Dr. Andreas Gärtner

• Geochronology
• Interaction of fluvial and aeolian systems
• Provenance
• Palaeogeography
• Palaeoenvironments

Submitted

[93] Gärtner, A., Houben, G.J., Sitnikova, M.A., Miller, R.McG., Wang, F., Hofmann, M., Zieger, J., Linnemann, U. (submitted to Journal of the Geological Society of London): Multiproxy sediment provenance analysis of two megafans of the Owambo Basin, Northern Namibia.

[92] Karaoui, A., Linnemann, U., Breitkruz, C., Karaoui, B., Yajioui, Z., Mahmoudi, A., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, J., Zieger, J., Gärtner, A., Gerdes, A. (submitted to Precambrian Research): U-Pb ages, Hf isotope ratios and trace elements of detrital zircon from the Skoura inlier turbidites (Central High-Atlas, Morocco): Provenance and geotectonic implications for the time constraint north-western Gondwana margin.

[91] Sagawe, A., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Gerdes, A., Linnemann, U. (submitted book chapter): The Saxonian Granulite Massif and its pre- and post-metamorphic evolution in the light of new geochronological data of non-granulite rocks.

[90] Ouzegane, K., Liégeois, J.-P., Doukkari, S., Kiénast, J.-R., Arab, A., Drareni, A., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U. (submitted to Earth-Science Reviews): The Egéré Paleo-Mesoproterozoic rifted passive margin of the LATEA metacraton (Central Hoggar, Tuareg Shield, Algeria) subducted and exhumed during the Pan-African orogeny: U-Pb zircon ages, P-T-t paths, geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotopes.

[89] Guillou, O., Youbi, N., Gärtner, A., Villeneuve, M., Linnemann, U., Dautria, J.-M., Bodinier, J.-L., Ait Lahna, A., Tassinari, C., Mata, J., Rjimati, E.-C., El Archi, A., Bellon, H., Boumehdi, M.A., Besalah, M.K., Arab, E.M. (submitted to Arabian Journal of Geosciences). The mafic igneous units of the Adrar Souttouf Massif (Sahara, Southern Morocco): Geochemical evidence of late Neoproterozoic Island Arc.

[88] Villeneuve, M., Gärtner, A., Kalikone, C., Wazi, N. (submitted to Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France): Hypothèses sur la formation du Craton Centre Africain (CAC) au cours du Mésoproterozoique.

[87] Linnemann, U., Pieren Pidal, A., Quesada, C., Hofmann, M., Drost, K., Gärtner, A., Zieger, J., Ulrich, J. (submitted Excursions guide) The post-Gaskiers glaciation in the Cadomian basement of the Orellana area (Upper Ediacaran, Central Iberian Zone, Spain).

[86] Ouzegane, K., Linnemann, U., Gärtner, A., Doukkari, S., Arab, A., Drareni, A., Kiénast, J.-R., Bendaoud, A. (submitted to "Lithospheric Architecture and Precambrian Geology of the Hoggar and adjacent areas", Springer Nature book) Geochronology and P-T path of metapelites from Tamanrasset block (Central Hoggar, Algeria): Evidence of a Neoproterozoic deposition and High grade metamorphism.

[85] Fairey, B.J., Kerrison, A., Meere, P.A., Mulchrone, K.F., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Sonntag, B.-L., Linnemann, U., Kuiper, K.F. (submitted to Journal of the Geological Society, London): Provenance of the offshore Mesozoic sedimentary basins of Southern Ireland as determined by detrital zircon and mica geochronology.

[84] Gärtner, A. (submitted book chapter, publication scheduled for 2022): Die Schwerminerale der Elbe und ihrer Vorläufer. – In: Lange, J.-M., Schwarz, D. (Eds.): Geologie der Elbe (working title). – Berlin (Springer).

2022

[83] Hofmann, M., Zieger, J., Gärtner, A., Mende, K., Sagawe, A., Mocke, H., Mhojeni, K., Marko, L., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Linnemann, U. (accepted by Earth-Science Reviews): Correlation of Neoproterozoic diamictites in southern Namibia.

[82] Kohút, M., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Zieger, J. (2022): Provenance and detrital zircon study of the Western Carpathians basement. International Journal of Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s00531-022-02224-y.

