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Walter V. Maresch

Walter V. Maresch

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
35
Citations
9883
World Ranking
9215
National Ranking
557

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Walter V. Maresch is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, notably geophysics, geochemistry and petrology, and includes work related to artificial intelligence applied to their domain.

The scientist's research addresses a variety of topics within geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and tectonic investigations in Latin America, mineralogy and gemology studies, as well as geochemistry and elemental analysis. This range reflects a deep engagement with both theoretical and regional geological issues.

Maresch has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed articles, a selection of which includes:

  • Garnetite, garnet-quartz ('coticule') and calc-silicate layers in high-pressure metapelitic rocks, Venezuela: metamorphosed exhalites in a Cretaceous back-arc basin (2021), published in International Geology Review
  • Three-stage, 70 Myr exhumation of HP/LT rocks on Margarita, Venezuela: Caribbean intra-forearc shear, Grenada Basin rifting, and continental obduction (2024), published in Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Other recent notable papers featuring this researcher as an author include:

  • Trace-elemental and multi-isotopic (Sr-Nd-Pb) discrimination of jade in the circum-Caribbean: Implications for pre-colonial inter-island exchange networks (2021), Journal of Archaeological Science
  • Jadeitite and Related Rocks in Serpentinite Mélanges from the Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic: Evidence for Both Isochemical Replacement and Metasomatic Desilication of Igneous Protoliths with Fluid-Assisted Jadeite Growth (2021), Russian Geology and Geophysics
  • Ultrahigh-pressure to high-pressure eclogite in Cuban ophiolitic mélange reveals proto-Caribbean spreading ridge subduction (2024), Geological Society of America Bulletin

The venues where Maresch has frequently published include Journal of the Geological Society, Journal of Archaeological Science, Russian Geology and Geophysics, International Geology Review, and Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

Recurring collaborators in their work are Hans-Peter Schertl, Klaus Stanek, Diego Villagómez, James Pindell, and Wen-Yong Duan, indicating a network of joint research efforts in geological and tectonic studies.

Walter V. Maresch holds the distinction of being a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, an acknowledgment within the professional community.

Best Publications

  • Nomenclature of amphiboles; report of the subcommittee on amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Association, Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names

    Bernard E. Leake

  • Nomenclature of the amphibole supergroup

    Frank C. Hawthorne;Roberta Oberti;George E. Harlow;Walter V. Maresch

  • Plate-kinematics and crustal dynamics of circum-Caribbean arc-continent interactions: Tectonic controls on basin development in Proto-Caribbean margins

    James Pindell;Lorcan Kennan;Walter V. Maresch;Klaus-Peter Stanek

  • Foundations of Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean evolution: eight controversies resolved

    Jim Pindell;Lorcan Kennan;Klaus Peter Stanek;Walter Maresch

  • Thermomechanical modelling of slab detachment

    Taras V. Gerya;Taras V. Gerya;David A. Yuen;Walter V. Maresch

  • Experimental studies on glaucophane: An analysis of present knowledge

    W.V Maresch

  • The Greater Antillean Arc: Early Cretaceous origin and proposed relationship to Central American subduction mélanges: implications for models of Caribbean evolution

    James Pindell;Walter V. Maresch;Uwe Martens;Klaus Stanek

  • The dynamics of intra-oceanic subduction zones: A direct comparison between fossil petrological evidence (Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic) and numerical simulation

    M. Krebs;W.V. Maresch;H.-P. Schertl;C. Münker;C. Münker

  • Pressure-Temperature and Fluid Evolution of Quartzo-Feldspathic Metamorphic Rocks with a Relic High-Pressure, Granulite-Facies History from the Central Erzgebirge (Saxony, Germany)

    Arne P. Willner;Kerstin Rötzler;Walter V. Maresch

  • Magmatic rock series and high-pressure metamorphism as constraints on the tectonic history of the southern Caribbean

    Dirk J. Beets;Walter V. Maresch;Gerard Th. Riaver;Annibale Mottana

  • Characterization and geodynamic implications of contrasting metamorphic evolution in juxtaposed high-pressure units of the western Erzgebirge (Saxony, Germany)

    Kerstin Rötzler;Renate Schumacher;Walter V. Maresch;Arne P. Willner

  • Plate Tectonics Origin of the Caribbean Mountain System of Northern South America: Discussion and Proposal

    Walter V. Maresch

  • Numerical modelling of PT-paths related to rapid exhumation of high-pressure rocks from the crustal root in the Variscan Erzgebirge Dome (Saxony/Germany)

    A.P. Willner;E. Sebazungu;T.V. Gerya;T.V. Gerya;W.V. Maresch

  • Interrelated P-T-t-d Paths in the Variscan Erzgebirge Dome (Saxony, Germany): Constraints on the Rapid Exhumation of High-Pressure Rocks from the Root Zone of a Collisional Orogen

    A. P. WlLLNER;A. Krohe;W. V. Maresch

  • Mass flow in serpentinite-hosted subduction channels: P - T - t path patterns of metamorphic blocks in the Rio San Juan mélange (Dominican Republic)

    M. Krebs;H.-P. Schertl;W.V. Maresch;G. Draper

  • Inherent gravitational instability of hot continental crust: Implications for doming and diapirism in granulite facies terrains

    Taras V. Gerya;Leonid L. Perchuk;Walter V. Maresch;Arne P. Willner

  • New occurrences of jadeitite, jadeite quartzite and jadeite-lawsonite quartzite in the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola: petrological and geochronological overview

    Hans Peter Schertl;Walter V. Maresch;Klaus P. Stanek;Andreas Hertwig

  • Inherent gravitational instability of thickened continental crust with regionally developed low- to medium-pressure granulite facies metamorphism

    Taras V. Gerya;Taras V. Gerya;Walter V. Maresch;Arne P. Willner;Dirk D. Van Reenen

  • The pyroxmangite-rhodonite transformation for the MnSiO3 composition

    W. V. Maresch;A. Mottana

  • Crustal history of Margarita Island (Venezuela) in detail: Constraint on the Caribbean plate-tectonic scenario

    Bernhard Stöckhert;Walter V. Maresch;Manfred Brix;Claudia Kaiser

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Peter Schertl
Hans-Peter Schertl Ruhr University Bochum
Taras Gerya
Taras Gerya ETH Zurich
Arne P. Willner
Arne P. Willner Ruhr University Bochum
Werner Schreyer
Werner Schreyer Ruhr University Bochum
Nikos L. Doltsinis
Nikos L. Doltsinis University of Münster
George E. Harlow
George E. Harlow American Museum of Natural History
Volker Schenk
Volker Schenk Heidelberg University
Richard Wirth
Richard Wirth Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Gareth R. Davies
Gareth R. Davies Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
William C. McClelland
William C. McClelland University of Iowa

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