Publications by Uwe Ring
Ring, U. (2015): Metamorphic Core Complexes. Encyclopedia of Marine
Geosciences, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6644-0_104-4, Springer, Dordrecht.
Ring, U., Tulloch, A., Bernet, M. (2015). Kinematic, finite strain and vorticity
analysis of the Sisters Shear Zone, Stewart Island, New Zealand. Journal of
Structural Geology, 73, 1114–129, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2015.02.004.
Bauer, F.U., Glasmacher, U.A., Ring, U., Grobe R.W., Mambo, V.S., Starz, M.
(2015): Long-term cooling history of the Albertine Rift: new evidence from the
western rift shoulder, D.R. Congo. International Journal of Earth Sciences, doi:
10.1007/s00531-015-1146-6.
Ring, U. (2014): The East African Rift System. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences
(Festschrift honoring the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Eduard
Suess.), 107, 132–146.
Schulte, D.O., Ring, U., Thomson, S., Glodny, J., Carrad, H. (2014): Two-stage
development of the Paparoa Metamorphic Core Complex, West Coast, South
Island, New Zealand: Hot continental extension precedes seafloor spreading by
~25 Myr. Lithosphere, 6, 177-194, doi: 10.1130/L348.1.
Ring U., Gessner K., Thomson S., Markwitz V. (2013): Along-strike variations in the
Hellenide-Anatolide Orogen: A tale of different lithospheres and consequences.
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, XLVII.
Gessner, K., Gallarado, L., Markwitz, V., Ring, U., Thomson, S.N. (2013): From
Plateau to Sea: Reactivation of Plate Boundary Shaped Western Anatolia.
Gondwana Research, 24, 243–273, doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.01.005.
Bauer, F.U., Glasmacher, U. A., Ring, U., Karl, M., Schumann, A., Nagudi, B.
(2013): Tracing the exhumation history of the Rwenzori Mountains, Albertine
Rift, Uganda, using low-temperature thermochronology. Tectonophysics, 599,
8–28, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2013.03.032.
Duffy, B., Quigley, M., Harris, R., Ring, U. (2013): Arc-parallel extrusion of the
Timor sector of the Banda arc-continent collision. Tectonics, 32, 1–20,
doi:10.1002/tect.20048.
Ring, U. & Hampton, S. (2012): Fault-slip analysis in Banks Peninsula: Relationships
to Miocene volcanism and recent earthquakes in the Christchurch area, New
Zealand. Journal of Geological Society London, 169, 773–785.
Bolhar, R. Ring, U., Kemp, A.I.S., Whitehouse, M.J., Weaver, S.D., Uysal, I.T.,
Turnbull, R. (2012): An integrated zircon geochronological and geochemical
investigation into the Miocene plutonic evolution of the Cyclades, Aegean Sea,
Greece: Part 2 – Geochemistry. Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology, 164,
915–933.
Rosenbaum, G., Menegon, L., Massironi, M., Ring, U., Vasconcelos, P., Glodny, J.,
Thiede, D. (2012): Dating deformation in the Gran Paradiso Massif (NW Italian
Alps): the timing of ductile thinning and exhumation. Lithos, 144–145, 130–
144.
Ring, U., Willner, A.P., Layer, P. & Richter, P.P. (2012): Jurassic to early Cretaceous
postaccretional sinistral transpression in north-central Chile (latitudes 31°–
32°S). Geological Magazine, 149, 208–220, doi:10.1017/S0016756810000208.
Willner, A.P., Massonne, H.-J., Ring, U., Sudo, M. & Thomson, S. (2012): PT
evolution and timing of a late Palaeozoic fore-arc system and its heterogeneous
Mesozoic overprint in north-central Chile (31°–32°S). Geological Magazine,
149, 177–207, doi:10.1017/S0016756810000208.
Rissmann, C., Nicol, A., Cole, J., Kennedy, B., Fairley, J., Christenson, B.,
Leybourne, M., Milicich, S., Ring, U. & Gravely, D. (2011): Fluid flow
associated with silicic lava domes and faults, Ohaaki hydrothermal field, New
Zealand. Journal Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 204, 12–26, doi:
10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2011.05.0002.
Gessner, K., Ring, U. & Güngör, T. (2011): Along-strike variations in the eastern
Mediterranean Tethyan orogen: Field guide to Samos and the Menders Massif.
Geological Society of America, Field Trip Guide, 23.