[81] Villeneuve, M., Wazi, N., Kalikone, C., Gärtner, A. (2022): A review of the G4 “tin granites” and associated mineral occurrences in the Kivu Belt (Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo) and their relationships with the last Kibaran tectono-thermal events. Minerals 12(6), 737. doi: 10.3390/min12060737.

[80] Abd El-Rahman, Y., Seifert, T., Schulz, B., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U., Said, A. (2022): Petrogenesis of the late Tonian arc-related Um Balad gabbro-diorite complex (northernmost tip of the Arabian-Nubian Shield, Egypt) and insight into its gold mineralization. International Geology Review doi: 10.1080/00206814.2022.2034057.

[79] Zieger, J., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Gerdes, A., Marko, L., Linnemann, U. (2022): Tracing southern Gondwanan sedimentary paths: A case study of northern Namibian late Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks. Sedimentology 69(4), 1738–1768. doi: 10.1111/sed.12971.

[78] Murton, J.B., Opel, T., Toms, P., Blinov, A., Fuchs, M., Wood, J., Gärtner, A., Merchel, S., Rugel, G., Savvinov, G., Wetterich, S. (2022): A multimethod dating study of ancient permafrost, Batagay megaslump, east Siberia. Quaternary Research 105, 1–22. doi: 10.1017/qua.2021.27.

[77] Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Zieger, J., Sagawe, A., Krause, R., Stutzriemer, M., Harazim, S., Gerdes, A., Marko, L., Lana, C., Linnemann, U. (2022): Implications for sedimentary transport processes in southwestern Africa: a combined zircon morphology and age study including extensive geochronology databases. International Journal of Earth Sciences 111, 767–788, doi: 10.1007/s00531-021-02146-1.

[76] Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Gärtner, J., Zieger, J., Krause, R., Haenel, R., Mende, K., Ovtcharova, M., Schaltegger, U., Vickers-Rich, P. (2022): An Upper Ediacaran Glacial Period in Cadomia: The Granville tillite (Armorican Massif) – sedimentology, geochronology, and provenance. Geological Magazine 159, 999–1013, doi: 10.1017/S0016756821001011.

2021

[75] Kirscher, U., El Atfy, H., Gärtner, A., Munz, P., Dallanave, E., Niedźwiedzki, G., Athanassiou, A., Fassoulas, C., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Bennett, M., Ahlberg, P.E., Böhme, M. (2021): Age constraints for the Trachilos footprints from Crete. Scientific Reports 11, 19427. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-98618-0.

[74] Böhme, M., Spassov, N., Majidifard, M.R., Gärtner, A., Kirscher, U., Marks, M., Dietzel, C., Uhlig, G., Begun D.R., Winklhofer, M. (2021): Neogene hyperaridity of Arabia and Africa-Eurasia mammalian interchange. Communications Earth & Environment 2, Article Number 85. doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00158-y.

[73] Richter, C., Roettig, C.-B., Wolf, D., Gärtner, A., Kolb, T., Faust, D. (2021): Climate shifts vs. edaphic humidity and the difficulty of palaeoreconstructions – a malacological study on stable isotopes in Quaternary dune sequences of Fuerteventura. Journal of Quaternary Sciene 36(2), 426–440. doi: 10.1002/jqs.3304.

[72] McCarthy, O., Fairy, B., Meere, P., Chew, D., Kerrison, A., Wray, D., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Sonntag, B.L., Linnemann, U., Kuiper, K. (2021) The Provenance of Middle Jurassic to Cretaceous sediments in the Irish and Celtic Sea Basins: Environmental and tectonic controls on sediment sourcing. Journal of the Geological Society. doi: 10.1144/jgs2020-247.

[71] Olivotos, S., Niedermann, S., Flügel, T., Merchel, S., Cotterill, F., Mouslopoulou, V., Bookhagen, B., Gärtner, A., Rugel, G., Scharf, A., Nadeau, M.-J., Braucher, R., Seiler, M. (2021): Quaternary Landscape Evolution of South Central Africa: Cosmogenic Nuclides Identify a Massive Paleo-Lake Mweru. Geomorphology. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107669.

[70] Torres Sánchez, S.A., Augustsson, C., Jenchen, U., Barboza Gudiño, J.R., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U. (2021): Geochemistry and detrital zircon geochronology of metasedimentary rocks in the Sierra Madre terrane, Mexico: Implications of deposition along the western margin of Pangea. Geological Journal 56(6), 3342–3377. doi: 10.1002/gj.4108.

