhar
  • İ. Tonguç Uysal
  • Reuben J. Hansman

Their research is often published in venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Tectonics
  • Tectonophysics
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Best Publications

  • Exhumation Processes: Normal Faulting, Ductile Flow and Erosion

    Uwe Ring

  • The Hellenic Subduction System: High-Pressure Metamorphism, Exhumation, Normal Faulting, and Large-Scale Extension

    Uwe Ring;Johannes Glodny;Thomas Will;Stuart Thomson

  • Miocene NNE-directed extensional unroofing in the Menderes Massif, southwestern Turkey

    R Hetzel;U Ring;Cüneyt Akal;M Troesch

  • An active bivergent rolling-hinge detachment system: Central Menderes metamorphic core complex in western Turkey

    Klaus Gessner;Uwe Ring;Christopher Johnson;Ralf Hetzel

  • Bivergent extension in orogenic belts: The Menderes massif (southwestern Turkey)

    Ralf Hetzel;Cees W. Passchier;Uwe Ring;Özcan O. Dora

  • High-pressure metamorphism in the Aegean, eastern Mediterranean: Underplating and exhumation from the Late Cretaceous until the Miocene to Recent above the retreating Hellenic subduction zone

    Uwe Ring;Paul W. Layer

  • Tectonic denudation of a Late Cretaceous-Tertiary collisional belt: regionally symmetric cooling patterns and their relation to extensional faults in the Anatolide belt of western Turkey

    Uwe Ring;Christopher Johnson;Ralf Hetzel;Klaus Gessner

  • Exhumation processes

    Unknown

  • Structural analysis of a complex nappe sequence and late-orogenic basins from the Aegean Island of Samos, Greece

    Uwe Ring;Susanne Laws;Matthias Bernet

  • Oldest Homo and Pliocene biogeography of the Malawi Rift.

    Friedemann Schrenk;Timothy G. Bromage;Christian G. Betzler;Uwe Ring

  • The Menderes Massif of western Turkey and the Cycladic Massif in the Aegean : do they really correlate?

    U Ring;K Gessner;Talip Güngör;CW Passchier

  • The influence of preexisting structure on the evolution of the Cenozoic Malawi rift (East African rift system)

    Uwe Ring

  • What caused the denudation of the Menderes Massif: Review of crustal evolution, lithosphere structure, and dynamic topography in southwest Turkey

    Klaus Gessner;Luis A. Gallardo;Vanessa Markwitz;Uwe Ring

  • Tectonic controls on rift basin morphology: Evolution of the northern Malawi (Nyasa) Rift

    C. J. Ebinger;A. L. Deino;A. L. Tesha;T. Becker

  • Miocene high-pressure metamorphism in the Cyclades and Crete, Aegean Sea, Greece: Evidence for large-magnitude displacement on the Cretan detachment

    Uwe Ring;Paul W. Layer;Thomas Reischmann

  • Absolute ages of multiple generations of brittle structures by U-Pb dating of calcite

    Reuben J. Hansman;Richard Albert;Axel Gerdes;Uwe Ring

  • Structural and thermal history of poly-orogenic basement: U–Pb geochronology of granitoid rocks in the southern Menderes Massif, Western Turkey

    Klaus Gessner;Alan S. Collins;Uwe Ring;Talip GÜngÖr

  • Tectonic significance of deformation patterns in granitoid rocks of the Menderes nappes, Anatolide belt, southwest Turkey

    Klaus Gessner;Sandra Piazolo;Talip Güngör;Uwe Ring

  • Early exhumation of high‐pressure rocks in extrusion wedges: Cycladic blueschist unit in the eastern Aegean, Greece, and Turkey

    Uwe Ring;Thomas Will;Johannes Glodny;Christine Kumerics

  • Constraining the long-term evolution of the slip rate for a major extensional fault system in the central Aegean, Greece, using thermochronology

    Stephanie Brichau;Uwe Ring;Richard A. Ketcham;Andrew Carter

  • Normal vs. strike-slip faulting during rift development in East Africa: The Malawi rift

    Uwe Ring;Christian Betzler;Damian Delvaux

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Glodny
Johannes Glodny University of Potsdam
Stuart N. Thomson
Stuart N. Thomson University of Arizona
Cees W. Passchier
Cees W. Passchier Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Arne P. Willner
Arne P. Willner Ruhr University Bochum
Todd A. Ehlers
Todd A. Ehlers University of Glasgow
Christian Betzler
Christian Betzler Universität Hamburg
Ralf Hetzel
Ralf Hetzel University of Münster
Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Nick Mortimer
Nick Mortimer GNS Science
Peter J.J. Kamp
Peter J.J. Kamp University of Waikato

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