Mark Handy

portrait Prof. emerit. Mark Handy
former chairman, Geology

Tectonics & Geodynamics
Fachbereich Geowissenschaften
Freie Universität Berlin
B
Malteser Str. 74-100
DE-12249 Berlin
Germany


Mailing Address:

Tectonics & Geodynamics
Fachbereich Geowissenschaften
Freie Universität Berlin
B
Baselstrasse 7
-4132 Muttenz


Phone: (41 61) 461 1433
Phone2: (49 30) 838 70311
E-mail: mark.handy(at)fu-berlin.de
Personal URL: link


Additional functions:
Advisor to DFG, SNF, NSF, NERC, ERA
Chairman SPP-2017 (4D-MB)
Steering Committee AlpArray


Key Publications of Mark Handy (up to ten) :
Handy, M.R., McPhee, P., Le Breton, E. and members of the 4D-MB and AlpArray Groups (2023): A new 4D model of Alpine orogenesis based on AlpArray. 7th annual AlpArray Scientific Meeting, Bad Hofgastein, Austria. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-41036

Handy, M.R., Schmid, S.M., Paffrath, M., Friederich, W. and the AlpArray Working Group (2021): Orogenic lithosphere and slabs in the greater Alpine area - Interpretations based on teleseismic P-wave tomography. Solid Earth, 12, 2633-2669, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2633-2021

Handy, M.R., Giese, K., Pleuger, J., Schmid, S.M., Spakman, W., Onuzi, K., Ustaszewski, K. (2019): Coupled crust-mantle response to slab tearing, bending and rollback along the Dinarides-Hellenides orogen. Tectonics, DOI: 10.1029/2019TC005524

Handy, M.R., Schmid, S.M., Bousquet, R., Kissling, E., Bernoulli, D. (2010): Reconciling plate-tectonic reconstructions with the geological-geophysical record of spreading and subduction in the Alps. Earth Science Reviews, 102, 121-158.

Handy, M.R., and J.-P. Brun (2004): Seismicity, structure and strength of the continental lithosphere. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 223, 3-4, 427-441.

Handy, M.R. and J.E. Streit (1999): Mechanisms and mechanics of magmatic underplating: Inferences from syntectonic mafic veins in deep crustal mylonite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 165, 271-286.

Handy, M.R. (1994): Flow laws for rocks containing two nonlinear viscous phases: A phenomenological approach, Journal of Structural Geology, 16, 3, 287-301, Correction, 1994, Journal of Structural Geology, 16, 12, 1727.

Handy, M.R. (1990): The solid-state flow of polymineralic rocks, Journal of Geophysical Research, 96, B6, 8647-8661.

Handy, M.R. (1990): The exhumation of cross sections of the continental crust: structure, kinematics and rheology, pp. 485-507 in: Exposed Cross-Sections of the Continental Crust, edited by M.H. Salisbury and D.M. Fountain, NATO-ASI Series C, 317, 485-507, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands

Handy, M.R. (1989): Deformation regimes and the rheological evolution of fault zones in the lithosphere: The effects of pressure, temperature, grain size, and time, Tectonophysics, 163, 119-152



Expertise of Mark Handy:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeScientific / Fundamental Research
Topic LithosphereLithosphere
Tectonics
Sediments: Formation, Dynamics, Metamorphism
Magmatic Rocks: Formation, Metamorphism
Time FramePast
Recent / Today
Statistical FocusExtreme Events
Time ScaleMillenial
Billenial (Mio yrs)
MethodsData Collection - Measurement
Data Collection - Documents, Archives
Data Analysis
Literature Study
Integrated Assessment
Program Coordination / Management
GeoForum Geo-TechnologyRock and Soil Mechanics
Cartography
Seismology

Specialties of Mark Handy:
Regional tectonics, fault mechanisms & kinematics, mantle structure, microstructure, rheology

Last update: 11/23/23
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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