[69] Chaib, L., Ait Lahna, A., Admou, H., Youbi, N., El Moume, W., Tassinari, C.C.G., Mata, J., Basei, M.A.S., Sato, K., Marzoli, A., Bodinier, J.-L., Gärtner, A., Boumehdi, M.A., Ben­salah, M.K., Soulaimani, A., Hefferan, K., Maacha, L., Bajddi, A. (2021): Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Neoproterozoic Backarc Basin Khzama Ophiolite (Anti-Atlas Moun­tains, Morocco): Tectonomagmatic Implications. Minerals 11(1) 56. doi: 10.3390/min11010056.

[68] Errami, E., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Zieger, J., Gärtner, J., Mende, K., El Kabouri, J., Gasquet, D., Ennih, N. (2021): Reply to discussion on „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)” by Ikenne et al. 2020 (GSL-SP, 503, 209-233). Journal of the Geological Society. doi: 10.1144/jgs2021-034.

[67] Errami, E., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Zieger, J., Gärtner, J., Mende, K., El Kabouri, J., Gasquet, D., Ennih, N. (2021): 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). doi: 10.1144/SP503-2020-105.

[66] Clavijo, E.G., da Silva, I.D., Martínez Catalán, J.R., Barreiro, J.G., Gutiérrez Alonso, G., Díez Montes, A., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U. (2021): A tectonic carpet of Variscan flysch at the base of a rootless accretionary prism in northwestern Iberia: U–Pb zircon age constrains from sediments and volcanic olistoliths. Solid Earth 12, 835–867. doi: 10.5194/se-2020-173.

[65] Zieger, J., Stutzriemer, M., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Gerdes, A., Marko, L., Linnemann, U. (2020): The evolution of the southern Namibian Karoo-aged basins – Implications from detrital zircon data. – International Geology Review 63(14), 1758–1781. doi: 10.1080/00206814.2020.1795732.

[64] Jeanneret, P., Moreiras, S.M., Merchel, S., Gärtner, A., Binnie, S., Orgeira, M.J., Rugel, G. (2021): Novel cosmogenic datings in landslide deposits, San Juan, Argentina. Workshop on World Landslide Forum, 361–370. In: Vilímek, V., Wang, F., Strom, A., Sassa, K., Bobrowsky P.T., Takara, K. (eds.): Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk. WLF 2020. ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Cham.doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-60319-9_40., In: Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk.

2020

[63] Gerdes, A., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U., Kahlke, R.-D. (2020): U-Pb small scale isochrone (SSI) geochronology of travertine from the Untermassfeld fossil site. – In: Kahlke, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld, Volume 4, 1105–1116.

[62] Kahlke, R.-D., Linnemann, U., Gärtner, A. (2020): New results on the geological history of the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: Kahlke, R.-D. (Ed.): The Pleistocene of Untermassfeld, Volume 4, 1079–1104.

[61] Ait Lahna, A., Youbi, N., Tassinari, C.C.G., Bouougri, E.H., Admou, H., Stipp Basei, M.A., Ernst, R.E., Mata, J., Söderlund, U., Gärtner, A., Boumehdi, M.A., Chaib, L., Bodinier, J.-L., Bensalah, M.K., Maacha, L., Bekker, A. (2020): Revised stratigraphic framework for the lower Anti-Atlas Supergroup based on U–Pb geochronology of magmatic and detrital zircons (Zenaga and Bou Azzer-El Graara inliers, Anti-Atlas Belt, Morocco). Journal of African Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103946.

[60] Gärtner, A., Merchel, S., Niedermann, S., Braucher, R., Steier, P., Rugel, G., Scharf, A., Le Bras, L., Linnemann, U. (2020): Nature does the averaging – in-situ produced ¹⁰Be, ²¹Ne, and ²⁶Al in a very young river terrace. Geosciences 10(6), 237. doi: 10.3390/geo­sciences10060237.

[59] Zieger, J., Harazim, S., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Gerdes, A., Marko, L., Linnemann, U. (2020): Mesozoic deposits of SW Gondwana (Namibia) – Unraveling Gondwanan sedimentary dispersion drivers by detrital zircon. International Journal of Earth Sciences 109, 1683–1704, doi: 10.1007/s00531-020-01864-2.