Rahl, J.F., Brandon, M.T., Deckert, H., Ring, U. & Mortimer, N. (2011): Tectonic
significance of ductile deformation in low-grade sandstones in the Mesozoic
Otago subduction wedge, New Zealand. American Journal of Science, 311, 27–
62, DOI 10.2475/01.2011.00.
Ring, U., Glodny, J., Will, T. & Thomson, S.N. (2011): Normal faulting on Sifnos
Island and the South Cyclades Detachment System, Aegean Sea, Greece.
Journal Geological Society London, 168, 751–768, doi: 10.1144/001676492010-064.
Bauer, F.U., Glasmacher, U.A., Ring, U., Schumann, A. & Nagudi, B. (2010):
Thermal and exhumation history of the central Rwenzori Mts, western branch of
the East African Rift System, Uganda. International Journal Earth Science, 99,
1575–1597.
Bolhar, R., Ring, U. & Allen, C.M. (2010): An integrated zircon geochronological
and geochemical investigation into the Miocene plutonic evolution of the
Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Greece: Part 1 – Geochronology. Contributions
Mineralogy Petrology, 160, 719–742, DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0504-4.
Ring, U. & Bernet, M. (2010) Slow exhumation near the Alpine Fault: the Bonar
Range core complex, South Island, New Zealand. Geological Magazine, 147,
801–813, doi:10.1017/S0016756810000208.
Ring, U. & Glodny, J. (2010): No need for lithospheric extension for exhuming
(U)HP rocks by normal faulting. Journal Geological Society London, 167, 225–
228, doi 10.1144/0016-76492009-134.
Brichau, S., Thomson, S.N. & Ring, U. (2010): Thermochronometric constraints on
the tectonic evolution of the Serifos detachment, Aegean Sea, Greece.
International Journal of Earth Sciences, 99, 379–393, DOI 10.1007/s00531-0080386-0.
Ring, U., Thomson, S.N. & Rosenbaum, G. (2009): Timing of the Amorgos
detachment system and implications for detachment faulting in the southern
Aegean Sea, Greece. In: Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheological
Coupling, and Heat Budget, Ring, U., Wernicke, B. (eds.). Special Publications
Geological Society London, 321, 169–178.
Willner, A.P., Richter, P. & Ring, U. (2009): Structural overprint of a Late Paleozoic
accretionary system in north-central Chile (34°-35°S) during postaccretional
shortening episodes at a long-lived active margin. Andean Geology, 36, 17–36.
Thomson, S.N., Ring, U., Brichau, S., Glodny, J. & Will, T.W. (2009): Timing and
nature of formation of the Ios metamorphic core complex, southern Cyclades,
Greece. In: Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheological Coupling, and
Heat Budget, Ring, U., Wernicke, B. (eds.). Special Publications Geological
Society London, 321, 139–167.
Seward, D., Vanderheaghe, O., Siebenaller, L., Thomson, S. Hibsch, C. Zingg, A.,
Holzner, P. & Ring, U. (2009): Late Miocene tectonic evolution of Naxos
Island deciphered from low temperature thermochronology. In: Extending a
Continent: Architecture, Rheological Coupling, and Heat Budget, Ring, U.,
Wernicke, B. (eds.). Special Publications Geological Society London, 321, 179–
196.
Neufeld, K., Ring, U., Heidelbach, F., Dietrich, S. & Neuser, R.D. (2008): Omphacite
textures in eclogites of the Tauern Window: Implications for the exhumation of
the Eclogite Zone, Eastern Alps. Journal Structural Geology, 30, 976–992.
Glodny, J., Ring, U., Kühn, A. (2008): High-pressure metamorphism, thrusting,
strike-slip and extensional shearing in the Tauern Window, Eastern Alps: All
starting at the same time? Tectonics, 27, TC4004, doi:10.1029/2007TC002193.
Ring, U. & Kumerics, C. (2008): Vertical ductile thinning and its contribution to the
exhumation of high-pressure rocks: The Cycladic blueschist unit in the Aegean.
Journal Geological Society London, 165, 1019–1030.
Ring, U. (2008): Extreme uplift of the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda, East African
Rift: Structural framework and possible role of glaciations. Tectonics, 27,
TC4018, doi:10.1029/2007TC002176.
