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Volker Schenk is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and focuses their research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Geophysics, Geology, Paleontology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research covers a range of topics mainly centered around Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and High-pressure geophysics and materials. Additional areas of interest include Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, Geological and Geophysical Studies more broadly, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

Volker Schenk has published several papers in established scientific venues. Notable recent works include:

  • "Metamorphic Response to Alpine Thrusting of a Crustal-scale Basement Nappe in Southern Calabria (Italy)," 2020, Journal of Petrology
  • "Refining the understanding of Cretaceous subduction zone processes in the central Indonesian region: The Bantimala Complex (SW Sulawesi) revisited," 2023, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • "The Konse Group on the SE margin of the Tanzania Craton − a Paleoproterozoic passive margin succession of the Usagaran Orogen: Constraints from metamorphic monazite ages and isotopically heavy carbon in marbles," 2025, Precambrian Research
  • "Paired metamorphic belts in the Usagaran Orogen of Tanzania: evidence for one-sided oceanic subduction in the Palaeoproterozoic," 2025, Precambrian Research

The frequent co-authors of Volker Schenk include S. Brandt, Michael Bröcker, Erik E. Scherer, Joko Soesilo, and Jasper Berndt. Their collaborative efforts have contributed to various publications primarily in the fields of geophysics and geology.

Key publication venues where Volker Schenk's work has appeared are:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Their research is informed by detailed geological observations and coupled with geochemical analysis methods. This approach supports investigations of tectonic settings such as subduction zones, metamorphic processes, and ancient passive margin successions.

Volker Schenk's contributions also intersect with the application of artificial intelligence techniques within geophysical contexts, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach.

Best Publications

  • Trace element fractionation during fluid-induced eclogitization in a subducting slab: trace element and Lu-Hf-Sm-Nd isotope systematics

    Timm John;Timm John;Erik E. Scherer;Karsten Haase;Volker Schenk

  • Evidence for a 2 Ga subduction zone: Eclogites in the Usagaran belt of Tanzania

    Andreas Möller;Andreas Möller;Peter Appel;Klaus Mezger;Volker Schenk

  • U-Pb dating of metamorphic minerals: Pan-African metamorphism and prolonged slow cooling of high pressure granulites in Tanzania, East Africa

    Andreas Möller;Andreas Möller;Klaus Mezger;Volker Schenk

  • Paleoproterozoic eclogites of MORB-type chemistry and three Proterozoic orogenic cycles in the Ubendian Belt (Tanzania): Evidence from monazite and zircon geochronology, and geochemistry

    Nelson Boniface;Volker Schenk;Peter Appel

  • Timing and PT Evolution of Whiteschist Metamorphism in the Lufilian Arc–Zambezi Belt Orogen (Zambia): Implications for the Assembly of Gondwana

    Timm John;Volker Schenk;Klaus Mezger;Francis Tembo

  • Petrology of Felsic Granulites, Metapelites, Metabasics, Ultramafics, and Metacarbonates from Southern Calabria (Italy): Prograde Metamorphism, Uplift and Cooling of a Former Lower Crust

    Volker Schenk

  • Partial eclogitisation of gabbroic rocks in a late Precambrian subduction zone (Zambia): prograde metamorphism triggered by fluid infiltration

    Timm John;Volker Schenk

  • Crustal evolution of the Southern Granulite Terrane, south India: New geochronological and geochemical data for felsic orthogneisses and granites

    Soenke Brandt;Michael M. Raith;Volker Schenk;Pulak Sengupta

  • U-Pb and Rb-Sr radiometric dates and their correlation with metamorphic events in the granulite-facies basement of the serre, Southern Calabria (Italy)

    Volker Schenk

  • Crustal Age Domains and the Evolution of the Continental Crust in the Mozambique Belt of Tanzania: Combined Sm–Nd, Rb–Sr, and Pb–Pb Isotopic Evidence

    Andreas Möller;Andreas Möller;Klaus Mezger;Volker Schenk

  • Evidence for a Neoproterozoic ocean in south-central Africa from mid-oceanic-ridge type geochemical signatures and pressure-temperature estimates of Zambian eclogites

    Timm John;Volker Schenk;Karsten Haase;Erik Scherer

  • Blueschist-facies rehydration of eclogites (Tian Shan, NW-China): Implications for fluid–rock interaction in the subduction channel

    François van der Straaten;Volker Schenk;Timm John;Jun Gao

  • 2.09 Ga old eclogites in the Eburnian-Transamazonian orogen of southern Cameroon: Significance for Palaeoproterozoic plate tectonics

    Denny Loose;Volker Schenk

  • High‐pressure granulite facies metamorphism in the Pan‐African belt of eastern Tanzania: P–T–t evidence against granulite formation by continent collision

    P. Appel;A. Möller;V. Schenk

  • Late Neoproterozoic P-T evolution of HP-UHT Granulites from the Palni Hills (South India): New Constraints from Phase Diagram Modelling, LA-ICP-MS Zircon Dating and in-situ EMP Monazite Dating

    S. Brandt;V. Schenk;M. M. Raith;P. Appel

  • Relics of the Mozambique Ocean in the central East African Orogen: Evidence from the Vohibory Block of southern Madagascar

    N. Jöns;V. Schenk

  • Elastic wave velocities in rocks from a lower crustal section in southern Calabria (Italy)

    H. Kern;V. Schenk

  • Interrelations between intermediate-depth earthquakes and fluid flow within subducting oceanic plates: constraints from eclogite-facies pseudotachylytes

    Timm John;Volker Schenk

  • Petrology of granulite-facies metapelites of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka: implications for the metamorphic zonation and the P-T path

    P. Raase;V. Schenk

  • Subducted seamounts in an eclogite-facies ophiolite sequence: the Andean Raspas Complex, SW Ecuador

    Timm John;Timm John;Timm John;Erik E. Scherer;Volker Schenk;Petra Herms

  • Petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology of trondhjemites from the Qori Complex, Neyriz, Iran

    Abdolnaser Fazlnia;Volker Schenk;François van der Straaten;Mirsaleh Mirmohammadi

Frequent Co-Authors

Timm John
Timm John Freie Universität Berlin
Erik E. Scherer
Erik E. Scherer University of Münster
Karsten M. Haase
Karsten M. Haase University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Folkmar Hauff
Folkmar Hauff GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Klaus Mezger
Klaus Mezger University of Bern
Jasper Berndt
Jasper Berndt University of Münster
Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
William F. McDonough
William F. McDonough University of Maryland, College Park
Walter V. Maresch
Walter V. Maresch Ruhr University Bochum

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