[58] Pereira, M.F., Gama, C., Dias da Silva, Í., Silva, J.B., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U., Gärtner, A. (2020): Chronostratigraphic framework and provenance of the Ossa-Morena Zone Carboniferous basins (SW Iberia). Solid Earth, doi: 10.5194/se-2020-26-RC1.

[57] Elicki, O., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Zieger, J., Gärtner, A., Klein, D., Meischner, T. (2020): Zircon geochronology and provenance of the late Proterozoic and early Palaeozoic of southwestern Jordan. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften. doi: 10.1127/zdgg/2020/0217.

[56] Schnapperelle, S., Mezger, J.E., Stipp, M., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Linnemann U. (2020): Polyphase magmatic pulses along the Northern Gondwana margin: U-Pb zircon geochronology from gneiss domes of the Pyrenees. Gondwana Research 81, 291–311. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.11.013.

[55] Herbosch, A., Liégeois, J.-P., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U. (2020): 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. Earth-Science Reviews 203, 103142. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103142.

[54] Bertrand, H., Villeneuve, M., Corsini, M., Paquette, J.-L., Ndiaye, M., Gärtner, A. (2020): Le granite du sondage de Gassane (Sénégal): un témoin de l’ouverture de l’Atlantique central au Jurassique? Géologues 203, 30–34.

[53] Zieger, J., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Marko, L., Gerdes, A., Ehling, B.-C., Linnemann, U. (2020): The geochronological history of the Hohnsdorf Crystalline Complex (Germany) - Piecing together the puzzling evolution of the Mid-German Crystalline Rise. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 171(2), 121–133. doi: 10.1127/zdgg/2020/0219.

2019

[52] Villeneuve, M., Gärtner, A., Kalikone, C., Wazi, N. (2019): Evolution Géodynamique de la chaine "Kibarienne" d'Afrique Centrale au Mésoprotérozoïque. Pangaea Infos 15, 4 pp.

[51] Zieger, J., Rothe, J., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U. (2019): The Permo-Carboniferous Dwyka Group of the Aranos Basin (Namibia) - How detrital zircons help understanding sedimentary recycling during a major glaciation. Journal of African Earth Sciences 158, 103555, doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103555.

[50] Wizevich, M., Meyer, C.A., Linnemann, U., Gärtner, A., Sonntag, B.-L., Hofmann, M. (2019): U-Pb zircon provenance of Triassic sandstones, western Swiss Alps: Implications for geotectonic history. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 112(2-3), 419–434. doi: 10.1007/s00015-019-00342-5.

[49] Villeneuve, M., Gärtner, A., Kalikone, C., Wazi, N., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U. (2019): U-Pb ages and provenance of detrital zircons from the metasedimentary rocks of the Nya-Ngezie and Bugarama groups (D.R. Congo): A key for the evolution of the Mesoproterozoic Kibaran-Burundian orogen in central Africa. Correlations with the Kivu, Karagwe-Ankolean and Kibaride belts and Geodynamic interpretations. – Precambrian Research, doi: 10.1016/j.precam­res.2019.04.003.

[48] Merchel, S., Gärtner, A., Beutner, S., Bookhagen, B., Chabilan, A. (2019): Attempts to understand potential deficiencies in chemical procedures for AMS: Cleaning and dissolving quartz. – Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 455, 293–299, doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2019.02.007.

[47] Zieger, J., Bittner, L., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Gerdes, A., Marko, L., Linnemann, U. (2019): U-Pb-ages of magmatic and detrital zircon of the Döhlen Basin: geological history of a Permian strike-slip basin in the Elbe Zone (Germany). – International Journal of Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s00531-019-01683-0.

[46] Linnemann, U., Ovtcharova, M., Schaltegger, U., Gärtner, A., Hautmann, M., Geyer, G., Vickers-Rich, P., Rich, T., Plessen, B., Hofmann, M., Zieger, J., Krause, R., Kriesfeld, L., Smith, J. (2019): New high-resolution age data indicate rapid, ecologically-driven onset of the Cambrian explosion. – Terra Nova, 31(1), 49–58, doi:10.1111/ter.12368.

[45] Estrada, S., Mende, K., Gerdes, A., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Spiegel, C., Damaske, D., Koglin, N. (2019): Corrignedum to „Proterozoic to Cretaceous evolution of the western and central Pearya Terrane (Canadian High Arctic)“ J. Geodyn. [120 (2018) 45-76]. – Journal of Geodynamics 123, 83–85. doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2018.12.001.