Brichau, S., Ring, U., Carter, A., Bolhar, R., Stockli, D. & Brunel, M. (2008):
Timing, slip rate and cooling history of the Mykonos detachment footwall,
Cyclades, Greece. Journal Geological Society London, 165, 263–277.
Ring, U. & Kassem, O.K.K. (2007): The nappe rule: Why does it work? Journal
Geological Society London, 164, 1109–1112, doi:10.1144/0016-76492007-020.
Ring, U. (2007): The Geology of Ikaria Island: The Messaria extensional shear zone,
granites and the exotic Ikaria nappe. In: (eds.) Lister, G., Forster, M., and Ring,
U., Inside the Aegean Metamorphic Core Complexes, Journal of the Virtual
Explorer, Electronic Edition, ISSN 1441-8142, Volume 28, Paper 4.
Ring, U., Okrusch, M. & Will, T. (2007): Samos Island: metamorphosed and nonmetamorphosed nappes, and sedimentary basins. In: (eds.) Lister, G., Forster,
M., and Ring, U., Inside the Aegean Metamorphic Core Complexes, Journal of
the Virtual Explorer, Electronic Edition, ISSN 1441-8142, Volume 28, Paper 2.
Solounias, N. & Ring, U. (2007): Ancient history of the Samos fossils and the record
of earthquakes. In: (eds.) Lister, G., Forster, M., and Ring, U., Inside the
Aegean Metamorphic Core Complexes, Journal of the Virtual Explorer,
Electronic Edition, ISSN 1441-8142, Volume 28, Paper 3.
Brichau, S., Ring, U., Carter, A., Monié, P., Bolhar, R., Stockli, D. & Brunel, M.
(2007): Extensional faulting on Tinos Island, Aegean Sea, Greece: How many
detachments? Tectonics, 26 (4), TC4009, 10.1029/2006TC001969, 19 pages.
Ring, U., Glodny, J., Will, T. & Thomson, S. (2007): An Oligocene extrusion wedge
of blueschist-facies nappes on Evia Island, Aegean Sea, Greece: Implications
for the early exhumation of high-pressure rocks. Journal of Geological Society
London, 164, doi 10.1144/0016-76492006-041, 637–657.
Rosenbaum, G., Ring, U. & Kühn, A. (2007): Tectono-metamorphic evolution of
high-pressure rocks from the island of Amorgos (Central Aegean, Greece).
Journal of Geological Society London, 164, 425–438.
Richter, P., Ring, U., Willner, A. & Leiss, B. (2007): Structural contacts in
subduction complexes and their tectonic significance: The Late Paleozoic
accretionary wedge of central Chile. Journal Geological Society London, 164,
doi 10.1144/0016-76492005-181, 203–214.
Ring, U., Will, T., Glodny, J., Kumerics, C., Gessner, K., Thomson, S.N., Güngür, T.,
Monie, P., Okrusch, M. & Drüppel, K. (2007): Early exhumation of highpressure rocks in extrusion wedges: The Cycladic blueschist unit in the eastern
Aegean,
Greece
and
Turkey.
Tectonics,
26,
TC2001,
doi:10.1029/2005TC001872.
Thomson, S.N. & Ring, U. (2006): Thermochronologic evaluation of post-collision
extension in the Anatolide Orogen, western Turkey. Tectonics, 25, TC3005,
20p., doi:10.1029/2005 TC001833.
Brichau, S., Ring, U., Carter, A., Ketcham, R.A., Brunel, M. & Stockli, D. (2006):
Constraining the long-term evolution of the slip rate for a major extensional
fault system using thermochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 241,
293–306.
Ring, U., Schwartz, H., Bromage, T.G. & Sanaane, C. (2005): Kinematic and
sedimentologic evolution of the Manyara Rift in northern Tanzania, East Africa.
Geological Magazine, 142, 355–368. Ring, U. & Collins, A.S. (2005): U–Pb
SIMS dating of synkinematic granites: timing of core-complex formation in the
northern Anatolide belt of western Turkey, Journal Geological Society London
163, 1–10. PDF
Kassem, O.K. & Ring, U. (2004): Underplating-related finite-strain patterns in the
Gran Paradiso massif, Italian Western Alps : Heterogeneous ductile strain
superimposed on a nappe stack. Journal Geological Society London , 161, 875–
884. PDF
Ring, U. & Richter, P.P. (2004): Normal faulting at convergent plate boundaries: The
Del Puerto Canyon shear zone in the Franciscan subduction complex revisited.
