Leander Franz

Prof. Leander Franz
Lecturer
Mineralogisch-Petrographisches Institut
Universität Basel
Bernoullistrasse 30
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 61 207 36 30
Phone2: +41 (0) 61 207 35 91
Fax: +41 (0) 61 207 36 13
E-mail: leander.franz(at)unibas.ch
URL Institution: titan.minpet.unibas.ch/minpet/


Key Publications of Leander Franz (up to ten) :
FRANZ, L. & HARLOV, D.E. (1998): High grade K-feldspar veining in granulites from the Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Northern Italy: fluid flow in the lower crust and implications for granulite facies genesis. Journal of Geology, 106, 455-472.

FRANZ, L.; ROMER, R.; KLEMD, R.; SCHMID, R.; OBERHÄNSLI, R.; WAGNER, T.; & DONG, S. (2001): Eclogite-facies quartz veins within metabasites of the Dabie Shan (eastern China): pressure-temperature-time-deformation-path, composition of the fluid phase and fluid flow during exhumation of high-pressure rocks. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 141, 322-346.

FRANZ, L.; BECKER, K.P.; KRAMER, W. & HERZIG, P. (2002): Metasomatic mantle xenoliths from the Bismarck Microplate (Papua New Guinea) – thermal evolution, geochemistry and extent of slab-induced metasomatism. Journal of Petrology, 43, 315-343.

FRANZ, L. & ROMER, R. (2007): Caledonian high-pressure metamorphism in the Strona-Ceneri Zone (Southern Alps of southern Switzerland and northern Italy). Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 100, 457-467 (doi: 10.107/s00015-007-1232-2).

FRANZ, L. & ROMER, R. (2010): Different styles of metasomatic veining in ultramafic mantle xenoliths from TUBAF seamount (Bismarck microplate, Papua New Guinea). Lithos, 114, 30-53.


Expertise of Leander Franz:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeExpert Type
Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic LithosphereTectonics
Sediments: Formation, Dynamics, Metamorphism
Magmatic Rocks: Formation, Metamorphism

Specialties of Leander Franz:
P-T-t paths of rocks, Geothermobarometry

Last update: 11/30/23
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