[44] Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., López-Carmona, A., Fernández-Suárez, J., Jablonski, J., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A. (2019): U-Pb geochronology of the Juzbado deformed granite. – Geogaceta 64, 163–166.

2018

[43] Villeneuve, M., Gärtner, A., Nury, D., Fournier, F., Arlhac, P., Linnemann, U., Caron, J.P. (2018): Age and provenance of detrital zircons from the Oligocene formations of the Marseille Aubagne basins (SE France). Consequences on the geodynamic and palaeogeographic evolution of the northern Gondwana margin. – International Journal of Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s00531-018-1649-z.

[42] Konaté, M., Ahmed, Y., Gärtner, A., Amadou, D.A., Hassan, I. M., Kamayé, T., Zieger, J., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U. (2018): U-Pb Detrital zircon ages of Firgoun and Niamey areas sediments (Eastern border of West African Craton, West Niger). Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 350(6), 267–278. doi: 10.1016/j.crte.2018.06.005.

[41] Gärtner, A., Youbi, N., Villeneuve, M., Linnemann, U., Sagawe, A., Hofmann, M., Zieger, J., Mahmoudi, A., Boumehdi, M.A. (2018): Palaeogeographic implications from the sediments of the Sebkha Gezmayet unit of the Adrar Souttouf Massif (Moroccan Sahara). Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 350(6), 255–266. doi: 10.1016/j.crte.2018.06.004.

[40] Estrada, S., Mende, K., Gerdes, A., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Spiegel, C., Damaske, D., Koglin, N. (2018): Proterozoic to Cretaceous evolution of the western and central Pearya Terrane (Canadian High Arctic). – Journal of Geodynamics, doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2018.05.010.

[39] von Suchodoletz, H., Gärtner, A., Zielhofer, C., Faust, D. (2018): Eemian and post-Eemian fluvial dynamics in the Lesser Caucasus. – Quaternary Science Reviews 191, 189–203. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.012.

[38] Krautz, J., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U., Kleber, A. (2018): Cover Beds Older than the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution and the Provenance of their Eolian Compounds, La Sal Mountains, Utah, USA. – Quaternary Science Reviews 185, 1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.01.012.

[37] Krautz, J., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U., Kleber, A., (2018): Capability of U-Pb dating of zircons from Quaternary tephra: Jemez Mountains, NM, and La Sal Mountains, UT, USA. – Eiszeitalter & Gegenwart Quaternary Science Journal 67, 7–16. doi: 10.5194/egqsj-67-7-2018.

[36] Gutiérrez Alonso, G., Fernández-Suárez, J., López Carmona, A., Gärtner, A. (2018): Exhuming a cold case: the "early granodiorites" of the NW Iberian Variscan belt: a Visean magmatic flare-up? – Lithosphere, 10(2), 194–216. doi: doi.org/10.1130/L706.1.

[35] Fairey, B.J., Kerrison, A., Meere, P.A., Mulchrone, K.F., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Sonntag, B.-L., Linnemann, U., Kuiper, K.F., Ennis, M., Mark, C., Cogné, N., Chew D. (2018): Erratum for ‘The provenance of the Devonian Old Red Sandstone of the Dingle Peninsula, SW Ireland; the earliest record of Laurentian and peri-Gondwanan sediment mixing in Ireland,’ Journal of the Geoloical Society, London, 175, 411–424. – Journal of the Geological Society, 175, 1032. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2017-099Err.

[34] Fairey, B.J., Kerrison, A., Meere, P.A., Mulchrone, K.F., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Sonntag, B.-L., Linnemann, U., Kuiper, K.F., Ennis, M., Mark, C., Cogné, N., Chew D. (2018): The provenance of the Devonian Old Red Sandstone of the Dingle Peninsula, SW Ireland; the earliest record of Laurentian and peri-Gondwanan sediment mixing in Ireland. – Journal of the Geological Society, 175, 411–424. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2017-099.

[33] Pereira, M.F., Díez Fernández, R., Gama, C., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U. (2018): S-type granite generation and emplacement during a regional switch from extensional to contractional deformation (Central Iberian Zone, Iberian autochthonous domain, Variscan Orogeny). – International Journal of Earth Sciences, 107(1), 251–267. doi: 10.1007/s00531-017-1488-3.