Tectonics 23, 1022, doi:10.1029/2002TC001476, 12p. PDF
Gessner, K., Collins, A.S., Ring, U. & Güngör, T. (2004): Structural and thermal
history of poly-orogenic basement: U-Pb geochronology of granitoid rocks in
the southern Menderes Massif, Western Turkey . Journal Geological Society
London , 161, 93–101. PDF
Régnier, J.-L., Ring, U., Passchier, C.W. & Güngör, T. (2003): Contrasting
metamorphic evolutions of metasediments from the Çine and Selimiye nappes
in the southern Anatolide belt, western Turkey . Journal Metamorphic Geology,
21, 699–721.
Ring, U., Johnson, C., Hetzel, R. & Gessner, K. (2003): Tectonic denudation of a
Late Cretaceous – Tertiary collisional belt: regionally symmetric cooling
patterns and their relation to extensional faults in the Anatolide belt of western
Turkey . Geological Magazine, 140, 421–441. PDF
Ring, U., Thomson, S.N., & Bröcker, M. (2003): Fast extension but little exhumation:
The Vari detachment in the Cyclades, Greece.- Geological Magazine, 140, 245–
252. PDF
Ring, U., Johnson, C., Hetzel, R. & Gessner, K. (2003): Tectonic denudation of an
Alpine collision belt: The symmetry of cooling patterns and extensional faults
in the Anatolide belt of western Turkey. – Geological Magazine, 140 (4). PDF
Ring, U. & Layer, P.W. (2003): High-pressure metamorphism in the Aegean, eastern
Mediterranean: Underplating and exhumation from the Late Cretaceous until
the Miocene to Recent above the retreating Hellenic subduction zone. –
Tectonics, 22 (3). PDF
Deckert, H., Ring, U. & Mortimer, N. (2002): Cretaceous bivergent extension in the
Otago accretionary wedge.- New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics,
45, 537–547. PDF
Ring, U., Kröner, A., Buchwaldt, R., Toulkeridis, T. & Layer, P. (2002): Eclogitefacies metamorphism and shear-zone patterns in the Mozambique belt, northern
Malawi, east-central Africa: Implications for the assembly of Gondwana. –
Precambrian Research, 116, 19–56
Ring, U. & Reischmann, T. (2002): The weak and superfast Cretan detachment,
Greece: Exhumation at subduction rates in extrusion wedges. – Journal
Geological Society London, 159, 225–228. PDF
Gessner, K., Ring, U., Passchier, C.W. & Hetzel, R. (2002): Comment on
"Stratigraphic and metamorphic inversions in the central Menderes Massif: a
new structural model". – International Journal of Earth Sciences, 91, 168–172
Ring, U., Willner, A.P. & Lackmann, W. (2001): Stacking of nappes with unrelated
pressure-temperature paths: an example from the Menderes nappes of western
Turkey. – American Journal of Science, 301, 912–944. PDF
Ring, U., Brachert, T. & Fassoulas, C. (2001): Middle Miocene graben development
in Crete and its possible relation to large-scale detachment faults. – Terra Nova,
13, 297–304.
Gessner, K., Ring, U., Passchier, C.W. & Güngör, T. (2001): How to resist
subduction?: Emplacement of the Cycladic blueschist unit onto the Menderes
nappes. – Journal Geological Society London, 158, 769–784. PDF
Ring, U., Brandon, M.T. & Ramthun, A. (2001): Solution-mass-transfer deformation
adjacent to the Glarus thrust, with implications for the tectonic evolution of the
Alpine wedge in eastern Switzerland. – Journal of Structural Geology, 23,
1491–1505. PDF
Gessner, K., Ring, U., Johnson, Hetzel, R., C., Passchier, C.W. & Güngör, T. (2001):
An active bivergent rolling-hinge detachment system: the Central Menderes
metamorphic core complex in western Turkey. – Geology, 29, 611–614.
Ring, U., Layer, P.W. & Reischmann, T. (2001): Miocene high-pressure
metamorphism in the Cyclades and Crete, Aegean Sea, Greece: Evidence for
large-magnitude displacement on the Cretan detachment. – Geology, 29, 395–
398. PDF
Bolhar, R. & Ring, U. (2001): Deformation history of the Yolla Bolly terrane at
Leech Lake Mountain, Eastern Belt, Franciscan Subduction Complex,
Californian Coast Ranges. – Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113, 181–
195. PDF
Gessner, K., Piazolo, S., Güngör, T., Ring, U., Kröner, A. & Passchier, C.W. (2001):
Tectonic significance of deformation patterns in granitoid rocks of the
Menderes nappes, Anatolide belt, southwest Turkey: International Journal of
Earth Sciences, 89, 766–780. PDF
Ring, U. & Brandon, M.T. (1999): Ductile strain, coaxial deformation and mass loss
in the Franciscan complex: Implications for exhumation processes in subduction
zones.- In: Exhumation Processes: Normal faulting, ductile flow and erosion,
Ring, U., Brandon, M.T., Lister, G.S., Willett, S. (eds.). – Special Publications
of the Geological Society London, 154, 55–86. PDF
Ring, U., Kröner, A., Layer, P., Buchwaldt, R. & Toulkeridis, T. (1999): Deformed
A-type granites in northern Malawi, east-central Africa: Pre- or syntectonic? –
Journal Geological Society London, 156, 695–714.
Ring, U., Laws, S. & Bernet, M. (1999): Structural analysis of a complex nappe
sequence and late-orogenic basins from the Aegean Island of Samos, Greece. –
Journal Of Structural Geology, 21, 1575–1601. PDF
Ring, U., Gessner, K., Güngör, T. & Passchier, C.W. (1999): The Menderes Massif of
western Turkey and the Cycladic Massif in the Aegean - do they really
correlate? – Journal Geological Society London, 156, 3–6
Ring, U. (1999): Volume loss, fluid flow and coaxial vs noncoaxial deformation in
retrograde, amphibolite-facies shear zones, northern Malawi, east-central
Africa. – Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111, 123–142. PDF
Ring, U. (1998): Strain geometry, flow path and volume deformation in a narrow
shear zone. – Geologische Rundschau, 86, 786–801.
Ring, U. (1995): Horizontal contraction or horizontal extension?: Heterogeneous Late
Eocene and Early Oligocene general shearing during blueschist- and
greenschist-facies metamorphism at the Pennine-Austroalpine boundary zone in
the Western Alps. – Geologische Rundschau, 84, 843–859.
Hetzel, R., Passchier, C.W., Ring, U. & Dora, Ö.O. (1995): Bivergent extension in
orogens: The Menderes Massif (Turkey). – Geology, 23, 455–458.
Hetzel, R., Ring, U., Akal, C. & Troesch, M. (1995): Miocene NNE-directed
extensional unroofing in the Menderes Massif, southwestern Turkey. – Journal
Geological Society London, 152, 639–654.
Ring, U. & Brandon, M.T. (1994): Kinematic data for the Coast Range fault and
implications for exhumation of the Franciscan complex. – Geology, 22, 735–
738.
Ring, U. (1994): The influence of preexisting crustal anisotropies on the evolution of
the Cenozoic Malai rift (East African rift system). – Tectonics, 13, 313–326.
Schrenk, F., Bromage, T., Betzler, C., Ring, U. & Juwayeyi, Y.M. (1993): Oldest
Homo and Pliocene biogeography of the Malawi Rift. – Nature, 365, 833–836.
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Ring, U., Betzler, C. & Delvaux, D. (1992): Normal versus strike-slip faulting during
rift development in East Africa. – Geology, 20, 1015–1018.
Ring, U. (1992): An Alpine kinematical analysis of the Penninic nappes east of the
Lepontine dome: Implications for the evolution of the Central Alps. –Tectonics,
11, 1139–1158.
Ring, U. & Merle, O. (1992): The relation between thrusting, lateral gravitational
spreading and backfolding in the northern part of the Western Alps (Monte
Rosa region). – Geological Society America Bulletin, 104, 901–914.
Ring, U. (1992): The geodynamic evolution of the eastern Central Alps:
Geothermobarometric and kinematic data. – Journal of Metamorphic Geology,
10, 33–53
Ring, U., Ratschbacher, L., Frisch, W., Biehler, D. & Kralik, M. (1989): Kinematics
of the Alpine plate-margin: structural styles, strain and motion along the
Penninic-Austroalpine boundary in the Swiss-Austrian Alps. – Journal
Geological Society London, 146, 835–849.
Ring, U., Ratschbacher, L. & Frisch, W. (1988): Plate-boundary kinematics in the
Alps: Motion in the Arosa suture zone. – Geology, 16, 696–698.