[32] Augustsson, C., Voigt, T., Bernhart, K., Kreißler, M., Gaupp, R., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U. (2018): Zircon size-age sorting and source-area effect: the German Buntsandstein Group. – Sedimentary Geology, 375, 218–231. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.11.004.

[31] Hofmann, M., Voigt, T., Bittner, L., Gärtner, A., Zieger, J., Linnemann, U. (2018): Reworked Middle Jurassic sandstones as a marker for Upper Cretaceous basin inversion in Central Europe – A case study for the U-Pb detrital zircon record of the Upper Cretaceous Schmilka section and their implication for the sedimentary cover of the Lausitz Block (Saxony, Germany). – International Journal of Earth Sciences, 107(3), 913–932. doi: 10.1007/s00531-017-1552-z.

[30] Linnemann, U., Pieren Pidal, A., Hofmann, M., Drost, K., Quesada, C., Gerdes, A., Marko, L., Gärtner, A., Zieger, J., Ulrich, J., Krause, R., Horak, J. (2018): A ~565 Ma old glaciation in the Ediacaran of peri-Gondwanan West Africa. – International Journal of Earth Sciences, 107(3), 885–911. doi: 10.1007/s00531-017-1520-7.

[29] Zieger, J., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Marko L., Gerdes, A. (2018): A new U–Pb LA-ICP-MS age of the Rumburk granite (Lausitz Block, Saxo-Thuringian Zone): constraints for a magmatic event in the Upper Cambrian. – International Journal of Earth Sciences, 107 (3), 933–953. doi: 10.1007/s00531-017-1511-8.

2017

[28] Linnemann, U., Su, T., Kunzmann, L., Spicer, R.A., Ding, W.-N., Spicer, T.E.V., Zieger, J., Hofmann, M., Moraweck, K., Gärtner, A., Gerdes, A., Marko, L., Zhang, S.-T., Li, S.-F., Tang, H., Huang, J., Mulch, A., Mosbrugger, V., Zhou, Z.-K. (2017): New U-Pb dates show a Paleogene origin for the modern Asian biodiversity hot spots. – Geology, 46(1), 3–6. doi: 10.1130/G39693.1.

[27] Gärtner, A., Youbi, N., Villeneuve, M., Sagawe, A., Hofmann, M., Mahmoudi, A., Boumehdi, M.A., Linnemann, U. (2017): The zircon evidence of temporally changing sediment transport – the NW Gondwana margin during Cambrian to Devonian time (Aoucert and Smara areas, Moroccan Sahara). – International Journal of Earth Sciences 106, 2747–2769. doi: 10.1007/s00531-017-1457-x.

[26] Abubaker, A., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U., Elicki, O. (2017): First U-Pb geochronology on detrital zircons from Early-Middle Cambrian strata of the Torgau-Doberlug Syncline (eastern Germany) and palaeogeographic implications. – International Journal of Earth Sciences, 106(7), 2445–2459. doi: 10.1007/s00531-016-1440-y.

[25] El-Raman, Y.E., Seifert, T., Gutzmer, J., Said, A., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U. (2017): The South Um Mongul Cu-Mo-Au prospect in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: From a mid-Cryogenian continental arc to Ediacaran post-collisional appinite high Ba-Sr monzogranite. – Ore Geology Reviews, 80, 250–266. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.06.004.

2016

[24] Nury, D., Villeneuve, M., Arlhac, P., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U., Châteauneuf, J.J., Riveline, J., Hippolyte, J.C. (2016): New insights on the Marseille-Aubagne Oligocene basins (France). – Boletín Geológico y Minero 127 (2/3), 483–498.

[23] Villeneuve, M., Nury, D., Arlhac, P., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U., Pantaine, L. (2016): Evidence for an intra-Oligocene compressive event in the Marseille-Aubagne basins (SE France). – Boletín Geológico y Minero 127 (2/3), 499–512.

[22] Gärtner, A., Villeneuve, M., Linnemann, U., Gerdes, A., Youbi, N., Hofmann, M. (2016): Similar crustal evolution in the western units of the Adrar Souttouf Massif (Moroccan Sahara), and the Avalonian terranes: insights from Hf isotope data. – Tectonophysics 681, 305–317. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.11.030.

[21] Gärtner, A., Villeneuve, M., Linnemann, U., Gerdes, A., Youbi, N., Guillou, O., Rjimati, E.C. (2016): History of the West African Neoproterozoic Ocean: Key to the geotectonic history of circum-Atlantic Peri-Gondwana (Adrar Souttouf Massif, Moroccan Sahara). – Gondwana Research 29, 220–233. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2014.11.011.

[20] Sagawe, A., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Gerdes, A. (2016): Exotic crustal components at the northern margin of the Bohemian Massif - Implications from U-Th-Pb and Hf isotopes of zircon from the Saxonian Granulite Massif. – Tectonophysics 681, 234–249. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.04.013.

[19] Margalef, A., Castiñeiras, P., Casas, J.M., Navidad, M., Liesa, M., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A. (2016): Detrital zircons from the Ordovician rocks of the Pyrenees: Geochronological constraints and provenance. – Tectonophysics 681, 124–134. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.03.015.

[18] Pereira, M.F., Gama, C., Chichorro, M., Silva, J.B., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U., Gärtner, A. (2016): Evidence for multi-cycle sedimentation and provenance constraints from detrital zircon U-Pb ages: Triassic strata of the Lusitanian basin (western Iberia). – Tectonophysics 681, 318–331. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.10.011.

[17] von Suchodoletz, H., Gärtner, A., Hoth, S., Umlauft, J., Sukhishvili, L., Faust, D. (2016): Late Pleistocene river migrations in response to thrust belt advance and sediments-flux steering - The Kura River (southern Caucasus). – Geomorphology 266, 53–65. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.04.026.

[16] Estrada, S., Läufer, A., Eckelmann, K., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U. (2016): Continuous Neoproterozoic to Ordovician sedimentation at the East Gondwana margin - implications from detrital zircons of the Ross Orogen in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. – Gondwana Research 37, 426–448. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2015.10.006.

2015

[15] Villeneuve, M., Gärtner, A., Youbi, N., El Archi, A., Vernhet, E., Rjimati, E.C., Zemmouri, A., Linnemann, U., Bellon, H., Gerdes, A., Guillou, O., Corsini, M., Paquette, J.-L. (2015): The Southern and Central parts of the “Souttoufide” belt, in Northwest Africa. – Journal of African Earth Sciences 112, 451–470. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.04.016.

[14] Karaoui, B., Breitkreutz, C., Mahmoudi, A., Youbi, N., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U. (2015): U–Pb zircon ages from volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Ediacaran Bas Draâ inlier (Anti-Atlas Morocco): Chronostratigraphic and provenance implications. – Precambrian Research 263, 43–58. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2015.03.003.

[13] Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U., Hoffmann, K.-H., Germs, G., Gerdes, A., Marko, L., Eckelmann, K., Gärtner, A., Krause, R. (2015): The four Neoproterozoic Glaciations of southern Namibia and their detrital zircon record: The fingerprints of four crustal growth events during two supercontinent cycles. – Precambrian Research, 259: 176–188. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2014.07.021.

2014

[12] Casas, J.M., Navidad, M., Castiñeiras, P., Liesa, M., Aguilar, C., Carreras, J., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U. (2014): The Late Neoproterozoic magmatism in the Ediacaran series of the Eastern Pyrenees: New ages and isotope geochemistry. – International Journal of Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s00531-014-1127-1.

[11] Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U., Hoffmann, K.-H., Gerdes, A., Eckelmann, K., Gärtner, A. (2014): The Namuskluft- and Dreigratberg-sections in southern Namibia (Kalahari Craton, Gariep Belt): A geological history of Neoproterozoic rifting and recycling of cratonic crust during the dispersal of Rodinia until the amalgamation of Gondwana. – International Journal of Earth Sciences, 103: 1187–1202. doi: 10.1007/s00531-013-0949-6.

[10] Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M. (2014): The provenance of northern Kalahari Basin sediments and growth history of the southern Congo Craton reconstructed by U-Pb ages of zircons from recent river sands. – International Journal of Earth Sciences, 103: 579–595. doi: 10.1007/s00531-013-0974-5.

2013

[9] Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U., Sagawe, A., Hofmann, M., Ullrich, B., Kleber, A. (2013): Morphology of zircon crystal grains in sediments – characteristics, classifications, definitions. – Geologica Saxonica, 59: 65–73.

[8] Sagawe, A., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U. (2013): U-Pb ages and morphology of zircons from different granites within the Saxonian Granulite Massif. – Geologica Saxonica, 59: 205–224.

[7] Delpomdor, F., Linnemann, U., Boven, A., Gärtner, A., Travin, A., Blanpied, C., Virgone, A., Jelsma, H., Préat, A. (2013): Depositional age, provenance, tectonic and palaeoclimatic settings of the late Mesoproterozoic – middle Neoproterozoic Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup, Democratic Republic of Congo. – Palaeogeography, Palaeo­climatology, Palaeoecology, 389: 4–34. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.06.012.

[6] Gärtner, A., Villeneuve, M., Linnemann, U., El Archi, A., Bellon, H. (2013): An exotic terrane of Laurussian affinity in the Mauritanides and Souttoufides (Moroccan Sahara). – Gondwana Research, 24: 687–699. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.12.019.

[5] Altumi, M. M., Elicki, O., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Sagawe, A., Gärtner, A. (2013): U-Pb LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon ages from the Cambrian of Al Quarqaf Arch, central-western Libya: Provenanace of the West Gondwanan sand sea at the dawn of the early Palaeozoic. – Journal of African Earth Sciences, 79: 74–97. doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2012.11.007.

2012

[4] Linnemann, U., Herbosch, A., Liégeois, J.-P., Pin, C., Gärtner, A., Hofmann. M. (2012): The Cambrian to Devonian odyssey of the Brabant Massif within Avalonia: A review with new zircon ages, geochemistry, Sm-Nd isotopes, stratigraphy and palaeogeography. – Earth Science Reviews, 112: 126–154. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.02.007.

2011

[3] Tietz, O., Gärtner, A., Büchner, J. (2011): The monogenetic Sonnenberg scoria cone – implications for volcanic development and landscape evolution in the Zittauer Gebirge Mountains since the Paleogene. – Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften, 39 (5/6): 311–334.

[2] Linnemann, U., Ouzegane, K., Drareni, A., Hofmann, M., Becker, S., Gärtner, A., Sagawe, A. (2011): 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. – Lithos, 123: 188–203. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.01.010.

[1] Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U., Rai, V., Becker, S., Gärtner, A., Sagawe, A. (2011): The India and South China cratons at the margin of Rodinia – synchronous Neoproterozoic magmatism revealed by LA-ICP-MS zircon analyses. – Lithos, 123: 176–187. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.01.012.

Geological maps

[M1] Villeneuve, M., Nury, D., Arlhac, Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U. (2018): Les bassins oligocènes. In: Villeneuve, M. (main coordinator) et al.: Mémoire explicatif, Carte géologique de la France (1/50 000), feuille Aubagne-Marseille, 3ième édition (1044), pp. 178–198.

Popular science

[P4] Gärtner, A. (2021): Geologia de Uíge – Os principais tipos de rochas na região de Uíge. In: NAME (ed.) Riquezas naturais da Serra do Pingano – Uma nova área protegida no Norte de Angola. 10–15.

[P3] Linnemann, U., Salamon, M., Hofmann, M., Zieger, J., Gärtner, A., Krause, R., Steuerwald, K., Piecha, M. (2019): Detritische Zirkone aus der Witten-Formation (Zeche Nachtigall): Sandtransport aus dem fernen Süden vor 315 Millionen Jahren. GeoPark Ruhrgebiet News 2/2019: 20–22.

[P2] Gärtner, A. (2014): Uíge - Geologia. In: Lautenschläger, T., Neinhuis, C. (eds.): Riquezas naturais de Uíge. Uma breve introdução, a ameaça e a preservação da biodiversidade. – ISBN 978-3-86780-396-0: pp. 18–19.

 [P1] Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Eckelmann, K., Gärtner, A., Krause, R., Sagawe, A. (2012): Plattentektonik im Spiegel radiometrischer Zirkondatierungen. – Senckenberg Natur, Forschung, Museum, 142 (1/2): 6–11.

• 2019     “Grand Hommage”: contributions on the geology of the Moroccan Sahara, Cady Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
• 2012     Hanns-Bruno-Geinitz Preis 2012, Kategorie B (Diploma theses)

• DGGV; German Stratigraphic Sub-Commission Proterozoic-Silurian, corresponding member